Guild Wars 2

Looking for suggestions on my current build and play. It pretty much does everything I want it to do and does it well. Outnumbered fights, zerg surfing, res botting, wrecking stuff with CC, harassing blobs. I haven’t played engi all that long though so wondering if some engi pros have some better things I should try.

I have issues against decent condi mes and some decent condi thieves though…unless I swap in purge gyro.

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I change a few things around depending. Blast gyro is mostly for fun. I enjoy tossing people that aren’t paying attention and many times it’s a good delayed cc while I’m rezzing or waiting for stab to run out. Bulwark is mostly for reflect. Throwing this up while harassing a pug blob actually downs people. I do run expensive food when there are lots of fights.

Ways to make this better without dropping stats? I could go more damage but I love to yolo into piles of bad guys. It kills everything except maybe heavy bunker warrior/guard/tempest…usually stalemate.

Armor was cheap so could easily switch it to whatever.

Best rotations for resetting, escaping, damage and ongoing sustain? Best rotation to deal with heavy condi pressure?

Condi mesmer is really strong but not so easy to play. More than a build i suggest you to roll a mesmer, copy the build from metabattle and do a some hotjoin matches. You will learn how it works , how to see the “right” mesmer and how to avoid his burst. I had problem against mesmer too, now i play mesmer quite often ( 30% of the time becouse i really like it in spvp ) and playing it helped me a lot to fight against them .

PierPiero.9142:

Condi mesmer is really strong but not so easy to play. More than a build i suggest you to roll a mesmer, copy the build from metabattle and do a some hotjoin matches. You will learn how it works , how to see the “right” mesmer and how to avoid his burst. I had problem against mesmer too, now i play mesmer quite often ( 30% of the time becouse i really like it in spvp ) and playing it helped me a lot to fight against them .

Thanks. I actually have a mesmer. I’m terrible at it though. Good condi mes = I usually disengage. The good ones wouldn’t let me catch them anyway. Part of the issue is I don’t generally carry a lot of cleanse or I’m not using it right.

There is literally no rotation or counter vs a good chrono perplexity. All you got is either the dumb luck of dodging their bomb (which isnt so much a counter as something you must do and hope for the best) or the luck of them being kitten at dueling.

Personally I find that the only good defense is an even better offense. I run p/p scrapper and my usual tactic to beat mesmers is hitting hard and fast by running straight for them, bulwark to upset their initial strike, poison and lightning to the face then stealth when they stealth and blowtorch to the kitten when they reappear. If you are lucky purge gyro will have done its job at cleansing confusion/torment and if you are even luckier then a blast gyro at point blank range will make victory almost certain (assuming it doesnt path 20m away and start dancing with a flagpole or something).

Problem is, the cheezier ones will run dire, can take your attacks easy and blink away to reset, while you just blew all your cooldowns and will be a sitting duck.

But maybe I am just too impatient.