Guild Wars 2

I can try to give you some help with your mesmer. My best suggestion to solve your speed issue is to invest into 6 superior runes of centaur. They give you a nice boost to your speed.

My build is a shatter, however much different than the one you described. To start I went with GS/Staff. I love the staff and the GS. At first many think there isn’t a great synergy between the two.

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There is a mistake in this link is that deceptive evasion (in precision 20 pt) wasn’t able to be listed so I filled it with deceptive decoy.

The thing being with this build is that despite it looking like a glass cannon, it is rather very stable in both wvw and dungeons. I haven’t pvp’d with it.

The GS benefits from power and can create a very healthy amount of clones for shatter. The GS summons both the clones and the phantasms close to the target so they are good for doing insta bombing with them. This is mainly for mind wrack although cry of frustration isn’t terrible with it too.

My crit rate is around 45% and my crit damage is around 56% I will look later to see what my condition damage is not super high but not super low. I put a sigil of corruption on my staff to allow me to add an addition 250 condition damage to it.

I do very healthy amounts of damage.

I survive using the GS defensively to keep distance but if my pushback is not up then switch to staff and then lay down chaos storm, bounce out forming chaos armor, and get some more clones up and also have a second chaos armor up and ready. The GS is a long range weapon which helps in WvW.

Dodge is your friend as it gives you more clones.

If you ever need some help or assistance on this build or have more questions please do not hesitate to contact me. I will link gear and talk about how I do things.

My mesmer’s name is Psycho Somatica and I am on Isle of Janthir.

Don’t give up mesmer is not weak and we might not be the top spike DPS but trust me I am rarely on the ground so it is stable DPS with very decent DPS.

Why I hate my mesmer:

Illusions do not spawn if your target dodges/blocks/blinds you making it very easy to shut down a mesmer. Mesmer the only class with multi-hitting/aoe attacks that simply do not occur due to a single blind/block/dodge.

Non-shatter builds have been nerfed into the ground.

I strongly disagree with the decent DPS part. If a person dies that’s a l2p issue.

PvE you can’t add anything into a party that another class can’t do better other than time warp.

Aberrant.6749:

PvE you can’t add anything into a party that another class can’t do better other than time warp.

See, this is the wrong thinking.

If you think about it like that, then Mesmers are always useless.

The way you want to think to be useful is:

There isn’t anything that you can do that I can’t do.

Boom, suddenly, you’re at the top of the utility and a HUGE asset to all PvE groups.
I have only 1 level 80 and if I were to make another one, it would only be for more dailies.

Esplen.3940:

Aberrant.6749:

PvE you can’t add anything into a party that another class can’t do better other than time warp.

See, this is the wrong thinking.

If you think about it like that, then Mesmers are always useless.

The way you want to think to be useful is:

There isn’t anything that you can do that I can’t do.

Boom, suddenly, you’re at the top of the utility and a HUGE asset to all PvE groups.
I have only 1 level 80 and if I were to make another one, it would only be for more dailies.

Dailies are by account and not by char.

Kazhiel.8194:

Esplen.3940:

Aberrant.6749:

PvE you can’t add anything into a party that another class can’t do better other than time warp.

See, this is the wrong thinking.

If you think about it like that, then Mesmers are always useless.

The way you want to think to be useful is:

There isn’t anything that you can do that I can’t do.

Boom, suddenly, you’re at the top of the utility and a HUGE asset to all PvE groups.
I have only 1 level 80 and if I were to make another one, it would only be for more dailies.

Dailies are by account and not by char.

Fractal dailies are by char and not account. Additionally, there are jumping puzzle dailies and a few other uses of having more than 1 80.