Guild Wars 2

And being somewhat confused as to what to do now, I asked google.

Now, I found a youtube video which basically tells me to keep playing the game as I’ve done before, but gearing for and gemming for magic finding.

I just got myself some zerker masterwork items with a knight and a valkyrie piece tossed in every here and there, but I’m loath to buy superior centaur runes simply for greens. And exploration so far has been quite painful without swiftness.

What did you mesmers do when you hit 80? Did you just keep on playing, or did you gear for “magic finding” in order to find gear that’s actually worth wearing?

If you just hit 80, try test around on builds etc and when you have a build you like start gear for it. MF is lost stats that you will spend time and gold on replace later.

Feel free to look into my guide if you interested in a shatter build. 4 different builds. WvWvW and pve friendly builds with video guides and text. Gear, tactics and builds included.

Also a good guild make wonders when you are 80 for the fun factor.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/Guide-WvWvW-Pve-Shatter-Cat/first

One of the video guides as example:

2013-01-12

A group play vid same build:

Centaur runes is not worth the stat and dmg loss in my oppinon but that is depending on my playstyle. This go both for solo duo and group play, for instances its even worse and better for the group if you use dmg.

Hope I could help a little.

/Osicat

I’m doing Staff/ S+P with a 10/30/0/0/30 build. Somebody did link me to your guides, which is where I learned the optimal zerker to king/valkyrie ratio for these kind of builds. x)

Malice.8439:

I’m doing Staff/ S+P with a 10/30/0/0/30 build. Somebody did link me to your guides, which is where I learned the optimal zerker to king/valkyrie ratio for these kind of builds. x)

Optimal zerker to knights/valkyrie ratio?

Could someone elaborate?

MF gear is not great on a mesmer. I have MF sets on my mesmer, elementalist and warrior, and believe me mesmers get the least out of it.

My advice would be figure out what build and gear you want, and start doing dungeons, farm gold or whip out your credit card.

Darx.9842:

Malice.8439:

I’m doing Staff/ S+P with a 10/30/0/0/30 build. Somebody did link me to your guides, which is where I learned the optimal zerker to king/valkyrie ratio for these kind of builds. x)

Optimal zerker to knights/valkyrie ratio?

Could someone elaborate?

Basicly, the less defensive utilitys, weaps, build etc you have the more you need to invest in passive defense. A Shatter build with 2 stealth, blink,illusionary persona etc need less passive survival you need. Still the skill cap increases when the passive survival go down.

/Osicat