Guild Wars 2

Hi Guys,

RedCobra here and ive got a build ive used for my mesmer a while, you see the styleset works perfectly for me and i absaloutly love the burst and survivability from it, this build is used as a group fighter and allows me to take on more enemies than myself,

I dont want to come across arogant but this build works (for me) so im not really looking for comments that say “this build is terrible” but more on the lines of, “maybe you could try this instead to get more x,y and z”

i used to have 10 in the toughness line to get 3% reduced damage instead of the 15% extra damage for illusions in the power line, can anyone tell me if this stacks with the phantasms do extra damage in the vitality line?

any questions on why ive used certain things id be more than happy to answer them.

http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=VO;4kUV1187sU-71;9;49T-T-2;0139;135B;1L-V4b;1k06Rk06Ro-FW0-gYGWYo85VAWFXKYO3V_-30C-2i;5k06Rk06R;9;9;9;9;8Ek3g

Thank you very much for reading
RedCobra

looks like a rocksolid build.

And yes, they stack

The two 15% more damage for phants do stack.

I don’t see where you’re getting any surviveability at all from this build aside from some condi removal.

thank you its good to hear, and i was experimenting with arcane thievery and this is the slot that always gets changed in WvW portal, feedback, mantra of resolve, mimic, null field, arcane thievery i just cant decide they are all so good, what would you say is the best skill out of them for say a 1v5 situation?

K U T M.4539:

The two 15% more damage for phants do stack.

I don’t see where you’re getting any surviveability at all from this build aside from some condi removal.

with permanant vigor and constant heals in a group fight with a good amount of stealth to rotate CD’s and break targeting, i found that you practicaly dont need any defense, the reason i have high VIT is for the damage bonus and a larger health pool for better healing

RedCobra.7693:

thank you its good to hear, and i was experimenting with arcane thievery and this is the slot that always gets changed in WvW portal, feedback, mantra of resolve, mimic, null field, arcane thievery i just cant decide they are all so good, what would you say is the best skill out of them for say a 1v5 situation?

they are all good skills, but depends on your enemys professions and builds.
Personally I don’t use mantras exept i run a full mantra build. Clearly universally usable is portal.

RedCobra.7693:

K U T M.4539:

The two 15% more damage for phants do stack.

I don’t see where you’re getting any surviveability at all from this build aside from some condi removal.

with permanant vigor and constant heals in a group fight with a good amount of stealth to rotate CD’s and break targeting, i found that you practicaly dont need any defense, the reason i have high VIT is for the damage bonus and a larger health pool for better healing

Those constant heals come from shattering, which your build probably isn’t doing much, as you’re stacking phant damage.

With this build it might be better to ditch the phantasms and go fully for shatters.

K U T M.4539:

RedCobra.7693:

K U T M.4539:

The two 15% more damage for phants do stack.

I don’t see where you’re getting any surviveability at all from this build aside from some condi removal.

with permanant vigor and constant heals in a group fight with a good amount of stealth to rotate CD’s and break targeting, i found that you practicaly dont need any defense, the reason i have high VIT is for the damage bonus and a larger health pool for better healing

Those constant heals come from shattering, which your build probably isn’t doing much, as you’re stacking phant damage.

With this build it might be better to ditch the phantasms and go fully for shatters.

well really i wanted only 25 in vit line for the 15% extra damage and larger health pool, however i thought i might aswell get the heals on shatter, i make use of all 4 shatter skills and use the shatters as part of a phantasm burst combo, ive had quite good responses actually on my burst combo ill have to upload a video what benefits could i get from going into shatter? would i have to go 30 in illusions?

edit: the constant heals come from the food tbh, the shatter heals are a bonus and are a large enough heal to be proc’d once in a while but in a typical 1v3 id use all 4 shatters giving about 5000 hp

whoops forgot to mention something :S i shatter the phantasms as it adds to a burst dps, i down the opponents a fight in one combo and can recycle the burst in about 15secs of playing defensively