Hi all,
i’m a little bit tired of warrior/guardian and i’d like to get back to mesmer after a lot of months, i think last time i played him was a year ago.
I guess that having several ways to apply confusion i should focus on condition damage, i tried to keep crit chance not too low because IIRC sword/pistol are have power (and crit) based damage.
How would you change the traits and on which stat should i focus?
looking at the gear setup im confused on where youre losing the stats, it looks like a hybrid but with less dps hmm, almost a clone death build id suggest 10 in domination for that tasty crippling dissipation its too good to ignore and tbh while IP is good i wouldnt really reccomend it for a condi shatter, just get a staff instead then use the confuse on blind making chaos armour deadly
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Indeed you might be right about Illusionary Persona, i’m still not sure about the equip setup, with this build i should have quite a decent uptime of confusion that’s why i invested point in cond. damage.
I’m always open to suggestions, it’s not easy to pickup a class again after so much time
thanks again
Not sure what your goal but let me point to obvious mistakes.
sigils not stacking together
Change armor to dire and trinkets to zerk or try somthing else if you go for combine direct dmg+ conditions +survival. Arcane thievery currently not good enough. It is sounds very good in theory but long casting time long cooldown and huge chance to miss make it waste of space. I use mantra of resolve to clean conditions. I did try that weapon combo few times didn’t like it. Scepter is underpowered and unless you PU cond build doesn’t really works well.
I would run Sw/T and Sc/p if you want to run that build. Then take Master of manipulation over the chaos clone death trait. Swap Mirror images for blink. I would also add more power to make the sword a viable choice.
And to the person who said scepter is underpowered unless running condi PU… so not true it works well in many builds.
I run scepter/pistol and sword/torch in pvp/wvw and love it. Scepter and pistol pair really well together, as you can summon your #4, stun with #5 and then immediately begin channeling #3. It’s glorious when it works as they’ll eat a full round of bullets from the phantasm and most, if not all, of the #3 ticks will hit.
I run scepter/pistol and sword/torch in pvp/wvw and love it. Scepter and pistol pair really well together, as you can summon your #4, stun with #5 and then immediately begin channeling #3. It’s glorious when it works as they’ll eat a full round of bullets from the phantasm and most, if not all, of the #3 ticks will hit.
Yeh sc/p is super fun and great with rampagers and sharper images.
Not sure what your goal but let me point to obvious mistakes.
sigils not stacking together
Change armor to dire and trinkets to zerk or try somthing else if you go for combine direct dmg+ conditions +survival. Arcane thievery currently not good enough. It is sounds very good in theory but long casting time long cooldown and huge chance to miss make it waste of space. I use mantra of resolve to clean conditions. I did try that weapon combo few times didn’t like it. Scepter is underpowered and unless you PU cond build doesn’t really works well.
Hi,
thanks for the tips, can you please be more specific about the sigils? What would you use? I put energy sigils so that i have one more dodge to spawn clones on weapon swap, accuracy to get better crit chance.
I will try mantra of resolve, when i was playing mesmer i remember mantras not being used much so i dismissed them now.
Not sure what your goal but let me point to obvious mistakes.
sigils not stacking together
Change armor to dire and trinkets to zerk or try somthing else if you go for combine direct dmg+ conditions +survival. Arcane thievery currently not good enough. It is sounds very good in theory but long casting time long cooldown and huge chance to miss make it waste of space. I use mantra of resolve to clean conditions. I did try that weapon combo few times didn’t like it. Scepter is underpowered and unless you PU cond build doesn’t really works well.
Hi,
thanks for the tips, can you please be more specific about the sigils? What would you use? I put energy sigils so that i have one more dodge to spawn clones on weapon swap, accuracy to get better crit chance.
I will try mantra of resolve, when i was playing mesmer i remember mantras not being used much so i dismissed them now.
Thanks
You can find all sigils info in wiki. But ill give you an idea. Depends on what you prefer use bloodlust or corruption on 1 weapon to build stacks. If you can have 2 similar weapons 1 for building stacks another to use after stacks are full 25. Lightning is good fire or torment not bad especially in group or zerg fights. Energy is very good but you have to understand tooltip. It is not giving you 50% from original number. It gives +50% of what you have at the moment when you swap. Ie if you swap weapon and have 20% of your endurance left then you gain only 10%.
Basically sigils very much depends on your build and fighting style. Start checking what is working for you. Some sigils are very cheap like earth geomancy Hydromancy. You can buy them try and exchange easily. I am not crazy about sigils that proc on swap cos usually for them to work you need to be very close to enemy so proc on crit is a better option i think.
I have always all mesmer weapons in inventory. I rarely use staff but have it for zerg runs with sigil of fire. Torment on GS, Bloodlust on sword and another sword with fire. pistol with energy.
When i wonna troll in WVW i go full Dire and have torch with corruption to build cond stacks. Bloodlust not working with corruption or perception. Only 1 type of stacks can be build.
Considering your weapon choice i recomend you to look at 10/20/30/10/0 PU build. http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vgAQRAsf7al0npMtdqxRNcrRiY6RwRhA3pCQHpCqWJF82FC
Something like that. in dueling you can take IX as well if you prefer better pistol to more clones. Menders purity + mantra let you clear 4 cond and have additional skill spot for something else. There is a lot of varieties of PU build and it make sense only in WvW. I am running 20/20/30/0/0. GS amd Sword/pistol in both WVW and PVE. I can have much better PVE build but then i’d have to change my build every time when i go to WVW and have to get used to different fighting styles. Skills tho i change constantly according to what i do.
