Guild Wars 2

Months ago… i just remember some stream on upcoming changes along time ago, dev’s said Mesmer would be getting a fire spec. But they gave it to warrior? What, just trying to see if they are still doing it or not

um hi, my name is Majestic, but in game people call me Maj.
I like to play with fire

I remember Anet discussing Mesmer’s possibly obtaining the ability to specialize in fire.
Anyone know of this still being the case?

If it’s still happening, make it so Mesmer’s burst into flames. Something sick and legit. Please.
Thank you

That’s why i love this game, Arena net pays close attention to their community and follows through with flying colors! A recent discussion included on another forum post was on the topic of confounding suggestions. I had included that the trait itself might conflict with runes such as Mesmer rune and paralyzation sigils. Anet cleaned that right up and now it seems more fluid than ever to run CS trait with mesmer runes and paralyzation sigils. Thank you!!

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Pistol is the best offhand weapon for Mesmer imo. Universally speaking, it can be found in any kind of build. Power, condi hybrid etc. S/P Sc/T condi, Staff S/P rupts, i personally like GS S/P. Pistol 5 is basically Mesmer’s skillshot, it hits fast and bounces 3 times. The 1st target hit is instantly stunned, second is dazed and 3rd is blinded. Sets up beautiful bursties like pistol 5 into sword 3. So if your rupt, you can see how someone just became perma immobolized. Awesome for stunlock spec’s as well. My only advice is, to be on your toes because you can’t easily stealth like torch off hand and don’t erp by casting pistol when Mesmer iwarden is active… But other than that, pistol eats everyone up like nom nom, since shatter removes boons. Easy stun at that point. Also the phant hits probs top 3 hardest of all phants, but its only a single target attack that hits like 7-8 times and can crit for each hit. lol

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Vieux P.1238:

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Oh, your so the man. the cool mo gee!
this is a pic of you walking away.
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Also try strength and battle sigils, with some kind of might/boon duration rune; traveler, fire,hoelbrak or strength. I use trav for all purpose WvW/PvE, just i never lose those stacks easily, in pve i’m always sitting at 25 stacks. Also boon duration food and oil helps too

Scepter is by far better at a ranged burst playstyle, opposed to condi. You do way more than spamming earth autos for bleed stacks. Condi DD is even better because you actually attune to fire in melee to burn. Burn AA on scepter could be adjusted, along with fire 2 for ground targeting. Also the air AA actually does increased damage the longer you channel. I’ve seen a few run bunker scepter as well. But overall, the longer cast times and epic animations is awesome for roleplay xD

Mesmer is in a really good spot now, finally. They are fine

I used to run a complete stun lock build with Paralyzation sigils and Mesmer runes with CS trait months ago…

Basically i found myself trying to stun lock(mantra, signit, diversion) someone into a moa and rupt them while they were transformed. But when i went todo that again this time around with the new patch. Can’t quite get the stun duration to increase how i want it to and the daze just dazes somewhat longer. But the para sigils did work for the signit of domination last time i checked and pistol 5. Since the dazes have a chance to stun, i can see how this might be buggy.

Anet should look into fixing:

• when the dazes do stun, the duration should be increased(with para sigils)
• with mesmer runes make sure the daze duration is increased along with the CS trait, but shouldnt interfere with the CS trait and its chance to stun, even if the stun duration is less than that of the daze

I was glancing over the new specialization changes and noticed my little terrormancer/courrption PvP soloq build is completely destroyed by these notes. I was running 2-6-xx-6 Staff SC/D Agony sigils.
Dom: iV
Curses: iV, iX, Xiii
Soul Reaping: iii, ii, Xi
ran it with rabid amulet(nightmare runes) Spite signit, Corrupt boon and Spectral grasp.

Basically the immobile build revolved around using Death Shroud 2, to corrupt enemies and move around a fight. The idea was to basically fear lock people into massive condis through corruptions and bleeding stacks(which in turn make the fear hit a bit harder). So as soon as someone used stability or a stun breaker my corrupt boons/spectral grasp would made short work of their chance to fight back. By the time the chain cc was finally lifted they found themselves respawning.

Because my necro is completely immobile, i decided to give him a strong DeathShroud, that lasted longer. Since i wasn’t using flesh worm for an escape. Needed some kind of defense since my only stunbreaker was/is the spectral armor minor trait. So in turn i set myself up to be chain cc’d myself, but with good dodge rolls, awarness of when the trait would pop health percentage wise and well timed fears i usually out CC’d someone else.

But with the new patch notes, you are forced to choose between whether or not you want to be a terrormancer, a corruption necro or death shroud necro(atleast with the traits i was using).

-With Master curses trait line being changed forces you to choose between the Terrormancer and corruption. [Path of Corruption: Shroud skill 2 converts boons on struck foes to conditions.
Terror: Causes fear to deal damage per second scaling with your condition damage stat. Damage is increased vs foes that have at least one other condition on them.]

