Guild Wars 2

I’m sure this has been mentioned before, but using that heal while on the move and on an Asura looks terrible, the character head looks like is having a spasm. Why hasn’t this been addressed yet?

I’ve been running Gsword/Staff in a organized WvW guild and my iZerker always does atleast a spin through them. Sure it sometimes gets killed, but it will do more damage then any other phantasm ever will (considering its AoE). And I agree, I can’t see the potential of a shatter build, except the “recharge all shatters at 50% health trait” so you can F4 twice. But that would take too many trait points for my liking

I really liked the video, would love if you could share your build thanks

Sure, I’ll share my build. I run in a “hardcore” guild on Piken Square, and I’ve done alot of research and I hate all the builds out there, so I just fiddled around and made one that I like.

http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fgAQJARWlwzipXVTsGaNJiJFBnvdqAzRSRphalUYbXIA-jUDBYMAINQUEQUFA5cZM5BJBSQtMsIasKZQqaAqHYqTK1eDLrWKAY2CA-w

The basics of the build:
Clone production for F4 “oh-kitten” moments, or to just fool afew people on large fights. They can also apply conditions when they die (greatsword #2 spawns the clone right on top of them, it’s easy to apply them), or when they crit.

Staff is just to #5 when your melee train is running in (apply chaos armor) or so you can chaos armor yourself when beeing focused / having to run through people.

Glamours apply confusion, but the reason I don’t take condition gear is because you need alot of stacks of confusion for it to be meaningful, this is to tag people, so incase you go down you have a greater chance to rally. Also people always think: “Oh crap I got confusion on me, better be careful”

Feel free to take null field instead of veil, I have veil because I’m required to.

Since you are running GS/Staff you have 2 interupt skills (#5 from both weapons), so I decided to take bountiful interruption in chaos.

I made this build according to my play style / needs, so may not work for you, but I hope I’ve been of help

if you wanna just tag people, then do confusing enchantments in domination (apply confusion when people enter/exit glamours). It shouldn’t have a target limit, considering 5 people have to enter/exit at the exact same time for a cap to exist. Also get less II and IX from inspiration (you don’t have to get IX if you need trait points) and run blink/feedback/null field.

You can cast feedback without a target, it does it infront of you, just fyi

could you post your reflection build that still maintains veil? I’d love to try it, if you do post, please let me know how you run with the zerg (if always with them, if only with them when you are about to reflect, what do you do when reflects are on cd)

I’d love to join
ingame name: Eremou
server: Piken Square EU
role: scholar
interests: WvW playing in a very organized guild

(WvW speaking)

I don’t like the builds for the reasons stated by Tongku. With my group, we’re lacking stability and mesmers for veil, so I was thinking of doing one with null field-mantra of stability-veil.

I always run blink, no matter what my groups needs, but with stability I should be fine without blink since I can use it when I need. Problem is only one mantra won’t be enough for a mantra build, and 1 glamour isn’t enough for a glamour build either so I don’t know what to focus my traits on..

I know but what I’m saying is the two in illusions are not worth it since they only apply blind and 1 stack of confusion to 5 people per field, which is nothing in a large fight..

Chrhal.4983:

What would you pick instead?

I’d pick confusing enchantments, which causes confusion to people who enter or leave glamours, it’s easier to tag people and will apply more confusion overall. I’d still try to keep the two traits in inspiration.

selan.8354:

well roaming is different form zergs. op stated 30+ man zerg builds. and yeah the commander only cares that u are alive so u can veil them. of course i like being able to help the zerg with nullfield and feedback, but just being a support utility slot is not what our class should be about. i wanna be able to deal dmg and get lootbags too and not just veil the zerg and stand on the side and survive so i can veil them again. c’mon a mesmer should be more than that!

