Guild Wars 2

Hi, just wanted to thank everyone for poking in. Right now I’m using staff main, clone build. Staff clones appear to be the strongest, able to stack conditions and be a pain in the butt. I’ve also been using sword/torch offhand, dropping staff clones and then leaping in to use prestige, do a little AA and then staff to back out.

My question is, what type of build should I run? Shatter? Straight up condi stacking? I’m really confused, I was a phantom build before but phantom builds are mind numblingly boring. any help would be appreciated.

I have absolutely no idea what you want help with. Do you know how to use a staff? Great! Just great. What build you use it with is irrelevant – both power and condition works fine.

staff is one of the two weapons mesmers have that isnt having an identity crisis right now. its just as efficient in power builds as it is in condition builds.

Do shatter with that setup, it’s a lot of fun.

Dawdler.8521:

I have absolutely no idea what you want help with. Do you know how to use a staff? Great! Just great. What build you use it with is irrelevant – both power and condition works fine.

Oh yea just saying staff is overall really fun just.. unsure what build with it is all. I look at staff and see condi and power stuff and I get confused.

Curunen.8729:

Do shatter with that setup, it’s a lot of fun.

Have any links or anything or ideas, gear type?? I’m here to learn from you all!

Check out this thread discussing shatter builds with torch: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/Cleansing-Conflagration-Shatter

It could apply to your staff-sw/t setup.

Sunshine.4680:

Curunen.8729:

Do shatter with that setup, it’s a lot of fun.

Have any links or anything or ideas, gear type?? I’m here to learn from you all!

I’m not a very experienced player compared to many mesmers here, so I’ll only try to share what I’ve found works for me.

Link in sig shows the build and gear I currently use – standard 0/20/20/0/30 as in the stickied Shatter Cat thread, except using torch and a few other differences.

I’ve gone through a lot of different builds – glamour confusion, clone death, phantasm, power PU – but came back around to staff shatter which is what I find most fun to play at the moment.

The most difficult trait choice in this build is between 1200 blink and sword cooldown. When fighting a thief for example, I’d rather have sword cooldown, but when running from a large mob the 1200 blink becomes more useful.
Still chopping and changing things, but am quite satisfied with the overall performance so far.