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@UnknownFreak

Hi happy you like the vid.

For stats its important to split sPvP stats discussion and wvwvw stats. Runes thu is same. I basicly living in wvwvw with 450 hours minimum of pure wvwvw of my 560h played as solo or group wvwvw’ing, never realy go with zerg unless guild work with another guild for a keep etc.

For runes if you after high blurred and shatter dmg you need to get your crit dmg higher. Air runes x5 give 10% extra crit dmg, with 1 divinity 12%.

In wvwvw I only have 16900 hp atm, 1150~toughtness but as you see Im not easy klled, in groups im usualy one of the last to go down even with ehvay AOE dmg going around. In offensive stats im around 102% crit dmg and 53% crit chance, with fury (20% crit chanse) and some stacks of might I had 7500+ blurred frenzys, best mindwrack I had was a crit of 5200, but thats not common numbers, just some glascannon with low dodge skill.

About thiefs, I try add atleast 1 thief fight in every film, will in the future do a porper guide for thiefs unless ppl work it out. Yes they hit hard and have som bugged mecanics but its possible to sort it out, and dotn forget we hit about as hard, mabye harder if you add that our dmg is aoe. Trick is to participate when to use immunitys, move alot and hit in solid bursts when time is. I run ito this high stealth thiefs in wvwvw from time to time early morning roaming and its usualy interesting and LOOOOOONG fights if they skilled, if they bad they take a burts and die. Tip is that AIR runes and FIRE AOE sigil both make life a piss for this buggers, its almost unavoidable dmg for many of them and if you also add a shatter nr 3 and a mindwrack they go down.

For SPvP I run berserker amulett and air runes or divinity runes. Have higer crit dmg that way. If im a point holder I switch spec to 0-20-20-0-30 if not I run shatter cat 10-30-0-0-30

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PS @all,Second part of the mesmer Shatter spec Shatter Cat video Guide is up.

@quercus, I undertand it hurt, but in my oppinon even if others mabyte dont share it the answer to that is not build more passive defensive stats but to use the skill mecanics etc. If thiefs need a nerf to burst or not I wont discuss in this thread thu as it kinda litter the threads it taken up.

I dont die to thiefs more than other classes, not do I find em especialy hard compared to other classes and you know my stats.

Feel free to see my latest vid, its alot about surviving, im sure you like it.

@Swedeamon, shatter 3 daze the target repvent it form escape by use a defensive skill. It also awars a might stack for you.

About 1 + 2 What I in most cases do when it look like I hit em simultanius is that I hit 1 then mirror and 2 in a extremly fast sequence. A few times thu I hit the 1 and 2 in same time if enemy is 5-10% hp and i just need to get that last extra little dmg out or i know i will reset shatter wery soon so i mightaswell use it.

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PS: Second part of the mesmer Shatter spec Shatter Cat video Guide is up.

Why I listed the stats instead of the gear, I taken the exact gear guide away and given recomendated stats. I gone up from initial 1050 toughtness and 16050 vit to a bit higher vit of valkyr jevels, event ring. crit dmg stay the same that way and with maitence oil and prec / crit dmg food + a 5% crit dmg sigil my burst is about same.

The guide is in constant develop and last 2 weeks I changed some of my jewelery to increce my stats. One change was get the event ring who give 25 to al stats and 3% crit dmg.

If you need a little extra toughtness and vit get the invader ring and put in a berserker jewel.

/Osicat

PS: Second part of the mesmer Shatter spec Shatter Cat video Guide is up.

@Xavi, PM,d you. Seem to be only canada and germany as said, germany never work so they usualy proxy. New movie is Fantastic thu if it helps

@Leo Paul, with high crit you have so mouch vigour that 2 energy is not nessesery, better have 1 acctive dmg aoe and 1 passive. Best in my oppinion is Fire aoe + 5% dmg alt 5% crit chanse.

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@rest, Second part of the mesmer Shatter spec Shatter Cat video Guide is up.

Good iniative. +1

/bow

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Cant talk for others but Judge been doing small wvwvw guerilla warfere sens release and I love every day. Deso server been goin up and down, atm its a bit emty in wvwvw but if you there with a smal group and doing the best you can out of the situation, dodging zergs, taking camps and dollys and hit any mid sice group you can ambush its alot of fun. i dont see a reason to reroll server to on a winning server.

