Guild Wars 2

Hey guys, as I promised a vid every month. Heres my mesmer series for wvw outnumbered solo/duo. Sorry for it being 20 mins, so I made highlights list in the descriptions of the video to skip to whatever part you guys would like to see. Overall, spent a month gathering clips and 12 hours worth of editting last night. Would like some feedback from the community, enjoy!

I am a rare species on the verge of extinction pls help the shatter mesmers

I really liked the video, would love if you could share your build thanks

Ok, here we go.

Traits are 10/30/0/0/30.

Domination: I: Mental Torment
Dueling: IV: Blade Training, IX: Duelist’s Discipline, X: Deceptive Evasion
Illusions: XI: Illusionary Persona, VI: Illusionary Reinvigoration, III: Compounding Power

Staff+ Sword/Pistol

Staff: Superior Sigil of Energy
Sword/Pistol: Superior Sigil of Energy, Superior Sigil of Accuracy (Swapping both out for Superior Sigil of Perception when stacking)

Hard to say on runes, but judging by the hp, I’m guessing full divinity runes with a full set of berserker armor and trinkets.

Nice vid, awesome duo ! But omg, this poor bear T_T

Best burst fairy ever

Eremoo.2785:

I really liked the video, would love if you could share your build thanks

Posted the build on the vid and I’ll post it on here as well:
http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-N;4VPV11y6wU-71;9;4JJ;0T06-39;525AU-k64;1V19cV19cn-kd1-g2g;1Vt56Wu5GYvaR42o-G-2i;5F2CwF2Cw;9;9;9;9;7V8k3I

I use ascended celestial staff with Malign WvW Infusion + ascended zerk sword/pistol with Malign WvW Infusion. 3 piece celestial gear (helm/chest/legs) everything else is zerk.

I build 25 stacks of perception/precision then I swap out to my ascended zerk sword/pistol.

Pyroatheist.9031:

Ok, here we go.

Traits are 10/30/0/0/30.

Domination: I: Mental Torment
Dueling: IV: Blade Training, IX: Duelist’s Discipline, X: Deceptive Evasion
Illusions: XI: Illusionary Persona, VI: Illusionary Reinvigoration, III: Compounding Power

Staff+ Sword/Pistol

Staff: Superior Sigil of Energy
Sword/Pistol: Superior Sigil of Energy, Superior Sigil of Accuracy (Swapping both out for Superior Sigil of Perception when stacking)

Hard to say on runes, but judging by the hp, I’m guessing full divinity runes with a full set of berserker armor and trinkets.

10 30 0 0 30 was in the first 2 clips where I was solo but currently I’m gonna have to stick with boon strip shatter for group plays. I mean 126% cd is nice but boon strip does so much more in the long run.

@Joe: I have to agree with you on the boon strip matter. That traiting will depend a bit on who you can run with though. With a guard ( aka 0 boon strip), boon strip on shatter is probably best.

Pyroatheist.9031:

@Joe: I have to agree with you on the boon strip matter. That traiting will depend a bit on who you can run with though. With a guard ( aka 0 boon strip), boon strip on shatter is probably best.

Yeah most definitely! For 5v5s I’ll always have it up, and in the duo clips on the vid, all of those groups had a guardian except for the clip of the 2v7. The 2v7 clip I was lucky enough to snipe out the guardian before he was able to give boons to all of those thieves.

You honestly aren’t the only charr shatter mesmer here. We are endangered though. Anyway, really nice video. Your survival for how squishy you are is impressive, and the damage you do is pretty insane. I would have loved to fight NSP and duel ya but that’s for after leagues.

Nausicca.6038:

Nice vid, awesome duo ! But omg, this poor bear T_T

Thanks! I know right he shouldn’t have tornado’d me in the first place, then the painful memories wouldn’t have appeared.

ixie.9271:

Best burst fairy ever

Thanks appreciate the feedback! Trying to start a trend where you dress outrageous as possible and kill everyone xD

Warlord of Chaos.7845:

You honestly aren’t the only charr shatter mesmer here. We are endangered though. Anyway, really nice video. Your survival for how squishy you are is impressive, and the damage you do is pretty insane. I would have loved to fight NSP and duel ya but that’s for after leagues.