-Then in Soul Reaping master traitline being changed also forces you to choose between terrormancer and deathshroud necro. [Vital Persistence: Life force drains 50% slower while in shroud and the recharge of shroud skills is reduced by 15%.
Fear of Death: Fear duration is 50% longer. When you are downed, fear foes around you for 1s].

I just had the best of all 3 worlds, But that’s what i felt made it fun too, since i wasn’t running a complete “meta build”… and I wouldn’t say it was OP. kappa.. Just you were capable of doing alot with a huge death shroud that just wouldn’t quit.
Well Rip Necro.

My Nightmare Necro

Anet did do a wonderful job of relocating traits within the whole system of possible skill combinations. But i couldn’t get over the fact that i simply could not locate the reflect on distortion trait found in illusions(IV). All i could find was an “Evasive Mirror” trait found in the new dueling master trait line. Which causes reflects on successful dodge rolls that evade attacks.. Which sounds nice, but in reality the reflect distortion on call is soo much better(with IP)! For example, Some ranger spamming 2, necro lich elite or engineer projectiles reflected for the duration of how many clones i shattered for the distortion seems far more beneficial than to take direct damage in an attempt to dodge roll for a reflect. Was that trait added to Master of fragmentation? or just deleted.

pretty much what i do on Mesmer all day besides i use pistol off hand cause stunlock into Epic mindwracks. I was entertained by the video, although i muted the music xD I couldn’t seem to locate your build. so i wanted to know what runes you use and your adept domination trait is. I personally use scholar and a force sigil on GS soo i can 100-0 in 2.5

wow such a big thread… I’m experiencing horrible lag as well since i updated the most recent patch. I was in a PvE map when i patched through, and said wow either there is a huge zerg on this map or?? So i left the map and went to hotm and just as bad lag. I Normally run 50ish fps i use razor game booster to boost my fps by like 10, so then i normally run 60 fps) , but since the patch i cant even break 30. Using tonics, abilities or even moving, causes lag. I want to think its the new beta camera options. I tweaked them to see if that’s the problem but nothing changed FPS wise… I literally haven’t played in a week, i come back today thinking this lag had gone away and its still bad. I have checked every possible thing, from task manager, tweaking graphics to lower settings, to re downloading the client. To no avail…

1st off i wanted to say, yay more bursty eles, let alone scepter main hand.
Scepter main hand is actually used/was used in high competitive play and still poses as possible ele build that still is incredibly strong. The burst is there, when done right. Whether it be gusting(Air 5) someone at the right time into Fire 243, Blinking your pheonix, or blinking (when on dagger off hand) Earth 4 into bursties. The only thing S/F lacks is the hard sustain(bunkerish) and over tankiness D/D can bring to the table. Which is why D/D is in competitive play, atm. S/f is far more glassy, but can make up for it with high burst, some sustain and nice utility. I’m Sure down the line, if you haven’t realized it already, fights can swing your way even if an enemy D/D ele is there, simply because while they are focusing on stacking might and possibly supporting, you already focused on bursting a target and viola. Then focus gives you soo much utility you can stomp. It all takes practice but is soooo worth it in the end.
The only thing i could suggest is changing your adept water trait from V to VI,III. The trait V, on zerker gives very little sustain on a high cd. It simply isn’t worth it.

Slightly contrasted for color, a few pix of my Godlike Ele.
Was essentially going for the “angel look” but when Anet came out with these wings, i decided to just embrace the darker side of life. Finally feel like my ele is complete ^^

ok what a QQ TL;DR post..
I wouldn’t say thieves are “toxic”. They are mostly a minor nuisance, like a fly, if you swat at them they will run.
The thing is, if you are you a knowledgeable player to decipher whether or not that thief is running a build you can actually fight(if you even want to fight something that specializes in stealing from you), as with any class, you might not want to get into a fight you may not win. But that’s the thing too, is learning how to deal vs a thief. You just gonna bend over and take it til you learn to fight a bursty class or just run away at the sight of one?
It’s only good thieves you have to really worry about and even then those players aren’t toxic either. The only thing toxic about the profession is the noob thieves that die in 2.5 seconds of seeing any other class and likely rallybot a whole team fight. But i will give you credit for the truth that most thieves bring very little to a fight, as their kit is very selfish, but they can still be effective for a number of things. With all this being said, your argument is invalid good sir.

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You destroy un-fabulous peons with purple butterflies. And create more fabulous copies of yourself.
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I couldn’t agree more

honestly, i beat myself up whenever i don’t take portal. Cause you can yolo and port out, who died? nice. But if anything, the range between ports should be increased more so for deeps in WvW. I normally know my range for portals in pvp but large scale wvw maps can be tricky.. portal fail.. "out of range? " …spams o kitten buttons

Honestly i love the idea of distortion on mantra recharge, but 600+ toughness is legit none the less. So if they removed the 600 toughness and changed it to distortion for 2 seconds mind you that trait is in master dueling, you’ll miss out of X trait, forcing you togo 6 in dueling or miss out on an extra mantra charge trait found in grandmaster.

