Guild Wars 2

I’m personally not a big fan of Illusion of Life for large-scale WvW. It’s a janky weird skill with a stupid long cooldown. I’d put Feedback there instead. I love feedback in groups!

I like what you have for Inspiration. I go with the staff cooldown trait for my middle chaos trait instead of the condi damage.

I also loathe the illusions tree. Shatters are pretty unreliable because the illusions often die before they reach their target. It’s super disappointing. Dom and Dueling both have some neat stuff for a third tree… Dom has interrupt oriented things, which will happen plenty with Chaos Storm and the pull from Wall of Reflection. Dueling has some great defensive options and deceptive evasion, which can be handy if you’re just looking for some clones to instantly shatter. In the future… chrono will go awesome there instead.

The basic play style is to hang back and keep feedback and the focus wall up as much as you can. Be sure to use your focus pull before it expires. Toss Chaos Storm in their blob. Then look for anyone who tries to invade your back line and play defense. Double-dodge-shatter them for some burst damage to scare them off and protect your back line. I try not to get too fixated on the big group because there’s not much we can do to support them once our few AoE skills are gone.

Hey para, welcome to the fabulous world of mesmers!

I didn’t have the time to put up a proper post about my raid builds after the patch, but I’ll link you what I’m playing with my guild.

Supportive build – this is intended for the “veilbot” mesmer. Brings tons of utility to your raid and still packs a lot of damage.

Sniper build – this is more oriented to damage. You lose PU (for longer veil), but you gain one more charge on MoP, fury for you and your iZerker. You can try this variation for sharing lots of might with your party (ideally other backliners).

If you are new to the game and not used to play a “squishy” power mesmer in a zerg, you can go for a mix of Soldier (Power, Vitality, Toughness), Knights (Toughness, Precision, Power) and Cavalier (Toughness, Ferocity, Power) to be more tanky. Also, you can lose the Pack/Strength/Hoelbrak runes in favor of something cheaper like Ruby Orbs or Runes of Rage and you can use the “major” (rare) sigils for everything EXCEPT the Sigil of Energy.

If you have any questions feel free to ask here or in game

Well the build I use is geared more for survival and I usually end up not getting a group so my build has super healing, condition removal, stealth and perma swiftness and regen.
Because if you are dead you can’t portal or veil the zerg witch is really important for zergs.
To give the zerg veil you cant stay way behind in the back line like the other casters because that veil has to be in front of the zerg leader and some times it even requires you to place it on the run.

One well placed veil can mean the difference between a win or lose for the whole zerg.

How many classes have a skill that can affect the whole zerg ?
being a zerg mesmer is a thankless job most people do not appreciate zerg mesmers enough.

Finally word of advice " Stay healthy my friend ".