Guild Wars 2

Dueling with Chaos Archangel on his boon share and standard lockdown builds. Some are long but showing them all in case anyone wants to see. I’m working on some tpvp play.

Vid (dueling): https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5knSmAnTDKU
Build: The Utility Wizard

I ran a build of the same name prior to the patch and primary priority post patch was to see if it could be improved. I’m happy to say it appears that way, at least so far. My goal was to find a way to use all illusion and weapon affecting recharge traits to find a medium cadence shatter build. Jury is still out …

I’ve been running this since the patch hit Tuesday. Raw game play with all my grunts, groans, outbursts and ofc bevy of mistakes (them cancel casts!)

Build has promise, retaining much of the utility of the original, adding damage mitigation in the form of iDefender and AoE healing now with healing prism and restorative mantras. Add to that reflect support, near permanent protection, mantra toughness baseline and mantra background recharge make it a good on point support bruiser. Might generation remains more random in 1v1 duels but much more prevalent in team fights and guaranteed in my coordinated PvP team comp.

EDIT: Since the recording the malicious sorcery bug has me choosing ineptitude and it’s proven to be a far better choice, providing some blind utility which also hearkens back to the original build. In the duels I’m using malicious sorcery, however. The CD and healing prism nerf hurt but I continue to test; current choice I’m trying to make is shattered strength vs maim.

I welcome any feedback on how you might improve it.

Gosh the new META is just burst, and people die…. Sorry, after watching your video I had to say that… XD I’m obviously kidding. The build looks fun.