Guild Wars 2

I’m looking for the best overall build for CoF speed runs as a mezzie. I’m thinking focus w/ Warden’s Feedback and of course Feedback utility.

But what else should I put into this build to make CoF go as fast as possible?

I use the mantra spec 30/30/0/0/10 for Cof and all dungeons. The best way to speed a dungone up, is to kill things as fast as possible.

I love 30/30/0/0/10 mantra power but have a hard time surviving with it in certain situations, like CoF1 brazier room or CoF2 guarding Magg from Assassins near the end. How do you handle those?

A phantasm build is popular, high damage, decent survivability (swap out Signet for Portal on the flaming boulder cave).

I’ve also been using this hybrid Phantasm/Shatter build lately and like it better, for two reasons: I can’t live without Illusionary Persona, and this build lets me swap traits and utilities on the fly depending on the encounter.

For example, that’s the standard version of it, but when I do that crazy event at the end of CoF 2 where you have to guard Magg from Assassins, I find it better to change the build to better support that encounter (eg, burst down the Assassin with GS and buffed Mind Wrack, Desperate Decoy for surviving/kiting in between Assassins).

You can always be a dick and use Spy Kits on Brazier.

I like the boon buffer build, but you can pretty much only run it if you have 2 mes since you need 2 utilities and you can’t drop 2 for blink+port.

Err… I think you can run it if you have focus to pull boss into corner, time warp for elite and portal on a utility with blink.

Build shouldn’t matter on a mesmer unlike warriors.

If you reaaaaally want to contribute, you can run GS/Sword+Focus with mirror image/bink/portal with a shatter build, knights armour and berserker trinkets. air runes or centaur.