Guild Wars 2

[english isn’t my native tongue, if you find any mistakes please let me know so I can improve]

Hello everyone, Mesmer was my favorite class on gw1 (at least on lower levels, I only played the free trial) but on gw2 it seems a lot different, hence I made a Ranger which has been my main since release (no alts).

Now, I insta leveled a Mesmer to 80 and I’m struggling to get a grip on the class. I tried a shatter build with IP and GS burst (stack vulnerability->skills 4-2-3->shatter) but I feel like a sitting duck while waiting on cooldown. I checked this website http://osicat.weebly.com and I’m currently watching videos and reading the guides posted there, and it is mentioned somewhere that “You can also chose among several different viable builds, some of which are more newbie friendly” .. which lead me to think: where are those guides, exactly?

Are there any “newbie mesmer guides” or “mesmer 101” videos around?
If you do know some of them, or have any advice I’ll be grateful. In the meantime, I’m reading about Pyroatheist Immortal guide since tanky builds tends to be easier to play.

Have a great day.
Ray F.

Also, gear/equipement advice!!
Just logged in to try some builds and noticed I’ve yet to build exotic gear. Is Berserker’s the go to stat? Or it really depends on the build? Also, what are the most used stats? Maybe I could buy Berserker’s and Soldiers and keep them around until I decide on which build to use.

Most mesmer use Zerker + a little knights or soldier in their trinkets. Are you playing WvW or PvE mainly? For pve just use the ascended account bound Zerker trinkets from your ranger (assuming that’s what you run).

Chaos archangel’s lyssa’s armoire is a great resource for all mesmer questions.

My focus is wvw mainly, and the guide you mentioned is really helpful! I’m shocked I didn’t noticed it on the sticky section.

Vermil Rockrim.9756:

[english isn’t my native tongue, if you find any mistakes please let me know so I can improve]

Hello everyone, Mesmer was my favorite class on gw1 (at least on lower levels, I only played the free trial) but on gw2 it seems a lot different, hence I made a Ranger which has been my main since release (no alts).

Now, I insta leveled a Mesmer to 80 and I’m struggling to get a grip on the class. I tried a shatter build with IP and GS burst (stack vulnerability->skills 4-2-3->shatter) but I feel like a sitting duck while waiting on cooldown. I checked this website http://osicat.weebly.com and I’m currently watching videos and reading the guides posted there, and it is mentioned somewhere that “You can also chose among several different viable builds, some of which are more newbie friendly” .. which lead me to think: where are those guides, exactly?

Are there any “newbie mesmer guides” or “mesmer 101” videos around?
If you do know some of them, or have any advice I’ll be grateful. In the meantime, I’m reading about Pyroatheist Immortal guide since tanky builds tends to be easier to play.

Have a great day.
Ray F.

Well, I’m afraid to say that my old Immortal build is no longer something that exists. That was nuked out of existence by Anet just about 1 year ago.

That being said, there’s lots of other builds nowadays that work quite effectively. As was recommended, Chaos’ guide is extremely detailed and will help enormously.

You mentioned that you’re mainly interested in WvW. Do you primarily roam solo, roam in a group, or play in large groups?

Fay.2357:

Well, I’m afraid to say that my old Immortal build is no longer something that exists. That was nuked out of existence by Anet just about 1 year ago.

That being said, there’s lots of other builds nowadays that work quite effectively. As was recommended, Chaos’ guide is extremely detailed and will help enormously.

You mentioned that you’re mainly interested in WvW. Do you primarily roam solo, roam in a group, or play in large groups?

Sad thing to hear about your build, it looked like fun =/
We primarily roam in a group of 4 (RL friends on lan party), but I’m interested in learning how to roam solo with a Mesmer first. After that, I suppose roaming with friends would require a just a few tweks but the basics would already be there.