Guild Wars 2

EasymodeX.4062:

All Mesmers should read the guide above before posting.

Particularly if the post involves crying about something.

It’d be wonderful if it could be pinned….

Swordbreaker.2581:

Mesmer’s can be difficult to solo groups of mobs, but certainly not impossible. I use sword/pistol and greatsword. When getting a group of mobs on me, I try to line them up and use skills that damage in a straight line like Mirror Blade and phantasmal berserker which will also hit multiple enemies, and then you can use the illusionary wave to knock them all back. Then I switch to sword/pistol and use magic bullet to stun all of them and get up close and slash all of them with blurred frenzy, jump back and pick a target with the most health and put Phantasmal Duelist on him. Then I jump back, and switch back to greatsword, push them back and rinse and repeat. With ranged attacking in a group of melee, you can either moa bird them, and when they recover from that, you can also use feedback to reflect their projectiles back at them. You will have to also make sure to roll away when either of those are on cooldown and a projectile is fired at you, or if magic is fired at you, because feedback doesn’t effect magic.

Also when you get elite skills at 30 you can easily use the Series 7 robot to attack instead of using the moa morph to dish out damage to them for 40 seconds which is really handy solo. Make sure to put points into domination for bleeds and use any debuff shields you may have like the radiation field, I don’t remember its exact name.

I prefer to only take on 2 or 3 at a time if I can, and don’t grind by killing, but grind events and hearts.

This is where everyone gets things “wrong.” I use quotes because technically there is no right way. My way isn’t the “right” way, but it’s certainly better for farming. Lemme run through weapon types first (in order of effectiveness):

Single Target: Scepter (yes really), sword, Longsword
Multiple targets: Staff, Longsword, sword, scepter

That of course you can debate over, but that’s not my purpose atm. Simply put, staff & sword or Longsword are the best weapons for dispatching groups of foes. Chaos storm does a great job of it! Perhaps I’ll post a video later, but my channel has 2 great examples on my recent shattering video

kagenin.5231:

http://www.youtube.com/user/MrPrometheus0110

Watch his two mesmer videos. Staff, when properly traited, is just plain OP. Really, run a condition build, and just watch mobs melt under Chaos Storm while being pelted by 2 condition-flinging clones, then there’s the staff phantasm doing extra damage for every affliction… I’ve adjust my build to be a little more like his, and it has paid off well.

And honestly staff isn’t OP…on a single target it can take forever to kill people…honestly. But I do agree staff clones are the best clones

I feel like you’re asking too many big questions in one thread….especially since almost all combinations are great for mesmer even if they’re aren’t preferred.

I’d say it’s best to take 1 two-handed set & 1 set w/one-mainhand & one-offhand. Build wise…conditions are fairly important if using staff & if attached to swords, use power & precision.

If you’ve asked ANY questions like these: you NEED to check this out: “how many seconds does this cripple last? how far can this attack reach? How much damage does this trait do? How much does this heal for? Does is scale?”

In short, not to bash Anet or anything, but the tooltips for traits and some skills are atrocious. People are always confused as to what does what, synergizes with what, is a bug, or whatever. In fact, some traits have hidden details many don’t even know… yeah…so here’s a guide compiled with data since beta from fellow mesmers trying to keep things clear. Enjoy!

http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/46866-nuus-definitive-trait-tooltip-description-thread/

To be completely honest…it’s neither. Mesmer is just a new profession with certain dynamics that must be learned a bit more than others. It’s essentially completely new. Managing “pets” that aren’t quite pets & such is a little weird to say the least.

Some people aren’t necessarily bad, but they’re approaching mesmer as if they should just get it off the first couple levels. No. Things don’t work that way.

My screens fairly big and some people have tricky names. Sometimes you need to add people fast & having to type peoples names instead of having the option to right-click their name in chat and do it instead

Have you been playing the mesmer for a couple minutes (or days), or even the entire time? still want to learn more? Here’s a video on shattering and just a brief guide on how to use it a little better.

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