Guild Wars 2

Hello fellow Mesmers and other visitors. I’ve compiled a roaming video from last few months involving a traditional shatter gameplay and a new kind of shatter build I’ve come up with (build links in video description). Without further ado the link to the video is below:

I hope you enjoy!

-Sétzer

Really enjoyable gameplay. Ty for sharing.

excellent game play gj

Whats this? A new shatter build? I must try it! Thankyou for pizzazzing up my week

Thanks for all the kind comments!

The new kind of shatter build is working quite nicely in WvW. With traited mantra heal you have 6 condition removals and 8k heal with 10s cd (that can’t be interrupted, just remember to precast mantras while stealthed). Feedback can be changed to decoy but I like using feedback as these days there are so many pew pew rangers about that you can’t really handle outnumbered fight without it. A really good D/D elementalist or S/D thief will be most difficult to handle due to fact that in this build you don’t have Shattered Concentration (boon removal on shatters).

I’m not quite sure yet if I find the build viable for PvP (no boonremoval outside mindstab, 200 less power than traditional shatter and no halting strike). You do get insane sustain with the traited mantra heal against many of the condition spamming classes. If enemy got no thief go for feedback, if they have one you definitely need decoy. Also in PvP I would definitely go with Strength runes as you need all the damage u can get (again no shattered concentration and 200 less power), would probably be good to have compounding power too instead of reflect. But again not entirely sure if this build will preform good enough on PvP as you tend to find D/D elementalists and thieves in every matchup.

-Sétzer

One of the reasons I hesitate to take reflect distortion is because I like to use distortion to ensure my mass invis is not interrupted when escaping.

Over the course of this making this video, did you encounter such a problem much? That is getting revealed because of a reflected projectile.

Yeah sometimes I’ve had this happen but mostly I try torch4 myself after distortion ends and then mass invis (if needed) for safe disengage. But compounding power is amazing trait too if you don’t like to use masterful reflection.

-Sétzer

Red Anima.5829:

With traited mantra heal you have 6 condition removals and 8k heal with 10s cd (that can’t be interrupted, just remember to precast mantras while stealthed).
-Sétzer

Ltl correcion, 8k heal on 14.75s (10s CD + 2.75s of mantra charging + 2s total delays between 3 casts)

Good video & music

I’m not big fun of masterfull reflection. Don’t wanna waste precious invuln skill for reflect. I think any half-decent enemy would’n let be hit with reflected projectiles more then split second and I can’t remember right now any 1-shot nukes except warr rifle burst. If someone can be killed with reflect in most case they can be easy killed with usual ways. That’s why I don’t like any reflection at pvp (at pve it’s great). Can be using for some fun situation imo.

y you are right on mantra heal cds, still I find it one of the best heals in game while traited. Masterful reflection I mainly use in WvW because of power rangers, with illusionary invigoration I can reflect twice their rapid fire, atleast forcing them to cancel it. Most of the rangers in wvw eat 80% of their own rapid fire b4 actually canceling it (don’t get me wrong there are exceptions ofc, some rly good players). Recently I’ve used reflection in pvp too after seeing Helseth running it as well, but not entirely sure if its worth the trade, it is quite nice against warrior pindown and against rifle engis too (overcharged shot).

Beautiful video, I like your style.

First of all, great play and an interesting/fun combo between some of osi’s old heal mantra love and meta shatter!

As for PvP, I had some good success after modifying it slightly.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fhAQNAR8cl0npVtNqxMNcrNyqxcqlQdZrlWpHJ7AA-TVCEAB2t/ABPAgEV/ZLlgMpMygLAQTKdaTXAAHBgAAIA38mZzAWuyVuyVuyZn7cn7cn7sUAPtMC-w

I can’t agree more about feedback being useful in most situations; with an organized team maybe switch it to portal as needed.

Since decoy is back in as your oh-kitten button, offhand pistol or sword give pressure phantasms (with traited sword iSword has a 12s cd), and some cc/block. Sadly focus doesn’t seem to fit here too well since you want a phantasm to guarantee pressure.

As for runes, I use centaur for the on command swiftness and good power — just my 2 cents