If they buff water abilities again.. Silly water eles, Give Dragon Tooth the AoE size of staff water 2. Then we can talk

Honestly, It depends what attunement you were in to set up that storm. The only thing different between all the storms is the duration, But each storm comes with something unique, like Fire burns, Water chills, Air inflicts vulnerability stacks, Earth bleeds and blinds. I use this glyph in pve, creating and setting up storms. But i tend to use the air storm (Since I’m a fresh air ele, it makes more sense to use the air storm too with certain traits), because it deals increasing damage the more vulnerability stacks you can achieve. But then again that doesn’t mean the other 3 storms are useless, i use earth to blind a huge area of mobs, easier for your party and you to attack them, if they are blinded.
With that being said, all the attunements for each storm have the same base damage for each storm.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Glyph_of_Storms

And I quote, “Luls”

oh ya, no. that build is op as kitten. Its anti zerker, cause of all the toughness. But then again its awesome for ele cause when did right you get the power and crit damage of zerker but far more tankiness via toughness. then since you traited for old school fury aura you get an even 50% crit chance, which im sure you make good use of that boon not to mention the might stacking. Then hoelbrak & lemongrass? xD well done. In theory you can walk up to a zerg being DD and expect to just live, i could see how toughness would be in handy being frontline as DD opposed to say S/X and staff

monk runes are awesome. Fit right in, with energy renewal sigil. all the healing right? Now you have and offer more healing and boon duration. Cleric ammy makes an ele almost godlike, they dont do alot of DPS but they are soo hard to kill. But this can be done also on celestial staff with same rune and sigils. Now you got a mix of DPS, besides overall healing.

in dungeons, its better to just DPS the NPC’s in a timely fashion, as you can imagine everyone in the group have many things todo and that dungeon is but 1 of many on their quest todo whatever it is they wanna do. So making short work of them is effective because you can head onto the next task. But if you would like to heal your allies abit but keeping damage in mind. You can mix Things like Zerker, Cavalier and zealot(gotta craft). if you arent at the crafting level, you can check out magi pieces which can be obtained via twilight arbor dungeon. then throw in some sentinel or zerker. In time you’ll learn it is best to just DPS the NPC’s. Use things like fiery GS, icbow, Staff and you can just aoe all the npcs, cause your an ele! and its alot of fun to create storms

Interesting, Being a Mesmer i’d have to say overall some good Mesmers then Thieves by my side if were in a group roaming. But PvP style, i’d probably prefer a cele dd ele, ive had some really good eles pick right up on my shatters. Then i get their nice healing to keep me goin ^^ ty eles. But if I’m ele i prefer to play S/F, what goes better with an ele than another ele as your working in fire they blasting with earth skills and rotation between you two harmonizes its incredible. hopefully haha
a year ago i would’ve said gaurdian either way, but why fight along someone who is just supporting, when you could have your partner doing both high DPS and supporting all in one.

when it comes to DD, in roaming style. I go for a mix of zerker weapons trinkets with zealot armor. Traveler rune. This way everything hits soo hard and you still get a nice chunk of healing to keep the fight up if a 2v1 arises in zergy wvw. but if you wanna get the most overall DPS without doing the celestial route. I’d say zerker everything mixed with carrion so you keep your power up and still get condi damage to boot. Fire 2 hurts. Sometimes i like to toy around with something like 5-0-0-3-6 with some kind of burn duration rune (fire is awesome with the shield if you traited for prot in earth on aura). With like energy then battle/smoldering or battle smoldering if you traited ii in arcana. You can have someone constantly burn while fighting you, plus you’ll deal more damage to burning targets since the fire trait in grandmaster 5. something to check out if your interested hope i helped

How interesting, This makes me want to express my feelings as a Mesmer main. I will tell you this. I woke up like this, Flawless.

I have a playlist full of songs i found that help me shatter, they seem to be in sync with when to shatter love it. I will check out what others posted, i seen lindsey stirling came up a few times haha
These are faster songs.
Ballin – Logic ft Castro
Shatter Me- Lindsey Stirling
Trip like i do – Crystal Method
Smack my kitten up – the prodigy
Don’t think- The chemical brothers
Werk me – Hyper crush
Fingers up – Hyper crush
Blink again – Benny benassi
then these are slower
If there’s time -Odesza
Faded-zhu (odesza remix)
The deep – data romance
illagilities- hyper crush

An update on my S/S GS Mesmer! Pyre dye, Flame dye & Abyss mixed into carapace, CoF & Flamekissed armor with Volcanus, Infinite light and Firebringer make up my beloved Majestic.

The Bursties are real with this one! Very Nice Video! I was just playing a build similar to the one you posted, yesterday, for fun. Zerker amu, Scholar Runes 5-6-0-0-3, but i should try 1 in arcana for the 10% dmg increase from earth that seems more op. That’s essentially with a 40% dmg increase with scholar runes, earth and air trait, plus the 5 in fire? Then your next 5 attacks crit with that arcane power. But i did battle sigil instead of hydromancy. Definitely going to try that earth trait! thx

maha.7902:

Biggest pet part of mesmer is to Shatter! I hate seeing mesmers run around not shattering, i die a little inside when i see it not happen! Besides a clutch distortion to save their butts in a pinch. Where is your mindwracks? Diverson?!? Every build regardless of the traits are meant to be shattered at some point in a duel or team fight. Not to sit there with your Phantasms pounding away at someone. That is like a thief who doesn’t steal, a guardian who doesn’t use virtues, An ele who doesn’t swap attunements?! That is by far enough horror to kick off halloween early and is extremely aweful gameplay. Imo, i declare any mesmer who doesn’t shatter; bad.

