Guild Wars 2

Hey guys!
I come here for a little bit of help as I am coming close to 80 on my first character.

I was hoping someone with more experience could tell me what would work for me. I have searched builds on Google but GW2 changes so much over time I don’t think they’d work as intended. Currently I’m reading the Mesmer guide over here.

I’ll tell you a bit of myself, for a start.

• I don’t plan on going omg-i’m-da-best mesmer. Let’s just say I play to have fun, not to be the best.

• My connection isn’t the best. It’s not that it’s laggy either, but builds that focus on really good timing are not good for me.

• I mostly play along (sometimes I PvE alone) a Dagger/Dagger // Shortbow Thief. He focuses on critical damage. I wouldn’t mind supporting him, I just don’t really know how. iDefender works on him too?

I’m interested in dungeons (haven’t done any yet) and WvWvW (Once I hit 80, I’ll mostly stay with a group). I don’t know how Fractals work yet but I guess I would try.

As for weapons, I have always used GW and Staff. I don’t have a preference for weapons, I like most except Scepter.

Of what I have tried, what I found the most fun (in PvE) was having Deceptive Evasion, Crippling Dissipation and overwriting clones. I don’t really use Shatters.

Blink is a must have for me, especially for keeping up with my thief friend.

I look for a bit of survivability (could be stats, utility or traits. If it helps my friend too, even better) and mobility. I don’t know what’s required for dungeons and/or fractals but it would be nice to be useful.

Of course, I wouldn’t mind switching major traits or having another set of weapons for, say, pvp.

Thanks in advance to anyone who cared enough to read. Any tips also help.

PD: quick question: What does PU stand for? Does it have to do with Stealth?

Hey!

It looks pretty decent!

Here’s what I would do:
-Swap out either blade training or duelist’s discipline for Phantasmal fury. (I would swap out duelist’s discipline as blade training = lower invulnerability cool down. (Blurred frenzy). )
-Don’t run deceptive evasion. (Many a time you will have 3 phantasms up, especially now with the new signet heal, so you don’t want to overwrite them with clones when you dodge.)
-Look into empowering illusions (Adept major trait in Domination) for an extra +15% damage on illusions!
-Take away shattered conditions, simply because if you’re playing a phantasm build, you generally don’t want to shatter them.
-Use Berserker weapons (the little bit of vitality and toughness from soldier weapons won’t really make that big a difference since you’re full zerk armor anyway.)
-Change one of your sigils on each of your weapon sets. (On crit sigils share an internal cool down and do not stack.)

I myself run 10/20/0/25/15 for PvE, with all the illusion-boost-centric traits.

Hey there!

You could try out a Phantasm build for PvE. It’s easy to use, arguably the highest dps and since you rely on your phantasms for damage, you won’t have to shatter or really worry about timing (except the basics like dodging and damage mitigation of course).

In terms of PvE, conditions are in a pretty bad place at the moment, so go for power. The power phantasms are the Swordsman, Duelist, Warlock, Warden and Berserker. Swordsman, Duelist and Warlock deal high single target dps, and Warden and Berserker deal mediocre AoE dps. Warden, when traited, also reflects projectiles (and nullifies them when not traited), which is invaluable in most dungeons, especially fractals.

The current meta is full zerker gear for dungeons. This means no survivability on your gear at all. It might seem a little risky, but it’s not difficult at all once you’re used to it. For weapons, I personally have every single weapon in my inventory (mostly using sword/focus and sword/sword) to swap to as needed. Elitists hate Mesmers who use Greatswords in dungeons (due to it having low dps), but if you’re playing with a casual group of friends, it’s not much of an issue.

PU stands for Prismatic Understanding (Chaos XII). It increases the duration of our stealth skills by 1 second and gives us a random boon (regeneration, aegis or protection) for every second we are in stealth.

Thanks for answering!

Here’s what I came up with: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fgEQRAsa8dlwzipHWzhGa9IxpHRf5THlCs79SK4duB-jACBofFRjmCEg2I0EJQZmFRjtSqIas6aYKXER1A-e

I’ve tried to maximize phantasm damage while also trying to be a bit supportive. I’d swap traits/weapons if I have to. I might change Duelist’s Discipline to DecEv or DespDec. I’m not too much worried about my own damage because hanging out with a Thief on PvE is quite enough.

What do you think? Is this a solid build?

Thanks!

Ah! Now I get it! Thanks for all your help!
I’ll try the build out, and hope to be a decent mesmer

Again, thank you!