Guild Wars 2

I’m looking for a build that’s fairly exchangeable or easily adaptable between PvE, Dungeons, and WvW. One thing that I’ve noticed for the first and the last is that mobility can be a pretty serious issue for the Mesmer. However, and I know people always rave about it, I hate the focus. I know it has uses, but I would rather use a sword or a pistol offhand anyday – I just find them more useful in combat. So, what alternative do I have?

I think the Centaur runes combined with mantra of recovery make the skill about five times more useful then it is by itself (combine it with Mender’s Purity and it’s crazy useful). However, I really don’t want to put 30 power in my build in order to get the 3x cast for it because so many other traits are useful (and I find the other mantra skills fairly lacking). Is it still viable with only 2 casts? Are there any other potential routes? Opinions would be appreciated!

If you invest enough into Chaos, or slot Signet of Midnight, you can get near perma-swiftness from Centaur runes and Mirror. IMO, MoR is really only worth it if you’re already speccing for mantras.

The downside to the Centaur runes is that the +15% bleed duration doesn’t apply to the bleeds from Sharper Images, which is really our main source of bleeding. This part of the set bonus kind of goes to waste.

In the worst case scenario, you can just switch to the focus when out of combat and switch back to your normal off-hand after casting the curtain.

The only build exchangeable between PvE WvW and dungeons is power/crit GS/Sword+Focus

If you’re refusing to use the focus don’t worry about your build. Just do whatever you want.