Guild Wars 2

I’ve been in some groups who have the mesmer do the gate controller and i am wondering how they do it? i’ve only ever stood in the braziers, so it’s a mostly foreign concept to me. Is there a particular trait setup i need? what about weapons, utilities, and rotations?

Help would be very much appreciated.

Actually mesmer does gate faster w/o elite or relying on Might than warriors.

It takes around 5 seconds to complete:

3x Charge of Mantra of Pain
GS 4 (will catch godforged attention)
GS 2
Focus 5 or 3
Sword 2
f1 Shatter

It does take some luck because sometimes the Godforged kills 1 of the clones weakening shatter.

Set up is 30/30/0/0/10 but shatter build can do it as well, 20/20/0/0/30

I don’t know but there’s a cheap way to do it as any class. Spend 1 silver on summoning pet, flame elemental or ogre pet.

You won’t necessary do it fast, but you’ll do it easily.

I’ve done it a few times as a Mesmer using Sword+Focus | Sword+Sword. There’s no difficulty in staying alive – you have at least three interrupts to use against the Hellstorm: Distortion, Counter Blade, Into the Void. Take Blade Training so that you can use your Blurred Frenzy attack as often as possible.

I doubt that there’s going to be much interest in theorycrafting an optimal Mesmer controller-kill, though. Any CoF farming group is going to have a Warrior or Thief on the gate, and a Mesmer has to rely almost entirely on weapon skills. Portal is definitely on cooldown, Blink is probably on cooldown, and you can’t afford to use any long-cooldown skills because you need to reserve two utility slots (and your Elite, of course) for the upcoming Effigy fight.

It’s not that bad. You basically blow every cooldown you have (aside from Time Warp) to dps down the controls while making sure to not stand in front of the boss when he uses his flame thrower. Shatter builds do well with this since they have a lot of burst.

^ And aMantra of Pain recharges instantly so after you gate, you switch it back to whatever utility you need for team.

And I use scholar runes. I usually gate w/o getting hit once 100% hp.

many thanks, sirs! i understand that a warrior/thief could do it faster, i just think that knowledge is power and having this sort of skill would be useful if i find myself in that situation.

one last question: could this work with a 20/30/0/0/20 trait spread and lyssa runes, or will need to finagle some stuff?

ArashiKai.2496:

many thanks, sirs! i understand that a warrior/thief could do it faster, i just think that knowledge is power and having this sort of skill would be useful if i find myself in that situation.

one last question: could this work with a 20/30/0/0/20 trait spread and lyssa runes, or will need to finagle some stuff?

Yea, it’s rare that I’ve ever had to do the door as my mesmer, but it has come up before, so it’s good to know.

As for your build, I’m sure you could do it just fine with that build, although how hard it is will depend quite a bit as to what specific traits you’re investing in. Is this a build that focuses on keeping phantasms up? If so, it may be a bit harder than a shatter build since phantasms get chewed up by crazy flame thrower-wielding charr pretty fast, but the 1h sword still makes it relatively easy.

The 1h sword is really what you want to make sure you’re using on this, regardless of spec since it’s the highest dps weapon and is easy to stay on your feet with since blurred frenzy lets you evade so much.

Ideally, for most builds this is what I would do: bring Mantra of Pain as the other poster said, start off with greatsword, cast iBerserker, then swap to sword/focus, cast iWarden and go to town with everything you have. If you invest in the illusion trait to give you 3% damage for each illusion (which you should almost regardless of spec anyways), then wait to finish blurred frenzy before shattering when possible to maximize the damage it deals. If the boss starts to get on top of you and the controls are still alive, swap back to the greatsword and finish it off while kiting.

For last trait tree, you’d want +1 bounce trait for 33% more damage on GS 2.

Mistyped trait for shatter for CoF but it’s 30/10/0/0/30, and this one does gating faster than 30/30/0/0/10 because of the extra bounce hit and extra shatter. 30 in the first tree is ideal to have 3x Mantra of Pain. Also ideal for applying 24 vuln. stacks instantly when pulling charr-> turret and for last boss.

Lyssa’s rune is useless for gating. You cannot crit. it; thus, precision is useless, and so is the 2nd trait tree for crit. dmg + precision. Cond. is also useless. The elite, you shouldn’t be using. In other words, Lyssa Rune is one of the worst possible gating rune you can get. But it is useful for Empowered Warriors (+2% dmg per boon). Elite→ Signet of Inspiration.
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And no, a Warrior does not do gate faster than a mesmer.

You said ~5sec. Warrior uses 100b + WW. Done. With frenzy, thats faster.

Phira.3970:

For last trait tree, you’d want +1 bounce trait for 33% more damage on GS 2.

And no, a Warrior does not do gate faster than a mesmer.

Said that last time about thieves doing it faster than warrior, then got proven wrong. I’d like to see it done faster than a warrior. Not saying mesmers cant do it fast, but if someone says its faster than something, I’d like to see it.