Guild Wars 2

I have accrued myself a number of malicious ascended chests, and fancied making a condition damage mesmer set for WvW, will toughness, vit, Condi give a significant boost in survivability vs power, vit, condi or celestial stats?

PU-condi Mesmer is maybe the strongest roamer in WvW. You will want a mix of trailblazer’s and Dire. Metabattle has a nice example of what you need to be working towards. This is not a cheap build to make and will take you a lot of time and/or gold to finish( dam Maguma Lillies.)
http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Chronomancer_-_Condi_Roamer
People hate fighting this build and will call it cheese and cheap. Those people I like to toss a flame ram build site on their corpse before i move on to stomp their friends.

I have a friend who runs power Mesmer but still utilizes toughness with some knight gear. I’d guess 2600 armor rating to avoid any one shots.

I would say don’t expect to tank with it, but depending on your build/playstyle some toughness can allow you to take a few punches and for example save you from being one shot.

But if a full glass with 25 bloodlust etc backstabs you or similar then you’re still going to take a lot of damage.

I’ve experimented with varying levels of toughness on mesmer and found it depends on your TTK other enemies as to how many small hits you might want to shrug off. If you like playing yolo power shatter then sure just go for as much damage for the burst.

For me because of stat restrictions I’ve built for 2400 armour in a hybrid power/condi build (moderate time to kill, no big burst) which allows me a mistake or two and gives me a moment to react if ganked. I still have the mindset to play as if glass but I don’t have to be paranoid with every step I take around the map…

its up of what u going to play as pu condi mes i run dire armor and trickets that give around 2600 armor power with mix of maurauder/commander 2200 to 2300 armor but when i play on coordinated guild raid wvw i run full support glamour with wanderer armor + dura runes and mix of minstrel/wanderer trickets and weapons i have up to 3200 armor and 27000k hp with food and util include moment sigil on sword

Power mes has really bad sustained damage, so it can’t stack too much defense since all its killing power lies in landing lethal burst, and if the opponent recovers or dodges the burst you are useless for a good while.