Guild Wars 2

It seems like most of the popular builds are based on around shattering, which makes sense, given the class’ utility skills. However, there also seem to be a lot of traits and skills available which would work well together in a build that would provide benefit to making illusions, and keeping them alive (not shattering).

Has anybody had any luck running one of these builds?

And for reference, here’s some of the things I’m talking about:
-Signet of Illusions (More health to Illusions)
-Phantasmal Healing (regeneration from phantasms) and subsequently Illusionary Membrane (protection when regenerating)
-Illusionary Defense (3% reduced damage for each illusion)
-Compounding Power (3% additional damage for each illusion)

Orion.2018:

It seems like most of the popular builds are based on around shattering, which makes sense, given the class’ utility skills. However, there also seem to be a lot of traits and skills available which would work well together in a build that would provide benefit to making illusions, and keeping them alive (not shattering).

Has anybody had any luck running one of these builds?

And for reference, here’s some of the things I’m talking about:
-Signet of Illusions (More health to Illusions)
-Phantasmal Healing (regeneration from phantasms) and subsequently Illusionary Membrane (protection when regenerating)
-Illusionary Defense (3% reduced damage for each illusion)
-Compounding Power (3% additional damage for each illusion)

Your summon has failed because:
1 – you were blind (WTF)
2 – your SUMMON was blocked (WTF)
3 – your SUMMON was evaded (WTF)
4 – your SUMMON was against an invulnerable target (WTF)

Your summoned minion has failed to connect its attack because:
1 – your summoned minion(s) was blinded
2 – your summoned minion(s) was blocked
3 – your summoned minion(s) was evaded
4 – your summoned minion(s) was attacking an invulnerable target
5 – your summoned minion(s) was killed due to anyone so much as breathing.

Shatter builds are used because theyre the only uses left, and without illusionary persona you have very few ways to break the combo of a blind-spammer post-patch.

This is a non shatter build i am using at the moment.
Atleast i don’t shatter then with shatter skills, i let them shatter on death.
Unless i would be in a very bad situation i can use distortion shatter.
So everytime they get killed, they are overwritten or target dies i do a bunch of condition to them and cripple them.
My targets are practically always crippled cause i pump out so many clones and phantasms.
Also the clones themselves are very nasty, staffclones do their own condition + more bleeds from sharper images, and the swordclones do vuln + bleeds.
Because of my high precision they crit a lot.
Having this much conditions out makes the warlock have stronger attack.
And the duellist just spams stacks of bleeds, do a combo with feedback and he’ll stack some confusion aswell.
This is mainly a pve build though, i have no idea how good it is in pvp.
Also need some further testing in wvw.
You can also switch the pistol for a focus if you prefer playing that.

http://tiny.cc/0fk7nw

Ironvos.9014:

This is a non shatter build i am using at the moment.
Atleast i don’t shatter then with shatter skills, i let them shatter on death.
Unless i would be in a very bad situation i can use distortion shatter.
So everytime they get killed, they are overwritten or target dies i do a bunch of condition to them and cripple them.
My targets are practically always crippled cause i pump out so many clones and phantasms.
Also the clones themselves are very nasty, staffclones do their own condition + more bleeds from sharper images, and the swordclones do vuln + bleeds.
Because of my high precision they crit a lot.
Having this much conditions out makes the warlock have stronger attack.
And the duellist just spams stacks of bleeds, do a combo with feedback and he’ll stack some confusion aswell.
This is mainly a pve build though, i have no idea how good it is in pvp.
Also need some further testing in wvw.
You can also switch the pistol for a focus if you prefer playing that.

http://tiny.cc/0fk7nw

One of my friends found out that sword clones do the full combo, which means that they ALSO remove a boon, so you have that going for your sword clones as well =D!