Guild Wars 2

Heya !

Bored by the Mesmer Phantasm build, i would like to change my gaming style by going to a boons sharing and hybrid dps build.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fgEQNAW8fnUEFQbRNK1gWbEx0jgz3AOSKctXrkiZ7CB-jQCBYhCy0CAkFQkIwJqFRjtMsIasaZK16ZBSdDDA-e

Would like to have your thoughs about it, need to know if it will be very usefull in very high lvl fractal or if the kitten full berserker set is mandatory…
In other words, with this kind of build and gear, i will be a weight or an usefull part for my group?

Thanks !

Sadly, you’ll be a burden. That build looks like it could be great in WvW, but it’s a horrible idea for fractals.

Reflections are paramount, specially in fractals. You have none. Also, mesmers are a really terrible class for condition damage to begin with; staff doesn’t apply nearly enough, torch just has the single burn, and … that’s it. At least with duelist you could maybe stack some bleeds, but it’s nowhere near the condition output of a necro or engineer.

Going invisible half the time so you can put out a little bit of protection and regen is fairly useless, specially if you have a hammer guard around who can keep it up permanently, for free, while also doing serious dps. Not to mention you can only share it once every 36 seconds. The meta phantasm build provides better perma-regen already.

Might-stacking with BI could be useful but you have no interrupts except distortion and the occasional chaos storm, not really sustainable. Torch phantasm sucks, Warlock is ok but he’s power based and you have none.

All told, low damage, low support, low healing, zero utility. The PvE meta builds are meta for a reason…

Thanks for your answer. Sadly, i think there isnt any tasty addiction to play with zerk meta.
OS something or to be oneshoted, thats is the question, pretty well sumed up but very low skills meta .

Dante.2510:

Thanks for your answer. Sadly, i think there isnt any tasty addiction to play with zerk meta.
OS something or to be oneshoted, thats is the question, pretty well sumed up but very low skills meta .

Something worth noting is that the build you’ve posted there, as valarauka explained, does nothing effectively. There are Mesmer builds that support well, or can stack conditions reasonably well, but your build can’t do either. Not only can’t it compete in a speed running zerker group, I wouldn’t want that in any group, as it would just be a pure dead weight on the party.

Dante.2510:

OS something or to be oneshoted, thats is the question, pretty well sumed up but very low skills meta .

Hardly. There’s a fair amount of skill involved in timing your reflects, evades, distortion, blink, sword block etc. to stay alive while also doing damage. Most of the fights in fractals can’t be “one-shotted” anyway.

If you want to test your skill, try soloing some of the bosses.

If u want boon support take a look at chaos maestro build. Then modify it for more dps but keeping the concept the same. The concept works quite well in pve.

As to weather you will be one shotted why don’t you actually try it. People on the forum have no idea because most of them run zerker builds.

In the end it is you who actually need to put in the effort to experiment different builds and concepts if u want to find the right build for yourself. If u can dodge and avoid all the mob dmg and not die 95% of the time then go full zerker for more dmg. If not then go with something more defense oriented. There is no point in going zerker if u keep on dying, your dps drop to 0 when you’re dead.