Guild Wars 2

This is the build I’ve been using for a while now, and I do for the most part love it. Plenty of stealth, damage, and toughness, but one thing has been bugging me, the damage on my 1H Sword, is there anything I can do to buff it up a bit without affecting too much of the survivability of the build?

Build;

http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/mesmer/?4.1|c.1g.h1h.f.1n.h17|1.1g.h1j|1g.73.1g.73.1g.73.1g.73.1g.73.1g.73|2s.0.211.0.311.0.311.0.211.0.2s.0|k39.k2a.u35c.0.0|0.0|31.3d.34.38.3o|e

I’ve got a full set of Berserker ascended as well if it was a case of that, i’d say i’m a fairly experienced Mesmer, seeing as it’s the only class I’ve played, and i’m at near enough 2000 hours play on this one character alone, it’s just the forum tends to be a place where experts gather, which’d help me just touch up the build enough to sort out that one little nook, thanks in advance and i’ll reply asap!

((Note; I use this build for PvE (Swap Torch cooldown for GS Efficiency), WvW, and PvP, and I do pretty well in all three. ))

I’ve made some changes to your build that should solve your problem, without even touch the survivability of your build.

http://tinyurl.com/qjyj4dm

What’s changed:

• Now you have more than 50% crit chance.
  To accomplish this, I switched Phantasmal Fury with Blade Training in Dueling, and switched the rune on the offhand with the Sigil of Accuracy.

• Now you have proper rune’s CD internal cooldown shared with Sigil of Battle on both weapons.
  If you put a crit chance sigil on one weapon set, and a swap sigil on the other, sometimes something bad happens: When you land a critical and the sigil activates, if you swap weapon during this internal CD, you’ll waste the “on swap activation”.

Mei Mato.5478:

I’ve made some changes to your build that should solve your problem, without even touch the survivability of your build.

http://tinyurl.com/qjyj4dm

What’s changed:

• Now you have more than 50% crit chance.
  To accomplish this, I switched Phantasmal Fury with Blade Training in Dueling, and switched the rune on the offhand with the Sigil of Accuracy.

• Now you have proper rune’s CD internal cooldown shared with Sigil of Battle on both weapons.
  If you put a crit chance sigil on one weapon set, and a swap sigil on the other, sometimes something bad happens: When you land a critical and the sigil activates, if you swap weapon during this internal CD, you’ll waste the “on swap activation”.

Thanks ya! I’ll have a little test in the mists with it and come back to you in a few minutes! I do like my Fire sigil for Aesthetic reasons (My mesmer is based on Flames with Fiery Dragon Sword and Rodgort) but if it’s causing trouble I guess I gotta drop it. ;3;

Mei Mato.5478:

Bleep Bloop!

I’m back, and the changes you made are very effective, holding at 12-18 stacks of might and at some points reaching 24! I’ve got 30% Boon duration due to one of my trait-lines so that gives it a nice touch too! Thank you very much!

No problem mate, I’m glad for that :P

Hello. I have been using the same build with exception of 2nd weapon set which is scepter+pistol. I would like someone to fine tune my sigils too if possible, although I am concerned with spvp for now. Here it is the build:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fgAQRAra8flwzipXUzgGb9IipHBnvBckUoavWJF42FC-TwAA1CtICSFkLITQygsBNgYJy+jZBA

Thanks!

trooper.2650:

Hello. I have been using the same build with exception of 2nd weapon set which is scepter+pistol. I would like someone to fine tune my sigils too if possible, although I am concerned with spvp for now. Here it is the build:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fgAQRAra8flwzipXUzgGb9IipHBnvBckUoavWJF42FC-TwAA1CtICSFkLITQygsBNgYJy+jZBA

Thanks!

Imho, you build is quite different. Since you want to stick with another set , one of the viable things to do is to boost you duelist, in order to gain HUGE advantage from it.

http://tinyurl.com/pxq7ncb

• The stealth strategy still remains intact.
  Torch cleanse & reduction + Prismatic Understanding

• Your duelist now hits like a truck.
  During duelist casting time, use Feedback. Then Stun/Confusing Images.

• For sigils now you can stack Mights on swap, and reach 60% crit chance
  Your original build has 14% crit. chance… so bleed on crit is far from happens.

• Since you heavy rely on stealth and not on clone replacement, the clone on dodge would only reveals your position, so it’s discarted.

Mei Mato.5478:

trooper.2650:

Hello. I have been using the same build with exception of 2nd weapon set which is scepter+pistol. I would like someone to fine tune my sigils too if possible, although I am concerned with spvp for now. Here it is the build:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fgAQRAra8flwzipXUzgGb9IipHBnvBckUoavWJF42FC-TwAA1CtICSFkLITQygsBNgYJy+jZBA

Thanks!

Imho, you build is quite different. Since you want to stick with another set , one of the viable things to do is to boost you duelist, in order to gain HUGE advantage from it.

http://tinyurl.com/pxq7ncb

• The stealth strategy still remains intact.
  Torch cleanse & reduction + Prismatic Understanding

• Your duelist now hits like a truck.
  During duelist casting time, use Feedback. Then Stun/Confusing Images.

• For sigils now you can stack Mights on swap, and reach 60% crit chance
  Your original build has 14% crit. chance… so bleed on crit is far from happens.

• Since you heavy rely on stealth and not on clone replacement, the clone on dodge would only reveals your position, so it’s discarted.

mmm… thank you for trying but it is not what I was looking for. I will give it a try as soon as I have a chance but after discussing about Deceptive Evasion in this post https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/Can-you I can safely tell that I will not do without it.