Guild Wars 2

Hi guys, ever since the patch (and my extreme boredom of shatter Mesmer [I’ve been a shatter for about a year now]) I decided to play around in sPvP and use our new trait Power Block.

So far, this build works great against random Hotjoins and inexperienced PvPers.

Traits:

6/6/0/2/0

With…
Domination: Empowered Illusions -> Greatsword Training (or your choice) -> Power Block

Dueling: Phantasmal Fury -> Far Reaching Manipulations -> Harmonious Mantra (or Pistol trait, your choice. But I like 3 Mantras better)

Inspiration: Mender’s Purity.

• Honestly, the 2 in Inspiration can be switched to whatever your liking is.

Weapons: Greatsword/Sword + Pistol. Why? Illusionary Wave and Pistol #5 are both reliable interrupts, and are on demand. Focus can work too, but remember there is a CD on “Into the Void”

Armor/Trinkets: In sPvP, I use Berserker’s Amulet, with damage increasing runes (Strength, Eagle, Scholar etc…), or Lyssa if I want to play safe (even though it was nerfed). In WvW [Small Scale], I’ve been using a bit of a mix between Berserker’s and Soldiers, just for the small survivability. Full Berserker if I’m feeling risky. Traveler Runes for WvW, or if it’s a bit costy, you can always get cheaper runes or even ruby orbs.

Utilities: Mantra Of Distraction, Decoy (or w/e you want), Blink.

Mantra of Distraction is an excellent interrupt, and one of the reasons why I choose Harmonious Mantras instead of the Pistol trait. It’s instant, can be used in range and doesn’t have a travel time (Pistol #5 does have a travel time). The only downside is that it’s a Mantra, and has a long casting time if you blow it all.

Healing: Ether Feast or Mantra of Recovery. I love Ether Feast, and it’s a great heal, but recently, the sPvP meta has been shifting to Conditions, and there’s a lot of condition spam. I’ve been using Mantra of Recovery lately, and it’s not a very good Burst heal at all. But, if you took Harmonious and Menders Purity, you can remove 6 conditions and heal at the same time. I’ve had great success with Recovery so far.

Interrupting: You can’t just go randomly spamming and blowing all of your interrupts. As this is an Interrupt build (and a burst build), it will benefit you greatly if you learn most of the animations of a class. You can effectively disable a heal skill for 10 seconds. Use it wisely! Also, not only that, you can help the downed [assuming you have Mantra of Distraction up] and interrupt a stomping foe if they don’t have stability/aegis.
Offense is in fact, you’re best defense. It’s important to memorize critical skills like elites (Moa, Mass Invis, Supply Crate etc…)
You have 5 interrupts + (1<->3). Diversion is a bit unreliable since we don’t have IP, but you can still make it work.
So far, I cannot interrupt the Guardian heal “Shelter” as it blocks all my interrupts.

Flaws (so far): Boon Stripping. Little Defense (no On demand Distortion like Shatter can hurt). A bit tricky and requires some skill.

I guess that is all for now! I will try and update it if people like the build, but it’s been good so far.