Guild Wars 2

tobascodagama.2961:

Kusa.6438:

I’m hoping I can just use the Chronomancer trait line, without having to use the shield.

Nope, sorry, the shield gets welded to your arm the second you slot Chronomancer. You also get locked out from ever changing away from Chronomancer. Because apparently ANet totally threw everything about their game’s design out of the window just for this one elite spec, right?

That was the most obnoxious “Its cool, you don’t need to wield shield to use chronomancer” ever. =P

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think the idea is bad. In fact, it would make two of my favorite weapons -focus and staff- freakin glorious. I’m just personally not a fan of adding more “-on interrupt” traits unless it is a more universal benefit like “-reduce all skill cooldowns by 5s on interrupt (5s ICD)” I know, I know, wouldn’t be likely to happen as long as we have Duelist’s Discipline but still…

I’m actually not so much a fan of increasing the ICD anymore either. I’m really not sure if that’ll actually address the main problem beyond 1v1 encounters. To be honest, I don’t know what would be best for Confounding, but I’ve recently been leaning towards making it, in it’s current form, compete with Power Block or Shattered Concentration.

ResJudicator.7916:

Just make it so CS only stuns on interrupt (otherwise, you get a longer-duration daze). That will get rid of the super-easy burst setups that mesmers have. Stealth openers still remain, but they’re on a much longer CD than MoD. And unless the mesmer is point blank, you can still see the mirror blade or ileap coming and dodge it.

I dislike this suggestion, mostly be because I don’t feel like every single lockdown-oriented trait shouldn’t simply be “on-interrupt.” I’d rather see CS moved up to compete with power block again.

And people are jumping to extremes left and right here. I think for most people this isn’t about good players vs bad players; this is about the average player. And this isn’t about being the underdog, though that WAS an allure, I highly doubt the majority of players picked Mesmer specifically because of that. (I personally don’t know of anyone who has)

Games in general are fun because they challenge you. Chess wouldn’t be interesting if one player had a queen that could move in figure 8s and wipe out anyone in her path. Gameshark is only cool for a little while before all your cheat codes start to get boring because the entire game is trivialized.

Shatter and lockdown feel like that right now. And no, it’s not because “of course if you’ve been playing mes so long you feel like a god” nor is it “Mesmer Stockholm syndrome” or whatever else you want to come up with to explaiin away the fact that a 1-week Mesmer can absolutely dominate most of their PvP games.

Helseth and the Abjured make money from this game, so yeah they play to win. The rest of us play because we enjoy the game and particularly enjoy the class/build we run. In truth we’re not playing to win, we’re playing for the thrill. And no, that doesn’t mean you have to jump to the entire opposite end of the spectrum with “is losing fun?”

The fact is there is a wide gray area between playing competitively and screwing around, and that’s where most of us stand. The majority of Mesmers are playing an overpowered build, and it’s really hard to justify playing anything else.

Uh.. I don’t know if this was mentioned but, you’re not rooted when overloading. In fact, you gain swiftness/protection. If staff ele can pull off meteor shower and dagger churning earth.. I’m not too worried about the occasional interrupt.

Hopefully they’ll reduce the cool down on overloading so it only locks you out for 10s or so.

@Necrotize: Pretty much this, but these aren’t definitive decision rather than impressions based on what we’ve seen and known. Buuut last time I called ..um.. a certain person out on their exaggerations and overly dramatic negativity their next like.. 4 posts were prefaced with “I’m scared to post because chaos will attack me, but…”

@Levetty: You do realize that you tend to over exaggerate, right?

-If we go heavy into shattering (which Anet thinks is the only thing we should do)…
-In terms of group support, which is what everybody is excited about and thinks will get us guaranteed slots everywhere…
-Failry indepth account of why I think a certain mechanic won’t be that great, usual suspect barge in to tell me to kitten off for not agreeing with them adding nothing to the conversation. Mesmer forums in a nut shell ladies and gentlemen.

and … you do realize you’re the same person who said “the devs wont listen to us. mesmer is gonna suck. they don’t care about what we say and if you look at the past you can tell this wont change” ?

I know you may consider this a “personal attack” or whatever but it’s really not.. I do agree that the shield phantasm will likely struggle in largescale combat, whether PvP or WvW. But I think both skills are good enough to be worth taking, ESPECIALLY if Tides of Time has no target limit and can mow through a zerg stunning/halting striking.

