Guild Wars 2

Hey guys,

I was playing with my usual Power Phantasm build last night and quite frankly wasn’t winning a lot of fights in sPvP. Not sure if the other players were just really good, or if Phantasms aren’t really all that effective in PvP. Anyways, I decided to try my hand at what was initially going to be a hybrid build, but ended up just being a straight crit/condi build. It uses Staff/GS.

I know most condi builds use scepter/X, but I found the GS bounce might/vuln, plus clones appearing AT the enemy, plus them having 3 attacks for bleed crit application, plus a knockback and cripple, really outweighed a block/torment and whatever offhand I took.

Build:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fhAQJARWlknpRtlpxINcrRitxY2LK5U1guhKZADD-TJRFwAAeCARLDcb/BEXCAA

Surprisingly efficient at Condi stacking/application if you are constantly swapping weapons on CD (Doom Sigils), and using Mirror blade/overwriting your clones as often as possible. Super tanky, with condi removal on heal plus mantra for it. And decoy even for emergencies.

I was mostly just messing around to see what was viable, but I was blown away by the Tankyness, and still awesome condi pressure I was putting on people. Chaos storm helps by giving you a ton of Chaos armor when you combo, on top of mirror blade applying confusion through it.

Anyone ever played anything similar?

Since Spatial Surge hit 3 times, it has more chance to proc bleed from the clones, hence your bleed stack. Even if someone is clearing the bleed, you will stack it as fast.

Ever tried S/S and S/S + condi on clone death ? Put on Swap sigil like Geomancy, Doom or Hydromancy. Then just spam clones and swap. Sword clones apply vulnerability and bleed so quickly.

It’s for fun and it’s different.

Yeah I found the bleed/vulnerability/poison/burning was way too overwhelming for them to clear constantly enough. Maybe not for a Warrior, but that’s about it. Not to mention pretty significant Might stacks for me by staying in melee (to keep clones close to them), and fury when in staff.

I’d like to say it’s just for fun, but I did VASTLY better, against the same opponents, using this build as opposed to my straight Berserk Phantasm one. Maybe this just suits my playstyle better?..

I run a build thats somewhat similar, tho its a modified Shatter with IP.

Staff is good for Condition Pressure all on its own but Sword/X or GS can pile ontop of that pretty quick and really do some damage. My bonus is consistent Confusion Spam/upkeep that makes battles quickly go downhill for a target.

Only issue is that it takes a little time to Get into gear and really start hurting so some opponents can be harder to deal with than others.