Guild Wars 2

Hey there!

I was wondering.. I am a fairly decent mesmer but I’ve been struggeling with one thing. Being in a zerg as my mesmer. I do not really know what to do besides placing some glamour skills and timewarp and placing a portal here and there. Ofcourse I deal a good amount of damage but it is mostly targeted at 1 person while eles and necros have big AOE spells (wells, staff marks and prettymuch everything for staff ele ;3). I’ve been trying to really make an impact on zergs but I don’t feel it.

Now my plan was to be an interrupt power mesmer who locks down people who charge into my team or lock down people that are in the enemy’s backline (for example a bunch of eles casting meteor shower). But that didn’t seem to work.

Do you guys have any tips or builds (with explanation)?

Thanks!

TLDR: I am looking for a game changing mesmer WVW zerg playstyle that focusses on AOE control.

Play a different class.

Mesmers in zergs are either veil/portal bots or backline snipers.

The proper answer is to wait for HoT, when we get Chronomancer. In the meantime though, there are some things you can do that I’ve had success with.

I tend to run gs/staff with Dom/duel/chaos, taking every single interrupt trait. I take MoD and decoy, then sometimes feedback and sometimes blink.

The way you want to play this is dropping chaos storm with the mantra on regroup manouvers. They generally won’t have stab up then, and they’ll be using longer channeled skills like empower and such. Loading interrupts into that will not only stop the empowers from executing, but will do damage, immob, and spread significant confusion onto everyone nearby (enough for it to hurt even without condition damage).

Alternatively, you could play a staff ele and do far more damage with far less effort, but that choice is up to you.