Guild Wars 2

Im finding it hard to use the shatter build underwater.. are phantasm builds better in fighting underwater?

Trident clones + Time Warp, that’s all you need to know for mesmer underwater.

Shatter builds tend to be really good at spamming clones, and trident clones in particular are fairly nasty because they apply confusion. If you want a big confusion spike, Mirror Images + evade > Cry of Frustration, then another quick 3 clones and your opponent will be drowning in confusion. When your cooldowns are up and you can get another quick three, shatter again at every opportunity if you want to make the best of your trait picks.

The downside is if you have no condition damage (on account of expecting more Mind Wrack damage), Confusion won’t do quite as much damage and the bleeds from Sharper Images might not be so exciting. But the confusion is still quite painful, it’s common to see opponents at 10+ stacks.

Grab a spear. You don’t really need trident if it’s PvE.

Focus on deploying your phantasms, and otherwise on timing your auto attacks so you start striking right after the enemy swings (timing the third strike to their attack animation, you can repeatedly queue and cancel it with moving, but you don’t get the evade.)

You can easily burst 16k+ with three spear phantasms out. Ignoring your actual damage. WITHOUT ZERKS GEAR.

Mesmer + three spear phants can easily get absolutly insane numbers.