Guild Wars 2

Both, there are no utilities and DE doesn’t work.

Just tested it for you <3. No, it doesn’t work.

Wow, I never saw it and I always use the sword. I knew something was strange but I couldn’t see it.

As for the chainsaw, thank god I didn’t buy one.

Overall, I really like the GS. Goes very well with mantra traits.
As for skills, they all good except Mind Stab and Illusionary Wave.

Mind Stab is fine, but we need an bigger AoE and remove ALL boons or more boons.
Illusionary Wave is crap. When I move while doing it or when monsters are too close, it never works. I have to root myself then do Illusionary Wave to make it work. It needs polishing.

Yours actually work ? Because I never saw any monster dazed with Counter Blade. I’m not even sure it is working with the dazing traits.

I play glass canon scepter/sword, because it’s relaxing, doing over 5-6K dmg per block. I was playing my Guardian and his blocks are way more responsive and fast. Mesmers blocks are just too slow. Crappy animations.

Lightsbane.9012:

Krispera.5087:

Because it is easy to learn ? It does huge damage ?

I run Sword/Torch, S/S, 20-20-30-0-0. Take that !

it does huge damage? you mean chaos storm? i’ve stood in the full amount of time a chaos storm lasts and taken 2k, maximum of 3 conditions have been applied to me. which immediately are gone when i use thievery or cleansing flame. even as an engineer or ranger i just sit in it and wait for this ‘huge damage’ you’re talking about.
unless you mean the sword/pistol part. which is good but also easily countered. kind of like 100blades

No, what about you read what you wrote. Sword/Pistol. Put Phantasm, shoot stun, swap, blurred frenzy. It’s an easy rotation.

Staff does huge damage if you are glass canon.

Then now it makes me wonder what’s the point of your thread ? You want all of them to shatter ?

Because it is easy to learn ? It does huge damage ?

I run Sword/Torch, S/S, 20-20-30-0-0. Take that !

I was normaly running Mantra build before shatter buff. 30-30-0-0-10(compounding power). 4X4 = 16, 3×3 = 9. Grand total of + 25 % damage.

Play S/S + Scepter/S (2 block ftw)

Don’t listen to people that say it sucks, because they are just bad at it. Mesmer is not only about Shatter. I’m running full beserk with Ruby Orbs. Then people will say ‘’ lol you so noob, you glass canon will die so fast ’’. Learn to dodge, use distraction, block and blurred frenzy. If you are in trouble, switch to ranged weapon. Did you guys know you could auto-attack MoP ? Do it with Scepter/S, you don’t have the downtime between Scepter bolts anymore.

I do over 7K at the last Blurred Frenzy. If you like to play melee, actively and rogue-ish, go for mantra build. ALSO, it’s the build that makes your phantasm do the HIGHEST damage, but I would suggest people to play a more defensive spec to play phantasm damage.

Like many suggested, the +25 % dmg is making up for a tanky spec.

Go MAJOR sigil of fire. You’ll proc is many time enough if you have over 50 crit chance. If you have 2, they won’t stack, but the % will go a little higher (go look on the wiki for the equation).

For other, go Crit Chance or Damage sigil.

So is with Illusionary Leap. I’m so scared everytime I try to use teleporting skills.

The day they will fix Signet of Illusion is the day Phantasm build will be more viable. Even with Persisting Image, Phantasms are getting one shotted.

After the patch, I was telling to myself to go back to phantasm build. Tried 30-30-0-0-10 and 20-20-0-25-5. First one is more reliable, since it’s your damage + the phantasm damage, but very glass canon. Second one is more phantasm focused, gives you more HP and Heal.

I’m waiting for Signet of Illusion. Right now, shattercat with 25 Might and 25 Vulnerability is just insane to play Phantasm.

I went the 20-20-30-0-0 route. With boons duration runes (with Beserker set), Signet of Inspiration and Signet of Midnight. Sword/Torch, Sword/Sword.

S/S is fine doing damage and is more viable. S/Torch is weird, iMage is terrible and The Prestige is not offensive enough.

I was using the shattercat before trying this build. I went to do the Arena that I can EASILY SOLO with shatter. I took me so long to do the kill and struggled to stay alive.

It’s good on paper and team play, but lacks of solo and damage.

I do the 20-20-0-25-5 when playing phantasm. DE is not a must have if you are playing phantasm, since you can overwrite them after 2.

