Guild Wars 2

I really wanted to make chrono work with the old PU condi build (http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Mesmer_-_PU_Condi_Roamer) in addition I thought the new Trailblazer gear (condit/toughness/vitality/condi duration) would make the build even more powerful.

So I was having hard time deciding which trait line to drop for chrono and after bit of trial and error I found this to work the best:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vhAQNArfWnsIClphNqBmqBcrhlXjCNAypmoeYP2l1sDmhRA-TFyCABZp8rd9BAcCA6X9HKOEALv/wYKBP+JAQIAFrBA-w

At first it seems counter intuitive to drop dueling as since the build relies on clones doing the damage for you you’d think you would miss “deceptive evasion” (clone on dodge) but the chrono line more than makes up for it with “chrono-phantasma” and “illusionary reversion” to the point you can actually double shatter most of the time, moreso between staff 2/3, scepter auto/5 and decoy you can recreate 3 illusions very very quickly without any effort.

The chrono line also has amazing synergy with the stealth/PU as if it was a bit lacking in length since the 50% PU nerf you can now compensate by casting mass invis + continum split followed by decoy even without clones and immediately mass invis/decoy/torch 4 for an easy 30+sec stealth (amazing for escaping a Zerg after your kitten.

The trailblazer gear with perplex runes will make your condi duration longer and confusion duration close to 100% even with the cheap food I used there and without the need for malice sigil (not sure why gw2skills has it wrong), needless to say this is complete hell to fight against.

The old PU had the “anyone can outrun you” counter but with the chrono giving you perma 25% speed boost, blink and most importantly “time catches up” trait (super speed to your illusions) – your illusions are going to be able to catch up to anyone and killing them while they are trying to run away from you in screams.

My choice for condi removal was null field as it synergies nicely with staff 2 for additional chaos armor duration.

This build is pretty amazing for roaming can take on 2-3 ppl easily, the gameplay is pretty similar to the old one, pop up clones/phantasms, confuse your enemy by either stealth or not moving pretending to be a clone and burst them with confusion with scepter 3 / cry of frustration.

In terms of defense you can maintain high uptime of protection with staff 5/2 combo and staff 4, stealth & distortion, double any combo you can think of with conti-split and you’re pretty much unkillable played smart.

Give it a try and let me know what you think.

NOTE: I know this build is complete and utter cheese yet I still love it, war isn’t won fair.

Wow so Trailblazer is the new Dire?

I’m not the strongest at condi builds but may want to look at Nightmare runes. You have other condi’s like burning and such on staff that will wear your enemies down as well. I always felt that with Perplexity your kinda just like a 1 trick pony. I’m not saying their ineffective. But if I was to run a condi build I’d would all applied condis to hurt.

Dark Night.5601:

Wow so Trailblazer is the new Dire?

I’m not the strongest at condi builds but may want to look at Nightmare runes. You have other condi’s like burning and such on staff that will wear your enemies down as well. I always felt that with Perplexity your kinda just like a 1 trick pony. I’m not saying their ineffective. But if I was to run a condi build I’d would all applied condis to hurt.

Def worth a try, though I am a sucker for confusion, it’s just nasty
And that 5 confusion stack on interrupt on 15 sec cd from perplex is really good, I can stack 20+ confusion easy with this build which unless cleansed equals dead.

Btw, if going nightmare runes malice sigil would be really nice too.

I was actually wandering about trailblazer’s armor as well after reading Ross’s build. I just posted my comment here as it seemed more relevant. It seems like a good armor stat to me. However, I am not a expert on condition builds either. Ross was also running chaotic transference over chaotic dampening in his build, since he was not running staff. This means his build may go with trailblazers slightly better than your build. However, there is not much of a difference.

With trailblazer’s ascended armor, you are giving up 1,080 health and 63 condition damage. The health probably doesn’t matter too much, especially since you are gaining more toughness. However, the condition damage loss may matter.
You are also gaining 61 toughness and the bigi benefit of a increase in condition duration by 13.8%. So, with this build the question is if it is worth giving up 63 condition damage for a 13.8% increase in condition duration.

If you take chaotic transference, you are also going to be adding 6.1 more condition damage.
61 × .1 = 6.1
So, in total with this trait, dire will have 56.9 less condition damage than Dire in exchange for the condition duration increase.

Thanks Xstein, can you please post Ross’s build so I know what you’re talking about?

I actually did try to drop chaotic dampening for transference and replace staff with scepter/shield but that wasn’t working very well for me, perhaps cuz I’m still a nub Mesmer I found I was needing the extra protection from chaos armor and the illusions staff provides, I really wanted to make shield work cuz I love tides of time but unfortunately staff just worked much better for me, staff 2 is a life saver.

EDIT: I think you mean this build?
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/Build-Condi-Dire-Chrono-WvW-Roaming/first#post5897221

Yap, except its the second one he posted with the chaos line. He uses shield/scepter and sword/torch. I am also leaning on taking PU instead of Bountiful disillusionment. imo, with that build, stealth stomps may work just as good kittentering for stability. I just think PU synergizes better with that build.

This forum kittening out the word shattering for some reason, prob cause I have the word ‘as’ before the word shattering.