Sad to say, started roaming March 19 and never seen a shatter mesmer yet. Thats why I made this video to encourage people to play it so I can fight fruity char mesmers also haha.

looks pretty fun, although slow (one of our downfalls ugh), looks like it’s a kill or be killed cause i’m not getting away type! I started off with shatter builds and they are definitely by far my favorite style. I would Love to try this one out, but being tier1 with lots of zerging + conditions + cc going around i just dont think it’d work out. Think i’m gonna drop tiers pretty soon tho so i’ll def be saving this one

Moaning Marv.2194:

looks pretty fun, although slow (one of our downfalls ugh), looks like it’s a kill or be killed cause i’m not getting away type! I started off with shatter builds and they are definitely by far my favorite style. I would Love to try this one out, but being tier1 with lots of zerging + conditions + cc going around i just dont think it’d work out. Think i’m gonna drop tiers pretty soon tho so i’ll def be saving this one

Yeah man I don’t blame you, we were a small server and fought against big servers with blobs that have so much boons.. The downfall to this build is lack of mobility & no condi removals, as of current meta everyones gonna be running condi due to the new nourishment that gives 10% condi duration now which is dumb..

To counter the condi’s in 2v2s-5v5s I use everything the same except the runes I change to hoelbrak and nourishment I change to poulks & leek soup or lemongrass, but both atm are super expensive..

O.O i will be back soon, soon. Very nice video, those shatters look pretty scary.

Shu.6981:

O.O i will be back soon, soon. Very nice video, those shatters look pretty scary.

yeah ill give those shatters to you for not roaming w/ me anymore you nerd rofl ty

Since you play shatter mesmer and have to be in close range, I can see in your vid you have trouble with the iLeap bugs where it randomly leaps to random locations. Doesn’t that bother you?

It always bothers me when that bug happens. It is really annoying and means that the person gets to live because of a bug

JHN.8749:

Since you play shatter mesmer and have to be in close range, I can see in your vid you have trouble with the iLeap bugs where it randomly leaps to random locations. Doesn’t that bother you?

Yeah, it can be very frustrating at times but I just learned to deal with it. Hills/bumpy terrain are the biggest problem for me, so when I engage I make sure I pick an ideal spot that wouldn’t bug out.

Warlord of Chaos.7845:

It always bothers me when that bug happens. It is really annoying and means that the person gets to live because of a bug

I agree with ya man, don’t think anet will ever fix it anytime soon.

I was hoping that bear vid would make an appearance! How many years has it been since they hit you? Luckily, OHai has good insurance! Thanks for another entertaining vid, Joe.

Kayzi.9752:

I was hoping that bear vid would make an appearance! How many years has it been since they hit you? Luckily, OHai has good insurance! Thanks for another entertaining vid, Joe.

Its been a while haha, ty for watching appreciate the feedback!

Not my style of music, but I loved the video nonetheless :D

Alissah.9281:

Not my style of music, but I loved the video nonetheless

Thanks! What music are you into? I’m trying to put all types of music in to keep everyone happy lol.

Very nice solo clips in this vid. Keep it up joe!

My boy’s back at it again…Good kitten homie!

Korruptkai.8527:

Very nice solo clips in this vid. Keep it up joe!

Tyvm man, I’ll try to raise the standards of each video!

Alkaholic.3875:

My boy’s back at it again…Good kitten homie!