Sure, i’ll just run full rabid and mind wrack for like, negative DPS.

Because otherwise I’m a bad mesmer.

I hate Mesmer’s who only play PU and kinda despise people who only play Shatter specs. Like you are missing out on soo many other builds Mesmer could be running! Confounding suggestions, Chaotic interruption, Healing shatter, Power Block, Mantra builds, Signit builds, clone death! Don’t stick to the meta, stray away from the normals cause Mesmer kit is wondrous and is meant to be there for you to toy with people’s mind! So get to it! Those that know me, know i am always playing something new, changing sigils around, weapons, Traits, builds.

…you hate people who play optimal builds.

Why does society like to condescend and despise people who excel at their speciality? It’s not even a GW2 thing, it’s rampant everywhere. Famous people get mocked for … being famous. Rich people mocked for … being rich. Good players at GW2 frothed at for … being good. Like, I don’t even know anymore.

@DuckduckBoom Got it right, your missing the point!
@ Maha It’s not a matter of condescending people, it’s a matter of not using your skill set! I dont hate optimal builds, just if thats what everyone is running, there are other builds you could run, just people don’t stray from the meta much. If people did they would see how powerful mesmer is. And if your PU you can still shatter! So if your speaking of pve which you are, when i am speaking about PvP setting/WvW. If your running rabid for pve, who does that? Of course you wouldn’t mindwrack, because you do no damage! You should play rampager, so you actually deal a mix of dmg, hell even celestial. You could still Cry of Frustration for a confusion burst right before you use your scepter 2 skill and torch 5 skill. Then maybe throw off a daze combo before you do a pistol 5 skill into whatever you got planned next. I’m not saying shatter everything all the time, but find meaningful times to shatter! Not every mesmer build can continuously shatter anyways because of the cooldowns and people not having illusions traits. But then furthermore you stated

~Mesmers rarely shatter in a PvE context because -
1. most people don’t main it so don’t think about it
2. mesmers are basically garbage tier so whether a class doing 500 dps can now do 501 dps is basically irrelevant in the grand scheme of a fight.
3. most people are lazy

Exactly people who don’t main Mesmer and those who even do fail to shatter at all! That’s a problem. Like i said before its like a guardian not using virtues, its literally a WTF. Then your last two comments are invalid. Your trying to defend people who are bad at a video game and fail to realize what their class should be doing. Stop giving people excuses as to why they aren’t doing what their kit is designed for.

Chaos Archangel.5071:

• Not Shattering I don’t care what build you’re running, learning where and when to pop at LEAST Distortion is crucial. Every build can make effective use of shatters in some way
• Waste Moa As a wiseman once said: “It’s already a 2v1.. why’d you have to turn me into a bird?” Save Moa for even fights and liches/tornados/MM Necros

• Lack Creativity The others are in no particular order but this is my biggest pet peeve versus other Mesmer. While everyone is entitled to their own opinion, I’d argue that Mesmer offers quite a bit of diversity for people willing to explore. Even if said builds won’t work in the highest end gameplay, Mesmer has so many different playstyles that if you’ve only been playing 1 or 2 types of Mesmer over the past couple years, you don’t know what you’re missing out on!

OMG YAAAAASSSS!
1.SHATTER
Biggest pet part of mesmer is to Shatter! I hate seeing mesmers run around not shattering, i die a little inside when i see it not happen! Besides a clutch distortion to save their butts in a pinch. Where is your mindwracks? Diverson?!? Every build regardless of the traits are meant to be shattered at some point in a duel or team fight. Not to sit there with your Phantasms pounding away at someone. That is like a thief who doesn’t steal, a guardian who doesn’t use virtues, An ele who doesn’t swap attunements?! That is by far enough horror to kick off halloween early and is extremely aweful gameplay. Imo, i declare any mesmer who doesn’t shatter; bad.

2. Incorrect Moa Usage
Again, i couldn’t agree more! Moa for 1 is underused, but when used correctly it can pay off. For lich’s, turret engi’s, MM necro’s. Beyond the fact people using it on random people at a bad timing when you could’ve used it on those examples. I’ve been moa’d personally and ate soo much dmg from a mesmer who wouldn’t let me escape their grasp via MOA 5&2 skill, but simply didn’t finish me off. IF they only mindwracked to finish the job. So many escapes cause a mesmer failed to shatter :/

3 Build Diversity.
I hate Mesmer’s who only play PU and kinda despise people who only play Shatter specs. Like you are missing out on soo many other builds Mesmer could be running! Confounding suggestions, Chaotic interruption, Healing shatter, Power Block, Mantra builds, Signit builds, clone death! Don’t stick to the meta, stray away from the normals cause Mesmer kit is wondrous and is meant to be there for you to toy with people’s mind! So get to it! Those that know me, know i am always playing something new, changing sigils around, weapons, Traits, builds.