@Tealots: I was running mental defense, actually. =P That’s what made me so hard to kill.

@messiah: I’ve run the same build with blink/portal/signet and its worked fine. Restorative Illusions offers me enough of a cleanse that I can get by with portal

Fay.2357:

Chaos Archangel.5071:

Oh man Ross, I was just about to go in.

Instead, all I’ll say is an idea for alacrity I’ve been toying with is:

F5 -> Mimic+AlacrityWell -> AlacrityWell (F5) Mimic+AlacrityWell -> AlacrityWell

And the 12s of alacrity (not including shield phantasm, the fact that f5 and all other shatters grant 1s alacrity, OR the 33% alacrity boost trait) would of course… Recharge my AlacrityWell.

Well, it would certainly help, but iirc the alacrity well has a 40s cooldown. 12s of alacrity, assume another couple seconds here and there for 15s, then 33% increase gets you to 20s total. In those 20 seconds, the well will cool down by roughly (ish, hard to say until we get our hands on alacrity itself and test it) 32 seconds, leaving a total cooldown on that well of 28 seconds, and a cooldown on that entire combo of ~50ish seconds.

Altogether, pretty decent, but very much a 1-off combo, as would any sort of quadruple-tap combo would be. In order to get that you’re losing out on an additional utility you could be getting, like another well or a stunbreak or something.

Well yeah (pun) but whether or not the combo is worth it depends on how 20s of Alacrity affects all of my other skills.

Let’s assume I’m running staff + gs. Chaos/illusions/chrono(blink mimic AlacrityWell time warp)

What I’m curious about is how much 20s of alacrity will reduce cool downs on low cd skills like mirror blade and mind spike. Zerker, ect. Whether my alacrity wombocombo idea is worth building around depends on what 12s every minute does for my team and 20s does for me.

…and what phantasmal haste + alacrity does for our phantasm! (Especially shield phantasm)

Oh man Ross, I was just about to go in.

Instead, all I’ll say is an idea for alacrity I’ve been toying with is:

F5 -> Mimic+AlacrityWell -> AlacrityWell (F5) Mimic+AlacrityWell -> AlacrityWell

And the 12s of alacrity (not including shield phantasm, the fact that f5 and all other shatters grant 1s alacrity, OR the 33% alacrity boost trait) would of course… Recharge my AlacrityWell.

Was I the only one hype for this when I read the article?

First thing that came to mind when I read the article was “staff ele meteor shower fire tornado tornado elite bahahahaha!” (Uh we’re still doing the dramatics thing.. Right?)

I don’t know if I’m in the minority, but I saw an interesting, cool spec. You have a choice to look at the ways it could be bad or list what the other specs can do better, or start figuring out new ideas and ways to make an effective build that you’ll love.

I’m about to get this quote patented…

Pyroathiest, always making friends.

Short answer: having both forms of boonshare makes the build go from somewhat gimmicky to a legitimately strong build. (Also.. The new bountiful disillusionment helps with that. =P)

If you only had to choose one, I’d say Signet of Inspiration is better than the trait. The ability to directly control when you share the boons makes a major difference.

Sure, you can cancel-cast the phantasm and still proc the trait, but illusionary inspiration tends to be passive 75% of the time and demands a playstyle shift to accommodate it. (Like not summoning phantasms at the start of a fight)

Now an interesting question is if the signet trait is worth it over something like Temporal Enchanter and the ability to share resistance alongside signet of inspiration. I personally haven’t done enough tests to see.

I just checked the article. While Tempest is looking cool as hell, check the skill again:

• Rebound: Causes the next skill to have a 25% reduced recharge.

Its an elite (so likely longish cooldown) and only affects the next skill. Alacrity is a much stronger effect that is more easily applied.

That’s not the problem though. 1v1s and duels aren’t the issue… At least not for Mesmer vs Mesmer. (Try and tell that advice to a necro.)

Of course you can counter em if you see them coming and have all your skills off cooldown. Hell, as Mesmers we can 1200r blink right out of the initial attack or stealth, distort, ec. Other classes aren’t as fortunate and in teamfights any halfwit Mesmer is a nightmare.

Tealots was trying boonshare one day.. I said “omg what an opportunity to see what happens with two boonshare mesmer on a team!”

