Guild Wars 2

Got my mesmer to 80 via crafting, never actually played it (Went back to my Warrior) and now I’m looking for a pretty easy build for mostly FoTM/CoF. Is it just a typical zerker build with certain weapons or is it completely different from the braindead ease that is my Warrior?

Depends on what tou want to do. Damage? Boon support? Heal?

Just doing damage is the easiest, and for that i recommend a 0/10/0/25/0 build with a greatsword and sword. Direct damage will work, you van change some berserker pieces for knighr/cavalier/soldier if you have trouble surviving.

The playstyle will be: do damage, nothing special, really.

Sounds good, and I’ve been running full berserker on my warrior and standing in crap to use 100B, dying comes easy to me, so.. That’ll work.

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I’d highly recommend watching some youtube before doing CoF or fractals though, normally if the mesmer doesn’t do what they’re meant to do in those dungeons a group can just fall apart so you need to do your part properly.

With 0/20/0/25/25 phantasm though you can basically drop phantasms and fall asleep, it’s not too skill intensive though it’s probably the best dungeon build we have.

Cof p1 is faceroll easy though :o.

And you can start with low level fractals to learn, before going to the higher ones.

Also, i recommend joining this guild . Its like an exstension of the forums, so if you ever need help in game you can whisper someone, and they’ll be happy to help! :’D. No representing required!

@Colesy, thats a really good build too. The 20 illusions gives 100% projectile reflection uptime. I personally prefer 10/10/0/25/25, for empowered illusions.

I’ve done up to 14 in FoTM so I know all the mechanics, and dropping phantasms and falling asleep? Is that with Sword/Something or Greatsword? I really like the legendary greatswords..

Losing 10 in dueling means giving up pistol traiting (and 12 second phantasmal duelist cooldown) and a loss of 100 precision when our crit chance is already pretty poor.

I’ve done up to 14 in FoTM so I know all the mechanics, and dropping phantasms and falling asleep? Is that with Sword/Something or Greatsword? I really like the legendary greatswords..

Sword/sword and sword/pistol. Swap out off-hand sword for focus when pulls and reflects are needed.

Greatswords are pretty bad on mesmers.

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This is what I use. I have had no issues with any element of the game and I’ve been pretty much using this build (or a slight variation of it back in the 20/20/0/25/5 days) since the start of the game.

Keep in mins that pistol is a single target weapon.

In most dungeons and fractals youll want as much aor as possible.

We have 2 aoe phantasms:

1. berserker on the greatsword
2. warden on the focus
   The focus also carries the utility of protecting the whole party from projectiles, which is amazing :D. More often than not in dungeons, youll want these weapons equipped. For boss fights, feel free to use pistol/sword or somehing.

No matter how you play your mesmer, if you don’t use your reflections right, you’re doing it wrong.

Know how to use Feedback and Focus – thats one big step (maybe THE big step).

In most dungeons and fractals youll want as much aoe as possible

No you don’t.

You want as much single target as posible, and then you slot in focus for when AOE is needed which normally consists of trash mobs that melt in seconds. That way you can cleave three targets with warden and then cleave three more with your main hand sword.

What this means, is that AOE becomes more relevant in Fractals where they made it practically impossible to skip mobs, but in regular dungeons you hardly need AOE at all since it’s just skip-boss-skip-boss-skip-boss-collect loot.

colesy.8490:

In most dungeons and fractals youll want as much aoe as possible

No you don’t.

You want as much single target as posible, and then you slot in focus for when AOE is needed which normally consists of trash mobs that melt in seconds. That way you can cleave three targets with warden and then cleave three more with your main hand sword.

What this means, is that AOE becomes more relevant in Fractals where they made it practically impossible to skip mobs, but in regular dungeons you hardly need AOE at all since it’s just skip-boss-skip-boss-skip-boss-collect loot.

Oh, well i dont skip things, because i just dont see the point of doing supposedly fun content for the sake of loot.

I feel like im in an extreme minority here…

Loot, loot, loot >_<

Molch and colesy are definitly right. Focus on phantasm damage, aoe if you can and reflection.

Go 20/20/0/30/0 or 10/30/0/30/0. You can do your own build but you NEED 10/15/0/25/0. There are the best skills like 2x +15% phantasm damage and bleed on crit aswell phantasm perma fury.

Alissah.9281:

colesy.8490:

In most dungeons and fractals youll want as much aoe as possible

No you don’t.

You want as much single target as posible, and then you slot in focus for when AOE is needed which normally consists of trash mobs that melt in seconds. That way you can cleave three targets with warden and then cleave three more with your main hand sword.

What this means, is that AOE becomes more relevant in Fractals where they made it practically impossible to skip mobs, but in regular dungeons you hardly need AOE at all since it’s just skip-boss-skip-boss-skip-boss-collect loot.

Oh, well i dont skip things, because i just dont see the point of doing supposedly fun content for the sake of loot.

I feel like im in an extreme minority here…

Loot, loot, loot >_<

When you’ve run a dungeon enough times, you realise killing silvers that drop porous bones is a complete waste of your time.

fractales are pretty rewarding if you kill more stuff. and i really WISH they would shift some dungeon reward to the mobs. every mob 0-3 token would be nice. Then we would do the dungeon like we should …