Guild Wars 2

Hey boys and girls.

I used to play mesmer exclusively and i love it. i quit the game around 3 months after hot…because i got bored. So i came back and i heard about the fractal revamp and new raids coming out. I have all ascended berserker gear but that’s obviously not good for raids annd high level fractals. So my question is what type of gear + runes do i need for raids? thanks.

Check the other thread please, it’s the exact same question with the correct anwers. ;-)

The meta build has mesmer use almost full zerker, so you’re well on your way there. You’ll need leadership runes, commander stat pants, an exotic backpiece with a platinum doubloon, and a superior sigil of concentration to easily spread quickness. Check out http://qtfy.enjin.com/mesmer for good visuals, a video guide, and a written guide of the rotation. I use the domi-recall build + rotation.

To maintain perma quickness, you probably only need ~80% boon duration, but that means almost no error on your part in the rotation. Unfortunately, bountiful sharpening stones are pretty expensive. What you can do if you’re on a budget is get exotic trinkets and add platinum doubloons until you cover the 10% loss from the bountiful sharpening stones. You don’t do a ton of DPS anyway with a build like this.

Note that you can also just get commander’s or wanderer’s armor/trinkets to get boon duration up, but these also give you increased toughness, which would put you as the tank of certain raid bosses. You’ll have increased responsibility! In fractals, this doesn’t matter as much.

A few tips with the rotation:

1) Continuum split at the end of casting Tides of Time to be able to fit all of your wells into the CS time frame.
2) Make sure you have quickness when you use signet of inspiration if your rotation gets off.
3) A good recovery combo if you’re out of quickness is weapon swap to s/sh, tides of time, well of action, signet of inspriation.
4) Try to proc the signet of inspiration on phantasm summon with your sword or focus off-hand instead of shield 4, because you’ll typically benefit from the sigil of concentration. You’ll get a feel for when you can sneak a shield 4 in and when you can’t with practice.

A guildie of mine also has a set of viper’s for DPS on Matthias and a set of Minstrel’s for select raid bosses as well. For him, these are rather situational, so I’d recommend the above build for general purpose use (it’s also great for fractals).