Guild Wars 2

So i’ve been running this for aprox 1k hours (of course it couldn’t be exactly the same before x ascended gear was introduce but you get the idea) as my main mesmer build for everything but spvp and i thought i’d share. I mostly do high level fractals (30+) or wvw so tell me what you think.

http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/mesmer/?4.3|1.1n.h17|6.1n.h1h|1n.76.1g.71j.1n.76.1n.76.1n.76.1n.76|2s.0.2v.0.3v.0.1n.67.1n.67.2v.0|k1a.k2a.0.0.u25b|0.0|31.39.38.3d.3q|e

This is exactly what i run but of course some traits/utility skills/weapons may be changed for certain situations. I also suggest to keep accessories exotic because you won’t be able to achieve 40% crit chance, 1800+ toughness, 60% crit damage and have high power (2130 power in my case) with ascended gear. That’s just me tho, i optimized it like so.

Seems like a pretty solid balance between offense/defense. I went with a mix of berserkers and valkyrie gear so high health pool instead of toughness. I’m guessing you shatter instead of leaving your clones alive (basing it on trait choices). Seeing as your crit is 60% I can see why you skipped the extra 10% chance to crit on mind wrack which is a smart move…why not go for compounding power versus the extra 33% confusion duration?

Harbinger.9645:

Seems like a pretty solid balance between offense/defense. I went with a mix of berserkers and valkyrie gear so high health pool instead of toughness. I’m guessing you shatter instead of leaving your clones alive (basing it on trait choices). Seeing as your crit is 60% I can see why you skipped the extra 10% chance to crit on mind wrack which is a smart move…why not go for compounding power versus the extra 33% confusion duration?

These exact traits is what i had when solo roaming in wvw and what i prefer for solo roaming but as mentioned i change traits all the time the only thing that doesn’t change is the 20/20/0/0/30 for this build. Yes its for heavy shatter, don’t like anything else on mez but shatter spam

Nuka Cola.8520:

These exact traits is what i had when solo roaming in wvw and what i prefer but as mentioned i change traits all the time the only thing that doesn’t change is the 20/20/0/0/30 for this build. Yes its for heavy shatter, don’t like anything else on mez but shatter spam

I’m right there with you on that, shattering is the only style I like to play with. I play around with traits too so I was just curious for the reasoning behind it as I always feel like I’m missing something about the Mez’s mechanics haha. Thanks and happy hunting.