Pls help me with a Dueling decision T__T
I’m going for a kind of tanky, shatter spam, phantasm, control Chronomancer and I need some help with a trait choice. I can’t decide between the sword trait and the blind on shatter trait in Dueling. One gives me a little bit more damage through harder crits and the lower recharge on blurred frenzy means more dps and personal survivability. I don’t have very high clone generation at all since I’m not taking DE (pls stop stabbing me in your mind right now) so the higher clone generation, mobility, and control is appreciated. On the other hand, low shatter recharges with a lot of alacrity can help me churn out blinds like a thief with the alternate option, helping out my entire team’s survivability. Do you suggest I take one or the other? Maybe I should just swap them out depending on the situation…
Post your build link. It’s easier to give you advice based on the full picture. For example, if you have a number of interrupt traits, a traited sword would also benefit from more frequent sword 4’s. On the otherhand, if you had confusion on blind for some reason then… well no brainer.
Post your build link. It’s easier to give you advice based on the full picture. For example, if you have a number of interrupt traits, a traited sword would also benefit from more frequent sword 4’s. On the otherhand, if you had confusion on blind for some reason then… well no brainer.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vhAQNAseRn0nB1ohtfC+fCUrhlVjqMCGhAoOZj2pFd6OjqA-TRwMAAw+DAA-e
Here it is. Left out stat choices and sigils as they’re the variables, but I’m thinking some combination of knights, cavalier’s, valkyrie’s, and soldiers. Not entirely sure about the Centaur Runes, but perma swiftness with the healing mantra and near cripple immunity is nice.
I do have confusion on blind, but this is not a condi build and could easily be swapped for master of fragmentation. However that extra, somewhat useless condi could bait some cleanses and reduces the chance of the more important control condis of this build being cleansed. It also procs on evade, so a lower recharge on Blurred a Frenzy also works with it, not just the blind trait. The only problem with the blind trait is that although I do intend to double shatter when under heavy pressure to refresh shield 4, I won’t be spamming shatters simply for that trait. I intend to keep the phantasms around cuz I really want to be spreading some sweet alacrity that way since I didn’t take the well trait. Meant to be a bruiser kind of thing with some supportive control and buffs (Phantasmal haste + Illusionary avengers and well of recall for Alacrity and ToT and Time Warp for group Quickness). Mostly just tried to make an easy to play chronomancer build. My other one relied almost entirely on interrupts and wasn’t too reliable.
(edited by Treetoptrickster.4205)
I personally prefer Blinds on shatter over the sword trait for sPvP
If it’s PvE and the content is easy go for extra damage.
Don’t know about WvW.