Ask him who gave him the build
Nope I made them all you all must clearly be mistaken
Created this build back when the bunker mes was at its height. Thus, didn’t have much of a place for it.
Illusions/Insp/Chrono
It’s been gaining a lot of popularity after I gave it to Pz and Marvin ran it. Decided to do a bit of streaming with the new ranked season coming out.
Feel free to stop by, hang out, and ask any questions you have!
twitch.tv/nero1209
Mantra mesmer all the way— honestly.
If a spell is cast during the duration of the cloak for the prestige the CD goes on for only 3 seconds when the cloak is finished.
This is incredibly terrible.
I’m not too sure the time of attacks for swordsman/duelist is correct just off of eyeing the two times.
The thing is you’re considering glory into your equation. Obviously a more bunker spec won’t be as successful at wracking up the kills and seeing that a lot of points to be gained is via killing yes you’re going to get less glory.
As far as the more bunkery spec— then what you have to consider is also how much you bring to the table when your teammates do show up— because as a mesmer you can bring a LOT if speced correctly. Unfortunately specing bunker negates a lot of your viability in terms of team fight potential.
Imagine this:
You’re on your point— you see an ele approaching you and he is very heavily invested in DPS. You’re running a bunkery spec and probably using phantasms as damage or attempting some sort of haphazard condi spec which relies on your enemy killing your clones. Either way your dps is at best unreliable.
A thief from your team shows up and bursts the ele (who hasn’t even used mist form because you can’t inflict enough damage). The thief is forced to wait for mist form and hope to be able to burst it down again. During this period what are you doing other than surviving and potentially providing your thief with a bit more survivability?
This vs—- running a spec where if all of your CDs are available you can beat the ele in a 1-1— then the thief comes in and does one burst tips the fight completely in your favor and it’s not even close.
The problem with bunker mesmers is that simply put they cant bunker as well as Guardian— thus if you want a bunker you run a guardian. As such— if you’re running a bunkery spec and you already have a guarding you are essentially a lame duck in terms of what you bring to a team fight.
Food for though.
It’s not so much that GS isn’t viable in a condi build— it’s more the fact that you NEED to run a staff. Also— if you’re doing any mesmer build without a 1h sword/offhand—- you’re doing it wrong.
Thus— no. Don’t use a GS if you’re attempting to use a condi build.
You want berzerker
I have seen so many people misusing this for such an extended period of time I had to make a post.
Blurred frenzy ONLY gives you the 2+1/4th second distortion IF you stand still and do not cast any other skills directly after using blurred frenzy. Granted you can use a blink (but why would you) but if you even take a step you lose your distortion.
Pay attention to your buffs on your bar and do some testing yourself. Do a blurred frenzy and take a step and then do a blurred frenzy and don’t move.
Standing still for those extra two seconds can be extremely beneficial. And yes, you can use insta cast things— such as mirror images and shatters etc while you are standing still.
Honestly the only problem with mantras is that they are WAY too front loaded. Reduce cast times by maybe another second or 1.5 seconds and we could see them actually be used in pvp. Until then they will be yet another mechanic of mesmer (scepter for instance) that is just too clunky and unresponsive to be used in a competitive pvp environment.
It has always been shredding— which is why it applies to decoy and mirror image CD reduction as well kittenters.
Good thread please sticky
If Guild Wars 2 is ever going to build a PvP scene tPvP(which seems to be AreaNet’s preferred method of structured PvP) has to be more available to the general public. What ANET is currently doing is going for short term gains via the gem store.
Anet needs to continue to aim for the longer term goal of becoming an eSport and ditch the current methodology of trying to make a buck while the game is in its current state— otherwise it will just further alienate the population you are attempting to appeal toward.
Unless these tournaments are easier to get into and reward more then there will literally be no permeation of the PvP scene into the general populace which is exactly the current issue.
Also— a ladder system is desperately needed. Why would people want to spend gems (which yes, is money) on potentially upping this arbitrary and linear QP pool?
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Sorry, but you are hilariously wrong. Test it in game for yourself. Then come back to the forums and delete your post.
By the way don’t be in the same party as people you’re fighting you silly goose.
Sorry, but scepter is simply too slow and clunky to fit into the game. It shouldn’t be used in any spec and at even low-mid tier of PvP it becomes glaringly obvious that it is in no way currently viable.
Stealthing removes the target over your head.
Good day.
Never use scepter if you’re serious about pvp. Ever.
From my heavily entrenched PvP standpoint:
If you don’t like shattering then Mesmer isn’t the class for you. Any build not utilizing shatters in any way shape or form is effectively not using like 75% of the tools that are given to them in order to overcome their opponents.
Playing a Mesmer in PvE up to level 20 will effectively grant you little to no knowledge about the class.
This advice literally goes for fighting all classes and is critical for anyone who wants to become good at PvP:
To fight any class effectively you must:
-Learn how x class does its damage and either execute good dodges or learn how to effectively use your own defensive cool downs to riposte their attacks and counter with your own.
-Learn both defensive and offensive cool downs x class has and what you need to look out for
-Pay attention to what they ARE doing so you know what CAN’T be doing
Honestly with any two people that are good at their chosen classes there should be a lot of back and forth through the fight. This is especially noticeable when said two people duel each other a lot and you start to see differences in the way each one deals with the other one and the meta gaming that is going on between the two.
Awesome sticky. Guild Wars 2 needs more viewers.
Hot joins I may switch portal out with blink.
I mostly play tournaments though. Portal is a must have for tournaments. You’re just not a mesmer if you don’t have portal on your utility bar.
