Guild Wars 2

So i play a fair bit of solo pvp these days, swapping between theif mesmer and ele when i get bored.

Im really enjoying mesmer at the moment and I’m running a shatter gs+staff build. My question is which is better for pvp/roaming? GS+staff or gs+sw/p?

I think sword/pistol because of the damage on sword 2, pistol 4 and the interrupt on pistol 5. Wheras on staff you only get chaos armour, an interrupt field (no good for roaming) and an illusionary warlock which you’re probably going to lose by the time you’ve dodged anyway.

I’ve tried both and im used to staff so thought that was better, but I’m willing to try it again and hopefully get a hang of it.

Also another question: how the hell do you survive while your stomping someone? I’ll pop a decoy then try to stomp and knowing my luck i’ll still get cced or melt by downstate auto attack. (im running zerk shatter)

about sword, most dont use cause sword 3 is unreliable as hell and sword auto atk… well u r too squishy to actually try and meele ur enemy

staff offers great survivablity by chaos armour, phace retreat , chaos storm

about save stomps, u can stealth stomp , portal stomp, phace retreat+ blink stomp, f4 shatter stomp , chaos storm stomp (hope ur enemy gets blind or u get aegis on chaos storm)

Wyrden.4713:

about sword, most dont use cause sword 3 is unreliable as hell and sword auto atk… well u r too squishy to actually try and meele ur enemy

staff offers great survivablity by chaos armour, phace retreat , chaos storm

about save stomps, u can stealth stomp , portal stomp, phace retreat+ blink stomp, f4 shatter stomp , chaos storm stomp (hope ur enemy gets blind or u get aegis on chaos storm)

totally forgot about distortion! its the only shatter i never use :P Distortion also gives me immunity to cc while its active?

Loki.2894:

Wyrden.4713:

about sword, most dont use cause sword 3 is unreliable as hell and sword auto atk… well u r too squishy to actually try and meele ur enemy

staff offers great survivablity by chaos armour, phace retreat , chaos storm

about save stomps, u can stealth stomp , portal stomp, phace retreat+ blink stomp, f4 shatter stomp , chaos storm stomp (hope ur enemy gets blind or u get aegis on chaos storm)

totally forgot about distortion! its the only shatter i never use :P Distortion also gives me immunity to cc while its active?

yep