Guild Wars 2

Hey guys,

I used to be a huge Mesmer forum junkie back in the day, but I took a pretty extensive break from the game, and just recently got back into it this past December.

I spent a ton of time in WvW when I played previously on a pretty small server with a guild that focused on small 3-7 man groups. Since then I’ve transferred servers to play with friends and the server I’m on now is much more populated, so solo roaming isn’t quite as effective anymore.

Anyway, I’m starting to get into organized large group stuff with my guild, and I wanted to get some build critique from my more experienced zerging Mesmer brethren.

Here’s the build.

The utility skills are interchangable depending on the situation, but the idea is TD should keep me alive with so many people dying in big zergs, and then that distortion becomes reflection, which should apply even more pressure. That combined with the Warden/Curtain should make projectiles a non issue for me, and I should still bring a pretty decent amount of damage.

I have mostly Knights with a couple of random Valkyrie pieces thrown in to add some health. I think it gives me a good mix of damage and survivability in large groups like this. My runes are Melandru, and I haven’t totally decided on sigils yet.

So my questions are:

1. What do you think? Would you change anything? And,
2. What sigils would you suggest for a build like this?

Thanks guys!

Overall pretty good build, but:

• Masterful Reflection doesn’t work neither with Triumphant Distortion not Blurred Frenzy, only with shatter Distortion. You have two options: Take Dazzling Glamours or move those 2 points to Domination and get GS trait (150 more power and less CD’s).
• With that build you’ll be playing mostly at ranged, so no need to use that amount of condi reduction. I find pack runes the best, tons of offensive stats and quite amount of fury. The foods I find the best are Carrot Soufflé and Bowl of Seaweed Salad.
• I don’t like the use of the Signet of the Ether in zergs. If it healed like warriors signet it would be awesome, but passive healing is near to 0, and even you can pop up two iZerkers at a time, in zergs panic situations are quite common (enemies ganking, necros spikes, melee focus…), and better have a good healing.
  Better an alive mesmer than 2 izerkaa but daed mesma xd
• And even in zergs clones die a lot, I still find Deceptive Evasion impressive, and open you to a lot more options with the shatters.
• Sigils… I have Bloodlust+Energy in the GS, and Restoration+Energy in Sword/Offhand. It works prettty well.

Build would be like this:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fhAQNAsdRlknpYtlqxMNcrNSqBdyjUESOgAU6N0tfC-TliDABxpPoRVQA4BAQlShnU2JoSwd2fQgjAwjqfExpAgUADsMC-w

D’awww that’s extremely disappointing to find out that Triumphant Distortion doesn’t work with Masterful Reflection. It’s worded to make it sound like it does. I guess I’ll have to move those two points, thanks for the heads up there.

You’re right about the heal, I’ll likely swap it. I used Ether Feast a lot before, so I might just resort to that.

Thanks for the feedback!