Leveling a Mesmer...ouch. Advice?

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Posted by: Bindaeyen.9613

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Does anyone have advice for leveling a Mesmer?

I’m lvl 23, and while I really enjoy the concept of the class, it’s weapons, utility and gameplay, it just seems like I might as well be hitting enemies with a wet noodle when soloing. Unless I’m being down leveled significantly, soloing a single mob is a fairly arduous process. Combined with the Mesmer’s frailty, I end up getting downed very frequently as a result. Does anyone have advice on what traitlines I should go down, or weapons/utilities to use?

Also, is this just an aspect of leveling a Mesmer, or can I pretty much expect this to be the same at 80? Soloing’s pretty much my main activity, so it’s pretty important to me.

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Posted by: Deathcon.5903

Deathcon.5903

PVT gear will go a long way as you level up. I leveled up by maxing Chaos and Inspiration and using staff/greatsword.

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Posted by: harpoonefish.3208

harpoonefish.3208

It gets better, i just focused on trying to 100% the low level maps or a map i felt comfortable on, then around level 40-50 and you shouod be comfortable on any map your level range.
Level 80 and youll be fine, i solo pve mostly myself.
Just run whatever traits you like, the clone on dodge trait is pretty good when leveling in my experience though. Phantasms roll pve as well, but my advice would be to just use a build you enjoy and get used to using it and it well get easier faster.

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Posted by: Cares Less.9631

Cares Less.9631

Have a look at Lazy Kai’s guide to PvE, you can adjust from there, he gives solid advice for levelling, Dungeons & WvW you can read any of the other excellent threads for.

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Posted by: Kaiyanwan.8521

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Posted by: Dawdler.8521

Dawdler.8521

Endure up to level 40, after that its smooth sailing. I would highly recommend using a greatsword when leveling.

At 80 you can easily kill 5 Orr mobs while they barely scratch you.

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Posted by: Dietzen.6127

Dietzen.6127

I’d have to say endure. Endure until you can get deceptive evasion, once I got that trait, it all worked out much better. Having a higher clone production just means more dmg.

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Posted by: TooBz.3065

TooBz.3065

To get to 40 my advice is (this may be overkill, but you said you were struggling. If you do this you probably won’t struggle anymore).

1). Buy power based gear every 5 levels. (this means you will buy, at most 4 armor sets and 4 weapons sets before you hit 40 (now, 25, 30, 35)

2) Buy a minor sigil of bloodlust for each weapon set (one per set) Put in a buy order for 8 of them it will cost you less than 4 silver.

3) Buy 4 minor runes of the elementalist(< 1 silver), 4 minor runes of vampirism (< 1 silver), 4 minor runes of balthazar (< 1 silver), 4 minor runes of the flame legion (< 1 silver), 4 minor runes of the citadel (< 1 silver), 4 minor runes of the pack (< 1 silver).

4) When you get a new armor set, add 1 rune to each piece, each set should have 1 of each. So the set would have 1 elementalist, 1 vampirism, 1 balthazar, 1 flame legion, 1 citadel, 1 pack. This will give you +60 to your power. (if you are not familiar with this, each piece of armor (helm, shoulders, chest, gloves, legs, and boots) can hold 1 rune. The runes give bonuses. Here I’m going for a straight power stack).

5) when you get a new weapon set, add a sigil of bloodlust to the mainhand weapon of each set. This will avoid doubling up.

Anything I post is just the opinion of a very vocal minority of 1.

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Posted by: AndrewSX.3794

AndrewSX.3794

Craft straight up to 40.

Seafarer’s Rest EU – PvE/WvW – 8 × 80 chars.
Most used: Guard/Mes/War/Nec/Ele.
Yes, i use 5 chars at time. Because REASONS.

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Posted by: Orikx.9671

Orikx.9671

It’s painful to 40 like others have said but at 40 it opens up and there are several options for leveling.

Really leveling in this game is so easy and fast that the biggest thing you needed to decide is if you like the play style because you will be spending much more time on it Post lvl 80 then Pre 80.

Craft straight up to 40.

Crafting isn’t as good an option now because of the addition of lvl 500 crafting skills. 0-400 only gives you 7 levels now. So you would have to do almost 6 crafts to 400 to get 40. Save the crafting levels for later in case you decide you are tired of leveling.

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Posted by: AndrewSX.3794

AndrewSX.3794

On the other hand, it’s much easier to level up at higher levels compared to lower ones.

Seafarer’s Rest EU – PvE/WvW – 8 × 80 chars.
Most used: Guard/Mes/War/Nec/Ele.
Yes, i use 5 chars at time. Because REASONS.

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Posted by: Helios.3598

Helios.3598

Get GS + Sword/Focus. Read what your skills do, use them, use dodge, and you should be fine.

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