Guild Wars 2

guanlongwucaii.3162:

on my guild runs our mesmer often runs 2-3 mantras. it’s really up to party comp. our mesmers rarely run signet because we use eles+guardian combo to output strong and long-lasting might stacks, so we just bring mantras to get the pretty strong 4% boost from 30 duelling.

that said colesy’s posts are fairly accurate (even if his words are harsh) and most utilities do serve the party better than mantras. I am just stating how team compositions in organised groups can change the gameplay of the various classes, along with specific tactics (e.g. we use nullfield on golem boss in COE but not feedback because we don’t need the reflection).

Arguably, Disenchanter is better, given you have more options for running Mantras (or other utilities) as it has a better boon-rip uptime than Null Field. Unless you’re killing the boss before you can get a second Disenchanter up, then Null Field is potentially worse.

Additionally, the 4% damage boost from having Mantra’s charged (up to +16% for having 4 Mantra’s ready) doesn’t actually affect Mesmers that much. This trait falls into the cesspit of Mesmers with +X% damage boost. It’s only effective when using something like a Greatsword or a Shatter build (Greatsword specifically for it’s high direct damage output. You can also include a normal Sword, and even a Scepter, to some degree, but they don’t offer as much damage on as low Cooldowns.) This is because +X% boosts do not affect Illusions or conditions. A Mesmer’s only source of direct damage is through auto-attacks, shatters, Mantra of Pain, reflects, traits (such as deal damage when interrupting), and other weapon skills (GS235, Sword24, Scepter23, Torch4, Pistol5, Staff5, Spear5, Trident25).

The actual direct damage access that Mesmers have is very, very low compared to other professions and most [non-shatter] builds don’t utilize them to the point of making +X% boosts worthwhile.

Also, in regards to most of what colesy is saying:
He tends to run in dedicated groups which have different playstyles than running PUG, which is what the forum question threads tend to cater towards. Another reason why is that a full damage build will not hit 15kWarden without the assistance of other party members, additionally, the damage output you, as a Mesmer, are going to drop on the Slave Driver is going to be very negligible considering the rest of the party is geared, traited, and playing towards high DPS. (Keeping in mind that the party is at 25 stacks of might + Fury and every banner dropped while the Slave Driver has 25 Vulnerability [or near, in most cases] for colesy’s expected dps output.) The damage a Mesmer will do in this fight (and the rest of the dungeon, for that matter) is not considered at all. A Mesmer’s duty in CoF P1 is to provide Reflects, provide a Portal at Boulders, provide boons (via SoI), and provide Time Warp. The additional DPS of a Mesmer will not make or break the speedrun group (Warriors will be able to hit 2-3x a Warden in about the same time it takes to cast the Warden. In addition to that, they also have access to more than one skill that deals high DPS like that. A typical "full speed CoF P1 party will have GS+A/A for 100b, Evisc, Dual Strike, Whirling Axe, Cyclone Axe.)

There is really no point in talking about super speedrun dedicated groups on the forums, though, as they are a very niche type of play for very specific and narrow purposes.

An example fight where Restorative Mantras is very useful:

Arah P1 Champion Crystalline Entity battle (second boss fight).

While standing in the Green Light, you can easily rack yourself up to 20 stacks without dropping below 75% health by spamming Mantra of Pain and Mantra of Recovery. Additionally, because you have over 10 stacks of Green Light, your damage gets significantly boosted, allowing your Mantra of Pain to deal 20k+ damage. You also heal your allies in case they don’t understand how the fight works or their heal is down.

Of course, your dps is definitely lower than if you were to just put on a sword and autoattack, but you don’t have to get out of the Green Light to recover and you will, in the end, allow your party to get more full Green Light damage off than if you were to just run a sword. (I don’t mention Greatsword because Phantasms don’t get Green Light bonus damage, so raw damage is what will defeat the entities faster.)

Have you changed your traits/armor/weapons?

Pyroatheist.9031:

Traur.7680:

Entioch.6594:

sirsquishy.8531:

Me Games Ma.8426:

they did this to prevent ppl from stacking speed with running through the line multiple times

Not a good enough reason, you can stack swiftness from a guards Symbol of Swiftness.

we should be able to with the curtain as well.

you cannot stack either.

