Guild Wars 2

I like to go WvW alot, my mesmer isn’t quite geared to the fullest but would just like to hear some opinions. I mostly do a lot of small scale battles but occasionally I might find myself in the 40v40 battles. Maybe a little bit of 1v1 here and there as well.

I like to use staff as one of my weapons (not necessarily using it all the time) and a sword/focus most of the time. What do you guys think would be the most effective build based upon what I have explained above?

Focus on the smale scale battles. The large zerg-fights most people aren’t specced specifically for them, so just worry about the fights where the stats matter.

Using that knowledge, I don’t know what you run in small-scale, so it’s still up to you.

i dont think you understood my question

Fine, if you want an answer directly relating to the question you asked, instead of exercising individuality: Go Berserker’s with that setup. If you have trouble surviving with Berserker armor, use Valkyrie weapons for a tad more survivability. Otherwise, just go full Berserker’s.

Happy?

Well, to answer your question is not easy. It really much depends on your play style. But judging from how I play, I would say go hybrid. I mean I am geared rampager exotics and carrion + berserker ascended (for there is no rampager ascended). This gives you a high crit. chance (and combined with the right sigils, that’s amazing). Also, with at least traited 15 points in dueling, you can use any weapon with a great effect. I am using Sword/Pistol, dealing nice condition and burst dmg. But the other set, I always have problems to decide, so I sometimes go for GS and sometimes go for Staff. It is up to you. If you want to spike burst ur opponents down, I would go for burst, thus gearing berserker armor. If you want to ignore opponents armor, go for condition dmg, but be ready for long fights. Here I’d suggest carrion gear. But if you wanna do it like me, meaning going for a sustained dmg for the main duration of the fight, and then suddenly leap forward and shatter your foe down, then rampager is the best I guess.

Of course, this is only how I see it. But I feel to be a fairly strong mesmer (not the best of course) with my hybrid dmg build. I am very glassy, so I need a lot of awareness on the battlefield. So after a long day at work and not much power to concentrate left, I die a lot even in 1v1 fights.

ty for all your opinions, all I am doing is gathering opinions from people and making my own decision from there. whether people say burst, cnd or hybrid just gives me a general direction of where I want to build. doesn’t necessarily mean I will go all out glass cannon of either build. i’ve already decided I want to add a bit of toughness into my build and know how I want to trait myself. I’ve done a little testing (not a whole lot) but it doesn’t hurt to know what other people think and where they are at with their builds

They are all viable, it all depends on how you want to play your mesmer.

I really like my hybrid mesmer, i also run staff/s+focus.
It’s not as awesome as a glass cannon burst mesmer in taking out people in duels or small gang fights, but it gets the job done.
I got a whole lot of different gears slapped together, adding up to about 1800power, 1700 prec, 1400T, 1600 vit, 500 cond.
Choosing different sigils, runes and foods gives you even more variaty to play with.

I find that it makes my mesmer very versatile, you won’t drop dead in seconds in bigger zerg fights like a glass cannon, you can hold your own in a duel, and you shine extremely well in small gang fights.
It is still a work in progress though, collecting laurels for ascended stuff and gathering gold for better sigils and runes atm

The best thing is to try a setup, look for synergies between everything you have and tinker with it to improve your build. You may die many times but you will learn and become better.