TL;DR
Shatter!!!! Use moa right! Get creative with your builds!
Also I’m a big fan of Asuran mesmers! For shatter ofc, since a node becomes a playground for you to move around in. My asuran mesmer is named Asuran Mesmers

Xaylin.1860:

blakdoxa.7520:

If it were fury… YES that would actually be a REAL buff.

And yet again, probably not. Because 50% of the time you might waste the duration of Fury while stealthed. Might will have at least some positive effect. Still, Retaliation would probably be the way to go instead of Might. Vigor would be an option but might considered too strong. Both Retaliation and Vigor fit the defensive character of PU way better than Might.

I was thinking of that an hour ago, retaliation would probably be the best fitting boon for PU, since the point of the trait is to be defensive. Retal works right in there, cause 1 stack of might is useless.

As all Mesmer’s are aware Anet decided to change the trait prismatic understanding to a 5 boon chance from a 3 boon per interval. Adding the chance to obtain might or swiftness. Although that does sound slightly tempting, But having the chance to gain 1 stack of might per interval is basically useless. For zerker PU or even condi PU builds. Even if you somehow got proc’d with 3 stacks of might, i don’t see how that benefits Mesmer kit much. Maybe 3 seconds of Fury instead of 5 seconds of might seems more fitting, since Mesmer revolves around precision. That boon seems more fitting towards all Mesmers opposed to 1 stack of might. The fury would even benefit Mesmers who dont use dueling traits. Something to think about?

PVE
rune of choice is Scholar it was Ogre’s
WVW
For Rampager phantasm spec i use Nightmare rune
Shatter zerg/roaming i use Lyssa
PvP
Domination Mesmer via CS trait – i use Mesmer rune
Rampager phantasm spec Nightmare rune
Shatter with sword main hand – Hoelbrak rune
Shatter Gs Staff – Lyssa rune or Mesmer rune (depends on if i need more condi clear)
Support Mantras Dwayna rune

Overall my personal favorite rune is Mesmer. Dazed for days

Last time i posted a S/x spec it was for Zerging, which was done S/F.
This post is based on S/D roaming solo, for those good 1v1’s and if the time strikes those 2v1’s. This build can be done S/F for roaming but you lose a bit of damage potential that dagger gives, but you lose the survivability focus gives, so whatever your playstyle
This armor requires you to craft! So be prepared for that.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fFEQJArYhMM6cWywyBf0AQAGpeg4GQAIDWeKcEaCA-TlCCABLqE0v9H8SJGDPAgIVpgKlHAcgAMVdl60DcxJEIAACwNbzA4n/8n/8n/sbezbezbezSBwkyI-w
The build revolves around bursting your enemy through long range snipes. But you are still capable of doing big things like fire auto’s into blink fire grabs, churning earth blinks etc. The build focuses on dealing tons of damage while giving tons of healing potential which in turn allow you to sustain against pesky SA thieves, Those PU mesmer and whatever else shenanigans come your way. You’re well equipt to deal with them when played right. The build is made for 1v1’s, Being scepter is single target orientated, BUT with your healing and just overall burst you can 2v1 when the time strikes. Stay focused if you do, cause mistake’s will cost you. But do not fear! Just cause you can’t stealth like a mesmer or a thief, you have a FGS! I usually use the elite for an escape mechanism since anet nerfed RTL waaayyy back when but we need some way to just GTFO. Say a zerg coming your way, gank sqaud, what have you. I also use FGS to take camps in a jiffy too, get the NPC’s ina corner and just let loose. I do not recommend using FGS while in a 1v1 unless completely necessary, because you just lost a huge escape for yourself. So lets say you just won a 1v1, but here comes 4 gank squad baddies. Your FGS just went on CD, chances are you may very well die if you try to fight that or run. You can try to juke them, say jumping off a cliff somewhere then pressing your about face key and blinking back up then RTL the other direction. With trav runes you pretty hard to catch regardless.
At the end, its a pretty pricey build to make but worth it in the long run. It is alot of fun and def worth thinking about using for experienced ele’s or even newer eles.
Video coming out in the near future, still editing clips n such.

