I’m slowly coming back to playing this game and am a bit rusty, but I can not for the life of me figure out a good power build for my Mesmer. Anyone have recommendations on some fun power Mes roaming builds? Thanks
Looking for Power based roaming build in WvW
I run something like that. It’s power shatter, so in any long duel you’ll be at a disadvantage. It’s also very difficult to play, has literally no condition removal outside the Generosity sigils, and you’re squishy as hell. What it excels in is excellent ranged burst (and burst in general), decent ranged pressure with greatsword, stupidly high lock-down and CC capabilities, vulnerability stacking, lots of ways to guarantee stomps, and generally being slippery and hard to catch.
You might want to take Marauder’s over Berserker’s. Personally, I’ve had more luck with the latter. Your focus should be on catching people out, bursting them down, and stopping them from retaliating. The longer the fight goes, the more you’ll find yourself inhibited by cooldowns. The build has tons of interrupts at its disposal:
2x Mantra of Distraction
4x Diversion (with 3 clones)
2x Tides of Time (including the returning wave)
3x Gravity Well
Illusionary Wave
Continuum Split to do any of the above multiple times
This synergises well with Delayed Reactions and Power Block. The former, coupled with Lost Time and your Illusionary Avengers, keeps quite high slow uptime, which really screws with people. Since the slow nerf (and the fact that Lost Time is a pretty crappy grandmaster trait in general), I’m not sure how well this holds up. That said, due to the alacrity nerf and the fact that clone generation is more than handled by Deceptive Evasion, I don’t think there’s much reason to take any of the other traits… except maybe Chronophantasma, which you can try out if you prefer it.
I find the build tons of fun to play, and it does particularly well against classes with little sustain, such as Necromancers and Thieves. Make sure to abuse the interrupts and stop key abilities such as heals. Blinding Dissipation, Blink, Distortion, Gravity Well, and Decoy are all useful ways to secure stomps.
The biggest trouble I’ve had is against Elementalists and Scrappers, who have far too many heals and damage mitigation tools to give you a chance to burst them down fully.
(edited by Step.1285)
Weapon: GS & Sword/torch
Traits: Dom/Chaos/Chrono, take mental anguish, PU, shatter on quickness
Utility: mantra of distract, decoy, blink
Elite: gravity well, moa, mass invis, pretty much personal preference
Gear: zerker or marauder, scholar rune