Thanks I’ll make you proud, going to keep up with the mesmer series and I’ll try to keep up the engineer series.

traits and gear pls

Otters.1567:

traits and gear pls

25 stacks of precision then

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/external?l=http%3A%2F%2Fintothemists.com%2Fcalc%2F%3Fbuild%3D-N%3B4VPV11y6wU-71%3B9%3B4JJ%3B0T06-39%3B525AU-k64%3B1V19cV19cn-kd1-g2g%3B1Vt56Wu5GYvaR42o-G-2i%3B5F2CwF2Cw%3B9%3B9%3B9%3B9%3B7V8k3I

If I’m fighting condi’s then I have same gear but swap to hoelbrak set 3 piece celestial, ascended celestial staff and rest berserker. Nourishments against condi’s leek soup or lemongrass.

wish there were more shatter mesmers around

Yam.2891:

wish there were more shatter mesmers around

Yeah me too, currently I’ve only seen nothing but phantasm mesmers & condi mesmers. Still no shatter mesmers yet in wvw for me.

Good video Joe! I like how you edited your clips on to the beat when Feed the Machine was playing, definitely one of my most favorite alt rock songs!

keep up the good work.

Joe.4178:

Yam.2891:

wish there were more shatter mesmers around

Yeah me too, currently I’ve only seen nothing but phantasm *mesmers & condi mesmers. *Still no shatter mesmers yet in wvw for me.

Well to be fair, phantasm and condi mesmers are much easier to play, which attracts bad/mediocre players. Shatter actually has risk vs reward to it.

Logi.5612:

Good video Joe! I like how you edited your clips on to the beat when Feed the Machine was playing, definitely one of my most favorite alt rock songs!

keep up the good work.

Thanks worked really hard to keep it fit with the music.

Entioch.6594:

Joe.4178:

Yam.2891:

wish there were more shatter mesmers around

Yeah me too, currently I’ve only seen nothing but phantasm *mesmers & condi mesmers. *Still no shatter mesmers yet in wvw for me.

Well to be fair, phantasm and condi mesmers are much easier to play, which attracts bad/mediocre players. Shatter actually has risk vs reward to it.

Yeah I agree, I don’t mind the fotm condi mesmer or phantasm mesmers. It just bothers me when people brag about how good they are with those spec and think they’re good when they poop on me in 1v1s.

I want to start a mesmer because of you. But I still have lots of questions to ask.

How come you use evon gnashblade/dress so bright/and jump around so much doesn’t it make you an easier target to pick apart from the clones?

Despite all that, you have swap bug + illusionary leap on top of all that stuff you do that would make it easier for people to fight you, doesn’t it bother you in any way?

Aside that I learned a lot from your solid stat distribution on your gear its awesome, and the phase retreat stomps + style points.

Overall was awesome watching/learning your playstyle, keep up the mesmer series & I’d like to see more engineer series too.

imdapro.3256:

I want to start a mesmer because of you. But I still have lots of questions to ask.

How come you use evon gnashblade/dress so bright/and jump around so much doesn’t it make you an easier target to pick apart from the clones?

Despite all that, you have swap bug + illusionary leap on top of all that stuff you do that would make it easier for people to fight you, doesn’t it bother you in any way?

Aside that I learned a lot from your solid stat distribution on your gear its awesome, and the phase retreat stomps + style points.

Overall was awesome watching/learning your playstyle, keep up the mesmer series & I’d like to see more engineer series too.

I do that all because of the current state of the game of many mindless zerglings only using 1 1 1. Despite giving them a handicap and the mesmer nerf when they nerfed blurred frenzy/distortion to evade instead of invuln, and dying still in blurred frenzy/invuln, doesnt make much of a difference. Not that I’m saying im the best or anything or making fun of anet, but there is no reward/ranking system for people to strive to being better as such in 2v2s-5v5s. I like giving myself a handicap and challenge but the ratio of good players to inexperienced players is pretty much outrageous.

Tried out this build must say it is really solid, but how do you do against 1v1s w/ thieves and other classes, and also condi specs? I keep dying to pesky thieves and condi meta classes.

JHN.8749:

Tried out this build must say it is really solid, but how do you do against 1v1s w/ thieves and other classes, and also condi specs? I keep dying to pesky thieves and condi meta classes.

This build isn’t meant for 1v1’s I mean sure you can win a couple, but in reality I lose all 1v1s against the current meta of condi mesmers/phant mesmers, thieves, necros, etc.