Ye, I don’t wanna be a veil bot and then afk the rest of the fight because I’m useless. I don’t care too much about loot bags, but it still feels nice to get them. But since we lack so much aoe our damage is not impactful..what I try to do now is veil my group and then just blink to they’re back line and harass they’re ranged. Also used this tactic on a “scrim” gvg we did today, but ended up 1v1 a thief while our guilds fought xD

Chrhal.4983:

This is the build I run, when we run organized WvW.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fgEQNAW7dlw1CrHVzqGa9IxJFMv5oecdrXdSKKNqB-jUCBoOCy0CwkDA0HQZSFRjtsuIasaGYKWER1eEFRrWIgFrBA-w

Veil is a must, Nullfield is a must for boon stripping and tagging, Feedback is godlike vs. ranged pew-pew’ers and for tagging and Time Warp is also a must. Also to those who don’t know. You can use Feedback without a target. It will spawn about 900 range straight ahead of you, it’s mostly easier than picking a target.

For survivability try not to get focused and have Chaos armor up most of the times with Phase Retreat in Glamour fields. If you find you have problems with surviving you can pick Blink or Decoy instead of Feedback.

The confusion when you blind only affects 5 targets if I’m not wrong, considering placing the glamours only blinds once, so in a big fight I think those 2 talents are a waste. I’ve considered a similar build, but it feels I’d only consider using it if we had more mesmers that can veil, and I can go blink+feedback+null field

Kelthien.8593:

Is your group organized or just random pugs?

For my organized, group, my priorities are:
1) providing veil on-demand
2) staying with my commander
3) DPS

To best suit that, I often run with a hodgepodge of skills. Generally, 20/20/0/30/0 is the most successful. GS/S+F paired with Veil, Blink, and Mantra of Stability. If I’m going to stick with my commander, I’m going to need mobility mobility mobility.

Highlights of GS, of course, are ranged abilities and the near-instant cast ’zerker for AoE cripple. The cone knockback is the icing on the cake.

Sword provides more mobility and a defense skill while focus is a no-brainer pickup for out of combat mobility plus in-combat reflections, cripples/interrupts/pulls, and the warden (who can hold his own if positioned well).

Trait-wise, I go for reduced cooldowns on GS, clone on dodge, and inspiration to support my team. Anything to boost glamours is a god-send as null field, veil, and feedback are in regular rotation. Feedback is probably one of the biggest sources of my personal DPS, Veil is a must-have for my team, and null-field fits the cleanse role when no one else is providing it.

I definitely don’t overlook my stability mantra. 4s of stability is good now and should be great when it goes AoE. It’s not always on my bar, but when my team and the enemy team are zerg-bumping, it’s one of my most loved skills.

Organized, we broke off from a guild to form a new one with the best and most active players. Unfortunately there’s not alot of mesmers yet, or I could tell them to run veil and I’d run a different build with null field and feedback, so right now doing a “full” glamour build feels like a waste considering I’ll only have 1 glamour. On our raid today I ran blink + feedback + veil but using full rabid and a typical PU condition build, so my combat damage ain’t awesome considering it’s a build made for smaller fights but atleast I could stay alive, even when we were fighting 3 way.

This might change tuesday when the AoE mantras come out, but I think they’re effects can be provided by guardians already so I’m not sure why mesmers would run it aswell.

BlackDevil.9268:

Lol at that 13v40, that’s more like 13vs20 smashing random skills

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmJ1QZ_aPqc

I don’t have really recent uploads of how I play in raids but this is basicly how I do it.
http://intothemists.com/guides/1276-raid_shatter
You can easily swap feedback/null field for veil

That seems like an interesting build, but I’d have to convince them on not having veil which I don’t know will be possible

My bad I meant to link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPPotO067lo which is the build ye. My only problem is veil like I said, since my guild requires it

selan.8354:

i run triforce build which gives u more survivability due to distortion, retal, reflection, but it is hard to tag with it. i also run glamour build with traited focus and perplexity runes. i usually kite around the zerg and use blink instead of mirror images. unfortunately is is still pretty weak even with perplexity, but at least u can tag well.

here is the build video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N736Yg57RcQ

now during the current meta, try to not run in the middle of your own zerg. if your zerg is stacking, try to be a little bit behind them or on the side. i usually try to put nullfield first in the middle of the enemy zerg, to rip their boons and then pick a target in the middle for my feedback. try to pull some enemies through your glam fields with temporal curtain. glam works with rabid btw. most of the commanders want u to use veil, so glambuild is great as portal and veil both are glamfields.

id recommend u to watch the videos from my guildleader kylia brefore glamnerf. we ususally ran around 8 to 10 glam mesmers.

here is 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5DaSPeEgg4

and here is one 13 vs 40

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTbyG5rHK9k

This is the triforce build your running right? The thing that it’s missing is veil, for some reason almost every commander wants a veil every 10 seconds and we’re kinda forced to use it..

