Guild Wars 2

Saturn.6591:

Vash.1920:

sry for the unreplied PNs about the last 4 months but I think the official GW2 forum is to hard manipulated about things u are allowed to do and things u are not

Lolwut. I guess the problem was more that you were playing LoL, just like it was the case back when I’ve pm-ed you ingame after you’ve told me to do so, and your response to my question was far from being helpful (and it was also coming with 20min-breaks inbetween sentences). ^^

Do you have any idea how many whispers i get when I logg in? 20 minutes are basicly fast. it is impossible to start more than 3 serious conversations aslong people switchting their Toons – cause of that I won´t start new chats aslong others are still up. I always play LoL perfect second game but that doesn´t change the the fact that I don´t like forums. People tend to feel important aslong they write this makes them feel smart and this leads to bullkitten. When I see posts like “what gear is the best” “what weapon is the best” “what is the best build” it frustrates me. There are two Kinds of players – the ones who do Researchs and try out things and those who cry when daddy Doesn´t pay attention for some minutes.

BUt maybe i don´t like Forums cause i´ve been banned in almost all.
Maybe some old friends or haters out there?
Rift: Mortax [Vanen](forum banned)
Warhammer: Sulaya [Brut] (forum banned)
WoW: Cyphes,Syloxus [atrox,x-lords,Affenjungs](not-banned)

whatever if u need something just keep texting (ingame) don´t cry thanks for the positive replies

Hi guys,

i published a new video hope u have fun. It includes 2 shatter builds I use these times – mabye some of u wanne test them – if yes contact me ingame i link the gear. And pls NO QUESTIONS via forum I am for sure offline again until my next video so I won´t be able to answer right in here.

sry for the unreplied PNs about the last 4 months but I think the official GW2 forum is to hard manipulated about things u are allowed to do and things u are not. so i am out again – bye good plays have fun and all luck.

PS: just a filler video until the next good one comes out (shatter tactics III) therefore some awesome new builds will be created. let´s wait for the patch.

contact me ingame like i said i will teach it to all who are intrested – it is not easy to explain in the forum u have to see it from spectate modus-

sPvP: Zerker / strength or traveler – 7% crit + air / endurance on swap and X
WvW: Zerker gear Ascendet trinkets with Zerker stats + Vita, traveler same sigils

@ Fodux: well hard falls result in hard memories u will definetly have your challenge with the build but well it´s the game – challenge your skills get better – depends on u, for me it is fun to get some challanges there are surely builds available wich make the whole Mesmer game as good as the shatter but without so much risk – for me this risk means fun – i played 5months a warrior in RIFT and i am done with cheese =D thats for sure.

Just always remind yourself it is not about the kills it´s about the survival skills – kill another player in pvp who maybe don´t even see u come doesn´t mean u are a good shatter Mesmer – survive like there is no chance to get u makes u a good shatter Mesmer and also brings in the fun

Well as u said depends on the situation – there will be situations you will be happy with a staff for interrupt res in teamfights but it could also be that nobody will go down when u use staff. The main advantage of torch is the surprising gameplay your engages become lethal. especially in tpvp where u can blink or teleport through the half map and u also have lot of line of sight positions to prepare your dmg. Line of sight -> stealth engage --> no vision. It will mosty bring a granted kill if u pick the right targets. With staff u can´t really surprise enemies even if some of u consider it as a strong weapon the tricky part is that your enemies can prepare themselfs for the fight against you. This makes the torch for an assasine gameplay more viable than staff – especially with only 24s CD on stealth u can really use it frequently through a whole match. But the teamfight makes a staff more viable. It´s all about your gameplay and how u use the torch. It also depends on the team . personally i prefer Fights as an assasine it is way more easier to kill characters with torch but it is way more easier to stomp them with staff so it is an hard decision. Most of the time my mates told me they like the fact that as soon we have another Mesmer in the enemie team with staff , they have more problems to win cause torch Counters staff in direct Fights -if u kick down the enemy Mesmer with torch engages the enemy team loses their Chaos storm and the stomps will be easier for your own team – the special movement from staff is no advantage agaisnt sword swaps so enemy staff Mesmers can´t really escape s/T Mesmers. (i showed that part in the video).
The funny thing is i guess it is viable with enemy Mesmer who play staff =D – but this decision is no general answer. Lot of people play weapons cause they saw it on a stream or they heared about it,they don´t realy think about it. The Chaos Storm is an huge advantage but if u can kill someone or change the fight through stealth engages with insane dmg it is not useless at all, too. If u time it correct u can oneshot enemy thieves or Mesmers with torch/gs and they won´t dodge it if they don´t see u engage. Especially in teamfights where everything is a bit more confusing it´s a huge advantage to prepare nukes without get noticed by enemies.

Well but i don´t play spvp so i am probalby not the right person to ask that – but i am pretty sure about that it is not the weapon makeing something viable it´s about the player behind.

spvp zerk, wvw zerk armor zerg weapons. power precision ferocity vita trinkets.

IGN: Vashury
Role: Instructor
Server: Kodash
Playstyle: everything
Time: depends

/push shatter

But i was a bit curious about your mirror blade travel time, it seemed too fast in my eyes so i did some researches. I would appreciate a video with original speed u enhanced the video speed a little. Otherwise is it a long fight so it might be legit.

Keep up editing – shatter <3

Ty guys,
and ty Fay for the work haha =D well i find the music through two ways. 1. some people send me music to publicate it and 2. go to youtube and search for “Epic music comilation” than u have about 400000 hours of music to hear and sometims u find a diamond.

