Guild Wars 2

Hey everyone,
It’s been over a year now since I started playing my mesmer in wvw roaming. I’ve always played shatterbuilds and now I want to try out the phantasmstyle but always when I go 1v2 (even a fight I could easily win with shatter) the enemys keep killing my phantasms and i have nearly 0 dmgoutput (on any build I tested so far).

Could anyone who plays phantasmbuilds in wvw pls tell me what to do when I use phantasms(just basics for the moment)? I still don’t know what I’m doing wrong.

Post your build for one.

I tested several builds

Blackwater as example.

Also the 10 30 30 0 0 build from this video

I use this build as a phantasm build in wvw http://bit.ly/14SIa7E

It has similar point distribution to Blackwater, but it’s not a condition build

I mostly use it in small groups and solo. In bigger fights, it’s a bit tough to keep the phantasms up long enough to do a lot of damage. I tend to fight on the edges in larger fights.

The way I play this build is try to get two phantasms up quickly and then dodge / stealth / block / interrupt to give the phantasms time to do their damage.

I’m in the bottom third of WvW servers in U.S., so it’s hard to say if this translates to WvW everywhere.

There are more “pure” phantasm builds, but I find that this does plenty of damage and I like having the toughness and stealth to be able to survive.

Good luck!

Thats the point of phantasm builds, they are gimmicky and OP in 1v1 but lose their effectiveness the more enemies there are. If you dont want to be bad in group situations dont run builds like that.