Guild Wars 2

Greetings,I am new to the mesmer class (and GW2 in general),I’d like some advices for trait builds and stat priority for GS/Staff (also for other weapon sets too).I know there must be similar posts,but most of them are for lvl 80 (i am 40 atm).Also plz explain why there is condition dmg as stat,aint power stat applied to condition dmg anyway?
Any other tips regarding mesmer are welcome.Thnx in advance.

- IMO at 40, run Staff with 20 Illusions(Compounding Power, Illusionary Elasticity), 10 Precision(Phantasmal fury) and work your way up to 20 Precision(Deceptive Evasion). From there on out, you can probably do whatever you want, but spamming clones(not phants) with Staff out and Illusionary Elasticity makes things super easy. Phants are more useful until you have Deceptive Evasion as clone production is much easier. After that though, it’s easy to put out three clones at the start of just about every fight. I ran Ether Feast, Decoy, Mirror Images and Signet of Illusions when doing this.
- No, power is not applied to condition damage. Just to the regular damage. There are formulas for how condition damage scales into each condition on the wiki.

well it kind of depends on your play style, if you wanna be phantasm focused or shatter, it’s different builds.

some pretty crucial trait choices in my opinion are illusions 5, for 20% faster illusions, menders purity in inspiration for a condition removal on heal, cos i found leveling tedious without cond removal and i didn’t like using null in pve.
also if you want to focus on phantasm dmg the domination 10 trait that increases illusions dmg by 15% is nice too. if you want to focus on shatters, there’s a couple important ones, the 10% mind wrack crit chance and 20% mind wrack damage are good traits to look at, also the 20point dueling trait that creates a clone on dodge rolls is a good one to spit out clones for shattering. the 15point trait in chaos is a nice one and has good synergy with the staff if you use that one a lot, as it gives protection for 2sec every time you get regen, and chaos armour gives regen.

i’m pretty sure power doesn’t affect condition damage, cond dmg increases the amount that bleed burn poison all tick for, so their dot is increased.

ImO the most important trait at lvl40 (master unlock) is sharper images/ duelling 15. It’s essencial for GS illusions. It doubles your DPS with decent crit.

Deceptive Evasion (Duelling X) is comfort, but awesome.
Chaos 5 (auto regeneration) is nice, too.
And Illusions 5 is also must for Mesmer.

Sharper images apply on critical shatters too?

Shatters are considered to come from the Mesmer, not from Illusions.