Guild Wars 2

Gameplay guide for Shatter Mesmers, based on the Shatter Cat Guide

1-Index

1 – Index
2 – Intruduction
3 – Mobility and movment
4 – Shatter tutorial + Burst tutorial
5 – Group combat
6 – Pve as a S C Mesmer.

2-Intruduction

This guide is suppose to explain basic and advance tactical and gameplay based moves and combos. How to preform a good shatter or use a portal in a optimal way for solo/group play. Al gear based questions and spec feel free to ask but do so in the Shatter Cat Guide thread on sticky. Also feel free to give feedback and own Ideas. Having a UBER move? share it with the mesmer community.

3 – Mobility and Movement

Cat leap:

The Cat leap is a utility and weapon skill combo who offers a fast gap closer alternative a escape. It combine swiftness from runes with blinks and weapon skills to propell you and teleport you towards a target and finaly catch it.

It can also be combined with aditional skills for tweaking, agressive use tweek is stealth and pistol stun, defensive is stealth chaos storm and sword 2 cripple.

Needed skills to do Cat leap:

-Rune of Air alt Centaur
-Blink utility
-Staff
-Sword mh

Bonus
-Pistol oh alt focus oh
-Decoy
-Mass invis

Offensive Cat Leap:

Open with trigger swiftness with a heal —-> mark a target in front of you but behind enemy —-> Blink past marked target and make sure not to close to target—-> hit staff phase retreat —-> switch to sword/x and mark enemy —-> sword cripple enemy and atack.

Bonus alternatives,

-Pistol stun before sword cripple win you longer range.
-Focus pull before sword cripple win you longer range
-Stealth before initial attack to take enemy with supprice
-Throw a chaos storm on enemy before switch to sword/x to slow enemy down + with some skill mobilice him in the storm.

Defensive Cat Leap

This is done to escape from a force that you dont want to engage. Combined with stealth and chaos storm its a close to perfect escape and save alot of deaths

What you do is basicly a Cat Leap in reverse.

Run from enemy use camera turn for mark then switch back—->Open with mark a target behind you—-> summon sword cripple to slow target down—-> dodge for immunity and aditional clone—->Use shatter immune heal for swiftness while immune and switch to staff—-> staff phase retreat and throw a chaos storm in your path—->use decoy in storm and in stealth blink in a direction away from enemy.

This create a serie of clones, chaos storm and slows on enemy, the blink at long range in stealth will drop you as target and if you aim correct you can gain with LOS the blink.

Cat leap video:

In combat juking:

In combat juking is a core game game style for al Shatter Cat builds. Its based on the setup of cd and our high burst stats. This let us deliver high dmg in spikes ~ every 8-10 sec with a stady preassure of dmg between from conditions.

The confusion left after the burst combined with Line of sight (LOS) and defensive abilitys let us wear enemys down, controll the fight and hit the low/weak when its time.

This also make the choice of targets for our burst wery important, a wasted burst (see the juking vid at 2:18) favour the oppnent. To avoid this its important to play unpredictable, mix up your rotation and utilice al shatters and skills inc daze.

I link a video, ignore first 2 solo fights, start watch at the Advance juking guide take a pen and dot the folowing times: 2:18, 2:28, 2:38, 2:48, 2:58, 3:05 —>

Pay attention to whats happening at the ~ 10 sec intervall and whats happening between. You soon find a rythm between agression and defens. You also notice the time between agression mode, the clones, conditions and phantasms preassure the enemy al time.

Juking video:

Butterfly leap

Its a tactic by alot of ppl especialy mele find cheesy and close to op. For mesmers our mobility is one of our strongerst cards and the butterfly Leap use this to maximum.

Its a incombat teqnicue to constantly juke up and down a high ground creating LOS vs ranged and get out of range from mele. The clones, aoe, phantasms and shatters still deal dmg.

You need

-Blink
-Sword MH
-Staff OH

Bonus: Combine with for chaos armour, target drop and one aditional leap

-Portal
-Stealth
-Null field

Video Tutorial:

Solo Portal

A portal is far fom only a group utility. There are endless ways to use a portal, al from trolling to do agressive bombing.

Some tipps:

1-Tele stomp: Drop portal down a enemy, hit portal, stomp, use portal, use portal, stomp land, portal out.

2-Range bomb: Drop portal, start fight enemy away form portal, get 3 clones, drop portal and chaos storm, use portal, at range swap to leap, hit shatter at range, portal back, leap to enemy and do a full burst.

3-Trolling: drop portal fight enemy, portal between the 2 portals and have clones up, hit a decoy. Now you impossible to tracks and can if u want use a portal in stealth.

Video:

4 – Shatter tutorial + burst

Single target burst

Text: Shatter Cry burst (Xee burst): Summon phantasm, throw leap, dodge for a 3rd clone, Hit leap, start blade flurry, hit mindwrack, hit daze shatter, hit decoy + mirror immage + cry of frustration, swap to staff and blink out.

Shatter Vuln stack burst(15 in domination needed): Summon Phantasm, throw leap, dodge for 3rd clone, leap, hit daze shatter, hit mirror immage and sword flurry, decoy and mindwrack,hit cry, swap staff and blink out.

Vid:

Group burst (aoe)

Text: Open with staff, summon iWarlock, hit blink and dodge for 3rd clone, cast chaos storm on group, hit cry shatter, blink in and swap to sword, dodge, hit mirror immage and sword flurry, mindwrack dodge out, immune.

Vid: 3rd tutorial part in this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aM_ZzlxcCk

Alternative can the first setup in here with a chaos storm be used (unconvesional):http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i9TPVp4BiQ

5 – Group/guild combat as a shatter mesmer

5.1: Role: There is several roles for the mesmers in a mid size team but two core roles. One is the frontline shatter mesmer another is the support Glamour mesmer, there is also a alternative of a ranged dps mesmer but this role is better filled by other classes.

The frontline mesmer will be using the class high mobility and survival to burst down enemys without go down himself. When team attacking its also often hes role to use veil and portals to get a first blow on enemy.

Vid of Frontline mesmer:

The support Glamour mesmer will be futher back in the team, locking down enemy teams with a steady streem of confusion and blinds. A good setup here is also to use Rune of Lyssa (http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Rune_of_Lyssa) and Signet of Inspiration ( http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Signet_of_Inspiration)

Vid of support mesmer gameplay:

5.2: Utilitys

-feedback

-Portal: One of our core abilitys, there is alot of ways to use this in a group both defensive and offensive. Its usualy best not to do a strait in portal bumb but place the portal behind enemy teams and do it in stealth

-Elites: There is 2 elites that most partys need from mesmers, Mass invissibility and Time Warp. Both is needed and its up to you and your guild messmer friends to organice who carry what. Good base rule thu is that the protal mesmer in the team play heavy shatter build with survival skills and use mass invis.

Notice how mass invissibilty are used for the smal teams attacks in this video:

-veil

AOE

Tactics

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Added shatter combo setups, and some more group play parts.

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Lovely.

Great videos. I’m leveling a mesmer, all this will come really handy. Never thought that I’ll have such a great time with a mesmer.

Added solo portal tactics inc tele stomp video.

I’ve been trying the portal stomp in the mists and only doing it successfully about 1/2 the time. Seems like I always “finish” the stomp before it will let me port back.

After reading the text version, maybe I’ll have to just try spamming the Use button constantly after I drop my portal haha

Thanks for this, Osi, this is a huge help!