Gotta put credits out to Fay for getting me started on this path love your mantra builds.
Anyway this is a slight variation on Fays Pancea support mantra build more focused for WvW. It can run zerg support quite well but i find it excels in small team support even more.
With the up coming changes to to mesmer mantra cast times this should hopefully maek it even more powerful (will update later today after patch with new test results)
Idea’s of the build
The idea of this build is to use mantra of Recovery to pop your runes of altruism every 10 seconds giving your group 3 stacks of might and vigor on every pop of this skill.
For aoe heals you need to be constanly popping Mantra of pain to get those AoE heals up, combine this with the regenration from phantasms and you can dish out a bunch of healing.
The third aspect of this build is the blind on glamour i find this incredibly usefull in small team fights and zerg v zerg to drop at the front and kill that initial hit that your group will take. This will buy you a seocond tops but in WvW battles that second can be life or death. With this you also get reflects from Feeback and traited focus.
Lastly with retalitation on cry of frustration and from light field leap finshers (of which you have two) you can hold your own rather well in 1v1 situations and laugh as that group trys to burst through your healing as they all die around you.
Gear
The armour I’ve gone with is clerics as I find by having a more direct damage output from the power I work better in small team fights while still being effective in zergs. on this i run 6x runes of altruism. also run full clerics acceroices.
Weapons
For weapons I run Sword/focus and Staff all clerics with sigil of life on sword and staff (for added healing) and for focus i run speed, however this is just personal prefernce and can be changed to what ever you want.
Skills
The two key skills that you need to run in this build are mantra of recovery and mantra of pain. As it also focuses on glamours you will want to full your other 2 utility slots with glamour skills, I tend to run Feedback and null field however portal and veil can be swapped in and out depending on the situation. For elites I mainly run Timewarp however mass invisibily can be swapped out on an on need basis
Traits
for this build i go with 0/0/20/30/20 taking
- Illusionary Defense
- Chaotic Dampening
- Glamour Mastery
- Restorative Mantra
-Wardens Feedback
- Confusing Cry
- Dazzling Glamours
Out of these the only 2 key traits that are needed for this build are Restorative Mantra and Dazzling glamours as these priovided two of your key mecanics. The rest are there to complint these key mecanics and i find they are the best choice for each slot. One thing to note if you find yourself lacking condition removal on yourself drop glamour mastery for Menders Purity, Do note however this will slow down your ability to apply blinds to targets.
Anyway thats my build so far guys unfortuanatly I do not have any gameplay videos as my PC doesn’t handle it very well however if you have any questions fire away!