Guild Wars 2

Greetings everyone!

Since I want to know everything about the Mesmer and I’ve got much more expirience than the last time I tried this, I want to give it another try: Shatter mesmer in PvE!

I’m traited 30 in inspiration for maxxed utility, cuz I love to be the supporting kitten However due the constant switching of my traits to adapt the situations, I’ve noticed some pretty neat shatter utilities:

• vigor on shatter (everyone has been nerfed with on crit vigor)
• heal on shatter (let’s see if it’s noticable)
• condition cleanse on shatter (flexible?)

The last time I tried a shatter build I went a hybrid build, right after it a full condibuild. They both were kinda … cute in terms of damage. This time I want to try a full power build however!

• I will still deal damage with phantasms first attack after summon
• I will loose damage for phants however
• I probably will not trait fury for them either

But what are the positive sites of this?

• Will I gain more AoE damage?
• Will I keep the utility?
• Will I gain more survivablity?
• Will I keep the single target dps?

What do you think and how should such a build look like? Where to spend the point and where to save them? Focusing on shatter doesnt mean to ignore phantasms tough. Keep the overallstats in mind.

I tought about something like 0/10/0/30/30 or maybe 0/20/0/25/25? The main problem here is that inspiration and illusion traits grant pretty bad stats tough … Also I wish to have DE and sword traited at duelling, but still keep as much inspiration as I can. I guess 25 or even 30 in illusions is a must have too so … ? 0/20/0/20/30?

Greetings – Xyonon / Madame Le Blanc
Expirience is like a lantern on your back – it enlights everything where you already have been. To improve yourself, you have to make a step into the darkness in front of you.

If you want to play shatter, you pretty much have to go x/20/x/x/30. IP is a must for damage, and DE too.

You should try 20 in Domination to see how fast you can kick out clones with a double traited GS to get a feeling for shattering. Inspiration offers very little to shatter in PvE.

Just my 2c.

Personally, I use 20/20/0/0/30 for my shatter build. I’ve switched between 20 in both domination and inspiration, and honestly neither was optimal. The 20 in domination helps regardless if you use a GS or not (frankly I find it boring, but it is definitely powerful).

The only remotely possible way I could see it being even slightly viable is 10/30/0/0/30 with full mantras for the damage boost, but I sorta doubt it.

Well I tried it a whole weekend but it’s a kitten disappointment. F4 is great, but so it is with a phantasm build. Same goes for F3. F2 useless as usual. But the biggest disappointment was F1. Even traiting for it won’t make it stronger. It’s laughtable damage, even if you shatter every 10 sec 3 illusions. Even with some utility at inspiration it doesn’t seem to work. Full mantra dmg? Still less than with phantasms. Sad unhappy ending… snif

Points for trying, and admitting when it doesn’t work out

I would really love it if Shatter pushed DPS like Phantasm. When I was testing Shatter was only doing something like 70% of what Phantasms/Mantras can do in sustained damage.

Good for ‘trash’ and such but not good on prolonged fights. I really wish ANet would give us something here for PvE but we prolly will never see it because of PvP/WvW :/

Guess its Phantasms for me, and the occasional F3 n F4..

Blood~