Guild Wars 2

Mesmer Shatter/Nuke : They’ll never see it coming

Introduction: So basicaly this build puts together all the best mesmer can use. Raw-power, critical damage, condition damage, mass clone production, mass condition production, mass damage mitigation and combines all stuff together in simple ol fashion of glass cannon build.
Although calling this build glass cannon will not change the fact that you still unkillable 1v1 and deadly 2v2/3v3 or 5v5.

Mesmer Shatter/Nuke – Kill Montage

Pros & Cons
Pros:

• Scary Single/AoE damage
• Can Insta-Gib Glass Cannons (brings satisfacion)
• Inflicts lots of conditions
• Remove boons, buffs yourself and allies.
• Endless illusions.
• Speed buffs team/yourself
• Have at least some CC

Conts:

• Low Toughtness/Healing pool
• Glass Cannons could Insta-Gib you
• Cant handle Focus-Fire
• Cant do well 1v2
• Demands “Skill” and “Reaction” to use
• Cant` be used by beginners

Build Summary —-- Build Calculator Link
Traits: 20(I,VII) / 20(V,X) / 0 / 0 / 30(I, V,X!)
Skills: Ether Feast(Healing), Mirror Images,Decoy,Blink, Mass Invis.
Weapons: (1)Staff – (2)Sword/Focus
Sigils: 2x Sigil of Superior Energy, 1x Sigil of Superior Hidromancy
Runes: 6x Rune of Rage
Trinket: 1x Berserkers Amulet.
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Basic tactics: Your best bet is too fight equal amount of enemies every possible time (1v1 / 2v2/ 3v3 etc.) Although you can mess with people 1v2 chances of you finishing both of them and staying alive are about 10-20% or even less. This is also not a good build for defending nodes versus many enemies, your are not a tanky guardian, not even a tanky mesmer. But goin agressively on enemies is recomended, there is literally less than a 10% of players whom you cant kill(like uber PRo skills or uber tanky builds) and if you have your comrades by your side(who agro) you simply annihilate your enemies.
So whats your job in the team? – Answer: its same as usual, you cap nodes and deliever chaos in teamfights , man Treb, Kill dude on enemy treb,steal enemy Chieftain, basicaly you`re “Thief” number-2 except that you are a lot harder to kill. —->

Build Commentary Guide Will be changing that/Shanky video issues
Raw gameplay – Part 1
Raw gameplay – Part 2
Raw gameplay – Part 3
Raw gameplay – Part 4

If you have question or willing to give your opinion it would be my pleasure to know and answer them.

I like the build.

The videos were pretty good, though the shaky cam (you had someone film your screen with a hand cam I’m guessing?) was pretty distracting and made it so that your ability bar or target health bar kept drifting out of view.

Critiquing your play; a few times you let yourself go down while you had distortion ready to go. No reason for that, especially given your build’s constant stream of clones.

Also, early in the second video you let a warrior bull rush => 100 blades you down, even though blink is sitting there ready to fire.

You moved through the map very well (though you burned blink for a slight speed burst and on at least one occasion died because you didn’t have it ready when you needed it).

Quibbles aside, I enjoyed the videos. You played a few pretty nice matches there.

Wow, just watched my vid on youtube.. thx that you pointed out about shanky cam. In fact when i watched those clips in MWP all seemed normal, do not know why its so shanky, so i must look in to it. Probably will replace them with something else.

As for that warrior with 100b, you`re 100% right should`ve blinked away that just happens sometimes, wasnt prepeared for his stun and tried to pull 3 illusion to distort, but while i was trying to figure our why are they still not shattered he killed me.

does Distortion length scale with number of illusion?

Positive on that, 1 illusion 1 second distortion, 3 llusion – 3 second.

heya, what do you think about illusionary persona? It seems very useful for shatter build.

Poplik.8697:

heya, what do you think about illusionary persona? It seems very useful for shatter build.

im using it and its very good if you want to go shatter build and you can use all shatters even without illusions when you count as 1 but Illusion line offers condition dmg and shatter recharge reduction (which isnt working maybe, because it shows the same numbers as without it, dont know if recharge is faster) so it lowers your other stats, mainly dmg stats

Don’t get too concerned by the stats granted with each line. They only make up a small part of your total at end game (they are more of a big deal for leveling up).