Soo since your a fresh air DD ele spec, all i can suggest is a few things, which don’t need to be done but will give your build a bit more survive-ability while maintaining damage. changing from ogre rune to traveler rune. Giving you boon duration which works so well with ele, Speed increase ( so you can change out the adept Arcana trait to vigor on crit trait) and you gain condi duration. Its an awesome rune for roamers of all types, you get to get around the map extremely fast. Your build is bent around dealing tons of damage which is awesome, but you lack alot of sustain and general survivability. My suggestion is going to increase both while still keeping you on the damage route. So change out signit of fire for arcane shield and the water signit for lightening flash. So now you can Burning speed/blink into enemies for big bursties and or blink your churning earth. Lastly about that sustain… i would change a few armor/trinket pieces so your healing trait from adept gives you a flat 100 heal per tick. Being that your zerker dd you don’t want to stick around in water too long, but attuning will give you a decent amount of sustain which could be game changing in certain duels for you when roaming. So maybe a few celestial armor pieces/cleric necklace should do it. I hope that helps

ok for starters your question just leaves questions, such as do you mean a healing staff build for PVE WVW or PVP? When leaving a question on the forums it helps others help you if you are specific as possible.
If your looking for a healing staff spec for PVE, just don’t bother. it is completely useless as you need to do as much damage as possible to clear creeps in a good amount of time. I would suggest celestial as it gives ele a well rounded spec, which works well with ele in many ways than 1 AND you gain powerful healing. The zealot choice by bluefox is definitely a choice to consider! You will have to craft celestial and or zealot btw. so be prepared for that.
But if you meant WvW, which i think you are. Run cleric, which the armor/weapon/trinkets for exotics are pretty cheap compared to other armors gold wise. i would still recommend celestial though. But my 1st ele set was cleric, it was and still is alot of fun. although i run full zerker now. I like the dmgs. But if supporting your allies is your playstyle and the exotics is what you like go for ascended armor/weapon/trinkets. The cleric spec can be run in PVP as well. so cleric everything. from armor to your weapon to your trinkets. Runes should be monk ( http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Rune_of_the_Monk ), so you gonna need todo some dungeon runes for those runes. This rune increases all outgoing healing to allies , also pick up the trait in grandmaster called ( http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Aquatic_Benevolence ). Sigils should be Energy and life. I suggest for your utility, atleast what i run is http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Arcane_Brilliance comboed with http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Arcane_Wave and dodge rolling into earth is a 3 blasts sure to heal your allies to full. GL HF!

although the suggested trait merges do sound tempting, I think you forgot the one trait that should be moved to adept tier all together or just added to the Mesmer kit without even having to trait for it. X in dueling?!?! HI Mesmer not forced to run X in dueling? We can actually use the other 5 traits in master tier without having togo full precision? OH

Imo human Male ele is the best as far the males go, if your looking to be that ferocious ele, because of what they say when attuning to elements opposed to say sylvarian. LOL, A good male human look,(which is kinda of laidback) you can spec this via the bank gotta find the req items in the light armor section if you don’t have these items. Wraithe masque for head piece, Council ministry shoulders, Illustrious doublet for your chest, CoF arms for your gloves then Ascalonian pants and conjurer shoes.

Being a Mesmer Main since Beta, I know all the things as to what Mesmer used to be capable of, what it means to be a Mesmer and what Mesmer is becoming. My only regret is not playing Gw1 to see how blackout Mesmer was haha.
Maining the class is basically walking around with literally a death sentence title, a crown made of diamonds and at the wave of your hand your capable of shutting down anything you show up to. So to answer your question IS it fun? HELL YES! In truth no one likes fighting against a Mesmer let alone a spectacular one because of what they are capable of. Which atm I play Mesmer power(zerker amulet) and just daze my enemies to death. A lot of Mesmer shatter, which is legit, but when did you daze? I got people running from me. rolls eyes "come here! "
Mesmer definitely isn’t as strong as it used to be, but the class revolves around dominating your enemies. The title is in its self "Champion Illusionist " (You Dominance is no illusion.) But I do feel like I’m walking on eggshells because of Anet always, always. ALWAYS. Looking to find some way to nerf the class(or build) instead of buff it where credit is due. So I always ask myself how strong is this spec I’m running? is it worth nerfing? if so I don’t run it(in abundance). sadly..
Depending on your build, Mesmer is always useful. I can’t think of a situation I just wasn’t useful for dungeons(PvE), Tpvp or WvW. Granite I don’t PvE like I used to, I feel they are still very strong at completing dungeons and events in a timely fashion. Tpvp they are far stronger than any Scholar class simply because of what Mesmer is capable of. Either the Necro or ele lost you In your array of shatters and clones and before they know what’s really going on and therefore are already to low to make something happen or better yet dead. There are times they can get the upper hand, But that’s just tpvp for ya. Then WvW zerging is like, did you veil for your guild? Portal them golems or better yet portal bomb! Time warp that fight! But adding Nullfield and Feedback to the zerg fights only makes enemy Mesmers run the Glamours and fights becomes beautiful in the disarray of purple everywhere. IT becomes who got the chaos armor, because at the end of the fight neither side knows who’s glamours are who’s. What happens is you run into a glamour to try and blast it and if it isn’t even your teams, so then you die. So people kinda stopped using them in WvW… But Mesmer is great at bursting unwary opponents via shatter on the battle field. Then roaming WvW for me atleast is a tad bit boring, Because if your not running some cheesy PU spec or Shadow arts build you wont be able to really fight someone 1v1(not always). Because really bad players roam WvW and don’t roam to be skilled with a legit build. They built to 5v1 so if your just 1v1ing them you can only toy with them before they try to condi bomb. I roam shatter then daze build in team comps. So I look to burst you, but if your phantasm dire/rabid PU im just gonna say bye. Then shadow arts thieves? o god im gone.
The class does feel sometimes a little bit weaker than most of the classes only because We are constricted to 20 points in a trait line to be effective when shattering. Any Mesmer trying to shatter without X in dueling, it takes you time to build up your clones and you can’t even combo shatters, Your basically looking to shatter once. I cant think of any other class confined to 20 points in anything to be effective. I really wish Anet would change X in dueling to be an automatic thing for Mesmers or move it to adept tier for a few months to allow Mesmer to really be able to take those 20 points and actually do different builds!
IS the class being outclassed? When it comes to just insta bursting someone I’d say thief outclasses Mesmer in the idea of quick burst, But theif isn’t capable of team fighting like a Mesmer can so in my head we outclass them. Which is the whole point of a mage/scholar class. They have huge team fight presence.
Lastly You do have to put forth quite a bit of effort to accomplish end result goals, to which other classes it is far easier to obtain those goals I.E. Warrior, Thief, Ranger. You really gotta do tricks and fancy things to get to the punch line. But at the end of the day playing Mesmer is an Art form. So I don’t mind.

