Guild Wars 2

There is no debate on which spec is better. I’m saying this with experience at the top level with both specs.

I enjoy interupt spec a lot. When I say interupt spec I mean 20 dom 20 duel 30 chaos with mantra for interuption. It’s superior in a lot of skirmish matchups but suffers in a lot of other ways.

First, shattering without IP is far worse than with, there are so many setups that you arent able to use such as the 4s dazechain that is viable with shatter.
2nd, playing without mantra of distraction makes you a onetrick pony. Good players will use stab to initiate whenever you swap to staff to precounter your chaos storm. This’ll force you to use your slow awkward shatters in order to attempt to rip boons, if you fail you’ve effectively lost the duel.

This means you’re forced to take mantra vs good players and that means that you’re dropping either portal blink or decoy.

Portal and decoy are the two utilities to drop in this case but if you’re facing thief you really should never drop decoy.

dropping portal in high lvl pvp <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

You’ll be completely reliant on your mantra to score wins which becomes harder and harder the more players are in the fighht since there are more random things to screw you over such as opponents cleansing the immobs, enemies randomly getting aegis, you getting blinded or ccd so you cant follow up etc.

I’d say that the interupt spec is better in lower levels of play though. Because then you’ll be up vs people that have no clue how to face the spec and will run into chaos storm+daze combo leaving them ccd to death which is awlays hilarious to watch.

It’s also potentially useful as a suprise swap which I’ve been considering every now and then for tournaments. It’ll take a game or so to adjust and by then the damage will already have been done. The problem with doing this is that swapping from CI to IP is such a huge switch in mentality that I always feel crippled gameplay wise when I’ve done it.

So, debate over. Run along now people.

Reference; I’m a king

The idea that I don’t have an open mind for mesmer builds is absolutely absurd considering:

1. I made the halting strike switch before anyone else in the top scene
2. I made the elasticy switch before anyone else in the top scene
3. I played CI without portal and made it work before
4. I’ve now scored wins vs every single team out there and recently played last ESL final with sword
5. I ran both power block and confounding making both both of them work at top end (and nerfed lol) the sec they came out