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How anyone can use a 1h sword as a mesmer in pvp confuses me. The clone ability for it never works.
This issue bothers me to no end. I still love my Sword, but the clone generation on it is definitely busted. It just casts idly for a second and then nothing happens and I’m left scratching my head. It’s impossible to initiate a fight with this ability with any consistency, and even mid-fight often does nothing.
For both PvP AND PvE, I run Staff as main armament, and Sword/Focus for when things get hairy.
Basically I wear down and control my enemy through the Staff, and if they suddenly become a larger threat, or simply something goes wrong, I cut to Sword and use the 3 skill as a lunge, then blurred Frenzy to try to either kill them or simply make them fall back to try healing while I address the new issue.
Mind Wrack does fine for me. Like MrClockmakerSir, I finish every fight I can with Mind Wrack just to get rid of my clones so they’re not wasted. And boy it hits hard.
I do fine in PvE on my Mesmer. I kill things faster and get hurt less than on my Flamethrower Engineer.
I’ll elaborate on my post. Chaos/Illusions/Domination Staff and Sword/Focus build is perfectly capable in PvE and has been my levelling build since day 1 and can both burst damage, ranged damage, melee damage, and survive like a champ and is more than able to fulfill every need I have for quests, farming, PvP, levelling, and events.
I do fine in PvE on my Mesmer. I kill things faster and get hurt less than on my Flamethrower Engineer.
I’ve been going Staff and Sword/Focus for PvP. Mainly Chaos and Illusions, the rest into Domination.
My stats are keyed mainly into Condition and Toughness. My utilities are CC’s. I control the field by mass Area-Denial, CC locking high profile targets, and coordinating mass Condition Damage onto the selected target in conjunction with teammates. Extremely effective build for SPvP.
Staff
Sword/Focus