Guild Wars 2

I am currently a zerker mesmer and have been since the beginning of time. Lately it has been kind of boring and even more annoying when I play high fractals being a glass cannon (Dying in one hit to everything). I am looking to rebuild and retrait into a condition mesmer so any help/advice would be nice.

What level fractal are you playing? I think the current meta is actually go glass cannon at higher level fractals (30+) because there isn’t enough toughness and vitality in the world to face tank at that level.

The best defense at that level is to DPS stuff down quickly. I could be wrong tho, lets see what others have to say.

Stuff hits hard no matter your build. The importance is to not get hit.

I usually keep a mixed berry pie up (life steal on crit) and attack with GS from range. I get three illusions up, swap to swords, do Diversion for 20-25 stacks of Vulnerability, blurred frenzy, Mirror Images + Leap or Roll, Mind Wrack for burst. Then I use my dodges and block to stay in the fight until I can blurred frenzy again, disengage and switch to GS until my Diversion is back up.

For big groups of trash or things like the dredge sub boss I tend to stick with swords more for the more reliable AoE.

Forget about conditions, critshatter is our only viable dps build now.

Yeah I am doing fractals 20 to 26 for runs/dailies. Sometimes 30 if my friends are on (only have 25 AR -_-). You guys are doing the exact same thing I am doing, especially with the GS/Sword build and critchatter. I thought there would be some other build but I guess not T_T.

I like the condition build, however our most “viable condition” is confusion which doesn’t work that well in PvE as in PvP and WvW. Since Staff provides random conditions it’s hard to stack e.g bleed. Phantasm can be good source to stack bleed if you build precision/condition. But I’ve found lately that shatter is still more effective at killing things than condition. Somehow killing people even in pvp with confusion stacking isn’t working as good anymore (maybe people finally learned not to use skills when they are confused). Even if you decide for running a zerker build, I’d still probably run with a staff since it gives an good defensive tool.

Personally though I got bored of playing mesmer in PvE due to the limitation in build options. And it’s just not as fun in PvE as in PvP.