Guild Wars 2

So, Rending Shatter is the Domination Adept trait which puts a stack of Vulnerability on each hit of a shatter, meaning 4 stacks at most on Mind Whack, CoF, and Distortion and a possible 24 stacks on a full Diversion [due to Dazzling] without interruption.

While it seems weak at first, with Diversion this can nearly get a full stack of Diversion and this can really count in our standard Shatter combo, especially with our Minor, Fragility, making vulnerability 50% more effective [assumedly only for direct damage], meaning 25 stacks [Easily gained with full Diversion then CoF combo] is giving us a 37.5% damage modifier.

Thoughts? Is Rending Shatter good enough to warrant wanting with this?

It was so weak before needing a nice buff but now with the change to vulnerability to also affect conditions, I think Anet is being very cautious with how vuln is inflicted. Its also so easy to get high vuln stacks by simply traiting the domination line, rending shatter becomes easily overshadowed.

Bottom line, with confounding suggestions to compete with in PvP and empowered illusions in PvE, this trait isn’t going to see the light of day.

skcamow.3527:

Bottom line, with confounding suggestions to compete with in PvP and empowered illusions in PvE, this trait isn’t going to see the light of day.

Absolutely. Kinda hard to understand how this survived. With the old Frag it made at least a little sense, but now it really just doesn’t serve any purpose at all. Should be 2 stacks of Vuln per illusion shattered (and IP), so you can get 8 stacks of Vuln total on a 3-Clone shatter, and thus a 4% bonus from Frag. (plus 8% from the Vuln!)

That being the best case, I think it is reasonable and needed to remotely compete with the other 2 choices.