Guild Wars 2

Hey all,

I spoke at length about a build for my mesmer in This Thread.

As a result of TooBz post, I took a look at the 0/4/4/0/6 Shatter build owing to its versatility and applicability to both PvE and WvW.

With the impending changes to IE, I was looking for mesmer input on running a 0/4/4/0/6 build instead. This I see as a hybrid shatter/condition build that would use both Chaos X and Illusions VII (Major traits swapped situationally).

I was wondering if this is viable as a shatter/condition build? Illusions VII works for both GS and Staff, so weapon swapping could be done on the fly to suit situations.

Whats your thoughts please?

Trying to do conditions in PvE will just give you a bad time in the best of scenarios. Using a shatter condition build will be even worse. Additionally, any variant of a condition build is completely dead weight in dungeons, so by taking that sort of build into a dungeon party, you’re essentially forcing them to carry you. As a point of reference, I’ll kick any condition mesmer on sight from my dungeon groups, because they’re just that useless.

Condition shatter in general is questionably effective, even in PvP situations, although it is getting buffed slightly with the patch. In general, other builds are stronger if you want to go for conditions.

Yeah I will only take a phantasmal power build into dungeons I think.

I am thinking about swapping out 2illusions into 2 chaos so that I can have 0/4/6/0/4 then I can have more versatilility with the Choas line swapping manipulations with condition on clone death and PU.

I have edited the first post because I put 4/4/0/0/6 when I meant 0/4/4/0/6