Guild Wars 2

Hello,

Any pro-players would like to share some open world/HoT-lvling build for mesmer? I don’t really care for raids or fractals since I’m a casual gw2 players that needs a break from other MMO’s

Long ago, i was running Berserker dual sword/great sword build, but i wasn’t a huge fan of either. SInce there are new buffs, is something along scepter/offhand + staff viable for soloing stuff?
Still I’m open to any good open-world build, be it power or condi and no matter the weapon.

Thanks in advance.

I highly recommend sw/sh+Gs over offhand sword. There’s not really any good reason to use offhand sword in open world as you’ll rarely be in a situation that makes use of that much single target damage.

Until you have shield, use focus. Consider using focus+inspiration signet or centaur runes until you’ve unlocked the grandmaster minor chrono trait otherwise you’ll be horridly slow.

Heya!

I recommend using sword/shield /sword mainly. If you face an opponent you may want to deal with on range, the scepter is a great pick tough. If you play with the scepter you require to trait into illusions for the scepter trait, it’s very powerful. A good pick against the tengu HP in the east of tarir (soloing), imo.

If you don’t even want to let your opponent touch you, the staff is also a great option. In that case tough, I’d recomment to trait into duelling for the mantra trait and replace the aa with Mantra of Pain.

this one is a bit older, but I’ll definitly do it again with the current patch It shows how and where the staff shines, in my opinion.

Greez!

Thank you, that’s certainly helpful!

Still few questions though:
a) What gear do you recommend for that?
b) What to use before i lvl up Chronomancer so i can use shield?
c) Are you suggesting that i should keep 2 sets of weapons, one for melee and usual OW, and 2nd for ranged boss soloing? Or is any certain mix capable of achieving both goals without major drawbacks?

I kinda dig the idea of a ranged mesmer (probably condition build then?), but if sword is still BiS i will work with that

If you’re taking Scepter, you’re going to want to build condition. It deals rather abysmal damage if you go for a power build, but with condition damage you’ll be seeing some decent torment/confusion ticks. Unfortunately, both of those conditions don’t perform very well in PvE. The bulk of condition Mesmer’s damage comes from bleed ticks using a pistol off-hand and the “Duelist’s Discipline” trait.

If you want to commit to a condition build, then you’re going to have to put up with its downsides; the damage has a LONG ramp-up time, you have little burst, and the vast majority of your damage is single-target. In return, you’ll get superior damage over time and the safety of ranged combat.

Condition Mesmer plays quite different to power Mesmer, so I can get why you’d prefer such a playstyle, though I do need to stress that… it’s an awkward playstyle in open world PvE. You have a bunch of things working against you, especially the lack of AoE which is a real killer in open world especially. I personally run something like Greatsword + Sword / Shield/Focus with a power build and I have a lot of fun grouping mobs up with Focus 4 / Gravity Well and then eating them up with wells and shatters (that give me tons of quickness and alacrity thanks to traits and Chronomancer runes).

That’s my own personal advice. Some people swear by condition Mesmer and dislike the power weapons, and that’s fine! Whatever floats your boat.

with sarcasm aside, leveling in gw2 is so trivial you need no build. its just a matter of common sense and learn 2 dodge. you can use what ever build you want and use whatever weapons you find most fun, the more you enjoy yourself the faster it will go.

since your not interested in fractals or raids and presumably pvp/wvw you enjoyment in the game will literally be down to the exploration and discovery of the world and class mechanics, embrace it, enjoy it, do your own thing, be your own mesmer. fixate yourself on the “meta” build for X aspect and you will just burn yourself out on gw2 aswell, worry about meta builds when/if you decide to join the game aspects that it matters with

if you find yourself not enjoying any of the mesmer aspects make a new chr and take it to pvp to test out its skill and traits on the target dummy’s

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If you’re taking Scepter, you’re going to want to build condition. It deals rather abysmal damage if you go for a power build,

As far as Mesmer weapons go Scepter works quite well with power.

Levetty.1279:

Step.1285:

If you’re taking Scepter, you’re going to want to build condition. It deals rather abysmal damage if you go for a power build,

As far as Mesmer weapons go Scepter works quite well with power.

Yep. Confusing Images do more or less the same damage as Rapid Fire.

It’s pretty insane. Power Scepter is good.

Krispera.5087:

Levetty.1279:

Step.1285:

If you’re taking Scepter, you’re going to want to build condition. It deals rather abysmal damage if you go for a power build,

As far as Mesmer weapons go Scepter works quite well with power.

Yep. Confusing Images do more or less the same damage as Rapid Fire.

It’s pretty insane. Power Scepter is good.

Huh? I’ll take a look. Last I tried Scepter (a couple of weeks ago) on power, I really wasn’t happy with the damage output.

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Krispera.5087:

Levetty.1279:

Step.1285:

If you’re taking Scepter, you’re going to want to build condition. It deals rather abysmal damage if you go for a power build,

As far as Mesmer weapons go Scepter works quite well with power.

Yep. Confusing Images do more or less the same damage as Rapid Fire.

It’s pretty insane. Power Scepter is good.

Huh? I’ll take a look. Last I tried Scepter (a couple of weeks ago) on power, I really wasn’t happy with the damage output.

Rapid fire skill coefficient = 3.75
Confusing images skill coefficient = 3.6

Almost identical damage from them, though rapid fire also applies a bunch of vulnerability of course. The scepter autoattack used at melee range along with confusing images off cooldown does about 80% the damage of sword autoattack at melee range, minus cleave of course.

Thanks everyone for all the tips.

Guess i’ll try sw/shield +scepter/offhand and a power build.

Have fun!