Guild Wars 2

Hi all,

Just wanting to assess the viability of pure glass cannon ranged mesmer. Currently playing mantra build with greatsword and scepter/pistol. Our team is in the 85% range.

Anyone else playing a similar build with success?

Love this build for wvw and pve. Phenomenal single target ranged damage, but low survivability and low aoe. Can down people within a few seconds in team fights.

Gimmicky, I know. I’ve tried the sword builds and staff builds hehe. They’re powerful in their own way, just not interested in playing that style though.

If you’re playing a non-shatter, non-blurred frenzy setup, let me know. Post a video link if possible too.

Marvel Girl

sword actually has the greatest amount of dmg i’ve seen in mesmer skills. Prob is you have to have them stay in one spot for the entire duration. I reckon you don’t really need to be a mantra build (even if I use one :p) to utilize the burst. The greatest thing I’ve ever seen is comboing iZerk, GS 3, f1 shatter with maybe 1-2 clones and mantra of pain all within a window of 1 second.

In wvw, I run a 30/20/0/20/0 mantra build in wvw and I love it.

I actually got this build from http://www.destinysedge.net/fay/mesmer/hecate.html except i changed dueling from 4 to 5.

Although in wvw, I still rely somewhat on shatters to push the burst through as GS alone isn’t damage-y enough to bring down the targets quickly. I love critting for 2.8k on mantra of pain tho :p