Guild Wars 2

I have a level 54 Mesmer and I prefer the staff as a weapon and I have all rare toughness/vit gear with dps accessories.

Can you guys give me advice on the best build and when should I shatter my clones? I’m always afraid to shatter them because I use them to keep mobs off me in wvw and pve.

Don’t worry about shattering clones, because we have plenty of ways to generate clones, shatter clones often and frequently. The AOE damage, and benefits of shattering, distortion/diversion are huge and will improve your gameplay and returns greatly.

The first trait I grabbed on my Mesmer while leveling was 20 points in the Crit line for Deceptive Evasion (trait X) it creates a clone every time you dodge, to me this is when the mesmer really comes alive. This allows you to continuously shatter AND have clones up to draw aggro.

What is weapon are you using as your weapon swap? What are you looking to do? Continue leveling, WVW, pvp, or dungeons? What kind of play style do you like. Do you like hard hitting crits and damage, or do you want to do conditions?

BlueprintLFE.2358:

Don’t worry about shattering clones, because we have plenty of ways to generate clones, shatter clones often and frequently. The AOE damage, and benefits of shattering, distortion/diversion are huge and will improve your gameplay and returns greatly.

The first trait I grabbed on my Mesmer while leveling was 20 points in the Crit line for Deceptive Evasion (trait X) it creates a clone every time you dodge, to me this is when the mesmer really comes alive. This allows you to continuously shatter AND have clones up to draw aggro.

What is weapon are you using as your weapon swap? What are you looking to do? Continue leveling, WVW, pvp, or dungeons? What kind of play style do you like. Do you like hard hitting crits and damage, or do you want to do conditions?

Thank you so much for your response! I picked up the deceptive evasion trait tonight and I’m loving it. I was doing some serious pwnage in wvw.

Thank you for the advice and thank you for your service.

:-)