Guild Wars 2

In large scale fights this build is ridiculous how good it is and is effective even if your wearing full greens.

This is the build (copy paste): http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fgAQNArdWlwziqXVTrGb9IxJFMX5oecdrXdSKKNqB;TYAmiEFtAZAxeh5CA

Stack Carrion Gear.
For runes in your gear use:
2 x Superior Runes of Lyssa
2 x Superior Rune of the Mad King
2 x Major Rune of the Mad King

This gives an extra condition duration (27%) that along with the spec and the Super Vegie Pizza that you should be eating means you have an extra 87% condition duration which is insane given what this build does.

Note if your getting these runes get the Runes of the Mad King ASAP as prices WILL go up now that halloween is over and the resource available to make them are finite.

Tactics For this include:
Laying down a portal entrance ONLY, this lasts ages (60 secs) and gives confusion and blindness, great in choke points people have to go through it also doesnt show up as a hostile “field” so people will run through it. Place it near keep doors so melee have to run through it to hit the door, they invariably panic and then run through it again when moving way.

Place it near the entry area to keeps to stack confusion on people trying to get into the keeps.

You can also stack all the fields, wait for people to run out then cast temporal field and hit collapse to pull them all back in giving them a double dose for some reactive spike damage.

To further compound this you can arrange to get clones up on a single target, do the stacking on him, pull people into the field and shatter your clones with Cry of frustration which explode causing more confusion damage, also when you shatter clones your specced now any shatter causes confusion which is even more stacks (remember you have 87% increased condition duration on all this)

Two things im toying with this build is using a torch instead of focus (or swapping them around depending on whats going on) and I was also looking changing the master trait in Inspiration to “i” which is create a feedback bubble when you revive a player on a 10 sec recharge (8 secs from ii – needs testing) which is another glamour field…. which you can spam : you dont res people just click them once to pop the field up… well you can res them IF you want You might argue that you should slot the increased field duration, but it’s broken.

Obviously if you want to stick to the same gear and are to tight to respec for 3s below is the same build with different trait picks, skills and weapons for a more “solo” build that Ive been looking at, again you retain same runes, same armour with a few weapon changes. It works on 2 weapon sets which are “Kite” and “Close” while emphasising confusion and dots and clone generation for confusion on shatters:

(copy paste) http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fgAQRAsd7flwzaqHTTpGb9IxJFRX6oecdv/dSKK9rB;TYAmiEFtgYAyehpHA

Im still playing with the solo build and working out the kinks for it but that top spec is brilliant, you are not going to see OMG damage although I have seen confusion ticks of 4k, the damage is competitive but what you are doing is controlling the ebb and flow in large scale fights and destroying large groups fighting thru choke points by yourself. If you pair up with other mesmers it takes this to a whole new level, either alternating your fields to keep a constant stream of fields up or laying them down in some type of GW2 carpet bomb of doom.

That build looks familiar, hee hee.

Of course, that means it’s probably a great build.

Ya, glamours are why I play a mesmer. If I wanted to glass cannon, I have an Ele.

I just tested the build, only 1 portal open doesn’t seem to proc confusion unfortunately.

EDIT: However, it does seem to work when the portal is summoned on someone, just not when crossed.

Does condition duration transfer to clones (SI bleeds or WoC clone conditions)?

I’ve read bleed duration doesn’t transfer to SI bleeds so I’d be surprised if condition duration transferred. I know condition damage does transfer since I can see the bleed damage increase.

Using a staff and slotting Blinding Befuddlement will cause even more confusion.

So it’s confirmed that Portal Entre functions as a Glamour field that can place conditions on enemies if properly traited? Does the Portal have to be fully opened in order to work or can you just drop the entrance?

I had heard mixed reports and I’ve personally not tested it.

Others have claimed Portal is not triggering conditions. The post is on the gw2guru Mesmer PvE board under Glamour Based Build(not linking since their site may have malware atm).

Does anyone know if condition duration is transferred to our illusions?

I dislike glamour builds, it makes me feel useless with feedback and null field are on cooldown.

But that maybe because I like to run solo so I prefer a shatter build… I can see why a mesmer running in a big group would trait for glamours.

I’ll test those queries tonight if im not working, pretty sure I placed portal entrance in the middle of some steps in a keep in EB last night and went to the lords room to defend and noticed 600 damage ticks from the portal alone beind up, before they got to us and I had laid down any other fields in defence. I suspect the area for the portal is alot smaller than the graphic you see in game which might be why there is debate.

@ Aaron, alot of glamour/confusion mesmers seem to have that mind set if their fields are on cd they cant do anything but you have all your weapon abilities to use while they recharge, also remember you have 10s (possibly 8 sec) feedback bubble you can spam by clicking to res someone.

I have a few gear sets on the mesmer and switch between this and a phantasm crit build, different specs for different situations, although running confusion solo is very fun because people dont know how to deal with it.