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Distortion clones don’t run toward their enemies. Instead, there’s a delay, and they just explode where they are, so the conditions will only hit if your enemy is near. While all of your shatters are potent, depending on trait spread, your F3 will apply tons of vulnerability, which will soften them up for your high dps ally.
I only say F2 is stronger for confusion burst while on scepter because of 3 things:
- Additional stack of confusion per shatter due to Illusionary Retribution
- pMage’s attack magically hitting an enemy.
- Few stacks gained from Confusing Images
- I usually can get 8-10 confusion stacks at least, which is ticking 1k+ per skill use for 5.5-8 seconds.
I don’t suggest playing far point with MtD as it’s a bit slower to down good enemies. While MtD is a GREAT dueler imo, time is of the essence. You should focus on the mid fights and helping your home point guard when necessary. Leave the far point assault to someone quicker in both mobility and dps (this is unless of course you’re running portal). Please remember for the sake of your fellow teammates that it only takes 2 captured points to win conquest.
To answer your last question, I tend to use Staff AA strategy when I know I’m going to be waiting a short period for my shatter CDs. Like I said previously, I usually open up with Staff. Shatter twice. Switch to Scepter. I can get 2 shatters in here, stalling a bit with Prestige and creating distance with Blink. Then I switch to Staff for “clean up”.
I definitely do feel the lack of fast killing potential but I seem to do better in small scale fights than the big ones around middle. At least in whatever crappy rating I’m at I find that rushing far usually gets me a cap and often draws 2-3 enemies, my winrate has been around 2/3rds. I only really struggle with necros, especially terrormancer. I like it because I get a lot of 1v1s to learn from but I’ll definitely switch when opponents get better and it stops working.
Currently not running any Domination because I like mender’s purity (arcane thievery over MoR) but I will try 4/4/0/0/6 again and see how it goes.
I’ll be nice, productive and answer this question for you!
First off, all your shatters shouldn’t all be on CD for a long time. Learn to start with F3 then F1 while on staff. Save your F2 for Scepter so that you get a nice confusion burst. The idea is to keep constant pressure throughout an entire fight. Unless you know your enemy has no condi clear, it’s not smart to unload all your shatters.
Staff Clone AAs will rack up a lot of dps, but it does need time build up. You can’t expect to be doing a lot of dmg over a quick period of time like power shatter. The key here is to make sure you have at least 2 clones up while keeping distance. Don’t summon pWarlock except when you know you’re going to shatter as he’ll take up a clone spot that could be used for more Staff AA. Also time it so that you get Chaos Armor from 4 as well as a combo with Chaos Storm, giving you 10-15s (depending on trait spread) of protection until you can gain another shatter.
If you need anymore advice, don’t hesitate to ask or even send me a whisper in-game.
Thanks! I was actually just thinking of shatter 2 and 3, but you made me realize that 1 and 4 will apply condi too. Brainfart
It’s not immediately obvious to me why scepter would be better confusion burst than staff – do you just mean I’m more likely to have more clones out due to the auto attack?
How do I choose when to auto attack staff + clones vs trying to shatter? I tend to play a lot of far point roaming in spvp so if I take too long to kill they may get backup.