Guild Wars 2

Which build is superior damage wise?

For me I see the shatter build better at the moment due to people saying shattered strength is strong and phantasms die fast anyway.

Is this still true for a tank and spank fight where your phantasms are left untouched or is shatter still stronger?

Also after mind wrack is on cd, is it better to confuse a mob or daze them? (which helps team more)

Shatter is definitely more damage, but if you have 15 points in Inspiration, you might as well drop 3 Phantasms and afk on bosses because it benefits the team and the drop in dps is negligable, especially if you’re ranging.

If build right, then phant dont die fast. I can keep 3 perma phant up easy in almost all fights.

But I never like shatter and I am a phant build, so of course I say shatter sucks kitten

I think the main problem is that I find Phantasms are only really useful on bosses. With the exception of the IBerzerker, things just die too fast and the phantasms go away too quickly to be useful any other time. Shattering, on the other hand, solves this problem perfectly with the AOE shatters. Additionally, with a full Phantasms build, I don’t have cooldown on many weapons with phantasms (only Sword, which is decent, and focus, which doesn’t follow enemies so if the battle moves, it doesn’t). This compounds the above problem, because the Phantasms are wiped often due to things dying fairly fast, and then I can’t replace them very quickly, either.

phantasms are better for bosses, and they bring support. shatter is great for trash though, but its trash….personally I enjoy a phant build for pve because I can bring more to a group, but ill shatter phants when i know there going to die or when i need an oh s#@t button =P

Fallos.6408:

phantasms are better for bosses, and they bring support. shatter is great for trash though, but its trash….personally I enjoy a phant build for pve because I can bring more to a group, but ill shatter phants when i know there going to die or when i need an oh s#@t button =P

Distortion?

jportell.2197:

Fallos.6408:

phantasms are better for bosses, and they bring support. shatter is great for trash though, but its trash….personally I enjoy a phant build for pve because I can bring more to a group, but ill shatter phants when i know there going to die or when i need an oh s#@t button =P

Distortion?

WOW one skill

sorry but no,,,, phant build brings major control(immb/cripple/reflect/ and enemies focus on them) they bring support(protection/regen/reta/50% reduce damage/rip condition off you and more) and bring semi good dps not as good kittenter. However for a group working together phant build is very helpful.