Guild Wars 2

Soo i play mesmer and recently started playing fotm, now im lvl 8, i have done lvl 10 2 times, and i wonder, is my build good for more higher levels of fractals (20+) and here are my questions about the build:

1. Im using full knights armor (centaur runes) is that runes ok (cuz i like the speed buff on heal), or I MUST have different runes
2. trinkets, what is better:
full knights or mix from berserk/soldiers or something else (I dont want to be condition mesmer)?
3. Traits 20(1,10)/20(2,10)/0/25(2,9)/5 i like them this way, but if there is better, please tell me about it and why its better.
4. Weapons: GS and Staff.
5. Slot Skills: Ether Feast|Decoy|Null Field|Feedback/Blink|Time Warp

Help my mesmer be happy and useful in FotM :)

1. full berserker or assassin w/ruby orbs
2. full zerk/assassin, zerk/assassin jewels
3. 0/20(II/IX)/0/25(II/VIII)/25(III,X)
4. sword/focus and sword/pistol, replace focus with another sword if reflect not needed
5. completely dependent on situation, always have time warp but signet of inspiration works for fights that dont need utility to ouble the boons on your team – slot out whatever skills are irrelevant, its a good habit to get in to

colesy.8490:

1. full berserker or assassin w/ruby orbs
2. full zerk/assassin, zerk/assassin jewels
3. 0/20(II/IX)/0/25(II/VIII)/25(III,X)
4. sword/focus and sword/pistol, replace focus with another sword if reflect not needed
5. completely dependent on situation, always have time warp but signet of inspiration works for fights that dont need utility to ouble the boons on your team – slot out whatever skills are irrelevant, its a good habit to get in to

what’s your personal level again? proposing double melee in a full zerker set in the hardest pve content is d u m bbB as &%$#.

@OP: For 1/2/3/5, what colesy said, and make sure to learn when to feedback, it saves lives! As for 4: While full melee (the best DPS a mesmer has) will be fine on trash and some bosses, even up to 48, the higher you go, you will be needing a GS on switch (I recommend a superior sigil of energy on it) to continue DPS if your health gets too low (and the energy sigil will let you dodge out). There are many bosses that almost all pugs (at least that I have been in) will range, and a couple bosses even require it, so you will need a GS as well. While there are videos of groups melee-ing most bosses (if not all) on fractals 48, this is a small portion of the fractal community (and those players are very organized with skill rotations, which you will not find an a PUG and even in many guilds), and you will find that having a GS is necessary.

My personal preference:

Traits: 0/20/0/20/30 generic shatter cat build
Dueling: IV (Blade Training), X (Deceptive Evasion)
Inspiration: II (Glamour Mastery), VIII (Warden’s Feedback)
Illusions: III (Compounding Power), VII (Illusionary Elasticity), XI (Illusionary Persona)

Depending on the encounter I sometimes swap one of my Inspiration traits for III (Vigorous Revelation).

Weapons:
Sword (Sigil of Fire) + Focus (Sigil of Accuracy)
Greatsword (Sigil of Fire)

I sometimes swap my focus for a pistol so I can cast Duelists.

Armor: Full berserker with ruby orbs, my usual roam set is full berserker with runes of the traveler because I like having that +25% movement speed for moving around.

Utility Skills: Null Field, Blink, Feedback

Nuka Cola.8520:

colesy.8490:

1. full berserker or assassin w/ruby orbs
2. full zerk/assassin, zerk/assassin jewels
3. 0/20(II/IX)/0/25(II/VIII)/25(III,X)
4. sword/focus and sword/pistol, replace focus with another sword if reflect not needed
5. completely dependent on situation, always have time warp but signet of inspiration works for fights that dont need utility to ouble the boons on your team – slot out whatever skills are irrelevant, its a good habit to get in to

what’s your personal level again? proposing double melee in a full zerker set in the hardest pve content is d u m bbB as &%$#.

awwww, poor nuka cola too scared to melee?

do I have to show you DnT fractal runs where they full melee almost everything at fractal 48, and full melee bosses at fractal 80 too?

colesy.8490:

Nuka Cola.8520:

colesy.8490:

1. full berserker or assassin w/ruby orbs
2. full zerk/assassin, zerk/assassin jewels
3. 0/20(II/IX)/0/25(II/VIII)/25(III,X)
4. sword/focus and sword/pistol, replace focus with another sword if reflect not needed
5. completely dependent on situation, always have time warp but signet of inspiration works for fights that dont need utility to ouble the boons on your team – slot out whatever skills are irrelevant, its a good habit to get in to

what’s your personal level again? proposing double melee in a full zerker set in the hardest pve content is d u m bbB as &%$#.

awwww, poor nuka cola too scared to melee?

do I have to show you DnT fractal runs where they full melee almost everything at fractal 48, and full melee bosses at fractal 80 too?

called having a brain.

You see, at least most range campers say “I play how I want”. They’re not saying their playstyle is better, they’re admitting instead that they’re either too lazy or not interested in learning. You on the other hand are saying that going sw/sw, which gives you an invuln and a block is less intelligent than using a weapon with no defenses at all, like the GS.

you make no sense with your invul and block… its 2sec of invul and 1 block lol this isn’t just not gonna save you but will kill you and ads will laugh at you. I don’t think you have ever done high level fractals because all you suggest is what could only work in easy sauce dungeons where the majority of ads can be skipped like coe/cof/ta up and so on. Not only you’re suggesting to roll full melee which is already a bad idea by it self but you’re playing on a squishy class in full glass cannon… I would’ve asked you how my dozens of times you waste your teammates time rezing you but since i don’t believe you’ve done any high level fractals i won’t even bother asking. Also, the defense of GS is ranged dps and that is much better than spamming one blurred frenzy per 12sec and block ONE attack per 15sec… what a defense you got there bro.

I see that colesy is very experienced player and see his point, i was going GS+sword/focus for a while, now im with GS/staff to bring more support to the team with the null field/chaos storm/time warp on one place. Double melee seems good, I may try it, but I like a little more safe play style that gives me more room to do mistakes, so ill go with full knight armor & trinkets for now, maybe later when i get better with FotM i may try your build.

if you whant a fractal build, then you have to try the Phantasm build.
take a look at Skoteinos FoTM build
– https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/Builds-Point-of-NO-Return-PvE-PvP-WvW-FoTM .
Btw im lvl 48 and GS is a must in fractal

ps. in this thread you can find all the buids you whant
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/List-Find-your-Mesmer-Builds-Guides