Guild Wars 2

This is a WvW build I’ve been fiddling around with and running for quite some time. It is 100% pure support for large scale fighting, though it is also very usable in small scale fights. The build focuses a lot on using glamour fields for blinds, confusion and REFLECTS! The Glamourous Medic is made to be a very bulky durable mesmer, with lots of vitality and toughness. As such, the stats focus on PTV so that a mesmer can run into the middle of an enemy zerg and heal a fallen comrade. This build focuses a lot on being able to create feedback bubbles when you revive someone, which coupled with runes of mercy allow you to rez easily in the middle of enemy fire, as well as tagging and damaging all surrounding enemies that try to fire at you. The build is shown here:

http://bit.ly/13iON2n

Who is this build for?
If you’re someone who loves to be in the fight, this build is for you! However, there is very low crits, it focuses on the power stat, as well as powerful reflects to do your damage. It is not made for 1v1, though you can survive easily as a 1v1 since you’re very durable. My mesmer has 26k health unbuffed, so I can normally just bear through most of the damage.

What is this build made for?
Being a combat medic in the middle of large WvW fights. As a mesmer on a T2 server, reviving in the middle of combat and bringing up your downed is crucial and can turn the tide in the fight. With this build, the mesmer can blink into the fight (yes INTO the fight!) and start to revive fallen comrades. The traits allow you to create long lasting feedback bubbles every 8-10 seconds while reviving, making you also deal quite a bit of damage if you’re in the middle of a zerg. With this build, I have revived teammates in the middle of AC and ballista fire and able to get them out of combat (you can even use portal to evacuate!) Your distortion shatter as well can be easily used to get yourself out of combat if you need it, plus the nifty reflections!! This build is all about getting into the fight, bringing up your fallen friends, and getting out safe! A mesmer with this build is FRONT line, not in the back throwing in illusions and phantasms.

The focus #4 can also be used to reflect projectiles. The reason for enabling this trait is so that you can throw down a Temporal Curtain IN BETWEEN your enemy and the person you are reviving to give you a safe screen (and causing MORE reflecting damage!) It is also good if you need to make an escape, or do extra damage. The Focus #5 can be thrown down when zergs stack.

Now, some of you might be asking: why the clone factory? And the answer is: distortion. Dodging will not only prevent you from taking hits (of course!), but give you extra clones for longer distortion reflections. Throwing down feedbacks, mirror heal, focus skills and distortion can give you a long time of security from ranged attacks, and you can always blink away from any melee people!

Why did I make this build?
Well, I ran a confusion/glamour build for a long time, and wanted to do something different, something that got me in the fight! A guildmate wanted to make a rez squad so I spent some time and came up with this. It is, in my opinion, incredibly useful support in the middle of ZvZ fights, or in the middle of taking keeps.

Pros:
- Very bulky (high vit)
- Very tough to kill (high toughness)
- High power
- Support to turn the tide of war!

Cons:
- Very low crit damage and crit change (however, since this is a reflection build, it doesn’t matter so much)

If you have any questions or comments, feel free to ask/comment!

Cheers! I hope you try out my build and become a very Glamourous Medic!

I like the sounds of the build, but the link isn’t working. I’m just getting a blank build. This might turn into the Rezmer build I’ve been joking about making if it looks good.

Does the link still not work? When I click on the bitly link it sends me to a filled out build (but this is the first time Ive used that site, so maybe I’m not doing a step)

Iv’e personally seen this in action, and Handin does some amazing things with this Spec.

Accidental quote here, so I’ll just put in some extra info.

You can swap out the Descent into Madness trait for Master of Manip. This gets rid of spurious etheral fields which could cancel water fields, etc, and gives more flexibility to your blinks to get in and out of the fight.

If I didn’t lag out so bad during larger fights this would sound like a really fun build.

Link works now. I like it. Definitely gonna try it out once I get the armor. I’m wondering if the Sentinel’s gear would be worthwhile.

My issue with the sentinel’s gear is that it takes away some much needed power to get the damage in. Thats why I thought a good balance would be the azurite jewellery, but with the WvW PTV gear. Get the high vit and high power of both.

hey, nice idea but 1 thing u dont know or it just mistake
sigil bloodlust and corruption dont work together

drongas.4189:

hey, nice idea but 1 thing u dont know or it just mistake
sigil bloodlust and corruption dont work together

I was probably a mistake. I haven’t found any specific sigils which help more than any others, so you can basically put any in there that you want. If anyone knows of any sigils which could help with this build, please let me know

well i offer on gs energy sigil. on focus bloodlust. on sceptr 3sec freeze when swap. when bloodlust stuck 25. change wep with sigil of force

Neat idea! I love how the mesmer community just rolls with nerfs!

I’d choose Illusionary persona or something instead of Blinding Befuddlement, the latest nerf to that skill defeats the whole synergy of the two traits. (Blind on glamour, confusion on blind) Having 1 stack of confusion every 5 seconds isn’t just worth it.

nbikz.2708:

I’d choose Illusionary persona or something instead of Blinding Befuddlement, the latest nerf to that skill defeats the whole synergy of the two traits. (Blind on glamour, confusion on blind) Having 1 stack of confusion every 5 seconds isn’t just worth it.

That’d be interesting! My main reason of having Blinding Befuddlement was mostly because my previous build was a pure glamour build, but also to help make the medic’s feedbacks more powerful. But I’ll definitely check it out!

Oh man, I’d love to see this build and my build in action together. I really like the concept, and I agree that iPersona would probably serve you better. Having an instant Distortion in the middle of a huge battle could make the difference between life and death.

So I tried using iPersona, and it definitely was much better! The combination of AOE blind and distortion gives an extra ~5-10 seconds of survivability even in the middle of a large ZvZ

Sorry for doing this bump, but I had a friend from my server who saw this and noticed it wasn’t up to par (with some of the resent changes). The original build was still in the post and I’ve greatly modified it from being a confusion build to a reflection build!

I’ve had lots of success with this, and lots of fun! (Running into a zerg, popping distortion and laughing while they try to kill me..then blinking to safety!)

I also didn’t want to make a new thread for basically the same build, with just different trait focuses.