Guild Wars 2

I <3 the Mesmer. It makes me work but I enjoy the “chess” type appeal to the profession.

I’ve recently settled on a Staff and Sword/Focus combination and I’ve paid for too many trait resets already I’m hoping I can reach out to some of you builders who’ve poured over and tested trait sets for some advice and guidance.

I’d like to create a trait set that can be both useful in WvW and in my PvE roaming (if possible). I love the focus for Temporal Curtain and the whirling Warden, and sword lets me get a good couple seconds of immobilize so I can trap mobs and players next to my Warden.

Staff has the delicious Chaos Storm which I miss dearly every time I try out a Great Sword just for kicks. GS is fun, but I miss my defensive abilities on the staff.

This is a rough set of traits based on being able to access glamour buffs, illusion buffs and staff buffs – with some illusion-on-death buffs.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/en/?fgEQNAW8dlwzKqHTTqGZNJhJFBH5nUE9ljSB2zOpClG

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I realize I’m heading down the jack-of-all-trades/master-of-none route, but something like this might give me the flexibility to switch between PvE and WvW and maybe even dungeons by giving me access to those interchangeable traits. The utilities skills shown would be more for PvE, but I’d swap in Feedback and Time Warp for more group situations.

Apologies on the longish read and thank you in advance for any and all help and advice on either what I’ve started or something completely different

Cheers!

Okay so i made some slight modfications this is what irun and its awesome for PvE and WvW.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/en/?fgEQNAW8dlwzqqHTTqGZNJh5D9+MjovcUKwu3JVQ1A

This focuses alot more on phantasams which with this build do masses of damage and with the build in WvW you can drop so much reflection that you force people to get into melee range if they want to kill you and then they get owned by wardens. Gear wise you wanna stack power then precision then go about 50/50 in toughness/vit for the rest of your stats as you need both to survive condition damage and raw DPS.

If you want to ask any questions feel free to ask with this build i can easily do 1v2 and sometimes 1v3 depending on make up in WvW and destroy mobs in PVE.

Edit – Rune wise i run 6/6 superiour rune of Dewya as they boost your regenetation by alot and you proc it alot with this build via traits staff and heals with the runes

(In PvE swap blink for singent of illusions more health for them is better than the escape as phantsams take a few hits to be killed then)

Hey! Thanks so much for taking the time to read and give me some feedback I’m definitely going to take your advice and try this out as it sounds fun and effective! Can’t wait to jump into some WvW later

thanks!

That’s nearly the exact build I run – same runeset too. The only difference I’d recommend is to change Phantasmal Haste for Illusionary Elasticity. In PvE the Winds of Chaos Bounce really starts stacking up the damage.

Agree a bit Thedenofsin the reason i run haste though is through proper timing of feed back, plus temporal curtain and wardens attacks you can perma lock down a ranged person and force them into melee and watch them die in one warden spin haha