@oxtred: like i said – nobody is perfect in this game ! It´s just the difference if u fail 2%,20%,40% or 80% of your actions

@Saturn: contact me ingame after 1.hour of Training with me u will be able to deal at least the same DMG. The tricky part is the survival on shatter. Almost no survival with wrong mechanics and extreme survival with correct mechanics.

BTW: the haters: it´s a sign for good work – and as long they are so obviously stupid the whole community knows “he just hates without reason”. Not all PvP player are bad or social fools, lot of nice people out there. But also lot people who should realy try to get better they are way not as good as they believe and in combination with their beaviour just embarrassing. “good” is btw no total word. The most player with fame always think they have did it – they are the best – actually the people who never think they are the best are those with the highest chance to really become the best and also the people who don´t have to prove something in stupid duels in a game which is absolutely not made for 1on1 comparisons.
If there is one thing i ´ve learned in 10 years of pvp games than, that u will never be the best – alyways someone better out there and even u are this person u will someday find someone who maybe never did any tournements or special things who will beat you without really know who u are. IN my view some of the best players in GW2 are hided in the shadows yet. I see them sometimes in WvW or in hotjoins givin me the hell of a fight. So i really don´t know why people say hotjoin is for losers. I miss the old times with IDL when PvP goes hand in hand with more respect and more good gameplay than now. Some player in the top 100 are just there because lot of people have leaved the game i don´t know why they act like Heros now.

Y possible – sadly some of the Viewers did not get the message – one of the first commentares is about NOOB HOT JOIN ^^- I knew it – people are incredible stupid i just dunnno what to do with such people – the others just have fun – still seems like there are people who really think soloq makes them better players than others. I guess there are maybe 20 players in the world I would say they are really fantastic and about 300000 who think they are.

Hey guys,

I know I was offline a long time sry for that – had important stuff in RL to do. Anyway I´m back now. I´ve promised some of you a thief special video – the latest patch and my sPvP Time teached me two things. 1. SoloQ is just random who has less afk and who has better setups and 2. lot of the Mesmers i´ve seen, at least in Europe, have insane bad Mesmer mechanics . I Wanne give some Inspiration how it might look – i don´t say play like i do – watch,judge and decide your own what is the best for you.But i still got the feelin the most people copycat stuff on the net so i would appreciate it if all Mesmers who consider themselfs as an example – act like it. This leads me to do a Tutorial video not only about thieves, more about the second part of playing Mesmer especially with GS S/T Shatter. I know the generell Spvp setup is GS/staff but the only advantage i see is the Chaos Storm. Anyway it is up to you what u play and what ur team needs so don´t feel forced to play my setup. Obviously the video won´t be with staff gameplay it just brings less variety with it to make a whole video about it. If u don´t use it in your teamqs well maybe u find fun at it within the HotJoin or WvW like I do.
Like always, keep them comin, play what you want and be ready to see some vashury magic and the most important thing is – go your own way, it´s nothing bad about copy Mesmer gameplay from streams or videos – but like in real life you can´t be one step ahead as long u only copy. Gather the moves u like and create your own Mesmer gameplay like i did 2years ago – still see almost nobody with torch i play it since 2 years and i still have extreme fun with it maybe your fun build is with swordsword or scepter/sword (which is actually extrem strong in small Fights). Enough Patriot speak have fun =)

BTW: this is a Tutorial video it´s not about “how awesome I am” or “how i nuke others” it´s to show mechanics u might not know yet or to get some inspiration. It´s a lot of hotjoin – i know what people say, hotjoin is for noobs- BUT:
1. i don´t care it´s a Tutorial to show mechanics
2. as long i am a noob cause i do hotjoin I will have fun with ohter noobs in the hot join
3. the word “noob” is in my view not legit – nobody in this game playes perfect NOBODY. To be honest GuildWarsII has one of the lowest skillcaps I´ve ever seen in pvp games the most “good” players should have realiced this too. And aslong nobody plays perfect nobody should act like being somehting special – better try to enhance the gameplay from others to bring us all more fun in GW2.
Well NOW it´s enough Patriot wave Mesmer flag
As always only contact me ingme -i am really bad in forum replies.

unfortunately i can´t watch it in germany but as long u post shatter videos /cheers

That´s the reason I usually subscribe my videos ^^some people are just blind someteimes hehe ^^.

Yeah shame on me for using food – i just dont know what was wrong with me bad day i guess… ^^

MM i dunno – maybe u realiced that i was naked ? means no gear ? means no stats?
food < gear. He said he won´t use it cause I fight naked, he thought he won´t need food buffs against a naked shatter with his PU/hybrid build.

Hey guys,

I just wanne let u know that I don´t ignore your whispers and your wishes for new videos and tactical advice. I´m working on a thief special and a group gameplay video to enhance your performance or at least to entertain u.

It might take a while until it is ready to be released. So I dedice to make you a little cookie as an apologize for thw long waiting.

As always haters just leave your comments somewhere else and all those who love it just thanks for your support.

Shatter isn´t dead!

Well lot of different opinions here. As a player like everybody else i have to respect other gamers believin. BUT, if some of u saw or already watching my stream sometimes each of u should see:

-u dont die faster within zergs than other builds, its the special fun time cause like a wolf u can hunt the old and sick until the whole zerg is hunting u.
-there are actually no other builds protecting u that good like a shatter build against zerg cleaves, all other builds need illusions to use f4, shatter is the only build u can use it direct without illus and gives u enough time to blink out of the danger zone. so i dunno where those minds come from that u are done as soon a zerg appears in range.
-u can see each day how i walk through zergs without getting a scratch. (stream)
-u can also see, that as long u play good and smart, it is quiet difficult to kill a shatter mesmer who won´t get killed and who knows that u are hunting him. If someone bursts u out of nowhere, ok kitten happens but this can happen to almost all specs with a good timing.
-u should test out specs by yourself and don´t listen what others say, some player cant handle shatter some player cant handle PU (as stupid it sounds it is true). Find your build play it develop it and u will have fun. In a result u will always find player who say shatter is so broken or PU is so broken and low skilled. It always depends on the moment.
Those of u who wanne see how shatter rolls in wvw roaming it´s so easy: turn in, watch my stream and u will see it´s always a question about the gamer not the game what is possible and what not.

