New Mesmer avoidance build questions.
I’ll make a suggestion on the runes. Take 2 monk, 2 water, and 2 speed. That way you’ll have 30% general boon duration and 50% swiftness. You loos 10% swiftness duration but gain 30% on all other boons (including regen from clones, protection on regen etc.)
Oh and with enough critting chance (which you may already have) you can change vigorous revelation. Take persisting images instead so your iDefender is a boss, and other phantasms won’t die as easily (also they’ll all proc regen off eachother). Also, with the 30% boon duration that’ll extend the vigor gained from vigor on crits, which further removes the need for vigor on shatter. If you want even MORE vigor, swap your hydromancy sigils for vigor on weapon swap. Though a you could also take glamour mastery, and instead of Idisenchanter, ger veil. Get your phantasms up, then just hide in extended stealth (decoy, mass invis, veil).
Thanks for the look over Ross. You are absolutely right, the build was so overboard with vigor that I was over looking 2 trait changes I kind of wanted to make. So I made a few changes to the traits mainly taking the 5 from illusions and moving it to chaos and then taking the glamour mastery instead of vigorous revelation.
I was looking at it and while I liked the idea of having 2 more phantasms I think the extra stealth and portal both being on lower CD will make more of a difference when it comes to scouting around for my guild and being allowed to choose my fights. Moving out of illusions was an easy choice after that because I changed out 2 phantasms for the glamour skills instead (+ this will let me lessen the gap on swiftness after the rune changes to only 5% difference and make all other boons get 35% increase instead of just 30) The illusion regen and that 5 points from chaos should stack well to get me steady inflow of HP through the fight. I know it isnt a lot but with this I will only have about 2 seconds where I am not effected with swiftness which will still allow me to move around at good speed.
The near 40% crit that I have with the build and boon duration should leave me with near 100% uptime on vigor also which was something I definitely wouldn’t have caught and with all of the reflect stealth and evades that are attached to my abilities I am not to worried about giving up some defensive stats for it (still a ton). I wont kill super fast but I think with work I can count myself pretty safe also. Gonna be carrying many many supply traps with this build. The thing it does lack and I am glad to take this hit is AoE. I will have to plan a weapon swap if I get caught in a big big fight. Will say good bye to the scepter pistol in that case because focus reflect is going to be to good to ever give up.
Here is the revised build I took your advice and would love if anyone has follow up to it or thoughts to share. I am a bit worried that I am stretching thin so if anyone sees major gaps in my stats let me know.
Also. I want to keep at least one sigil of hydromancy because the CD increase is awesome and 60% slow is great for positioning.