Guild Wars 2

I recently hit level sixty on my mesmer and, upon reviewing the trait trees, it seems to me that going pure mantras and build might be a pretty damaging strategy.. With the grandmaster Precision tree, you can increase overall damage by 4% for each active and prepared mantra.. Which means you can get a free 16% extra damage just by having everything charged. If you grandmaster the power tree too, all of your mantras receive three charges instead of two as well. With a greatsword/1hsword/torchorpistol, it seems the burst damage from sneaking up on someone, that 16% extra damage would be pretty telling, even if it’s only from a distance with the greatsword. Am I way off the mark here?

Ohh. So you don’t need to match combo fields with a certain combo finisher! Any field can be used in conjunction with a finisher? Are the effects random in that case? Such as, the Mesmer Focus has a straight line field that grants speed and slows enemies. Do I want to stand on that field or stand behind it and make sure that my finisher passes through?

I play a mesmer mainly, but as it is I don’t encounter a lot of these… So I’m not exactly sure even WHAT a combo spell is or how it functions. Are there some combo spells that the mesmer can use? What are the advantages of combo spells? HOW do you pull them off? How can you tell if they worked? I’ve gotten to level 53 without learning this stuff, sadly, and it’s totally time I learned.