BTW shatter is no dps spec the tactic is:
burst → 1) dead 2) 30% HP left
1-→ gg
2—> kite stay out of damage reposition yourself:
→ 3) he heals 4) u counter the heal with interrupt
3)-→ u know your dmg is like 70% of his hp even he is on 69% after the heal after the next 10s he will be dead anyway 4)gg outohit till the end

of COURSE it is theory and there are lot more tactics to stay alife BUT, the thing which should stay in your mind, don´t try to dps some enemies if it is too dangerous just kite and burst kite and burst kite and burst. Autohits are always dangerous for yourself, too.

Another thing is – U dont need GS for shatter, i dunno why people are telling stories like this,sure its nice but its not neccessary.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEbLzhQsjJI

Reading some of the comments are making me goosbumps so I´m really thinkin about trans to an american server to change some of your guys mind. This is also the moment i need to quit following this thread or i fear i could get angry and unfair. Those who are intrested in shatter feel free to contact me for advice tutorials or whatever u want. After 2hours of tactical training with me u can decide by yourself what u believe – the forum or the alternative way. Those who pretend shatter is not viable and stupid okay – in this case it should be no problem if there would run more shatter mesmers against u soon.

But always play the build u have fun with as long it comes from your own decision.

I guess u will get two different answers from osicat and myself. In my opinion staff is a risk in glasscannon builds, u have no burst except u have mind wrack ready, if not, u can do almost nothing else than use defensive cool downs which is also not a lifesaver with bersi shatter. massiv dmg with 1900 armor, and the most dangerous thing, your opponent has 9s time to recover get back cooldowns too and reconenctrate his attacks.U have to hit your enemies like a truck and not let them get up again. the bedst weapon set for defense is also sword/torch. sword 3 is like staff 2 sword 2 is better than staff 2 torch 4 is better than staff 5 and u can use it offensive in each way too.Torch also has condi remove and blind. U can for example use the torch to blind long channel skills like the ele 5 or to avoid the heartseeker spam of an unskill but still dangerous thief, cause the delay of heartseeker and stealth still result in some hits even u get into stealth.
Next thing is, the repositioning in prestige can result in a perfect shatter as long your enemie can always see u it´s much more easy to avoid attacks or especially fighting against multiple targets the staff could be your death within glasscannon builds.
U can use the 2 the 4 and the chaos stomr and than its over, after some weapon swaps chaos storm is still on cool down. Prestige will be available again with the torch condi remove trait, two benefits with one trait.
BUt use whatever u want! maybe u find some new inspiration like i did with torch 8 months ago, almost nobody had believed in torch.

Geiir.7603:

Hey guys! I leveled a Mesmer about a year ago after getting completely destroyed by Osicat. I haven’t met many mesmers lately that I haven’t been able to kill (wether it be on my thief, guardian or ele).

I tried PU, but honestly I don’t like the idea of “abusing” stealth on my Mesmer (got a thief for that). I know that PU is an incredibly strong trait that’s been used a lot lately. I find shatter builds to be more fun to play, but I haven’t met many of those the last few months…

So I guess what I’m really saying is:
Are shatter Mesmer viable for WvW? I mainly roam solo or do some small group skirmishes. Would be awesome to get some feedback from the community about this before I gear myself up again

Shatter wvw is just awesome.
my reasons why are telling their own story
u are solid against all kind of builds as long u know your skills, some enemies are easy prey othrs are hard but in wvw u got chances against everybody, use the map and u will have fun like hell.

thanks Pyroatheist for advertising, still not enough shatter mesmer out there to bring fights on more explosiv levels !

Well for sure I bring the classic shatter zerker build into the options =D. Stealth is almost max only pu mesmers got “more” stealth.

20/20/0/0/30
10/30/0/0/30

game style: kill or get killed- it´s fast and full of action but u have to like it otherwise u won´t be happy with it.
Important: knowledge about other classes
pro: pure fun (if u like it), u can turn larger fights into wins, u will never be catched if u don´t want to (u can avoid fights with the build, good to flee,too)
contra: tough for beginners

or watch some of Osicats vids if u want some “named” players representing it.

That´s what I´m talkin about – the builds I play are also quiet similar to Osicats. But i didn´t even knew that he exists when i had created “my” builds.

Actually there is no chance to have a own build in gw2 based on the amount of players and the most important traits. Even u discover something new somebody else probably already know it. The today known knockdown setup was also announced 6months ago by myself – but i broke up with it after a old patch. Still there is not really a own build as long u wanne play somehting worthy.

Just go ahead – the trick isn´t only create a build even more be able to play it.

Well it´s up to how to play but for sure u shoulnd´t miss the fact that crit dmg is way more important than survival stats like toughness or vita on zerker shatter.

Even u have 2300 toughness u are still quiet vulnerable and have additionally lost a huge amount of dmg if your kritchance and krit dmg don´t reach the mark.

