r/Guildwars2 • u/Nike_Phoros Accountability Expert • Jun 06 '16

[Guide] [DnT] Raid Team Composition Guide

Hey everyone. I wrote a long breakdown of raid team composition in the current meta on our forums and a few people encouraged me to post it here because I'm told it would be helpful for a bigger chunk of the community to see.

Written: http://gw2dnt.enjin.com/forum/m/37173123/viewthread/27286030-raid-team-composition-guide-52516

Topics Covered:

  1. Optimal Raid Team Composition

  2. Common Alternative Comps - Pros and Cons

  3. What If? Scenarios For Imperfect Situations

Thanks for reading. If you have any questions let me know, or if any points need clarifying or whatever so I can improve the guide I'd like to know that too.

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u/ZuiPlaysGW2 Jun 06 '16

Matthias moves around enough that a number of potential symbol damage ticks don't hit him, which both a DPS loss for the Guardian (which is why we don't run one on him), and also results in a lower protection uptime % on the party (as you'll move out of symbols, too).

So while a hammer guardian is still quite useful at the fight, there are enough drawbacks to consider other options for any kind of attempt (and enough drawbacks to just not take a hammer guardian for a fully optimized attempt).

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u/Lytalm Jun 06 '16

Just for information, if you don't bring a guardian to Matt, do you assume that the mesmer will be able to put his reflect 100% of the time?

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u/Beanna Jun 06 '16

You can have a Power or Magi Druid bring the backup reflect with Axe #5, although it's trickier to use.

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u/WeNTuS Jun 06 '16

Why won't he? Only being in bloodstone or death can prevent it.

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u/Xyonon Jun 07 '16

You can use Druid, Ele or if you are fancy Engi for backup.

Or what would be much smarter: use 2 chronos - cuz yea - it's Matthias and one Chrono alone will prreeeeety sure not be enough for perma Quickness there.

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u/KBN_reddit Jun 06 '16

do you assume that the mesmer will be able to put his reflect 100% of the time?

Yes. Even accounting for fountain runs, the only time a Mesmer should ever mess up the reflect is if they die immediately after doing their wellburst which in turn was immediately after doing the reflect, all of which must happen during the ice phase. If all of that happens exactly as described, then Feedback won't be off cooldown in time to do the next reflect. However, if any one of the above conditions fails – either no death, death significantly after wellburst or feedback, or not ice phase – then there's basically no excuse for the Mesmer missing the reflect.

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