Guild Wars 2

Hello!

Some time ago, when a mesmer had the ‘Restorative Mantras’ trait, we could heal ourselves and our allies when channeling AND casting the mantras…

I saw a lot of builds that used this, that usually spam Mantra of Pain because of his low cooldown, doing insane AOE heals. I saw some videos about that, including one that a mesmer could keep a whole team alive under massive fire in WvWvW (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=k8BYmAhX3QE)

I tried to use this trait, but it’s only healing when I channel the mantra, and not when I cast them…

The question is: whats wrong?

(1) I’m doing something wrong and can’t figure it out;
(2) Some patch changed the behavior of ‘Restorative Mantras’;
(3) It’s a bug and will be fixed soon;

Well… If anyone could help me, I’d appreciate! Here’s the link for my build:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fgAQNAsaRl4zipHRTjGa9IyJFQnzR6RplarWJF82FC-jQyAYLBRCCARAiQAm8KiGbNrIas6aMtLRUt9uIa1A-e

Tks!

Yeah, you’re unfortunately completely wrong. If you actually watch Fay’s video, you will notice that both mantra of pain and mantra of recovery are only aoe healing on the cast, not the discharges.

This is intended and has functioned this way since release. Pyroatheist is correct he is spamming Mantra of pain fast so he can get the heals.

I run this build and absolutely love it. One thing that helps with this build is if you remove Harmonious Mantra’s(I ran with it for a while and realized I was stunting the true ability of restorative mantra’s). That way you burn through Mantra of pain faster and can start casting it again. I would replace it with empowered illusions. With that trait and II and VII In the Dueling Tree (Phantasmal Fury and Mantra Master) Your illusions hit REALLY hard and with reduced cooldown Mantra of Recovery weaves amazingly well with Mantra of Pain. I survive everything, keep everyone up, and do amazing damage.

Thank very much! It’s a relief that this build works as intended then, and I’m the one who’s not doing right!

I’ll change the traits as you’ve said, Auron. Harmonious Mantra don’t work together Restorative Mantras at all.

As soon as I get home, I’ll make some more tests!

Btw, the trinkets in my build are ok? The infusions are right, or should I change to something else?

Since you’re berserker equipped, better do something for your phantasms’ damage

If you insist on preserving most of your traits, try:
20/20/0/25/5
It’s almost an Phantasm bunker build with mantra healing.
III; X
II; X / VII
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IV; X
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Trinkets are going to be expensive. I also wonder why you mixed in valkyrie stuff.
Just remember that Ascended trinkets are unique.

Hi!

I tried to follow the Hecate build from Fay (http://www.destinysedge.net/fay/mesmer/hecate.html)

There, she recomended using Power, Crit, Vitality Trinkets. I didn’t find any that had these combination, so I went with Valkyrie stuff.

I have reached 80 last week, so forgive my newbie questions… What trinkets/runes would u recomend? And there are options that aren’t so expensive? I’m not a hardcore player, because I have only 2 hours/day available to play.

Actually I really like the traits that Nretep put up. I might give those a run tonight since it will probably be a huge damage increase with my play style.

Hecate really believes in harmonious mantra’s but with quicker heals and the mantra cooldown trait, it’s just not needed. Also you lose out on so much damage. Give the build Nreptep posted, I really don’t think you will be sorry.

I would recommend running pure berserker from a cost perspective. The reason why is if you need to be tankier just make your clones tankier. Put on Signet of life and add defender and you are golden.