Guild Wars 2

So I wanted to make an Asuran mesmer (or another light class, if mesmer proves to be a dud. I wasn’t looking into doing much with it – basic PvE, story, maybe Queensdale champ farm once in a while. I’m mostly just doing it for the looks because I’m weird. Anyway, I’m not the biggest fan of the shatter mechanics and I was hoping to make more of a DPS-ish build that was easy to use and hard to mess up but I don’t know nearly enough about mesmers or if they would be too squishy in later areas like Mount Maelstrom or Orr for this build to be effective for even simple storymode type of gaming.

The build I eventually concocted with theorycrafting was this:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fgQQNAR8dl4zConcTkG29IyJFRnzR6hqlarWJF32FC-e

If at all possible, give feedback. I’m not going to change much about the build so I would prefer the feedback to stay along the lines of if the build could/would work and if not, how I can keep the general principle alive (even if it means changing profession).

I am not sure about the aim of this build.
First I was assuming solo roaming PvE without any group, but from the looks of your traits and utilities it looks more like a support build.
Can you give us your thoughts about how you are going to use the build?

The choice of pain inverter is puzzling, because in general confusion is weak in PvE and you are going to get enough retaliation by jumping through your temp curtain.

Signet of Inspiration is another puzzling choice for solo PvE, who are you sharing your booms with?

Also I would loose the condition removal skills and use the Ether Signet as healing skill most of the time.
In most PvE maps the condition damage is so low that you do not have to bother with condition removal at all, just heal through it or dodge it.

For something as mind-numbing as open world pve, champ training, or personal story, anything will ‘work’. That being said, your build is bad.

Weapons are fine. However, your choices of the signet of Inspiration and pain inverter make no sense at all. You have these mantras and a ton of trait investment into making them stronger…for no purpose. You don’t need that sort of high output condition removal and healing in anything but wvw. You’ve got deceptive evasion, but no shatter support, and shatters are bad in pve anyway.

Will your build work? I guess. Will it do anything at all effectively? No.

Well I kind of liked the mantra idea but it sounds bad. I’ve juggled between making a mesmer or an ele depending on how I like them but always seem to get stuck with traits and finding utility skills that I actually enjoy.

I usually use guardian, as two of my characters are guardian, with consecreations, signets and shouts so I’m not exactly up to speed with some of the finer mechanics required for mesmer.

By Pyroatheist’s post I am going to take a leap here though and say I would still like to figure out a mesmer build that was more zerker-phantasm damage. If condition damage is too weak, then what other utility can I run for damage output in roaming PvE?

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Edit:
Btw, if you want more zerker damage, you can try Lazy Kai’s Phantastic Phantasms build. ^^

Edit 2:
Simply read my guide in the signature, both Lazy Kai’s Builds and Go Go Power Ranger builds are made for open world roaming, you might want to give them a try.

Kaiyanwan.8521:

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Edit:
Btw, if you want more zerker damage, you can try Lazy Kai’s Phantastic Phantasms build. ^^

Edit 2:
Simply read my guide in the signature, both Lazy Kai’s Builds and Go Go Power Ranger builds are made for open world roaming, you might want to give them a try.

I read the guide, and the Lazy Kai build does look fun. I don’t know much about XI in Illusions though…would the shattering effect really be of any use in PvE where mobs would be kind of unphased by the whole thing? I might drop 5 from Illusions and put 5 in Chaos for some regen once in a while.

Although really the more I see it the more I kind of think I may just make a MM necro.