Guild Wars 2

Could somebody theory craft me a mesmer build that achieves maximum mob tagging in large groups? I know they aren’t guardians or FT engis but I want to see what our best option is, according to Mesmers that are far smarter than me. Show me the loot, yall!

I won’t dub this the ultimate farming build, but when I run mesmer for these types of things, I’ll run GS/Staff with traited GS, Staff and illusionist’s celerity for maximum illusion recharge reduction. You could certainly swap Staff for Sw/F for a bit better tagging and swiftness if you want to take something other than traveler’s. I just love staff so I use it.

Aside from that, running with Mantra of Pain is a must (since AoE), and Mantra of Distraction with halting strike.

So, something like this:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fhAQJARGlknpEt1oxMNSMNET2rIKLfmkBOUqQA-TVghAAw+DAA-w

Also make sure you shatter mind wrack and CoF (F1/F2) as often as possible in between MoP’s, Mind Stab, iBerserker and Chaos Storm. That’ll keep the AoE tagging up until those come off recharge.

If you use sword, take 2 points from chaos and put them in dueling for blade training.

This kind of setup will get you closer to ele/guard potential tagging, but you are working really hard to get those tags even with this setup, and still won’t match. Ele is just too OP and easy mode when it comes to this kind of thing and that’s what I mainly run.

MoD with halting isn’t worth it. The cooldown time on it makes it just entirely inefficient. You’d be better off cleaving with sword during that time. I’d run something more along the lines of gs + sw/focus with mantra of pain. You can fiddle with the traits, but that’s going to be more or less the best tagging you can get. Staff isn’t worth it because chaos storm is on a 35s cd.

Fay.2357:

MoD with halting isn’t worth it. The cooldown time on it makes it just entirely inefficient. You’d be better off cleaving with sword during that time. I’d run something more along the lines of gs + sw/focus with mantra of pain. You can fiddle with the traits, but that’s going to be more or less the best tagging you can get. Staff isn’t worth it because chaos storm is on a 35s cd.

Well, you can lay down the mantra without breaking AA or BF, so it just adds more potential tags. That said, if you want a different utility instead of waiting on that 30s recharge, I get it.

Chaos Storm isn’t bad at all on 28s traited recharge and tags excellently. Again if you don’t prefer that, just run Sw/F. I consider GS mandatory.

I m currently running GS/Staff bc iWar kitten s world bosses but in situations where I need to cleave fast I just wish I had a sword. I guess I could always just swap out though. Thanks yall!

If I use MoP, would training harmonious mantas be worth the cd reductions Id give up for one of my weapons tagging-wise?

Snakebyte.2804:

I m currently running GS/Staff bc iWar kitten s world bosses but in situations where I need to cleave fast I just wish I had a sword. I guess I could always just swap out though. Thanks yall!

If I use MoP, would training harmonious mantas be worth the cd reductions Id give up for one of my weapons tagging-wise?

Could be maybe, would have to play with it to see.

GS + Sword/Focus with Mantra of Pain & Blink, running 6/6/2/0/0.

- GS for long range single target tagging.
- GS34/MoP for AoE 1,200 range tagging.
- Sword for melee tagging.
- Focus for on demand swiftness.
- Blink to catch up with the zerg.
- 6/6/2/0/0 to compliment it all

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