Guild Wars 2

Hi,
Debating which focus to get for my mesmer.. I like the look of both, neat effects and all.

What would fit a mesmer better?
What would look better on a Sylvari Female, both stowed and wielded?
Which effect looks “cooler”, the glowey collapsing effect of the anamoly, or the ghostly distorted chains of spirit links?

So torn… I have about 20 more skill points to farm if I went with the anomaly, which Id rather not do. Id rather not burn 250 total SP on it. Yet, farming/buying the mats for spirit links will be a bit more costly. I guess its time vs money. Also trying to keep in mind the abilities that will be purchasable via skill points this year, via colin’s thread.

Thoughts?
Which one?!

have a look at the previews, you can see what they would be like stowed/wielded and just the weapon itself,

personally, I prefer the chains, the anomaly has a nicer particle effect but the focus itself is somewhat glitchy imo

what is glitchy about anomaly?

i am also torn between the two of them. both of them match my mesmer perfectly. i like the anomaly a little better though.

The anomaly. It can’t be beat. Will attach a picture in a minute.

Edit: Here we are.

^ anomaly, fits mesmer well…spirit links for necro maybe :P

Neither everyone does purple

cause the mesmer color is purple….matching ftw :P

Unless you want to Transmute them to the desired stats, Anomoly is berseker and Spirit Links is Condition based. If you can’t decide do what I did and just get both.

Cares Less.9631:

Unless you want to Transmute them to the desired stats, Anomoly is berseker and Spirit Links is Condition based. If you can’t decide do what I did and just get both.

Good point.

I really want an anomaly too, but I use focus a lot in wvw. Since clones don’t have off hands, I would be standing out too much. Not that I can’t have two and only use it in pve, but I would want to show it off….

I will have to wait and see how much it changes when I get one. Who knows how my times a clone has saved my life by taking a burst being mistaken for me.

Your illusion don’t have offhand. (ArenaNet still do nothig to fix base things)
So, in WvWvW you will shine like hell with anomaly, and your illusions will be w/o it.. So, no chances to “confuse” some1 with clones.

Anom is cooler imo, I like to think of it as the same energy a mesmer uses but just channeling (or FOCUSING eh eh?) it into a ball in their hand. Plus more prestige blowing an bloodstone shard AND a scroll on it.

Spirit links is… well it’s floating purple chains? lol like maybe if your into soul bondage sure go for it, I wont judge.

But really imo Anom and Wall of the Mists are the best Ecto weps in game. Maybe scepter… but I wouldn’t waste resorces on that when we get Ember Glow and Combustion.

Thanks for the replies.

I went with spirit links, for multiple reasons…

I didnt want to burn 250 skill points with the upcoming purchasable skills via skill points.
I got my spirit links last night instead of another few days to a week.
Required less mystic coins.
Looking at screenshots and videos of anamoly, it seemed to not “fit” the character models hands. It would almost pierce right through their hands when wielding, so that hand is right in the middle of it. Didnt like that.
When stowed, it looked like your rear end was glowing. Didnt like that.
And now thinking about it, you’re right…you’d stick out in WvW like a sore thumb. (watch they patch this today haha).

One thing that I dont like about spirit links on my character…when I previewed the focus in the TP, it didnt cut off/merge with my character model when stowed. It displayed perfectly hanging from my hip. However, in reality, when stowed, depending on the angle that you look at the character, it sits inside my pocket! But if you pan the camera around, then the focus is displayed.

Other than thakittens been neat. The chains trail when you throw down temporal curtain and things like that…so thats neat. It also has a distortion effect when wielded, so thats unique to it as well. Distortion effect kind of goes with the mesmer when you use #2 on sword.

I agree, anomaly has an overall better particle effect, but financial, time, and “display” reasons… I went with spirit links.

Both!
Also, King’s Rememberance is awesome for Mesmers as well, and it’s cheap.

Bah why spend the resources to make both when you can only wield one? Thats a lot of ecto and coin.

Because, both! >:0

Nah but seriously, at some point you’ll want another focus with different stats.
Hear my words!

/fades into darkness

I just transmuted a zerker focus from CoF tokens.

cesmode.4257:

Sylvari Female

Oh, then the choice if obvious

The Anomaly. If you want to hide your Focus in WvW get Adam.

Anomaly FTW.. wish there was a /torch version of it!

If your mesmer is black like mine → Accursed Chains, basically Spirit Links in…non-spirit.

cesmode.4257:

Bah why spend the resources to make both when you can only wield one? Thats a lot of ecto and coin.

Because you use different builds, Spirit Links for Condition Mesmer, Anomoly for Shatter, former is Condition Based, latter is Berserker. Unless you wish to transmute one to match your build or you only play one build then why not.