Most of the time I just duo roam with a support like a guardian or support healing engineer. 2vX catches my attention more and is a lot more enjoyable in my opinion.

Hi,
I’m trying to make shatter mesmer work for roaming.
Right now I’m using phantasm/shatter hybrid build from osicat (because celestial gear is too expensive), I just changed the rune with centaur because of the speed (but i’ve lost 10% crit).

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fgAQNAscWlwzaqHTzoGb9ICqHYH49dkUoatWJF82FC-j0DBYLCiUgQUEgkFAJPDZM9BNBCqmpIasabYKXoaXA6XIqYR2MO1myDRDA-w

The thing is, in every shatter video from you or osicat I can see that with the combo:
3 clones Diversion, 3 clones blurred frenzy + MW you can kill almost everyone.

Well when I try this combo I can’t even kill an upperlevel.
Yesterday I fought against an engineer upperlevel and he ran away with a few hp.
Then I’ve found an elementalist upperlevel he also ran away.
I’ve fought with a guardian, I barely took 1/3 of his life, he killed me with 2 shots.
I found a rogue condi, he killed me before my Illusionary leap reached him.
I fought with a warrior hammer/gs for about 10mins. every time he reached half life he could just run away, When I tried to run away he could reach me all the time. With hammer F1 he could take half of my hp.

I would love to master the shatter build because is very funny to use but I don’t really understand how you guys can kill all that people so fast and without taking damages.
What happen to me is that, Engineer, guardian, warrior, elementalist get invul as soon as my clones start running. When I do staff #2 I can see the warrior hammer leap on the exact point where I teleport and I need to use decoy to get rid of it, then my cd are over.

I mean, are those video’s real daily fights or just some very bad players that you’ve killed?

Just to let you know I’m not a total noob, with my hybrid condi/phantasm build I can do 1v4 and kill them all or escape when I want. I can go alone against a zerg, kill one of them and run.

Can you help me or give me some advice on how you can kill people so fast?
Maybe I need to change my gear to full berserk in order to increase crit dmg.
How can you go roaming without speed? Everybody would outrun you instead of stay there and get killed, isn’kitten

Thanks

Love the play style of shatter aswell and been playing it since i hit 80 in WvW.
In regards to zerg/solo and condition weakness I sometimes swap boon strip for
torch trait. It gives you alot of defense both from the extra stealth and the huge amount of condition removal you get.

Phantasmal Mage 18 sec cd = 2 condi removal every 18 sec (1 on summon 1 on mage cast)
The prestige 24 sec cd = 1 condi etc..

You do miss out on alot of damage vs. the offhand sword or pistol (i prefer offhand sword) but get alot of added survivability.

The spec
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fgAQNAW8PGRQ9A8yuvjkiW71Kpg3uQA

And ofc a superior sigil of generosity on staff + lemongrass doesnt hurt

cyberwolf.5830:

Hi,
I’m trying to make shatter mesmer work for roaming.
Right now I’m using phantasm/shatter hybrid build from osicat (because celestial gear is too expensive), I just changed the rune with centaur because of the speed (but i’ve lost 10% crit).

Don’t buy celestial gear, just buy the quartz crystal and charge it daily which will take 15 days. But the recipes themselves are expensive around 20-30g. If you do plan on getting celestial, save up the charged crystals and wait till end of the year for ascended armor. An alternative route is my old full zerk build w/ ruby orbs if you don’t have enough for travelers or divinity. If you can roam/survive in full zerk then you will do 2x better in the main set after you finish crafting it.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fgAQNAscWlwzaqHTzoGb9ICqHYH49dkUoatWJF82FC-j0DBYLCiUgQUEgkFAJPDZM9BNBCqmpIasabYKXoaXA6XIqYR2MO1myDRDA-w

cyberwolf.5830:

The thing is, in every shatter video from you or osicat I can see that with the combo:
3 clones Diversion, 3 clones blurred frenzy + MW you can kill almost everyone.

