Guild Wars 2

(Another external continuation of something I wanted to put into the guide. As usual anyone is free to add/correct the data. Additional contributions from: Dietzen, EverythingEnds, and Heinel)

—Stealths and Teleports —

Stealths and Teleports some of the Mesmer’s main defenses in combat. Skills such as iLeap, Phase Retreat, Veil, Blink, and Decoy are almost always in a Mesmer’s repertoire in PvP or WvW for good reason.

STEALTH

Stealth works a little differently for Mesmer than it does for other classes. The Decoy ability allows us to cloak even through the 3 second Revealed (Cannot go invisible) debuff (4 seconds in sPvP). Which means you could attack out of The Prestige (Torch 4) and then immediately use Decoy to stealth again, making Thieves wet with envy. Stealth is great for escaping combat, healing, and charging mantras among other things.

- Also note that projectiles in flight and reflected attacks will trigger revealed if it happens after you go in stealth. Winds of chaos, chaos storm, feedback, etc. can be offenders of this.
- If you use a shatter skill and a stealth skill, when your “shattered” illusions haven’t hit the target yet, you will become revealed when an illusions hits (don’t know if on miss, too).

Stealth Skills
The Prestige (Torch) / Decoy / Veil / Mass Invisibility

Stealth Traits
Desperate Decoy (Decoy at 25%HP) / Prismatic Understanding (Gain Aegis/Protection/Regen every second while stealthed. Stealth skills last 1s longer )

Skills that DO NOT Reveal when used.

• Phantasm Summons
• Illusionary Leap (Sword)
• Sword/Scepter Counter (Until the counter attack hits)
• Phase Retreat (Staff)
• Chaos Armor (Staff)
• Temporal Curtain
• All Utility skills except Mantra of Pain. (Signet of Domination untested)

TELEPORTS

If you’ve never traited Blink for longer range (Dueling I) go do it right now, and watch this video (Supcutie’s PvP Blink locations) I’ll wait…

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Awesome. That’s what you just said to yourself. Mesmers have five teleports, three of which belong to our weapons (Sword/Staff/Spear) and all of which are extremely useful. Blink, Portal and Phase Retreat, being instant-cast, can be used in the middle of other attacks. Blink can even be used while wearing town-clothes. Teleport skills work across gaps if you could normally jump across and occasionally can take you to higher elevations.

- Concerning Skyhammer: DONT use Blink, to teleport over those “breaking glas fields” if you use Blink, you will exactly being ported where the glass begins. ? If there is none and you are pressing W / vorwards, you are going to run right into the hole.

Teleport Skills
Phase Retreat (Staff) / Illusionary Leap (Sword. Still works, when the clone gets destroyed.) / Feigned Surge (Spear) / Blink / Portal

Teleport Traits
Far-Reaching Manipulations (Increase range to 1200) / Master of Manipulations (Reduce cooldown by 2) / Glamour Mastery (Glamours cooldown 20% faster) / Temporal Enchanter (Glamours last 2s longer)

• Sensotix’s Portal and Phase Retreat stomping guides.

• Osicat’s Mesmer Movement Guide (featuring the Phase Retreat + Blink combo dubbed the “Cat Leap” at about 30 seconds in)

Revealed only lasts 4 seconds in spvp, in wvw and pve it lasts 3 secs

Ty

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Things to mention (maybe):

Blink (or all teleports) become(s) maybe most efficient if you port behind an enemy, as you become “invisble” for him due to the fact you are simply not on his screen anymore…and he has to turn his camera around.

Illusionary Leap (Sword #3) still works, when the clone gets destroyed.

@ Stealth / Revealed:
If you use a shatter skill and a stealth skill, when your “shattered” illusions haven’t hit the target yet, you will become revealed when an illusions hits (don’t know if on miss, too).

Edit:
Another little Thing concerning Skyhammer: DONT use Blink, to teleport over those “breaking glas fields” if you use Blink, you will exactly being ported where the glass begins. → If there is none and you are pressing W / vorwards, you are going to run right into the hole.

Also note that projectiles in flight and reflected attacks will trigger revealed if it happens after you go in stealth. Winds of chaos, chaos storm, feedback, etc. can be offenders of this.

Somehow I missed the other comments. The additional info is much appreciated!

As far as the “tree” thing goes, I turn into a Jamaican every 10th day of the month and that becomes perfectly fine. =P (and technically, that’s a spelling issue rather than grammar)

Credit is given in the first paragraph.

• Glamor traits can go into the “stealth traits” list as well as “teleport” (for Veil).
• Master of Manipulations – “reduce cooldown by 20%” (it just says 2)

Also, for newbies it might be worthwhile to explain the target-breaking nature of stealth, since that’s one of the most useful things about it defensively. Particularly for mesmers since each time we stealth we can “pretend-blend” with clones for at least a second or two, making it harder to re-acquire locks.

Signet of Domination doesn’t trigger revealed.

Doesn’t stealth only break if you deal dmg directly to enemies?