Condi Mesmer
Two, mainly. There’s Condition PU and Condition Shatter.
Condi PU tends to use on-clone-death traits, thus Debilitating Dissipation and Deceptive Evasion are usually a must-have, thus x/4/6, to give you the clone generation and the damage. I’m not very knowledgeable about this beyond that point. This is a passive style. This tends to have more survivability than other mesmer builds due to the constant stealth plus the boons it gives, along with the lack of multiple stats being used to max damage.
Condi Shatter is more active, usually revolving around Maim the Disillusioned trait to make each shatter a condition-bomb of Torment and Confusion, both of which can turn into high-damaging and bursty damage sources if the opponent can’t deal with them. This means the set-up is x/4/x/x/6 to get both DE and MtD. This build tends to be more tanky than Power Shatter given it doesn’t need numerous stats to maximize the damage. I find this extremely pleasant, as I can usually get 10-11 stacks of confusion and/or 6-12 stacks of Torment up consistently and constantly for lots of punishment.
And condition CI.
I tend to like nightmare runes now and reluctantly take MoD because it’s too useful even though I don’t like it.
Strong build although lacks the ability to emit any serious burst – but instead it can easily make a huge difference in a teamfight and also hold a point reasonably well (only semi bunker tbh – need to still kite around).
Edit – I would say it works best if you have one or two coordinated serious dps glass cannon teammates – because that build excels in control which makes it easy for your team to burst others down.
(edited by Curunen.8729)
Stay away from PU and you’ll be fine. Also you might find this useful
Yeah, you’ve got PU conditions, Maim shatter, condition CI, and now and then you’ll see crit-phantasm builds that are built for conditions. Generally speaking, PU is more defensive, Maim is more offensive, CI is more utility based, and crit phantasm builds are sorta odd.
Any of these can work quite well in PvP, you just need to both be good at playing them and understand what role you play on them.
There’s also the signet condi build that countless runs.
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