Well when I try this combo I can’t even kill an upperlevel.
Yesterday I fought against an engineer upperlevel and he ran away with a few hp.
Then I’ve found an elementalist upperlevel he also ran away.
I’ve fought with a guardian, I barely took 1/3 of his life, he killed me with 2 shots.
I found a rogue condi, he killed me before my Illusionary leap reached him.
I fought with a warrior hammer/gs for about 10mins. every time he reached half life he could just run away, When I tried to run away he could reach me all the time. With hammer F1 he could take half of my hp.

Things to account for:
1. Shatter close range not far, next is notice I dodge roll before I shatter, so my clones hit the target not some random mobs away from my target, that way you don’t lose too much dps.
2. I’m in full ascended using highest dps food.
3. Don’t be discouraged, the scaling w/ uplevels in this game are broken. There is no formula/algorithm for them. An example of how broken the upleveled scaling is in this screen shot here http://i.imgur.com/RiHmVmh.jpg and in this video my friends play a lv20 guard and lv60 engi killing everybody http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdNLKgGVGlA.
4. In my video I mostly fought squishies like glass guardian, thieves, eles. I was extremely lucky in those clips as compared to when I usually roam against full pvt bunker classes like hammer warrior. When I fully shatter a full pvt wa then it only brings him down to 1/4 or 1/2 hp then the fight ends up in a stalement since I’d just kite him out most of the time.

cyberwolf.5830:

I would love to master the shatter build because is very funny to use but I don’t really understand how you guys can kill all that people so fast and without taking damages.
What happen to me is that, Engineer, guardian, warrior, elementalist get invul as soon as my clones start running. When I do staff #2 I can see the warrior hammer leap on the exact point where I teleport and I need to use decoy to get rid of it, then my cd are over.

I mean, are those video’s real daily fights or just some very bad players that you’ve killed?

Just to let you know I’m not a total noob, with my hybrid condi/phantasm build I can do 1v4 and kill them all or escape when I want. I can go alone against a zerg, kill one of them and run.

The people I kill in my vid are daily, I don’t stumble across many great players since the competitive level in this game isn’t high due to no high rewards for skill, and we’re fighting big servers. The probability of finding good players in ratio to the amount of players that zerg in other servers is miniscule.

cyberwolf.5830:

Can you help me or give me some advice on how you can kill people so fast?
Maybe I need to change my gear to full berserk in order to increase crit dmg.
How can you go roaming without speed? Everybody would outrun you instead of stay there and get killed, isn’kitten

Thanks

1. Always try to maintain 3 clones up = 9% extra damage/more healing/more damage when you shatter.
2. Shatter pointblank range (extremely hard against ranged classes)
3. Max out your gear to ascended level + use good nourishments
4. Be lucky and fight against squishy people (careful of their burst also)

That mostly should sum up everything, sorry about the late reply. I didn’t think people were interested in shatter mesmer compared to my guildie’s thief outnumber videos. Tyvm for the feedback also I’ll try to keep everyone updated!

cyberwolf.5830:

Can you help me or give me some advice on how you can kill people so fast?
Maybe I need to change my gear to full berserk in order to increase crit dmg.
How can you go roaming without speed? Everybody would outrun you instead of stay there and get killed, isn’kitten

Thanks

I’m glass to begin with so I’d die to everything anyways, even if I can outrun zergs they’d chase me till I die, especially thieves that can port and catch me. Using speed defensively to run away is w/e to me, but offensively my targets get away from me fairly often which is annoying. But I learn to accept that weakness including condi resistance as a flaw to my build. If builds didn’t have weaknesses then this game would be boring.

Mohagi.2738:

Love the play style of shatter aswell and been playing it since i hit 80 in WvW.
In regards to zerg/solo and condition weakness I sometimes swap boon strip for
torch trait. It gives you alot of defense both from the extra stealth and the huge amount of condition removal you get.

Phantasmal Mage 18 sec cd = 2 condi removal every 18 sec (1 on summon 1 on mage cast)
The prestige 24 sec cd = 1 condi etc..