And then.. bam:

And bam again. Those rezzes tho:

If you haven’t tried boonshare yet, and are looking for an alternative playstyle to mess around with, this build is one of the strongest I’ve played so far since the Specialization update behind Dom/Dueling Shatter. More info here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/Vid-BoonShare-Mesmer-Post-Patch-WvW-PvP

Fay.2357:

Chaos Archangel.5071:

Photoloss.4817:

Mesmer always had tons of instant-cast skills and long cooldowns. Are you sure it’s not just the global power creep allowing one such “lucky” hit to end the battle before the opponent gets theirs?

Also, don’t argue any kind of balance based on duels, even in a mirror match of the supposed “duelist” class.

And against opponents of equal “effective skill” (not directly correlated to total playtime btw!) luck should be the only deciding factor in a fair fight.

Hes saying that you don’t even really have to learn Mesmer any more after a certain point. Just learn to oneshot Flavor-of-the-Month burst people and call it a day, you’re esports.

Yeah, but if a 1shot wonder that picked up Mesmer yesterday tries to do that to me, I’ll see it coming a mile away and dodge/block/invuln/counter burst it. Saying that fights have been reduced to nothing but luck is absurd, and implying that unskilled mesmers are able to easily beat skilled mesmers (implied by the comment about hours spent on the class) is nothing more than denying the reality that maybe these newer mesmers have a better grasp of playing than you do, hence them winning.

If you saw it coming a mile away.. he wasn’t doing it right. =P

And he didn’t say matches are entirely luck-based.. But that there is a much higher element of luck to fights than before.. Which is sort-of true.

My personal issue isn’t with 1v1s. When all is fair, you have the same cooldowns and opportunities as the opponent, so it’s not really luck at all (except crits and all that but even still..) but the things some Mesmers are pulling off in team battles and full matches is kind of sickening. They don’t know rotation, they don’t know how to help the team, they don’t even know to cleave.. Just roflburst and stealth.

I’ve seen so many people just.. spam mantra. They don’t even know why they’re spamming it but they know it stuns. I throw up in my mouth a little each time, because they’re still successful with it.

Vids are being uploaded. I ended up sick this weekend, so I was more bedridden than online, but heres some 4v4s and 3v3s and 3v2s from both the US and EU events.

US Mesmer 4v4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7Gd4M9Isbs

EU Sudden Death Match
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_ZEKSxj2aI

Trying to beat up IcyIcyIcy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlqPIBjOCDU

Photoloss.4817:

Mesmer always had tons of instant-cast skills and long cooldowns. Are you sure it’s not just the global power creep allowing one such “lucky” hit to end the battle before the opponent gets theirs?

Also, don’t argue any kind of balance based on duels, even in a mirror match of the supposed “duelist” class.

And against opponents of equal “effective skill” (not directly correlated to total playtime btw!) luck should be the only deciding factor in a fair fight.

Hes saying that you don’t even really have to learn Mesmer any more after a certain point. Just learn to oneshot Flavor-of-the-Month burst people and call it a day, you’re esports.

.. If you had two Mesmer on a team, and both of them HAD to run different builds, which would you have them run?

(This can be for any gamemode as long as you specify which you’re referring to.)

Personally I’d go with one of tyhe following..

• Shatter + Lockdown (anything and everything dead on sight in a massive flavor of the month burst)
• Boonshare x2 (Surprisingly good mix of durability and damage. Two boonshare Mesmer can take on more than two opponents easily.)

Ive played with a guard, and an ele and an engi and it was glorious but so far the best combo has been… another boonshare mesmer.

Got vids of Tealots and I tearing it up on double boonshare. (Still gotta try the condi version)

I look forward to it.

Right now shield looks like it competes mostly with the focus in the way the sword competes with the pistol; offering boons and defensive utility in a pretty strange and interesting way.

What has my attention is the fact that the shield phantasm can be casted twice per skill use thanks to Deja Vu. If the alacrity one shield phantasm grants is meaningful (especially since phantasms tend to only get one or two attacks off, then being able to summon two (both of which would reduce each others or other phantasms cooldowns) should provide something worth taking. Add in Chronophantasma for a third shield phantasm and hopefully shield will be a strong source of alacrity.

Combined with wells (which are ethereal fields), chaotic dampening, persistence of memory.. Can’t say for sure yet of course but I’m seeing a few reasons to look forward to it.

What is this .. This…. Respectable necro build you speak of?

Jeez sticker.. You too?

What’s the point of this thread… Whatever is gonna happen will happen. Arguing over the “logic” of the trait is silly at this point, what will it accomplish?

