Guild Wars 2

Hey, ive been wondering what kind of armor sets would be the best for a mesmer atm.
I mostly play pve so i use berserker set usually. Do you guys use any other?

I own full
Clerics T3 sylvari cultural
Rabid TA set
Carrion named set
Assassin’s Arah set
Zerker CoE set
Heavy Zerker/Cavalier Whispers set

I use the Arah Assassin set the most lately. I’ve really come to appreciate assassins over zerker.

I also love using a set of Carrion Armor with Rabid trinkets and weapons.

Those 2 sets cover 90% of the specs I run.

I use the bererker set for shatter mesmer builds and just hilarous burst
and i have an offset of soldiers gear for when i run mantra healer build support which is acutlaly great becuase u can spam heals in a zerg for 2.5k and just survive easily at the front lines althoguh yoru burst does suffer.

Celestial exotic with Golem Runes. The big buddy creates valuable distraction and the gear leaves all facets of my build relevant – conditions as direct damage as hp

Zerker, soldier, knight.

Assassin’s if I desperately need precision, but usually restrict that to weapons. Valkyrie if I need vitality, but that’s very rare. Cavalier is usually better on trinkets at the moment anyway.

I don’t play condition anymore, so no condition sets.

Rabid Phoenix set
Apothecary/Shaman’s
Knight/Soldier’s
Rabid Ascended trinkets
Celestial Ascended trinkets

Needless to say, the Rabid stuff (Thanks for the horrid condition-stacking system, guys!) doesn’t get used for jack in PvE.

Zerker w/ scholars for PVE
Knights w/ travelers for WvW and gathering – i like to roam with the Mez
PVT for when needed
Rabid sitting collecting dust for one day maybe.

Zerker with Centaur runes for PvE
Hybrid of Zerker, Valkyrie, Knights, and Cavalier w/ travelers for WvW.
Rabid w/ I forget for WvW

mix of celestial and zerkers w/ travelers
zerkers w/ opal orbs
knights w/ speed
Trinkets: mix… full 20 slot bag
salvaged (imo)
rabid (dont like conditions)
clerics (healing not worth it)

PvE only, I’ve got one for condi damage, one for hybrid damage and about 6 zerker outfits for my beloved Madame Le Blanc <3. Oh and a def tank equip for fotm when I’m spamming mantra heals.

For WvW solo roaming I run with Ascended Knights gear and Ascended Berserker trinkets and weapons… just my luck that Berserker trinkets seem to get nerfed disproportionally in the pending crit nerf. >.<

Zerk for everything included words pve or solo. Can be mixed with some assassin or knight if necessary. Dire for WVW cond troll build. Runes of speed or better traveler.

Nearly full assassin. Critrate is important to my build for more than one reason, mesmers don’t quite self-fury, fury from party support is rare, and Might can easily be obtained from teammate buffs for the power requirement in both dungeon and WvW purposes.

Mesmers are one of those rare classes for which assassin is better than berserker for dps purposes; normally it’s the other way around.

Hayashi.3416:

Nearly full assassin. Critrate is important to my build for more than one reason, mesmers don’t quite self-fury, fury from party support is rare, and Might can easily be obtained from teammate buffs for the power requirement in both dungeon and WvW purposes.

Mesmers are one of those rare classes for which assassin is better than berserker for dps purposes; normally it’s the other way around.

Ive been using full assassin armor and Zerker/valk trinkets. That puts me at 48% crit chance and 96% crit damage.

I agree that Assassins is a great mesmer set. Im not sure why more people aren’t using it to balance out their crit to dmg ratio. Really glad they added it. I used to kill me that I had no way to balance those stats out.

Godmoney.2048:

Im not sure why more people aren’t using it to balance out their crit to dmg ratio.

Probably the same reason as me. Already have a zerker set, don’t care enough to get an assassins.

Pyroatheist.9031:

Godmoney.2048:

Im not sure why more people aren’t using it to balance out their crit to dmg ratio.

Probably the same reason as me. Already have a zerker set, don’t care enough to get an assassins.

What would be great is if they replaced a dungeons Rampager set with Assassins. I believe CoE has a rampager set that is begging to be replaced with Assassins.

I run
- Knights (SE) w/Travelers set for Mantra/Phantasm build and WvW build.
- Zerker w/Ruby Orbs for Meta Phantasm Reflect build.

In both sets I run Soldiers Back and Neck.