Guild Wars 2

Just wanna ask you burst mesmers out there how much hp and armor you guys running with and how is the survivability?

What armor and gear setup is best for hard hitting yet survivable?

Depends on what you want to do. Speccibg fir burst in pve is a mistake, go for sustained instead.

If its wvw, I run full berserker with 10/30/0/0/30 or 2250 (2050 + 200) armor with 0/20/20/0/30, depending on my mood.

If you want to have alot of passive defense, it would be more like 2500-2600 though. More than that is kind of overkill for burst builds :P

It also depends on what play style you are going for on a mesmer, Shatter or Phantasm are the best burst specs a mesmer has. Also on what mode?? PvP/WvW/PvE?

Mesmers also have a lot of active defense such as blurred frenzy and teleports for example and stealth more than passive defense, although there is some really good passive defense such as iDefender which tanks damage.

In a sense, use of skills and positioning is what keeps you alive as a GC mesmer