Guild Wars 2

Osicat has made some amazing builds, and is my favorite Mesmer of all time. Out of all his builds from, Phantasm builds, to Condition builds to Shatter builds. I personally have always enjoyed his shatter builds. I decided to pursue his shatter cat ghost build to the point of ascended gear. Now i’m at the point where I’m a ascended torch away from full ascended gear. Sadly here is when I realized critical damage got nerfed. Now here is my variation of Osicats shatter cat build.

I still like using the mantras just to avoid the healing animation. I swapped a lot of knights gear for berserker gear. Also instead of taking a sigil of bloodlust I went for the extra evade with sigil of energy.

I’d like to know if it’s a good, solid build or if im better of going for full berserker gear.

Osicats Shatter Cat Ghost Original

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fhAQNAsfRl0npRtlpxINcrNSrxg6rOrMSGQBlciqB-TVCEAB2t/wTKRiTfATKv6SJoiqcIxTAAgTAQjqjEAABgdO0dO0duzSBMqyI-w

My Variation

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fhMQNAsfRl0npRtlpxINcrNCrxg6sS7MSOQAlsirB-T1yHwAn3fQsmAnKB7p0znyg9qcM4JA4VHgDtA+VHBwpAAA-w

As a general rule run as bursty as you can within your comfort level. You can tweak between zerk and knights till you find your sweet spot. If you’re worried about the DPS drop off you could try IE in illusions to give your GS and extra kick from mirror blade, comes at the expense of II though.

Yea, I think this build is perfectly matches my comfort level. I’ll get glassier as I get better. Thanks for the feedback!

This is something I have been curious about, I’d love to see a comparison between damage and survivability

-Full Zerker Gear vs Full Knight Gear with zerker trinkets

-or the difference between my pu shatter build with full zerker gear and your non pu, knight gear shatter spec.

Offensive Stats for me currently
2244 power
1805 Precision
885 Ferocity
46% Crit Chance
209% Critical Damage

Defensive Stats
1263 Toughness
about 16k hitpoints
w/PU

Etherfeast is a superior healing skill than nontraited mantras, but the build is a fine shatter.