Guild Wars 2

Hello Mesmers!
So recently I’ve been playing around with one of me old Healing Mesmer Builds and had a thought “jeez I hate healing” so I experimented with a bit o’ condition stuff and this is what I thought of:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fhAQNAW8dlsnpVtlqxANUrNivBZ6DEgLeqSg6Y8ihA-T1yCABQcEAA4gAAoOgBeAAcp8I5LAgcaGWe/BfU/JRlgZpEjUAmINC-w

Now, before you all go rampaging and screaming “this ain’t good” “wtf is this” allow me to explain:
First the Boon Scatterer part-

1: Why you get so many Boons? You get boons from Chaos Armor, Chaos Storm, Interrupts with your Temporial Curtain from the the trait Bountifully Interruption(will explain why I didn’t choose pistol instead), Signet of Inspiration and smashing the Shatter Skills like a mad man ^^.

2: Ok so you get Boons, then what? This is a GvG/ WvW build you give boons to allies with Signet of Inspiration.
The steps in how I do it: Either I plop a Chaos Armor up first or I go in the Zerg and do a Into The Void pull then blast Cry of Frustration first, then Distortion, Diversion and Mind Wrack (trying to time the Boons I get) and quickly give it to Backliner or Frontline ev’s with Signet of Inspiration.

The Condition part:
Rune of Preplexity+ trait skills Illusions VI + IX.
Yup you guessed it, bringing Confusion back ^^, I put me Glamors on Mele train and Conf + Blindness
Plus also have a Chaos Armor, but I ain’t no scrub I put it on the Mele train

Armors and Sigils:
This is a Staff/ Sword + Focus Build
Staff because you need the defense
Sword becuase Blurred Frenzy is an amazing defense skill and in my opinion better then Scepter #2. You can let the enemy Zerg roll over you and u will walk away without am taking damage. I also chose Sword becuase of Illusionary Leap, in rare cases you can get an Interrupt (Boons).
Why I chose Focus instead of pistol?
This is actualy an optional choice, if you want to go more supportive by getting more boons through a pull then go with a Focus, but if you want to be more offensive and get a little CC pressure on a Backliner then go with a Pistol (not to mention u inflict Conf with Rune of Prep)

That’s about it, hope this brings some ideas to ya’ll Mesmers and hope you all like it ^^

Happy Hunting!
~Sera

Oh and Armor is Dire for the Toughness and Condition
And Sigils are:
On Staff- Supirior Sigil of Renewal & Restoration
On Sword/ Focus- Supirior Sigil of Curruption & Water

why mirror for heal?

While the idea is good if you’ve got a VERY organized WvW guild… boon stacking is tough in ZvZ, because there are a lot of AoE strips usually. Mesmer Null Field being the main one that comes to mind.

So you seem to have missed the actual trait that makes glamour builds work: Confusing enchantments, 20 points in domination.

Also, if you’re planning on using this with an organized WvW/GvG group, you will need veil, that’s not an optional choice.

Mirror Heal = Trait Skill Mendors Purity. Want to remove Condi’s ASAP while getting a nice heal
In my guild we usuely have 2-4 Mesmers and were all skilled in working together

i also stumbled across this build myself with this new patch and was amazed at the survivability. my build was geared more towards soloing so there wasnt much focus on the glamor skills in my traits. i had decoy, mirrored images and null field most of the time and only used signet of inspiration when in dungeons. i never considered using a focus paired with bountiful interruptions. i’ve been using off hand sword for the block and extra clone but i am excited to try your choice to see how it turns out.

And this build is meant when Mele train goes in for a heal or out of the AOE zone or hell for Backliners having a hard time :/
In worst cases in Empower goes out wrong and we don’t get full 25 stack I can double there stack with Signet of Inspiration

Pyroathiest.4168:

So you seem to have missed the actual trait that makes glamour builds work: Confusing enchantments, 20 points in domination.

Also, if you’re planning on using this with an organized WvW/GvG group, you will need veil, that’s not an optional choice.

Don’t have to have Veil, idk if you know but usuely ppl run with 1-2 Mesmers. If Veil Mesmer needs to me to take over I’ll be happy to switch Feedback with it :/

Xaurniven.2065:

Pyroathiest.4168:

So you seem to have missed the actual trait that makes glamour builds work: Confusing enchantments, 20 points in domination.

Also, if you’re planning on using this with an organized WvW/GvG group, you will need veil, that’s not an optional choice.

Don’t have to have Veil, idk if you know but usuely ppl run with 1-2 Mesmers. If Veil Mesmer needs to me to take over I’ll be happy to switch Feedback with it :/

If you’ve got multiple mesmers, that does make veiling less of a necessity for one of you. However, you’re still going to do absolutely nothing offensively. As I said before, confusing enchantments is the trait that actually makes confusion glamour builds work. Blinding befuddlement and dazzling glamours no longer works because of the icd that anet destroyed BB with for no reason whatsoever.

