Guild Wars 2

I just recently started SPvP and TPvP. I’ve been going back and forth from my Mesmer and Necro, however, I find myself playing the Mesmer the most. I can’t decide between a shatter build or a phantasm build. Or, if anyone has another build, I’d consider it! Which build has been working best for you PvPer’s? I have pretty much spent most of my time in GW2 in PvE with some WvW mixed in. I just want to add some PvP to mix things up more. Thanks in advance!

I run a confusion build sometimes. I think it is FLIMP’s confusion build 0/20/30/0/20. Lots of stealth lots of confusion and very high toughness so you don’t get bursted down too much.

Plumsucker.9507:

I run a confusion build sometimes. I think it is FLIMP’s confusion build 0/20/30/0/20. Lots of stealth lots of confusion and very high toughness so you don’t get bursted down too much.

most condition builds are bad for pvp. there isnt enough damage to be a threat

I would rather be more effective with my joke build which is very hard to play correctly

Loseridiot is right, mesmers only true form of condition application is confusion which the only works if you spam glamour fields onto a zerg and hope someone dies.
In PvP, confusion only does 50% of the damage. No real threat only good if you are going for a bunker build.

I play Phantasms build 20/20/0/25/5 GS and Sword/Focus. This bbuild can be quite demanding on player experience and has a high skills cap. I am currently rank 27 in PvP

Phantasms, shatters, pff I dont really care to focus on that when playing PvP. Get around 2K toughness, ~22K HP, GS+Staff, decoy, mirror images, whatever, mass invis. Trait defensivly.

If someone kill you, they are either a good player or 3+ at the same time. Or quite possibly another Mesmer.

What do you focus on then? just staying alive? wait for back up to arrive? bit boring honestly.
Mesmer is such a unique class and extremely fun to play with even shatter mesmers can be really tanky.

Btw, mesmers can take on 3 players as well…

I’ve been running a phantasm build that stomps in 1v1s, unless I get massively outplayed I can usually win. It’s 10/30/0/25/5 taking everything that buffs your phantasm damage, hp, or cooldowns. I use scepter/sword sword/pistol. Basically summon your phantasms, stun and blurred frenzy for the burst. Utilities are flexible but I like the signet that gives hp to phantasms to help them survive burst and blink. 3rd one depends on what I feel I need, though usually disenchanter or null field.

Extremely easy to use, keep your phantasms alive and use your blocking skills as needed. With 3 phantasms up and the right timing you can do a 20k+ burst within the span of one pistol 5 stun. This build even beats most bunkers, and the only real difficulty is dealing with aoe that takes out your phantasms quickly. If left alive, 3 phantasms do 15k+ damage every 3-5 seconds, around 5k for each one you have up.

Psych.6527:

What do you focus on then? just staying alive? wait for back up to arrive? bit boring honestly.
Mesmer is such a unique class and extremely fun to play with even shatter mesmers can be really tanky.

Btw, mesmers can take on 3 players as well…

Hey you play what’s fun to you. The focus is on staying alive, yes. That’s what you need in tPvP unless you have a specific focus (like glasscannon backstabbing theives). I find the dueling fun, its when I fight a really good player for half the match that I enjoy PvP the most. Bad players die regardless of your spec anyway. Dying or killing quickly is the most boring thing in the game. I use the same spec in random sPvP because I’m lazy.

Berzerkurderpers melt but sometimes you meet some gems. Like a dagger/dagger Elementalist I met yesterday. Nasty little bugger, but very skilled (he had double my ranking I saw later). We fought for quite some time at a high pace (so many stuns, ugh) but he couldnt kill me and I couldnt kill him either. It was literally about popping the right skill at the right tim. Even when we re-engaged a couple of times people died around us but our battles was epic, lol. Most enjoyable.

Dawdler.8521:

Psych.6527:

What do you focus on then? just staying alive? wait for back up to arrive? bit boring honestly.
Mesmer is such a unique class and extremely fun to play with even shatter mesmers can be really tanky.

Btw, mesmers can take on 3 players as well…

Hey you play what’s fun to you. The focus is on staying alive, yes. That’s what you need in tPvP unless you have a specific focus (like glasscannon backstabbing theives). I find the dueling fun, its when I fight a really good player for half the match that I enjoy PvP the most. Bad players die regardless of your spec anyway. Dying or killing quickly is the most boring thing in the game. I use the same spec in random sPvP because I’m lazy.

