Guild Wars 2

Fennecus.7605:

I think that my problem. I’m seldom in a party and I guess I’ve been running more shatter but playing like phantasm.

I see so many kick butt mesmer I just thought I’d try. I guess I should focus on my assented gear for my first 3 toons.

Thanks for your help

Sorry for the short reply I provided earlier, I was just off duty from my night shift and kinda exhausted. Now that I have enough rest, I feel like I can share more with you.

Here I will share a build that I use in the open world most of the time:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vhAQNAR8cnsIC1ohFpBGoBUrhlUDhcQpAlfOVA976sA-TxRBABPt/wVK/KUXjoq/AwVA4hHAgZKBBA-e

The idea is to use GS num4 to start the fight and switch to sword num5, and sword num3. Use sword num3 to swap and use auto attack to burn down your foe.

If you see great damage/danger coming, you can use sword num2 or num4 to evade or block the damage. On the other hand, you can use mantra of distraction to soft cc your foe. You can replace mantra of distraction for the the skill you like. Skills like Feedback, Null field, Veil, Mimic and Blink are very useful in open world boss fight.

If you ran into trouble and running low on health and your sword num2 and num4 are on cool down, don’t panic, you aren’t dead yet. Use shatter num3 or num4, these skills can buy you a few second to catch your breath. Especially shatter num4 which give you 1 sec of distortion per illusion shattered. During distortion in effect, you are invulnerable. Switch to GS use GS num5 to push back foe or just roll back to buy yourself some room. Then use GS num4 and auto attack until you are ready for another melee fight.

Mesmer aren’t that great when soloing. Mesmer cannot burst as good as a thief, warrior or elementalist, but do shine in longer fight. However, mesmer really shines when playing group contents like dungeons or fractals. Mesmer can provide buff to your party without sacrificing too much of your dps.

Build like this:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vhAQRAsd8cnsICVphFpBGoBUrhlUD6cIFp6kDoEBo8DnoAA-TxRBABPt/wVK/KU/joq/8wJBAgnAgZKBBA-e
You can provide quickness, missile defense, healing, stability, condition cleaning to your party just by your own and your dps aren’t bad at all. You can switch out signet of inspiration for Feedback to provide longer missile defense uptime.

The leveling may be hard but once you reach lvl80 and have the core build unlocked, the hard work do payoff. And practice makes perfect, practice when to use your roll, block, evade, missile defense, blink, portal and quickness are critical.

I am no professional mesmer but I will try answering some of your question.
For your first question, ranged or melee, it depends mainly on your build.
If you go for condition build, you would like to use staff/scepter + touch. That weapon set would put you mainly in ranged attack. Your rotation is to inflict as many conditions as possible on your foe and try to stay alive while the condition eat your foe alive.
If you go for power build, you have two options, phantasm or shatter.
For shatter build, you would go for greatsword/sword+x build, which would put you in both ranged and melee. In shatter build, your rotation is to summon 3 illusions/phantasms asap and use shatter skills to inflict damage.
For phantasm build, you would go for sword+sword/sword+x build, which would put you in melee most of the time. In phantasm build, your rotation is to summon 3 phantasms and let them do damage.
The personal dps of a mesmer is worse than elementalist or warrior but you bring some very useful utility skill to the party. For instance, your elite skill “time warp” , though it has a long cool down, it really give a big boost to the party dps in the boss fight phase.
Mesmer maybe a little bit hard to play, but it is definitely fun to play, especially in a party.

In short, no.
The items will drop regardless of the profession your are using.
However, once you have the last piece of collection and unlock the armor, be sure you are using the revenant. The newly unlocked mistward armor is soul bound on pick up.

wow, thz for all the replies. I decided to give elementalist and warrior a try. Hope I will be worthy to run dungeons someday.

Hi all,
I have just leveled a necromancer to lvl80 and tried to do some dungeons run with her. However, I got kicked out of the group for five time straight. When I finally get into a group, I found myself contribute nothing to the group. I was running full condition build on my necromancer, I can bring no swiftness, no might, no stealth to the group.
After that, I read some post in the forum and found that engineer, ranger and necromancer aren’t that good in dungeon run.
So, I decide to raise another character for dungeon as well as open world farming, can anyone please give me some advice on which class to pick? Thanks in advance.