Guild Wars 2

Hi there. Let me start off by saying, I love the mesmsr class but I think it’s quite fair to say that we are the worst class for scoring tags and loot in big ZvZ clashes. We have some great utility for these fights but sometimes I just want some loot and have no effective, wide-raduis aoe to use.

I tried a reflection heavy build which was OK for getting a few tags when youre on the defensive but it was no good at the end of a battle which is when you want to tag everyone up for loot. Glamour got nerfed to kitten and I don’t have the gear for it anyway.

If I wanted to create a build purely for survivability and aoe tagging in ZvZ what should I go for? I feel like GS should probably be a part of it for tagging downed enemies, as should feedback (and possibly hounds of b elite?).

Has anyone found a really effective aoe tagging build?

Many thanks!

There are quite a few on here, just have a browse, I use Osicat’s Zerg build, Greatsword & Sword Focus, I do fine for badges.

I’ve tried all of them, the osicat builds are excellent and that one will get a few tags in a 10v10 but won’t get even half as many as a guardian, thief, necro,… against 30-60 players simply due to a lack of any reliable wide-radius aoe. Shatters and I berserker hit a handful of people at bestand half the time dis before doing anything.

I’m playing something similar to that one atm but I want to do better.

Part of it is probably having the right tagging strategy so if you have any tips on that they’d equally be appreciated.

really if you just want to tag ppl for loot GS/Staff is the way to go. Drop a gs zerker then a chaos storm and phase retreat back or blink back. The problem with mesmer in zerg is that everyone want to you run both veil and portal as well we focus pull.

A phantasm build also works really well. 20(3,10)/20 (2, 4)/0/25 (4,8)/5 I think.

I found that adding a Sigil of Fire to my GS helped improve my tagging rate by a good bit with new beam mechanic. If you can position yourself to hit 3 targets, that’s 3 different chances for you to crit. Even with a modest crit rate, that adds up to a lot of procs. What’s nice is that sometimes it procs on a close target and sometimes it procs on a far one, so you end up tagging different players.

I feel like I’ve gotten decent tags from dropping a traited (reflecting) veil at a choke point.

That and Chaos Storm from staff.

And maybe passing out retaliation with SoI + iDefender.