Cya yout there eather with my team or solo

Just how fun you can have solo in wvwvw, I mix my solo gaming with cap camps or hit groups of ppl on the way between the camps. It dont have to be easy to be fun. Have a good acctive wvwvw oriented smal guild help alot thu if you like that kind of gameplay.

Latest PvP vid of me, Judge do several good raids / week in borderlands. Never had so many good frineds and fun as I have in judge, been here 7 years aand love it.

@Xavi. Its blocked in germany and Canada, you can thu see it thru proxy.
Have you tryed to watch it thru guildwars 2 forum? just click the play button on the video picture/tubnail then max sice it.

Try it, Al ppl i have talked to say it work and they also say its my best video so far so its worth a watch Im wery happy with it.

Cheers Kylia ty for al gj.

Im not sure if its fits the profile for your guide section but I have made a 2 part guide for my wvwvw setup Shatter cat on the side of al my other movies. Its no commentary only text and tactic explanation to the playstyle etc. Still if it fits the Guide profile I would be a Happycat if you could bump em in

Part 2:

Part 1

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Second part of the mesmer Shatter spec Shatter Cat video Guide is up.

Enjoy and feedback

quercus.9261:

The problem I have always had with a full glass/shatter build is splash damage from seige and thief adds. Lately the only roamers I am seeing are thieves and D/D elementalists. P/D cond thieves eat a glass shatter mes for lunch. For DD eles you need boon removal to have a chance.

Hi and ty for feedback. I understand but dont 100% agree

Yes tbh Shatter Cat build dont fit everyone or even is fun for everyone. What I trying to show with this guides etc is a alternative way to play the mesmer compared to the original phantasm or passive deffense builds. For those who get it to work even the classes/situations you mention is not a problem. Note that this is not a full glass cannon in eather gear or build, defensive stats is listed in start.

About only roamers you met is eles/thiefs I can just say that i beleve you but I been roaming soon ower 450 game hours of my 560 played with mesmer and I meet a good variety of classes, and i can asure you that mesmers are scary roamers.

About splach dmg etc its just a matter of learn to play the build.

For you and some others who still want a even tankier Shatter Cat setup I created this movie.

Its even more defensive gear on and reflection aswell.

PS new movie is ready and getting uplaoded 2 night.

:) Had 4 × 3,8 on some poor glascannon last weekend.

@Striker

Yes when I talk about the 4 illsuion effect I mean:

Illusionary Persona: “Shattering illusions creates the shatter effect on you as well.”

Trait line: Illusions
Tier: Grandmaster
Type: Major

It give a addtional shatter effect for dmg and utility but aslo make it possible to do a shatter without have a clone out, examplae you se a enemy jump towars you, hit f4 and imune the 1st s of attack. Hit f3 dazze him, then counter attack.

A thre clone mw who if al crit hit for 3k+ x 3 would be 3k x 4 but also apply 4 stacks of confusion and award 4 stacks of might.

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I did this guide as ppl was unsure about benefits of TIME WARP to clones. It was filmed wery recent, clearly show clone conditions. Aslo did a wvwvw run this morning for some morning ganking and camp capping, saw al 3 conditions on enemys when my clones attacked.

I will thu as I not thought of it go test it some more today and If I do find out you are correct then I come back to you and admit I was wrong

KK i will try stick to pure pve

In Instances and general at 80 mesmer is a fun and effective member of a team, for solo farming ore, wood and food supply its smooth with al blinks and stealths. Only place we dont shine in is in farming parties of bigger size.

As I despite al kinda of big group framing this fits me wonderfull. A fast ore farm if I depseratly need gold but I rather do Fractals and instances in general as group play suit us so well. For karma I never had any problem, noticed I had 600k+ the other day and I have not spent a hour farming in Orr.

Join the mesmer ranks but not for a farm alt, do it to learn to play a amazng class flexible like a poledancer dualwealding swiss army knifes.

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@Cares Less. I remaking the gear part recomendation today, will move away form specific what gera in what slots. Il instead recomend stats as some ppl prefere get a invader ring for defensive stats etc.

Il going to do recomended defensive stats, how you reach em is up to your number of gold, badges crafting etc. Hope this help some confusion as I recently been using some jewels in some slots for hp/crit, a event ring with 25 to al stats and 3% crit etc.

Recemeded stats is now listed in the guide, also list them here:

My recomended defensive stats for shatter cat spec.

16500-16900 hp to handle conditions.

1100-1150 toughtness for camp capping,.

50% minimum crit chanse with food (70% with fury) for constant vigor in battle.

Defenisve stats is ranked in this order for me.

