Guild Wars 2

Im not quite convinced, that going cele is worth it but lets entertain the idea for now.
Since i haven’t found a build for it yet this is what i came up with.
Im quite unsure about the utilities.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vhAQNAseWnknBlph1fCufCEgilnj6sACgDr+PP0FFdCasGA-TVyCABA8AAU4IAcoSwOV/5LlfLv/gg6Do4QAIxJAgMA+rB-w

Any idea, help and critics are very welcome

Bump. So far is has proven to be pretty effective in some WvW duels and in the PvE jungle. Its quite hard to kill with heals on every shatter and reduced shatter cd+ alacrity. Also you get lots of block/ invul and chaos armor uptime. This build might even be able to bunker points in SPvP with some adjustment for runes etc. The damage of course isn’t over the top but you can get some pretty nice might and confusion stacks going.
(I mainly want this to work because i like sword so much better than scepter xD)

I think this suffers a bit from not really focusing on 1 target.

You’re a bit all over the place in an attempt to tank/sustain + deal condi damage, but also wanting to use chrono and its shield. While also not providing any real support to your teammates.

You don’t have the capability of bursting one person down, and you’re not providing a whole lot to anyone other than well of precog/gravity well.

My question is, how dedicated are you to that chrono line?

You could swap out Chrono for Chaos, grabing your defensive trait in the first one, the condi damage increase in the second one, and for grand master you could grab bountiful disillusionment.

Then use torch instead. Take null field and decoy. And swap Mental Defense for Temporal Enchanter.

This would make you a pretty powerful bunker, with quite a bit of support for your teammates as well, on top of having stability for yourself on your shatters.

You could also swap out that on kill condition damage buff sigil for something else, not sure what. Perhaps another energy sigil.

Torch also provides pulse fury, which is pretty sweet for your team.

If you don’t like that idea, I’d consider not running condi outside of sigils and switching to a greatsword build instead. Focusing a bit more on damage through a Phantasm build.

I tried a few times to come up with a celestial build, but it’s difficult. Illusion is great for might stacking, but the fact that it competes with Maim is sad since the torment ends up being a large part of your condi shatter.

The best I found was a mantra interrupt dueling/chaos/inspiration. The interrupts provided the might as well as some nice util (immob). I had boonshare, so after a series of successful interrupts, I could share my might. Scepter/pistol-staff.
I had no condi on shatters, but my shatters were mostly defensive. My damage was from my weapons (scepter and pistol are quite strong in hybrid builds).
Main problem of the build… recharging the mantras.

Thank you for your replies!

Yea this is specificly with chrono and shield. Honestly i think its one of the best mesmer weapons for a cele bunker’ish builds despite having no condis. In the same vein that cele engis now run arround with Hammers.

So today i did a bit of testing in SPvP with berserker runes and its also rather nice there.
With the chrono line and good illusion generation on the weapon sets you can basicly shatter all the time (shattering while you block is great!). And well of precogiting is basicly one of the best utility skills ever. So many uses! Wells in general suit coquest rather well, and are ok’ish in stronghold.

With heals on shattering and shield blocks and distortion on my sword and well of precognition and even my f4 in a pinch + the insane ammounts of cc wells and shield give, i was able to comfortably hold out 2v1’s and even 3v1’s.
You can even kill peole pretty fast when you bait their stunbreaks and then lock them down.

All in all i’d say its a cele build with above average bunkering, maybe even above average dueling and below average support. (distortion share, healshares, wells, cc, and alacrity)
Maybe the healing well for more support?