Guild Wars 2

I was curious if there is a solid build in pvp that uses GS and s/s, whether its for dueling or tpvp. Any suggestions ona build?

This is a sword/sword great sword build that I use from time to time in WvW and sPvP. I usually run full berserker, but for WvW i’ll take traveler runes over strength for the move speed. Its a basic build. iSwords Man and iZerker both hit like a truck and stay alive a bit longer. Phantasm’s will grant regeneration to you, and I think other phantasms. Even if your opponent is able to dodge the first iZerker, with three phantasms up they will eventually go down. This is a non-PU build so you don’t have as much survivability.

You can take 1 trait point of Inspiration and trait it into Illusions for “Phantasmal Haste”. This is so your illusions hit more often.

I think guardians, and heavy AoE classes will hard counter this build, but for duel’s it does work fine for me.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fhAQNAscRlknpRtlpxUNcrRiqxc2meCddRqAKZHbD-TJhFwAAeCAj2fIxpAYaZAA

http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Mesmer_-_Traditional_Shatter

This is GS/S+T build, but it’s probably the closest you’ll get. Off-hand sword is the least used mesmer weapon in PvP, basically nobody’s running that.

For duels you could use a lock-down build I guess since the block on off-hand Sword also got an interrupt/daze and the phantasms style is a bit sneaky, just standing there and then BAM and hits hardest of all.

I just made this, so not tested even though I run a similar but with pistol in WvW and it’s really fun:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fhAQNAR8cl0npMtNoxGNMrNyqhY6WnedqllezoAA-TpBCABAcQAG+IAgxDAQjLAQYlBUa/BA

You can switch the Stun signet for something like Null Field or Arcane Thievery to rip stability of guardians and warriors and if the opponents don’t conditions a lot you can use the standard heal and switch Menders Purity for Empowered Illusions.

Check out the Lockdown thread for other builds, I think there are some with GS+sw/sw.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/The-Lockdown-Mesmer-Thread/first

Lockdown is really fun, especially if you team up with a thief, gotta be one of the more frustrating duos to fight.

jenzie.4083:

Lockdown is really fun, especially if you team up with a thief, gotta be one of the more frustrating duos to fight.

You cant even imagine,how much it is frustrating. xD

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fhAQNAR8clknpMtFpxGNcrNipxY6biJHSGQClslxB-TpBFwACeAAOOIAl2fYxRAoaZAAXAAA

When I think of GS + S/S the weaponset to me automatically screams lockdown time!

Try a build like this. I call it an Interruptasm build. The playstyle is what it’s named. You use interrupts and phantasms to kill your opponent. However, with air and fire in your GS you deal boatloads of damage with it too. You can stack alot of might due to bountiful interruption, strength runes, sigil of battle and perhaps a little bit from mirror blade if you are lucky.

You also stack alot of vulnerability due to interrupting and dazing opponents. You can easily have 15+ stacks of might with 15+ stacks of vulnerability. And having 2,200 power with 193% crit dmg and 44% crit chance, you are dealing pretty much glass cannon damage. However you have 2,100 armor and 18K HP which honestly isn’t bad, you are actually pretty survivable if you know what you are doing.

IMO a lockdown build needs to be 3/x/6/x/x for you to maximize its potential. The might and the vulnerability stacking is huge. At least power based ones.

It is also very good for dueling actually, as are many variants of lockdown builds. It is just very frustrating and pesky to go up against. Sword #4 is a daze every 12 seconds, mantra becomes 2 dazes every 30 seconds. GS has one interrupt every 30 seconds and shatter is 1 every 45 seconds. Giving you 4 dazes and one interrupt. You can get 25 stacks of vulnerability on an opponent like that, and 25 stacks of might as well.

Interrupts stack might, vulnerability, locks the opponents bar, puts conditions on them, deals damage, it is pretty brutal lol. I’ve played it in yoloqueue a little bit with pretty good success but most important of all it was pretty fun and effective. You can switch some traits around if you’d like, perhaps shatters remove boons instead of illusions dealing more dmg.

I concur with the above build, but would highly advise Shattered Concentration.. And lyssa runes.