Guild Wars 2

As the title says, is mesmer viable when balancing damage between crit/power/condition (not to confuse with balance between off/def). This is the build I will try out:

http://gw2skills.net...HbOuck5sEZIy0CA

The point is to be able to do decent damage from multiple sources rather than rely mainly on condition damage or raw damage. There is a focus on shatters, though.

You get bleed damage from Sharper Images, which should do some decent damage with 869 condition damage (though iDuelist would propably be better at stacking bleeds, but I really like the focus and its great against ranged projectiles with feedback trait and helps with kiting against melee). The staff + staff clones also benefits from the condition damage.

At the same time, there is some decent, though not high, power which can give some burst with mind wrack and decent damage with sword attacks so they wont be totally useless.

I would love to hear any thoughts on this, not just my suggestion for a build, but the balancing out of damage between different sources? Does it work?

It works but you need to have a build that includes automatic procs and multiple damage sources.

SI Shatter is basically the “hybrid damage” build.