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Heya, I was messing around and found an epic vulnerability build for mesmers, and with 3 illusions the diversion shatter can get an instant 25 stack of 13s vulnerability on 5 mobs in a group. check it out
Weapons:
- Great Sword
- Staff
Utility:
- Eather Feast (heal 5798 + 664 per illusion)
- Signet of illusions (recharge all shatter skills)
- Mirror Images (summon 2 clones and break stun)
- Null Field (remove conditions from allies and boons from foes)
Traits:
- Domination 30 {4,7,12}
- Dueling 10 {2}
- Illusions 30 {6,2,12}
Overview:
- 3 vulnerability (9s) on interrupt
- 1 vulnerability (14s) for each illusion shattered
- 5 vulnerability (13.5s) when dazing
- Shatter skills remove 1 boon from foe for each illusion
- 5% increased damage to foes not using skills (inactive)
- 50% chance to inflict (1s) stun when dazing a target
- vigor (5s) on critical hits
- Phantasms have fury(10s)
- all shatter skills inflict confusion(5.5s)
- Recharge all shatter skills at 50%hp
- Shattering illusions grants 1 might(10s) per illusion
- Cry of Frustration grants retaliation(5s) per illusion
- Reduce recharge of illusion summoning skills by 20%
- Diversion hits 5 targets in a large area
Pretty much easy to do, You will have +80% condition duration to keep vulnerability up for 10s at 25 stacks just by using diversion shatter with 3 illusions, 5 targets are hit and can have 14 to 25 stacks, but the main target will have a full 25 stack of vuln. use signet o illusions to recharge when needed and illusionary invigoration will pop at 50%hp for another recharge. Good for soloing in wvw, bad for teams with lots of vul appliers. Im still tweaking the build, post questions if you have them.
I am looking for a small friendly guild on Maguuma. I like them around 10 members who play together strategically, and are active.
I play 99% of the time as a mesmer (tank/condition) .
Ask here for any more info or requirements and such.
In game message me my username or search ‘Dauvia The Phantom’
ah never mind, just used the skill for the first time with hero panel open, it seems to increase toughness by 100% bonus . thats cool
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I notice AoM has a ton of defensive skills (regeneration, condition removal, protection) and am wondering if anyone knows if it provides additional defensive points (toughness, armor) also? The wiki mentions nothing on it but the wiki doesnt provide every piece of information.
awesome, thank you!
I suppose I will go rabid then and use perplexity runes for all conditions, though i would like aoe torment.
I am working on my first condition build and i need a bit of help
1: the new runes of torment give durration to torment. so condition duration runes does not effect torment skill?
2: what is preferred, condition damage or duration?
I was thinking of making a condtion tank with healing ability and condition removal, so id need condition damage, toughness, healing power
Any other comments or helpful tips will be appreciated
Not entirely sure I want to try this. I run on Linux wine using [4.0Ghz i7, Radeon HD 6950 (2GB), 12GB RAM ]. The AMD driver for linux is not an official release (its a hack driver) Usually I get 15-25 fps which is tolerable, however, when on Win 7 I get 60 fps. Im not sure how changing the profile could affect the rest of my system. Ill ask around and see if anyone knows anything. Thanks for posting this!
Anyone have some interesting tunes with the marriners horn? I am interested in the lord of the rings theme, but haven’t been able to find it. If anyone could post it? Im not too good with converting the sheets. also post some other tunes here.
PPS – Have you considered swapping the 20 in Dueling for 20 in Domination?
This would give you access to the Torch Cooldown Trait, longer Condition Duration, and the Crippling Dissipation Adept Trait for Cripple on Clone Death. Since you’re using the Scepter and Staff your clone generation is probably pretty good even without Deceptive Evasion, and since you’re not utilizing a Power Build, Critical Hits aren’t quite as important for landing / improving Condition Damage attacks.
You’d be missing out on the Vigor boost from Dueling 5, but would have 20% extended condition duration over all, plus additional Condition Removal on your Torch Skills, (something that Mesmers sorely need)
Yes this was my initial though, but the clones on dodge and retaliation on blocks is amazing for this, for shattering, and because you will be blocking a lot
Well, its new in the sense that traits have change, a lot and therefore changed the build a bit. i just use the scepter #1 to gain agro, that or scepter 3
As many of you know, the Invincible Mesmer build lost its retaliation effect and some survivability with the new update. However, I have finally come up with a build that has slightly lower tanking abilities, with massive condition damage.