Still my stats are no law but they are one possibility how it will work.

trooper.2650:

Yesterday I had a very good long roaming session without dying (which actually doesn’t say anything, but it was fun) save for a final run vs a war which literally past through me once and I was 50% hp and past through me twice and I was dead in 3 seconds. I still do not know what happened save for a wrong dodge probably. That’s to say that probably I would have died during the first charge did I not have the knight armour :\

Well that´s what ive been talkin about lot of times. If u clearly let your opponent start the fight u are dead – the fact that a single charge “5” from warrios could deal up to 9000 dmg is real with my setup. So it alwyas have to seem like your opoonent doesn´t really started the fight, even he had u have to dodge everything important to stay alive – this is for an untraind spectater most of the time the moment to say, you enemies are bad they don´t even know where u are or they don´t even hit u.
To counter especially warrio attacks always make sure that one of thes skills are ready:
-illusionary swap
-blink
-decoy
-blurred frenzy
-knockback
-F3
-F4

if u have none of this skills ready no matter why than:

-stealth

Dodge is always the first thing to do, making sure that u don´t useless activate CDs.

trooper.2650:

Vash, I like your videos, your playstyle and most important your manners

I have a silly question which can be straightforward or difficult to answer depending on PoV. How many times per wvw session do you die? It seems silly and you can feel free to answer the truth or not, but while watching you I say to myself “I would have probably died there…” but you survived. But I’m sure it cannot always be good… I see your sigil of accuracy is not always fully charged to 25 stacks so… you do actually die like me isn’kitten

Second. I am trying shatter again but with knight armour and everything else berserker. How do you see this?

I´ve no idea how often I die – the life of a shatter mesmer is short if u don´t pay attention haha. An average amount of deaths in 10h roaming are about pff maybe 10 so once an hour. Sometimes i don´t even die the whole day but sometimes i mess arund with zergs and die twice in 10 minutes. It´s difficult to say but sure i die, too ^^. Maybe i bring out a video of vashury fails =D – actually the most of them are still quiet good fights but without happy end for my little asura. I´m sure u all know those scenes fighting several minutes against X enemies and the moment u barely made it some thief pops up with 5heartseeker in a row obviously 0 skill and jumps on your dead body yelling “yolo”.

Shatter mesmer, imho – i belileve it wouldn´t be nice to play it with defensive gear because u wouldn´t deal enough dmg to make the sacrafice of phantasms worhty enough. But maybe u can roll items to reach the stats u need with cavalier and valkyr gear as long your group shares fury.

Your idea is nice – but to match it on mimic is just a little strange =D it has nothing to do with the old mimic effect =) hehe.

It would be awesome to have a phantasm which is placed manually somewehre wihtin 900range granting a fast escape. Like the necro warm.

The Kape.3672:

Ryn.6459:

No mantras and a warden? Not a dps build imo.

But if we are going to get.buffed for this video… Nice job!

waiting for your own video

Mantra/reflect
For example one option 30/30/0/0/10
mantra % buff illu % buff phantasm % buff all offensive stats pushed o max + vulnerability. High dmg from mesmer results also in reflects which is obviously hard to demonstrate on this mob.

but go ahead with making videos i liked it for your courage and not beeing afraid about such a response, but sadly for u the responses are true. All pioneers stood alone at the beginning of their journey! But u should really think about your builds before u publish it in wrong terms! u´ve been missing at least 12%-16% dmg by mantras, so it´s not really a dps build for pve.

Thanks,

i prefer precise wrack – why?.
I´ve been doing math about this. Based on a ciritcal DMG boost by 160% (stats+the hidden 50% from the game itself) and based on 3-4 shatter effects (2-3 Illus+XI trait).
The average delta is about +500DMG on the compounding power trait. But I still prefer the 10% cirt – because Probability math is a devil – it could happen that 2 of your shatters don´t krit even with 70% cirtchance so your dmg drops massively. It´s more important to make the shatter crits happen than calculate with 9% more dmg on not granted crits – Your whole burst goes horribly wrong if the shatter don´t crit. With the +10% krit u reach the 80% crit chance which is almost a guarantee that at least 2/3 3/4 shatter will crit. Also my weapon sigils trigger on crit which is also a reason for the crit trait. An additional problem is – if your illusions don´t explode at the same time and u might not be in range it could result in a raindrops effect and u don´t deal more dmg at all. your boost will drop from 9% to 0 witout gettin a serious advantage from your compounding power.

Thats my theory – like always feel free to use whatever u want

Reesha s right ^^. And azo my conclusion wans´t specific to u. It was genreal to sum up all replies in this thread from all players =) – so pls don´t feel attacked =). I have to say i didn´t understood everything u´ve wrote =D – maybe it´s my bad english ^^.

Hm let me give a little conclusion about what i´ve read and what I think about it.

WvW-Roaming:
-Like some of u said it´s always the player making a build viable or not! I agree

-There are builds which are overpowerd and “underpowered”! I agree but it also depends on the situation u get in. I played condi pu, too. Maybe some of u forgot thi fact and its quiet difficult to conenctrate the condi dmg on main targets in larger fights- the spread is “random” and the phantasms doesn´t survive large fihgts long enough to be that efficient like in 1on1s. I don´t say it´s not possible but u have to conentrate extremly on your timing and u have less time for your positioning – so in case its quiet difficulter to survive with shatter mesmer but u also have more space to manage this! Also condi pu mesmer deal more area pressure over time as long there are no cleans. But in spiking dmg condi pu isn´t even close to the pressure shatter deals. So the perfect team would be one PU and one Shatter =D – we could be friends !! “lol”

-Shatter mesmer is not efficient in large scale! I don´t agree it´s the player again making it work or not. In addition the problem u have with the condi spread in larger fights doesn´t exist with shatter – your main target alwyas recieve 100% of the dmg u want to deal – in addition the area dmg is almost the same like the single target dmg! And most of all u can switch targets within seconds and still deal 100% of your possible dMG. Especially in larger fights this could turn the match. The most valuable fact on shatter is: the extrem DMG without warning. And he can´t be cleaned like condi dmg!