No, but Symbol refreshes Swiftness, Curtain does not. That’s the fix it needs.

It doesn’t actually refresh it, it just adds like 1 second to the duration so that it looks like it refreshes.

That’s not entirely accurate. The symbol replaces all your swiftness with the duration of swiftness it gives… every second. So if you have 40 seconds of swiftness and you get swiftness from the symbol, you now have somewhere around 8-15s of swiftness.

MyCondolences.8172:

Pyroatheist.9031:

PvE, this was my secondary character. Mostly used for dungeon runs bc of the better survivability and single target dps compared to my thief.

This char was build around being optimal for longer boss fights where i had a chance to throw everything out and use this build to its full potential.

In those fights, it’s still better to just plop out 3 iWardens or 3 iWarlocks.

iWardens will give more bleeds overall, with about the same DPS.

iWarlocks will give more dps overall, without stepping on your teammates conditions (metaphorically and literally).

Axyl.9408:

Sorry to derail this thread, but Luper, can you expand on that? For example, can I use sigils or purity and energy on a weapon set?

Yes but it’s redundant.

If the Sigil of Purity goes on Cooldown then neither Sigil can activate.

If the Sigil of Energy goes on Cooldown then neither Sigil can activate.

Sigil of Purity goes on cooldown for 10 seconds regardless of whether or not you have a condition on you if it does activate.

Sigil of Energy goes on cooldown for 9 seconds when you weapon swap to the weapon with it.

This means that when you weaponswap to that set, you will have 9 seconds where Sigil of Purity is unable to be activated, then it can activate preventing your [other] Sigil of Energy[s] from activating. (Assuming your other weaponset is also Sigil of Energy/X.)

Xavi.6591:

10 sec +50% dmg

x5

That’s not entirely accurate.

Cooldowns don’t go down any faster and conditions don’t tick any faster, so unless you’re able to do a full rotation in 10 seconds as a direct damage build, you’re not actually getting +50% damage.

x5

Gehenna.3625:

silvermember.8941:

Actually, Arenanet making gw2 b2p is keeping with their believe they have HELD since BEFORE they go purchase by NCsoft. And it is pretty cool of Ncsoft to let ARenanet do what it wanted with that model.

So what? It’s not about what Anet promised, it’s about the fact that new MMOs are still starting with subs and existing MMOs that went f2p still offer subs because it is a viable option.

Viable in terms of profit, I agree. There is, however, a difference between companies that want to sell entertainment versus a product. Arenanet is trying to sell entertainment, most other games are trying to sell a product.

silvermember.8941:

Blade and soul is subscription only in Korea, in china is going f2p. Wildstar is an unproven title so you really cannot make a statement about it UNTIL after it releases. Even still then, you have to wait until 6 months before anything conclusive.

Again, I go by what companies present. I use factual information of this moment. Of course things can change after release but as I said current MMOs still offer subs even when they have f2p options and you on the other hand are completely making things up. B2P is not the new fashion. It just isn’t. You just made that up because GW2 is all you can see.

If you use factual information of this moment, then where are your sources? All I see is you bashing someone for actually citing factual information without actually having any credentials yourself.

Also…

The idea that B2P is the new standard is complete nonesense.

He never, in the entirety of his post, stated that B2P is the new standard. You brought that up twice in a response to him and then stated that it was his idea and that he’s wrong because he stated it (which, I’ll re-iterate, he didn’t state).

I don’t agree that B2P is the new standard, but I do believe that it’s a fairer method. That’s my opinion. I am entitled to it. If you disagree, you are entitled to that.

1. Dungeons are not the most efficient method of obtaining currency…

2. Overflow servers are fresh servers created. If a waypoint is contested, that has nothing to do with it being an overflow. It simply means that in that shard of existence, an event occurred to contest a waypoint.

3. These daily chests will reward account-bound materials and will come before 2014.

Also, keep in mind that GW2 is a B2P model, not a F2P model. There is a difference.

IllegalChocolate.6938:

XcmGT.3847:

Comparing Guild War 2 to Maple Story…

Monetization lead for both games is the same person. Did you know that dye unlocks were originally going to be account bound rather than having to buy abyss dye 5 times if you wanted it on alts? Guess why.

Bingo.

