Guild Wars 2

Howdy. I’ve been playin’ a ton of Ele in sPvP, and had my own frustrations with it, and just want to say ‘screw it’ and go through pve. Wife wants to do a more support style mesmer, so just wondering what a good set up would be to make sure we don’t do terrible.

Was thinkin’ more of a offensive staff for the fields, but unsure how that is for pve at the moment.

I think a AOE combo field staff build would work well as long as the Mesmer can keep the mobs focused on her clones and phantasms. I find staff hard to play in PvE if I get directly targeted a lot. But it’s great as long as the mobs are busy fighting other things. I prefer staff for team support but tend to use scepter/dagger if I am going to get much aggro.

Staff mesmer with Phantasmal Disenchanter (lowest cd), Mirror Images, Null Field, and Time Warp, alongside a Scepter/Dagger/Arcane Wave Elementalist would be fun:

- 4 combo fields (3 chaos, 1 fire)
- 5 blast finishers (2 fire, 2 earth, 1 arcane) (maybe more if Cleansing Wave and Shatterstone count, can’t recall)
- Enough illusion production to keep 3 up at all times, even in long fights where you’re 2-manning champions

Constantly blast finishing all 5 of you (you, your wife, 3 clones) should be fun – AoE Chaos Armor, AoE might, etc.

If spec Elemental Attunement at level 20 you can get AoE swiftness for 10s every ~15s (iirc), giving the two of you a periodic speed boost. Staff would be better for that, but no blast finishers.