Guild Wars 2

Hey guys I was wondering what the general consensus is of the raiding builds we use? I’ve been told the chrono dps/support build on Metabattle isn’t quite up to date with builds.

Personally I’m using something like that:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vhAQRAse8dnsIClfi9fCGoBUrhFVjCtLSjsrOZn2qlMAGhiD-ThBXABArUA19HeQJIAK7AV/QPq/QKgAnaB-e
and change depending on encounter:
boon strip (Shattered Concentration) for VG,
Inspiration 1,1,2 instead of Domination and Feedback instead of Signet of Inspiration for Sloth
Etc…

The commanders weapons (and actually 1 accessory or ring, not sure which one) are just personal preference cause it helps me to upkeep quickness during ‘fight downtimes’ like gorsevals updrafts. This 10% helps me much with that (I believe I have ~42% with buffs, 92 with herald)

With 2-3 shield phantasms all the time I dont feel like I need healing well for 2s more alacrity and the passive healing on signet helps me not require heal from healer that often. + it helps resummon phantasms if you need to shatter them (i.e you just used them for CS and boss comes into CC phase and your team is bad @cc or slik shoe engie is downed or whatever)

Within spirit vale you’re pretty much best off using domination-illusions-chronomancy in any situation as long as your team doesnt want shared distortion( I take it once or twice for when my green squad is unreliable). Quickness uptime should be fine in most cases, but chrono runes and signet of inspiration help out a ton. I personally now use gravity well rather than timewarp here because TW overshoots maximum quickness stacks very easily. Rest of my utility is WoA, Soi and, WoR and WoE.

At slothazor you want to use inspiration rather than domination, for medics feedback, condi cleanse on shatter/wardens fb and temporal enchanter to pump out enough reflections. Personally i switch out well of recall at this encounter rather than SoI as I feel quickness is more important to keep up.

At the second SP boss it doesnt matter much what you take, and Ill say Im not fully confident about matthias. At math it makes sense to me to take the same build as slothazor mainly for the condi cleanse in phase 2, but if you dont think this is relevant enough you may switch to chaos(stability on shatter) or domination. 

Greetings!

For Spirit Vale it’s most of the time Domination, Illusions and Chronomancer.
For Salvation Pass it’s most of the time Inspiration, Illusions and Chronomancer.

NEVER go commander gear, it’s not good, not even as a tank.

Your first equip should be kitten bersi mix for max dps. Use Force and Accuracy sigils and get ±64.76% crit chance on your own, so with banner, fury and spotter you’ll reach 100%.

Your second equip should be full zerk for no-updraft Gorsy or Sabetha, when you’ll be using Danger Time.

Your tank equip should be full zerk (the same as your second equip), just with power, toughness, ferocity trinkets (play with Danger Time too).

Questions?

Greez!
- Madame Le Blanc

Xyonon.3987:

Greetings!
get ±64.76% crit chance on your own, so with banner, fury and spotter you’ll reach 100%.

Except that you will like never get spotter and banner will affect you rarely. Unless you have group with 2 PS warriors (which is unnecessary since a good PS can keep 25might for 10ppl) only 1 group will get access to banner.
Mesmer DPS is way lower than other classes and noone expects you to deal highest dmg. Unless you run no updraft gorseval (take full zerker then) I believe its better to mix it with commanders to keep 100% upkeep even if you cant cast signet of inspi/wells/etc (i.e. gorse updrafts/sloth tanking/slobling).
But its just a personal opinion. My group never comes anywhere close to enrage timers just because I use commander weapons and actually when I tested bers vs commanders it seemed we were few seconds ahead with me using commanders but it might be just pure chance.

Personally, I’m the tank for my raid so I go illusions, chrono, and inspiration for all 3 bosses of spirit vale. This gets me shatter heals and group distortion for nasty situations (like when we’re tanking gorsey breakbars) and it also lets me get a 3-clone CS going from just iLeap and a single shield block (because it summons the pDefender). For gear I go zerker and then pieces of knights as necessary to hold aggro with chrono runes.

For slothy, inspiration with focus traited is obviously super important. I also have been dropping well of recall for feedback on slothy. I started by swapping out the signet, but not being able to share quickness really bothered me, and a lot of alacrity uptime is from shield phantasms anyway. On top of that, Slothy isn’t really a dps race like gorsey, it’s more a mechanic fight like VG, so keeping your group alive and well through the projectile spam is top priority.

Xyonon.3987:

NEVER go commander gear, it’s not good, not even as a tank.

I’ve heard of some groups dropping their herald altogether because a mesmer with commander gear can provide 100% uptime quickness without one. It seems that according to their calculations, it’s worth dropping the herald to bring a more selfish dpser.

Heya!

You can’t provide 100% quickness uptime for 10 ppl all on your own whatsoever. You can hope that it will work but it won’t cuz of the randomness people are staying.

But if we are talking about theory where you buff 5 people with your skills and share it to the other 5 people, you can achieve the same result with zerker (/assassin) gear + leadership runes. They are better than chrono runes for the 2nd wing anyway, since feedback is a must, so I see no reason to go commander again.

For the majority of the fights in raids, it’s better to have 2 Chronos anyway. The only exception be Sabby when your main dps comes from aa heavy professions.

Greez!