Guild Wars 2

I am new at the mesmer thing. I am 48 and usually use GS/Staff. But I like the idea of scepter/focus. And swords really makes me wanna play them but, GS is just what I know.
I am thinking ahead to legendary weapons and dont want to dump a bunch of time and money into crafting if GS/Staff isant a end game thing. Some help would be greatly appreciated. I just would like to know what more veteran mesmers are doing.

Exzira

Right now, Scepter and Torch are arguably the weakest weapons for a Mesmer. They are still used in some condition builds and hopefully will be buffed in the future.

Greatsword is powerful with it’s range, bleed/burn but iberserker is bugged at the moment.

Staff is also great, with tons of survivability. Chaos Armour/Storm have no other comparison in the game. Great over all weapon for use with straight up damage or condition builds.

Main-hand Sword paired with Focus is sometimes mandatory for moving quickly in WvW.

Sword/Pistol is an awesome DPS combo which also provides you some control. This combo is great when used alongside either greatsword or staff.

I have no comment on Sword/Sword or even just off-hand Sword as I really never use them but offhand sword is defensive in nature.

I would say Staff + Sword/Pistol is very popular these days, especially since a lot of Mesmers have banked their greatsword for now.

Offhand sword provides both defense and offense. Sword #4 has a block that can create a clone OR shoot a daze bolt in a line. Sword #5 is a phantasm that leaps in and out while spiking a target (good amount of damage); plus, its leaps count as leap finishers and it can survive decently due to it leaping.

Hi,

For wvwvw and pve let me reccomend this guide and spec. Its solid and flexible, will demand you to play well to be succesfull but have large room for improvment before you hit skillcap. Its text and video guide.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/guide-WvWvW-Shatter-cat/page/6#post982255

/Osicat