Guild Wars 2

I’m a post confusion nerf refugee who needs a new lease on life. At the end of the day I realize that my guild mates want a mesmer for veil, temporal curtain, and occasional portals.

My goal is to make a WvW build that can easily survive while providing these elements as well as tagging.

I run mantra of recovery and mantra of pain for fast heals when rallying. I have empowered illusions, and phantasmal strength for damage boosts (especially on iZerker) to help with tagging.

My defense is a combination of everything niche. (melandru’s, lemon poultry, sentinels, sigils of energy, and restoration)

Thoughts?

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You may get bored easily running a pure tank build, as I did.
First of all, your damage is ridiculous, not enough even to get some of the kills. So after a while using it, you get quite kitten ed, since everybody gains loot and you don’t.
And then, cause if you learn to use your profession, you can avoid a lot of damage, thanks to mobility and skills. This tends to be more noticeable with mesmers, as they have tons of ways to avoid damage.

I feel like you put the traits just to upgrade the skills, but not to provide possibilities to the build.
Mantra of recovering is not needed if you already run mantra of pain. Go for Ether feast, which has a lot more instant healing.
Then, I’d put all domination points into duel and go for Evasive deception. GS has good CD’s and its trait it does not such a work as focus or staff ones.
And finally, I would put 5 points of chaos into illusions to get Illusionary invigoration. Having Distortion twice is like being in heaven xd.

I see your points. I thought about deceptive evasion. It just seems like clones die instantly in large scale wvw.

What if I run Berserk Weapons, Knights Armor, and Caviler Trinkets, with Sentinel Gems?

In WvW is where shatters comes crucial. The key is to create clones and instantly shatter them.

With that new gear, you have medium critical damage, but low critical hit. You only need to focus on critical damage when you’re sure some of your hits will be critical. I have for you 3 options:
- Put sigil of perception. With 25 stacks you’ll have 12% more of critical chance.
- Use precision food. Just with Master Maintenance Oil you would gain 8% crit chance.
- Change 3 trinkets for Kinght with Emerald jewels.

I would personally go for the first, since is the option that affects less on your build, and also with dueling first trait and some precision, you do the same or better job that sigil of energy.