I noticed since the most recent patch to the laurel vender, Anet has made Many items that when they 1st came out with living world content that were extremely hard/took much effort and time to obtain, have become easily accessible. Which is great news for those who weren’t around for things like the dragon bash. But I worked hard for my zephyrite helms(which can be bought now with 25 laurels and 15 G), slickpack, karka shell, the flower. The list goes on.
My main point is, if you guys are making these items from the past easily accessible to those who weren’t around for a certain event, then where are the Holographic Shattered Wings??? Are they going to be patched in soon, cause I would love a set of those wings. I remember originally I worked hard for the dragon wing cover, which at the time I liked more than the holographic shattered wings, which is why I got those wings. A year later, I am really wanting a pair of the larger wings. Just curious as to why they haven’t been added to the long line up of event awarded items that the laurel vender now sells. Thoughts and feedback would be appreciated

Soo for S/D perma evade, the daze mantra does wonders against them into your shatter daze mindwrack when set up right. So try that out. Also the last utility your using is arcane thievery which is buggy and MoI is really good, but if your shatter just take a portal. Place it somewhere safe before traveling out so if you were pressured too hard(or simple out of cooldowns) you can reset yourself or just get out of a toxic situation. This is awesome vs a thief who just got a good jump on you, you can wait abit and re-enter the portal if need be and shatter bomb targets when you reappear. But Staff GS isn’t ideal to fight thieves (you need to watch your positioning the most since your ranged you wouldn’t think that would be a problem but don’t let a thief get a jump on you it should be the other way around), you are basically needing to learn how to kite with that weapon set up. Which is fairly easy if you know how to effectively use staff and your shatters correctly. I suggest searching for supcuties guide on staff blinks. For example you can use staff 2 skill to gain distance between you and enemies while also being able to blink on top of objects that put you atop of everything like ledges, walls, hills etc. But you need to be on your toes, dodge roll their steal(or distortion it) will set them back a lot in scrimmages against you. If they got the steal off and you see them wanting to drink the elixir, daze or interrupt that. If they shadow refuge GS 5, blink into if need be to force them out of it. If they dodge rolled the GS 5 then your best bet is to leave the scene and not use your storm til they pop out of stealth and continue to pressure you. But you shouldn’t be waiting for them to get out of SR simply because they will be looking todo 2 things, either SB immob you into SB 2 spam or get off a nasty backstab. So your best bet is reposition, possibly place a portal there leave the scene and return if need be. But in the end fighting a thief comes down to how well you know how to Mesmer, how to shatter and simply outplay your enemy. People say thief counters Mesmer, but that only applies to bad Mesmer. Keep that in mind, because if you play right that thief will be begging for mercy, to which they wont receive.

Oh, That scepter is sooo nice, especially after they added those storm cloud footprints to it? Definitely worth getting especially when you have the world revolving around on it too! gratz, But I’ve always had a thing for the minstrel the idea of carrying around a harp and playing the hum of death seemed like a legit idea. But unfortunately the weapon doesn’t seem anywhere near “legendary” especially when compared to it brothers on the list. Even though its an off hand weapon it deserves footprints! for example, The Rodgort torch has a flame arm and fire footprints, I thought what might make the minstrel worth while was maybe a light (insert colour here) aura when no legendary main hand is equipt and maybe some color changing musical notes footprints? So every other footprint is a different note and colour that pops up after you walk and fades into sound?! thought that would be legit. But the meteorlogicus is extremely nice. Makes me jelly

But mainly might comes from stacking before pushing, when gaurdians empower and people lay down fire fields and blast, your sure to get 25 right then and there but it dwindles to 20 as you finally push and fight. But Through blasting your own fire fields during the fight and gaurdians empowering throughout the fight also you can keep pretty good stacks of might for more damage. I sometimes fell naked when I don’t have 20 stacks of might and that extra 700power because I look at my damage like ohhh I could be doing soo much more if I had some gaurdians.. lol

