Guild Wars 2

What? Has Swordman being fixed?

-Do you notice this 25% in-combat?
-And just to compare, before traveler did you try centaur?

TooBz.3065:

No. This is completely wrong. Whether or not something else is optimal, I’m use to my WvW build. I’m in WvW 70+% of the time. My build affects how I play at a fundamental muscle memory level.

On a side point. I think you may have better success if you rephrase your point. For example, if you tell me to do something I instinctively say no. On the other hand, if you had said.

People were saying that are lazy and ont care about others. i actually can buy your memory thing, but that is not what they have said.
As you can notice im not english so sorry if what i wrote sounded rude
ah and come on. we both know that make people wait 39 secs to retrait to an optimal build (optimal meaning that party will get the best of you) will save them time.

U r right tho. this is getting offtopic. sorry colesy

Yes. While I agree with 9% Vs 200 power; the 20% less CD and 20% faster attacks, allows you to have 100% reflects uptime and 3 phantasm up anytime.

10/30/0/30/0 is a good setup also. Only problema is that you have a lower rump up phantasm setting and more trobles resummoning them.

Not big deal, true.

Yeah snow leopard is crazy. but i use it for my necro (a necro with disengage ability is kind of OP).

My mesmer us human by the way. Actally doesnt matter just go for the looks

AndrewSX, its me or if the mob die when you have the offand without bloodlust you dont gwt the charge

3% more damage  for each of your activeillusions .

Phantasms  recharge  20% faster.

From cell phone thats the best i can do for you atm

Illusions number III (more damage for you) and number X (more attack speed for your phantasms).

Try it, you will notice the difference.

AndrewSX.3794:

As far as sigil goes, Bloodlust on a off-hand (focus)

The problem that I had is that I was afraid of swaping weapons, so I end up putting bloodlust on main-hand and battles in off-hands (so I can swap on cooldown getting might and bloodlust’ stacks).

frifox.5283:

Yeah, some of us are lazy. That’s why I leveled a second mesmer :/

You are not lazy for level (why???) a second mesmer , and your are lazy for retrait. Point is?

Anyway, I always wanted a “retraiter” in front each dungeon door.

Are you serious? Yoy guys dont retrait cause you are lazy? I dont mind spend all time needed in a dungeon but not for people who is so selfish and dont have any kind of considetation for other people time. RETRAIT IS EASY FAST AND CHEAP. Think in someone else beyond you please.

Im going more or less like you. but here it goes.
All berserker
Mainhand sword sigil bloodlust and force once stacks
Offhands
sword sigil battle
pistol sigil battle
focus sigil battle
Twohand greatsword sigil strenght

And yes i change all the time, traits included.

Scepter would be good enough for me if they remove the clone generation of #1 and have a constant firing speed (just like guardian # 1 scepter).

Otherwise, yeah put some condition on #1 and gives a power pistol anmainhandI dont want another melee mainhand, sword is sooo good.

Scepter would be good enough for me if they remove the clone generation of #1 and have a constant firing speed (just like guardian # 1 scepter).

Second draft:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fgEQJAWWl0zCoHSzqGa9IiJFBHyhmx1ldlZgbXIA-jwBBIMBiEJQ5PFRjtKsIasaGYaUER1eEFRrOKAIC-e

I drop reflections and no swiftness but (at work so I cannot test) I think it should be able to keep 25 stacks of might, 25 stacks of vulnerabilty, 100% fury uptime, party wide.

The idea is to adjust how many phantasms you keep up according party capacity of stacking might and vulnerabilty.

What do you think?

Thanks guys!

15 char

Colesy: about group granting crit chance, when I typed I was thinking about bloodlust Vs perception issue.

About runes. How much are you really losing but not using ruby orbs and going with traveler’s or centaur?

Oh! Nevermind. I just realized that with a proper group you should be near 100% crit chance.

Thank you all.

Ty Xavi, I know about this post XD

Problem is when you put phantasm and bleed on crits on all this stuff.
I’m also still diciding between travelers or centaur runes (DPS wise)…

Pyro, how should I do the maths to calculate it (bloodlust Vs perception)?

Nice readout , thanks.
By the way: perception: 1 gold—-bloodlust: 6 gold

Final question. Currently I run with centaur runes on my berserker armor. Anyone has tried traveler’s?

So, it should be like using bloodlust and perception at the same time, get the stacks, and then change to battle and force(?)?

Hi you all,

I’m trying to max DPS on my phantasm (0-20-0-25-25) Mesmer.

Right now, I’m going with sigils of accuracy and force. As might and bloodlust charges does affect phantasm I would like to change my sigil. But I’m undecided and looking at different guides there are different options:
i) mainhand: strenght —offhand: bloodlust.
ii)mainhand: bloodlust —offhand: battle.
iii)mainhand: battle--offhand: force.

I went to the mists: —-battle : 6 stacks of might, but 3 with strength.
---strength: 3 stacks of might.

SO questions:
i) In a real dungeon and with pve gear, can strength stack more might than battle?
ii)Why sigil of accuracy is never considered?
iii) Why sigil of perception is never considered?

Many thanks

Long ago I run with a 20/20/0/0/30 shatter build. Dom IV is not consistent enough.

Xaylin, according wiki is a 10 sec cooldown. So far, I cannot find a shatter build that I like.

