Guild Wars 2

I love Condi kitten and I’d love some advice from folks smarter than me about condi roaming on a mesmer post-patch.

Condi-shatter? PU condi? What? Lemme see some builds! Thanks, y’all.

Well Im having the same dilemma, I posted my condi-shatter build but I just got feedback to stay away from this build…so I wish I could help. If you find something good let us know.

PU or CI would work. I use CI myself most often. I find lockdown builds to be more rewarding in wvw.

I never roam in anything but PU condie. The reason for this is that roaming too often ends up in outnumbered situations and/or running into zergs. If I could guarantee that I’d only encounter 1v1s then maybe I’d run a phantasm build or a shatter build. However, no build other than PU condie is able to really capably handle and win heavily outnumbered fights.

If you know you’ll be roaming with buddies, your options become much wider. Glassy shatter builds become viable, as do heavy phantasm builds and lockdown type builds.

someone can be nice to post a strong condi pu for WvW roaming ? rly please

The traditional PU build is 4/4/6/0/0: Crippling Dissipation, Cleansing Conflagration, Desperate Decoy, Deceptive Evasion, Debilitating Dissipation, Chaotic Dampening, Prismatic Understanding ~ typical trait set up. Rabid gears, I was told Nightmare runes were good when I first started playing with PU. Scepter/Torch + Staff

You can always try variant builds, some people play a Power PU. Scepter/Pistol + Sword/Torch

I’m sure the builds are posted on the Mesmer forums or on various build sites. :P Search features are amazing at finding what you’re looking for.

With the extra bounce working correctly on IE, is 04/6/0/4 better than the traditional PU 4/4/6/0/0 build now?

Snakebyte.2804:

With the extra bounce working correctly on IE, is 04/6/0/4 better than the traditional PU 4/4/6/0/0 build now?

It’s different. I personally can’t get myself to drop those 4 from domination because of the massive defense it provides through condition removal and higher stealth uptime. Taking the 4 in illusions provides somewhat higher pressure, but I don’t find that I really need it when roaming.

This is what I’ve been running. I do switch between scepter and sword and tweek my traits accordingly. The bleeds become impossible to deal with.

NOTE: I know I do not run any condition removers so don’t want to hear about it.

My Cheese build:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fhIQNAsaWlknpMtNqxTNUrNSuxYyI+Al9sUpPIgeB-TFCBwAVUC+T9nInCAY6D+q8DwTAghJId7PEAABgZOzhOzhmUALKNC-w

You can go either 2/4/4/0/4, 0/6/4/0/4, or 0/5/5/0/4

Thanks, Neveready. I love bleed builds like that and may try it. I just may not do it long bc not having some sort of access to speed drives me crazy.

Fay, so PU Condi is still viable post-PU nerf?

Snakebyte.2804:

Thanks, Neveready. I love bleed builds like that and may try it. I just may not do it long bc not having some sort of access to speed drives me crazy.

Fay, so PU Condi is still viable post-PU nerf?

“Nerf”. I, for one, vastly enjoy having permanent swiftness between swiftness on the prestige stealth and swapping on focus when out of combat.

This thread depresses me.

0/6/6/2/0 (BI and CI) staff/scepter+pistol condi interrupt is still my favourite roaming build. The nerf to DD (and clone death in general) was a pain, but the buffs to scepter AA and Mantra of Distraction have massively improved the functionality of this build for small group roaming.

Also works well in solo roaming, but obviously not as optimal for survival as a condi PU build.