I think we can safely assume PvE from the gear. WvW rarely suggests assassins because reflects are so situational.
What it kinda boils down to is 1k personal DPS vs 5 seconds of quickness (when running mimic, WoA, and TW) every 55-90 seconds. Do you think 5 seconds of quickness can be equivalent to 55-90k damage? In a raid setting where everyone is stacked close enough to be in wells, I would say maybe. In non raid settings, I’d say almost definitely not.
Personally, I run scholar but I haven’t touched raids yet.
In pve I run full assassin armor + zerker weapons and trinkets using rune of the chronomancer it works well with any of my builds (none of them is basemesmer anymore).
Oh shoot right, those mods don’t apply to phantasms and I lumped the two together. 440 ish DPS instead of the 1k. So it’s really 22k-36k damage in that window. That’s much more likely in a raid setting though a bit iffy (worst case the 36k is spread over 9 people, meaning people need to average 8k to make it even) , though in non raid scholar still comes out on top
Edit: as to where the numbers come from, mesmer sims roughly 11k-12k DPS, I used 11k. the damage is split roughly 4:6 mesmer:phantasm. That’s how you get the 440 (10% of the mesmer’s share). CS has a cooldown between 55s with lots of alacrity to 90 base. I was trying to show that the trade off is between the personal DPS and roughly how much party DPS is required to match
Actually a update. You don’t need leadership runes to get 100% quickness up time. And if you really want more quickness for some reason you could just swap out either domination or dueling.
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100% quickness uptime w/o runesn and w/o shield? What is the sequence?
You get 4 WoA and 1 TW every CS rotation. That’s 23 seconds of quickness without boon duration. With 80% boon duration ( food and utility nourishment and rev ), that goes to 41 seconds of quickness. So to get permanent quickness up time you need to get 17 seconds of quickness from 4 SoI which is do able. I did forget earlier tho the time spent in CS, so taking something like illusions would be probably a good idea.
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Too bad most professions who are strong in raids need alacrity more than quickness…
I use chronomancer since imo content where I stay at 90% hp forever is not content hard enough to worry about. Also for raids nothing beats recall and sometimes precognition. 4 times the same well is overkill since mimic cd is too long. I suggest chrono > scholar nowdays.
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Good to hear.
Though you will not fit 4 WoA to CS split rotation w/o mimic or w/o stretching time window of rotation by 5s+ on practice (iirr).
Curious would be swap Dueling for Illusions dps loss/gain/equal (mesmer-only dps wise)
Good to hear.
Though you will not fit 4 WoA to CS split rotation w/o mimic or w/o stretching time window of rotation by 5s+ on practice (iirr).
Curious would be swap Dueling for Illusions dps loss/gain/equal (mesmer-only dps wise)
If when you come out of CS you place WoA before your other well or do anything else you can get that 5s+ down to like 2 seconds but that is a good point. As for dueling vs illusions, IDK, but I’d take illusions just to make sure you have enough quickness.
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If when you come out of CS you place WoA before your other well or do anything else you can get that 5s+ down to like 2 seconds but that is a good point.
I did spam WoA off CD and still at 5s+ gap from 2nd CS ready to 5th WoA ready (to start new cycle). Dom+Duel+Crono, WoA+WoR+SoI, permaalacrity. Tested it outside of battle.
You got another result?
If when you come out of CS you place WoA before your other well or do anything else you can get that 5s+ down to like 2 seconds but that is a good point.
I did spam WoA off CD and still at 5s+ gap from 2nd CS ready to 5th WoA ready (to start new cycle). Dom+Duel+Crono, WoA+WoR+SoI, permaalacrity. Tested it outside of battle.
You got another result?
For you to get your results WoR would have to have at least a 1.6 cast time, including the times you have quickness when you pop it.
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For you to get your results WoR would have to have at least a 1.6 cast time, including the times you have quickness when you pop it.
Was surprised too, but this was from practical test. Idk, mb I did something wrong.
Did you test it? Asking because wandering if only me get such result.
For you to get your results WoR would have to have at least a 1.6 cast time, including the times you have quickness when you pop it.
Was surprised too, but this was from practical test. Idk, mb I did something wrong.
Did you test it? Asking because wandering if only me get such result.
Yeah, did some tests and it was longer. It’s probably a combination of the cast time and then the time it takes for you to finish the current attack you were doing when you pressed the well. Fortunately, if you go with illusions, this isn’t a setback. Really think illusions is the way to go.
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It’s probably a combination of the cast time and then the time it takes for you to finish the current attack you were doing when you pressed the well. Fortunately, if you go with illusions, this isn’t a setback. Really think illusions is the way to go.
Yeah, I do go Illusions instead of Dueling from start. It could be even DPS gain
I did test in non-combat environment thus wasn’t attacking at all. Seems cast time + delay before WoA goes on CD (1s-2s) + mb something else.
