Support/boon striping Mesmer for HOT

Support/boon striping Mesmer for HOT

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Posted by: BlaqkDeath.6702

BlaqkDeath.6702

I want to play a support toon in HOT, but not the Druid I was thing of trying our mantra support with some boon striping and if need be some reflects when needed tell what you think. All input is welcome.
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Arnie

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Posted by: AlphatheWhite.9351

AlphatheWhite.9351

You’re getting hardly any group alacrity at all with Well of Precognition, making All’s Well that Ends Well extremely weak in your build.

Have you considered Well of Recall instead? With AWtEW, using WoR as part of your opening CS burst (f5 -> Time Warp -> WoR -> Tides of Time -> f5 -> WoR -> ToT) gets you a cool 14s of group alacrity right at the start.
While you lose the potential defensiveness of group blur, you can gain some serious potency for your group with that alacrity, especially at the front of the fight where it makes the most difference.

Edit: also, with only Time Warp for a glamour, you’re not gonna get much at all out of Temporal Enchanter. The superspeed is unnecessary at the start of the fight when you pop CS (and what are they gonna do with it anyway? leave the bubble and miss the quickness?), it’s too early in the fight for Resistance to be needed, and the extra 2s of quickness isn’t as big a deal with Tides of Time now available.
I’d argue that you’ll get more value out of Illusionary Inspiration, especially as your regeneration stacks from phantasms will be superior to the regeneration your allies are handing out. The incidental boonshare can be annoying sometimes, but worth it in a support role, and most boons don’t depend on when you pop them to be useful. Plus, if Irenio’s change to pet survivability makes phantasms more a thing (on top of what we were seeing in raids), II will probably be handing out a decent amount of regeneration over fights.

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Posted by: Vague Memory.2817

Vague Memory.2817

I don’t find boon stripping very effective on Mes. Most people run with multiple boons, and stripping 1 boon for 1 shatter doesn’t do much. Nor 1 boon strip at the end of your slow sword AA chain. Now if it were boon removed per illusion shattered that would be different. Then you have Arcane thievery, when it works.

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Posted by: Fay.2357

Fay.2357

I don’t find boon stripping very effective on Mes. Most people run with multiple boons, and stripping 1 boon for 1 shatter doesn’t do much. Nor 1 boon strip at the end of your slow sword AA chain. Now if it were boon removed per illusion shattered that would be different. Then you have Arcane thievery, when it works.

Wish granted! Shattered concentration now strips 1 boon per clone!

You can thank me later.

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Posted by: BlaqkDeath.6702

BlaqkDeath.6702

The.boon stripping is for raids cause of the boon strip boss

Arnie

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Posted by: Vague Memory.2817

Vague Memory.2817

I don’t find boon stripping very effective on Mes. Most people run with multiple boons, and stripping 1 boon for 1 shatter doesn’t do much. Nor 1 boon strip at the end of your slow sword AA chain. Now if it were boon removed per illusion shattered that would be different. Then you have Arcane thievery, when it works.

Wish granted! Shattered concentration now strips 1 boon per clone!

You can thank me later.

I thought shattered concentration was per shatter as it says in its description?