condiblocking mayhem tutorial [vid]
War (and others) countering meta chrono was apparent before even needing to play it XD
That’s because the weaknesses were apparent in the build for anyone who’d bother to take a second to look.
The more popular option is to cry for nerfs XD
Nerf it anyway though so everyone can counter.
yes it seems we gonna see warrior comeback. even power warrior maybe and not just condi ones as resistance with no necro around to rip it can put good warrior with 24 sec of resistance rotation combine with good kite and los can hold and win versus condi mesmer
DH also can counter but didnt enter the meta as they were weak against others but warrior with 2.9-3.9 armor and good hp and great direct dmg or condi can hold now versus anyone . maybe thief or rev can hold them off a bit with blind and evades
did some 1v1 versus couple of warriors and even they were surprise
now i see in unranked 4 warriors . so happy for these guys but little sad for mesmer what to be come
I haven’t found warriors to be problematic on condimes, since you can just kite out the resistance. (The war would be able to neut the point, though).
On the other hand, I’ve been stomping all over condi mesmers with staff thief because you can prevent the mesmer from summoning any phantasms. (Dodge for days to prevent shield iAvenger from being summoned, piercing blind to prevent iWarlock from being summoned). Then vault on mesmer randomly kills off the non-phantasm clones (which have low health). The mesmer ends up running around chaining 0-clone or 1-clone shatters and not getting any illusions back from his traits. Will upload video soon.
Any advice for mesmer with out chrono line?
illusion, dueling, inspiration almost the same
I played about 10 games tonight with that build (with Merc) and I must say, the pressure output is pretty good. Far better than Staff as the defensive mechanism from scepter block turns into an offensive use.
It was tough giving up portal, though. But you can still do well and provide good team play with this build.
Thx for another cool video. Have you gone tried out dual scepter mainhand since the changes? I’ve stuck with it the whole time (since season 1), but I don’t see many people using it.
I used to play with arcane thievery a couple years ago when roaming in WvW. But I found that I failed at casting it a lot of times. It has such a long cooldown. Have you considered phantasmal disenchanter instead? It has a long cast time, but you get more shatters from it.
sword is nice with immobilize when needed
double scepter is also nice with the short cd on the block
still versus some classes i use staff like dh
i amd doing retest to the bunker mess atm…. i am surprise it still working as no necros around anymore