Help...Pu Condi Roamer
The ascended trailblazer gear is called Pahua:
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Pahua%27s_Trailblazer%27s_Inscription
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Pahua%27s_Trailblazer%27s_Insignia
it’s also quite expensive due to the current prices of Maguuma Lilies (both the exotic and ascended versions. Definately don’t make exotic trailblazer).
I’d recommend going with Dire and Rabid for you first condi roamer. Exotic should also be fine until you are certain you enjoy the build and it works well.
Get ascended trinkets via the new maps and pick trailblazer on those.
As far builds go, as mesmer you aren’t as set in stone as some other classes. Your weapons of choice will be scepter, sword, pistol, torch and shield (depending on if you pick chrono). Since you want PU Chaos is a given trait line, Dueling works quite well with condi and pistol.
Blind forging a build and being very rusty (my last serious wvw experience on mesmer is about 2 years past pre HoT) I would assume you might end up with a build along these lines:
The utilities you use will vary widely on what exactly you are fighting and you should expect to rotate those as needed. I left out Sigils (and went with perplexity for runes) because I’m out of the loop what people run today in roaming wvw.
I’m running Scepter/Torch and staff as a condi PU in PvP. It works reasonably well.
Mesmerising Girl
Cool. Yeah, this build sounds great because I really like the idea of being extremely annoying to fight, even if you end up killing me (which is very likely to happen). How do you get the recipes for these ascended trailblazer pieces? I may try an exotic version of it first, though.
The ascended trailblazer gear is called Pahua:
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Pahua%27s_Trailblazer%27s_Inscription
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Pahua%27s_Trailblazer%27s_Insigniait’s also quite expensive due to the current prices of Maguuma Lilies (both the exotic and ascended versions. Definately don’t make exotic trailblazer).
I’d recommend going with Dire and Rabid for you first condi roamer. Exotic should also be fine until you are certain you enjoy the build and it works well.
Get ascended trinkets via the new maps and pick trailblazer on those.
As far builds go, as mesmer you aren’t as set in stone as some other classes. Your weapons of choice will be scepter, sword, pistol, torch and shield (depending on if you pick chrono). Since you want PU Chaos is a given trait line, Dueling works quite well with condi and pistol.
Blind forging a build and being very rusty (my last serious wvw experience on mesmer is about 2 years past pre HoT) I would assume you might end up with a build along these lines:
The utilities you use will vary widely on what exactly you are fighting and you should expect to rotate those as needed. I left out Sigils (and went with perplexity for runes) because I’m out of the loop what people run today in roaming wvw.
I’ve been meaning to try these builds in pvp first. Even the ranger build I tried in pvp has kicked butt.
I’m running Scepter/Torch and staff as a condi PU in PvP. It works reasonably well.
Whatever you do, don’t make the exotic version of trailblazer’s. It’ll be just about as expensive as the ascended version…but soulbound and with worse stats. If you must actually craft the gear (protip: don’t craft asc armor, get it from fractals/raids/WvW), make the ascended version.
How do you get the recipes for these ascended trailblazer pieces? I may try an exotic version of it first, though.
Would not recommend it. As mentioned:
Definately don’t make exotic trailblazer.
I’d recommend going with Dire and Rabid for you first condi roamer.
and mentioned by Fay:
Whatever you do, don’t make the exotic version of trailblazer’s. It’ll be just about as expensive as the ascended version…but soulbound and with worse stats. If you must actually craft the gear (protip: don’t craft asc armor, get it from fractals/raids/WvW), make the ascended version.
If you absolutely want to try exotic trailblazer gear and are willing to play the HoT story to get it, the mission Bitter Harvest (mission 15 of 16 of the HoT story) offers a one time completion award of viper or traiblazer gear (https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Box_of_Trailblazer%27s_Gear). With enough characters you could get some weapons and/or armor.
Otherwise, honestly just stick to Dire/Rabid on stuff you have to craft.
Whatever you do, don’t make the exotic version of trailblazer’s. It’ll be just about as expensive as the ascended version…but soulbound and with worse stats. If you must actually craft the gear (protip: don’t craft asc armor, get it from fractals/raids/WvW), make the ascended version.
Except that raids are hugely closed and require this type of gear to get into. Fractals are even worse at high levels. You need these to get easy gear.. but you need the gear to get there. (not to mention dealing with the elitism in general )
Catch 22
Mesmerising Girl
Whatever you do, don’t make the exotic version of trailblazer’s. It’ll be just about as expensive as the ascended version…but soulbound and with worse stats. If you must actually craft the gear (protip: don’t craft asc armor, get it from fractals/raids/WvW), make the ascended version.
Except that raids are hugely closed and require this type of gear to get into. Fractals are even worse at high levels. You need these to get easy gear.. but you need the gear to get there. (not to mention dealing with the elitism in general )
Catch 22
Raids require nothing more than basic exotic gear. Ascended trinkets are easy to get, so many will expect that. Ascended weapons provide a significant boost, but are absolutely not required for raiding. The only thing stopping you is your own misconceptions about raids.
If you absolutely want to try exotic trailblazer gear and are willing to play the HoT story to get it, the mission Bitter Harvest (mission 15 of 16 of the HoT story) offers a one time completion award of viper or traiblazer gear (https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Box_of_Trailblazer%27s_Gear). With enough characters you could get some weapons and/or armor.
Otherwise, honestly just stick to Dire/Rabid on stuff you have to craft.
That’s actually what I did for a full set of trailblazer armour that sits in my mesmers inventory and never gets used.
Ever.
Like not at all.
Still got the exalted skin.
Because it doesn’t get used.
Ever.