You were also limited to one unidentified dye a day which was obtained after holding an item for about an hour in your inventory. Oh yeah, if you got another Abyss, sucks to be you, because it was ACCOUNT BOUND.

You also only get the 2 rares for killing Scarlet once a day.

Doggie.3184:

P2P goes against my religion

You sir, win the internets.

I’m stuck between the Meteorlogicus and the Immobulus. On one hand, clouds… on the other hand, lucky charms…

Swap one of your utilities for Null Field or Arcane Thievery. You can also use Mantra of Resolve if you want to be fancy.

Null Field = 1 condition a second.
Arcane Thievery = up to 3 conditions (must fast a target).
Mantra of Resolve = up to 2 conditions per second (1 charge per second, 2 initial charges).

@Tolunart, they ignore most of the whining and implement the fixes to the whining in their own way and at their own pace. Most of what we have right now is because of player complaint. Be it a good or bad thing, it’s what it is.

Gasoline.2570:

The personal node is kinda silly though, it only gives 3…

You can get upwards of 18 from a personal node in a single day without considering the chance at getting a Charged Crystal Quartz. I’ve looted my node and charged my Quartz every day and have gotten one bonus Charged Crystal Quartz from my node. I’ve also looted 13 Quartz as my personal highest (there’s a chance, when looting, to loot 5+1 Quartz with one strike).

The two “best” loots from your node are the 5+1 strikes and the Charged Crystal Quartz.

Coldwar.3875:

Try putting changing your settings to best performance, and playing GW2 in a smaller windowed mode. Works wonders for your fps.

It can potentially hurt more if you play in a small windowed mode versus full screen depending on your screen size. But follow this and make sure vertical sync is on. Also set your frame limiter to 30 (it stops your machine from trying to over-achieve, even if you never reach 30 fps it still makes a difference).

I’m 1600×900 with an external screen of 1680×1050.

Gehenna.3625:

Yargesh.4965:

So you feel that you are not ‘special’ enough?

Nice stab below the belt…I think the word you’re looking for is “appreciated”.

Special fits moreso.

tl;dr: If you don’t like it, don’t buy it.

Cluster Bomb doesn’t ignore the 5 AoE cap, it simply splits into 3 projectiles which each have their own 5 AoE cap so you can potentially hit 15 targets.

I would say that you could sell it, but they would be the cheapest Mini on the market if you couldn’t Mystic Forge them. I think you might be able to Mystic Forge them, just saying.

Advent.6193:

Right, arjeldi. I never played GW1. Also never effed with a sub-MMO. Heard loads of stories from friends who did the latter, however. One complaint they typically had was that they felt rather obligated to play “keep-up,” due to expansions. Any “FUD” here is unintentional.

Now, I will agree on the RNG business. That is an area which could stand to see improvement. However, how far could it be improved without going into the territory of P2W/power creep?

Actually, one thing I had known from players who didn’t have much money to spend on games was that if they paid for a months worth of a game, they would want to play that months worth. Every month they would ask themselves if they would want to play that month and, for the rest of the month, they would live with that decision.

It’s not a false accusation. It’s an opinion. Not everyone may share that opinion, but that doesn’t make it a false or non-existent opinion.

I would also like to point out that while you may farm anything in this game, other than the odd drop that is worth a lot on the Trading Post, you are better off getting a part-time job (or even full-time) and putting in the $10 to get gems → gold. It’s a faster method of earning money once you do the math on it.

That’s not to say that if you want to get money, your only choice is to use a credit card, it’s that the most efficient (in terms of time and effort spent) is to use a credit card. I know plenty of people, myself included, who farm their gold ingame. I know plenty of people who buy gems with real money when they see something they want (typically in the gem store and not with gold converted).

^ Aka first response to this thread.

Garenthal.1480:

thefantasticg.3984:

Again. Silliness. Your reasoning is weak opinion at best. Bottom line is if you don’t enjoy it don’t do it.

What nonsense! Why should players avoid fresh content when it is the very thing preventing the game from becoming stale in the first place? Most of the complaints are valid and very apt – content is being pumped out far too quickly, is temporary and you end up competing with or being screwed over by other players which is a direct violation of the supposed core values of the game that the developers are swift to bring up whenever they talk about their vision for the future, past and present.

