Guild Wars 2

Hey. I am not big on ‘speculating’ and playing with numbers when it comes to build building. I am here to ask Your opinions, mesmers. I am running dom/insp/chrono power shatter gs/sw+sh build atm. I wonder if dueling is now worth running instead of, for example, domination?

Please share your ideas. I want to hear what you think.

Theres a trait that when you shatter you get your phantasm’s boons so idk maybe someoen can come u with a sword offhand build.

In my opinion mirage will be better than chrono for power mesmer so start playing core mesmer. Chances are you will take stunbreak and cleanse on dodge with the protection and super speed after mirage cloak so I’d go duelling, insp and chaos to mimic it in some ways.

You lack the boon removal of domination but you get a more consistent damage increase from duelling by getting much more fury and the crit damage increase from the new GM. You want to be sitting at about 60% crit chance so with fury you get 80%, this means you get the bonus 15% damage increase on the mirror blade and mind wrack crits which most are likely to do.

Compare this to mental anguish and it’s no contest, superiority complex is a straight up better trait especially with the fury generation of duelling. Slot arcane thievery if you need it but I’m going to be running mirror with reduced cool down and cleanse on shatter so I shouldn’t have too much issues with conditions. Obviously torch offhand is great especially with PU but in a 1v1 sword might work well especially if you switch to CI in chaos.

The actual burst will hit harder. We still have no follow up damage if the burst doesn’t kill them and thief got even stronger buffs so I doubt you will get anywhere with it though.