Guild Wars 2

hi, been playing my mesmer for a week now, just hit lvl 50, only done wvw so far,
then I decided to do some pve, and fould my self struggling in a way I never did in wvw, since the play styles are different, I have no problem with single mobs, two mobs, or elite mobs, its when there are ie a group of 3, I really start taking dmg, what makes it worse is, having to kite around alot to avoid taking dmg, and thats really hard to do in many areas without pulling even more mobs, so asking the ppl in this great comunity for both build tips, and how you hadle larger groups of mobs, in wvw I have been using GS for main weapon, since I really like the range, and dmg it does, but on the second weapon set Im open minded for anything, aslong as it improves my ability to play pve solo

Depends on your race. If you’re asuran, you can run GS/Staff + Radiation Field, start with one weapon, then when they get near you (or you near them) drop Staff5 and Radiation Field. You can continue with Staff4—>Staff2 for extra boons/conditions, then swap back to GS and finish them off.

If you’re not Asuran, you can try that combo and it’ll still work, but you may go down towards the end (of course they’ll be almost dead so you’ll hop back up, but…)

Best Mesmer guide available:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/Guide-The-Comprehensive-Mesmer-Guide-all-Parts/first

great, thanks alot:)

Can anyone summarize in text or point to a summary in text, I don’t want to spend 3 to 4 hours watching youtube videos giving out basic information on class play. I appreciate how thorough his videos seem to be but it’s just way too slow of an information transfer for me…the first video is 50 mins long for God’s sake.

What Zansobar said.

Again, it depends on what weapons you want to run. There is no “PvE leveling build” it’s simply “What weapons do I want to use in PvE and how can I cater to that.”

Frankly, those videos are very, very good, and that’s coming from someone who would almost always rather read something than watch a video.

If you want the shortest version just watch the third one, which exmplains a great build and is about 20 minutes long. It’s worth it, in a way that summarizing the build without an explanation would not be.