Guild Wars 2

Tonight I realized I’m a bit tired of my glassy cannon build and wanted to do some aoe healing with vigor support. During my two and a half hour stint in wvw, I noticed I didn’t see ANY heals/regeneration from me on party members. Now I don’t have much +healing, just started with this trait line-up, but I’d figure I’d see it on SOMEONE least of all me..but nope. I also used the aoe heal on Mantra consumption, again, no one received the heal but me… and that was only for the healing mantra and not for “Mantra of Pain”.. Is this bugged or did I have a buggy night? I’d like to push to be a bit more supportive, but if all this spec is going to do is hinder my performance in multiple areas then I may as well go back to what I was. Thanks for any/all advice given.

The regeneration from phantasms is a very short radius -almost touching- while it takes 3-10 seconds to actually take effect, depending on the phantasm conjured. In addition it cancels any other illusion boon-effects, such as retaliation or fury and renders them essentially useless.

The iDuelist is our only reliable source of regeneration, as it gets applied every 3 seconds, for 3 seconds, and is especially potent if you can get more than one up against a relatively stationary target.

I haven’t experimented with the Mantra healing aoe, but I’ve heard it’s quite powerful when it works, but that it doesn’t work as often as it should.

If you’re really looking to support, I’d recommend looking into condition control, glamours and even the focus projectile reflection trait. Mesmers are generally very weak at providing direct or regeneration healing, but excel at other utility support trends.

Thanks for your input. Do you have any stable builds in mind or know of a reliable place to obtain them?

A couple builds I particularly like:

• Domination 20: IX (Cleansing Conflagration) for iMage condition removal.

• Inspiration 20: V (Persisting Images) and VIII (Warden’s Feedback) for powerful anti-ranged support.

• Illusion 30: VII (Illusionary Elasticity) and X (Phantasmal Haste) to give iMage and iWarden a little extra power (ideally, not sure if these work properly yet)

Or, if you’d like to try the Glamour setup

• Domination 20: VIII (Confusing Enchantments)

• Inspiration 20: II (Glamour Mastery) and IX (Temporal Enchanter)

• Illusion 30: V (Master of Misdirection), VIII (Dazzling Glamours) and IX (Blinding Befuddlement)

Both of these are simple yet effective builds, and can be swapped on the fly even without needing to change weapons. The phantasms will give regeneration, but it won’t be nearly as reliable as what other classes can provide, but this is more like a small bonus on top of the intent of the builds.

Phantasmal Healing range is around 180.

Rafe Mathews.2308:

I also used the aoe heal on Mantra consumption, again, no one received the heal but me… and that was only for the healing mantra and not for “Mantra of Pain”.. Is this bugged or did I have a buggy night?

Oh, no, this isn’t working like that. Heal from this trait occurs when you ready your mantra, i.e. after you charged it. Range is quite hectic, I think it’s around 500-600, but even in my berserker gear without a single +healing, this trait aoe heals for ~2600 hp after each mantra charge, so I guess full power\healing\toughness mantra healing build under quickness will be quite uber.

Winds.3087:

Rafe Mathews.2308:

I also used the aoe heal on Mantra consumption, again, no one received the heal but me… and that was only for the healing mantra and not for “Mantra of Pain”.. Is this bugged or did I have a buggy night?

Oh, no, this isn’t working like that. Heal from this trait occurs when you ready your mantra, i.e. after you charged it. Range is quite hectic, I think it’s around 500-600, but even in my berserker gear without a single +healing, this trait aoe heals for ~2600 hp after each mantra charge, so I guess full power\healing\toughness mantra healing build under quickness will be quite uber.

Wow. I guess I totally had that wrong then. Hmm. Tooltip is a bit misleading it seems, or I read it wrong.

I’ve been looking for a build that incorporates sword/XX and preferably GS. Staff, while good, FEELS slow to me and I prefer quicker abilities…something with a more prompt feel. Which is why I thoroughly HATE the scepter, in addition to clone on auto attack (terrible design).

I do like pistol, but feel like I need a good excuse to use it over sword/sword or focus for the speed buff.

I understand that weapon selection seems to call for glass cannon but I want away from that, even it’s it only to gear for knight gear. I’m just worried that eventually ill become a hinderance to FOTM groups in higher lvls.

Finally, looking for an experience/active guild. I’m on Tarnished Coast, should anyone want to run something.