Guild Wars 2

i havent leveled anything else so i’m not sure if other professions have this problem but

it seems like mesmers suffer from a lack of options in the traits?
second tier of illusions
Illusionary Elasticity – bounce skills have an extra bounce

CLEARLY the best skill of this tier

dazzling glamours – glamour skills blind foes at target location

sigh

blinding befuddlement – cause confusion when you blind a foe

REALLY?

phantasmal haste – phantasms charge 20% faster

this is actually pretty good because phantasms are a huge part of our dps but i remember reading it takes a full 26 seconds to get an extra cast out of it so ?

in a straight shattering-condition/confusion build, blinding befuddlement works wonders. the prestige now AoE confuses, and the scepter block second ability confuses all targets in a line. if your trying to stack as much confusion as possible, these two are godsends.

so the one that i see as the best is really on best for all around purposes where the others are straight niche?

Its ALL about build you do.
Who would use Illusionary Elasticy if they dont use neither staff nor GSword ?
Its condition trait line, so if someone go deep confusion build:
- you go sword+torch(stealth+AoE blind) / scepter+focus
- use Null Field (Glamour) to combo with Phantasm Warden
- pick trait Blinding Befuddlement: “Cause confusion when you blind an foe”

You know .. I skip this “CLEARLY the best skill” but take those “sigh” and “REALY?”.

hey ! i at least spelled REALLY? right!

at least these 2 traits are worth taking. If you look in other lines (especially first tier) sometimes there is absolutely nothing useful.

Animando.7956:

at least these 2 traits are worth taking. If you look in other lines (especially first tier) sometimes there is absolutely nothing useful.

so much. i should have given a better example

I like the grand master traits. They are so awful for so many trees.

I would disagree to what you say in that the traits are heavily influenced by the build you are using, so other builds means other traits.

I WOULD agree though, that the mesmer has an exceptionally high number of (what seems to me) useless traits. I often go for a trait line simply because of the +stats that I get from it, not so much for the traits. I mean you find something more-or-less useful in every traitline, but often I think “meh, dont care” … this is especially true for most of the grandmaster traits, which I rarely skill because simply there aren’t any good.

be aware I play mostly pve, this might be different for pvp.

murasamune.2756:

Illusionary Elasticity – bounce skills have an extra bounce

CLEARLY the best skill of this tier

This actually is one of the best traits of this tier.

dazzling glamours – glamour skills blind foes at target location

Excellent trait for a large scale glamour build, especially with the “confuse on blind” trait.

blinding befuddlement – cause confusion when you blind a foe

Ah yes, this one.

phantasmal haste – phantasms charge 20% faster

this is actually pretty good because phantasms are a huge part of our dps but i remember reading it takes a full 26 seconds to get an extra cast out of it so ?

It doubles your phantasm DPS within 5 seconds. Increases it by 50% up through 11 seconds.

Thanks for pointing out how awesome the Illusion trait line is bro. I with I could go 40 points into Illusion and get a 4th trait.

murasamune.2756:

so the one that i see as the best is really on best for all around purposes where the others are straight niche?

All traits are “niche”.

Hello?

That’s why you can swap them out any time out of combat?