Weapons – and why
Staff –
Chaos armor, gives protection, regeneration, swiftness, randomly, also applies confusion and blindness!
Chaos Storm. applies aegis for blocking (retaliation) and you will usually get more than one of these in while fighting inside your chaos storm. In addition it also grants retaliation! It all adds up in duration to about 20(s), that’s a good long while of damage from just being struck! you also apply weakness and poison to enemies and chill which increases their recharge time by 66%! Combine this with the daze from chaos storm and your enemy will be unable to use some skills fo a good while
you also get ethereal field, when combined with leap, that’s even more chaos armor. (leap with veil grants more retaliation – veil is one of the utility skills)
Scepter + Torch
The scepter creates clones every third attack from ether bolt, this comes in handy for shattering. The new torment skill is applied through a successful block using the #2 torch skill and is very powerful, especially when the enemy is moving ( this skill aso applies retaliation for blocking the attack!!! Confusing images gives 5 stacks of confusion for some pretty insane damage.
The torch really has come up in this build, The prestige skill grants stealth (boons – aegis and therefore more retaliation) and burning upon the skill ending (blast finisher). The blast finisher when combined with ethereal field give aoe chaos armor for 5 seconds. Phantasmal Mage gives you more retaliation and stacks 3 confusions on the target! What more could you ask for?
Armor
For this build you will want to be using Rabid armor for high toughness, high precision, and high condition damage. I Have not figured out what runes to use yet, open to suggestions
Traits
Dueling 20 – III, X
3(s) retaliation when you block – stacks duration and adds up!
Create clones when you dodge – comes in handy when shattering
Chaos 30 – V, X, XII
clones apply random condition when killed – extra damage
staff skills recharge 20% faster
cloaking skills last 1(s) longer, gain boons every second (protection,regeneration, aegis) – aegis allows blocking, aka retaliation
Illusions 20 – II, V
confusion lasts 33% longer – good for damage
cry of frustration grants retaliation – also applies confusion!
Utility Skills
Healing: Ether Feast
Veil, Decoy, (what ever floats your boat) i use Portal entry
Mass invisibility or timewarp.
- Additional Notes*
This build will inflict Extreme condition damage due to stacks of torment, retaliation, confusion, bleeds.
base skill rotation
scepter 1 x3
scepter 2
torch 5
scepter 3
scepter 1 till 2 pops up
scepter 2
torch 4 [switch staff]
stakitten stand in chaos storm for blast
staff 3
veil stand in it
staff 2
staff 4 [switch to scepter]
-repeat but skip first attack(scepter 1×3)-
I am wondering if there is a way to submit a complaint to the dev team about updates to the game. Does anyone one know of a way to do this, or maybe a way to start a petition?
Post up a comment of what you do not like, if you’re raging at the class balance. Trying to get a base number of how many people do not like it. I know I am. Mesmer vengeful images nerf completely screwed me over…. absolutely hate it.
Nope. I have no other lvl 80 job and even if I did all my ascended gear is on my Mesmer. Even if Arale doesn’t agree the changes they made particularly, the iC movement and the Vengful Retaliation nerf have broken the three builds I ran for PvE,PvP and WvW. They seriously took everything from me. I am just going to quit probably.
True that bro! My entire build was revolved around vengeful images. I spent 50 gold last week to spec for it and now all my gear is useless to me… Now I am spending even more gold trying to find another build I enjoy playing…. So much frustration. All the other changes to the game are ok by me, but I want this one trait turned back
(I jokingly reported the vengeful images nurf as a bug), Idk, maybe if enough people complain about it, they will change it back. Too bad we cant vote on what they change. It just seriously kitten es me off that every time I find an enjoyable build that isn’t squish, they change things around and **** everyone over- This is exactly what happened to SWTOR, and why it failed so hard…!!! ANET is better than this. Get it right!!!
dude, mantras have always had that healing trait. its still trash.
what do you mean??? how much damage are you doing ? and the cast time is 2.25(s). recharge 1(s)
also they should change back vengeful images. making a limit of 5(s) on it completely destroyed my favorite build…. Retaliation was my greatest damage dealer and now I cant kill anything – I recently spent ALL of my gold to spec for this build THIS WEEK!! And now its all useless…. Uuuugh so frustrating. Can we like, take a poll or something?? To see who wants things changed back? Or we could go on strike!