You do miss out on alot of damage vs. the offhand sword or pistol (i prefer offhand sword) but get alot of added survivability.

The spec
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fgAQNAW8PGRQ9A8yuvjkiW71Kpg3uQA

Yeah that looks good, idk its just all on preference. I like to play offensive/aggressive with the magic bullet interrupts after shatter or before shatter.

Mohagi.2738:

And ofc a superior sigil of generosity on staff + lemongrass doesnt hurt

I like the energy its prob one of the most powerful sigil in the game that 1 extra dodge. Staff I use it defensively to get away idk if i’d use it for offensive since its slow damage.

Hey Joe,
From Yaks Bend I fought you on my ranger[FoW] a couple times this week. Dam!!!!! First time I didn’t know what hit me. After that I was ready for a shatter mesmer, you don’t see many good shatter mesmers anymore. I have run into you a few times this week I know when I see a colorful charr mesmer its going to be a rough fight. You are very skilled you would beat me 8 out of 10 times in a solo fight.

Nimoy.3516:

Hey Joe,
From Yaks Bend I fought you on my ranger[FoW] a couple times this week. Dam!!!!! First time I didn’t know what hit me. After that I was ready for a shatter mesmer, you don’t see many good shatter mesmers anymore. I have run into you a few times this week I know when I see a colorful charr mesmer its going to be a rough fight. You are very skilled you would beat me 8 out of 10 times in a solo fight.

Thanks! But I just do the same as every shatter mes iLeap blurred frenzy shatter but I’m just maxed out in stats, I don’t think I’m any good or special since I’m running full glass. In a 1v1 you’d wreck me because for me to do damage I’d have to get close range, and if you kite me out well enough then I’d flop over 100% of time.

Joe.4178:

Nimoy.3516:

Hey Joe,
From Yaks Bend I fought you on my ranger[FoW] a couple times this week. Dam!!!!! First time I didn’t know what hit me. After that I was ready for a shatter mesmer, you don’t see many good shatter mesmers anymore. I have run into you a few times this week I know when I see a colorful charr mesmer its going to be a rough fight. You are very skilled you would beat me 8 out of 10 times in a solo fight.

Thanks! But I just do the same as every shatter mes iLeap blurred frenzy shatter but I’m just maxed out in stats, I don’t think I’m any good or special since I’m running full glass. In a 1v1 you’d wreck me because for me to do damage I’d have to get close range, and if you kite me out well enough then I’d flop over 100% of time.

Joe’s secret is his outrageous appearance.

Oh, this was that childish Mesmer who team invited me just so that he and his buddies could flame me. Funny, I was excited to see him in action, he might fight well, but he is a toxic POS that makes the GW2 community look like a bunch of 4 year olds.

dank.3680:

Joe.4178:

Nimoy.3516:

Hey Joe,
From Yaks Bend I fought you on my ranger[FoW] a couple times this week. Dam!!!!! First time I didn’t know what hit me. After that I was ready for a shatter mesmer, you don’t see many good shatter mesmers anymore. I have run into you a few times this week I know when I see a colorful charr mesmer its going to be a rough fight. You are very skilled you would beat me 8 out of 10 times in a solo fight.

Thanks! But I just do the same as every shatter mes iLeap blurred frenzy shatter but I’m just maxed out in stats, I don’t think I’m any good or special since I’m running full glass. In a 1v1 you’d wreck me because for me to do damage I’d have to get close range, and if you kite me out well enough then I’d flop over 100% of time.

Joe’s secret is his outrageous appearance.

Pls, I use bright outfits so people know where I’m at and jump around w/ evon gnashblade. That way people can tell which one is the real me easier.

MrAmputatoes.6031:

Oh, this was that childish Mesmer who team invited me just so that he and his buddies could flame me. Funny, I was excited to see him in action, he might fight well, but he is a toxic POS that makes the GW2 community look like a bunch of 4 year olds.

Thanks for the dislike, I guess.