Guild Wars 2

Currently the Phantasm build 10/30/0/25/5 has become quite popular. As Pyroatheist mentioned in Episode 2 of their Podcast, Mesmerized, with this build you cast your phantasms, dance around your foe(s), and let your phantasms kill them.

I was thinking about this a bit more and thought to myself, “why not heal yourself while dancing around them”. As the build already has 25 points in Inspiration, you can easily swap out the usual +20% phantasm hp that people take and replace it with Restorative Mantras. Now, with Mantra of Recovery and Mantra of Pain, while dancing around your opponent, you can constantly cycle the two Mantras (as able) to get 2.5k heals (that’s with zero +healing).

I can’t convince myself to remove my 5 points from Chaos to get 10 in Domination. It sure is nice, but 10+s regeneration it a great help for surviability.

That’s one of the beautiful aspects of this build – the flexibility to trait however you want in inspiration depending on the situation. I personally prefer 10/20/0/25/10 setup in PvE but the 25 in inspiration is pretty much mandatory for a solid phantasm build.

Nretep.2564:

I can’t convince myself to remove my 5 points from Chaos to get 10 in Domination. It sure is nice, but 10+s regeneration it a great help for surviability.

You already have Phantasmal Healing for permanent Regeneration, Metaphysical Rejuvenation should generally be redundant.

And I really see no reason to take Persisting Images, +20% HP is not terribly effective given how fragile Phantasms are (Phantasmal Defender being the only exception): I doubt it will let Phantasms take even one extra hit in most cases.

There are people that run this without Restorative Mantras?

Its half the reason to run a Phantasm/Mantrea Hrybrid.

Use it with Persisting images since it will let them survive most attacks that would 1 hit them, you can then fully heal them with MoP.

To clear something up, the build referenced in the op is a purely pvp phantasm spec that I created, substantially different in traiting and playstyle than my pve build. I wrote a pretty thorough explanation of it in my pve build’s thread, so head over there if you want that explanation.