Guild Wars 2

Hello, fellow mesmers.

I run a retaliatory bunker guardian and I’m looking for the offensive sister of my character by making a mesmer.

I’ll describe a WvW scenario so you can understand.

I spot a thief slashing a ranger so I jump in and disable the thief with a combo of dazes, stuns, knocks and freezes.
Then the thief changes target to me and slashes the wind having 2349782 stacks of confusion as I evade/dodge/block/blur/whatever so his life crumbles to little thinking “OMGSOOP. CAN’T KILL HIM AND HE HURTS SO BAD” .

So he hits the panic button (stealth) but it’s too bad since he gets dazed and stunned again, getting finished off by the ranger.

So the build I’m looking for should be based on interrupting and confusion. So basically a build which pulls out a draw unless the enemy is too stubborn and kills himself.
I’m looking for something which instead of having damage, relies on being resilient with high toughness and perhaps healing power.

I’ve tried making a mesmer and theorycrafting, but the trees are incredibly confusing and I have no idea which weapons to pick. Sum to that my absolute lack of knowledge in mesmer playstyle and it becomes disaster.

Any experienced mesmer can point out which traits and weapons I should start with? Rest I can toy around.
Am I perhaps asking for an impossible build? I hope I at least open some clever discussion with this thread.

Might want to have a look for Kylia’s lockdown build. 11ish seconds of continued stun.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/Builds-Kylia-s-Builds-Compilation/first

I had made an interrupt build some week ago https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/Build-Dominator-Dominatrix-spvp/first#post2548708

even though it was meant mainly for pvp, I’ve been running it in wvw as well and it yeld very good results (running full berserker).

I am not using confusion because of the nerf that makes it barely noticeable. Instead, GS will do the job much more easily and yelding very satisfying results. Most of the time people run away, tho

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fgAQNAraWlwzyoHTzgGb9IipHBHyJcoUcdVXJF42FC-ToAAzCpIaS1krJTTymsNNEZ9B

This is what I’ve been using in PvP but it can easily be modified for WvW. Take a few glamours and the confusion with glamour trait and you should be set for both roaming and zerging for loot bags. I have a thread about a condition-based interrupt build here if you want to get some more ideas:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/Post-6-25-Interrupt-build-help/first#post2390081