I agree. Whenever a new car comes out, I MUST have that car. I don’t care that it’s a waste of time because I don’t like cars, nor do I care that it’s useless for me to sell my car to get that new car. It’s new and it prevents my cars from becoming stale.

Note: Car is synonymous with content.

pmnt.4067:

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

The waves of Scarlet’s minions are depleted by killing creatures that emerge from the portals. Kills count, not necessarily events.

The pirate and molten waves are depleted by completing events.

Is there any reason for that inconsistency?

Because you need to take out the Pirate Captains or the Molten Shamans for the Pirate/Molten waves to deplete. There are no Twisted Champions (other than Champion Nightmares which are spawned through event scaling).

I’m not contesting that. I’m just stating that it’s not his game. He can’t do whatever he wants in it. He has to abide by the rules set by Arenanet while playing their game.

leng jai.2961:

You guys are right about blinking in stealth. Guess we can add that to the list of bugs.

It’s a visual error that doesn’t affect enemies… have you been reading?

Shpongle.6025:

thefantasticg.3984:

I’m surprised no one has gotten into this thread yelling/talking down at you for taking a spot someone who wanted to complete the event actively could have taken. I guess if you had said you were farming and not getting the achievements they’d be jumping down your throat with guns blazing.

It’s my game and I can do whatever I want.

Actually no, it’s not your game. You paid for the right to participate in Arenanet’s game. This is not a single-player game which you own after purchasing.

Ant.3415:

Wrong, if you aren’t successful in the event you do not get credit for Vorpp’s achievements.

That’s wrong. I’ve completed all the meta-achievements and a lot of the Invasions I took part in (including the final 13/13 one, which was in Mount Maelstrom for me) was a failure, not a success.

colesy.8490:

Greatsword Phantasm adds one of the highest amount of damage and hits in an AoE

While the phantasm is strong, it’s on a weapon with four other poor abilities (yes, I’m including the auto). AOE doesn’t matter either when you can just use warden for cleaving, plus most damage in a dungeon is single-target so AOE tends to be irrelevant.

After having gone through Staff/Greatsword and even Scepter/X, your secondary (or even primary) weaponsets should be your choice. If you follow peer pressure that states that this is bad or that is good, then you won’t be playing your build. Ironically, this entire discussion is peer pressure stating that his gear (and runes/sigils) are crap.

Additionally, it has a ranged auto attack which allows you to sit back and hit safely

The ranged auto means you’re out of range of your groups’ boons, and full melee is perfectly safe as long as you actually pay attention to the boss’s attacks and dodge them, or even blurred frenzy. You should only ever range out of necessity, and I mean mechanical necessity, not “I can’t dodge” or if meleeing the enemy is extremely disadvantageous (grawl fractal final boss at higher levels where you’re dodging too much for melee to be worthwhile).

It depends. You don’t have to sit that far back, I was just stating that as a generic statement. I’ve had success running Greatsword/Sword+Pistol in dungeons. I’ve also had success running Staff/Sword+Pistol in dungeons.

And I go melee on the Grawl Fractal Final Boss because Blurred Frenzy + Warden + Feedback + Smart Guardians and more. I’m not saying that Greatsword is amazing, I personally hate it. But I’m not saying that it’s terrible.

It also removes boons and has an AoE on-demand knockback.

Sword auto, phantasmal disenchante, arcane thievery and null field also remove boons and they aren’t awkward abilities to use unlike the greatsword 3. AOE knockback is awful too since bosses have defiant, and if you’re fighting mobs you want to group them together, not push them away (which will just irritate everyone in your party.) Greatsword is basically four trash abilities and a great phantasm, but that still doesn’t make it worth taking in a dungeon.

Every skill is situational. Sword auto isn’t easy to reach and on-demand. Phantasmal Disenchanter dies really fast since it always spawns ~450 away from the target. I can keep bashing these, but look at the final sentence in the response above.

Lastly, you can use a trait such as Halting Strikes in Domination even as a Phantasm Build (remember, the OP is using Sword/Pistol + Greatsword in his build).

So I can either choose between knocking four seconds off my phantasm cooldown and making its projectiles always proc on combo fields … or I can use halting strikes. I’ll take faster phantasm cooldown.