I am actually. It’s amazing for applying pressure via conditions and keeping your opponent on the back foot.
Wait wait, so what you’re saying is by choosing certain professions they each bring their own thing to the table? That’s just stupid every profession should be completely neutral obviously.
I’m on Anvil Rock =D. And thanks man I’m really loving my new spec. For any interested I have spelled it out in detail here:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/Glamour-Build/first#post1211013
And if it’s any consolation I’m quite sure I wouldn’t want to run into your squad in WvW Osicat =D.
No problem.
Currently I’m running 0/30/0/10/30. Here is everything:
http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=VPFRZ;1VPF-127JVV71;9;5T-9T;1389;11;045Aawl6-J0-isXAisXA2Vb
The past two nights I’ve been running this build. I constantly work on making new builds outside of the standard 20/20/0/0/30 which is essentially the bread and butter for mesmer.
If you want to watch some gameplay of this check out www.twitch.tv/nero1209.
With this build you can effectively deal with essentially all of those pesky classes that people made builds for to specifically deal with or at least give those shatter mesmers a tough time.
While you don’t have the boon stripping on shatters, you do have null field which is extremely effective.
I can’t even begin to spell out what a well timed feedback can do in the middle of a team fight— or even in a 1-1.
While I was originally focused around having my glamours blind/confuse between the two traits in illusions I ended up dropping both of those and opting for more shatter specy type traits. This is both to increase the builds offensive and defensive capabilities. Sometimes you just really need to hit your distortion to get that key 1 second of invlun when you don’t have any clones out.
Your main focus is keeping as much confusion on your enemy as possible. While null field and feedback are amazing abilities, if they are not well timed it could spell out your downfall.
You want to keep your chaos armor up as much as possible— since both weapon sets have access to a leap finisher, and having access to a multitude of ethereal fields there is essentially no excuse for not having it up.
Also, use your duelist to add additional confusion stacks via either placing an ethereal field on your target the duelist is shooting at OR placing the ethereal field on your duelist while it is firing.
While this build does play similar to the shatter type combat style there are very specific differences in terms of the timings you need to execute in order to maximize your damage.
This is the only spec I have found that I can run in my team fight centric comp with my team that can replace my shatter spec.
Feel free to ask any questions here or on my stream!
Streaming tonight! Stop by and check out my new build! =D
You guys are all onto the build I’ve been using but you haven’t quite hit it on the nose. If you want to watch me using a confusion/glamour build in action check out the latest videos in my stream.
www.twitch.tv/nero1209
Additionally I will be streaming a bit today. My team (JBUO) went 15-0 last night in paids while I was running my build so clearly it is viable.
I have been trying to branch out from power shatter for SO long and I’ve finally found a build that allows me to do just that.
Hey guys— I play Mesmer for JBUO and just recently hit 80 via purely crafting (I’m a huge pve noob).
In tournies I run a shatter build.
I have my mic on and I will have voip for my games and would love to answer any questions.
www.twitch.tv/nero1209
Come hang out!
Anyone with a portable nudist colony is a good addition to a team
Yeah we really need to get these simple bugs fixed. Absolutely necessary. A lot of people were already really frustrated with pvp— added bugs just ad to that frustration.
Definitely something has changed— I was 3/4ths health when I downed this necro— he tore through it and my downed state before I could dps him down.
Did this multiple times. He would just run to my point to die to use his downed state.
Have experienced the same from other necros as well.
I like res timers and I like no weapon changing.
Is the new necro downed state supposed to be hitting for over 2k a second? Just curious because it seems quite broken.
See video.
Literally just tested it. It does rally.
Both of these abilities require a essentially a rally to make their effects permanent. This rally can be caused by the little minions necros get after they get someone stomped. This is a very big problem.
Streamzorzing a bit!
Streaming paids tonight!
Red side second map side gate can still be blinked through. Please address this in the bug fixes tomorrow.
I completely agree— while there should be some type of match making system set in place causing more artificial barriers between people doing the same thing is a terrible concept. Get them all on the same page.
No— it’s not happening today. Apparently something happened on GW2GURUs end and they’re recording it locally and will be posting it in a few days.
Apparently it’s not happening today.
Different matchups will be harder for x class when they are at y skill level. This is how it works. At different tiers of skill there will be harder match ups, and there will be easier match ups. Low level thief vs low level mes— theif wins majority of the time. High level thief vs high level mes barely even comes down to fighting the majority of the time— its all about the thief pulling the mesmer back to their point.
The games class balance isn’t nearly as out of whack as many people think it is. Everyone for sure faces challenges across different skill levels, and while there are many buggy traits/skills in all classes ultimately the game is based around conquest currently.
Conquest is entirely about map movement, communication, and more importantly knowing what your opponent IS doing for the purpose of know what your opponent CAN’T be doing.
In 5v5s with good teams in paids it is entirely about all of this, and quite honestly while each profession has different roles to fill, with good players balanced teams (aka teams without repeat roles/classes) can succeed based off of good synergy communication and understanding of basic strategies and trends in meta.
Coming on the forums and complaining about class balance is the easy way for people to deal with a loss. Examining your team’s decision making and figuring out how to respond/what to change next time after a loss without angst is the more difficult and constructive way to deal with a loss.
This is a team based game. Examine what you are given and make the most of it and win— or get a defeatist attitude come on the forums, complain, and keep losing.
Same— once I can log in I can’t join the hot joins. Been trying to do a 1-1 for about 30 minutes. When I finally can rejoin I just crash again. Vicious cycle man.
Crashing like crazy while loading HOTM/hot joins etc today.
Needs moar stickied.