Guild Wars 2

I spent much of last season playing an Auramancer Ele,(with some success.).

Mesmer is my first love though and I’d like to have the ability to play it such that people on my team don’t cry when they see me on the roster.

Is there a workable Phantasm build? Or any build that doesn’t require complex combos?

Ithilwen.1529:

I spent much of last season playing an Auramancer Ele,(with some success.).

Mesmer is my first love though and I’d like to have the ability to play it such that people on my team don’t cry when they see me on the roster.

Is there a workable Phantasm build? Or any build that doesn’t require complex combos?

Phantrupt

But it’s not exactly low skill (glass ammy’s, lockdown/interrupt based, and still utalises skill chains for shatter burst setups).

Other than phantrupt, there’s no workable phantasm based build I know of.

You could try this
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vhAQNAreWncfC9filpBmqBEgilZjycEWhPo+WD2htMAqtcD-TpxCABScEAq4QAAwDAQ+yAUt/wxnAAA

Here’s some gameplay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8Cdgrn8kQ4

It won’t require you to have to stand on point, just support the team fight from the flanks. There’s certainly some problems you could run into opponent-wise, but that’s just how life goes.

Assuming you mean for raids (Auramancer and all), the common boonshare build is basically a Phantasm build anyhow because you want to have your 3 illusions up and ready for when needed for an interrupt or a split. The common option is then to use 3 shield phantasms: easy to get up, lots of alacrity for the raid.

You can also alternative with a Pistol if you want even more phantasms, leading to some more damage output and more available interrupt power.

The base would be something like: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vhAQRAse8ancfClfi9fCGoBUrhFvjCttCAnsW1h5a2mA-w
Then adapt as needed by each fight.