I’ve gotten a load of complements on my mesmer build over the past few days so I’ve decided to write a guide to it.
Build overview: Here|
This build relies on power, toughness, and vitality, as well as holding as many boons as you can during combat. The power is what gives retaliation its edge on the field. toughness reduces damage you take and vitality ensures that you can take hits. All in all, soldiers armor is the way to go for this build.
Weapons
Staff is your primary weapon and you will be using this the majority of the time. Alternatively, Sword and Focus will be your backup.
Traits
Domination – 15
[ VI Signet Mastery – signets recharge 20% faster ]
Dueling – 10
[ III Retaliation Shield – gives 3(s) of retaliation on blocking an attack ]
Chaos – 20
[ IV Illusionary Defense – Damage taken reduced by 3% per each illusion summoned ]
[ X Chaotic Dampening – +50 toughness using staff, staff skills recharge 20% faster ]
Inspiration – 20
[ V Persisting Images – Phantasms have 20% more health ]
[ VIII Warden’s Feedback – focus skills reflect projectiles, recharge focus skills 20% faster ]
Illusions – 5
Armor
All soldiers armor
Superior Rune of Lyssa (x6), alternatively you could use runes that increase boon duration, but I like to use Time Warp + Lyssa runes for all boons, then use signet of inspiration to transfer all boons to nearby allies (also applies to illusions) This gives a major damage increase and is useful for dungeons.
Calculations
At level 80 using this build and full exotic/ascend equipment the following stats should be approximately:
(no boons or food)
Power – 2161
Attack – 3272
Toughness – 1844
Armor – 2825
Vitality – 1844
Health – 25050
Retaliation Damage – 354 per tic
( Superior Sharpening Stone – 6% of toughness and 4% of vitality are added to power
Dragon Fish Candies – 6% of toughness is added to vitality
x25 Sigil of bloodlust- +10 power per stack
x25 Might )
Power – 3630
Attack – 4741
Retaliation Damage – 470 per tic
Game Play and Strategy
The objective is to keep boons on yourself, especially protection, regeneration, retaliation and occationally Aegis (for blocking), while applying boons and having your illusions bash the **** out of everything with retaliation [I will explain this in a moment].
Phantasmal Defender is you BEST FRIEND! Heep him on the field as long as possible! +20% health to phantasms (inspiration V) and Signet of Illusions helps accomplish this. Your best friend takes half of the damage from you, and every ally (your illusions included) near him. Combine this guy with Vengeful Images (retaliation to phantasms inspiration subtrait 1) and you have yourself a lethal killing machine. Any hit taken from you or anyone near you will be transfered to the defender (who has retaliation) which will damage the enemy who struck it.
So, If you have 2 Phantasms (one of them the defender) and the non defender is struck, the enemy is damaged from the initial phantasm retaliation, and then again from the defenders retaliation.
If you have 3 Phantasms (1 defender) and you all are struck from the same attack, thats 6 hits of retaliation per hit (nearly 2000 damage).
DoTs (damage over time conditions) also apply these retaliations. It adds up to be some massive damage. the most retaliation tics ive done in a second was about 20 to 25 with me and 3 phantasms standing in a trap that caused bleeding.
In addition to these retaliations, you will be doing massive hits from all the power you have, and you most likely will not die if you keep boons up, with all the toughness and vitality you have. I’ve taken on armies of level 80 risen and lived to tell the tale. Though there were some close calls with having less than 100 health.
skill rotation
Chaos storm
chaos armor
Phantasmal Defender
Phantasmal warlock
(cast a few winds of chaos)
[switch weapons)
Phantasmal Warden
Blurred Frenzy
Temporal Curtain
(stand in temporal curtain) Illusionary Leap [applies retaliation]
Into the void [pull enemy / knock down]
(attack a few with sword 1 skill)
(Switch back to staff)
—repeat—
PS: /dance
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