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Yeah, I also got rid of the 10 on domination. I found that putting it elsewhere was more useful with the full Rabid set (Carrion makes use of it nicely, however). Right now I put those 10 points back in Dueling for clone generation + confusion of clone death.
15 chaos/15 inspiration will give mesmers all three, by the way. They are all minor traits.
There’s a trait that causes phantasms to grant regeneration every 10 seconds (iDuelist is every 3, probably due to a bug) and another that grants it when the mesmer hits 75% (30s cd). Then there’s a trait to grant protection when you get regeneration. It’s not related to specific weapon choices. Kill the clones or make them move away from the mesmer to stop the spam. The 75% one is unavoidable if you can’t get them to 75% twice within 30s.
The clone WoC is definitely different from yours. It uses a beta version that travels differently, at the very least. If you actually intend to test this, do so with your own skill.
From playing around with first Carrion and then a dungeon Rabid set, I found the sword DPS to be fairly similar.
What I lost in regular damage seemed to be made up for by more crits. I put bleed on the sigil to be able to still get condition damage from the sword. I also did might on switch for the offhand, which bumped up both power and condition for a little while. Note that sharper images is both clones and phantasms, not just phantasms, so that scales too.
A scepter does synergize better, but that seems to be one of our worst weapons. I don’t like the way it plays (and its so slow).
There are no other ways to get the rabid set. The fastest (in my opinion) is the dungeon route, as there are 2 or 3 sets that offer it. HotM and TA definitely do. I think there are others, but I don’t know what they are. The cheapest pieces (x3) are 180 tokens. The most expensive is 330. So if you are planning on reskinning the set to something not dungeon bought, you can grab a bunch of pieces in parallel.
You cannot get any exotic rabid jewels. There might be rares, but I’m not sure. There definitely are greens. I haven’t settled on jewels to use for the set – right now I have a set of carrion, a set of rampager’s, and a set of traveler’s.
From the wiki, regarding phantasmal haste:
Actual recharge speed increase varies per phantasm: Phantasmal Defender, Phantasmal Disenchanter, Phantasmal Swordsman, Phantasmal Mage and Illusionary Mariner phantasms have no recharge speed increase. Phantasmal Warlock, Phantasmal Berserker, Phantasmal Duelist and Illusionary Whaler phantasms recharge 15% faster. Phantasmal Warden phantasm recharges 50% faster.
Illusions: Phantasms and Clones
Phantasms: Just phantasms
Clones: Just clones
If you want to try it, I’ve never had a problem relying just on feedback + warden’s innate deflection. It’s certainly not as good for some encounters, but it’s still useful enough. One thing to keep in mind is that warden + phantasmal haste seems bugged. Right now it’s getting something like 50%, where most other things only gain 15%. I’m not sure if it will stay as great as it is now.
Oh, the best power/precision sigil is probably Might on crit, by the way.
I would say you should certainly use the GS if you want to keep your traits the same. In that case, condition damage is way less useful than power/precision/crit damage. I like the knight stuff for that build, but I currently am enjoying a staff condition build more – so I’m not an expert.
Extra condition damage for the bleeds doesn’t hurt, but it isn’t really necessary. It gets somewhat limited use in that regard. The runes I suggested wouldn’t be useful at all. The sigil might be, but there are probably better ones. I’m not sure what people tend to use in that build, as I haven’t completed an exotic set for it yet.
You are really asking about a few different things.
1. I’d recommend going 10/15/X/X/X over 0/25/X/X/X. The 15% phantasm damage trait in domination is likely better than the last two traits your getting from dueling.
2. You mentioned a staff build, but didn’t pick up 20 in chaos for the staff trait. You also didn’t take illusory elasticity, which effectively doubles your staff auto dps by letting it hit one enemy twice per shot. You may want to try it.
3. Condition damage is fine on a mesmer. It synergizes with staff builds as well as anything that uses sharper images (bleeding on clone crit).
If you follow #2, I’d say the ‘Rabid’ set is what you want (prec/tough/cond). It’s a pain in the kitten to get, however (karma, dungeon, or 10g+ per piece). It also syngergizes with chaos 25 (5% toughness -> condition) if you were to swap your inspiration traits to chaos. Similarly, the runes of the undead (condition, toughness, 5% toughness -> condition) complements that build. The 66% bleeding on crit sigil is a good weapon item for that one.
As the other guy said above, Carrion is a cheap alternative until you get that. Personally, I find toughness to be more valuable since we are already in the highest base health tier. However, power scales poorly with iWarlock (20%) if that is your main phantasm.
Based on your build – I’m not sure that the staff is the best choice for you. None of your traits take advantage of what it offers. If you keep staff, power definitely isn’t the best primary stat. Swapping to greatsword and grabbing the stats you’re thinking about seems more useful if that’s your play style.
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