-everybody should play what he wanne play! i totally agree this!

-Shatter is difficult! I agree but this doesn´t makes it not viable!. The first thing i´ve told some of u in the chat was always, u have to be patienced wth shatter and don´t give up. The fact that u are almost done as soon u make one mistake is also the fact that some of u don´t see it viable – becuase they calculate with their fails. But with enough practice (practice not god given skill!) u can handle it. U learn to see where to move how to move and when u should attack. And if some of u wanne go this way I´m always there for advice no matter what level u are or where u from (ingame and forum).

-one of u asked me why traveler rune> all on shatter Mesmer. Well of course this is my opinion not a law!. Why?- because u might have seen that it´s hard to surive especially on fighting against several player. The fact that u trave 25% faster infight makes u MUCH MORE harder to kill – the infight speed is almost the same like with swiftness! and when u can switch positions in stealth faster than its also a guarantee that u survive better.

pls watch this at 5:30 only this scene u don´t have to watch all if u don´t want too!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AXbfYPRGY8

It shows an extrem gap i´ve created and how fast they got back in range-i had no traveler rune when i´ve created that video. With traveler rune it is much more easier to come into the shatter movement – u can react 25% slower than u should be with movement decissions and u are also more dangerous in offensive moments – they can´t flee as long u have traveler! (except s/s GS warrior -.- ^^).

-btw to see me roam join my Twitch channel VashBashGW2 – it will be online soon than u can see what I´m talkin about with shatter roaming.

-Those who don´t like shatter it´s totally fine. Do whatever u wan´t I just share my experience with u and as soon u decide to become a shatter mesmer contact me or get help at some of the great guides in the forum. But pls don´t be afraid of checking it out just because some player talk bad about it!.

-u should have fun even if u play 14/14/14/14/14 with a halloween costume! I agree !

cheers

Hey Azo =),

sry but i can´t remember duelling u. The only duels (/bow before started) i´ve made agaisnt pu mesmer the last month were 2 days ago in sanctum. I fought severel player naked cause i was curious about how it ends (got all on fraps). Were u one of them? I can´t remember u pls help me out or at least tell me how your cha looks like if it was no official duel (/bow).
However if u had really won and didn´t mixe up me with my guild mates ( all asura ) than i would be happy for a revanche on our next match up to make sure i won´t forget u again =).

I shatter f1,f2 for dmg f3 is more an utility to me if i guess he might heal i use it if i guess he won´t heal i don´t use it to spare it for important interrupts. F3 is no part of my rotation! it might look like but it´s a expenisve CDand i try to use it just when it´s necessary. Sometimes this includes the shatter itself and sometimes it doesn´t.

I sadly can´t open your links they are not available in germany (gema music protection).

cheers =)

@ Lavra: /sing

Assassin.7890:

I totally share your idea of roaming Vash.
You don’t have to explain here – as long as you get the kill, you are obviously in the right spot. Furthermore you have a lot of fun as it seems.
So keep up doing great tutorials that really helps to get in touch with shatter builds!

Ty – =)

Black I guess it´s the best i say u are right with everything. I will kepp up ^^. no matter whats happen. Those who don´t like it don´t have to watch it.

Well i´ve actually stoped turnin in cyrcle. I have fun with this build – it´s a perfect roaming build for me no matter if u are alone or what somebody else says. Buka is gettin well known not with spvp – we are roamers and the reason that we are well known is not because our roaming specs don´t work. I´ve made my statement some understood it like pyro and some didn´t. There is no reason to comment again about this, it´s impossible that everyone likes me or what I do and I´m fine with that. Btw i never said that I am the master of shatter ^^ but thanks that u connect this with me.

I hope the most player can use the video to enhance their own gameplay – my aim isn´t to be the official best mesmer on the world and i never said this, if it would be like that i would join spvp and ranked games to make my self famous. But like i´ve said – i don´t like spvp if this means that i will never be official a good mesmer than ok i don´t care. Still have 2000klicks in 4 days and 600+subscrber with only 12 videos. Thats enough for me to know some player are happy with my work.

The main reason for playin games is fun – no matter what spec,class,asura human or char, maybe some player have fun with a jumping puzzle port build – well it is like it is. There is no superior romaing build if someone plays it “wrong” – it always depends on the players personal gameplay. Mine fast and risky shatter roaming is perfectly matched for my gameplay.

Hm i guess i just don´t get your point – u obviously want some easymode to do 1vs4 and all other things are horrible because they are more difficult or u use terrain or some other tricks? – well that´s what roaming is about it´s no spvp standing in a point as long as possible or turn the point – it´s a movement based fight with no map limits.

The fact that u want some duel after this conversation against a s/d ele is kinda weird we talked about shatter mesmer 1onx and roaming and why it is good in roaming – so if your aim is only to show that I´m not good than pls dude just say it and all are happy- nobody will judge u for your opinion but dont steel my time with useless conversations.

We see us in the matchup.