Who said you can’t take both?

I’m not trying to re-write his build, I’m just trying to improve what’s already there.

Easy, cut the awful eagle runes for ruby orbs (damage %+ doesn’t work on phantasms so scholar runes are meh), get rid of the accuracy and fire sigils and replace them with either %+ damage sigils to boost the mesmer’s damage themselves, or I’ve been experimenting with sigil of battle to boost my own and my phantasm’s DPS. Then you stick more points in dueling for sharper images and at least a traited pistol. He raises the point of wanting enough precision so he always crits, but with your group stacking fury duration (I don’t know if phantasms take our precision + fury bonus and then get their own traited fury on top of that to give them stupid high crit chance or not) they always will, or at least I’ve never had trouble spamming crits.

All of which I’ve already stated. Phantasms take our Precision but not our +Fury. Phantasms potentially take Critical Chance runes, but it’s hard to tell. Ruby Orbs aren’t necessarily the best choice, but in terms of raw damage, they are good enough.

Trixie.7614:

Esplen.3940:

kishter.9578:

Esplen.3940:

Arenanet stated that if you only play 1 hour a day, you’ll get all 13 zones.

i play 4-5 hour at day and still 11/13, no clue what map i miss because im complete them all for sure.

And it’s only been 4 days.

And he played 4-5 hours each day. That’s like 22.5 days for someone who only plays 1 hour a day.

Assuming it’s on a rotation not a modified rng system, which it’s not. Actually, even if it was on a rotation system, he would still only have 9/13.

I use the remember password options only because I know my password in the odd case of accidentally hitting the button again (unlike my friend who’s gone through about 17 passwords since he always forgets them from the Remember Password button).

Additionally, I use 2-step verification which notifies me whenever anyone attempts to (success or not) log into my account.

What dyes are you using? Have you tried changing the dyes? It could make all the difference.

This screenshot is taken at best graphics settings. It’s most likely your dye that’s polluting the texture.

That’s part of the design. Look at this picture for a clearer picture.

Note: all my settings are on the lowest.

If you hold down a (or two) keys, your character will be afk and get kicked. The only way to stay in a map for 40+ minutes without getting kicked is to bot or, you know, be at your machine.

kishter.9578:

Esplen.3940:

Arenanet stated that if you only play 1 hour a day, you’ll get all 13 zones.

i play 4-5 hour at day and still 11/13, no clue what map i miss because im complete them all for sure.

And it’s only been 4 days.

Arenanet stated that if you only play 1 hour a day, you’ll get all 13 zones.

For solution 2, there are already enough afkers. Just another drawback you forgot to mention.

To get the rewards in the map, currently, you don’t need to participate. As long as you’re in the map you will get rewards upon completion.

I know of a Mesmer who has the Meteorlogicus and it actually looks really nice on an Asura. I’m not sure if I want to go for Meteorlogicus or Immobulus now.

I personally have a Quip and, with the recent change, love it [even more]. Clones wield offhands so they all glow Purple with me.

lakdav.3694:

The funny thing is, she only saw the system, but not her own place in it. She just might be playing out her purpose that she never wanted to hear about or even consider.

I wrote about this in another thread. Since we don’t actually know her destiny, it’s only speculation but…

Scarlet is fighting against Destiny since it is her Destiny to fight against Destiny.

When she saw the Eternal Alchemy, she saw everyones place in life and couldn’t deal with it. She then saw her own Destiny and, in a moment of madness, did not realize it was her own Destiny and chose to accept it to break others free of their Destiny.

Ryn.6459:

Much appreciated. No, on vacations right now with crappy connexion on a crappy cell phone. is more than enough to try when i get back. maybe then i will ask for mor details ( if is ok for u).

It is kind of wierd, when i asked this elsewhere i got a “never ever ever use rampager on a mesmer”.

By the way have you ever tried 0/20/0/25/25?

Edit: i also have to test if autoatacking does more damage thsn blur frenzy as i got diffetent answers

Rampagers is bad, but Sharper Images is overlooked as a trait. When you start considering Sharper Images, Rampager doesn’t become as bad as it once was. Of course, you shouldn’t stack pure Rampagers (unless you want to hit 100% crit chance, in which case, stack Rampagers because that’s the only way you’ll hit it with a Mesmer).

