Guild Wars 2

New to my Mesmer and I wanna start playing him more. I’m more of a pve and dungeon kinda guy. So link your builds so I can try them out. If you don’t have a link please tell me your build with the Roman numerals, skills, and weapons.

Use 0/30/0/25/15 with mantras, or 10/20/0/25/15 without.

Here’s a guide for playstyle, the trait-build in there is out of date but otherwise it’s good:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/Guide-PvE-Dungeons-Phantasm-build-s/first

10/20 is trash, use 0/30/0/25/15 or 10/30/0/20/10.

Domination III, Dueling II, IV, XI (I think), Inspiration II, VIII, Illusions III. If you take 0/30, obviously you can’t take Domination III.

Swap out empowering mantras for duelist’s discipline if you need a full utility bar and are able to use off-hand pistol, otherwise, mantras is going to mostly be your trait of choice.

mahariel.4981:

10/20 is trash, use 0/30/0/25/15 or 10/30/0/20/10.

Really, dude? We’ve talked about this.

10/20 is perfectly fine and likely better dps in any situation where you can keep phantasms up and reflects aren’t the majority of your damage (e.g. Arah/Lupi).

Not to mention EM is wasted if you don’t run mantras, and offhand pistol isn’t always needed (I’d rather Sw/Sw+F in most cases), and at that point there’s nothing useful left in dueling that can compare to 15% more phantasm damage.

I usually run 0/30 myself, but stop calling things trash without any rational basis. Let’s see some actual tested DPS comparisons, eh?