Guild Wars 2

I not really happy with my Mesmer’s current set up. I’m trying to be condition based with runes of perplexity and various pieces of condition focussed equipment (mostly commonly dire) but it’s not working as well as it should.

I want to completely “re-roll” his set up. My interests are mostly PVE and WvW (zerging and roaming).

I plan to salvage my armour with a BL kit and sell the Runes which will go a long way to towards covering the cost of new gear including (possibly) runes of the traveller (seems to be a popular choice ). In terms of gear stats I have lots of badges of honour and plan to visit to visit a WvW armour merchant OR build a satchel of celestial armour.

So thoughts anyone? Good builds/set ups to use?

Shin

Maybe travellers are a bit expensive…? Are they still near 10G apiece? In which case advice on mobility needed!

For pve u can try s/s assassin+zerker build. Smth like 6/4/0/0/4. There u can use s/f as offhand and get some mobility from #4.
Or try GS shatterer build.
Best runes for pve power builds – Strenght. But they are expensive. For s/s u can try Ranger ones. Or Scholar.
imho

You shouldn’t salvage your gear. Condition setups are very strong in a lot of situations, and I can absolutely guarantee that you will regret salvaging your gear and selling those runes if you do.

Just get new gear. Run some dungeons, and get it for free.

Well, PU condi is strong for WvW roaming, you could of been using the not as effective weapons as well as traits, but it really doesn’t work for zerging or PvE.
You can not go wrong with zerker!
Get a set of Strength runes (same cost as perplexity, maybe a little bit more), you can get zerker gear from badges.
Hop into eotm for 3-6 hours and you will make over 10 gold, a ton of materials, exotics, rares (which you can sell for more gold), around 100-200k karma, a lot of badges, quite a few WvW ranks as well as levels (skill points).
Then buy a full set of berserker gear, trinkets wise I think 3x zerker + 3x knights is the best for what you are doing (to get the little bit of toughness, if you get hit by a backstab in WvW you can still live).
From weapons to cover both PvE as well as WvW and give you a lot of options for weapon sets I would recommend buying:
2x sword (energy sigil + night sigil)
1x focus (air sigil)
1x staff (energy sigil + air sigil)
1x greatsword (energy sigil + air sigil)
1x torch (air sigil)
1x pistol (air sigil)
This way you can play a lot of different builds.
Shatter (with a lot of different weapon sets, st+swp, st+gs, st + swt, st+swf, gs swp, gsswt, gs+swf) I would recommend this for team roaming, GS + SW/F or GS + SW/T. If you want to solo with this → GS+SW/T.
Phantasm (can be PU) → Would recommend for solo roaming.
Lockdown → Extremely hard but fun if you practice a lot!
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For zerging, I run a GS + SW/F and just kind of make up the traits, w/e seems logical to use. Take Null field, feedback, veil + time warp as utility skills.
For PvE (Dungeons)
Sw/Sw + Sw/F phantasm build
6/6/0/0/2
Take all phantasm traits with signet mastery in 1st line as well as both mantra traits
Utilities are signet for heal, condi mantra, stability mantra, feedback/nullfeild + time warp

It’s exactly the setup that I have.
I have over 150g in sigils/Runes and weapons but I can play 3 different builds for roaming, I can do both zerging and roaming as well as dungeons.
All of these with the correct runes and sigils.
Don’t worry about traveler. You can always equip staff while you’re out of combat and use phase retreat to teleport around the map (using about face – phase retreat – about face) and you will have a lot more damage from Strength.

Try it with cheap gear first. The only thing you can’t cheap out on is the Travelers runes even the Sigil of Energy you can sort of get away with major version. Since sigil and Runes can be sold at anytime you can afford to buy them and even if you think you made a mistake you won’t have lost much gold. The difference between exotic gear and ascended is not that great anyhow not great enough to matter unless it’s a close fight.