Guild Wars 2

I bet season 3 meta will be the same as before but wanderer amulet instead of mercenary. I tried sage and carrion , you have good damage , ok but you are really easy to kill . And i think that many will take mantra of pain .

Goats are like mushrooms. If you shoot a duck, I’m scared of toasters.

phokus.8934:

Goats are like mushrooms. If you shoot a duck, I’m scared of toasters.

I agree, and I really think this highlights some of the main points the OP was trying to convey.

+1, would +1 again.

I’ve already mentioned that the Wanderer amulet is the logical replacement for the merc. But it’s still snoopy poopy cuz we only have condi build that’s viable. It’s getting boring. Again!

I’ve been playing around with carrion Sw/Sh and both S/T or S/Sw; and it actually works pretty well. It has a little more damage than merc and more vitality but no toughness, which is easy to work around, just takes skilled use of your blocks and invuln. Scepter imo is now a solid weapon for PvP. You still get utility thanks to your offhand weapon, and scepter offers far more ranged pressure than staff. If you take the trait for boosting scepter attack speed and recharge reduction you get access to a block on a very short CD, quick clone generation with you AA and ether bolt hits hard even with carrion amulet. I’m still torn between torch and sword offhand though. Sword has a shorter CD on phantasm skill plus a clone generating block on a fairly short CD thanks to alacrity. Torch gives you stealth and burns, but longer CD’s, however the stealth is sort of amazing for repositioning and setting up shatter bursts!! And I run grav well over moa since the nerf, I just vastly prefer it and love the utility it offers for getting cinch rez and stomps. I’d say once mercenaries is taken out a lot of classes are gonna take a hit to survivability besides mes, and now the class isn’t gonna be as easy to play, but you have the tools to definitely do well. I think mesmer will still be in a decent place for S3!

i tried a different approch. I tried warander chronomancer full condition with staff and scepter shield and i have to say that it is really strong now . Try it . i really love mesmer sword ( more than gs ) but now in my opinion scepter deserve a try.

Wanderer’s doesn’t work at all. Precision is a wasted stat and it’s a major stat too.

That’s the problem with both Rabid and Wanderer’s – because who uses Duelling anymore (no Sharper Images) given how we’re pushed to take Inspiration for cleanse, and Chrono offers more benefits than Duelling.

I can’t accept a wasted stat like precision if not having traits make use of it. Unless your build uses on crit sigils or something.

using precision with sigils no ?

PierPiero.9142:

using precision with sigils no ?

The point is most of the time in condi or even hybrid, double Doom is useful, bursting, energy or geomancy even.

I can’t think many of the on crit sigils being so important over other sigils in these builds as to invest so many stat points in precision, so I think it is a waste.