Guild Wars 2

So I finally made a mesmer (which was the last profession I had to level to 80) after putting it off for ages as I didn’t like the way it ‘looked’ to play. Weird I know but that’s just me. So I made one to finish off all classes and I’m surprised to actually be enjoying it.

Now up to this point I made a power build with knights set and zerker trinkets for WvW (I WvW about 85% of my time) and it has been working lovely at getting me introduced to the playstyle and the shatter mechanic, but now I’m looking to make a build that I have seen a bunch of mesmers successfully pull off in WvW about harassment of groups. They can front up to a smallish group and absolutely tick them off by way of mentally screwing with them through clones/invis/dazes etc.. and without dying in the process.

What I’m looking to achieve is this and I’m not too worried about very low dmg, I just want to be able to live super-mega long and kitten everyone off. I was thinking maybe Sentinel or Soldiers gear – sentinels gives more survivability than soldiers with the extra vitality – and probably soldiers trinkets too.
For traits I was thinking:
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30 Illusionary Defense, Debilitating Dissipation, Chaotic Dampening
30 Mender’s Purity, Wardens Feedback, Restorative Illusions
10 Masterful Reflection

One question will decide if I use sword though, does Masterful Reflection work for the Sword #2 evade attack? or is that not counted as a distortion?

Was going to use Staff and Sword/Focus (if sword works with Masterful Reflection)
or Staff and Scepter/Focus

To sum up: Need super mega survival build that doesn’t need good damage.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Prismatic_Understanding
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http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Deceptive_Evasion

I use 20/20/30 on both pvp and wvw. Most weapons work for it except Focus and Scepter. You can drop to a 0/20/30/20 build to trait those, but your damage dips as well. I personally use GS + Sword/Torch with Torch traited in wvw and Sword/Torch + Scepter/Sword in pvp. I’m looking to change my pvp weapons up though, but I’m not sure how yet.

Well if damage isn’t a concern, you wanna survive and kitten people off, why not make a support build?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/SUPPORT-Mesmer-Spotlight

The builds that come to mind are Hexxen’s White Witch, jportell’s Protection Master, and my Prismatic Maestro (in sig). All three use massive amounts of stealth to gain 30+ secs of protection (Chaos XI, Prismatic Understanding) which can then be passed to allies (Signet of Inspiration). Throw in mantra heals, and you’re a small group Protect-O-Bot while being pretty unkillable yourself (Cleric’s gear).

And no, Blurred Frenzy doesn’t work with Masterful reflection.

Thanks guys, I’ll probably check out a support build then