16500-16900 hp > 50% crit > 1100-1150 toughtness.

@ Unknown, ty mate, it take practice but so many fun

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@striker. Hi mate and its fun you ask just this question as its the main subject of my next movie I been working on for about a week Its just about to be done and I should have it ready to post today. Just need to see if I can find out why some ppl dint get the sound on my last vid correct.

I will line up some base tipps thu that al will be more clear when you see the comming video guide. In you face multiple enemys you want to save one distance opener/closer, get portal up and dont spend the shatter reset to fast. The burst you do in the start should be aimed on get eather the most dangerous or easiest kill. in a 3 vs 1 its not cowardish to with a non full mw burst focus and bring the weakest /low lvl player down 1 st to save you some headace. some base rules that help:

-Never stomp thiefs, mesmer or elementalists with spiritform left without a time warp, burst the down.

-In a 1 vs x never try burst a enginer, necro or guardian down 1 st if you have options.

-Save disorsion if you have distraction (shatter nr 3) free and enemy close, use a 0 clone snatter 3 will save you as good.

-Terrain is not your enemy, its your friend. No other class can in a instant move so many time up and down a cliff and los like you. A Los is as effective as a dmg immunity, you still spawn clones and you with some cowardish hiding can get a few cd,s up before engage again ( juking los is pro! in, burst, los in burst).

-If you down a warrior dont waste burst on him, eather a) shatter nr 4 stomp him, b) time warp stomp c) leave him and be prepaired to kite him a while. As soon he pop hes super rally, blink, drop a portal and start kite, alternative use a already dropped portal.

Al this tips sound easy but is harder to execute, what they have in common is that they save you from use cd,s you need for the other enemys. In a 1 vs 1 situation it dont matter, just kite, juke burst etc. Why a good executed mesmer fight sometimes can se staged it cause its accualy is, but not from al parts, if a mesmer from start know what he want to do he can in a way controll the fight, I often say to myself before I jump a pack, I want to down player a, kite player c and supress, cc player b etc.

wvwvw is great in this way, as its beside camp capping is no points you need to hold for your team for x seconds you can take your time and self chose where and when to fight. About what is most benefit for yor server and reward most points I say solo or 3-5 man pvp roaming is best but its also most fun.

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Interesting how you can use staff as a wep and shatter as a build, be extremy effective and still play totlay different and spec totaly different. I looking at embolism here who obious go for condition dmg build, dont bother with mirror immage or mindwrack and as I understand feel sucessfull. Me on other hand see condition as a bonus, mirror immage as a essensal part of utilitys and burst and think a extra bounce on staff is nowere near as important as 50% hp= reset shatters or 3% dmg /clone.

We both seem to agree that 10% crit is a minor improvment compared to the string alernatives we have in illusion.

I do thu even on well geared players see serious mindwrack dmg on top of al other. Confusion have a spot in any shatter build, Personaly I use it to controll the enemy more than accualy deal dmg, but ofc if he stupid enought to try strike back with 10+ stacks I bow and ty for the badge.

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Using a sair bit of portals in my gameplay, see some of the vids on my guide for tipps etc if you like.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/guide-WvWvW-Shatter-cat/page/3#post857910

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Illusionary persona ftw

@Kalf, Best tips I can give you for lvling a mesmer is eather

a) (like me) be overenthusiastic and love every part of what you do, take detours to look at a nice wiev and climb random trees for fun. Spend a silly amount of time wipe vs better geared higer lvl ppl that dont undertstand why the low lvl mesmer keep jump them in wvwvw and so on.

b) Speed lvl up to higher lvlvs 60+ get some gear and feel the power of your later Traits. To lvl fast in guildwars there is a few things that help, crafting can get you alot of lvls very wast with xp on crafting bonus thing, also always use food for xp bonus etc. Alot of deiciverys and focus on 1 profession, arteficing is cheep, the higher you get the more you get / discovery.

Also remeber as long you in pve gear is making matter, if you run with some + crit dmg and presition you kill things easier. Go for events and try dom instances with your guild, not only good rewars, you get ALOT of xp.

:)

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RuneValkyrie.3672:

As far as I know its really not that smart to waste a Time Warp for your clones or phantasms because they still have to wait for their cool down between attacks before they can fire their next attack. And TW only speeds up the attack animation not the cool down between attacks.

Im sure clones are affected by time warp both in boon application and condition. Also even if they was not the tactic speed your own attacks up and time stomp, making it valid. Now that is not the situation thu. About phantasm shatter it as soon it used its attack to make new clones.

