Guild Wars 2

Ok, so I’ve been tweaking and retweaking and reretweaking a build, and I catch myself going around in circles.

Basically, I have a suit of celestial exotic armor… which I’m going to replace with ascended (grumble grumble grumble) and get some celestial ascended weapons too.

I thought it might be fun to have a completely balanced build to go with the completely balanced stats.

So, I came up with the following, so far, in traits (not finished yet):

Domination:
Dueling:
Chaos(15): Illusionary Defense
Inspiration(15): Mender’s Purity
Illusions(15): Compounding Power

What I’m looking for is a set of traits that balances offense and defense as evenly as possible, while not forcing me to take any one weapon set. I want to use whatever weapon I feel like (or the situation warrants) without feeling obligated to take any one weapon. I also want to have max flexibility between using shatters, phantasm assaults, etc.

I realize its the jack of all trades being the master of none, but that’s what I want to do :P

So, what would you suggest for my 25 trait points?

What would this be for? General PVE? Dungeons? Zerg wvw? Small-man group roaming? Solo roaming? All the above?

I was thinking something like (this feels more PVE to me): http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fgAQBgExkieL4QpA7APSFUtSK4tLE

Which is 10/20/20/0/20 and you can flip flop between phantasms or shatter pretty easily. Right now it is traited for both phantasms and shatter, but you can easily retrait it to focus in either respected areas.

Its for all the above, heh, I do just about everything. Between that and my serious ADHD, I wanted a flexible all around build, heh

But I don’t like the blade training. Like I said, I want to be able to flip weapons however I want, and blade training makes me feel stuck with using swords.

that being said, I did for awhile run with both Blade Training and Chaotic dampening, with sword/sword and staff, with illusion’s Celerity; having 20% recharge and 40% illusion recharge on all weapons, including all aquatic, for only two trait skill slots, was rather fun for awhile

It would be easier to decide on whether you like power or condition builds since youre looking at making ascended gear.
As far as traits go there is a world of difference between what works in WvW and PvE. Even in WvW just running between zergs and roaming its generally easier to use different trait setups.
The following build i like for dungeons and fractals, mostly because I pug…
Build
Really easy to switch between traits for boss fights:
Domination- I or III
Dueling- II or IV or VI
Chaos- III or IV, VII or X
Inspiration- I or II or IV, VIII or IX or X
Commonly switch out focus, pistol, sword, GS. Been playing since release, some things just work better for different fights.
And use a variety of the different utilities. Mesmer has a trick for any situation
If you are really that boring and want to just run one exact set of traits and weapons then you may want to try Elementalist…

You don’t need to take sword. I would do the manipulation trait, or fury if on phantasm build.