Guild Wars 2

I was discussing the new traits with the Official Mesmer Forum Guild, and we came up with something that can give you 100% crit chance or very close to it, constant slow, and all around pain.

Berserker gear, Pack runes
Sword/x with Sigil of Generosity and Sigil of Energy
Greatsword with Sigil of Air and Sigil of Fire

Ether Feast, Blink, Well of Action, Mantra of Distraction, Well of Gravity for utilities

Traits

The idea of this build is to keep slow up on your opponent all the time, which in turn makes it easier to interrupt them, which in keeps them slowed. With fury + Danger Time, you will be able to maintain 90%+ crit chance, which will slow them even more, which will sustain the crit chance. Pretty much any offhand can work, depends on personal preference. Sword gives the most raw damage, Pistol gives the most crit procs, focus gives the best support options, and shield gives the most defense. Condition pressure is the only downside I can think of, which can be alleviated with Sigil of Generosity or by replacing Well of Action with Null Field or Arcane Thievery.

This looks so beautiful, I just might cry.

As for the condition issue, what do you think of Runes of Lyssa? The precision obviously isn’t wasted, condition duration will lengthen slow, and since Gravity Well’s effects are delayed, you’ll get up to 5 boons as its ticking from the runes(depending on conditions), synergizing with Chaotic Persistence, giving slows applied during that time up to a 15% duration boost based on the conditions cleansed.

Necrotize.2974:

This looks so beautiful, I just might cry.

As for the condition issue, what do you think of Runes of Lyssa? The precision obviously isn’t wasted, condition duration will lengthen slow, and since Gravity Well’s effects are delayed, you’ll get up to 5 boons as its ticking from the runes(depending on conditions), synergizing with Chaotic Persistence, giving slows applied during that time up to a 15% duration boost based on the conditions cleansed.

You’d be sacrificing the extra crit chance from fury, but it’s definitely a valid choice.

I’m speechless. I love it…… i may join Necrotize in the cry fest.

This sort of build is probably why the crit slow trait will have a 10s or so ICD.

Elorna.5329:

This sort of build is probably why the crit slow trait will have a 10s or so ICD.

The thing is, perma-slow on one target is not that unfair. It’s powerful but not nearly as debilitating as high uptime on chill, for example.

ASP.8093:

Elorna.5329:

This sort of build is probably why the crit slow trait will have a 10s or so ICD.

The thing is, perma-slow on one target is not that unfair. It’s powerful but not nearly as debilitating as high uptime on chill, for example.

That largely depends on the amount of interrupts you could put into such a build and their cooldowns. With sufficient amount of those, and the various on rupt traits it becomes worse than perma/near perma chill.