Time warp and clones:

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Small mini skill guide for clones and Time warp:

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Idd, we have alot of neat smal tricks to enjoy a siege. Still what it al come down to is that we have a skill that is so uttrely imortant to a siege that what ever dmg we do with other skills or feedbacks or even the glamour condition dmg build playing it worth nothing in compare.

Noting we can do and not alot others can do is as impprtant as to get supply runs soprted into a sieged tower by transport 10 runners in carrying supply. We are the only class that can make it possible to in a smoth way get a train of supply for repair a braking door/ wall or get siege equipment built. Our portal bombing of enemy sige equipment is also totaly amazing for a siege and can turn he whole battle.

When im not needed for any of this 2 I usualy get reflection on disorsion up, find a nie pack of ranged enemys, hit a chaos field on them and a Azura radiation field. when they get a little lower on hp I throw. feedback bubble and wait 2 sec as tfhey take a lottle dmg and move out. Often they now keep shoot so I do a sneeky 4 sec reflection on myself with a mirror immage and a dodge clone. I also use gs in sieges as it can be effective. Sill rhis is minor things compared to other services we can do for our team.

@Merry, cheers

@Influx, Il see what I can do. I do alot of dungeons with my guild on the side of the wvwvw ing and I run the same build. I dont think its so big difference in gear/skills/food that I can fill a full guide but Il try get enought for a Mini guide as you said if there is ppl who accualy Is interested in this. I start film sections to explain how I try be of use to the team on the side of my next wvwvw film (who going to be awsome, working on something special).

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Kasama.8941:

That awkward moment when you rally, and start reviving your own clone…

Hahha yeah, im nut sure that physical contact is even leagal..

@ zid Yes its a solid trait for longer substainted fights and one of the 3 options to use as the 3 rd trait in illusion listed in the guide explanatin section for traits, read if you want a deeper explanation. I personaly prefere 3% dmg / clone but retaliation and reflection is both solid traits. Only backside I see is that in smal group romaing or solo you usualy strike like a viper and out again, not receving full benefit of the retaliation trait but using the % dmg fully.

I do use it thu in my non wvwvw build 0-20-20-0-30 that I play with sometimes.

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@Jadjay, sadly its hard to get any videos with music alloved to be shown on youtube and music is a central part of my videos. I will instead tell you a little trick to get past this block that might work for you ( it work for most ppl). Go to first page in this thread where I posted my vids, then click the play button on the tubnail vid, it should now start play the movie without take you to youtube ( proxy by guildwars 2 hompage). Important is that you not click the link but the film. Its after yu got it stated possible to maximice it.

@Taldren, sure mate, what ever works for you. I presented my build/guide in a time when it was heavy doubted due to its low passive survival and 90% of the mesmers played phantasm and GS,s. I never claimed it to be the best build or that the other builds out there to be unvalid, what I do is present a guide of a setup and build that work for me, show why it work and add some video guids how I get it to work.

@fwost I in non wvwvw pvp been running Arcane thevery and null field instead of portal when I found it needed, for pve its absolutley a needed choice for some bosses in instances, for wvwvw thu as the mecanics been changed latley and yortal is sutch a strong tool I would not do that but sure try it out. Best way in roaming to handle a condition target for me is to juke heavy and land maxed bursts. Land a big burst, juke out and let some conditions drop while you keep a phantasm / a few clones at target, then juke in and land a new burst etc. Condition players generaly is build for substained dmg and passive survival, try deny them their brawl ala roll around in the grass close combat. Also use terrain, staff 2 , blink and portal al can in short notice give you los who dont affect your clones but stopp condition application.

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JohnJSal.8634:

How do you conjure three clones in one second? Mirror Images?

Yepp, I tend to use it on ppl with <50% hp. Blink to them, do a dodge ower em hit mirror same time and shatter 1, if you pro it up extra you swap to staff in the roll and hit 2 and you not only downed him but got some range, have 100% energy. After that its depend on situation what you do.

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I cant say for everyones but personaly i say it with another passive might be a winner but atm the survival from portal and blink is needed and burst of mirror immage. Some trade portal for decoy and thats is extremly valid option, or null field but same again.

2 defensive 1 offensive utility is kinda needed with the lack of passive survival. It would be if you dropped portal and time warp then got mass invis to pick up the signet but it is a down trade.