Keep in mind that, if you are in a heavy battle, you’ll have 2 phantasm and end up with a clone, because we always have clone spawning skill in each weapon.

Prismatic Understanding: No longer affects the Prestige. Now grants a random defensive boon every three seconds while in stealth. (Protection, Aegis, or Regeneration)

Is working as intended. I’m still trying to figure out a playstyle, but it’s fun right now, since it gives mesmer invisibility a new twist. It’s finnaly making me use the torch.

About Swiftness, it is still the worse of all classes. I have 2 Major Sanctuary (10% boon), 2 Superior Water (15% boon), 2 Superior Pack (20% swiftness), with Signet of Midnight (10% boon) and 30 % boon from Chaos. Let’s say, 75 % boon duration for swiftness.

Results :

Signet of Inspiration swiftness on tooltip = 16 1/2 secs (10 secs with no buff). 18 secs when spawning on boon bar.
Temporal Curtain swiftness on tooltip = 19 3/4 secs (12 with no buff). 21 secs when spawning on boon bar.

Both of them are really +75 % duration.

Signet of Inspiration is still too random. We need something more reliable. Compouding Celerity IS NOT (lol at this trait). Temporal Curtain should be enough to give near perma swiftness if you have runes and traits on, but THIS IS NOT what we should wear to compensate our horrible mobility skills.

Scepter sucks ? Well the auto attack, I can agree, but all the skills, no. You guys are just too used to GS and Staff (I’m a heavy GS user).

There are not only one builds and playstales available you know. Scepter/Sword on glass canon does 1K-1.5K each auto attack and over 2K for the third one. Blocks from 2 and 4 do over 5K. iSword does 5k-6k damage.

Sucks ? No. Different playstyle ? Yes. Slow paced ? Maybe yes.

Scepter/Sword is the best combinaison of offense and defense. You have 1-3 and 5 as damage, with 2 and 4 as block that does over 4k damage with glass canon build.

It’s a change of pace, but it’s really good.

I still use the GS with the bugs since november 14th. shame

kazinnud.4381:

I like how they couldn’t fix that distortion from blurred frenzy wasn’t activating the reflection trait, so they just changed the tooltip.

OH YEAH that one made me roll eyes and laugh ! Blurr ? Really !? Since when mesmer use BLURR ??? Is it in other skills ? Or in other professions ? Nope.

wads.5730:

Sarmach.1547:

I don’t know what everyone else’s rotation is but I use mirror blade then the iZerker so this change didn’t make a noticeable difference.

that makes no sense at all. regardless of the order you use skills, it means you have to wait 2 seconds before you can shatter, or you get no benefit out of using a cooldown.

It makes perfect sense. It’s the only way to get the delayed damage from iZerker. I tend to do iZerker before Mirror Blade, but the GOOD rotation is Mirror Blade then iZerker, because you want Vulnerability on the monster then iZerker damage.

They just can make ‘’graphic animation’’ like a spell for phantasms instead of a clone doing damage. A one time use spell.

Please just remove phantasms, give us a skill instead. Keep the clones for shatter mecanic.
More simple.

I am upset, but not giving up. First, I was sad about iZerker then I changed to scepter/sword and sword/sword, loosing AoE damage in the process but higher DPS on single target. Now, the delay is killing the iSword and all phantasm as well…

So I went balanced build 20(3 and 9)-20(2 and 4)-0-10(5)-20(3 and 5). Yes you can laugh at the Torch trait. I just took it for the condition remover. I didn’t want to loose too much power on my Berserker set.
Utility : Phantasmal Defender, Signet of Illusion.
Yep, no more shatter for me, since they die before hitting now anyways.

Still upset that I have to overcome that bug or nerf (whatever) with so many traits and utility that will only make my phantasm ’’harder’’ to kill.

zexion.5842:

You won’t be able to be tanksih as a mesmer. We are not built that way. We are illusive, there is a difference.

I agree with Zexion. I play S/S before and since the GS iZerker nerf. I am so used to be mobile with mesmer that being tanky was useless to me.

Get Decoy + Mirror Images, you should be fine while letting clones get your hits. Like many people said already, Blurred Frenzy distortion is the key. Also, don’t underestimate Counter Blade and try to put Mimic in your build for more blocking.

Deceptive Evasion too.

Is it weird, I’m well aware that iZerker is damage nerfed, but now (testing again), it’s stopping before charging.

Was it here before ?

Join me. Need more people.