Guild Wars 2

running stable S/D might build but having problems against cond mesmers and espically preplexity mesmers….
Has anyone havew pov on killing those mesmers?

yah dont even get me going about mez they are my number most hated class to face lol popping clones and condi’s while invis like a boss and can invis for sometimes seems like 15 sec just drives me nuts they will eventually get hit with a nerf but not for a while though

Condi/Phantasm Mesmers on their own are a tough matchup as they’re a hardcounter to S/D, but you can still win against them if you play perfectly.

Don’t see that happening against perplexity. I duelled quite a few perplex mesmers myself, results were meh. There’s not much you can do against them on S/D, no matter how much you evade, you’ll always end up with some confusion stacks and the AI is gonna drag you down in the long run, unless the mesmer somehow manages to waste all his defensive abilities and you can lock him down.

However I can imagine that more stealth focused builds with SE traited, might give them problems. (Especially P/D) Anyway this rune is stupidly broken and any decent player will confirm that it needs a nerf. I’d go even as far as saying that I haven’t met any stronger 1on1 build than a perplexity phantasm mesmer.

TDLR; use another weaponset or wait for the rune to be nerfed.

These phant specs that use PU are very strong duel builds with or without perplexity. P/d thief in WvW can give them problems because they don’t always bring enough condition removal and because the phants are easy enough to c&d from. d/p is also sort of good against them if you aren’t full glass: these mesmers can’t burst nearly as well as MW specs so you can generally perma stealth and regen if you start getting too much pressure.
S/d is based mostly on evasion, but the damage from the AI is constant and random in a sense, so you really can’t avoid all of it even if you dodge a lot. This is why s/d will probably have hard time against these phant specs.

I switch to SB between shatters and avoid their phantasms like the plague. Same really applies to condi bunker necros and engis as well. Get close at the wrong time and get dead. I kite the hell out of them and then D/D at the first opening always with a shadow step in my back pocket.

Knockdown traps can work surprising well.

So what you basically saying,dump the S/D or die like the rest?
I am a very huge fond of the sword skills and to change from it to other spec is pretty much game breaking for me…

Sandrox.9524:

So what you basically saying,dump the S/D or die like the rest?
I am a very huge fond of the sword skills and to change from it to other spec is pretty much game breaking for me…

uh? So you want your exact build to counter any and all classes/builds out there? What do you think this is? Thief pre culling? Change your spec if you want to beat them or eat dirt if you don’t.

I’m not even sure why you’re having a problem with Mesmer on a S/D build unless its a full evade build. Try a stealth build with S/D…you should havent that much of a problem.