So yes, you get some condition damage out of the illusions line… you also get condition duration from the domination (power) line. Both are useful for both power AND condition damage builds.

In pvp, I get a LOT of damage off the confusion my shatters cause (due to the 15 point minor trait in illussions).

MaXi.3642:

Poplik.8697:

heya, what do you think about illusionary persona? It seems very useful for shatter build.

im using it and its very good if you want to go shatter build and you can use all shatters even without illusions when you count as 1 but Illusion line offers condition dmg and shatter recharge reduction (which isnt working maybe, because it shows the same numbers as without it, dont know if recharge is faster) so it lowers your other stats, mainly dmg stats

the reduce in recharge time for shatter works. cooldown numbers remain the same on tooltip, but when you activate it. the active CD timer counts from after the reduction.

I`ve Added kill montage, please check it out as i think those who play mesmer will like it.

Upping, will be adding something new today.

Poplik.8697:

heya, what do you think about illusionary persona? It seems very useful for shatter build.

Im using it, its very powerfull together with the runes!
Did 7k blurried frenzy and 10k shatter as one shot (17k) yesterday! Thats called BURST :P

lol that guy must have had 25 stacks of vulnerability and/or be naked

Poplik.8697:

lol that guy must have had 25 stacks of vulnerability and/or be naked

Nop, full gear, no stacks, I came out of the kitten moa! And used mine burst! Was in a tournament ^^

I will upload it soon.

well I have around 2k power and never ever had even close to 7k BF O.O

and clones shatter for 1500 per one tops for me

Wait and you will see m8 ^^ Youtube is taking its time to process ((

Edit: Im talking bout sPvp btw. (tournament)

Not PvE or WvW

I posted a very similar build right after the game came out. In fact it’s almost identical except for 30 points in dueling instead of illusions. That was also because I was using the pistol as well as the focus.

The reception was pretty bad because at the time everyone hated any build that involved shattering, preferring instead to just afk with their phantasms up.

My only other comment is the sigil choice. I thought I tested it and found that the sigils of energy do not stack. Am I wrong? Even if they do stack I find that when I swap I’ll typically have somewhere around 25% of my energy remaining. Two sigils will cause you to clip some of your energy no matter what. Not a huge deal though.

It’s interesting. I’ve never used a focus offhand for a shatter build. I also never got into staff for a burst damage build because GS auto-attack does SO much damage with a glass cannon build. I also think melee illusions are much better for shatter.

After watching your video, I think this build is better for raw damage, but you would sacrifice chaos storm and phantasmal armor, amazing skills, for it. If you get to trying something like this out, I’d love to know what you thought of it.

http://www.gw2build.com/builds/simulator.php#1.8.12.3.0.20.25.24.0.32.180.196.198.191.204.2.2.6.526.0.0.542.545.550.0.0.0.0.0.0.586.590.596.10.30.0.0.30

I generally win 1v1’s, but not if I get jump mauled by a thief. No condi-removal but I try not to get involved in prolonged fights. I get out at the first sign of trouble with decoy and blink.

Not sure about the pistol offhand, which I’m thinking could be sword instead. Lose the easy to use interrupt, but a melee phantasm is more convenient for mindwrack. Also don’t know about the elite.

I agree with alot in your build but I dissagree with Focus as a stable offhand. I sure you see benefist form it etc but in my opinion focus is a hf you always carry…. in your bag to use as a extra utility. When running out of battle, open bag use speed buff change back wo pistol/sword. Yes the speedbuff/pull is amasing skill on focus but the warden is underpreforming in al ways. It in no way synergice with sword MH as a pistol. Its alot less effective in a 1 vs 1 or 1 vs 2 situation to carry and I think thats why you mention in description the build is less effective vs 2 opponents.

Winterfell.8915:

Wait and you will see m8 ^^ Youtube is taking its time to process ((

Edit: Im talking bout sPvp btw. (tournament)

Not PvE or WvW

I think I found the vid, you were right oO

I must be doing something very wrong.

I feel that illusionary invigoration is necessary in this build. Otherwise it’s essentially the same build that I use… and it’s awesome.

so if you have? 3 clones out and send them in to shatter, you can create other clones that’ll show up even before the old ones shatter?