Guild Wars 2

As the title says, I’m a returning player. I have a level 80 Mesmer I picked up again, but with the new skill/trait layouts I’m at a loss of where I should spend points for PVE.

Suggestions? Thanks!

Thats kinda tuff. Mantras are always nice for a little extra damage in dungeons. However, I would not say they are required. Therefore, I would personally go for glamours first. As of right now, feedback is awesome, null field is nice for removing conditions, portal is a nice extra skill if you know how to use it, and time warp is pretty awesome as well. If you have extras left, I would try to get blink in manipulations. That way you can use feedback, null field for removing conditions, time warp for an elite support skill, and probably blink in the last spot. If you need to portal people, you can then switch out null field for portal. I suppose I would suggest going for mantra training after you get blink (don’t need to go all the way down the manipulation tree at first). There are a lota nice goodies in mantras for pve as well. For traits you wana probably go for domination, dueling, and inspiration at first. This way you have reflects and some nice condition removal. The illusion line would be next for a little extra damage. However, I would still go dom/duel/inspir first.

p.s. One of the devs mentioned in the forums that you need to unlock all other abilities in your class before you can unlock the elite specialization.

Most important question: Do you have HoT? Any advice we give may change drastically in a couple days.

Actually, if you’re level 80, you should be able to unlock everything immediately. As for traits, dom/duel/inspr is great. Sometimes I substitute illusions for dominations if I’m running alone and am shattering often.

SPNKr.6208:

Actually, if you’re level 80, you should be able to unlock everything immediately. As for traits, dom/duel/inspr is great. Sometimes I substitute illusions for dominations if I’m running alone and am shattering often.

This.
I don’t understand why Xstein was giving any advice other than “unlock everything right now”.

AlphatheWhite.9351:

SPNKr.6208:

Actually, if you’re level 80, you should be able to unlock everything immediately. As for traits, dom/duel/inspr is great. Sometimes I substitute illusions for dominations if I’m running alone and am shattering often.

This.
I don’t understand why Xstein was giving any advice other than “unlock everything right now”.

Thanks. I have HoT and everything unlocked. I was mainly looking for PVE build suggestions. I’m having to relearn terminology as well it seems lol.