Guild Wars 2

Two fairly long fights against another condi chrono build who is defending a camp I’m trying to take. Have fun!

https://youtu.be/jbdnY_tV9uI

scepter torch , scepter shield, is it not better to play scepter torch sword shield , so that when scepter is on cd sword is not on cd ( and sword and shield are both melee ) ?

Part of it for me is that I just never got good at sword mainhand. There are lots of people who prefer that. Here are the reasons that I like scepter-mainhand always:
- You always get the Malicious Sorcery benefit (20% faster cast time). Since I’m using the mantra heal, disenchanter, and gravity well – I have a few skills with long casts. The 20% difference is really important for me.
- The auto-attack is much better. You get torment on every shot, and you get a clone generated from the auto-attack.
- I like having some range. I close in pretty often, but there are times when I want or need the distance.
- The cooldown is not really an issue on the block skill. The base cooldown with Malicious Sorcery is 4.75 seconds I think. With alacrity, it’s even less. Confusing images is about 10 seconds, but that’s not really a problem in a lot of rotations for me.
- Confusing images does some actual power damage, and can actually be multi-target. There are cases where I can’t get resistance down and I just need a little more damage to finish a target. CI has a really nice power damage scaling, so it does an okay amount of damage even with no power. And you can sometimes line up multiple foes and hit all of them (gravity well is nice for this because it pulls everyone together)

eldenbri.1059:

Part of it for me is that I just never got good at sword mainhand. There are lots of people who prefer that. Here are the reasons that I like scepter-mainhand always:
- You always get the Malicious Sorcery benefit (20% faster cast time). Since I’m using the mantra heal, disenchanter, and gravity well – I have a few skills with long casts. The 20% difference is really important for me.
- The auto-attack is much better. You get torment on every shot, and you get a clone generated from the auto-attack.
- I like having some range. I close in pretty often, but there are times when I want or need the distance.
- The cooldown is not really an issue on the block skill. The base cooldown with Malicious Sorcery is 4.75 seconds I think. With alacrity, it’s even less. Confusing images is about 10 seconds, but that’s not really a problem in a lot of rotations for me.
- Confusing images does some actual power damage, and can actually be multi-target. There are cases where I can’t get resistance down and I just need a little more damage to finish a target. CI has a really nice power damage scaling, so it does an okay amount of damage even with no power. And you can sometimes line up multiple foes and hit all of them (gravity well is nice for this because it pulls everyone together)

I was like you and i hated sword. I really love scepter but sometime , in close combat , it seems to me that i miss something. What i like of sword is that you can pre spam a clonse ( sword 3 ) … it helps me a lot to burst with shatters ( usually i use staff 3 then switch to sword 3 ( or reverse ) ) and then shatter with 2 clones ready. I know that autoattack chain of scepter creates clone really fast but sometime i don’t feel it strong, probably i am not able to “burst” with scepter . On the other hand throwing sword 2 in enemy face is too fun and the sword animations are better And with some matchup, if you are lucky that resistance is one of the first boon … boon removal is great