Guild Wars 2

I loved this build, it was so much fun but now I’m not sure what to do with it.
I used this build for WvW and I use full berserk for PvE/Dungeons.

I have full rabid armor, weapons and accessories. Traits were 20-0-0-20-30
Is there anything I can do with this set anymore or should I just salvage it.

Not sure what build to use for WvW anymore, might have to switch to thief.

I have found a lot of success today splitting my gear between Rabid and Knights today. Adding some power back into the set while keeping some condition damage for Sharper Images, Staff attacks, confusions with Cry and Sigils of Earth and you can find a good balance. I am running Staff with Sword and Torch/Focus.

Try not to get rid of your old equipment maybe one day the strait condition mesmer will be viable again. Doubt it but I am hopeful.

There are two builds for the mesmer,
berserker
rabid

Berserker offers direct take-down dmg and you depend on blurred frenzy/distortion/clones/stealth/reflect to keep you alive.

Rabid relied on condition dmg for slow build up to rapid degening for killing and offered decent armor rating, a short teleport, distortion, clones,stealth,reflect, protection boon for survivability.

Phase Retreat/protection (staff) and Toughness(rabid) is what make condition mesmers so much harder to kill then a berserker mesmer. So you might consider taking staff and either GS or sword/focus for swap set and mixing knights/cavalier gear for Toughness, power, precision/crit dmg.

Bleed and burning still do some dmg (~half that of someone running 2k condition dmg) but you chaos storm is where you might notice a significant increase using something other then rabid gear. Chaos storms most significant source of dmg is not through conditions, but through attack dmg and its not so subtle. Its kinda silly that it benefits more from berserker gear then rabid making it awkward for a staff skill.

I was running my Rabid build (0/30/25/0/15, Melandru runes) Staff + Scepter/Pistol and it was fun.

I just put a thread up you should have a look at.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/Converting-from-Full-Confusion-to-Power/first#post1937451

I’m keeping my rabid set for the time being, in case of confusion skills/traits/weapons being reworked (we should expect this).

Hi ppl, im in same situation, rabid gear, with undead runes, now i change traits and build, using zerker, 20/20/20/0/10, its fun, lots of dmg, ah and im running GS/STAFF, 2 problems i got, condi removal and lack of speed for escape, when im focus i died quick, what do you think using this traits but with the rabid gear, right now phantasm do lot of dmg and clones bleeds. Do you think that could work?

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Hi ppl, im in same situation, rabid gear, with undead runes, now i change traits and build, using zerker, 20/20/20/0/10, its fun, lots of dmg, ah and im running GS/STAFF, 2 problems i got, condi removal and lack of speed for escape, when im focus i died quick, what do you think using this traits but with the rabid gear, right now phantasm do lot of dmg and clones bleeds. Do you think that could work?

Using my rabid, I’ve come right back around to this. Build through link.