Guild Wars 2

Good morning Mesmer community,

So, for those of us who are pretty much being assigned to Portal duty full-time with a short leash to roam around the places were are currently undergoing Siege at – are you still running Shatteresque builds for this?

I ask because being able to portal bomb effectively can turn the tide of a siege in a matter of moments – and if this is the role I’m being used for – would it be better to build Toughness/Vit gear and Traits or perhaps just Toughness/Vit gear and keep the Shatter builds play style in tact?

Anytime I run a build without Illusionary Persona I feel naked, literally. The ability is so strong I never want to take it off. . but the current state of Siege I feel that I’m barely able to do anything beyond pulling people off of walls, some buffing with staff… but my main function is portaging successfully.

When it comes time to clear people from areas in small groups, I feel Shatter shines brightly. Huge AoE damage in a short burst and quick escape and evasiveness is great for hit and run.. but most of the time I’m not really doing that.

Is anyone else lumped into this role as Mesmer and how are you handling your contribution in WvW as part of a large group/team?

I still anticipate some changes to the portal thing. It places a weird strategic emphasis on one class over all others.

I get stuck with portal duty pretty often and don’t mind too much. I’ve got a set of Knight’s gear and swap out my utilities for portal, blink, decoy, and mass invisibility. The Mirror heal is pretty great too; 1s of immunity can be a life saver.

I’d say do it when folks ask, but I would never commit a whole set of expensive gear to it without a lot of financial support from my guild.

I’m pretty handy the rest of the time. Speed buffs, catching stragglers, pulling people off walls, and Feedback… all immensely useful and fun. I still giggle every time I plow a Berserker through a group of fleeing enemies.

Idd, we have alot of neat smal tricks to enjoy a siege. Still what it al come down to is that we have a skill that is so uttrely imortant to a siege that what ever dmg we do with other skills or feedbacks or even the glamour condition dmg build playing it worth nothing in compare.

Noting we can do and not alot others can do is as impprtant as to get supply runs soprted into a sieged tower by transport 10 runners in carrying supply. We are the only class that can make it possible to in a smoth way get a train of supply for repair a braking door/ wall or get siege equipment built. Our portal bombing of enemy sige equipment is also totaly amazing for a siege and can turn he whole battle.

When im not needed for any of this 2 I usualy get reflection on disorsion up, find a nie pack of ranged enemys, hit a chaos field on them and a Azura radiation field. when they get a little lower on hp I throw. feedback bubble and wait 2 sec as tfhey take a lottle dmg and move out. Often they now keep shoot so I do a sneeky 4 sec reflection on myself with a mirror immage and a dodge clone. I also use gs in sieges as it can be effective. Sill rhis is minor things compared to other services we can do for our team.

Yeah, I’m just aiming to perform my role at maximum efficiency. I think I will carry some cheap Knight/Valk gear to swap in and out depending on what’s going on to make sure I can get to the designated portal spot every time. Even with my Berserker mix at the moment I can stay alive (longer then most, and I’m leading the portal bomb) and make it to safety again if we’re pushing out of a wall.

I was running Decoy, Blink, Portal, Mass Invis during Portaling.. I’d swap out Blink or Portal for Feedback/Null Field for choke points – and for open point taking I’d go Blink/Mirror Images or Mirror Images/Decoy.

I’m running a variation of the shatter build with … not great gear. Working on finding good farming spots for craft materials and drops.

I carry GS/Focus – but mainly run with Sword/Pistol and Staff primary unless running supplies or hitting from range.

So for the most part I guess the build doesn’t matter quite as much – I’ll grab some cheap defensive gear but continue for focus on getting exotic Berserker’s with some defensive trinkets to start and I can swap around based on what position I find myself in at the current moment.

At this point in time – does anyone find it worth it to spend Karma on exotic gear or do you feel waiting until they release more WvW rewards and spending karma on them would be more benefecial – or neither?

karmas only purpose is to be spent, either on your legendary or your karma exotic set if you don’t want a legendary