Okay maybe this?:some (1vs4+ are inside)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEbLzhQsjJI
Or this at18:40
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGyNOFQsvxg

But u should know, playing a zerker shatter build against multiple targets doesn´t mean that u can stand in the mid and just wait whats gonna happen – it is always based on avoid enemie attacks and nuke out single players until nobody is left or smash some at the same time – the real difficulty in this is, not to die and never miss a burst. i have 1860 armor for my defense, thats 200 less than a full zerker thief – I´m sure u understand that its no phantams/or condi build where u can wait on attacks until u react – u have to avoid it before it happens or u are dead – so it could seem like some of my enemies were confused but actually i just blocked their gameplay to make mine happen – obviously some of them are not the best player, but some of them are quiet good! – for example the thief in my shatter tactic video was at least rank 40+ (title) so i guess he knows what he did, but blocking others gameplay is the key to victory and I am no friend of hostages, if i see the chance to nuke i´ll grap it.
Except I train my timing with trolling enemies than i´m totaly peaceful and just “play” with movement options.

So the clear answer to “what i do then” is.
with 3 enemies call them A,B,C
-A-nuke
-B/C – confuse with movement let them rezz
-nuke the rez spot for a multi kill
-if it worked – cheers
-ifit didn´t work – panic
-confuse them with movement,stealth
-nuke B
-be happy
-stop C from rezz with cc (dace,knockback)
-stay alive
-nuke C

Thats the process, well it´s up to each player how he likes to play – i don´t see the point in stretching fights – if i can kill someone i do it – as fast as possible. Maybe it seems kinda easy but I can only say – If one of u didn´t play shatter zerker right now – do it. If one nuke fails no matter where u are, teamfight solo or roaming – u are almost done. Sure it´s easy if u match the shatter – but thats the point u can´t clean fails u have to act as good as possible especially in 1vsX with team or alone doesn´t matter. U receive incredible high direct dmg from all classes (1860 armor) u have almost no condi remove – stay alive is the job to do and it will be honored with fast kills. But staying alive is sometimes much more harder than kill enemies.

Black i gonna capture u some of the fights u wanne see in the next video – the world needs more shatter mesmer ^^

Btw – those of u who also make videos check out this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSzcCI6Xsy0

it´s awesome ingame graphics soon! no performance problems

BlackDevil.9268:

I must be honest, nice video!
But then again it completely shows why I dislike shatter builds as roaming spec. 90% of your video was based around surviving, killing people by using terrain (hills to knock/pull off), 1v1’s or teamplay to kill. Not that it makes a video boring, hell the opposite, the video is fun to watch. Though I’ve yet to see shatter being a good roaming spec in actually killing people (especially more than 1 or 2 hugging eachother) alone in open field.

Thanks ,

if u want i can upload some scenes( duel videos) killin PU Perp Mesmer, condi thiefs or trolling warriors with shatter . And as a little feature i will be naked in this duels – shatter = fun no matter what terrain,map,enemie – sure u also can fail pretty fast but thats the action i need ^^

PS: i know that it´s nearly impossible to kill PU mesmer with perpl naked in duels as soon they have the same skill level like the shatter mesmer but it´s still fun to play something “rare”!!!

And aslong i works in duels,roaming,trolling with map and team fights — so what kind of fights u miss ?

WvW is fun – since the patch there is also a 24/7 GUARANTEE for duels in the sanctum arena ^^- i´m already excited for my next video – Ihave captured awesome scenes the last days – and with the new Nvidia tool “Nvidia Experience Shadow Play” I can deliver ingame graphics in my comin videos.

Chaos Archangel.5071:

I’d like to add this to the stickied Mesmer Guide if you don’t mind.

sure why not – as long it helps people it´s ok.

@Silas Drake:
hehe – as long GW2 exists there will always be at least one little Asura and his MindWrack ^^ – would be nice to see more of us shatterer – 90% play perp. PU even in duels, I just don´t get why ^^. It´s like travel by bus – u reach your aim but u can´t say I WAS THE DRIVER ^^

But it´s a free wolrd – play what u like!

Hey mates, sry for not responding so long, was busy with the alpha test and my twitch channel but i need more time to make it run perfect =D – I´m kinda noob with all this new software ^^.

Yeah its traveler runes:

generel
Mesmer condition: perplex ( i hate it but it´s the strongest in game ) or somehting else
Mesmer Berserker: Traveler > all

If u have some questions u can contact me ingame for spvp demonstrations or better support some of the traits might seem not perfect but it´s all well matched to the whole mesmer appearance.

My important support Videos:
Builds: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDXWRSKlQec
Survival Tipps: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AXbfYPRGY8
Basic Gameplay: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nADHVzc9y8g
Condition gameplay: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGyNOFQsvxg

Info: YES I PLAYED WITH perple. runes it was at the beginning of the runes tragic rise. I only played conditions setups for about 2 weeks to make this video – so right now I´m still no friend from this rune and I won´t use it again for my specs. It´s just to strong in my believing.

U can buy some good back pieces with Karma,too. It´s not so important if not all stats matches perfect ^^. I run with agony infused rings and no ascendet earrings/weapons in WvW so take it easy ^^ if u don´t have all items. U will get it soon enough ^^.

cheers

vinceftw.5086:

I have been playing shatter for over 320 of my 420 hours on mesmer now but dang, I don’t do what you do. Whenever I go in for a double kill like you do, mine survive with 50% hp and immediately turn on me. With you, they seem oblivious. Not to say the enemies are all bad because you clearly have amazing skill. I’m learning to work with the GS now. The offense is great but I miss the staff during those risky situations.

U can only be as good as your opponent let u be =). I´m pretty sure the Ransacker Thef at the beginnin is actually a quiet good player – but if u force classes into the defense it often seems like, they aren´t good – thats not true. But outplayed enemies just have no chance no matter how good they are they seem helpless.

50% ? – well i can only give u some tipps how i work.

