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As others have said it really is matter of getting in and out of melee range as no class is meant to stand toe to toe with strong pve mobs. That being said i think my build is exactly what you looking for as a large majority of my dps come from my melee attacks and survivability comes from combo fields and traits. I run Staff/ Sword & focus 99.99 % of the time (in all situations.). In Dungeons I load self heal, feedback, signet of inspiration, signet of midnight, time warp.
Usually I start off a fight with staff 1 while charging toward a soft target. Staff 2 to create a clone & leap back, followed by staff 3 phantasm. the clone and phant should absorb some attacks and i should be just about in melee range, drop a chaos storm and swap weapons. I target the champ mob and double tap sword 3 for another clone and leap into the etheral field and attack my target (both gaining chaos armor). Follow that up with warden, then blurred frenzy. I’m usually taking damage at this point and will dodge out( creating more clones) and healing if needed. Then either drop the feed back field on ranged mob or ill use it like i used the chaos storm and double tap sword 3 again followed with another blurred frenzy. Dodging out again at this point and possiblyin kite mode to buy time, if so i switch to staff, pop a chaos armor, then staff 2 & 3 and repeat. I mix in time warp on very hard pulls or on bosses don’t forget it is not just haste but you can combo chaos armor from it too. If all my etheral fields are on coold down i’ll start adding in temporal curtain and leaping back through it or into it to get retallation.
Notes: I rarely shatter my illusions as i use them to absorb hits on myself or group.
Leaping in and out of fields is a must learn to do it and learn to set up the rotations if you want to melee and live through it.
Traits: Leaving out the passives. (and only need to swap out 2 for pvp).
Dueling 30: +300 precision +30 CD:
phants have fury, +50 precision w/sword/spear -20% recharge on sword skills, & create a clone when you dodge.
Chaos 30: +300 toughness +30% boon duration:
clones apply random condition when they are killed, -3% dam for each illusion, +50 tough w/staff/trident -20% recharge on staff skills.
Inspiration 10: +100 vitality +10 healing:
create feedback bubble when trying to revive ally.
Anyone who thinks mesmers can’t do good damage… Equip staff, 1hd sword & focus.
On a reg mob (or a bunch of mobs), auto attack, run to mob, phase retreat, run to mob again, while casting chaos storm, then switch weapon sets, cast phantasm warden, cast blurred frenzy. Anything caught in this maelstom should be dead or almost dead if some attacks missed while you are full health. If you need to retreat you have temporal curtain for swiftness & snare (can also be used for a knockdown), you have you 2 dodges, you can pop out a melee clone, or use any of you other skills you have loaded on the right side of toolbar. For Veteran mobs rinse and repeat 3 times!
For people saying you can’t handle multiple mobs… There is no law saying you need to cast all your clones and phantasms on the 1st mob you engage spread them around so they don’t all die at the same time (clones aren’t doing any real damage anyway). Make sure your using weapon swaps and skills that create combos and make sure you have some means of escape, decoy, blink, & portal are all viable.
I just told my guildmates I nearly gave up on the mesmer for live. I’ve only been playing since the last Beta weekend and a few of the stress tests. Although the class sounded interesting it just felt bleh to me in the early going mainly because I didn’t get it. Well 64 levels later I’m so glad I stayed with it, espeically on the pvp side.
Although I have alot to still learn about other skill sets, trait build, and etc, I’m pretty confident with my staff and swap to 1hd sword and focus. Other skill I use are decoy, signets of inspiration & midnight, either mass invis or my summoned tree (racial elite).
I also like to load portal when I think I can get good use out of it. My traits are chaos 30, dueling 24 (@ 80 I’m looking to be chaos 30, dueling 30 healing 20). I don’t remember all my master skill because they have changed a few times since level 40 & 60 and I forget which are automatic and which you get to select.
If anyone is on Gates of Madness and wants some pointers with their Mesmer feel free to look me up. I don’t normally post on any forums but was extremely board at work today.