First draft:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fgAQNAsdWlwzqq3UTgGaNJxZGMf5oZg9sTqgqLVA3A-jACBYNCikGAEIwUCRM5pIaslhFRjVXDT5iIqOKAIC-e

I cannot test now but I would say that:
i) With sword AA we should get like 10-12 stacks.
ii) And with staff like 20-25 stacks.
Guess you can summon you phantasms properly and then focusing in getting as much stacks as possible.

That’s the thing Natsu, can we get 25 stacks with a berserker (with condition duration) build? Sword and staff autoattacks stack them, so…

Hi you all,

I will start theorycrafting how a mesmer can stack vulnerability (I want to compete with engineer -crazy face-) for a PVE dungeon build.

Before starting, as I cannot find any discussion about it, has anyone tried this before?

For a berserker Mesmer, which one will help me more damage wise?

Ty

Numbers are more or less ok (unbuffed). But how can you said that’s low DPS? With 3 phantasms and your own attacks… Maybe I just missunderstood your first post.

Xyonon.3987:

Phantasms deal low DpS. DpS means damage per second and if an iDuellist attacks every 5(?) seconds with 5k it makes him 1k dps wich is about melee GS aa. Only the iWarlock has a good dps against well condition affected enemies. He comes up to 3k DpS.

What? Come on!

Has anyone.made the numbers for those runes(damage wise)? Build would be a phantasm one 0-20-0-25-25 full berserker. I’m having hard time making the jumbers myswlf cause I don’t know how properly count the might stacking and bleedings.

There is a interesting pist that has been deleted in necro forum… you should check it. thing is, what if mantras would affect near allies? I think it would be huge and that would increase more needed build diversity.

When is scheduled?

colesy.8490:

I think that’s the Lupicus build.

No, Lupicus variant is 10/30/0/20/10.

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

The power vs. precision is irrelevant (although the precision is clearly better). What you care about is the +16% damage you’ll get from the mantras. That’s a pretty massive chunk of damage to be giving up in exchange for 1.3 seconds off your GS clone and 3.2 seconds off the phantasm.

Something like this is what you want, specifically.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fgAQBYEB1DsT7+OSFatSP4tLU2A

Run in, throw GS clones, swap to sword and make sword clone, shatter. If target isn’t dead, make a Swordsman and auto-attack, it shouldn’t take much longer than that.

Silly question. Damage wise, what about a mantra nuker (30/30/0/0/10)?

Go here:

http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/84947-mesmerizing-the-enemy-guide-to-mesmer-swordx-dps-builds/

Oh. Sorry I miss it.

Are you taking in account attack speed?

If I recall correctly, nemesis claims that hybrid does 60% the damage of a glass power build single-target wise; an does 60% the damage of a condition build multi-target wise.

For bosses (that means single target) power is the way to go. For trash go conditions.

Hybrid is one solution. The solution I like is to have two sets of gears (rabid and berserker) so with a 30/30/0/0/10 you can go as a condimancer or as a daggermancer just by changing gear and traits on the go. That way your are better in both aspects than with an hybrid build.

@colesy:
I saw it a couple of hours ago. This was the build that I was messing with after IC nerf and after seeing the Nemesis’ glass cannon mesmer post. Actually I’m not big fan of their “meta-builds”. I tend to like more “GK balanced builds” by the way (being 0/20/0/25/25 one of them).
But I stopped playing my mesmer in PVE and leveled a necro (which I’m very comfortable with a 30/30/0/0/10 changing the gear and traits to powernecro o conditionnecro on the run).

Now I want to go back to my old friend mesmer, and trying to find a build that I like (I miss to be able to trait GS when needed).

@Winds: Mind shre your build?

Ansau.7326:

I’ve tested 10/30/0/30/0 and 0/20/0/25/25 and I find the second much better. Despite all the damage you lose (100 power, 150 precision with sword trait, 10% critical damage and 15% phantasm damage) you even have the same sustained DPS with 0/20/0/25/25, thanks to Phantasmal Haste and illusionists Celerity.

yeah, no doubts about that.

I’m not sure what happen if you compare 0/20/0/25/25 with 10/30/0/20/10 taking compounding power and empowering mantras. Less damage from phantasms and more damage for you.

Although fun to run, it’s only good in PVE open world (and not so much after caltrops nerf).

Well, actually that is what I feared (shatter burst not being enough to compensate).
I will try it anyway, at least in CoF path1 :-D

Just wondering, are you running 0/20/0/25/25 or 10/30/0/20/10?

I agree with Lopez in this one. Also, one thing I like about 30/30/0/0/10 is that you can change your gear and traits on the run in case you end up with another condition guy to avoid being useless or just for a single target situation (I prefer change gear&traits insted of hybrid setup approach).

I know everyone recommends phantasms build for dungeon, but I want to try a shatter one (at least just for fun). Main issue is projectile reflection.
So I was thinking in something like:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fgAQRAsa8cl0zqq3TTgGa9ICqHYX39dkU0awWJF82FC-jUyAYrBRTZCERI0Jviox2GKiGrSCTVCrcHiq3IzRBERA-w

Questions:
1) Are shatters builds are inferior to phantasms builds damage wise ?
2) When needed, are Masterful reflection, mimic mirror, feedback and untraited focus enough?

Howdy,

just wondering what title says. Guess engineer or guardian but I’d like to know your opinions.

By the way, going on topic, my last build was a “utility mantra nuker” using sword mainhand as much as possible:
10(III)
30(II-IV/IX-XI)
0
20(traits here change a lot)
10 (III)
full berserker