Guild Wars 2

ive been looking at videos of condition (confusion) and crit (shatter) builds and they both seem extremely powerful, after a week i still cant decide and was hoping you guys to help me out. i prefer dealing damage to a large zerg kinda playstyle

GS shatter would be best for lots of damage to large numbers. but its kind of kittened until they fix the ibserserker damage bug.

wads.5730:

GS shatter would be best for lots of damage to large numbers. but its kind of kittened until they fix the ibserserker damage bug.

thanks for the advice, im very new to mesmer and havent been following the nerfs/bugs and such. can you please go into a bit more detail? thank you very much

for me, and my build, the berserker is doing about 1-1.5k damage instead of 4-5k damage.

so if you’re casting this into alot of enemies, your total damage potential drops dramatically.

wads.5730:

for me, and my build, the berserker is doing about 1-1.5k damage instead of 4-5k damage.

so if you’re casting this into alot of enemies, your total damage potential drops dramatically.

sorry im new to mesmer but is this a bug or a massive nerf?

http://www.youtube.com/kyliad

WvW build, lots of fun, requires finesse and tactics, great damage.
The youtube channel has a video breaking down the build, equipment, food choices, and lots of videos of hte build in action.

At the moment i arrived at a 10/20/10/0/30 build for wvw and pve
Using precision/condition/toughness gear, staff, sword/pistol.
It allows me to switch traits and utilities around depending on the situation.

When in small fights or roaming i go confusion shatter with feedback, mirror im, blink.

When in zergs and castle defense i use the traits in illusion: glamour blinds, blind causes confusion,+ 33% longer confusion, and use feedback, nullfield and blink/decoy.

They allow me to drop down feedback and nullfield on the attackers that blinds + confuses them + the fields own mechanic aswell, feedback becomes very nasty.
Doing a combo of feedback, chaos storm, nullfield on a bunch of guys hugging the gate will show you numbers flying everywhere
If only i still had my berserker to finish them off :p

With 20 in domination you could even take confusing enchantments for even more nasty glamour fields.

Its by no means a perfect build, its just what happens to work for me at the time being.