Guild Wars 2

Hello fellow Mesmers,

This is the spec I’ve been running with pretty decent success.

http://tinyurl.com/odlfsu5

What I’ve been thinking of doing is taking 30 points out of chaos and putting them into the Illusions tree. Giving my hybrid build a bit more condition damage. And taking Phantasmal Haste, Illusion Elasticity, and possibly confounding power.

What I would gain.
Faster phantasm recharge, and decoy recharge,
More condition damage
Faster attacking phantasms
More bounce on my bouncing attacks

What I lose
Permanent swiftness from Centaur runes
300 toughness
Prismatic Understanding which I love
Safe fall which I really enjoy.

Let me know what you all think? Would the plus’s out weigh the minuses?

Phantasmal Haste doesn’t work on the Phantasmal Berserker.

colesy.8490:

Phantasmal Haste doesn’t work on the Phantasmal Berserker.

That’s incorrect – it works with the iBerzerker. Phantasmal Haste doesn’t work with the iSwordsman and the iMariner.

I wouldn’t make the switch. You have Decoy, The Prestige, and Mass Invisibility all in your build. That’s 3/4 of all the stealth skills we have. You are losing massive amounts of survivability by not taking Prismatic Understanding. Since you use sword/torch and greatsword, you don’t gain a ton from Illusions. Sure, you gain a little more condition damage for your GS clone bleeds and the burn from torch, but Illusionary Elasticity isn’t going to give you much extra mileage only affecting Mirror Blade and Phantasmal Haste isn’t that useful given that one of your phantasms (the iMage) is next to worthless. Overall, you give up huge survivability for slightly more damage.

Also, I noticed that your build has no condition removal. Might I suggest taking Cleansing Conflagration instead of what you currently have in Domination? Confusing Enchantments gives very minimal confusion, and unless you are doing a lot of ZergvZerg where you need to tag lots of people and where other people are removing conditions from you, you’re better of traiting torch. Without condition removal, you will get destroyed by just about any decent condition necro that you fight. With the trait, you have decent condition removal, as well as more frequent access to stealth and burning, which goes hand in hand with Prismatic Understanding and serves to increase both damage and survivability.

Awesome feedback!
You’re not the first person to suggest Cleansing Conflagration as it does synergize well with the build. I actually ran that, with a pure zerkers build for a long time. The problem I ran into is, I just felt like the character was missing something

I reconfigured my gear adding condition damage. To give my Image at least a little bite. And it helped my scepter attacks dramatically. I also felt my aoe in tower fights and keep fights was very lacking. Sure I zerker hits hard. But it just wasn’t enough for me personally. Since my confusion damage was already bumped up some, I tried out Confusing enchantments. I feel this trait is greatly underused. Glamour Mesmers usually take two traits to apply one stack of confusion with there glamour’s, while I get the same result with one. Yes, I know they have to exit or enter the field. But the majority of players are not going to sit in a feedback bubble. They see it, and they get out of it.

As for Condition removal. I’ve fallen in love with Sigil of Generosity. With a decent crit rate and steady targets it seems to pull conditions off me faster then anything I’ve ever tried before. Even Cleansing Conflag. If I get into a tighter spot, I drop null field at my feet.

I don’t pretend to be some awesome player who never loses a 1v1. I chased a thief for 20 minutes yesterday only for him to turn around and beat the butterflies out of me. But I do win some, and I’ve beaten more then just 1 a couple times.

I really do appreciate your feedback. I do think your correct, I don’t stand to gain enough by switching. And I’ll stay the same for now

Only a very hardcore or very wealthy wvw player would use Sigil of Generosity due to its pricetag. Also, Sigil of Generosity and Purity are not dependable due to the nature of sigils with cooldowns. This is because the CD triggers on crit rather than on cleanse.

As for Confusing Enchantments, it used to be very effective. However, after the super confusion nerf and fixes confusion is no longer very viable. Put another way, our confusion does 50% of its original damage in wvw and hits less often which means it’s closer to around 35% as effective as it used to be. Also, to get the most out of Confusing Enchantments you need to dump 20 into Inspiration to pickup the CD reduction and increased duration for glamour. As weak as confusion is now this simply makes you a support character with little damage.