I used to run 10/10/0/25/25 which was a variation of the 0/20/0/25/25 minus Sharper Images. It was for pure direct damage from Phantasms but the lack of Sharper Images made most Phantasms useless (the best Phantasms in a 10/10/0/25/25 are Greatsword and Staff for their high single hit damage, followed by Sword). But you couldn’t trait into any of them, including the sword (you wanted Phantasmal Fury) so I can see a 0/20/0/25/25 working with Sword/Sword but your offhand will most likely want to be defensive so you could plop in a Staff for the stunbreak/mitigation.

colesy.8490:

If you’re just going for pure DPS a better build would be:

20/20/5/25/0 or 20/20/0/30/0

The reason is that you grab Sharper Images, can pick up Sword or Pistol mastery (along with Phantasmal Fury) and, in Domination, you can also trait into +Illusion damage and your choice of Halting Strikes, Crippling Dissipation, Signet Mastery (lowest stunbreaker utility a Mesmer has access to) or Greatsword Training.

Greatsword is bad in dungeons so I’d say 10/30/0/30/0 would be better unless there’s an adept trait worth using in domination that isn’t greatsword training.

I respectfully disagree. Greatsword Phantasm adds one of the highest amount of damage and hits in an AoE. Additionally, it has a ranged auto attack which allows you to sit back and hit safely. It also removes boons and has an AoE on-demand knockback.

While it isn’t my favorite weapon, it’s not a bad weapon.

Lastly, you can use a trait such as Halting Strikes in Domination even as a Phantasm Build (remember, the OP is using Sword/Pistol + Greatsword in his build).

I’m not trying to re-write his build, I’m just trying to improve what’s already there.

Personally, I would move the 10 points into Dueling, as you stated, or I would run something like… 10/20/15/25/0

My most successful (pug) build is 0/20/30/20/0. It offers no outstanding DPS, nor does it provide excessive amounts of defense. What it does provide is a substantial amount of pug-friendliness. I won’t go too much into the details, since it is a terrible build (again, it’s only used for pug-friendliness, not for it’s actual utility), but it has it’s uses for my playstyle.

PetboyJoshua.3108:

I think she’s a Nightmare Sylvari, but she’s simply not interested by the Court. She wouldn’t be the only Nightmare Sylvari in that case we can see ingame, by the way. People tends to mix up Nightmare Sylvari with the Nightmare Court, while the Court is actually just an organisation.

I disagree. The Nightmare Court doesn’t care about the destiny part of a Sylvari’s life. They simply want to allow Sylvari to be their own pure race instead of what they are right now. The Pale Tree’s “dream” is a, in their mind, “polluted” ideal because it’s based off of Ventari’s teachings. Ventari is NOT a Sylvari, therefore the Nightmare Court believes that the Sylvari shouldn’t have to follow his words of wisdom.

Additionally, there are no “Nightmare Sylvari”. There is simply the Nightmare Court and the inhabitants (Sylvari of the Nightmare Court).

Scarlet, on the other hand, wishes to break free from Destiny. She does not care about the “pollution” of the Dream in any form or way. She simply wishes to allow all beings to break free from their destiny and do what they want to do, not what they were made to do (in a Sylvari’s case, the Dream urges them to do something specific. They all have a Wyld Hunt which they are urged to fulfill. It’s the Pale Tree guiding them along their path to fulfill their respective Destiny.)

So although Scarlet does, in some way, fight against the Dream, she fights against more than just the Dream; she fights against Destiny.

Ironically, she’s also fighting Destiny’s Edge. (This sentence means nothing, it’s a joke because I’m tired.)

Ryn.6459:

Esplen it would be very nice if you manage to do those maths.

Preface
Did a quick mock-up of stats and theoretics using only iDuelist and effective dps through bleeds.

Setup
Pure: Using Berserker Weapons, Armor and Trinkets with the traits 20/20/0/30/0, you have an effective power of ~3667 and your iDuelist will, theoretically, deal 827 damage through bleeds.

Hybrid: Using Berserker Weapons and Trinkets with Rampager Helm/Chest/Pants and Berserker Shoulders/Gloves/Shoes and the traits 20/20/0/30/0, you have an effective power of ~3541 and your iDuelist will, theoretically, deal 1033 damage through bleeds.