1. crit chance + crit DMG > power until about 60% crit chance
2. to deal massive dmg with GS u should check out melee options – kitten?:
—>mirrorblade bounces
—> U will get might thorugh this up to 6-9 stacks
—>your enemie will get vulnerable up to 9%
—>Trait VII – bounces 1
—>Melee range: NO TRAVEL TIME . it´s not like boom…..bounce…….boom…….bounce it´s like BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM if u are close to the target + a low chance that it bounce somewhere else
—>shatter range for illusions (mirrorblade) and yourself(personal illusiona) ^^
—>Torch brakes and deals dmg too
—>3autohits for finishing or deal additinal pressure

Staff is awesome to avoid dangerous situations – but it´s still better don´t get into those situations – that´s my tactic – u don´t need staff as long u move correct if not u will have also problems with staff. It´s no advantage to avoid risky situations with staff because u have to deal pressure on your opponent – u have to get sure that he can´t start his gameplay – staff is good to avoid such things but its also good to let your opponent come back into the game, except the shatter there is almost no dmg pressure on staff which brings your opponent 6-8sec time without beeing afraid of something. THis means he can start his gameplay and u are just avoiding this, now u are defensive and he is offensive which is always bad as long u wear berseker gear.

The best support and defense option in this game is: bring your enemie into downstate ^^

Jackums.3496:

Nice vid. I run GS shatter, too, though I switch out torch for sword or pistol, depending on the opponent(s). What do your unbuffed stats look like?

Edit: Never mind. Just watched your build vid.

Unbuffed stats in the attached file.

Well 320 Hours playtime is not bad – but compared to mine 2000h almost only on Mesmer u might see the difference ^^. I´ve collected over 40,000 roaming kills without keeps arrowcarts or the casual WvW this all are facts why I play like i play.

U shouldn´t give up – even u can´t see what i actually did. Watch it again and analyse it or just ask me ^^.

Finally!! youtube did it! ^^ sry for deleting – pls comment or like it again =D have fun
Stal.8754. You can be sure I share all i know with everybody who asks. Contact me ingame for detailed informations or watch my “Vashury Mesmer Builds”-Video.

Hey mates,

those who like me – have fun
those who think i´m an idiot – have fun
those who were asking about shatter tipps – here it is
those who were asking about GS-Roaming – here it is

hehe..seems i have to make my point^^ – i thought only blackXX (forgot the name) were one of the few who didn´t get the real effect about blink stealth in the video. My aim was not to show the combination itself it was more about the combination IN THE SITUATION – like all my videos I focus on special /superior skill use to get an extrem advantage or save some mates (like in this scene). That´s what I tried to show – how i saved my mate without delay and overbridge a huge distance. you can see, short after the stealth is active, a guardian triggered his immobalize – this was predictable and i tried to make my mate surive with a stealth. i didn´t know that he (my mate) will dodge it with perfect movement (watch closely). =)

Anyway asura yeah that´s a point – well i just took asura because it looks cute, was my first character didn´t knew that there will be such an advantage about asuras. But i won´t change just to make some people happy. =)

About shattered concentration:
i know it is strong but i need the short CD on my Kick and on my mirror blade – why? u will see in the next video – the buffs on my enemies are mostly turned into my buffs (arcan theivery) so I´m always happy to see a buffbar – sure it´s nice to have it sometimes but there is also a way without it. The most fights i look for are 1onx so it´s most of the time worthy to have more knockbacks and more dmg at all (additional might stacks – mirror blade – additional vulnerability, – shorter cd mirror blade – more dmg!!)

my thief is sylvari and my warrior is char so there is, at least at my point, no special focusing on asuras – but mesmer asura <3 just love the animations.

Hey guys,

like the title says. I´ll start streamin on twitch. Those who are intrested in join me. Exact days and time will be published soon. I try to start next week with the WvW-Overflow-Alpha-Test. See u on my channel, Twitch, VashBashGW2…

so long keep them comin and have fun ingame! for further questions contact me ingame as usual.

Soooo nice to see, that there is more than zergs on P and JS. keep up roaming.

so long..

ll, this discussion could never come to an end. Because there is a huge variety of different possebilities. Groups which already have enough buff support don´t need mesmersw with such a spec. Of course the big buffs only come wth the elite on high cd´s but it is still possible to buff a lot of other stuff without these tricks, u miss the point that the sigil doesn´t need buffs from yourself, it is also powerful if u only use buffs from your team. If u don´t need the heal and the reflect, which is probably only important for random zerg players – u can go more offensive and play with reduced signet cd´s. or with area blinds. And this build was more or less made for the common zerg players and the common gvg players, I understand your point and in a high skill gvg fight with two awesome guilds u are right! There are better options than that. But a video which would present a high skill required gvg spec would made 90% of the watchers unhappy, because they couldn´t handle it with their common groups or let me say untrained groups. And most of all – i wouldn´t be the guy who bring this 10% specs out because I don´t play gvgs so it would be kinda selfown if I would make myself to an selfcalled gvg pro.
But when player tell me that they love it because they can run with more offensive guards/warriors now and deal as group more dmg than befor, well I guess than it´s a point for the build and it doesn´t matter what dmg I, as single player, deal.
And the most GvGs I´ve watched on youtube is like walking in each other and smash buttons – almost no group play with positional suprises like ports- I don´t know why but I guess because it´s uncommon or because it needs really good teamplay the most of them obviously don´t have. The same like VEIL in a gvg, I guess it´s a redicolous skill because everybody knows what gonne happen and if the own zerg simply turn the direction 180° for 2 seconds it´s already “blogged”. It´s still used by many gvg guilds – why? Because they are forced in their casual movement.

