Guild Wars 2

So I recently started playing the mesmer about a week ago. Just hit 80, and bought an exotic, berserker-stat, mainhand sword and greatsword for ranged swap (using phantasms for damage). I’m going to start running explorables and just generally clearing most maps.

I’m kind of at odds on what the most efficient offhand is as far as reliable DPS goes. I was using offhand sword most of the time while leveling but the pistol offhand is pretty strong as well. I know that the focus is good for travelling and all but the cooldown on the phantasm is a bit longer and sometimes it doesn’t hit the mobs if they move right after it casts.

So my question is, what do you guys prefer and why? I’ve looked around and there’s a different take on each one. Any advice is appreciated.

What are you looking to do with it? If you plan on doing dungeons, offhand sword is used for maximum damage, while offhand focus in the other set gives you 100% reflect uptime. Pistol can replace focus if you don’t need the reflect, or sword if you want your phantasms to be safer but slightly less damagey.

Mesmer off-hands are all good at what they’re meant for. Get all 3 and as you explore you will start to see where each one excels. Sword will get the most single target DPS, pistol is a close second for when you can’t melee, and focus is good AoE dmg that also works at range(phant spawns on target, not on you and runs to target like sword#5). If you want to know which to dump money on first, probably focus because of sprint/AoE dmg phantom/reflects. Not to mention its great in dungeons, solo pve and WvWvW

in group play in dungeons focus is really good cause it can gets mobs together with the pull,and that AI would not run away from iwarden.

Focus wins every time – most versatile offhand and grouping things up enhances the dps of everyone and even you solo.