Guild Wars 2

There was a thread awhile back that listed a similar build though I lost track of where it was. That being the case, I figured I would place mine up here and see what you all think.

The concept of this build is to utilize the condition stacking skills of the class while still giving you a good bit of direct damage and crit. As I personally love the GS for the Mesmer, this build gives you the ability to act as a ranged shooter while quickly changing over to Melee when necessary. The added bonus is the vast amount of stealth you get so should you run into a problem, it’s easy to escape.

I built this build on the gear I actually have so I’m sure it will be more effective with better items. In either case, I’ve found it great as when in a zerg (just change a few skills around) as well as roaming. As for the runes, that’s my personal choice as +25% movement is well worth the cost.

As a test, I attacked a group of 5 the other night who were taking a camp just to see how much I could annoy them while avoid getting killed. With the almost constant stealth, movement speed, + the GS, they ended up chasing me across the map for about 10 minutes. It was a ton of fun!

Anyways, I don’t take credit for this idea but I have made many changes from the original version I saw awhile back. Please let me know what you all think?

Hybrid Condi/Crit

I’d think about taking the 10 points out of Inspiration and putting it in Domination for Cleansing Conflagration. You’ll be able to remove more conditions I believe and you’ll have more access to stealth and thus boons.

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Xyonon.3987:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBGUcKbnINo

you’re welcome.

Lol, oh that guy.

A necro who makes a “the ulimate damage hybrid build” for every profession, but in reality it sucks for eerytjing but necro :/.

His motivation was something like: “all mesmers I meet in dungeons are too squishy, have 0 support and only do 1k dps. So to show this community how to properly play, ive made a full berserker build that does kitteny damage and has no support at all.”.

Dont listen to him :P

Or maybe the OP meant the Apex Predator, which is also a hybrid, and burried somewhere in the 2nd page of the forum. It will be back ro page 1 soon, because he self bumps it x.x

Umm… Alissah, to be fairly honest, I have made a deal with Chaos to not bump the thread until I made some progress with testing it with him. So yeah.

I also clearly stated on the thread’s OP page that says what I will be testing. So I hope no one uses those things for the BotM, as they will be used.

Also, plz try not to compare me and Nemesis on this particular topic of Hybrid Mesmers He and I have totally different perspective when it comes to builds that work.

MacLeod.4208:

I’d think about taking the 10 points out of Inspiration and putting it in Domination for Cleansing Conflagration. You’ll be able to remove more conditions I believe and you’ll have more access to stealth and thus boons.

That’s a great idea! When I first started using this build I wasn’t sure if I liked the pistol for it’s DPS + condi or the torch for it’s obvious stealth benefit and so I didn’t even think of cleansing conflagration.

Thanks for the help MacLeod.

Just wondering, with this build, would it be more effective to swap the sword for a scepter and stack the confusion?

Here me out completely when I say this, as I have tried that setup for over 2 months now. So here it is:

Scepter/Torch- GS is not viable for 1 vs 2 or more. You just can’t afford to even get hit by 1 immobilize in this situation. Having 2 ranged weapons like that isn’t the way to go and you will die in under 2 minutes I gurantee you. That said, someone else is already using that setup, so you can’t use that setup for the BotM contest. It wouldn’t be fair.

themenaceofseventhdimension.2075:

Here me out completely when I say this, as I have tried that setup for over 2 months now. So here it is:

Scepter/Torch- GS is not viable for 1 vs 2 or more. You just can’t afford to even get hit by 1 immobilize in this situation. Having 2 ranged weapons like that isn’t the way to go and you will die in under 2 minutes I gurantee you. That said, someone else is already using that setup, so you can’t use that setup for the BotM contest. It wouldn’t be fair.

I tried changing out the sword for the scepter and like you said, it wasn’t pretty. I got completely destroyed in under a minute. So… it’s back to the sword again.

As for the contest, this thread isn’t part of that as like I said in the OP, the concept belongs to someone else. I have only modified it and so, cannot take credit.