Well i´m not surprised that red guard player don´t see the point in this spec, because it´s simply not in their buisness. I guess ur teams belong to another league of gvg play, I guess your mesmers are smart enough to know that gvg players like u aren´t the guys this build was made for. It´s the same like good 1on1 mesmer present their special specs which aren´t useable for 90% of the casual gamer which have to be a little bit more allround – u don´t know what for specs i´m talkin about? Exactly because no smart guy would publish stuff the “common folk” can´t handle. I don´t wanne say all others are bad – for example my shatterrupt build I made 3months ago, was so difficult to play that even I had troubles in 1on2 fights-without mistakes it was a granted win with one mistake it was almost the end. So I was “happy” that a patch destroyed it to protect the world from lot of ingame “pain” =D.

But I don´t wanna force u guys to use the spec, those who like it have fun those who have better specs for their setups use others. As long I receive more positive response than negative I´m still happy.

And guys one thing – pls stop theorycrafting why it fails. U can see in all builds weakness. It´s up to the whole setup and as more the single players can bring into the big cake . so better it is. – except your support cake is already done =D.

One thing left – the condi spread trait and the temporary c. are perfect to spread cover conditions – I don´t have them only for offensive thinkin. It simply covers other conditions for condi gvg groups or just force the ther group to use cleanse.

Have fun mates – but I would be happy to talk about the gvg mesmer specs your team uses (@ red guard or others) – I don´t wanne play it or spread It in videos, just to complete my own knowledge about mesmer – the gvg sector is the last thing I need to know better (no common stuff, the real stories-high end gvg fights).

What specs are used, is a kind of phantasm/retaliation spread spec useful to cover mates from area dmg and deal zwice as much retaliation dmg as normal to the intruders?, and why the hell gvg fihts are so static wiithout protal movement to avoid the big bang at the beginnin. such things. It would be easy for a single mesmer to walk behind the enemy team with stealth and portal to avoid the first clash and attack from behind. The portal couldn´t be seen by the enemies because while 20-24 players standing on it and cast buff animations like hell.

Bring in the gvg setups u use!!!!!

There is no doubt that all i´ve done in the video is also possible through other classes and probably also easier for other classes!
The Point is – a mesmer brings in a huge source of tactical advantages without respecing and in my eyes this spec is a good alternative to be also useful in all situations.

The advantage is:

in a real gvg it always depends on what for classes u do run with so it´s pretty easy to say the retaliation is also possible from guards also the protection. But maybe not all gvg setups wanne run with guards (i know how redicolous this sounds) but it´s simply the fact that there is a way to change the casual class setup into new gvg groups.

a mesmer is at least in our region not really a class which has his place granted into gvg fights. But actually he should.
-portal
-veil
-stability mantra
-condi clean mantra
-the build i posted
-time warp

this all is possible without respecing. So u could run in a casual zerg doing the casual job and beeing brain ark or u realice a serious enemie and swap your utilities to tactical useful stuff. no other class have such a variety.

if u realice the enemy gvg groups runs on conditions u can switch in null field which brings double advantage compared to casual condi remove from other classes (also rips buffs). when u use the focus 4 in the right moment u can apply x times cripple and also pull them thorugh the map, the stability buff don´t lasts forever and mostly the back line didn´t get it for the same duration than the frontline. u can crash the whole positional gameplay from the enemy team or at least beeing a pain in the kitten . The fact that u are able to do everything is a tactical advantage for each group.

well in the end it´s up to the group setup and depends on the enemies u fight but mesmers are the tactical answer to everything.
u can´t handle the situation — easy portal
u need more dmg – easy time warp
u need more spike heal – easy mantra
u need range defend while blasting fields – easy area reflect
u might need more condi remove or stab- just switch utitie
u need more cleans and purges- easy null field
u need more stealth – gg mesmer veil/Mass invis
u just wanne kitten up the enemie commander – Moa comes into the game

but what u don´t need – is to port back and change the spec

I am no gvg pro but i can tell u at least for casual zerg mesmers on borderlands this spec is pure fun – i liked it and i had full bags every 10 minutes ^^

My aim was to show the casual useability of the spec. it´s for all “zerg” player and with small changes ready for everything.

It´s kinda difficult to join a real gvg for myself. But those who use the spec are pretty happy with it also in gvg´s. Thats the response i ´ve recieved yet.

I guess it´s a nice alternative to the known specs ad with right skill placement truely powerful. Quickness,chaos armor,heal, (stabi and condi remove if necessary), buffs from hell.

I´did not mention that this specc is also useable as roamer, it´s hardcore based on retaliation protection and regeneration. With PU and other weapons u have an almost unkillable reflect mesmer. Also remove the signet of inspiration for decoy then.

I hope i could help those who were lookin for zerg builds =)

Hey mates,

your little asura from germany is back again =D.
I recieved a lot of messages about Mesmer and GvG. The most of them thought mesmer is more or less useless in GvG.
-low dmg compared to others
-low/no Heal compared to others
-no useful buffs compared to others

So i wanne mention that i´m no GvG-Player. But i was frustrated about the thoughts of some GvG Players believin their mesmers would never come into the GvG-Group of their guilds.
So I was talkin with some GvG Guilds and started thinkin about this problem.

Here is my new GvG-Mesmer Setup. In my eyes and in the eyes of the GvG Groups i joined in, it´s awesome. Maybe it fit´s also in your GvG-Groups. The groups i had guested have changed their setup.

There are also 3 other specs i use.

GVG-SPEC at 6:11

keep them comin…

Repuran.1859:

After this week you know you will have good matches in silver for next 2 months.

cool story bro XD

anyway – personally roaming challenge accept! hide your old and sick players!