Guild Wars 2

Herro! I roam in a group of 3-5 and regularly run riot on borderlands, taking out groups double our size n good stoof like that however that was when i played my ele and i have just fallen in love with mesmer ( i am experienced 300 hours) but i am looking for a shatter build, no pu kitten and want to hit hard while surviving with a decent amount of mobility, currently have traveler runes, i also am not sure on weapon sets, i like gs but not sure bout the other hand, any input would be great o/

alfieb.4506:

.. no pu kitten..

I like you already.

I mainly play wvw, probably about 99% of my time online with 2000 hours experience last time I checked on my mesmer (if you wanted to know).

Anywho let’s get down to business. For shatter you’re going to be focusing on power, precision and crit (or ferocity once that change comes through.) Personally, I use Berserker armor with Traveler’s Runes, Berserker weapons, and a mix of Berserker and Cavalier trinkets. Weapons of choice for me are GS and Sword/Sword, Sword/Pistol, or Sword/Torch, depending on the kinds of fights I’m getting into that day. Utilities (for me) are Decoy, Portal, and Blink with Mass Invis for the elite. Traits that I use are 10/20/10/0/30 (taking manipulation cooldown and range increase for mobility).

20/20/0/0/30 is good if you want the GS trait in domination.
10/30/0/0/30 is good if you want the sword trait, or pistol trait.

Your survival depends completely on your ability to not be hit in the first place. It involves a lot of being aware of the area, the fight you’re in, the types of opponents your facing, and quick reflexes. It’s not an easy way to play, but it’s a lot of fun and extremely active. Best of luck! ~

You’ll be wanting boon removal for group fights. I suggest the standard shatter build 20/20/0/0/30 taking I & VII in domination, IV & X in dueling and III, VIII and XI in illusions.

Traveller runes are great but IMO they are more of a solo thing. If your in a regular group I’d suggest buying a second set of exotic zerker armour with divinity runes, and full zerker trinkets. EoTM made getting badges really easy so its quite cheap to get a second exotic armour set.

When I play shatter with my guildmates (2-5 man team) I use Shatter Cat Ghost, latest of my builds. Its a hard hitting stealthy Shatter build who move wery fast for roaming + stack vuln for team mates.

Its also fairly good in terms of defensive stats, so you no free rally for your team. Tbh dont go full zerker, al it take is you to messup and your team lose due to enemy team rally.

/Osicat

Build can be found in my sticky on top of the forums.

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyAUH12IH35pzfor5iOo9QA

I would note the use of two Guardians, the hammer/GS is pretty much full cleric, I don’t know about t’other, at least one with the book, to keep Joe alive.

I find shatter fun but at times the dependance on iLeap and clone pathing alongisde the complete reliance on team mates for condi cleanse in a burst build (Blink, Decoy, Mirror) annoying, though when you see the 4×3K Mind Wracks it does make it all worthwhile.

Some more Stealthed Shatter Gameplay. Only a 4 min video but feel it show soem of the potensial of the setup, also it have less of a problem with condis as the build can clear 2 × 2 from mantra and 1 × 2 from torch skills every ~24 mins:

/Osicat

check out Bamf Joe (Joe.4178) videos on youtube for shatter mesmer and builds for the same, he rocks!

Here’s my shatter build for WvW. I can solo camps all by myself with this build. ( 20/20/0/0/30/)

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fgAQNAsdRnUE1UbVNy0wWbEB1juD8+OSKKNWrkCc7CB-jECBEEgEFA0FQJPFRjtMsIasqFYqSER1eDFRrWKgIGWB-w

Being able to shatter yourself not only increases burst dps, but gives you 1-4 seconds of distortion to stomp enemies, (can even throw down time warp if you want) Stomping enemies is somewhat important because any smart player that gets downed will target another downed enemy to try and rally.

Stripping boons is very beneficial since stripping 25 stacks of might on a group can really turn the tide. Clones inflicting cripple is amazing for kiting and getting away if need be.

I chose focus because powerful combinations can be used with it if you know how as well as ripping people off of walls is useful. (Having a warden on a ram is not fun for some ppl too lol)

Your survivability however depends on you, so if you’re not alert you’ll get backstabbed by a thief or bursted down in any other cases, don’t forget that you can shatter yourself, so interrupting at melee range instantly is not to be underestimated as well as 1 second of distortion… You can do that twice when your health drops below 50%.

Also make sure to grab a torch so you can blast fields with your group.

Don’t underestimate the signet of the ether, it’s actually stronger then it looks since you can refresh phantoms after you use them which is quite a bit of dps after you shatter since you get might after you shatter.

This build has some variety with it since you can change boon, for example shattering boons to greatsword mastery,and have a 4 second cd on Mirror blade for those times when you fight at range a lot, or even pick up phantasm haste if you want to keep boon shattering.

The most important part of this build is that your race is an asura, otherwise you won’t experience those awesome dodges where you flip over an enemy and watch them explode.