Guild Wars 2

hello, i came back to the game after like a year absence. back then one of the popular mesmer builds was osicat shattercat build

when i left i had my esper with the build stats wich is http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fhAQNAsdWlknpVtlpxRNUrNSqxg6xCrNSmQAl8kuB-TxCGABDqiTSKJCUNAlUipwpAoIlCSpMAAlgFqaQBPBgU2fAA-e

this build was supposed to be multy purpose/might stacking build for both pve and pvp. i was wondering if is still viable 1 year after.

been getting to date with personal story with it currently and been killing stuff super fast. but havent tested yet with harder stuff like fractals or wvw/dungeon

It’s pretty awful for PvE, but that’s a good tanky shatter setup for WvW roaming. That build never would have been good for PvE though.

thanks for the answer good to see that atleast is still worth for WvW.

what would be a good shatter build for general pve/dung/world bossing? i heard than phantasm are the way to go for it, but i like (and im too used to) the bursty feeling of shattering builds too much

Shatter in dungeons doesn’t work because you don’t have good sustained DPS on a shatter spec. You need to ramp-up your illusions and then shatter, and the only one doing decent damage is Mind Wrack. Even assuming you could have 3 Illusions up every time your Mind Wrack is up, it would still be less damage than keeping 3 Phantasms up all the time.

We know, it’s broken, ANet is trying to fix it, we’ll see if anything changes with the expansion.

i see, thats unfortunate :/ i hope they do something about it because today i was considering the posibility of doing a phantasm build, but after seeing my phantasm get destroyed in CoF it took me even further away from it…