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I think most of us agree that our current traited focus and the new shield look great for WvW where they can counter innumerable projectiles as well as provide solid CC via cripple, pull, and the new timelock (stun).
As such, this has the wheels in my head turning about how a build using both of these off-hand weapons would look. First, the big question is what to do about mainhands? We don’t have that many options:
What do you think you’d go with?
After that is picking 2 more specializations … we have to take Chronomancer in order to use the shield.
What are you all’s thoughts?
Yeah, it’s the mainhand issue again. :/
I personally wouldn’t use both at the same time, but if I did I’d pair scepter with focus and sword with shield.
Scepter with focus because it’s the “running” set – curtain for swiftness and pulls, and ranged weapon.
Sword with shield because you should be able to do some nice ileap tricks with tides of time, and it would be the defensive/melee set.
But this just highlights how desperately we need the choice of a third mainhand…
Aye, I had that thought as well, Curunen … specifically another ranged MH (imo)
If I had to chose that choice would be easy.
Scepter has greater synergy with Shield than sword has and sword works better with focus than sword does.
On the other hand one really cool combos can be done with iLeap and Tides of Time.
For the traitlines I can say that I will definetly try out Dueling + Chaos + Chronomancy using on-interrupt traits =)
I will probably take Sword/shield + staff or GS in the end.
Nice. Thanks for elaborating on why, Me Games Ma.
One thing I’m curious about is being able to combo finishers with the Tides of Time since it is an Ethereal field as well.
I’m also curious if they are going to change Temporal Curtain back from a Light field to an Ethereal field since Mesmer having retaliation doesn’t make sense to them (note: I’m aware of the other uses of the light field).
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