Guild Wars 2

I was running Domination Illusions Chrono, but gave up Dom for Inspiration because I didn’t need the extra damage or vulnerability. My experience is primarily roaming in wvw. The phantasms don’t have to survive for long at all to attack, diversion, attack, mind wrack.

Add Protected Phantasms and Persisting Images, plus Time Catches Up (so travel time to target during a shatter is reduced) and your illusions will survive long enough to do a great deal of damage.

Its only a couple of seconds and with the cooldown reduction traits the phantasms are back up incredibly quickly.

The damage you give up from other trait lines to take chronomancer is made up for by reduced cooldowns and more frequent attacks.

Something I posted in a comment on reddit:

“Phantasm builds are too strong with Chronomancer and here is my reasoning:

Flow of time (alacrity on shatter), the illusion line traits Persistance of Memory (2 second recharge everytime you shatter a phantasm) and Illusionist’s Celerity (20% illusion summoning reduction) combine to make phantasms recharge extremely quickly.

This combined with Chronophantasma (phantasms respawn after 1 shatter) allows you to get two phantasms and a clone up then Diversion shatter which with Illusionary Reversion (spawn a clone after shattering) leaves you with a full strength mindwrack immediately and the previously mentioned traits mean your phantasms are ready to spawn already.

What makes it even more over powered is the fact that when the phantasms respawn after the initial shatter they unload their payload again much quicker than they would have."

This comes from someone who loves mesmer and is totally stoked to have a good phantasm build.

I think the ‘1 second daze’ on respawned phantasms needs to be longer to reduce the burst potential.

edit – I will say that I hate nerfing. I think balance through buffing underpowered classes/skills is always the better approach, but I know anet doesn’t operate this way.

New vid unavailable in USA, or just me?

Nope. Torch build is quite a bit different. 30 into chaos for prismatic understanding granting longer stealth and boons on stealth.

With the torch now working with prismatic understanding are we going to see a return to classic Seven torch build?

Ever experimented with Sigil of Hydromancy for the 3 second chill on swap? Might help keep the enemy from rabbiting, as well as increasing our ability to get away.

So, I made the switch to melandru runes and love that conditions and stuns just roll off me, but the lack of on demand swiftness makes it hard to catch up to players who would other wise be dead meat.

There is this Maguuma [FEAR] thief who would constantly shortbow 5 away and shadowstep/return. Lacking the ability to pin him down, means I just have to leave, or fight forever. Even sword phantasms aren’t great because he would drag them away and then shadow return to me. I wish the Faster Movement per Illusion trait made illusions move faster instead, I think that would help with the inability to chase.

Any thoughts?

Almost positive he has some celestial trinkets.

edit – And your health is different than what your Health Stat is. My Health Stat is 18422, but my health on screen is 19159. So the stat you see in the calculator is different than what would be in game.

He’s probably running 0 30 20 15 5, and he has at least one of those trinkets with all stats including healing power, explaining the regen.

Are you going to post your viewpoint of the Engi duel?