Pls thu feel free to experement, if you after a week feel you do superb with it, film it and get a vid to prove me worng

Cheers, think outside the box is easy as there is no box

Cheers mate, well tbh in my opinion for a phantasm build Phantasm fury > blade training so you can always drop 5 in dueling and get fury on phantasm + 3% dmg reduction / illusion

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@Derderik, A totaly valid option and you get the same ressult as as I I am. Now mind I dont speak for any other shatter mesmers only for myeslf and my own guide but here is my recomended defensive stats.

16500-16900 hp to handle conditions. 1100-1150 toughtness for camp capping,. 50% minimum crit chanse with food (70% with fury) for constant vigor in battle.

Defenisve stats is ranked in this order for me.

16500-16900 hp > 50% crit > 1100-1150 toughtness.

Hope this is helpfull.

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Ps if you unused to manage your energy get the energy renegation food, you can deffo play without it but when I was still learning the build I used it, now i just get enought crits ongoing al time for constant vigor.

Yeah the nr 3 is free interupt + 1 sec dazze + 1 might stack. As you in point blanck range you dont want to use it with clones.

About gear, no not realy, try get used to balance your shatters and energy (dodge) so you never endup with no cd,s and no energy. Also like a revolver gunslinger count hes bullets in a firefight you need to count your shattter reset. If you have it ready and at 10k hp, burst u shatters and immunitys and let hp drop to 50% before you heal to reset them. Can have 10-12 sec immunity in short time this way.

sword 2 (2 sec) dissorsion (4 sec) drop to 50%, dodge, staff 2, another 4 sec immunity + heal, sword 3 —→ sword 2 another 2 sec immunity + dmg It make some ppl ALT f4, beleve me.

Good point on glamour Embolism, missed that totaly as i expected compounding clerety here, dint look tbh. Also I think Manipulation cd is a good trait but 3% less dmg/clone to be beter.

Hi and wc to mesmer community

Looks like a solid Phantasm spec, if you learn to work around the phantasm misses on immunities dodges etc its a viable classic build even if I would recomend drop clone on dodge from dueling and get protection on renegation from chaos.

I let the phantasm mesmer specialist go into the deeps but sure try it out and mess around with the traits. Make sure u know whta you wnat your spec fpr, dps, support, pvp, pve (dungeons or farming) etc etc and its easier to help.

Some ppl will ask you for what gear you aim to use aswell, condition, tanky or dmg. With the staff, sword/p combo I would go for a mix of valkyre/knight with some berserker but thats me and Im sure others have other ideas.

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Just saying ;D

http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll103/osianic/Sucktobemesmer.jpg

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Ps yes I have to muthc free time

@Drederic. First, happy you like the build and my vids, feels good also that even if my spelling not is optimal and sometimes even the text itself is kinda fail I get what I try to show said I not a wery good speller as ppl niticed by now and I do misstakes in edeting, I try improve and keep make the stuff.

About decoy I cant nothing else than agree its fantastic skill. It hurst me alot to turn it dosn but I started to do that when I started run with the guild groups as its extremly good team spell. After a while I got so used to it I adaped my combos and tactic to it and now I kinda feel I need the spell. Its in no way wrong to do other skills etc thats how we improve and I learn alot every day from this amazing community full of skilled mesmers.

Your combo seems solid even if you name the skills wrong I understand what you mean. It sound like it should be usefull to do with a Pistol 5 when you chase somone. BLINK—→5——>3——>4——>dodge towards enemy—→3—→2+shatter 1—→shatter 3——→Decoy + mirror——>shatter 2.

Shatter nr 3 would give a extra might + prevent defensive skills usage.

Im free several days now So it will be alot of WvWvW, especialy as desolation dropped to tier 2 and roaming suddenly got alot easier. Guild is practicing TS cordinated camp cappings with smal teams to be able to cap 3-4 camps in 1 map simutanius and then run. Will be fun to se how it work out. Will also work on a new movie but wont post any new matereal for some time now as I feel the things I posted last week still is fresh.

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haha that was a sutile and good one +1

on the side, added 2 thief fights in my last vid to start with.

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Haha my problem is that i love the speed of spear, I kinda ignore its dmg abilitys and rely on shaters to do dmg in water.

Kasma is accualy spot on about the set discussion even if I prefere it the totaly opposite way Let me explain what I mean. If you like me go full power crit and crit dmg build ( with a little vitality for conditions and toughtness for camp capping) you depend alot on the skills of utility etc to survive. For this on side of my sword / pistol staff offer everything I want. Mobility for chase ppl down or retreat, high clone production, chaosarmour and field. It also give me ranged clones that i can place between me and a target and if target get close i shater em. Ilock crit for ~ 6-7 k in a fight aswell.

