CLASSES IN THIS BUILD GUIDE: MESMER, MESMER 2, GUARDIAN, NECROMANCER, RANGER
Hello guys, my name is Adrian, i am a good pvp player, but you wont find my name in spvp leaderboards since i never bother to make a team to raise ranks. Regardless of leaderboards i decided to make several useful builds from all the classes i use to pvp.
i have seen several builds, but none are really very effective, if anything they are a cheap knock-off of mine. My goal is to help you, and increase you’re possibility of winning a fight and hence help you have more fun in pvp. These are, in my opinion, the best possible builds for these classes.
now let’s begin….
1. “Illusionist Mesmer” Build:
(Greatsword and Sword/Pistol)
COMBAT
now for this build the strategy mainly revolves around always maintaining no less than 3 Illusions in the battlefield. A very effective approach (the one i usually take), is you start with sword/pistol, activate the phantasm from your pistol and the clone skill from your sword (dont use the sword clone to teleport at the beginning), then quickly daze your enemy with pistol, dodge to create 1 more clone and change to your greatsword (this must all be done within an average time of 5seconds). when you change to greatsword you use the phantasm from greatsword and the number 2 skillbar, afterwards you continue to attack and thats when u can become creative.
When the enemy becomes a bit dangerously close, thats when you use your clone teleport skill (it will have recharged by then), then use your sword’s number 2 skillbar move, you can also use the stealth skill to the right side of HP to maintain anonymity. YOUR ROLLING/DODGES CREATE CLONES, plus you also have the number 8 skillbar which creates 2 clones.
VS A THIEF
you may think its a disadvantage, but no, i find killing thieves easy unless i am not paying attention to them (AKA im killing other people and not focused on thief). Here is the main strategy….they mainly have 2 stealths, one is a short one that can easily be countered by creating clones and dodging, or using number 5 greatsword skillbar, then theres the refuge skill which makes them stay in the stealth circle until its done, this can easily be countered by a sword by slashing randomly within that circle, also by number 5 greatsword skillbar move and number 2 sword skillbar. Eventually you will see how easy killing a thief is.
SKILLS
Number 6: Ether Feast
Number 7: Mimic
Number 8: Mirror Images
Number 9: Decoy
Number 0: Time Warp
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TRAITS
Domination(20): III, V
Dueling(20): II, X
Inspiration(25): VI, V
Illusions(5): nothing
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+30% Phantasm damage
Main Conditions (most effective boons are bold): Vulnerability, Bleeding from clone crits, cripple from attacks and from enemies killing your clones.
Main Boons: Phantasms have fury, vigor, regeneration from phantasms, speed boost per active illusion, illusion skill recharge faster.
TRINKETS
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3 Sigils of accuracy = crit chance
2 Runes of lyssa/nightmare/lich = condition duration
Amulet of berserker = damage/crit/crit damage
(edited by Adry.7512)