Guild Wars 2

Hello, I’ve been think about a build lately and hoping people could give me some feedback and suggestions.

The build:
http://de.gw2skills.net/editor/?fhAQNArdWnsISNaWkGOqB3aGx0YM9NxkDpCo0bM+CA-TJRHwAC3fIZZABnCAAPBAA

The build is sort of a lock-down condition hybrid. The idea behind the build is being able to lock a foe down while to conditions will wear the foe down. Also being able to lock someone down during a group battle and make them unable to move thnx to the immobilize through Chaotic Interruption.

I have scepter as main hand weapon because I like all 3 of the skills for a condition build. I’m in doubt about my offhand weapon to combine it with. I can’t really decide between sword or pistol. I like sword because of the extra block and pistol for the higher bleed up time because the Iduelist hits more often.
I have staff in my second weapon set because in my opinion that weapons offers the most utility.

I am in doubt about the healing skill. Ether feats and Signet of the Ether both have the same base healing. I personally think Signet of the Ether is more viable because of the passive healing. You can utilize the passive healing because you got multiple blocks and interrupts.

On my utility bar I have 2 mantra’s. I believe that with the extra mantra uses it syncs well to use both mantra’s. I also have the reduces mantra recharge time altough I am not to sure if that is the best choice for that trait slot because it’s quite risky to charge mantra’s mid-combat. As my 3th utility I have decoy because it offers stealth and it offers an extra clone. For my elite I have mass invis I have that elite for the extra survive ability it offers.

For my sigils I have doom and energy on both my sets. I just like the extra poison doom offers. Energy offers me both more survive ability through dodges and extra clones.
I am not completely sure about my rune and amulet. I have chosen the rune of the nightmare because of the extra condi damage and duration and also for the free fear every once in a while. I have chosen the rabid amulet because I like the extra toughness, the condi damage is kinda obvious for a condi based build. The extra precision will make the bleeds on crit happen more often and give me my vigor on crit more often.

I hope I have been able to make clear what the idea behind my build is and hope I can receive some useful feedback. ^^

If I were fighting this build I would find the cc annoying while I picked away at it and wore you down, forcing you to stay and die or withdraw to die a little way away because you’re to slow to succeed.

This is a condition build but lacks enough pressure to be dangerous. I think the true weakness for Mesmers trying to make a lockdown condition build is the lack of synergy between skills, traits, and damage. Confusion procs on skill use but stuns/dazes/push/pull etc stop skill use. Torment hits hardest when the target is moving but stun/push/pull/imob stop that too. More’over, Mesmer condi application is way to indirect in general. iWarden does work for bleed stacking when you lock the target in his whirl, but duelist is better for other reasons.

I think my biggest hangup is that there are just far better ways to approach a condi build. However, if you were sticking to a group fight where you were applying conditions for support damage, and using your interrupts to lock a target down so that your buddies could smack him down etc, then at least you’re being useful/productive.