Guild Wars 2

Hello! I have tried the more glass cannon builds in spvp with shatters and I dont feel really comfortable with it. Im mostly defending stations and supporting other with portal. However those backstab thieves and elementalists sure enjoy a good mesmer roaming. That’s why I would like a build with more survival without perhaps losing out too much on damage. Seems hard to find any builds of that kind so it would be helpful if someone could give me some tips and trix how to build a good one =)

Posted wrong forum, move to mesmer one please =)

i haven’t made a build with this in mind, but maybe look at a shatter centric build with blind glamours and heal on shatters? i’ll buildstorm later

What do you mean by survival? Able to take hits or really slippery (i.e. passive defense or active defense)?

For the former you probably want a Power Phantasm build based on the Soldier’s Amulet (Power-Vitality-Toughness), for the latter a Staff condition Mesmer with stealth is good.

I like all kind of builds, active or passive, want to try it all =) Post everything you can think of, thanks for help!

Personally I pick up Duelist through creating a clone when you dodge, chaos up to staff 20% cd, and always 5 into illusions to take 20% off all clone creating skills.

Basically I like to be able to raise my clones and disappear among them ASAP when defending and play the pretend-I’m-a-clone game. If the enemy is that kitten knowledgable about mesmers and focusing hard, decoy will still get me back on track. If they’re just lucky in picking which one of us to attack, I can just shatter and restart easily.

I run this with ~1800 toughness and vitality. Sure sometimes I somehow just get creamed by a couple attackers, but other times I’ve defended from 2 attackers without backup just by successfully fooling them and watching them attack my clones while my staff whittles them down.

ps I recommend the signet for +50% clone health if you try to play the hide in clones game.