Guild Wars 2

I don’t frequently run into these but I am wondering, for the sake of knowledge, what do you go about doing when you need to kill the mes but his phantasms are slice/dice slakitten bashing you? I don’t know whether to kill the phantasms or…..?

I said slashing... Why does it say "kitten"? Guh

Unless you have heavy dps, you should just get away from that kind of fight. Those mesmers literally build to 1v1 people who can’t kill their phantasms quickly enough to get at the player. They don’t have to actually attack you because their phantasms do all the damage and are on relatively short cooldowns, so they spend all their time running/avoiding damage. Now, if you attack a phantasm and see it’s going down relatively quickly, you should commit, melt the phantasms as soon as they finish their attacks, and then pound the mesmer’s brain in until they summon the next round. Rinse and repeat.

Short answer: Run in the other direction at top speed.

Long answer: Phantasm builds can be countered by interrupts and blinds. Once the phantasms come out, you’re pretty much hosed, but if you can interrupt and/or blind the casts, you might have a fighting chance of taking them out before they ramp up the damage pace.