Originalish 7 Hero Teams

Used this to have some fun in hm...and well it actually worked...lol...

http://www.gwpvx.com/User:Illoyon/Te..._Hero_Touchway

This is good for a laugh on Mt Quinkai:

2 R/W Bunny Thumpers
1 ST Shelter/Earthbind/Displacement/Union Ritualist
1 SoS/Splinter Weapon/Restoration Ritualist
2 Psychic Instability + Signet of Clumsiness Mesmers
1 Utility Character, have it heal or support or whatever.
1 Minion Master or Elementalist with Churning Earth and Unsteady Ground

It's not counter productive. It's somewhat anti-synergistic depending on your point of view. If your minion wall stays up 10 times as long, then your party won't take damage for 10 times as long as well. Less minions dying means less minions exploding though, which is the more important issue.

If your running a hard mode bar without Weaken Armor...lol

Make sure that skill is in any team bar you make. It doesn't even need many attributes to be effective. You NEED the cracked armor AOE to dispose of foes fast.

The answer to concerns above is that Fragway team damage is:

1. Damage from fragility mostly and less from so called minion bombing. The role of minions is to ball enemies with the derv, and so function as a second line of meat shield. A single frag application does more AOE damage when enemies are balled sufficiently. Minion bombing is just icing the cake. Jagged bones applies bleeding which is completely intuitive with the goals of the build and this point.

2. Fragility does armor ignoring adjacent damage to almost all enemies (except for Kappa eles monster defensive skills) each time a condition is applied and removed from the enemy who is fragged. Cracked armor is just one of many conditions applied in this build with also helps the derv.

3. Frag-damage occurs in multiple small packets of 20 each (Illusion = 15) to all adjacent enemies. Multiple frags sets a dangerous chain effect in tightly balled groups finishing off enemies in mere seconds. The small damage packet of fragility is compensated by repeated application of fragility on different enemies. Due to fevered dreams having AOE effect, multiple frags is the ideal way to setup such chain effects.

4. Fragility especially shines when enemies have monks who have condition removal, because it triggers damage on condition removal as well. The ideal way to frag is to target enemy targets like eles so that their monks get busy removing their conditions, and because they are all close to each other in the backline, they are all fragged more often.

5. Lastly, don't forget that fragility not just functions as the damage component of this build. It also functions as an short recharge effective cover hex for fevered dreams which is the "easy button" elite in this build. Due to mass condition application, FD triggers AOE daze on enemy frontline or backline. It's like a perma-daze situation for them...and they more they try to get away from it, the more damage they take from fragility. Hence, fragility occurs 2x in this build, once in the main bar (the caller), and then in the follower (the hero mesmer). Typically, microing the hero to focus on frontline while you take on the backline will ensure that all enemies are fragged to death (but this is not necessary for average HM areas).

6. Lastly, all the conditions spread rampantly in this build renders most enemies absolutely harmless.