Guild Wars 2

So my alt Mesmer is almost 80 and i was wondering what is the best build/gear for physical DPS? I run mostly Dungeons and some PvE and always go Glass Cannon Berserker build (with maxed 1st and 2nd trait lines) on my chars. Is it also the best option here ?? Also, how does Mesmer DPS compare to other mid-tier DPSers like Ranger, etc. Thanks in Advance.

30 in illusions is fairly common to get Illusionary Persona. It is a big boost to your direct damage, especially if you go full berserker.

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There are no tools to measure it, sadly, but I’d wager a guess that’s it either shatter builds (20/20/0/0/30) wielding GS/Staff or Phantom builds with Sharper Images and the Pistol Phantom.

For max mesmer damage and survival, get all power-toughness-vitallity gear, use superior sharpening stones for extra power, and power food, wield a great sword and dual swords, and trait 20/15/0/25/10. I got max attack (3500) and high health and armor.
My advice

Henrik.7560:

For max mesmer damage and survival, get all power-toughness-vitallity gear, use superior sharpening stones for extra power, and power food, wield a great sword and dual swords, and trait 20/15/0/25/10. I got max attack (3500) and high health and armor.
My advice

I have some trouble understanding the playstyle behind the numbers, can you give me an insight on your traits? Is it more of a phantasm build?

Kaiyanwan.8521:

Henrik.7560:

For max mesmer damage and survival, get all power-toughness-vitallity gear, use superior sharpening stones for extra power, and power food, wield a great sword and dual swords, and trait 20/15/0/25/10. I got max attack (3500) and high health and armor.
My advice

I have some trouble understanding the playstyle behind the numbers, can you give me an insight on your traits? Is it more of a phantasm build?

Guessing he took +15% illusion damage and GS weapon 20% in domination
Sword 20% in dueling
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Remove condition on heal and phantasm health 20% in Inspiration
+3% damage per illusion in Illusions

There’s really no reason to go into Inspiration unless you’re doing a phantasm build or maybe lolhealing mantra’s. The traits are all terrible.

I love phantasm mesmer’s in PvP they always die quickly to my shatters. In WvW they last a little longer because they can maintain better stats than in PvP.

This is my fav pve (high level fractals mainly and other dungeons) build. Also extremely good for wvw but i don’t spec into shatter and more into phantasm damage (izeker hits for 4-6k damage and you have 1817k toughness)

http://www.gw2db.com/skills/calc/mesmer#7|0|2647|8134|4091|4090|8987|20|1764|1744|0|20|1759|1815|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|30|2227|1775|2309|5|0|3|28034|28047|49962|53500|53500|53500|53500|0|0|0|0|0|0|

Jewels/weapon stats i use aren’t on that site so its:
Ascended backpack with Power/Toughness/Crit Damage
Berserker + Ancient Karka Shell with berserker jewel (earings)
Amulet of the Knight
Rurick’s Royal Signet (ring)
Adelburn’s Royal Signet (ring)

Both weapons with toughness/power/precision.
Five armor pieces with toughness/power/precision and one (must be headpiece) with zerker stats.

You should have +57% crit damage, 1817 toughness, 2087 power (on GS), 40% crit chance.

I optimized this build to max possible crit damage and still with a minimum if 1.8k toughness and 40% crit chance and before some1 asks why Compounding Power on a shatter build, because after shatter i replace them with three new clones instantly and don’t shatter until i have at least two clones to replace them (this never happens tho. unless you’re in a massive zerg in wvw OR in Ascalonian Battlefields fractals where Deceptive Evasion is bugged and anet seems to not give a kitten)