Seriously, everything that needs to be said has already been said. So tired of all of this…

I dunno about the build on a whole, but the traitlines Windwalker suggested are spot on.

Your playstyle is gonna change without clone death, but I believe you can still play melee-style properly. Keep in mind though that the meta has shifted, and so some of this feeling you have may be coming from the fact that all classes have new builds. (Do NOT melee a guardian. Its like trying to headbutt an active stove.)

As for traits go for confounding suggestions, duelists discipline, blinding dissipation, restorative illusions and mental defense for sure

What Ross is trying to say through his power trip (dam, bro. Why we gotta kill them in the bathtub tho? Nothing is sacred anymore…) is that Mesmer feels absolutely awesome at the moment.

- 4 out of 5 of our traitlines are great (with the last one having to settle with “decent”), nearly every single one of our traits are useful. Pracically all of our grandmasters are fantastic.

- Build diversity has gone up as well as the ability to play different roles.

- Most veteran Mesmer wet themselves when the patch dropped. It’s like they took a llama off our back and are actually allowing us to ride the kitten thing!

As for non-meta builds.. check out this thread

The way I see it there are four things you need to be a good player:

• Map awareness and knowing where to rotate.
• Knowing when to cap, when to decap, and when to defend.
• Technical skills with your preferred class.
• Knowing what your allies/enemies do and how to work with/against them.

To gain the class skill, try dueling. The wider variety of classes you can face the better you are. Dueling other rangers running a similar build as yourself is another good way to test your personal skill. Also, if you can confidently teach someone to play your class, then that means you’re good at analyzing the flaws in other peoples’ play.

Everything else comes with time as long as you’re making a conscious effort to improve.

Almost finished working on the Grimoire, but I’m stumped at the PvE section. I’ll be nagging Kai soon enough, but until then what is the currently established “best” Mesmer build for dungeons/fractals?

And if someone could explain the reasoning behind the traits/runes/sigils, me love you longtime.

(This event, like most other OMFG events, is open to anyone who owns a Mesmer whether you are a member of the guild or not)

Anyone up for some Mes training? I personally need to learn to run some dungeons and wouldn’t mind helping some folks out in practicing for PvP/WvW. Will be shooting out whispers and announcing in Mists map chat this weekend.

Oh, also… Shooting for both US & EU, but I need to know optimal EU time schedules.

Vids from Last week:

• US- 4v4 Battle

• A snip of Tealot’s hybrid build

• Chaos vs Icy (oww =[)

• Chaos vs Xela (Fun fight! Dat pema-protection)

• Practice with Jaded Sparrow and Phy (always cool to have someone new to PvP hop in and join us!)

• vs Adruar

• That neverending boonshare draw with Kentigem

A second batch of vids will be uploaded tomorrow, mostly from the EU side!

I wanna see vids messiah!

I wouldn’t automatically assume Marauders means glass. You can essentially have perma-protection in addition to your usual distorts, heals, blinds, ECT. When you take the proper traits. Check out Holl’s boonshare thread:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/Vid-BoonShare-Mesmer-Post-Patch-WvW-PvP

I run a similar build to that (also in that link) with mercy runes. Even with Mirror granting a small heal, restorative illusions mixed with perms regen-protection and more blinds than I know what to do with (not to mention stability) gives me plenty of sustain.

In any given fight I hold on to perma: fury, swiftness, protection, regeneration, might while still holding decent uptimes of retaliation & aegis. Its one of the strongest builds I’ve played since the patch behind shatter/lockdown

Thanks man, that’s really kind.

But I swear to you this has been the most awkward thread for me to read ever. This would be easier to read if I were more mysterious and aloof like uh.. Misha. That guy you hear about and secretly wanna fight to see how good you are but never see.

… I’m really not that guy though. I get beat up, downstate hero style.

Edit: You’re still a scrub tho Ross.

They said the numbers were temporary when they showed them, so it probably won’t be perma-slow simply from crits/interrupts.

Personally I’m super hyped over the wells. I love their animations and concept. I’ve got a chrono-support build in mind that I’m super curious about.

CHAOS/INSPIRATION/CHRONO

sword/shield+staff

alacrity well, mimic, blink.

Chronophantasma. Alacrity boost, and well trait. Planning to use mimic+f5 to drop 4 alacrity wells back to back.

