Guild Wars 2

Hey folks

I just hit 80 on my Mesmer and I was hoping that I could get advice on my current build. I’ve been using a variation of this for levelling and most of the story dungeons.
For weapons I’m using S/P and S/S with a GS in my pack in case using range is unavoidable mostly for a few PVE world events.

For Traits 2/6/0/4/2. Slotting Empowered Illusions, Phantasmal Fury, Blade Training, Duelist’s Discipline, Glamour Mastery, Persisting Images and Compounding power.
My reasoning is that most of the traits increase my phantasm’s damage and keeping them up a bit longer. Glamour mastery is there because I tend to lean on Null Field and Feedback as utilities unless the situation really calls for something else.

For healing I use Signet of the Ether and for my elite Time Warp.

As for gear its the pretty standard Berserker stuff.

I’m really hoping to know if this is at all viable for dungeons and if not some suggestions would really be appreciated.

You sir, need a focus. And .. oh why do I even start talking? If a good mesmer buddy just has created a total awesome “everything-you-need-to-know” guide! Take your time and read it, it’s worth it:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/Guide-How-To-Mesmer-in-Dungeons/page/2#post4044532

Xyonon.3987:

You sir, need a focus. And .. oh why do I even start talking? If a good mesmer buddy just has created a total awesome “everything-you-need-to-know” guide! Take your time and read it, it’s worth it:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/Guide-How-To-Mesmer-in-Dungeons/page/2#post4044532

Thanks for the link to that guide it helped a lot. I don’t know how I missed it, I’ve been looking at quite a few builds from the list of builds that have been listed in that stickyd thread.

To be fair he’s actually pretty close, not bad for a first try. This we can work with, unlike some of the other “i use greatsword for aoe” clowns that post on here.

If you’re not using a focus for reflects you should drop the 4 points in Inspiration. Pistol gets a fairly good damage bonus from Phantasmal Haste and taking that also gets you Illusionist’s Celerity which stacks with the weapon cooldown traits. You can keep the 2 points in Inspiration for the Glamour cooldowns but honestly you probably don’t need them, you can drop them into Illusions too for better shatters to clear trash mobs faster.

So your end result would be 2/6/0/0/6 with Sword and Pistol offhands, that is a workable build. Bit light on reflects but it’s not like you need them for everything.

Noone should go for 6 points into illusions in PvE unless you need to tag mobs in open world or just “want to play for fun”.

Mainly you should go for 6/4/0/4/0 if you have 2+ mantras in your utility bar, if you don’t, go 5/4/0/5/0.