Guild Wars 2

First off, I’m a huge noob, just putting that out as a disclaimer. I’m currently not even level 30 on any character, so I have little idea of what exactly endgame balance is like.
Is it viable to play a Mesmer that focuses on creating tons of illusions, specifically clones? I don’t believe clones do damage, but they do distract enemies and can be shattered for damage, or allowed to be killed for a variety of trait effects.

I was thinking of a build akin to this.
How viable is it? It has many methods of creating illusions, and nearly all traits are spent on improving either illusions or shattering.

Also, a side question: When a trait procs on clone death, is it also procced by shattering?

Well your talent calculator looks out of date, that create a clone on dodge is now a 20 point talent skill. But in general I think shatter sucks as a mechanic overall. I could not imagine building a mesmer around shatter heavily.

- You want a shatter build, not an illusion/ clone build.
- First to need to spend the traits correctly (see cromx’ post). The “create a clone on dodge” is really powerful, I also love it. But I don’t think it’s necessary if you focus on Scepters.
- “on death” triggers on “killed” and “replaced”, not on “shattered” or “removed” (then target dies)
- The Scepters clone-spawn rate exceeds the MindWrack CD. Not sure about the Shatter CD reduction from traits. But I don’t that you need to spawn more illusions than the initial one (combat initiation) and the scepter ones.
- I wonder if you tried different weapons or different builds. I found it necessary for me to test them once in a while to find my preferred one. I also started with scepter spawning + shattering (always shatter while you cast the third scepter hit) and landed on bleeding build now. I also started with the [Focus], but I didn’t like either of its skills. If you trated [Phantsmal Haste] the warden is the most powerful, but that’ probably a bug. Most Mesmers use off-hand pistol for burst damage, total damage and bleeding triggering.
- Signet of illusions is not needed. If you use it for the shatter reset, yes. But the +50% health are not needed or just useless.
- You sure you don’t want to get 5 points in chaos ? the auto regeneration is really convient