Guild Wars 2

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i guess phase retreat portal and moa have found many uses in organised play but this works nice for me in soloq.
Sword + shield for defence and scepter + torch for offence. Great condie cleanse with the torch plus the usual, double stealth plus the usual invulns to deter ppl from focusing us and leave us in piece to have fun;p The mantra is has better hps and ccps (condie cleanse per second) than any other heal, you can recharge it during stealth.

I think chaos armor is kinda of outdated as defence these days. I really miss staff2 but you cant have everything.

BTW a small video i made about using Staff 2 with camera turn instead of about face, you can direct your movement in any direction. Very usefull imo.

video

messiah.1908:

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My role is damage dealer ofc via condies. I can hold the point though better than most mesmer builds therefore i called it bunker, which seems to be a mistake. Portal and aoe condition cleanse from enemies make me better at holding edge points your right about that.

D/D counters me in team fights, he cleanses everyone, not in 1vs1.
Engi and thieves are easy kills. Good players have killed me ofc but they aren’t a counter for sure, counter means it’s natural for them to win… What skills do you have in mind? Necro counters me in 1vs1.

Intresting build btw

Ross Biddle.2367:

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I will try this too for fun. The build system in this game is amazing isnt it?

Ross Biddle.2367:

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Nice idea, i tried it for 2 matches. It’s funny playing a mesmer this way Malicious Sorcery is great. Blinds and the extra clones though go a long way in defence as well. Pity about the atrocious scaling with healing.

Ross Biddle.2367:

But your build has desperate decoy in it -_-u

What else to put? -_-
Well when i had loads of stealth with PU pre-nerf, i was feeling useless sometimes. Even when i was defending or attacking a point (solo) i had to give the enemy the point until i killed him, and that was the “best” senario", i could also loose :P

This one doesn’t despite the 2 short stealths, mostly for desperate situations and not part of a rotation.

Silverkey.2078:

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I always feel while playing that stealth is counter productive since it’s capture the point.

I understand what you are saying, meta mesmer has a specific role in the team, portaling +1ing and killing fast and stuff like that. In my bracket and in pug teams condies melt some players really fast.

Ross Biddle.2367:

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Yea i can’t wait. TBH my question is why ppl use Chaos instead of Inspiration for Condie Mes, i did that as well but boy this spec has so much stronger defences without sacrificing offence. I’m always talking about Spvp.

And my second query (i’m asking humbly) why the meta build for mesmer is what it is and not something like this. Bunker guard and elies don’t leave room for condies? Plus the boon removal right? Cause a spec like this has much more sustain and dmg.

Silverkey.2078:

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Well i guess you are right in a way, you can’t compare it with bunker guard. It’s bunkerish for mesmer standards though! About prestige, you don’t have to use it, it’s a defensive resort or use it for blind+burn and break it immediately.
But it’s going to be SO much stronger with shield!!

Hello everyone! I want to share a build that has been working for me in my not so high (i guess) MMR bracket.

Bunker Condie

Defence

• 2900 Armor
• 16k Hp
• 50% Vigor uptime + 2 Sigils of Energy
• Great healing : 600hps from healing skill alone + Restorative Illusions + some healing power from Healing Prism
• Great condi cleanse : Mender’s Purity + Restorative Illusions + The Pledge
• Plus the usual mesmer skills

Offence

• 1515 Condition Damage
• That’s it

Party Support & Team Fights

• Aoe Dmg from shatters
• Aoe Blinds
• Aoe condi cleanse with Power Cleanse
• Aoe healing with Restorative Mantras + Healing Prism
• Aoe Distortion with Inspiring Distortion
• Portal

This plays by moving in and out of range and sight of your enemies. Get in to spike with your F1 and F2 and get out. In a 1vs1 situation the build can comfortably stay on point and contest in contrast to PU mesmer specs.

Mirror Images is for bursting at the right moment, just take care to hit as many enemies with your shatter as possible. When they group up burst them all with condies. Also MOA works as well if you want to hard counter some necros for ex. Portal can be swapped for many things, if you try Disenchanter take Persistence of Memory instead of The Pledge (a preview of things to come with Chronophantasma ). You can also take Compounding Power instead of The Pledge since it has more than enough condi cleanse, for some extra dmg.

I know it’s not something truly innovative just wanna discuss it with you friends I was watching some pro mesmers stream the other day, with the usual power meta build and it seemed to me they struggled to make a serious impact apart from portal-roaming and +1ing some fights.

Random fun aspects:

• Eat thieves for breakfast
• Never die from burn again!

“http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vhAQNAR8flknhG1YnawMNwtGLsGEZCCQwLfwwvG6B+5UA-TZBFABNcEAouMwCXEAd2fAgHAAA”

My suggestion for a build that does great dmg but can survive with twitchy fingers. Easy 20 vulns plus blinds and condies. Also some minimal condie clear for burns. That’s the glassiest mesmer i would play

His random spawn location actually cripples this phantasm. His CD is good, his attack speed is OK. What about making him a targeted ability so you can spawn him wherever you want. This promotes player skill.

Worse but still better is to make him spawn on us, so we can place him in a sense (synergy with stealth). What do you think?

side note, they fixed PU + Desperate Decoy it now triggers at 50% hp. Pretty nice huh? (excluding vampirism combo) i feel like i have a traited utility and it frees me a slot.

messiah.1908:

Raizoul.8374:

Are you sure? did’t know that detail. For example sigil of doom procing of geomancy or a shatter randomly hits only one enemy

yes sure
its 10 icd is for each unique enemy
doom only hits one enemy

cool, thanks

On another note what do you guys think about geomancy vs energy. One slot in each weaponset is for Doom. Altho all this depend on the particulars of each build..

Are you sure? did’t know that detail. For example sigil of doom procing of geomancy or a shatter randomly hits only one enemy

Well this is a condi bomb build, thats why i have Mirror Images. It’s already very strong in 1vs1 with some exceptions. In big fights i can stealth go in the fray and : MI + F2 + F1 + F3, weapon swap (geomancy) + Chaos Storm. Then i usually blink out to scan for low hp trying to escape. I don’t do exactly this every time Depending on the situation i might space my shatters more and with more clones, this is just an example of a shatter bomb.

We can say that MoF is more of a team fight trait? And Ineptitude a far stronger dueling – roaming trait.

Hello mesmers!

I want your opinion on these 2 traits for PVP.

Quick notes: Ineptitude procs its confusion from shatters and chaos armor.The blind+confusion with a CD procs from evades and scepter 2.
Master of Fragmentation gives cripple on frustration for every clone shattered (cleanse protection as well), the same goes for diversion every clone procs daze in aoe. My build doesnt benefit a lot from the improved wrack and distortion since i already play with reflect on my heal.

This is my build

While in the spawn castle in any bg with plague equipped you get “invulnerable” every 3 seconds on the screen.