Guild Wars 2

I play a Mesmer Glamour build we play mostly a support roll though we do damage through confusion from our traits. I was looking though my weapon skills and thot that a few of them should have been marked glamour Temporal Curtain, and Illusionary Wave. Also the ability Time Warp

Tell me what you think and thanks for your time.

Edit: spelling-skill/ability error

i just started my mesmer, but as i understand it ( i am not sure, so u have to test it urself by standing still)

confusion build is useless in PvE, but amazing in PvP,
Condition build is the oppositte, it is amazing in PvE and i dont know about PvP because the stacks are random.

reason: people attack fast and confusion eats away at there lives, unless you find a smart guy that takes it away, in PvE, monsters slow and I am not sure if they take dmg from the confusion, but they mostly take dmg from your basic impact attak, but as i understand your main damage is from stacking confusion which doesnt help you in PvE. so your better off switching to another build.

Condition is broken in PvE due to the 25 stack limit.

Any group event you simply are putting out trash like dps.

I do not think its the case. I have not ran into any issues myself but I am mostly pvp as far as stacking confusion you can’t stack confusion in a wvwvw setting as glamour due to the lack of toughness and combat skills in a one on one setting and we just dont have enough abuilities to do it in a large group setting. What we can do is scare people with large red rings and rez our teamates. The confusion is just a nice perk to go allong with our support we cure conditions on a large scale and nullify enemy attacks. To me it does not seem broken at all.

Though it would be nice to see the abilities above changed to glamour to give us a lil more offencive ability.

As for PvE I have not made it out of the starter zones apart from story missions so maybe it is a steep scale I dont know but what i have played my one stack of confusion allong with my illusionary berserker takes care of most things but also keep in mind im lv 80. Armor rare toughness vit power gear.

EDIT: I always pull everything in range aswell since most of my abilities are aoe

Sir Richter Belmont.3258:

i just started my mesmer, but as i understand it ( i am not sure, so u have to test it urself by standing still)

confusion build is useless in PvE, but amazing in PvP,
Condition build is the oppositte, it is amazing in PvE and i dont know about PvP because the stacks are random.

reason: people attack fast and confusion eats away at there lives, unless you find a smart guy that takes it away, in PvE, monsters slow and I am not sure if they take dmg from the confusion, but they mostly take dmg from your basic impact attak, but as i understand your main damage is from stacking confusion which doesnt help you in PvE. so your better off switching to another build.

After 56 levels of playing a mesmer so far, I don’t feel I have any problems with PvE enemies failing to kill themselves thanks to my confusion. It only got better as I got more traits to make confusion pop on them virtually endlessly.

As glamour confusion is most of my dmg but if falls off fast so there is alot of down time to my dps the changes listed would give me a lil more bang for my buck with out even comming close to game breaking Illusionary Wave and Time Warp have long cooldowns. It would be epic to be able to confuse somone when colapsing Temporal Curtain but if only worked if they ran through it it would still be a large help.

Mesmer cds need some work. I was blown away when leveling my alts (engineer and ranger) how much superior their dps was over my mesmer. Where my mesmer had trouble dealing with 3 or more in a mob at her level, I had no problem dealing with same number +3-4 levels over my toon with engineer and ranger.

Mesmer needs some work. Lift the condition count cap and shorten our cds.

I pull everything i see but the difference your prolly seeing is burst dmg direct dmg to condition even our direct dmg is damage over time but as i said above I have no issue with this build apart from the down time and having to rely on on our direct dmg because I don’t have enough glamour abilites. Sinc stacking for both would spread me to thin im just going to go all glamour and hope somone from anet reads this and tests out the build. I guess tester wanted to try the build out ill list some info on it here: Mesmer Glamour build
Traits
Domination 20
traits 3 and 8
Dueling 0
Chaos0
Inspiration 20
traits 2 and 9
Ilusions 30
traits 5 8 and 9

Skills
Null field
Feedback
Signet of domination

Weapons Greatsword-septer/focus or pistol

This went over this build mainly for wvwvw to nullify attacks and move enemy forces back but it works find in pve aswell.

Some of you are prolly thinking why dont you use a staff to get more use from your condition dmg its because in a one on one if i happen to run into that I need the cripple from my gsword along with my signets stun to stay alive with no real combat abilities along with the direct dmg from focus or pistol. I also can not kill arrow carts on top of a wall with a staff

@ curt reduced cooldowns would fix the issue but feedback null field and time warp are to powerfull to do that