Differences Part 1
The direct damage difference is as follows:
Pure: 3.55% more direct damage.
Hybrid: 3.43% less direct damage.

The condition damage difference is as follows:
Pure: 19.95% less condition damage.
Hybrid: 24.92% more condition damage.

Notes
The actual numbers for the condition damage difference is 42.5 bleed damage vs 50.1 bleed damage per stack per second. Additionally, there is a critical chance difference of 2.9% with the Hybrid having the higher number. This higher critical chance affects the damage dealt through iDuelist bleeds (from Sharper Images).

Differences Part 2
The effective Bleed damage for both builds is as follows: (Rounded to the second decimal place)
Pure: 827.33
Hybrid:1033.49

This is full bleed damage over the full duration of the bleed stacks.

Notes
In both tests, no sigils or runes were and ascended was used, when possible. No infusions were placed in the ascended trinkets. Blade Training was not taken into consideration for these tests. No foods or nourishment were used, either.

Postface
The reason why I chose only to replace the Chest/Helm/Pants for this test was because I knew that they would yield higher damage results. The Chest/Helm/Pants offer the least amount of stats per critical damage given (all 3 of them, together, grant 10% critical damage at the cost of 152 stat points whereas all other items will grant more stats per critical damage, except maybe weapons [haven’t checked and I need to sleep]).

Additionally, Rampagers gives you a higher critical chance which allows you to utilize Sharper Images.

There could possibly be other high damage setups as well, but keep in mind this math does not consider condition duration (addition or subtration) or removal.

I also selected Rampagers because you don’t lose any defensiveness swapping (since you’re full squishy with full zerk gear!)

@OP please change the name of your phantasm build.

Okay, sleep time.

EDIT:
Notes again
Each iDuelist shot adds an additional…
Pure: 103.41
Hybrid: 129.18
Damage through bleed. This is theoretical damage that is added overall, meaning each shot won’t actually add this much damage (if you check the bleed damage, it doesn’t make sense). This damage is also over the course of 5 seconds after the hit connects. The reason why it’s smaller than the bleed damage * 5 is because you also have to apply critical chance to it.

If you would like the non-condensed math, please ask and I will try my best to explain each step with the applied mathetmatics instead of just listing the final numbers.

A: Are you tagging Twisted mobs and getting event completion for the TWISTED camps?
B: Are you in a unique map that you haven’t done before?

Namica.2951:

Here’s an easy way to sort these things out.

One part of being a Mary Sue is that the character has no flaws. And if they do have flaws, that the flaws dont just make them look all the more “amazing”. For instance, a common RP trope is blindness. Which of course is a flaw, but many players will find these ways around really being blind. For instance, using their magic powers to see through other peoples visions, or in one case I saw, through the eyes of a small dog they kept with them at all times. It took a flaw, and made it have no meaning, made it just make the character look all the more amazing and perfect.

What are Scarlet’s flaws? And before people say it, no, so far her “insanity” is not a flaw. Why? Well first of all, she may not be insane, she could just be acting childish. Second of all, her insanity has had absolutly 0 detrimental effects on her, and just makes it all the more amazing that she’s united such factions together under one banner (why would the Flame Legion, who not only hates none-Charr, but also hates women, listen to an insane Sylvari?).

She’s not actually insane. She looked at the Eternal Alchemy (tl;dr: destiny) and didn’t like what destiny meant, then she saw what her destiny was and embraced it (ironic, because she didn’t like destiny, but her destiny is to rebel against dest-…)

Yeaah…

I understand where you’re coming from. I assumed the Living Story would bring forth story based off of the current lore/stories ingame as opposed to creating new stories from nothing. There are hundreds of untold stories ingame yet Arenanet insists upon creating a new tale out of nothing. In fact, a lot of the Living Story doesn’t fit in the lore of the GW universe, but what can we do? Retcon the makers of the game?

Shiren.9532:

She seems like the typical Nightare Courtier without a respect or need for authority or a specific focus on the Dream vs the Nightmare. Aside from that, she doesn’t seem that different from the Nightmare Court. Ceara is actually a lot more interesting than Scarlet.

Ceara is Scarlet…