Hello guys, I tried doing some snooping around in this forum looking for WvW builds for big group fights, and most if not all of the WvW builds on the sticky thread are months old, and since I’m a recent (2 months~) player, I dont know if they have stopped working, or people found something better.

At the moment I’m running the tipical osicat PU build(or whoever came up with it first..) , because I scout / hide in bases alot and this is the build that i feel most comfortable with. But I was looking to transition into group fights.

I tried doing a full glamour build yesterday, with null field, feedback, veil, time warp as utilities, but I ended up dying abit (we were fighting larger groups to be fair, but in PU I never die). Although I realize, you just can’t do a build in guild wars 2 that does everything well, I wanted to know what the most popular WvW builds for large fights is, and if you direct them to me, since I’m in a tier 1 server, and my guild is looking to “enforce” guild builds.

Also, if you guys do run full glamour utilities, how do you survive? Did you invest in dire gear to be as tanky as possible? I’d like to get these builds to work with rabid stats, but if dire is only solution let me know

EDIT: To be clear, I’m talking about 30 to 40 man groups

nevermind, turns out its that sword that looks like an electric saw. Any way to turn it off? I’ve asked the person to stop using it but it’s not something you should be asking people..

Hello, for the past 2 days that I’ve been running in WvW with a large group, I keep hearing a constant noise which is very anoying. When I asked in guild, a person said that it might be from the legendary called “Howler”. Is it possible to disable the soundfiles for that item? This sound is driving me crazy and I can’t ask the person to stop using a legendary item..

dank.3680:

Anyways, since you are using torch I’m going to guess you use prismatic understanding like all the other FOTM’ers .. It is likely you are using your scepter 2 while having the aegis boon and the boon is taking the block rather then the scepter.. So you see “block” and think u landed it, but you really didn’t.

Thanks, even though I didn’t roll this spec bcuz its FOTM, but because I don’t like the power builds. It’s possible I was blocking random pets or aegis was blocking it instead of scepter #2, I’ll just keep practising

Hello I’ve been running with a condition build with scepter/torch : staff (WvW) and applying scepters torment is pretty deadly if they don’t remove it. But the effect is not reliable, or atleast I haven’t been able to reliably apply it.

From my own observations it seems that I have to be almost on top of him for it to apply, and even then it doesn’t always apply. What am I missing? How do you guys make sure it is always applied?

EDIT: I’m not looking for ways to make sure an attack is blocked, I wanna know how to apply the torment once it is blocked
Thanks

EnderzShadow.2506:

Eremoo.2785:

Ross Biddle.2367:

You just gotta build for speed.

http://youtu.be/tffTmVN-zG0

For both chase and escape,
-cripples
-high condi duration
-temporal curtain
-into the void
-high swiftness/boon duration
-long range blink
-lowered cd blink
-Illusionary swap (sword 2)
-Arcane thievery for swiftness denial/gain

Mobility is arguably the single most important thing in the game. So your builds should start first and foremost with it.

I suppose that makes mobility denial the second most important thing.

yes but I do a stealth condition build (PU) because I don’t always run in a group, infact most of my time in WvW im scouting / hiding in bases, so I have to run with a torch..these runes were suppose to cover my speed problem.

Also is it true the trait that grants clones on dodging is getting reworked? I sure hope not, it’s the core of most builds :d

Same here, dont’cha love it when people in effect just say… “CHANGE YOUR WHOLE BUILD AND BAM…EASY FIX!!”

Everyone I have consulted that has either great knowledge of the class or high skill as a mesmer with a PU build, they all swap focus in and out while soloing in WvW.

While running in a small group, it is even less of an issue as someone usually drops some speed.

If you run solo however, I would take blink over some of the other common used utilities in the build. You can do with one less stealth option.

