Guild Wars 2

Been poking at it since the patch but don’t have the time. Using either power block or that stun gm trait in domination with the assassin’s trinket, can you guys make a hard hitting but glassy control Mesmer.

Ci is not off the table either.

Not looking for condition damage here just huge spikes that isn’t a traditional shatter

Off the top of my head, way way way back when CS was bugged, I ran a glass Mantra build:

6/6/0/0/2 All Mantras except stability. Super bursty.
Sword/Sword+Staff
Mesmer runes

I think Empowering Mantras are now in conflict with CS though. :/ I would still shatter with it though with the extremely high crit chance.

so far best success has been a 6/4/4/0/0 build bringing Halting strike, shattered (boons) and PB / Manipulations + DE / and / Dmg – per clone + BI /

Grabbed a Staff and a GS with ether feast + Blink + MoP + Mirror + whatever

Goal was to pressure the start of the fight and force interrupts to build might (didnt matter what got interrupted as long as it was 1 or two maybe three things)

Mid fight came the Diversion spike to stack Vuln + Chaos storm if it was up

If i could get 10 – 20s of Vuln it was time for Mirror + a clone and then F1

that usually ended the fight or atleast put them in full panic mode

6 : Wrack/Halting – Halting/GsMastery/BoonStrip – CS/PB
2: Fury/blinkRange
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6: Wrack – IE – IP

bold = preferred

Goal of the build is for point-blank very low cooldown IE mirror blade shatter. Blink mid-mirror blade surprises most people; can also be combo’ed with stealth (see Vashfury’s videos)

I’ve run both 644(Mind Crush) and 62006(Shatterlock) and of the two 62006 had monstrous bursts. Lack of DE hurts for sure and it takes some getting used to -I wouldn’t be able to just slap on the traits right now and rekk kids without some warming up- but it definitely did insane damage and could even oneshot some specs.

.. I kinda wanna go back to it now.

I’ll attempt a 62006 this weekend but I have noticed that I can nearly one shot some professions already. I know I destroyed several hotline join pu users along with most thieves and non bunker guards eles and rangers…. God so many rangers… Warriors are easier to deal with now but there’s no one shoting them unless I run warrior myself.. engi was iffy depending on build.. necros still swamped me if they hit me with a full condition burst….

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fhAQNAscGGx0YQZZxR6ASYgS2y4A-T1BFABIp8Tu9HSTfwCnCAAeCAFq+zVKBJFwoCjA-w

you can swap it to pvp gear, this is my solo roaming lockdown build i use when i dont feel like swapping out too much gear from my standered 4/4/0/0/6 gs/st or st/sw.

Its a CS 6/4/0/0/4 sw,sw/st.

Its fun because i really have to time my shatters and such with the recharge of the phantasms and their attacks.

Oh and if you are having issues surviving save blurred frenzy.

I call it the Confounding Spanking.