Guild Wars 2

From my experience with my mesmer. I’ve played this class for about 5months straight now. I’ve undergone multiple builds ranging from PU , shatter, intterupt, pyro, you name it. It all comes down to your level of play. Since you are still fairly new i would suggest your standard PU condi build, it has a very low learning curve with great success. Once you have grasped the concept of a mesmer, i would suggest going into spvp with a power build. This is what roaming usually ends up as 2 v 5 , 3 v 6 etc. In my opinion a power build is supperior then the PU build if you know how to play it. Once iv’e learned how to shatter iv’e never looked back. To be honest, I feel i survive better kittenter then a PU. Simply because it has forced me to learn what to avoid and how to avoid, with the satisfaction of 1 shotting or close to 1 shotting your enemies.

Gl in your future goals..

-Calicoe-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTIDQMRUGBE
this is a full spvp vid of one of my shatter mesmers (yes i have 2 vanity whore) there is no cut outs or montage. This is just a random hot join displaying what a shatter can do on a daily without even trying once you have grasped the idea.

Here is my latest WVW video with a buddy of mine..

Well since I actually got some feed back from some people who wanted to see more. Here is another video of your standard stealth shatter build, with halting strike. Unfortunately it’s a little short this time due to playing a different game but we will make more.

Enjoy.
P.S. Strong language advised…

Mendax.9506:

To stack vulnerability – just invest at least 3 points into Domination for Dazzling. This way a succesfull Diversion will inflict 5 stacks of vulnerability (8 if it interrupts your foe) for each shattered illusion. And you don’t have to sacrifice important traits this way.
Don’t even look at Rending Shatter, IMO, it’s a filler trait.

Interesting, But what trait do you feel should be sacrificed? Atm, i’m running a pretty standard 4/4/0/0/6 build. Seems pretty solid for me and i cant really see many traits i would give up for that. Also in pvp i just swap 2 of my traits to Greast sword power and Sword power for faster cds and i feel more like a phantasm build.

i use it and love it

Teufel.9864:

Calicoe.5149:

Pyroathiest.4168:

The normal question is between halting strike and mental torment. This depends on how often you’re able to get interrupts, but also how you want to play the build. Halting will generally give you more damage over time, but mental torment allows you to maximize your instantaneous burst.

i thought being that i’m all power, the torment dmg would be minimum at best. Not to mention easily cleansed.

Mental Torment is the 20% extra on Mind Wrack.

o my bad, drinking alcoholic beverages atm (graduated college yesterday party on over here)… but my issue with that is what if they dodge your mind wreck? with that being said i have multiple ways to interrupt you. Just my opinion

Pyroathiest.4168:

The normal question is between halting strike and mental torment. This depends on how often you’re able to get interrupts, but also how you want to play the build. Halting will generally give you more damage over time, but mental torment allows you to maximize your instantaneous burst.

i thought being that i’m all power, the torment dmg would be minimum at best. Not to mention easily cleansed.

Fox.3562:

Not even close, Halting Strike is better. Unless you’re really mashing shatters, you’re probably not gonna get more than 6 stacks of vuln on someone at a time, and even then it will probably just get wiped.

Even if you had 13 stacks of vuln on a target, you’d have to do ~23k damage to them to do the same damage as one 3k halting strike; not likely.

TY SOOO MUCH!!!! i got into a small argument with a friend of mine about it. I just couldn’t imagine rendering being better then halting..

Halting Strike – Enables you to do damage upon interrupting a foe.

Render Shatter – Enables you to stack vulnerability on an opponent per shatter.

Being that iv’e only been playing a shatter mesmer for about 2 weeks now i’m unsure if i’m losing out on damage or is it just up to my play style. I’ve practiced in both wvw and spvp and found that halting strike gives me more burst out of the 2. Halting strike in wvw has crited over 5k for me at times, i’m not sure if render shatter can compete with that. I mean yea, i’m sure its nice to stack 13x vulnerability on someone but in that same amount of time i could of already hit you for 3-5k with a well placed interrupt. Looking for some veteran shatter mesmer’s thoughts… you may take the floor.

Here is a video of my game play excuse the language… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTIDQMRUGBE

side note : i’m no longer using the accuracy sigils. I’m now using fire proc on GS and Air sigil on the sword.

My issue is once i run the GW2setup.exe it will start the installation. Then it will just close once the 1st part is complete.

Any solutions?

Windwalker.7421:

Funny, I was considering posting this anyway, but I haven’t played it enough to really be sure about it. So far though, I love it in sPvP and I really dig the stats, and of course the play-style differences to the usual PU/Condie builds. This is a PU Shatter build!

Let’s call it…[drumroll]: The Darkmatter Mesmer build!

(Invisible and highly explosive!)

It’s essentially the same 20/20/30/0/0 build as Osicats PU/Condie (or Blackwater), but swapping some traits and of course gear and weapons, etc. I tried it with staff and the associated trait too, worked nice as well, but I really liked it even more with the GS.

http://tinyurl.com/mbhn4ud

I really love the Crit Chance & Crit Damage, considering that you’re not a pure GC/Shatter build. With PU, a bit of toughness, and lots of stealth, you come out a LOT less squishy then a pure GC/Shatter.

It has condie removal as a bonus from traited Torch, and that’s why I stick to Torch for this rather then a more DPS oriented offhand. (Plus The Prestige is a nice additional AE burst, and a lovely opening move on people…not to mention another getaway card in many cases.)

Ever since I saw Sensotix use the Divinity Runes in one of his videos, I’ve had a hard time giving these up in some of my recent burst builds. It’s so easy to overlook the crit damage on those, and for this build they just fit really well IMO. I can often dish out 4-6k MW shatters, 3+k BFrenzy, plus The Prestige, plus Flame Blast, then disappear into the shadows and leave behind a “friend” to play with while I attack from range.

After playing with Staff a bit, I found that I really needed to be able to CC/catch runners a bit better, and ranged damage too was a bit lacking (too slow) with Staff.

I’ve had great fun with this so far. As compared to a PU/Condie build, the AE direct damage is just nice to have for a change. I’m still quite strong in 1v1 with this, but can also jump into the middle of a group, unleash thousands of AE damage, and then pop back out to safety and attack from range for a bit. Needless to say, that helps a lot with getting higher scores in sPvP.

I’m trying out mesmer for the first time. I have to admit your build does sound something i may be interested in. Unfortunately, the link you left does not work for me. Could you possibly send a new one or perhaps add me in game ?

I’m looking to lvl my necro very fast and mow through stories/dungeons quickly.

Does anyone have a build like this for a necro?

Clever.1302:

Hi guys! I hope this can help on your power build necro
. watch my video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEDlP6ERR_M

what is the build? And umm. Is it any good in PVE?

I’m looking to lvl my necro very fast and mow through stories/dungeons quickly.

Does anyone have a build like this for a necro?