Guild Wars 2

Spoiler: I’m not using a phantasm build

really great stuff! I also play a mes, mind posting your build?

Overall good video. It’s nice to see a fellow mesmer using the staff properly (ie: Chaos Storm is for you, not the bad guy). The Aegis proc happens 99% of the time.

Particularly liked the 2nd song you used. Artist/Name please.

Here’s the build: (you have to copy paste it for some reason— the link doesn’t work.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/en/?fgUQNAW8flwzqpHVzoGbNJhJFEH5nZAdmjWAJFq+1A;TsAg2CrosxYjwGrNObk2s+Y8x2DA

And the song list:
Song list (chronologically)
Heartbreaker- MSTRKRFT
What You Know- Two Door Cinema Club
Control Freak- Saul Williams

Also— if anyone has any questions about the build I’d be happy to answer

Hey, thanks for the track list! Just FYI the link comes back as bad. Works fine if you copy paste it though.

Then you find out thief stacks 25 bleeds in 4 seconds and that bleed outclasses confusion 100% of the time, let alone the meager other dots you can stack as a mesmer.

Oh and he can just stealth away, because those bleeds last between 10-14 seconds.

:/

I’m going to try and be as nice as possible. At the beginning of your video you literally did not dodge until 1:58 seconds in. That literally tells me that the warrior you are dueling must be the worst player on the face of this planet. Any decent warrior would have just wrecked you if he saw that you were not evading his attacks. Also your link is not working for your build. Furthermore If your not phantasm damage your condition damage is very very poor. You had a five stack of bleed and 2 stack on confusion at best.

I’m sorry to say but in my opinion this is not a good spec followed with not so good gameplay. You need to rethink your spec if you plan on going up against more than mindless players. It might as well be a dance party in the middle. I’m sorry for being honest but hey someone had to say it.

Ok trigr— and at what point exactly did I need to use a dodge vs the warrior? I conserve dodge for when I actually need it. I never went below 70% health in the fight vs the warrior.

Clearly you’re not actually looking at how the spec works. The purpose isn’t to spike damage into people. I made this build for holding points in tourny play and it does this extremely well because of all of the condition control I have between putting boons on myself and stripping enemies of buffs and putting conditions on them.

I have a ton of ways to avoid damage rather than dodging. If I have my combo activated and get my chaos armor there is literally no reason for me to dodge if I am in no danger as I can further get more conditions spread around.

Thanks for your input— but next time you try open your eyes a little bit and try not to be so ignorant.

Nero.8623:

Ok trigr— and at what point exactly did I need to use a dodge vs the warrior? I conserve dodge for when I actually need it. I never went below 70% health in the fight vs the warrior.

Exactly my point, that warrior is terrible. Any “GOOD” warrior would tear you to pieces in the spec your currently using. This is where the ability called “Dodge” comes into play. When you go into tournament play warriors don’t sit there and auto attack you for the majority of the duration. Then you will understand the dodge mechanic. Have a good one.

All of the footage was of tournament play— and quite obviously I’ve won my fair share as I had full Armageddon by level 8. Thanks for making statements with no backup, not watching my video and then continuing to portray your ignorance. Have a good one

I think what he’s saying is that you could demonstrate your spec more effectively if you had a capable Warrior attacking you.

The fight with the warrior lasted a minute. There are 7 more minutes of footage.

This looks like a good strong bunker build. I wouldn’t call it a condition build because there are lots of condition talents you did not take, and you took a 15% increase illusion damage, and cleansing conflagration, both in the power line.

None of that is bad of course. It’s just not a pure “condition build.” It’s a balanced tanky point defense build.

But whatever it’s just quibbling over names. Build looks fun.

One more note after watching the whole thing. Build will be less powerful after the prestige fix, but then, so will any build that included torch.

*Any build that abused the cooldown bug on Torch.

EasymodeX.4062:

*Any build that abused the cooldown bug on Torch.

Fair point, but it was hard NOT to abuse the torch bug. Anything that canceled the stealth (e.g. being interrupted by a knock-back while stealthed) reset the cooldown whether you were “abusing” it or not. It’s the kind of thing you can get unconsciously used to even if you’re not deliberately abusing it.

Nice video – I like the build. I’d suggest dumping the 6th Dolyak rune. The regen it provides is not worth it. I’d pick up another vit rune in its place.

This is my bunker build – The Regensmer (link for “Bad link”: http://gw2skills.net/editor/en/?fgQQNAsdWlwzqqHUTgGb9IhJF9G5neE9l/cUKwe2B;TsAg2Coouxcj4G7Nubk3sEZEyEEA)

There’s a more insidious build than this that does even more damage and has even more survivability, but I dare not post it.

Playing around with your build in WvW and having a blast with it.

Thedenofsin – why not post it? I am working on a compilation of builds for new mesmers and when i first played the class I was clueless, this would be just another build in the compilation