Guild Wars 2

Imagined Burden vs Mental Anguish vs Power Block

Which is best in which situations? Assuming a roaming WvW and PvP setting.

Currently Mental Anguish is the most popular choice. It helps you dish out the best burst damage, which is very helpful in this sustain meta. Because mesmer’s role is usually trying to quickly 2v1 or focus fire in team fight to take out one foe by surprise.

Mental Anguish for GS + S/T, Power Block for GS/Staff (but i also take CI here).
That’s how i do it and it works pretty well for me.

Power Block if I’m playing with Mantra of Distraction, mental anguish otherwise…

Mental Anguish for most situations, Power Block if you’re on an interrupt-heavy build.

Imagined Burden is cool, but not as great as it sounds in its tooltip. You don’t get as much Might out of it as it sounds, though the cripple can be nice in WvW sometimes. I’d still prefer one of the other two, though.

The best use I’ve found for Imagined Burden is making Teragriffs go all flippy-floppy during Silverwastes events.