Hey There! Nice, DB seems like a chill server to be in, unfortunately It’s hard to keep track of who I fight unless they left a lasting impression on me when I fought them :/ Although every fight group’d or a good ol’ 1v1 I do cherish. Yes, many ele’s are confined to a usual guild build which is basically 10 earth 30 water and 30 in arcana staff ele with celestial armor and trinkets. That build is very group orientated. My build is far more selfish as my build doesn’t support allies via water, I support via all my blast finisher via fire 2 and 3 along with earth dodge roll and focus earth 4 and water 5.
But your build is strong none the less, for S/F, The hydromancy is great cc when timed right and actually hurts. You incorporated many elements to make a build that matches the prowess of the zerker lifestyle. The build your running is great for people wanting to deal big damage and mitigate damage from themselves at the same time. I see warriors and gaurdians do that set up more so.. since they are directly in the line of fire of many different aoes. But you put together a really strong build that would be outstanding if you had some extra power from fire, you could be dealing so much more dmg. You match my damage so I know what your working with, but if you took that 4 in water and gradually put 5 points into fire over time you will definitely see a big difference. I remember being new to scepter ele running earth signit and a similar set up that you have. But I noticed i can sustain just fine with 600 healing and no water traits at all. I only have 11k hp so a 6.5k heal does wonders, from magis and cleric which add precision and healing to my guild. so with fury I have a 70 pecent chance to crit. But unlike your build mine runs on a constant 20 stacks of might so instead of say 2k power I run at 2.7k usually with an increased 700 cond dmg. So 1 auto attack from fire literally is 2k dmg. That’s just a fire auto, burn does 1k dmg per tick for 2 seconds since I have condi duration from fire traits. Not to mention staying attuned to fire I deal 10% more damage and I’m able to throw out more tooths. Since I deal this damage it comes with the price of Retal.. I haven fallen down to retal before. Got a really good tooth on a crowd of people but they had retal and I just died haha it’ll happen sometimes. But my build lacks vitality and toughness, but Ele’s kit is wonderous in that you can work around being that squishy and still make it viable. Arcane Shields, boon duration on regen and protection, Rock barrier from scepter, blinks and invulnerabilities. One last thing worth mentioning is that, playing this glassy basically teaches you to zerk your enemy to death rather than surviving their burst and trying to outsustain them into crit dmg. if I get hit with a 10k eviscerate or 10k backstab it is my fault for not paying attention. there goes my health pool but it will be my mistake. But I def like your build

So the alterations to this build is changing that 20 in fire to just 10, So your adept trait will be Burning Precision instead of internal fire. Those free 10 points can be spent into grand master for arcana, so you get a sexy dodge roll water which is soo legit with 600 healing. Or you can spend those 10 points and put them into earth so when your tempest defensive triggers your protection on aura trait will trigger as well. Crafty eh? Keepo!! But essentially this build should be played fresh air, in the build editor I chose a more defensive trait for those who genuinely wish to learn the dark arts. But for those experienced in air, just use fresh air. Big bursties! But the tempest defense is legit for when a basilisk venom thief decides to jump you, that aura stun plus protection is very good in those split seconds where you need to react fast.

I hope you enjoy this build! It may not be for everyone, but I truly find amusement in raining down fire from the sky..

lastly I know I will get questions about can this be played staff, and it certainly can.. but the problem with staff is survivability, it has great aoe but doesn’t allow you to really 1v1 someone when the time strikes if your pressured. Since your so glassy, Scepter focus allows you todo just that.
“Reap The Whirlwind”

How to single target burst someone !!
This part is basically known by good scepter ele’s but for those who don’t know the burst combo it is as follows. Both combos work differently.. but the end result will be different. As combo snipe 1 leads you into fire so you can rain down teeth as combo 2 starts you in fire and leads you into a might combo that ends you in air.
*Combo snipe 1 :Starting in earth attunement while simultaneously using your arcane blast on a selected target and then using your rock barrier skill(scepter earth 2), begin to auto attack in earth getting some crit vulnerabilities and bleeds then hurl your rock barrier while attuning to air for fury crits. Immediately using your air 1 skill for lightening autos, then use your air 2 skill while then attuning to fire while still auto attacking in air, so now your air auto attack now gets fury crits and might boost from runes(That combo is your bread and butter!! So practice it often so it becomes 2cd nature) also A good guardian party along with an ele(also your boon duration traits and runes) keeps you at a constant 20 stacks of might ez pz. You will snipe someone unless they used an invulnerability(among other ways to avoid damage) during that burst and they noticed the dmg. But not every WvW’er is quick on the keys, some are lagging and some are just plain bad then some people are just as glassy as you are. So you will burst those people regardless. Once you downed them throw down a phoenix and some teeth. GG you
Snipe combo 2 : Starting in fire throw down your focus fire 4 skill lay it directly in front of yourself, phoenix into it for might, swap to earth and earth focus 4 for more might and follow the earth into air combo from combo 1, just make sure you did it through that fire field for more burns!