Guild Wars 2

Hello all you Mesmer boys and girls!

After a while of theorycrafting and testing stuff out I am bringing out my new and improved Hybrid Mesmer build. I have personally found this build a lot of fun to play and it is incredibly effective in roaming and small scale fights. Kudos to the creators of the Blackwater and Maximised Hybrid Phatasm builds, Natsu and Blackdevil your builds worked as a good inspiration for my build.

The Build:
http://tinyurl.com/gw2mesmer2

Build-in-action:

#1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFs855cI1gg

Traits
10/30/30/0/0

Domination: V
-Crippling Dissipation: Keeping nearly permanent Cripple on your foes makes kiting and your fights much more easier.

Dueling: II,V,X
-Phantasmal Fury: Important for both raw phantasm damage and to keep those Bleed stacks up.
-Desperate Decoy: I chose this trait so I have more access to stealth and aegis/protection/regeneration.
-Deceptive Evasion: Extremely useful trait to keep your foes under constant condition pressure and to give you access to more powerful healing.

Chaos: V,VIII,XII
-Debilitating Dissipation: Again a must trait for the build, lets you clones explode into a rain of conditions.
-Bountiful Interruption: Combining this trait with my weapon sigils and GS #2 give you an average of 10+ Might stacks in combat.
-Prismatic Understanding: With 5 ways to gain access to stealth, this trait will give you a high uptime of both protection and regeneration. Also the Aegis is nice when you get lucky and block some massive attack.

Gear:
(Check build link for my gear distribution)

My gear is a mix of celestial,berserker,knight,rabid and cavalier pieces. I have fallen in love with the Superior runes of Traveler for the extra stats and boon duration that they give, and the 25% speed boost helps moving around a lot, out of combat ofc.

For weapon sigils I have chosen 2x Superior sigils of Battle and 1 Superior sigil of Bloodlust to keep my Might stacks up and with 45% boon duration high stacks are easy to obtain, if you have multiple weapons you can switch out Bloodlust for Earth or some other on-crit-prob Sigil when you get 25 stacks.

Ending rant:

All in all its an really fun and powerful build. I have made quite a few builds in the past for both Warriors and Guardians but I don’t think I’ve ever been so pleased as I am with this Mesmer.

But of course there must be some cons in all builds and this build has 2 aswell. First, no access to your own in-combat Swiftness, big issue for some people but I haven’t been bothered too much about it. Second, the build can be easily destroyed by enemy conditions if you don’t watch out for them. You are relying on your food buffs, stealth and staying at range to deal with conditions so don’t let any necros or other perplexity ppl sneak up on you!

Thanks for taking the time to read through my build stuff and if you have any questions or thoughts post them below!

-Lace