Guild Wars 2

Let me know your thoughts and where I can improve. I want to save money and do my ascended set right the first time…

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Thanks.

Your build tells me you want to use it for pve. Your gear however says you want to go roaming in wvw. Which one is it? Also you lack sigils btw…

Thanks – I’m still figuring out what’s what. I would like to do a PvE build. What would you recommend?

Also, oops! Forgot sigils… any recommendations for that?

Ah alright, in that case i would say go Viper instead of Trailblazer/Dire. Sigil wise you could go like earth and geomancy. Perhaps doom? Change the 6th rune to black diamond. The 6th bonus of Nightmare is not very useful in PvE. Other wise berserker or perplexity runes could work also. Keep an eye out for your duration tho. You dont want to go over 100%

Traits wise, i would swap Maim the Disillusioned for Phantasmal Haste. Torment doesn’t do that much since mobs do not move often, as where you will get dps increase if your phantasms attack more often.

For skills you’re pretty much settled, mainly just passive effects of signets. Tho feedback and Moa signet are situational and can be swapped to something else if wanted/needed.

And last but not least, definitely go for Rare Veggie Pizza & Toxic Focusing Crystal combo. Basically the best food/nourishment for every condi build.

Thank you so much for the feedback. I’ll give those a try.

I’ll chime in on this since you seem to be a very new player (or never active on the forums).

You’re stat combination of choice is trailblazer. Great choice, it will work very well in all pve except for raids and wvw. It will also cost a ton of gold, not kidding, you are looking at multiple hundreds of gold for a full set and you won’t even be sure that you’ll enjoy the gameplay.

Here’s my suggestion: instead of going for the just about most expensive and total overkill ascended trailblazer, make a couple of builds with exotic items using rabid, dire and sinister stats. Maybe spalsh in some vipers trinkets since those are easy to get in the new maps. Then once you’ve decided you enjoy, spend a ton of hours in grinding for gold to make your traiblazer gear.

The difference is literally between maybe 100 gold for a full exotic set with runes and so on versus 1,000+ gold for full ascended trailblazer. Also realise that traiblzaer ascended is not the choice of gear to go for in the 2 most difficult areas of the game (fractals and raids). As such trailblazer ascended is definately not the first ascended set to go for, that honor still goes to berserker for mesmer.

Cyninja, what would you recommend for Fractals? I am relatively “green” as far as the technical aspect of the game is, and have just floated by on blissful ignorance for the past year or so. haha. I appreciate the feedback. I can see why Trailblazer would not be the best choice immediately.

Mesmer in high end fractals and raids tends to be desired for its quickness and alacrity uptime over its dps. (Our dps is pretty awful in comparison to other classes tbh). You will want to look into chronomancer, and getting commander gear (I think that was the meta set for raids).

As far as mesmers role in the current meta game, as bearshaman said, we are desired for our utility and support role (and tank role in raids next to support). Damage wise mesmer is easy last place from all classes.

The utility support role goes against our condition spec since it requires specific traits and utility skills and the condition damage spec requires its own set of utility skills and traits (add in the fact that we are a poor damage dealer to begin with) thus mesmer is usually not played as condition build in high end fractals or raids. Not saying it’s impossible, just very very unlikely.

That being said, this goes only for mostly raids and maybe high tier fractals (though high level fractals work on condi too). As far as open world, dungeons and any other content, feel free to play whatever you want. Ascended is overkill for those game modes/areas though.

Read through this thread: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/Chrno-for-PvE/first#post6609243

I made a summary of what our different stat combination options are and for what they are good for. I’d strongly advise against rushing into getting that first ascended set before you are absolutely certain and semi experienced with the class. It’s just to much of a gold sink the first time around to wing it imo.

All that considered, until any change happens (maybe with the next expansion) I’d still recommend berserker armor and weapons as first ascended stat items for any new mesmer, simply because with trinkets you can fill desired utility and tank roles (via exchanging trinkets if need be). Condition while nearly unkillable in trailblazer and quite powerful in open world and wvw just doesn’t add the same flexibility.