Guild Wars 2

Hi guys
I have played a lot of time my mesmer at spvp, but when i started to lvl him up i noticed that it’s very painfull, could You tell me what build i should pick and what skills for better pve lvling?

Pick a focus:
- What weapons do you like / dislike? This will probably tell you which stats to go after (Scepter/Staff/Torch are condition oriented, Greatsword/Sword/Pistol/Focus are more power oriented).

- Shatters or Phantasm?
You’ll want to use lots of clone generating abilities for a shatter build, and lots of phantasm-related traits for a Phantasm build. Shatter builds have higher burst damage and rock at AoE, Phantasm build have steadier damage, mostly focused on single target.

I had a decent time with staff and sword/pistol. The two interrupts from pistol 5 become really handy against certain types of mobs, you feel like you should be able to set up confusion combos dropping pistol 4 and 5 while you stand in a null field or the like, the sword actually does not-pathetic damage on anything you’re safe standing near, and the staff works well enough for kiting mobs around when you can’t afford to let them hit you.

That said you’re significantly better in a small group. You just multiply the effect of people with things like chaos storm and shatter 2/3. You can dump out a lot of combo fields for higher damage output classes to do whirl finishers in or shoot through if you take those utility skills and with other players you don’t really need anything else.

Probably want to keep a greatsword in your bags for any zerg groups you find so that you’ve got more than chaos storm for tagging mobs before the aoe drops them. Greatsword 4 and 5 will get you a lot more loot there.

I guess you could also switch to a torch just to do #4 on packs of mobs but I didn’t start carrying one of those until I wanted to stack retaliation on flame rams in WvW…