Guild Wars 2

I actually don’t know anybody playing full zerk. It is something you can do in pve since you can predict attacks from bosses and therefore dodge / avoid most of it.

In WvW as soon as you want to do 1vX fights or have thieves, you might want to put some toughness into the equation. I play myself with about 75% crit dmg and 55% crit chance. Always run with about 20k HP and 1250 toughness ( dont have armor value atm ) which does quite a good deal.

Also, you play scepter / torch, so you might be a shatter mesmer, even though I am not sure scepter is the best choice to generate a clone ( you get one every 3 #1, which means you have to use #1 at least 3 times, which I usually rarely do in WvW since there’s so much more you can do ( #2 #3 #4 #5, or switch weapon ).

I play GS / sword – pistol with phantasm traits, but could work for shatter as well, mostly for its control options. #3 of sword is great help to :
- lock the target
- port to the target
- get armor of chaos ( considering you have an ether field in your utilities )

And then you have the great phantasm from pistol which does tones of confusion via combo as well as the #5, which locks up to 3 targets as well. Confusion being just here to add extra damage and/or stress the target, forcing it to slow down or cleanse while you do heavy direct damage.

It all comes together, but having minimal toughness / vitality, coupled with good defensive skills is really hard to beat. I mostly tend to use defensive skills in an offensive way to basically control the target and give it some fast burst before it can actually do anything.

It probably also depends on what kind of WvW you do. If you’re more of a solo dude it may not be the best dueling build, and never was.

If you aim for mass fights, then I’d say that confusion is still very valuable and adds a lot to mass control, even though dispell happens much more in large groups.

So, yes it is definitely still viable, but for solo roaming you may want to look for another build.