Guild Wars 2

I’m looking for build advice. I used to play a Mesmer, then when Heart of Thorns lured me back into GW2 late last year, I made a new character (Ranger) to get back into the swing of things.

The Ranger felt pretty durable to play, particularly with the pet for enemy distraction. I soloed my way through to 80 and the Living Story S2, and even soloed a couple of early fractals (which felt like an achievement to me, though I’m pretty sure it’s SOP). But then I realised that I really preferred the look and style of my Mesmer, so I brought her out of retirement.

She feels squishier than the Ranger in Silverwastes and HoT storyline – though I am quite willing to believe the problem lies with my build and/or lack of skill, rather than something inherent in the Mesmer class.

I’m currently running Greatsword + Sword/Focus, and traited Illusions 1-1-2, Dueling 1-1-3 and Domination 2-3-1. Utilities are Ether Feast, Blink, Signets of Illusion and Inspiration (my lazy perma-Swiftness combined with Focus 4), and Time Warp. I am still working on unlocking all of the Chronomancer spec.

My armour is rare quality Berserker, and I have Ascended amulet and one ring, the other jewellery is exotic, mix of ruby and emerald. My weapons are exotic Power/Precision/X.

Please let me know if there’s anything obviously wrong with this (and if so I would be keen to hear alternatives), or if I’m just playing it badly! Or do I need to finish getting Chronomancer to be tougher?

Bump,,,having trouble with my mesmer as well. Hard to enjoy it when my ele and necro feel like they can do the same thing with much less effort (with better end results). Any tips would be great!

Hey there!

If you play a non-chronomancer mesmer, you can try my Lazy Kai Build, which is not too far off of what you are playing right now.

I have a druid/ranger and reaper/necro (both fully unlocked) and to be honest, you won’t get the easy survivability of these professions on your mesmer.

I was maining the druid since HoT launch (don’t tell anyone here though, might damage my rep) but am right now back on my mesmer, testing out all possible chronomancer trait setups for soloing open world.

Even though I am a bit late, I am faithful that I will be able to present my results in about a week (right now moving to my new home, preparing for a new job and a whole more stuff is going on so, maybe it will take a month)…