Guild Wars 2

I’m coming to the mesmer finaly after playing since launch. I mainly WvW with a small 5-7 man group, so I’ve been trying to come up with a good build that will fill a support role. I’ve been tinkering with some builds, but before i posted what i think might be a good build i wanted to come see what knowledge the forums had to offer. I just thought I’d ask if there are any tips from those of you how have had expirence playing a mesmer in a supporting role, or strong proven support builds. I’ll post my build after awhile for those who are interested. Thanks

Preacher

Hey man, support builds for Mesmer is something I’ve been looking into for a long time. I personally run a weird variant of the Chaos Maestro:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/Guide-The-Chaos-Maestro-Support-Builds/page/4#post3296927

That right now goes 0/5/30/20/15 (Sword/Focus -Staff. Zerker Blink – Portal – Signet of Inspiration) and sacrifices group healing (which can be effective if you wanna gear that route but is more difficult than Engineer or Guardian) in favor of control and boon support. I run zerk with it because I usually have protection more often than not in addition to pretty much every other boon in the game.

The guide is somewhat out of date, but the build is still very effective. It’s used in WvW more often than anywhere else but there’s a PvP variant in the works.

Hey thanks for the feedback. In all honesty I wasn’t even thinking about going the boon route, but I may have to rethink that after seeing what’s possible.

What I’ve been tinkering with is a mantra sustained healing build. Using staff/clones to apply condition pressure while cycling though my mantras. It does not pack as much burst healing as a guardian, but it does give great sustained healing over the course of a fight while having great group condie cleanse.

Preacher

Do you mind posting the exact trait specs? The original build in the guide I posted does that as well, but offers power damage (which could also be made for condition damage, but I prefer Sword over Scepter because of the Leap Combo working well with Focus’s Light Field to proc Retaliation; which I then share with allies)

The original Chaos Maestro uses Mantra heals combined with Regeneration to keep allies constantly healing throughout the fight. When I last went support-route, played properly I was giving off nearly 1000HP per second with a combination of 3k mantra heals and regeneration while still able to provide any boon I wanted whenever I wanted.

This is what i’ve come up with so far. As i said I’m trying to fill two roles here as a support and condie pressure.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fgAQNAW8dl4zCpnSTrGbNJiJFBHydSBz5ckKUalUcbXIA-jUCBYLQoOA0CQ00AZSFRjtaqIas6GYKWER1eEFRrWKgFVWB-w

Preacher

I’d like to chime in that lock-down builds can/should be considered a support build too… Being able to lock down targets AND stack vulnerability at the same time is great for small group applications.

A lock-down build can largely be made into a mantra build as long as you have 20 in Inspiration. HM could be considered better than CS in this instance too.

The best thing about a build like this (imo) is that you act as both offensive support and defensive support simultaneously.

Just my 2 cents!

(For reference, I would consider a 30/20/0/20/0 build as a start… I would stick with 30 in Dom, but others are quite liquid and could easily be changed to preference.)

I agree that the Lock-down build can be classified/played as a support. However in my particular case I am looking for something that is more suited for outnumbered fights.

Preacher

Preacher.4836:

I agree that the Lock-down build can be classified/played as a support. However in my particular case I am looking for something that is more suited for outnumbered fights.

Preacher

There are a couple specs I’ve put together that may (or not) interest you. One is chillruption, see my signature. I’ve recently added a support variant to it.

The other is called The Utility Wizard.

Both builds have a great deal of lockdown involved.

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This is what i’ve come up with so far. As i said I’m trying to fill two roles here as a support and condie pressure.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fgAQNAW8dl4zCpnSTrGbNJiJFBHydSBz5ckKUalUcbXIA-jUCBYLQoOA0CQ00AZSFRjtaqIas6GYKWER1eEFRrWKgFVWB-w

Preacher

Here is my opinion. Swap Sw/F for Sc/T. The reason being sword has no condition application and you’re not traited for focus. For traits and focusing on support I’d drop the 10 Domination and pick up 10 more in Inspiration… Inspiration has many more support skills and allows more control then ‘kill my clones’ builds. Maybe try Inspiration II, IV, X and swap MoResolve for MoPain or iDisenchanter. I do appreciate mantras, from my experience getting inside the 240 range for small group fights is difficult.

Dekk you may be right about the secondary weapons. The reasoning behind the sw/f was for the defense that they bring with the blur on the sword, and pull on the focus (the swiftness was a plus also). I’ll try out the sc/t and see how it goes.

Preacher