Guild Wars 2

OK, So I’m technical a recently minted L80 Mesmer (my first L80)
And since I haven’t found a good active guild, I’m still mostly doing the whole “Explore the world” process, since between scrolls of knowledge, resource gathering and crafting you can find yourself L80 without trying all that hard.

I was looking at guides and notice that the Phantasm builds seem to be a bit outdated (i.e. they use builds like 10/…, when now a days 6 is the highest number for traits.) I like the idea in theory of a Phantasm build since the ones I have seen seem to focus on constant regen/healing (albeit small amounts) while packing a reasonably good DPS behind iy.

So Are there still reasonably good PVE and PVP Phantasm specs, if so

What Weapons? I presume S + S/F or GS + S/P
What type of Armor? Assassin’s or Berserker’s I’m guessing
What Runes/Sigils ? Would seem like Scholar would definitely be up there.
What traits? Do the old trait line still translate?
What Skills?

I hope to do PVE and May at some point get involved in PVP, though I’ve never done much of that in the past in any game save World Of Tanks.

I’m not opposed to a shatter mesmer, but I like conceptually the Idea of keeping your illusions alive , versus rushing them off to do their doom ( and your benefit)

metabattle.com has a couple of Phantasm dungeons builds.

I used to run WvW and some sPvP using Phantasms, but that was a long time ago. I don’t know if they’re still viable.

Refer to this guide, which is stickied in the mesmer subforum

I would also check the guy who soloed a fractal with mesmer – asura fractal something, Reactor. He used 4 different builds.