Guild Wars 2

Since yesterday’s patch devastated Signet of Inspiration, I figured I’d open up and share the support build that [GFC] Mesmers have been using for the better part of the last year. We run an organized 3-5 man roaming team currently located on Gate of Madness!

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vhAQNAseWl0nhy0YBawENQtGLEHlZAkAL0ZFcBfW9l+plKA-T1xHQB+Y/BAq8Dc6Dgn6PPUJ4AeCAA4UAQKgAnZB-w
Optional swap-ins are Sigils of Concentration for battle if you don’t need as much might, and Signet of Illusions for Blink if you’re skilled enough with Phase Retreat.

This build focused on boon support and healing, both passive and active. Since we all play the class, I’m not going to explain the synergy between the GM traits and SoI, but I’ll point out some things that worked really well.

Restorative Mantras & Mantra of Pain —> Active Healing
- benefits greatly from Bountiful Disillusionment and Seize the Moment
Mantra of Recovery & Water Runes --> Active Healing
- CDs line up nicely with each other, massive effective range.
Illusionary Inspiration & Minstrel’s stats gear —> Passive Healing
- regeneration output is A+, any regen that you share via SoI uses YOUR healing power

The job of the Mesmer is to grab agro from enemies and bunker while they burn their high-cost offensive cooldowns. Continuum split is used offensively to front-load boons. Afterwards, your job is to take care of healing, general boon uptime, and securing stomps on downs.

The largest group we’ve engaged and won with a double support/triple damage comp is around 5v20 at NWT switchback. Biggest challenge with this build is not doing ENOUGH. It’s counter-intuitive but because you’ve have all the vit and armor, you need to be absorbing damage for your DPS dealers. Support guardians simply don’t have access to the same mobility.

Post-patch the build will probably look something like this: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vhAQNAseWl0nhS0YpawVNQtGL9GlZAcBZ05IUChQdp2qzKA-T1xDQBQU5H8OCg+Ans/AAeAAQ4UAAQ1f+oSQSBE4ML-w
More suited for large-scale combat but we’ll see as the week rolls on. CS/CI Power Mesmer is pretty strong right now so I’m looking to see if I can outsource things to other builds.

Thanks for reading.

Looks like a solid build for a small roaming comp. You’d probably be better off with 1 of that + a support tempest to diversify your boons a bit though.

Now, no self-respecting group with 15 or more people would do anything but straight steamroll a 5-man group, but that comp sounds extremely well suited to engagements with ~10 people per side top end.