Guild Wars 2

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fhAQJARWlknpRtFpxMNcrNCrBh6sslfSyBEgSmhrB-TJxHABas/AAXCgiKD87TAAA

It works for me.

This would be a Maim shatter, and yes celestial has had some success on it.

As someone that has run every Maim build I can imagine, even several without DE, I’ll give my thoughts on my time running a very, very similar build…

By biggest issues with Celestial here is:

1) The lack of healing power usage. You get it with your heal skill, and then only with Chaos Armor (for about 10s every 35s, assuming you use combo field). You can improve upon that with moving those points from Domination to Choas/Inspiration, but then you are losing that damage.

2) The utilities needing to make 20 Domination work. W/o Torch, I’m going to need Decoy. For Maim, I’m going to really want MI. And a condition cleanse is pretty much mandatory for a sustain build. At the end of the day, there is no room for Blink and I find that a dealbreaker.

3) I really didn’t gain anything from Celestial in terms of survivability in this setup. My toughness was lower, but I gained 4K health. However, that I lose Illusionary Membrane, DD, Metaphysical Rejuv, and greater Chaos Storm uptime from a Rabid/Chaos Maim build.

Celestial works on mesmer! …so does using rabid in a power build.

You can kill stuff but there are much better options as you’re not using all the stats. I’ve had so many ideas with celestial, might stacking via interrupts, taking advantage of healing via signet ect, but in the end, Supcutie tried it all out already and he just says it simply doesn’t work due to not using all the stats effectively which in the end I also convinced myself.
Maim wise, it is an interesting concept but against decent players it won’t work too well. It’s a very sloppy build to play. I won’t go into details as I know so many people have posted here why it is sloppy. I’d love a condi shatter build, but it just doesn’t work as good as it should be to be worth running.
In conclusion:
Celestial mesmer -> no.
Maim -> no.

Do you guys think celestial scepter-PU could work in wvw? Something like this:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fhAQRAra7flknpRtFpxMNcrNCuxY6JWIiTGTNlMgfB-T1RHwAfV/pwTAI9+DNV+1V/QdlgAOJAkCAmxAA-w

I would drop torch and use Staff to get one additional interrupt (sword off hand would also work for nice interrupts). Then I would take Chaos VIII over Chaos IV (so you get might on interrupt) and drop cleanse mantra for mantra of distraction (so you have 2 interrupts more, the condie cleanse is really not needed, especially if you change your heal to mirror images). This way you could have nice might stacking to make celestrial work better… in the end I would drop PU for CI… and you would have a nice condition damage might stacking lockdown build. And if they are not locked down, they will take confusion and torment dmg… it’s a win win for you^^

Jurica.1742:

Celestial works on mesmer! …so does using rabid in a power build.

You can kill stuff but there are much better options as you’re not using all the stats. I’ve had so many ideas with celestial, might stacking via interrupts, taking advantage of healing via signet ect, but in the end, Supcutie tried it all out already and he just says it simply doesn’t work due to not using all the stats effectively which in the end I also convinced myself.
Maim wise, it is an interesting concept but against decent players it won’t work too well. It’s a very sloppy build to play. I won’t go into details as I know so many people have posted here why it is sloppy. I’d love a condi shatter build, but it just doesn’t work as good as it should be to be worth running.
In conclusion:
Celestial mesmer -> no.
Maim -> no.

Most players won’t reach a level where Maim ceases to be viable.