Guild Wars 2

For PvE, I’d suggest Pistol. The reason being, you want 3 phantasms up at all times, and the pistol phantasm is stronger, but has longer cd. Meaning, when all 3 phantasms are up, they’ll do more dps than sword, which in turn trades damage for spammability. Also, sword phantasms are more vulnerable to AoE, since they tend to stay close to their target.
The stun is also useful for breakbars.

If you end up choosing sword regardless of what i said, then keep in mind to not use sword 4 if you have 3 phantasms up, as it will spawn a clone and overwrite one of your phantasms.

Side note: Does any1 know if you can cancel the aftercast of sword 4?

2 clones on 40 sec cd. That’s really bad, and not useful at all. Mesmer relies heavily on utility skills, due to the difficult mechanics of the class, and blink, decoy, portal or daze mantra are so much better.

You have plenty of clone generation as it is. After HoT came out, we gained so much more clone generation, making this skill kitten -tier. If you think this skill can replace any of the skills listed above, you’re either using them wrong, or not landing your phantasms properly.

TL;DR:
This skill is bad, and every other meta skill vomits in its face.

I’m guessing you’re not playing PvP
power mesmer should not be played in pvp
How to fight dh in wvw: find your opportunity to burst, and hit him hard.
He’s not tanky at all.
If he’s not bad, he’ll know you’re about to burst, so you wait out his dodge or invuln.
If he is bad, where’s the problem?
If he’s using block heal, you can safely mirror blade him, and shatter later. Just make sure to remove his aegis. You’ll know when he uses it by sound.
As against any class, it’s about keeping up the aggression even when you’re forced to play passive. Like how you win against warriors. If you lose to warriors, you’ll probably lose to dh’s too.
Missing your burst should be fine. If done correctly, you have only lost mirror blade and a daze. See what he does, and probably use zerker.
You should only hit mindwrack if mirrorblade actually lands, and when you have 6 stacks of might.
If you don’t wanna miss your burst in the first place, don’t be too obvious about it. Don’t give them a fuse to smell.
Oh and don’t get hit by the trap. If you do get hit by the trap, don’t blink out of it.

Mesmer is a horrible class to main though. I know the struggle all too well. No matter what class you play vs, you always have to work hard for the win. 1 mistake is enough to get you killed. And no matter what you do, you will lose to decent thieves, and horrible condi thieves. If i could get my 2k hours back, i’d main something else.

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You went mid and bursted a necro, which was good, but spending 2 dazes is a big investment.
You probably should have started stomping right then, and used distortion for safe.
The moa wasn’t your fault, but you could have used skill number 5 to evade with it.
Your rev dies, not your fault, but you could have chaos stormed his body and tried to res.
Then you do a one clone shatter, which i don’t recommend, and the clone runs in and dies to aoe.
Then you dodge absolutely nothing. Twice. I would definitely heal here btw.
Then you go very close to the necro, which i wouldn’t recommend you do to any class.
Stay at a comfortable range where nothing can surprise you. In this particular fight, i would recommend staying on the edge above the point I would probably also chaos storm here.
Then you take some cc and a shatter, which could have been avoided, but kitten happens.
At this point, you have 3 clones up, and have distortion ready. Would recommend using. Then you could heal, use signet and have all shatters ready, and have blink ready as well.
Nevertheless, using pr as a stunbreak could have been a great solution since it might have ported you up on the wall, all for a 8 second cooldown. But decoy, pr and blink is way too many cooldowns to spend.
Now you’re low on defensive cooldowns. At this point i would probably disengage and go far, getting back some cooldowns and the best heal in game: out of combat.
At 50% hp and no defensive cooldowns, you enter the point again, then you’re quickly down to 25%. This is while your other mesmer is stomping the nec. Remember that your distortion applies to allies as well. I would pop f4 then disengage here. Securing a stomp as well as your survival.
Then you go way too close with 4k hp and die.
I would not tryhard in downstate here. Pressing 1 is fine, and helps your team, but you don’t want to spend more time in downstate than you have to. Your team weren’t close enough, nor showed any desire to res you.
Now you’re at spawn looking at your minimap. you’re 3v5 The thief is going far, the warrior should be noticing how outnumbered you are on mid, and not engaging since they have full cap. This is where you should go far with the thief and warrior, so you force them to split, and probably fight for the cap on far, while mid is theirs, and close is yours. When they go close, your dead allies will get up in time to defend.
Then you engage the mesmer, which i would not recommend, not only since you’re gonna be outnumbered very soon, but they also have the full cap.
Then you do a one clone shatter, which i don’t recommend. Then you dodge nothing. Then you dodge a shatter, which is good. Then you run up, which isn’t gonna do much. It’s their point, and staff auto attacks do nothing.
Then you don’t dodge the obvious shatter, since you already wasted a dodge. Jumping down or blurred frenzy are your 2 options here.
I would place the chaos storm on top of the other mesmer, then run into it, letting my team mates benefit from it as well. Another option is placing it on the warrior that’s dying. Ressing him is something i’d consider, since you have distortion ready. This is still a bad engagement to take by the way. They’re 4, and it’s their cap.
Then you eat a burst from the dh. Then you dodge nothing.
Downing the mesmer doesn’t achieve anything, since the inevitable happens. The 2 people killing the warrior come on point and it’s 4v2. Not counting the thief, since he makes no difference being there. They res the mes, which they can, since it’s 4v2. The rev dies.
Then you spend blink and decoy, which would be defensible if you blinked towards close instead of still on mid. Now decoy was a waste. Popping signet is good, but after heal, now look at your cooldowns. You have nothing except pr to escape with. Would definitely avoid engaging anything right now.
The thief is kitten, and i would not stay near this point since it’s 4v1 and still their cap. Placing chaos storm on the point is something i don’t recommend.
The guard jumps on you, and you dodge nothing and do a 0 clone shatter, which i don’t recommend.

And kitten this is time consuming. Hope i don’t sound very negative. Just trying to deliver what you wanted. Hope this helps!

Azukas.1426:

Havardmj.8570:

Well starting off with the hardest class probably was a mistake
Try something easy before you roll mesmer.
Like guardian, warrior or thief

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Well starting off with the hardest class probably was a mistake
Try something easy before you roll mesmer.
Like guardian, warrior or thief

Hey, i don’t usually post in forums,
but i made a video and would really appreciate your opinions/criticisms on this vid
like, what you wanna see, what you hate seeing etc.

Here’s the vid

Enjoy!

Yup it’s bugged. Really annoying to find out, after having done all of the other achievements. Please fix, i just want my shiny boots.

then i suggest moving to a more dedicated server ^^ in t1 EU everyone’s on TS

I’ve had that problem, and there are 2 ways to fix it. /dance or blurred frenzy (sword 2). Leap skills don’t work, since illusionary leap and phase retreat only teleports you the same way as blink does. No need to relog lol

That’s why you have TS

I’m a guardian lvl 80 with exotic gear and partly ascended (will soon get asc weapon) and i would love an invite!