Guild Wars 2

I love the mesmer class and would also love to master it, BUT i hate the melee part of them.

What im looking for is a Caster/Dps Build that will work for Zergs in WvW and dungeons and map completion. Hopefully With GS.

Try to make it as detailed as possible please.

Found this http://intothemists.com/guides/1025-obis_greatswordstaff_roamer

What are your thoughts on this?

well wvw zergs are the exact opposite of pve dungeons. It’s like aoe vs single target :s sooo :P what to focuse?

Pretty much what xyonon said, A good dungeon build is never going to be a good WvW build and vice versa. Unless your looking to solo a group even, the open world content is easy enough that any build will get you by. I personally have PvE gear and WvW gear and swap both that and my traits every time I leave/enter WvW.

The biggest utility mesmer brings to dungeon groups is reflects. There are very few dungeons where a mesmer shouldn’t have 20 in inspiration to pick up glamour mastery and warden’s feedback.

So, Warden’s Feedback, that requires a focus. The sword really is the strongest main hand in dungeons. Not only is it mesmer’s best dps, the ability to use blurred frenzy defensively is invaluable to survival. I currently run sword and two offhands, but when I was first learning I ran sword/focus and a ranged option on swap (alot of mesmers still do this)

That said, for your ranged option, I would highly recommended scepter. Scepter is effective at any range (unlike GS) so you are free to stay close to the melee to reap the benefit of boons your allies are sharing. Also all mesmer offhands can be very useful in dungeons (torch for running sections, the others for combat).

So if you do decide to pick up the sword mainhand, I would do sword/focus & scepter pistol. If you absolutely will not touch the mainhand sword, I’d run scepter with the two offhands. Beyond reflects, the focus is used to position mobs with into the void and is often to useful to not have on hand. The magic bullet on pistol meanwhile is a lot more potent of a CC skill than the GS knock back and as I’ve already mentioned scepter allows you to stay in range of buffs allies are throwing out.

Anyway, the build: 0/20(II and IV or IX)/0/25(II, VIII)/25(III, X). If you go with a sword and scepter style, you’ll want IV in dueling, else wise IX. Basically this is focusing phantasm damage, so even if you have to switch out of sword main hand (or never take a sword to start with) your phantasms are still keeping up dps for you despite the loss of sword’s superior auto attack.

Since there is no trinity in this game, the expectation is that every party member contribute to DPS. That said, the anti-berserker mantra of “dead dps is no dps” is quite true. Lucky for you WvW armor is generally more defensive in nature, so you’ll probably want to get that armor first and as you find yourself better able to avoid damage in dungeons, you can start acquiring more berserker pieces and swap to them when entering into a run that you are familiar and comfortable with.

If you want to be ranged and still recive boons you maybe should think about a close range scepter sword / greatsword combo. You got long range and shortrange with 2 blocks and good dps. Just a cleave is missing but you will get that one just by melee.

I prefer to fight from range. This is the build I use.

http://bit.ly/14SIa7E

It works nicely in WvW (mostly smaller groups but can be fine in zerg)

I haven’t played much in dungeons with this build. It doesn’t have reflects (although you could take feedback instead of null field). But it’s quite durable, and AoE stealth can be very helpful.

Good luck

While the sword is easily our best weapon for nearly every setting it’s best to play however you want to play.

That said, I avoided sword as well at first because it didn’t make sense to me to go melee with a clothe class. I played Staff + Scepter/Focus for a long time. After the confusion nerf and various related nerfs I tried branching out, looking for alternative builds in hotm. After you use sword for a while you will get more comfortable with it. Also, combining sword usage with protection and aegis is very helpful.