Guild Wars 2

Good day fellow Mesmers!

After the recent patch and the buffs to Scepter, I decided to try and bring myself back to my one true love…my Mesmer. Honestly, the scepter has always been my favorite weapon. I was hoping to find any kind of build in PvE, specifically for fractals and raiding (meaning the dps or team utility would need to be good/balanced), which uses the scepter as one of the main rotations. I don’t mind having a sw/shield or sw/pistol equipped aswell. I just mainly want to use a scepter. I don’t mind if its a condi or power build, or a Hybrid, though Hybrid seems to be where Scepter is focused. I tried looking on the forums, but most of the Mesmer forum seems to focus on PvP builds.

Any builds or input would be greatly appreciated, please keep meta elitism to a minimum.

Thanks!

Heyhey!

For Raids use sword/shield and scepter/focus /sword. You want to use the scepter mostly for skill #3 and sometimes the block. You may camp it if you need to stay ranged like it happens a lot in later phases of Matthias.

The scepter is a great weapons. If you camp it you lose dps compared to the sword, but that’s because of the rather weak auto attacks. If you can replace them with other stuff like wells or weapon swap to sword aa and use as many #3’s as possible, you will have a dps increase with the scepter!

For fractals I’m not entierly sure yet if it’s worth to go condi or power at 50+, due to the insane toughness / armor. But even if you go power, you can use the scepter the same way as you’d do in raids.

Here’s my dps brenchmark with using a scepter. Not a raid / fotm rotation, just max dpsing full buffed and raid buffed with 3 swordies:

Greez!

Hey Xyonon,

Thank you for this input. Switching to scepter is something I can live with, and after watching your dps vid, I like what I’m seeing. Will definitely give this a try!

Thanks again!

But remember, this is only a dps vid. I suggest to watch my other vid about the normal rotation you should aim for, aswell read the description.

You can easily use the scepter even tough I didnt for the demonstration. Scepter is awesome, especially in raids.