Guild Wars 2

Put together a complete new set of gear for confusion damage. It seems so great in theory. I really enjoy the chaos line, which a condition damage spec allows for some room in. And i like the glamours a good deal. But for me i just haven’t been able to do it. I can get a good 5-8 stacks of confusion on someone. But only the truly bad, or someone in a mob mentality, really dies from this.

I run with a zerg sometimes, but mostly i run in small groups and solo. And the pure dropping power of my mantra build just completly over shadows the confusion spec for me so far. I feel like against a Gaurdian or Elementalist, there condition removal makes my condition build just about useless. I never feel this way with my mantra build.

I’m also kind of opening my mind about Mantras. I don’t feel the need to “constantly” have all the mantra’s on my bar. In a keep fight, i can easily trade out my greatsword mastery, to the “opponents who enter your glamour get confusion” trait. Sure i have low condition damage. But rarely have i ever seen someone drop from a glamour feild. There more meant to move the opponents around/reflect there damage/controll the feild.

I’m going to keep trying confusion. Every once in awhile i run into someone who will try to spam through it, and i drop them pretty fast.

I aslo kind of feel like i have to make a lot of rough choices with condition. For reliable condition removal i am taking either 10 in inspiration, or using the signets remove conditions, with my signet of midnight.

Just me touching base on where i am on my mesmer journey.

Well there are a variety of ways to run as a condition Mesmer. What I’m running right now has some of the conditions applied on clone death.

Yeah I keep going back to 30/30 Mantras because I like seeing my targets fall over.

I have a pack of Carrion gear and will spec for megaGlamour spam + blind/confuse for some WvW zerging. Sometimes. It’s pretty hilarious anti-turtling and general suppression.

But, blowing people up is more entertaining. Especially when 2 underleveled people stand next to each other and Mirror Blade + Mind Stab just melts their entire HP bars.

It’s too addicting. I’m still going for record MWx1 crits. I need to fine-tune my food and stuff to try to get higher. Sharpening stones.

Yeah I know what you mean, my phantasm/mantra build is my favorite build to play. It’s a derivative of the many other mantra builds out there.
But I always wanted to try a Condition/Shatter build using Rampager’s armor. I think I’ve struck a very good balance between condition and raw damage using a GS and Staff since I also wanted all ranged. It’s been a blast to play.
http://tinyurl.com/a6bp7t3

I soon want to try a full 30/30 mantra build again as well. I did awhile ago when I had no idea how to play with mantras but now that I do I’m looking forward to giving it a try.