Berzerkurderpers melt but sometimes you meet some gems. Like a dagger/dagger Elementalist I met yesterday. Nasty little bugger, but very skilled (he had double my ranking I saw later). We fought for quite some time at a high pace (so many stuns, ugh) but he couldnt kill me and I couldnt kill him either. It was literally about popping the right skill at the right tim. Even when we re-engaged a couple of times people died around us but our battles was epic, lol. Most enjoyable.

Lol soz, i was abit rude there. I have played a bunker mes a couple o times. It is quite nice not to die :P I guess we all just fancy different aspets, it is a completely different game play and fun. I play Phantasm just for some reason it calls out to me. Crafting my own build from scratch was the best part I too also have some intesive long battles and i t gets close sometime. I would end up have 800HP left just before i was able to use my heal skill against this engi, man was i kitten-ing all over the place

Dawdler.8521:

Psych.6527:

What do you focus on then? just staying alive? wait for back up to arrive? bit boring honestly.
Mesmer is such a unique class and extremely fun to play with even shatter mesmers can be really tanky.

Btw, mesmers can take on 3 players as well…

Hey you play what’s fun to you. The focus is on staying alive, yes. That’s what you need in tPvP unless you have a specific focus (like glasscannon backstabbing theives). I find the dueling fun, its when I fight a really good player for half the match that I enjoy PvP the most. Bad players die regardless of your spec anyway. Dying or killing quickly is the most boring thing in the game. I use the same spec in random sPvP because I’m lazy.

Berzerkurderpers melt but sometimes you meet some gems. Like a dagger/dagger Elementalist I met yesterday. Nasty little bugger, but very skilled (he had double my ranking I saw later). We fought for quite some time at a high pace (so many stuns, ugh) but he couldnt kill me and I couldnt kill him either. It was literally about popping the right skill at the right tim. Even when we re-engaged a couple of times people died around us but our battles was epic, lol. Most enjoyable.

I really enjoy my 0/20/30/0/20 bunker build as well. Staff/sword+torch. I never die but I don’t really do a lot of damage either. What I am good at is being a constant nuisance and getting people to chase me because they’re irritated.

For skills I use Ether Feast, Blink, Decoy, Mirror Images & Mass Invisibility. I’m using Fighter runes (power/toughness) on my armor.

I can get out of basically any pinch, ducking in and out of contact nonstop. I’m really, really annoying.. or at least I like to think I am. I’m having fun anyway. And yeah those really epic battles with thieves or elementals or basically anyone who expected to squash you really quick because you’re a mesmer… make the whole not-killing-stuff thing worth it, in my opinion.

robotempire.2451:

make the whole not-killing-stuff thing worth it, in my opinion.

And often you’re not really “non-killing” either. In a good game, I can get 10+ kills listed without ever dying. Of course I didnt really kill them all, but one still get the score. A good team will support its bunkers, that’s how they themselves win. I cant even remember all thetimes when I am lumbering towards 3 players, only to see something like a thief zip past, unleash a hailstorm of damage and die… Before I even engaged.

I even see the same behaviour in WvW – the other day we where 3 randoms that engaged a dolly, there where 2 theives there. What happens? Well the theives pummel the other two and kill them both before I can say “Why are you loosing hitpo…”. I am left fighting them alone for like 3 minutes before finally dying (the theives knew what they where doing, that much was noticable). Had we been 3 bunkers, we would have killed them both or at least made them run. But alas… Berzerkurderper :p

Thanks for the replies. What are the top PvP mesmers running currently? I’ve been doing shatter, and it’s working pretty well, but I sometimes come across a rank 30+ mesmer and get stomped. I am just wondering what they might be running as their build.

SallyStitches.4096:

Thanks for the replies. What are the top PvP mesmers running currently? I’ve been doing shatter, and it’s working pretty well, but I sometimes come across a rank 30+ mesmer and get stomped. I am just wondering what they might be running as their build.

tPvP mesmer run basically variations of one build a shatter build

utilities are portal, clones, blink or illusions of life.

loseridoit.2756:

SallyStitches.4096:

Thanks for the replies. What are the top PvP mesmers running currently? I’ve been doing shatter, and it’s working pretty well, but I sometimes come across a rank 30+ mesmer and get stomped. I am just wondering what they might be running as their build.

tPvP mesmer run basically variations of one build a shatter build

utilities are portal, clones, blink or illusions of life.

Illusion of Life is supposed to get nerfed, so I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s not used anymore. I just personally can’t decide between a shatter build or a phantasm build. I run shatter in PvE, so I’d like to do something different, but I also want to be viable to my team in TPvP.