I do swap to focus while out of combat, but I run alone alot (like I said i run around enemy bases alot), so by then I can’t swap to focus or I’m locked out of torch. I just wish there was an accessible trait available to take for speed

Ross Biddle.2367:

You just gotta build for speed.

http://youtu.be/tffTmVN-zG0

For both chase and escape,
-cripples
-high condi duration
-temporal curtain
-into the void
-high swiftness/boon duration
-long range blink
-lowered cd blink
-Illusionary swap (sword 2)
-Arcane thievery for swiftness denial/gain

Mobility is arguably the single most important thing in the game. So your builds should start first and foremost with it.

I suppose that makes mobility denial the second most important thing.

yes but I do a stealth condition build (PU) because I don’t always run in a group, infact most of my time in WvW im scouting / hiding in bases, so I have to run with a torch..these runes were suppose to cover my speed problem.

Also is it true the trait that grants clones on dodging is getting reworked? I sure hope not, it’s the core of most builds :d

Hello, I recently changed to Runes of speed (Im not rich) for the movement bonus (25%), and I did notice a slight increase. But after running on my elementalist with the signet that grants 25% movement speed, I noticed that the difference between 25% and swiftness was not alot. After doing the same test on my mesmer, I could notice a big difference between “25%” and swiftness.

My question is, is the announced speed bonus from the runes, actually alot less? Also in combat, it didn’t seem to do anything.

While I’m on the subject, I’ve only been playing mesmer for 3 weeks to a month, but the lack of speed / mobility and condition cleansing is very anoying..I know we have condition cleansing, but atleast in my build, I can’t afford to loose the other utility’s (WvW)

Hello, so upon reading the upcoming notes, the condi cleanse and stability mantras will also affect nearby allies. So I was thinking of making a support build for WvW that revolves around mantras. Was thinking of this: http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=VO;4ZUk41F7RV-71;9;4TJ-J-24A56;239;2S-F6a;9p-F81-N240;0VJ-O0U1YYc3j49eWPk4R0;9;9;7FFFFF;9;9;7V6s5B

Not sure about runes, but most likely traveler. What are your thoughts, suggestions? Maybe another gear / weapon combo?

Ok for now I think I’ll go with engineer, thanks for ur comments. If u have anything to add, feel free as I’ll still be checking the thread

Ye i might just have to end up lvling more chars so i can switch roles around, thanks. For now I still havnt decided on what’s first xD

I can’t for the life of me decide still, there isn’t a class that I look at and say “Ok i like this class and it has everything I need/want”, feels like there’s always something missing..gonna have to pick something and accept the fact it won’t have everything I want

Hello, sorry for the wall of text. TLDR in the end.

I bought the game about 2-3 days ago and I’m having a hard time deciding on what profession to pick, but mostly because I don’t know how guild wars 2 endgame is like.

So my preference in playstyle is usually a support role, but since I’m always a support, I’m trying to choose a profession that will give me several options. I’m also focusing more on PvP, and probably won’t get too much into PvE.

I hear guardian is the “best” support prof, but outside of that, I’m left with a melee dps and I don’t like those very much.

My other choices are mesmer, elementalist and engineer.

Looking at mesmer, the core idea seems like fun, blinking around and avoiding combat when I want, but not sure how useful it is when say I wanna defend something big on WvW, or I wanna just support other people. Also, the damage skills seem to be limited to just 1h + focus melee. Is mesmer just really good at roaming in WvW and nothing else? Can I support well without any heals? Are support specs appreciated or just frowned upon

Engineer seems like fun, but from what I read while searching the forums(few months old) is that it’s just not as an effective as other classes at supporting (which I could be wrong) and the damage it puts out is not very high. Can engineers do funky builds like kite builds or condition ones? With all the gadgets and whatnot. I can get permanent swiftness, is that a viable strategy for roaming, or is roaming done by other profs.

Elementalist also appears to be fun with all the spells, but I get the feeling bcuz it has so many spells that each one of them is not very effective and I’ll only excel at AoE’ing and combo fields in big battles

As a final thought, what about necros, can do any form of support, and how useful are they in PvP?

TLDR: What profession to pick, I like supporting, PvP, but wanna also be able to do other things like roaming in WvW or defend bases, or do dmg with condition builds. Any thoughts about a specific profession is useful, no need to comment on them all.