Guild Wars 2

So after the IC nerf patch, I changed from my old phantasm build which was 10/10/20/25/5 sword/sword-staff. I made this new spec on the day of the patch, and after having a bunch of ppl asking me how I changed from the nerf, I ended up giving this new spec out to a lot of ppl so I decided I would just share it here on the forums for everyone to enjoy.

the build is 0/20/20/30/0 once again taking sword/sword-staff
in dueling I took blade training and phantasmal fury.
in chaos I took illusionary defence and chaotic dampening
in inspiration I took menders purity, persisting images, and compounding celerity.

for the gear I went with a full knights set of armor with divinity runes down the line. for trinkets I am going with a zerker back piece, cavalier amulet and accessories, and then knights rings. for food I went with bowl of lemongrass poultry soup and superior sharpening stones. I decided that because the build has perma regen in combat due to the 15 point minor trait in inspiration, that it would be nice to bring clerics weapons. you get 300 healing power from traits, and an extra 60 from runes on top of the weapons being clerics, which gives me over 200 hp per second in combat, and also boosts my healing skill up to almost 9k when I have 3 illusions up. I know some people might be baffled at why I went 30 into inspiration, and although the major traits are nice, I wouldn’t have if it wasn’t for how awesome the minor traits are for a phantasm spec. the 15 in toughness and 15 in vitality sync up very well to give you perma regen and some semi consistent protection. the build is a bunker of sorts, but don’t let that give you the impression that it doesn’t deal very much damage, it just takes some setup but after you get 3 I swordsman out on the field, your enemy will die, and this is really only needed for bunkers, glass cannons will die very quickly with your phantasms criting over 3.5k each. feel free to leave a comment and let me know how you like it, and feel free to post some phantasm specs of your own.

-Priest of Lyssa (sorrows furnace)