Guild Wars 2

Most of the Mesmer zerg builds that I’ve seen are much more suppotive thanIwould like to play, except maybe for Pyro’s. However, I am simply not a fan of support roles or condition builds. I would love to use a power a based zerg build.

Phantasms simply die too fast in all that aoe, so I tried to findways to do damage without them. I tried running halting strike + Staff + Focus, but I found the damage very underwhelming even with 2200 base power.

Any suggestions for such a thing? Should I just start stick to trying to down individual enemies rather than trying to hit a bunch?

I’m pretty sure the only thing we have for good aoe power damage besides izerker are shatters. Which are far too risky and inconsistent to use in zergs imo. So yeah if you’re going for that kind of build just picking someone off is your best bet.

So, what I’ve recommended to several people but never used myself is a shatter build. I’ve heard great things about it but again, I have no personal experience using it in a zerg.

Standard 20/20/0/0/30. GS+Sword/Focus. Standard traits as well, you’ll definitely want to take shattered concentration over gs cooldowns, then 1200 range manips and illusionary elasticity for the extra gs bounce.

The gear you’ll want is full knights armor/weapons, and full cavaliers trinkets. This gives you a ton of toughness, but good offensive stats. You’ll want to be taking blink, feedback, and something. Mirror images is potentially a good choice, or stab mantra perhaps.

The way you’ll want to play is really tight with the shatters. You obviously can’t let the clones sit around much, so you need to get in close, drop a clone from a skill, dodge, and shatter. What this allows you to do is pretty high pbaoe damage and boon stripping.