Guild Wars 2

Hi Erigais,

I play a Mesmer Tank or well Pseudo Tank shall we say. Trying to find a talent calulator at the moment.

But basically I split my great between (Power, Toughness, Precision) and (Power, Vitality, Critical Damage) and so far it works very very well.

I use a Sword/Focus and my second set is greatsword for those annoying range only fight and for a second Knock back.

Focus is amazing for tanking. Wardens pretty much stop all procetiles and in some boss fights turn the boss 100% against himself. for example the two golems who have to die at the same time in Sorrows Embrace, the warden reflects his aoe making the fight a cake walk.

Temporal curtain is great. I use it as a control skill, stack the enemy up and your party AoEs them all down, use it to pull a mob off a squishy. It really is an amazing skill. Speccing into focus is a must for the cooldown and turning the curtain into yet another reflect spell.

In short you become a tanky anti-range controller. My regular dungeon group love it, it makes their lives so much easier.

Right time to copy out my build. which I am still fine tuning.

Edit:

Ok here is my build:
http://en.gw2codex.com/build/18932-mesmer-tank

It seems that phantasms cause bleeding when they crit despite the skill saying Illusions which has lead me to believe that phantasms may well also give you the 3% damage reduction per a illusion. Not 100% on that though.

Mesmers are very useful in dungeons, we may not have instant high damage but it is made up for with a
combination of utility skills and control of the mobs.

I play with a high toughness/vitality build with the soul purpose is being in faces of mobs.

With a Sword and Focus, Temporal Curtain is an amazing skill. It can be used to so much effect. You’ve had a bad pull and the mobs are all scattered around your party, a well placed curtain and detonation can pull them all into one nice big AOE pile. You may not be dealing the damage but that’s not important, what you are doing is ENABLING the rest of your party to do damage. Also I use the curtain to rip mobs of squishy glass cannons, interrupt attacks and to keep all the mobs away from the party when you do one of those slow moving back nuking maneuvers.

You can also pretty much nullify all projectile attacks with wardens and temporal curtain when it is specced into and that is a lot of damage taken away from your group.

Not to mention illusions/clones/phantasms make wonderful distractions to bosses.

If people in a party feel a Mesmer is a dead weight in a dungeon, then they have be unfortunate enough to have played with bad ones who do not play to support a group.