Also, that 20s brutal damaging of calamity? Gots me some ideas for that bad boy with Greatsword and chaotic interruption

Oh, and with wells covering my AoE/team support stuff, I can run sw/sw scepter/shield without feeling bad haha

Other class forums are crying about bugs/nerfs/quitting/mesmers.

All our recent threads have been about events/tests/sassing each other/tears of other classes

/sniffles continue

I said clerics support-oriented.

I’ll just.. Take off this #teamMaha shirt I had on..

/sniffles

@Royale Hey dude, I tried out your build last night for a few rounds and had a lot of fun. It currently feels .. not entirely optimal in some ways, but nonetheless effective and enjoyable. Some notes I took:

• I didn’t realize (but secretly hoped) Confounding Suggestions doesn’t count stuns. So pistol shot stuns two targets. Or you can stun someone with the pistol, switch to sword, stun them again with the sword daze while your phantasms wail on them. Fun stuff

• Build still feels too single-target for my liking. While I can decimate nearly any 1v1, fighting outnumbered was difficult (though it was also in part because I’m not used to the build) and I didn’t feel very effective in team fights… Except making it a nightmare for my enemies to get off stomps/rezzes, which, now that I think about it, is actually pretty useful.

• Made some slight changes: Kept the pistol trait and the sword trait though I find it hard to justify traited swords over Blinding Dissipation, since blinding is a fantastic defensive tool and works along with ineptitude. Added Phantasmal haste, Persistence of Memory and Furious Interruption. Right now I feel furious is highly underrated, and it works well in this build.

• Conditions. Ugh. I gotta be good at this game like Warlord of Chaos and Jurica and get used to having next to no removal.

• Moa Signet is dope, never tried it before. Centaur runes are dope too!

• Celestial ughhhh. It works, but I feel it makes me lazy and holds the build back from it’s true potential. I feel theres not enough condition damage or heals here to make cele feel worth it, not just for the added defense.

So far it’s been fun, but like Ross said the first thing that came to mind is “Is Illusions worth it over Inspiration?” I feel Inspiration would make for a better fit here, but it is really hard to give up the sword cooldowns in both illusions AND dueling. I’m gonna keep working with Illusions for now and see how I feel, but so far it’s been a blast to play.

Jurica. If confounding is removed and replaced with a shatter trait I’m coming for you…

Warlord yer pretty much my pvp head coach lol. I’ve learned more about the intricacies, technical, and mechanical aspect of the class from you than even supcutie. Also.. You provide me with a constantly raising bar to reach for.

But lawd. Anyone who watches me face you almost always thinks I was going easy on them. X_x I really don’t, you just force me to give 110%

Nier.8741:

Chaos Archangel.5071:

I read this as…

“Hi! I don’t play Mesmer, but here’s some changes to bring the class in line and make it fair while adding risk vs reward. Sure, I have no idea how this will affect the class in other areas of the game, nor do I know the effects this will have on any other build besides the one I’ve had to fight.”

“Why 15 seconds? Because… It felt like a good number. I’ve done extensive test- oh wait.”

Oh yet, my favorite person agreed with you’

“There’s no risk with a class that fights from ranged! What.. You mean I’m actually NOT mad at Mesmer and just don’t like their greatsword? No! Nerf the whole kitten class! They get one 2.5s evade and an immune! I hate that!!!!!”

Jeez.. I really hope by now the devs have weeded out the real problem. No offense OP but those suggestions are not only overkill, it ignores the fact that the class on a whole is not overpowered. A few traits (3 to be exact) need fixing/shaving, not gutting.

That is sad and pathetic if you refuse to understand that Mesmer never took skill to begin with

Like evading while doing 10k instant cast shatters is just as easy as Rampage. You’re just angry that you’re in denial that you play an easy and effective class.

Come to me with a logical argument about why Mesmer “doesn’t take skill” compared to whatever “hard mode” class you’re playing with some actual facts rather than broad generalizations. Then we’ll talk.

Oh yeah, almost forgot… Smiley-face.

@Solori: You’re not wrong, but I disagree here.

Right now Mesmer can instant burst, from stealth, and disappear to reset a fight or murderize someone else. Your suggestions are solid in a dueling scenario, or if you see the Mesmer coming but PvP is team-oriented. The odds of you:

• seeing the Mesmer coming
• have the time to focus Mesmer in the midst of whatever the eff else you were doing
• having the proper skills/dodges off cool down

… isn’t so likely. Combined with blinding dissipation hitting through stealth and the nutty damage of greatsword and you’ve got a real problem. I’m no fan of overnerfing and that’s why in the Mesmer forums we have proposed multiple times changes that would shave the traits and bring them in line without causing harm. But a 1s stun into an instant 0-100 burst isn’t right for any class.

