Guild Wars 2

Seriously, they just rip me apart bevore I can even guess which is the right one :-/
Any suggestions? Mesmer make me get really angry since randomly creating mirros is not even connected to skill in ANY way…

I have the same problem and would appreciate any tips.

target them CTRL+T, this helps me a lot. I cant agree more how much the are a pain in the bum. stuns ect less hits they get the less they summon others. if this makes any sense at all

Ctrl + T the real one and if they have purple clones of themselves (illusionist dueler, etc.) kill those first. The clones that look exactly like them you don’t need to kill first, but the purple ones give them indirect buffs and support while they are alive. If you apply some bleeds you can also see numbers bleeding at the location of where they are standing a second or so before they come out of invis.

The real mesmer is the one moving around and behaving like, well, a real person. Look for strafing and that sort of thing. That said, I’m not one of those elitists that believes this is the end all answer and that it’s always easy to spot this sort of thing. It isn’t.

So, the next best thing is just to dish out lots and lots of AoE damage. clones melt pretty fast so if you hit them all at once you can either take them right off the field or at least notice who the real mesmer is by how health bars change.

My best recommendation for mesmer clone killing AoE is not actually an ability at all, but rather a sigil. Get a superior sigil of Geomancy. This sigil is amazing and it’s tooltip does not really do it justice. It says it gives an AoE bleed for 7 seconds but what it doesn’t tell you is that that bleed is a 3 stack and that it also comes frontloaded with blast damage that I have seen go higher than 800.

So, what you do is use 2 melee wpnsets. I’m even a fan of using the exact same wpnset if you are really partial to (say) your greatsword and don’t want to miss opportunities to use it. But if you can keep track of constant swapping by all means mix it up. Then you just spam away the swap whenever you can, or maybe look for opportune moments to catch lots of people/clones in the blast. Combining this with even more AoE is great.

For example, if you charge in and start with cyclone axe, then pop the sigil swap AoE bleed/blast (which is instant btw) and then follow that with the big #5 axe whirl the clones will dissapear pretty fast.

I’m sure there are lots of other options to generate lots of AoE. Not ideal just rampaging around like this, but sometimes it’s what you have to do.

superkeggles.4617:

target them CTRL+T

This, especially if you’re running with a few people and can quickly bring the Mesmer down.