Weird trait allocation question.

Weird trait allocation question.

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Posted by: Curunen.8729

Curunen.8729

I’m sure I’ve seen someone post this before, but does anyone play
0/10(IV)/30(III,X,XII)/0/30(III,VIII,XI) or
10(I)/10(IV)/20(III,X)/0/30(III,VIII,XI), Sw/T + Staff?

Blink, decoy, MI and whatever else fits the situation (taking mantra of resolve in spvp because lacking condition removal)

Tested the former (0/10/30/0/30) in a few hotjoins briefly and seems to at least be playable.
Utility of IP kind of makes me not miss DE, particularly for (F)3 and 4 shatters. Sharper images is of course hard to let go of, but I was thinking how much does it actually contribute for a PU power build – particularly shatter, when clones don’t live long enough to deal much bleeding anyway? Also the only decent phantasm I’ve got is the iwarlock.
Domination adept and master minors are essentially just damage buffs, as is mental torment, and cleansing conflagration isn’t really necessary other than that additional condition removal.
Lovely to have minimum cooldowns on MH sword and staff.

At the moment I’m flailing around a bit in combat trying to find a rhythm with it, but wondered what other players opinions on this are – I’m sure some of you must have played/are playing with this trait and weapon setup?
:)

Edit: I take it back – weaknesses are starting to show – primarily lack of DE for shatter and mediocre synergy with PU.

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