Guild Wars 2

Hello Mesmer peeps.

I recently started a Mesmer! My other characters are pretty tanky, so for my mesmer I plan on building her to be completely glass cannon (full berserkers) with the aim at doing the most damage, big numbers, whatevers!

I was wondering if the mesmer community can share with me their insights on weapons/builds/traits/runes. The merits of each, what their strength/weakness are, etc.

Thanks a lot!

I can recomend this guide. The guy who made it answer questions in it aswell. Its great

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/guide-WvWvW-Shatter-cat/first

/ Osicat

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fgAQNAR8alwzipXVzoGb9ICKFYn3RShqlalegbXYuB;TsAg0UFZKSUktIXRyiWYMsYfxEEA

Osicat.4139:

I can recomend this guide. The guy who made it answer questions in it aswell. Its great

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/guide-WvWvW-Shatter-cat/first

/ Osicat

It’s a trap!

Osicat.4139:

I can recomend this guide. The guy who made it answer questions in it aswell. Its great

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/guide-WvWvW-Shatter-cat/first

/ Osicat

Hello, thanks for your help.

This is actually an interesting point that I was wondering. From my understanding so far, when you summon the phantasms, they attack your enemy, but you have the option to shatter them? Is it higher damage if I summon clones for the sole purpose of shattering them? Or is it better to let them live and let them dish out damage?

Glass cannon will only really be doable if they fix the Berserker on GS (which they know is broken and are trying to fix) and using a Sword/Pistol as secondary. But honestly, right now you want to follow one of these shatter spec builds as their all thats working for us now.

I’m not sure what sort of gear works best for shatter builds, but they’re the only way your going to get high burst at the moment! I’m in full berserkers gear and Ruby equip and since phantasms have been messed with its really not advisable as a build, My burst dps isn’t enough to take monsters down before they spank you to death.

The guide cover both gear, food, build etc for a effective shatter burts build. About phantasm dmg you do both in a shatter build. Summon a phantasm, as soon it done its dmg you shatter. Have a look in the guide both text and videos.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/guide-WvWvW-Shatter-cat/first

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Osicat.4139:

I can recomend this guide. The guy who made it answer questions in it aswell. Its great

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/guide-WvWvW-Shatter-cat/first

/ Osicat

Hello, thanks for your help.

This is actually an interesting point that I was wondering. From my understanding so far, when you summon the phantasms, they attack your enemy, but you have the option to shatter them? Is it higher damage if I summon clones for the sole purpose of shattering them? Or is it better to let them live and let them dish out damage?

Clones are rubbish for damage, their only real purpose is for shattering or for distracting your enemies, they’ll either take the damage that you should take or they’ll be used for shattering to make up your burst damage.

Clones = tools for shattering/bursting
Phantasms = high DPS attacks.

People tend to either go one way or the other, using everything for shatters or only using Phants for damage, which is hard as the high hitting Phantasms are currently not worth using if you read some of the recent threads.

When it comes down to it, you’re never going to be hitting massive damage until your level 80 with full exotics anyway so the main thing is to learn the play style until then. Kiting is your best friend, throw out some trash clones as your def (they die easily but can be made really easy too), while they take the punishment you can run circles round mobs dealing damage with other attacks/phantasms if they decide to spawn/hit things.

to put the mesmer in a nutshell.

weapons:
-Staff is used for most condition builds, i highly recommend taking up condition damage and boon duration for this one.
-Greatsword is for general combat with strong emphasis on pure damage, power and precision highly advised.
-Scepter mainly useful for Shatter/condition build/
-Sword is good for close combat
-pistol is good for ranged damage and control
-focus is good for anti projectiles and control
-torch is good for close combat, very good with MH sword
-off hand sword is not as great, but it’d best fit with a MH sword.

the Main builds for a mesmer are:

-Shatter: means you put 30 points in illusions and use weapon skill and utility skills that let you get out illusions (phantasms and clones) really fast for you to shatter them (F1~F4)
-Condition builds are usually used with staffs, precision can be good for that purpose to apply bleeds via illusions (a trait).
-Pure damage builds use the Greatsword, usually taking power, precision, and crit damage.

Phantasms are high damage higher hp longer cooldown illusions that compose a big portion of your dps, clones are low damage low hp illusions that are mainly used to apply conditions or for instant shattering, both do the same shatter damage, but it’s better if you shatter clones than phantasms.

Well, you can still run a glass cannon full berserker build. I have adjusted my guide to the actual crappyness of the iZerker, maybe you want to give it a try.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/Lazy-Kai-s-guide-to-PvE

speak for yourself about the shatter builds.

Mine is 20/20/5/20/5 and built for dungeon, solo, and DE.

i don’t die often, ranged rip themselves to pieces on my projectile reflects, and i’m a massive help to my dungeon groups.