Guild Wars 2

Hi all,

First post so be nice

I am brand new to GW2 (Not MMO’s though) and Mesmer is my first character. I am only level 20 so far so have limited knowledge of the game but in my downtime I have been reading a few of the Mesmer guides and I am not quite sure they cover what I am after. I am one of those who needs to know the destination in order to enjoy the journey.

So this starts with a build, based on the current Chronomancer powers as shown on the gw2skills editor .

The specific build I have come up with is designed around rapid creation of illusions (Not planning to let them to much fighting so clone / phantasm doesn’t matter much to me) and shattering them as soon as possible, feeding them non-stop at the enemy in order to cause damage and inflict multiple conditions (Single shatters deal less damage than multiple shatters, but damager per illusion is higher so I will keep them to singles and doubles mostly).

I have gone with Sword / Sword for general use and melee survivability, with Staff for range and improving condition generation.

The specific build I have picked is Chronomancer / Domination / Illusions with Illusionary Reversion (A skill that I scarcely believe to be real) allowing for a constant stream of illusions for shattering. I could probably go with Leap > Swordsman > Continuum shift > Diversion > Frustration > Continuum shift flips back > Diversion > Frustration > Leap > Swordsman > Signet of Ether > Swordsman > Mind Wrack .

Is this feasible / useful? Have I missed anything that would improve this style?

Also: Why did the word kitten end up in my post?

Edit: Silly me I missed out that this is to be a PvE build and will probably be open world and pug dungeons. I doubt I will ever get to raid etc.

You should look into Shatter builds, (Albeit, they don’t have Chronomancy in them as it’s not released yet),
They’re pretty much exactly what you’re describing, and yes, they are viable.

They are, in fact, one of the most viable builds we’ve had, and a staple for our profression since launch.

With that said, they usually take the Dueling line for Deceptive Evasion. The clone generation from that is unmatched for shatter builds, it’s less required for other builds.

If I were to theorycraft Chronomancer shatter builds (I haven’t played any BWE’s yet for hands-on experience), I’d recommend Chrono/Dom/Dueling instead of Illusions. The most important part of the Illusion specialization used to be Illusionary Persona, which is now just something you get automatically.

PS: “Kitten” is the word Anet censores everything with. Somewhere in your post you typed something their swearing-filter caught. And yes, it is incredibly obtrusive and will flag words that you had absolutely no intention of being vulgar.

Chronomancer / Domination / Illusions was something I was toying around with during the last test. Though I used different weapons/utilities and varied on the traits it still relied on Illusionary Reversion to keep a steady supply of clones up for shattering.

Unfortunatly they listened to forum whine by people who have no idea how the game actually works and in the next test Illusionary Reversion has been made less then useless, it now only gives you a clone when you have shattered two illusions. Hopefully they realise this and revert it but Mesmer has a bad track record of having traits killed with kneejerk nerfs and them being left like that for years.