Guild Wars 2

http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc#Mcmmc9rxffacaqmVm

I’m trying to make a build for my sword/sword mesmer that gives me satisfactory damage but also gives me ways to keep myself alive for a long period of time.

I like the evade and block from sw/sw and in the linked build above I’ve tried to put together traits that would help my illusions help me and cause buffs to add buffs.

If any sw/sw users have any further suggestions please post below. I’m thinking on stacking power/vit/tough.. or keeping them all balanced. Not really sure as of now.

anybody have any ideas? comments? suggestions? Servers are down for maintenance, PERFECT TIME TO REPLY!!!!!

Well power builds damage. I just started on Sw/Sw myself (i used pistol before) and its fun I like the block (i liked sc/sw for double block).

BTW the calculator you’re using is outdated. The traits are different.
http://www.gw2skills.net/editor/en/
Is more updated. For instance the sword trait gives 20% sword cool-down and is only Glyph 4

So it looks like you want to build slightly more phantasmal (for the healing/protection boost.) So my weap swap would depend on the phantasm i want (warlock, Beserker, Mage ect). I would consider the iDefender utility for extra survivability. I would also only consider putting 5 points in illusions and placing the remaining 5 depending on your weap swap/ if you go mass Signets.

For stats i would prob go Power, Crit ,Vit or something like that. Toughness i would consider after precision but the bleed you’ll get from the phantasms (which duelist is best at procing is a nice source of additional damage) iSwordsman scales well with power i heard

awesome, thanks for the info and the link to a better calculator.. I can’t believe guildhead’s is outdated, i’ve been using that this entire time lol

iSwordsman is pretty brutal.

Sword clones also have low synergy with Sharper Images.

So for a S/S primary build I would generally recommend:

1. Get some phantasm buffing.
2. No SI necessary.

This basically necessitates 10/10/0/0/5 as the skeleton. From there you can go Shatter heavy (30 Illusion) or tanky (15 Chaos/Insp), or for something specific (Glamour support — 20 Insp 20 Illu, or Mantra heals with 10 more Dueling and 20 Insp). Pure phantasm army would take you to 25 Insp and 20 Illu (need to confirm Haste works on iS — there was some people reporting it was bugged).

Also have to consider what your secondary weapon set is.