Guild Wars 2

Hey everyone. I’m relatively new to GW2. Reading all of the guides, Mesmer immediately appealed to me. I loved the idea of winning a battle based on confusion and strategy vs. just bashing someone over the head with my sword..lather, rinse, repeat.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fgAQNArfWlwzKqXTzgGbNJipHBHyBcoKcdkKUalUobXIA

Anyways, if any of you would be so kind to give me feedback on my idea for a build, it would be great. I thought I would try a confusion build, although I am not so sure what would be the best type I should be going for to learn my way during PvE/PvP (WvW, to be candid, still scares me a bit). I picked Scepter/Torch b/c I figured if I could create a boatload of confusion coupled with a clone factory that causes cripple on defeat, I could essentially farm multiple aggro in PvE and just strafe around them w/o them catching me until they are dead…again could be a bad idea. Staff…just seemed like a good all around weapon, although not sure how I should best use it.

Lastly, I did not include any armor. 1) b/c I still find my armor 15-20 lvls below my level usually, and 2) not sure what my best options are.

Thanks in advance for helping out a newbie!

Hmm, Focusing on confusion only is pretty lacklustre after the kitten nerf, however, going with a sceptre/torch and a staff or sword/pistol, you can get some pretty good condition damage builds, which also give very high amounts of confusion whilst not focusing on it. looking at your traits there, they definitely look more like a PU condition build,

May I recommend having a look at Osi’s condition build/guide here:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/Guide-WvWvW-Pve-Shatter-Cat-Updated-16-8/first

and scroll down to his “Non Shatter Condition Build” in section 4.

or feel free to take a look at my own PU condition build (every bit as viable, but I prefer staff over sword/pistol)

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/Build-The-Blackwater-Mesmer-Condition-WvW/first