I wanted to submit a build and see what everyone thought of it. First I want to apologize if this build has been duplicated at all, I have searched the forums and I have not found this specific build posted. I have been the mesmer for about 8 months now and I have tried everything from the various Shatter builds, Condition staff, and Glamour builds.
Recently I have been running the following build: 20(III,X)/20(II,X)/0/25(II,VIII)/5 with a GS & SW/F. I have reluctantly been thinking about dropping the GS with all of the recent bugs that it has, and I have finally built up enough frustration to try something else. I mean how many times can you bear to watch your clone get those stacks of might that should have been yours, or regret that you even pressed the 4 skill because it can such a waste at times. I love the utility and the synergy of the SW/F so I wanted to keep those weapons, and I wanted to keep the theme of a Phantasm build. In addition, I wanted a maintain a ranged presence, so I came up with this build. I call it the Inspired Mesmer, please correct me if this name has been used before as well.
10(III) – Empowered Illusions for the extra 15% damage
20(II,IX) – Phantasmal Fury, Duelist’s Discipline (Not opposed to taking Blade training here)
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30(II,VII,VIII) – Glamour Mastery, Warden’s Feedback, Malicious Sorcery (Glamour Mastery can situationally substituted for Mender’s Purity or possibly Persisting Images)
10(III) – Compounding Power
Utilities: Ether Feast, Feedback, Null Field, (*wild card), Time Warp
In my wild card slot, I substitute utilities to fit the situation I am. For example, if I need extra condition removal I will slot Arcane Thievery, Blink/Decoy/Mirror Images for a stun breaker the latter 2 if I feel I need more clones and I require a little bit of shattering to augment my damage. Or I will use Signet of midnight if I am farming and need the extra speed boon duration while using the focus.
Gear: All Beserker gear and trinkets.
Runes: Runes of the Dolyak (not a typo) let me explain my reasoning. I am a casual player, above average at best in my skill level. I need to extra toughness as this build literally provides none. I feel these runes give me the proper amount of toughness and extra vitality to allow me to pour everything else into beserker gear.
Weapons: Beserker stats. I am still undecided on the proper sigils to use at this time and I am still experimenting on the right mix.
My normal game play is almost exclusively pve content with a little bit of wvw mixed in. I usually do all guild content, dungeons, world events, and farming. I run fractals on the side and probably run wvw once a week. I will try to keep with this post and share my thoughts as I progress and continue to tweak it. Please let me know what you think and if you have suggestions to improve it, or if I am just plain mad to consider this build. Also note: I will strongly consider to going back to my previous build if they ever fix GS. Thanks all.