Guild Wars 2

Dunno if this has been posted earlier, but this guy definitely deserves a kittenload more views.
Check out his freaking insane mesmer skills:

No, this is not my video or YT Channel and i´m not participating in this video.

i dont see whats so insane about it.

any decent mesmer does this everytime they play

ouch, 69 damage per confusion, I don’t think I’ve ever seen it that low :O

kylia.4813:

ouch, 69 damage per confusion, I don’t think I’ve ever seen it that low :O

why? my confusion do 48 damage if i good remember

Nothing too special. They seem to play well, but nearly every single person they show fighting appears to be at least partially brain-dead or afk, so it’s rather hard to tell.

A bit boring to be honest, no offense.

Lol this guy plays really well, you’re all boosting your own egos.

Arguably the best Mesmer video I’ve seen yet.

It certainly shows the effectiveness of a S/S shatter glassy build, especially against poor opponents who have little to no stun breaks. He flips back and forth between GS and Staff which makes me think he has neither traited so… perhaps something like a 10/30/0/0/30 build.

Helios.3598:

It certainly shows the effectiveness of a S/S shatter glassy build, especially against poor opponents who have little to no stun breaks. He flips back and forth between GS and Staff which makes me think he has neither traited so… perhaps something like a 10/30/0/0/30 build.

He hardly used Illusionary Riposte or Diversion in an offensive manner (he was one vsing. many for the most parts and only dazed to interrupt or set up a Phantasm), so his opponents not carrying stun breakers is irrelevant.

At one point in the video, he’s running 0/20 (IV, X)/20 (III, X)/0/30(?, ?, XI) with full Centaur Runes – pay attention to his boons and CDs.

Other times he didn’t even have 30 in Illusions…and had a full 57 sec CD on Distortion – so no, he’s not your typical shatter glassy build.

@MysticHLE: That is accurate, he was running more of a phantasm hybrid, which is all the more reason his opponents should have been able to beat him; phantasmhybrids are weak in groups.

wads.5730:

i dont see whats so insane about it.

any decent mesmer does this everytime they play

Yep. The class carries people with ease.

Pyroatheist.9031:

@MysticHLE: That is accurate, he was running more of a phantasm hybrid, which is all the more reason his opponents should have been able to beat him; phantasmhybrids are weak in groups.

Thing is he traits for Staff CD (when he’s using Staff, at least) and Blink CD instead of taking Domination or Inspiration. When combined with the short CD of Illusionary Riposte and Phantasmal Swordsman, this gives it a lot of offensive and defensive potential at the same time…and is much more survivable in a group than an offensive Phantasm shatter hybrid build (but not as bursty) that’s geared more towards 1 vs. 1.

It almost reminds me of your Immortal Mesmer build, except it centers more around defense with Blink/Phase Retreat and Illusionary Riposte (instead of Regen and Phantasmal Defender), and offense with Phantasmal Swordsman and Illusionary Riposte instead of Retaliation.

Not sure what he’s running when he doesn’t take 30 Illusions though.

ho god there is a lot of very good mesmer here ^^ I didn’t understand why I had more views than usual… I just see this topic…

Pyroatheist.9031:

Nothing too special. They seem to play well, but nearly every single person they show fighting appears to be at least partially brain-dead or afk, so it’s rather hard to tell.

Yes my opponents are brain dead, sorry I don’t have enough skill to solo cap a supply camp. Probably need to learn with you

It certainly shows the effectiveness of a S/S shatter glassy build, especially against poor opponents who have little to no stun breaks. He flips back and forth between GS and Staff which makes me think he has neither traited so… perhaps something like a 10/30/0/0/30 build.

Only MysticHLE seems to know the class :x I’m in shatter build in only one fight, near the supply camp at 9:15.

Pyroatheist.9031:

@MysticHLE: That is accurate, he was running more of a phantasm hybrid, which is all the more reason his opponents should have been able to beat him; phantasmhybrids are weak in groups.

Why Hybrid ? You really think that a mesmer in phantasm build should never use shatter ?

For the other fight, my main build/gear :
http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/mesmer/?4.0|1.1n.h1j|c.1c.h2.c.1g.h1j|1c.73.1g.73.1c.73.1c.73.1c.73.1c.73|3s.0.2t.0.1p.67.1n.67.1n.67.1g.67|k37.u24a.f3.0.5|15.7|31.3l.34.3d.0|e

Phantasm/shatter hybrids are a fairly strong build, but I couldn’t help but notice that quite afew of the opponents were upscaled

@Dopzor: As I said in my original post, you appear to play pretty well, it’s simply difficult to tell because the opponents you were fighting were so bad. Many times they would just stand there or chase after your clones.

As for phantasm hybrid, you had (at various points) many points in the illusions trait line which is primarily geared towards shatter, especially illusionary persona. No full phantasm build would go that deep into illusions, and that is why I called it a hybrid build.

Well, its pretty good gameplay but not “the best” ive ever seen.

wait a second…
is that.. is that bolt?
best mesmer ive ever seen, 10/10!

i dont really like the hardcore music but thats just personal preference.