Pyroathiest.4168:

Xaurniven.2065:

Pyroathiest.4168:

So you seem to have missed the actual trait that makes glamour builds work: Confusing enchantments, 20 points in domination.

Also, if you’re planning on using this with an organized WvW/GvG group, you will need veil, that’s not an optional choice.

Don’t have to have Veil, idk if you know but usuely ppl run with 1-2 Mesmers. If Veil Mesmer needs to me to take over I’ll be happy to switch Feedback with it :/

If you’ve got multiple mesmers, that does make veiling less of a necessity for one of you. However, you’re still going to do absolutely nothing offensively. As I said before, confusing enchantments is the trait that actually makes confusion glamour builds work. Blinding befuddlement and dazzling glamours no longer works because of the icd that anet destroyed BB with for no reason whatsoever.

Ok just 1 thing, exept for your Glamor Skillz this isn’t an Offensive Build.
And I apologize but I do not understand what ArenaNet did to the Glamor skills. Could you maybe post a link? Or try to explain? Much apriciated ^.^

I find it hard to justify having 1.8k condition damage with only confusion as your only reliable damaging condition without Confusing enchantments. You may as well just go Cleric’s/Giver’s/Soldier’s if you really want to be a survivable boon machine, because you sure as hell aren’t doing any significant damage anyways.

I think Mantra of Recovery would be a better heal than Mirror in your build. You’re pretty tanky with high toughness/regen, so you shouldn’t be pressured into needing a faster heal to survive. It will effectively double your condi clears.

Xaurniven.2065:

Pyroathiest.4168:

Xaurniven.2065:

Pyroathiest.4168:

So you seem to have missed the actual trait that makes glamour builds work: Confusing enchantments, 20 points in domination.

Also, if you’re planning on using this with an organized WvW/GvG group, you will need veil, that’s not an optional choice.

Don’t have to have Veil, idk if you know but usuely ppl run with 1-2 Mesmers. If Veil Mesmer needs to me to take over I’ll be happy to switch Feedback with it :/

If you’ve got multiple mesmers, that does make veiling less of a necessity for one of you. However, you’re still going to do absolutely nothing offensively. As I said before, confusing enchantments is the trait that actually makes confusion glamour builds work. Blinding befuddlement and dazzling glamours no longer works because of the icd that anet destroyed BB with for no reason whatsoever.

Ok just 1 thing, exept for your Glamor Skillz this isn’t an Offensive Build.
And I apologize but I do not understand what ArenaNet did to the Glamor skills. Could you maybe post a link? Or try to explain? Much apriciated ^.^

The trait blinding befuddlement has a 5 second internal cooldown. This means that when you place your glamour, only 1 person will get the confusion from the blind.

I think 4/0/6/2/2 would work better, taking Confusing Enchantments and Signet Mastery for more SoI uses.
Master of Misdirection seems necessary when using Perplexity Runes.
And Vigorous Revelation is one more useful boon to share (since that’s the focus of this build) when shattering (which you plan to do often).
I think the healing sigils are trying to do too much. The healing won’t be that impressive. You’re better off going for Sigil of Doom and Geomancy imo for more varied conditions.

Seras.5702:

I think 4/0/6/2/2 would work better, taking Confusing Enchantments and Signet Mastery for more SoI uses.
Master of Misdirection seems necessary when using Perplexity Runes.
And Vigorous Revelation is one more useful boon to share (since that’s the focus of this build) when shattering (which you plan to do often).
I think the healing sigils are trying to do too much. The healing won’t be that impressive. You’re better off going for Sigil of Doom and Geomancy imo for more varied conditions.

Ok I guess the Sigils are a cool choice, idk I focused more on survival xD.
And for the specific build to work you need 6 in Illusions. See the trait Bountifull Disillusionment needs to work with Illusionary Parisona if you want the boons from it to come ASAP, instead of waiting for 3 clones up which is hard in ZvZ. Another way of doing this is having the trait Deceptive Evasion (Dueling – X) so u can get more clones up faster, but this build doesn’t need that much prec unless u have a crit chance on he Sigils.
One way to work with this build that u mentioned us that you must have Confusing Cry in ur traits. So if you blast u can get Reta from Cry of Frustration and not Mind Wrack so you can use ur 3 clones to get what u need.

This is the build I started from.
You heal with mantras while getting boons from pulls, Chaos Armor and some traits.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fhEQNAsdWl0npEtlqxANUrNivRY6jgqTftFiqdA-T1SEABHqEEiTAAUKRA4IAskyDa2fY4HAQiq/whOA60G8kSISBYiwI-w