Guild Wars 2

ok so.. i have been gone from the game for about a year and a half and returned due to the insistance of my wife about 2 weeks ago.

Leveled a ranger to 80.. use my elem for wvw.. but my first character was always my mesmer.. Now.. i remember that back a few months before i left, they nerfed mesmer dps.. but now it seems that they have done it again.

My ranger, elem, necro.. basically any other class i play.. can kill a mob in drytop or silverwastes in like 10 seconds.. it takes my mesmer a full minute or more to do the same .. and i die A LOT.

what the hell happened to mesmer????

i asked this in game and poeple keep telling me to research the meta builds.. did this.. didnt really help much.

first off.. do you have to shatter… i know i used to run a shatter build.. but it got nerfed hard.

second.. weapon sets. I know mes is getting a speed buff in the new expansion.. and for the moment i run runes of speed.. I freaking HATE being forced to use focus just for speed buff.. anyway.. best weapon combo?

Prob wont be using this toon in wvw.. unless i find something that really blows my elem dps/utility out of the water.

Basically im wanting to know if this is just a dead class.. i mean it seems to me that against anything that can actually hit back, mesmer dies in like 2-3 hits and takes a LONG time to kill anything compared to ranger etc.

PLEASE HELP!!!

Depending on what I’m up against, I use different weapons and traits. Since I play PvE and only do PvP for dailies, I think my set-up might be a good starting point (although other mesmers might be better; they’ll have to reply to give you their recommendations).

Typically I run most PvE content with Sword/Focus and Greatsword (I have an off-hand sword and a pistol in case I need them for specific situations in dungeons and fractals)

First question I ask is “Do I need a lot of reflect?”

If yes: 6/4/0/4/0

III, X, and XI
II and IV
II and VIII

If no: 6/6/0/0/2
III, X, and XI
II, IV, and XI
III

The two XI traits are for Mantras. My utilities are Signet of the Ether (Heal), Mantra of Resolve (condi cleanse), Mantra of Pain (recently got a small AoE radius, which is nice with multiple mobs), Feedback (I do Tequatl every night, so I just keep it slotted), and Time Warp (who doesn’t like a bit of chronomancy pre-HoT?)

Both builds are probably not the best out there, but the damage is good especially when you use SotE for its secondary effect and get three phantasms up (usually I get iBerserker and two iWardens out with that). The iWardens stack lots of lovely bleeding with Sharper Images which works with Phantasmal Fury (Dueling II).

Again, probably not the best builds, but they’re a nice jumping-off point, I think.

Yea, I wonder what happened to our damage….
https://youtu.be/hG9J0QQSTg4?t=982

Interesting, I was just playing my mesmer last night on SW (trying to get that…. beta…. cough)…

Mesmer dps generally sucks. I use a condi clone build that isnt the best at anything… besides murdering HUSK monsters…. I don’t die easily because of +Condi/toughness/+vit gear… This does not fully answer your question… so I will answer to the best of my ability…

MANTRA build still works as it did… for the most part and still does half decent dps.. which is about all the dps a mesmer can get… (compared to ele/theif/dpsguard/warrior/engi/ranger pew pew, its better than dagger necro imo… more cleave!)

*edit for PvE, shatter for WvW is epic..

Mesmer requires more skill and intuition than many other professions. You’re probably rusty in both of those departments, given that you took an 18 month break.

Also, you will get better, actionable advice if you list the traits/equipment for your build.

Gomssi.7246:

Mesmer dps generally sucks. I use a condi clone build that isnt the best at anything… besides murdering HUSK monsters…. I don’t die easily because of +Condi/toughness/+vit gear…

While Mesmer DPS isn’t the best, I wouldn’t say it sucks because I’m an eternal optimist that thinks that one day we could be on par with Eles and Thieves (insert comment about delusions of grandeur here… Get it? Delusions? lawlimfunny)

Condi builds are fun, and they’re amazing for killing the husks. The vet and champ ones are MUCH easier with condi builds. The normal ones go down for me pretty quickly with my zerker build, but I attribute that to my phantasms causing lots of bleeding.

cyyrix.6105:

Mesmer requires more skill and intuition than many other professions. You’re probably rusty in both of those departments, given that you took an 18 month break.

Also, you will get better, actionable advice if you list the traits/equipment for your build.

All that is probably true as well (especially the “if you list the traits/equipment” part).