I’ve given it no direction specifically to give me the option to adapt to each situation. Let me know what you think! As a disclaimer, I’m a thief main, and this build stealths more frequently than my thief… :x
If you already have celestial… sure something like that would work. Or some hot and saucy inspiration build.
I don’t know if I think about it right, but mesmers just don’t strike me as the Celestial type of profession. We have PVT, zerker, condi, and support builds… but generally very few (if any) that kind of do all at once. Staff Elementalists, for example, swap from one role to another depending on their attunement. Mesmers: no such mechanic.
If you pick celestial, I just can’t t hink of a build that’ll give you huge benefits in power damage, condi damage, healing/boons, and toughness/vit all at the same time and be significantly more useful than one that’s even a tinier bit more specialized. Personally, I’d recommend a power/prec build with a solid mix of toughness/vit gear to balance it out. For WvW, at least.
If you already have celestial… sure something like that would work. Or some hot and saucy inspiration build.
I don’t know if I think about it right, but mesmers just don’t strike me as the Celestial type of profession. We have PVT, zerker, condi, and support builds… but generally very few (if any) that kind of do all at once. Staff Elementalists, for example, swap from one role to another depending on their attunement. Mesmers: no such mechanic.
If you pick celestial, I just can’t t hink of a build that’ll give you huge benefits in power damage, condi damage, healing/boons, and toughness/vit all at the same time and be significantly more useful than one that’s even a tinier bit more specialized. Personally, I’d recommend a power/prec build with a solid mix of toughness/vit gear to balance it out. For WvW, at least.
In trying to stay away from crit damage right now until I know the full extent of the nerfs it will suffer. Aside from that, I just got a celestial box and chose the staff because I like its looks on my mes xP
Just in small scale testing, you can VERY easily maintain 20-25 stacks of might with this build, then pass it on to your allies with Signet of Inspiraton while keeping up high pressure with confusion flying everywhere.
Would like to have your thoughs about it, need to know if it will be very usefull in very high lvl fractal or if the kitten full berserker set is mandatory…
Stun way is being “fixed” soon, if not the Tuesday update. There was a “bug” causing the Chaos Storm to stun more often with the Confounding Suggestions trait active.
But for me, I’ve always used defensive stats such as Soldier, Sentinel, Cleric, Magi etc. For staff
Sorry for the typos….
I’m usually typing on my phone
Mediocre AA damage
A good retreat spell that, but still a retreat spell you won’t probably use
Very conditional phantasm (must have conditions, scales to power, the attack can miss)
Chaos armor for you only
Chaos Storm is good but a Guardian is x1000 better for support.
Sorry for the typos….
I’m usually typing on my phone
Im not speaking about dealings tons of damage. Im speakin about being usefull for my team with this build, sharing boons, doing a decent dps thanks to conditions.
Can you check my entire build and not only focusing on the “staff part” please ?
Would like to have your thoughs about it, need to know if it will be very usefull in very high lvl fractal or if the kitten full berserker set is mandatory…
Thanks !
That’s a build I wouldn’t want on my team in a high level fractal, especially as a Mesmer.
You lack any access to reflects, which is really bad, and you’re close to 0 damage potential. You have low everything…power, precision, condition damage…
In high level fractals, the reasons that the zerker meta is a thing are exacerbated. Mobs hit so hard that any and all defense is completely useless. You will squish even if you’re full pvt with a defender out. This means that the only defense that matters is avoidance/ prevention with dodges and reflects. Additionally, the best defense is killing things faster. Your build fails to support in any relevant way for high level fractals.
So this game is selling a multi possibilities of building your char. But at the end, as a mesmer u have only one way to gear and to build : full zerker with reflect tools.
