Guild Wars 2

I am going to use the Metabattle Alacrity Chrono build. It seems like a solid way to start. I can change things to my personal play strengths LATER after I have a hundred games or so to get a well-rounded feel for it.

BUT…can someone who uses the full alacrity build a lot please tell me what they typically do?

Do I start in staff and then switch to scepter for clones for shatters? Do I rely only on staff phantasms and the Scepter 2 clone generally?

What is your basic means of survival? You cannot support a team if you are dead! Survival is job 1, with alacrity and boons as a side effect, right?

I saw messiah’s video but he is not using the alacrity build. I am going to use the alacrity build.

Perhaps you could link this build? There’s no alacrity support build on metabattle that I saw at a glance using scepter.

Alacrity support is pretty simple, it’s just Wells and Well of Recall in particular. Stack Wells, yell at allies to stand in Wells, use Continuum Split to double up, etc. Quickness support is the part that’s more involved, and also IMO more important.

Your survival comes from perma-Protection thanks to Chaotic Dampening and Stability from BD, plus Blocks and Evades fuelled by personal Alacrity. It’s a support bunker build (although as Fay said I don’t think you’re looking at the right build), it’s naturally survivable.

Fay.2357:

Perhaps you could link this build? There’s no alacrity support build on metabattle that I saw at a glance using scepter.

Sorry, Fay. I was wrong. No scepter in that build. My mistake.

But it’s the metabattle build I am working to master.

Is the sword key to the build? Or is it mostly staff and wells?

Staff isn’t all that key. Sword-Shield is more important defense-wise due to Blocks and Evades, not to mention superior group support with Alacrity, Quickness and reliable AoE CC.

If you think Staff is key because of Chaotic Dampening, you can get Chaos Armour by Illusionary Leaping through Wells. That’s not to say Staff is useless, it’s great; but not “key” in the way you seem to think it is.

Embolism, thanks. That helps. I was somehow the staff interrupts were a good part of it, but maybe I was thinking of another build.

Try and not to panic when you get condi loaded. They are just trying to make you use your big cooldowns,
Timewarp on rezzing downs
Dont sword 2 into a scrapper (retal hurts)
Do not use your shatter skills for damage but for heal/boons.
Do not try and decap if there is someone defending a point. You just need to bunker/support.
If you are keeping the point neutral then you are doing it right lol. Most of the time, 2-3 people will try and break you and that is pretty much a GG if your team knows how to rotate and win home/mid
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Get 2-3 clones. pop continuum shift. Drop everything on point then lolshift again. -_-

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Do not use your shatter skills for damage but for heal/boons.

As an addon to this, a lot of the benefits you get from Shattering (boons, condition cleansing, healing) either don’t scale or scale poorly with Illusions Shattered, so don’t feel as if you have to get three Illusions out. In fact the typical Chronobunker will have a very hard time getting three out for more than one Shatter.

Thanks everyone. Good stuff.

No shade, but I wouldn’t go to metabattle for builds just quite yet…

That being said, I think the best way to play alacrity support is by playing a bunker build with Alacrity/Precog/Heal wells. There’s some wiggle room on the 3rd utility slot and elite depending on your traits. Emphasize using F5 to double up on the Alacrity Well, and that should be enough alacrity for your team after a big burst rotation.