Guild Wars 2

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fgAQRAra7flwzipXQzoGb9IxpHQP6SnkCV/6SKwduB-w

I’ve been playing my Mesmer for a long time, and while I switch up now and then, I usually come back to pretty much the same thing.

The above is my high crit, high condition build with solid health and healing. It annoys the hell out of enemies and can hold it’s own against pretty much any SINGLE player. I’m not going to lie and say it’s great against an army, it’s lousy at AE.

I absolutely love scepter, so getting the timer reduce on that is very helpful, esp with Torment. You get 3 weapon cooldown reductions which is a lot of bang for the buck.

The build has 2 stuns. Pistol is a 2 second with a 20 second cooldown. Signet of Domination is a 3 second with 45 second cooldown. Any squishy that is hit with 5 seconds of stun while you got pets out is pretty much doomed.

You got 3 stealths. Torch on 24 second. Decoy 45 second. Mass Invis at 90.

Blink helps a lot. It is not only a stun/root/whatever break. But it keeps you away from melees. Especially in the hammer stun age.

Damage is from conditions and phantasms. Phantasms have +20% health, fury, cause bleed on crit, +30% dmg, have retaliation, and provide regen when you stand around them. They are killing machines.

You have 3 single condition removers. Your heal. And both torch skills.

You have enough health to take a hit and enough healing to heal quite a bit of your health, esp with Ether Feast. You can use Mirror for faster condition remover, but I personally like Ether Feast.

I use all Rabid gear. Precision Toughness Condition.

This build, I consider it almost necessary to have full Traveller runes for the +25% movement speed. That alone with the stealth and blink, and stuns and block makes you really hard to catch if you want to run. But without it, you’re simply not going to get away from groups. Be warned.

I use Super Veggie Pizza (cuz 4% isn’t worth that much money) and Master Tuning Crystals (because I want them on the same timer).

I’ve run the build in dungeons and done well. And WvW and done well. More importantly, it’s fun. I think Mesmers should be using pets. I’ve never liked shatter skills so I don’t shatter them unless I’m really in trouble.

I’ve experimented with 2h sword and focus (mostly just for swiftness). Once you get traveller, you will/should never use focus again. 2h sword is great for cripple and AE, but in big fights, your pet is going to die quick because he’s melee. I also really like the 2 condition heals on torch. And you +Mage is 8 stacks of Confusion on a target.

4% isnt worth that much money? The difference between a whole extra 10% or not can mean an entire second, or tick, of a condition.

Anyway check this out. Very similar but you might get some ideas to tweak your build further.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/Build-Poisoned-Apples/first#post2484121

It’s not 10% it’s 4%. It will never be a second unless it’s something like poison and that will be maxed anyway because of my mega fury phantasms. And frankly, I spend a lot of time walking around and standing around in WvW and I’m a casual gamer. It’s not worth it.

As for your build, while I like defense and +1 cloak, I think boon duration is a waste. I don’t have boons and don’t like arcane thievery. If you fought me it would give you nothing, for instance. If I die it’s not because I don’t have defense, it’s because I’m overwhelmed and stunlocked and that will happen regardless of defense.

I was looking at builds tonight, and your’s looks intriguing. I can’t find rabid gear at all though.

/edit Figured it out. What you call Rabid gear could have all kind of names…grrr

dukerustfield.7120:

It’s not 10% it’s 4%. It will never be a second unless it’s something like poison and that will be maxed anyway because of my mega fury phantasms. And frankly, I spend a lot of time walking around and standing around in WvW and I’m a casual gamer. It’s not worth it.

As for your build, while I like defense and +1 cloak, I think boon duration is a waste. I don’t have boons and don’t like arcane thievery. If you fought me it would give you nothing, for instance. If I die it’s not because I don’t have defense, it’s because I’m overwhelmed and stunlocked and that will happen regardless of defense.

Right. So what you’re saying is, as a casual gamer you’re not playing to win, and thus are happy running an inferior design. Ok, I can accept that. (FYI, this comment has nothing to do with the trait layout per’se)

buy koi cakes, last 20 min same power as rare veggie pizza and ALOT cheaper :p

Ross Biddle.2367:

Right. So what you’re saying is, as a casual gamer you’re not playing to win, and thus are happy running an inferior design. Ok, I can accept that. (FYI, this comment has nothing to do with the trait layout per’se)

May i ask you which skills are suffering from the 4% less condition duration? Are there actually conditions in this build who lose a tick of damage with only 56% duration compared to the 60% provided by the better food (66/70% with Traveler Runes)?

If you don’t have traveler runes, then this 4% will be significant, but if you have them, that 4% of condition duration only affects burning from Prestige and adds 0.25 to Cry of frustration and iMage. For the Prestige, is a lost of 998 DPS every 24s (Build with full extotic rabid weapons and armor, full ascended rabid trinkets and 25 stacks of corruption and might).
Then there’s the lost of 10 of condition damage, negligible.
So, in the end, there’s no reason to spend like 5 or 6 times more on food if you’re a casual roamer.

BTW, while PU build is better for roaming, this one is much more versatile and still good on roaming, as it allows you to make good builds fot other aspects of the game. I also finally ended with this trait distribution, as it allows you to make a nearly top GvG glamour build, and also it helps to improve your DPS in PvE thanks to reflections of focus and Phantasmal Strength.
Just with changing your set and choosing different traits, you’re able to change between game modes in a second.

Have you considered adding a chaos field to the build? Like staff #5, nullfield or feedback. Since you are traiting for pistol and torch, even if you take out Mender’s purity and get the %CDR glamour trait, you won’t miss the 1condition on heal a lot (if you are taking Nullfield, that is).

I’m telling you this because traited iDuelist works wonders with the projectile finisher, stacking confusion on the enemy. Then again, I don’t know which uttility I would take out in order to get a chaos field, and torch is a must in you build, so I don’t think staff really fits.

Vortigern.1987:

Ross Biddle.2367:

Right. So what you’re saying is, as a casual gamer you’re not playing to win, and thus are happy running an inferior design. Ok, I can accept that. (FYI, this comment has nothing to do with the trait layout per’se)

May i ask you which skills are suffering from the 4% less condition duration? Are there actually conditions in this build who lose a tick of damage with only 56% duration compared to the 60% provided by the better food (66/70% with Traveler Runes)?

I was talking more this
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fgAQRAra7flwzipXQzoGb9IxpHQP6SnkCV/6SKwduB-j0BBYhDiOHqIaslhFRjVdDTHjIq2kL1GzDRTIAFrBA-w

vs this
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fgAQRAra7flwzipXQzoGb9IxpHQP6SnkCV/6SKwduB-jECBYfBCNM05QFRjtMsIasqbY6YER1mcp2YeIaSBAzaA-w

Just as one possibility. There are still more tweaks that could be made. Given, I think an extra second of a cc condition is far more important than a second of damage (necessarily), but the fact remains, 4% can make all the difference.

Here, throw in a few sigils and you have 100% burning with torch, and 100% bleeding on pistol.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fgAQRAra7flwzipXQzoGb9IxpHQP6SnkCV/6SKwduB-jkCBohDimCAkEAmEJQ5QFRjtMsIasqbY6YER1mcp2YeIaSBAzaA-w