Guild Wars 2

MandJ.8965:

I am a big staff fan. I dont play Often builds without staff.
I think for group roaming, staff/GS is better, but if you fight Mesmer vs Mesmer for example, the classic shatter should win. The stealth is just too good for an offensive using and a defensive using against Range shatter mesmer.
But, if you play ps shatter, so staff/sword pistol, played rigjt you kill most of the gs/sw t shatter builds.

All in all, I would say it comes to personal playstyle, and who you are fighting against, so you cant say what is better. I think they are pretty balanced so there is no must to play.

I like the staff more, because of the nice burst the warlock has when he hits, the safe stomp, and the boons. I play GS/Staff in PvP and WvW, and I dont play with sword torch for a year and a half now.

The Staff/sword pistol is what I used to run and am looking to get back to it, but all the guides list just GS builds. After 2 years I am not sure I remember how to set it up the way that I used to. Are there any new links and/or guides for this?

I agree with you about the staff. I used to run sword/pistol for the shatter build burst and then I would swap to Staff repeatedly throughout the fight during cooldowns for the storms and the survivability/escapes. Interesting that the pistol is not the favored for the shatter build any longer…

I used to play shatter mesmer….. but I REALLY liked using a sword. that was my favorite play style. if its not viable any longer, I guess will just go back to elementalist (my first character)

I used to play a sword/pistol Mesmer with staff offhand and a greatsword in my bag for when I needed to be able to range dps (mainly PvP with any of my characters).

What builds work with Mesmer these days (for PvP) and can anyone point me to possibly some links to some builds that work well for PvP? It has been years since I played so I am assuming a lot has changed.

Is Mesmer even strong any more?

Thanks!