Guild Wars 2

Hi guys, I want to start a new build with my mesmer with greatsword. I play now as staff condition build, and I feel weak. Do you have any useful power build for greatsword?

I had made one before but it was more of a selfish build involving using 4 mantras for the +16% damage.

I personally prefer to stay away from raw power since Divinity runes are so expensive tho.

Assuming GS + anything/pistol
30/30/0/0/10 then u go all for dmg traits and cooldown reduction
20/20/0/25/5 almost the same (cooldown reduction etc) but u get max dmg on phantasm

From these “glasscannon” builds just play around lowering dmg for survability as needed …

These are the minimum traits you would likely want:
10/15/0/0/5

Grabbing the obvious illusion-related major traits.

IMO there is not much benefit to raising Domination past 10 for the general power build, other than for the stat boost. Same to Dueling, you aren’t likely to need more than 20 (and only 20 if you want the clone-on-dodge). The higher level traits in those trees tend to be related to interrupts, which only help if you are interested in traiting for interrupt.

From the above base traits you can either add 25 in Inspiration for phantasm damage and general survivability/utility, or 25 more in Illusions for more shattering ability / extra bounces / etc.

My personal build is 10/15/15/25/5, which grants lots of phantasm damage while still being pretty tanky. You could likely go for glass cannon gear and do fairly well on this trait setup.

Thx Kyrul, more or less what i wanted to write but was too lazy to go into details/check skill names etc hehe

The good thing with mesmer is once ur confident with your build u can either specialise into specific weapons or if u dont go into weapon traits u can switch weapons to gain access to different skills depending on the situation.