Guild Wars 2

Like the regen build rangers have?

for what?
asap 15

Several?

You can stack pretty much infinite regeneration with Phantasmal Healing and a little boon duration, so just start from there and you can go plenty of other places with it.

look at the chaos maestro post…there are several variations on support/tank mesmer builds. regen + other boons + frequent aoe heals are all very possible.

I’ve been running regen Mesmer for a few months now and can shed some light on the subject for you

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fgUQNAW8dl4z6pnUzhGb9IhJF9G5neA9l78SKwdsB-jgxAoNBZqBANAmKBlFLiGramIqOIAkB-e

Basically youve got 100% regeneration uptime usually around 20-30s but sometimes as high as 55s.
Believe it or not his is your main source of survivability, and regeneration will also proc Protection every 10s for added durability. The way healing power scales with regeneration and lower vitality means every tick of regen is healing you for a surprisingly decent amount. Meanwhile youll be summoning phantasms for more regen as well as damage output through retaliation and bleeds. Use LoS with your phantasmal warden to reflect projectiles and to keep regeneration up. With iDefender, iWarden and iWarlock all up at once you become extremely difficult to take down.

Mantra of Recovery is key with this build. When you channel it initially, you heal yourself and up to 5 allies around you for ~3,000 (Restorative Mantras), grant yourself and 5 allies 10s regen (Dwayna Runes). After that youve got 2 more instant-cast self-heals for ~3,100, more AoE regen and 2 instant condition removals (Mender’s Purity). This is all on a quick 10s CD so you’ll be healing everyone often. The initial AoE heal is great when youre solo as you can heal your phantasms to maximize their effectiveness. It synergizes very well with iDefender who with Signet of Illusions adds a large chunk to your health-pool without negatively scaling regeneration.

Mimic is the trolliest skill mesmers have (except portals) and yet I’ve found its rather unpopular. How it works is you channel it for 4 seconds, and within this time if you are hit with a projectile, you will absorb it to spew out later (super entertaining when you absorb something useful or flashy). If you are able to catch a projectile, the skill becomes a block for the rest of the channeling time which is great for safely running through zergs because during your 4s block youll be healing with regen and can simultaneously pop your 2 instant-cast heals (assuming theyve been channeled). 25s cooldown on this paired with your focus skills gives you an almost perfect defense against ranged attackers. Melee attackers get punished with retaliation/bleeds and unless youre greatly outnumbered, you wont fall below 50% health very often.

Pros:

-100% regen uptime
-AoE heals/regen
-High survivability
-Condition removal on low CD
-Ranged and melee defense
-Team support

Cons:

-Lackluster mobility (focus 4 is all you’ve got)
-Not ideal for running with a Zerg
-Lower damage output

Give it a shot in sPvP and see how you like it!

Ps I just word-vomited all of this out so if I didn’t explain something clearly just ask!

EDIT: updated the build link

parisnicholson.3684:

I’ve been running regen Mesmer for a few months now and can shed some light on the subject for you

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fgUQNAW8dl4z6pnUzhGbNJhJF9G5neA9l7kittenfA3A-jgyAIOBZqBANAmKBlFTWecQs1tioxqmTseWQVZjFEAyA-e

Basically youve got 100% regeneration uptime usually around 20-30s but sometimes as high as 55s.
Believe it or not his is your main source of survivability, and regeneration will also proc Protection every 10s for added durability. The way healing power scales with regeneration and lower vitality means every tick of regen is healing you for a surprisingly decent amount. Meanwhile youll be summoning phantasms for more regen as well as damage output through retaliation and bleeds. Use LoS with your phantasmal warden to reflect projectiles and to keep regeneration up. With iDefender, iWarden and iWarlock all up at once you become extremely difficult to take down.

Mantra of Recovery is key with this build. When you channel it initially, you heal yourself and up to 5 allies around you for ~3,000 (Restorative Mantras), grant yourself and 5 allies 10s regen (Dwayna Runes). After that youve got 2 more instant-cast self-heals for ~3,100, more AoE regen and 2 instant condition removals (Mender’s Purity). This is all on a quick 10s CD so you’ll be healing everyone often. The initial AoE heal is great when youre solo as you can heal your phantasms to maximize their effectiveness. It synergizes very well with iDefender who with Signet of Illusions adds a large chunk to your health-pool without negatively scaling regeneration.

Mimic is the trolliest skill mesmers have (except portals) and yet I’ve found its rather unpopular. How it works is you channel it for 4 seconds, and within this time if you are hit with a projectile, you will absorb it to spew out later (super entertaining when you absorb something useful or flashy). If you are able to catch a projectile, the skill becomes a block for the rest of the channeling time which is great for safely running through zergs because during your 4s block youll be healing with regen and can simultaneously pop your 2 instant-cast heals (assuming theyve been channeled). 25s cooldown on this paired with your focus skills gives you an almost perfect defense against ranged attackers. Melee attackers get punished with retaliation/bleeds and unless youre greatly outnumbered, you wont fall below 50% health very often.

Pros:

-100% regen uptime
-AoE heals/regen
-High survivability
-Condition removal on low CD
-Ranged and melee defense
-Team support

Cons:

-Lackluster mobility (focus 4 is all you’ve got)
-Not ideal for running with a Zerg
-Lower damage output

Give it a shot in sPvP and see how you like it!

Ps I just word-vomited all of this out so if I didn’t explain something clearly just ask!

How do you apply conditions? i don’t see the point in using apothecary.
Do you rely on Staff’s auto and F2 Shatter only?

confused

How do you apply conditions? i don’t see the point in using apothecary.
Do you rely on Staff’s auto and F2 Shatter only?

confused

Sorry, those are supposed to be clerics, the link is a bit outdated. This build doesn’t do much condition damage beyond bleeds from phantasm crits.

It has more sense now :p

How does this build fare in WvW? Thank you for the link.

TreeSerpent.3176:

How does this build fare in WvW? Thank you for the link.

If you’re with a group of 10 or fewer doing smaller objectives you’ll be a useful support as the build is. When running with a Zerg I swap Mimic for Blink, iDefender for Null Field, and Signet of Illusions for Illusion of Life. While also switching traits in favor of Far Reaching Manipulations and Master of Manipulation. This allows you to keep your AoE heals/regens, as well as being able to support your allies and keep them alive.

Is this the kind of stats you run then?
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fgUQNAW8dl4z6pnUzhGbNJhJF9G5neA9l7kittenfA3A-jEyAoNBZqBAxBmKBlFLiGbdrIasqZioalNmQAIHDA-w

(some might prefer sigil of hydromancy on the off-hand but with the low crit hit chance in this build and your choice of crit sigil on sword that even with fury i would think a guarantee condi removal on swap would be nice)

Is there a mesmer regen build like regen rangers? Nope. The best ones don’t come close.

Mesmer is missing two of the passive regens that rangers have access to along with an incredibly powerful pulse heal (troll unguent).

With that said, I can still get pretty good heals on my mesmer, but it requires me playing phantasms since all three need to be alive (or have a pretty good uptime) for my heals to come off effectively and for me to get consistant regen. They can still do pretty well, but it’s nothing compared to a ranger’s ability.