But for the love of god, please fix these crippling bugs/overnerfs you’ve hit us devs. Chaotic dampening and maimed the disillusioned says hello.

…also also, why is it warriors get “shaved” and “observed” while we get castrated?

I read this as…

“Hi! I don’t play Mesmer, but here’s some changes to bring the class in line and make it fair while adding risk vs reward. Sure, I have no idea how this will affect the class in other areas of the game, nor do I know the effects this will have on any other build besides the one I’ve had to fight.”

“Why 15 seconds? Because… It felt like a good number. I’ve done extensive test- oh wait.”

Oh yet, my favorite person agreed with you’

“There’s no risk with a class that fights from ranged! What.. You mean I’m actually NOT mad at Mesmer and just don’t like their greatsword? No! Nerf the whole kitten class! They get one 2.5s evade and an immune! I hate that!!!!!”

Jeez.. I really hope by now the devs have weeded out the real problem. No offense OP but those suggestions are not only overkill, it ignores the fact that the class on a whole is not overpowered. A few traits (3 to be exact) need fixing/shaving, not gutting.

I’d say your doubly-qualified.

…omg “doubly” is an actual word.

likewise I’ll probably be pvping on teef and wvw on Mes.

Does Teef allow Thieves who are non-members to participate in their events? If so I know some OMFG members who wouldn’t mind thiefin it up.

Power block is fine.

Mantra of Distraction is fine, if anything increase the cooldown between charges to 8s or so or increase the base cooldown by 10-20 seconds.

Confounding has been discussed plenty of times before.. Local 10s ICD is most fair.

How about we talk about some BUFFS for once eh!?

• Chaotic Dampening needs a % increase to 3-4s

• Maimed nerf was dumb and should be fixed

• Fix our bugs plz.

Yes, I tried so hard for alliteration in the title that I went so far as “Thiefsmer.”

Thieves rejoice! You are no longer the most hated class in the game. While Mesmer was always a strong second, we have been skyrocketed into the spotlight of inexorable hatred and will certainly be nerfbound soon.

Till then, why not team up and mine some salt from the other professions’ faces? This weekend (or next of y’all are too busy) we were thinking of extending an invitation to you shadowy folk for some teaming up to dominate PvP, WvW and/or dungeons in a sweet blend of shadows and illusions.

Ideally this event would span both US and EU and as far as times go, I think it may be best to simply assume the event starts on Friday and ends at the end of Sunday, but notices of exact times will be posted beforehand.

Anyone interested?

(US/EU- As always you do not have to be a member of OMFG to enjoy our events!)

I haven’t asked the thieves yet but anyone up for some events this weekend? A couple Mesmer/thief death squads, perhaps some 3v3 Mes vs Thief action? While we’re at it we can find some intersecting WvW borderlands to raid and spelunk into a dungeon or two.

Starting this weekend, random times but starting 11pm EST on Friday and going on till Sunday with guild chat and whispered announcements beforehand.

Sound good?

Other Mesmers, Ranger, Necro. In that order with Mesmers being the easiest. Every other profession may actually make me raise an eyebrow now and then.

Tealots.6095:

Nicely produced (and played!). I’m definitely going to give this boonshare build a try. Was there ever a time when the build considered foregoing the Dueling line and heading into Domination and Imagined Burden for even more might stacks?

Yeah, originally the build was Dom/Chaos/Inspiration, grabbing either phantasm traits or or confounding/signet or furious rupt (though shattconcentration works fine) / and Power Block. The only thing is that its pretty hard to pass up perma fury and blinding dissipation. I hadn’t actually tested Imagined Burden but once, but I shatter and attack too rapidly to make much use of it. I rarely use the auto attack for more than a few moments.

… Then again, GS and I don’t get along, and I only tested it for a few matches.

Pepsi.8907:

You’ll create Mirror Bursting aids in our community

lmao!

lawd, I think I’ma regret making this thread but..

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/MirrorBlink-A-Secret-Recipe-for-Mesmer-Burst

doesn’t get much easier for instant kills than that. =P Just make sure to gear appropriately. Add as much toughness (knights/cavs/valk) as you need into the zerk gear.

Awww yea. We in there!