So yes as a power mesmer I use staff with great sucess, tbh I get ownd wihout it.

Question is not only " do staff use power" but do power scale well with a build using staff. Almost all shatter specc use staff, especialy the burst ones, and these specces is based on power.

Also I kinda doubt GS atm as primary wep, sure slmone might think its still a fantastic wep and nothing would make me happier than somone prowe me wrong by find a effective way to wvwvw with GS at its current state that outshine s/p for shatter spec. It already lack defensive set, it depends on range witch is against illusionary presona shatter setup. Pls dont take offense if anyone loving gs read this, I am wrong aswell from time to time and just say my oppinion not the truth by god.

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In my oppinion trade illusionary persona for extra vulerability be less effective.

@ kavia, he mean the domination minot trait, dazzling " vulerability for 3 sec on daze" that stay for 3 sec, 5 stacks. A chaos storm might apply same aoe effect in some way. Beside that im not sure how he gets the numbers (:

Drunken Mad King.8193:

Mesmer is active. That is why I play one because my character never stays still to fight. You constantly are on the move and doing things.

I was dodging all the time as a mesmer and that was before I got a clone on dodge (now that I do it’s even more golden to dodge).

It feels like you are dancing while battling.

If you don’t feel like thinking and moving while battling then don’t roll a mesmer.

Well said. Tbh, put on a good song, grab a staff and a prefered mh/oh, attack 1 vs x and start the dance Lovely lovely profession, soon 600 h mostly in wvwvw here and still love every moment of it. Good that there is so many ways to play the class aswell, find your approach while lvling is my 10 cent

Nice thing with the shatter confusion setup Drunk mad king play and ofc any shatter build with deep illusion is that the confusion dmg on shatters snowball, not only do they stack up but also the might stacking up so when enmy going to counter attack he have 10-13 stacks of confusion and powered by 8 stacks of might.

Just a question, you sure the 1 st initial hit by cry of frustration only scale with condition dmg? I have no exta condition dmg but with 100% + crit dmg and some power it hit kinda hard. Atleast its benefiting by crit chanse and crit dmg as it can crit.

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didnt know that, fun fact

Just to be clear, there is no chanse, what ever build or trating you do, nomatter what weaponds or stats you after that those 5 points in dueling for confusion on clone death is better or even close to illusionary persona.

Illusionary persona is the best trait in the whole mesmer arsenal, to drop that fro have your clones apply confusion on death is a misstake.

Beside that experement with al traits, builds etc you feel for. Best way to learn.

GL

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Hi.

I got questions why I dont use my heal more often in fights when im ~9k hp. Example is last movie 1st fight and the 1 vs x fight later in. Reason is that If i dont feel afraid of get burst down atm I like to use up my shatters 1st for might and shatter effect then on purpose take a little more dmg with finger hoovering ower dodge/heal to have my shatters refrech’t by the 50% reset trait.

A solid tactic that I think the benefits for al is clear but easy to miss in heat of battle.

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PS Sorry for kittenup the text colour for last guide, will find a better way to post tactics for next movie. I tryed to not interfere with the action to moutch with my text but overdid it. Sorry.

Good trick is to get 3 staff clones up vs 2+ targets, then get time warp and a iwalock. Let lock hit then sahtter. Do a insance amount of dmg for offence of a defensive wall of dmg if you need to escape.

Its a solid tactic and I use it often vs classes with low condition resitance but high burst as it shield me from enemy.

See the folowing vid from the “Shatter cat” build and notice the 1st fight vs 2 thiefs.

guide: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/guide-WvWvW-Shatter-cat/page/2#post837681

Gl

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PS. staff is a fantastic wep <3

Thief section in start of my latest guide:

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New Mini Guide.

Alternative Shatter cat build with a bit more survival, 2 more knights peaces + reflection. I dont use this setup but made this vid on demand from ppl folowing my vids. Same 10-30-0-0-30 build, reflective trait instead of 9% dmg.

vid include

1: Survival Shatter cat
2: Some thief how to in wvwvw
3: Basic portal attack for group fights.

@Mayumi, this build is most effective after lvl 40 when you ave illusionary persona, without that you cant use any of the tactics I use in pvp. For pve its wery effective even if you need 2 change some skills on your utiliity bar depending on boss.