Guild Wars 2

oneply.9586:

Snakebyte.2804:

Do you have WvW badges and/or karma? Jury rig a celestial 3kit rifle set up with zerk, knight, valk , and rabid gear. Good for roaming and you can zerg and tower defend as a nade chucker.

Example: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fdEQFAUlUUpErtbxkLseNCbBNyx0GRuxq85DEgkC-TFyEABGoE06HAgQ7P0i6PcoDYgLAAAm/+R5HpAgZLA-w

Switch Power Wrench to scope and IP to explosive powder for zerg fights. Sigils are whatever. That new AOE poison one may be good too.

i like that build
and ya the only thing i am poor in is gold, lots of badges laurels karma and what not.

Wonderful! Glad I could actually contribute to this forum. The runes are whatever too, but I’m currently in a gold strapped situation myself and using Ele Runes on my newly crafted ascended celestial armor (!!!!!) myself until I can afford pack or hoelbrak. Haven’t decided.

Do you have WvW badges and/or karma? Jury rig a celestial 3kit rifle set up with zerk, knight, valk , and rabid gear. Good for roaming and you can zerg and tower defend as a nade chucker.

Example: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fdEQFAUlUUpErtbxkLseNCbBNyx0GRuxq85DEgkC-TFyEABGoE06HAgQ7P0i6PcoDYgLAAAm/+R5HpAgZLA-w

Switch Power Wrench to scope and IP to explosive powder for zerg fights. Sigils are whatever. That new AOE poison one may be good too.

Guys, you got me all hyped at work. I’m embarrassing myself right now.

An item that eats Essence of Hype. It’s filling my inventory right now.

Ross Biddle.2367:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/Build-Phantrupt-Asskicker-CS-Interrupt/first

It’s this build. You may have already seen it.

Oh, I did see that. You were talking about WVW though so I thought you had one modified for WVW. My bad. +1 for responding to me though. I love the Mesmer community!

Ross Biddle.2367:

A standard 4, 4, 0, 0, 6 IP shatter burst with GS can drop a ton of damage in an instant. But in WvW its not considered the best for roaming, or rather it has its downsides.

I introduced a CS build recently that’ll unload a ton of damage, and is nasty vs thieves. Here’s an example.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=r1Snhq7FkT0#t=110

Otherwise your problems sound more of a l2p issue. If you’re full glass and you dont see a thief coming, then yes you’re gonna get rekt. If a ranger with LB opens his pew pew on you and you don’t counter it somehow, of course you’re gonna have a bad day. There are numerous approach to combat vs these two opponents that’ll make things go in your favor. Some of these are tactical (such as using LoS), others are build related.

Ross, could you create a build editor link for that when you get a chance? For those of us who don’t have YouTube at work but are still bored?

I’m playing condi shatter right now and I’m liking it. I’m irked though because I want traveler’s runes speed with perplexity/torment rune damage. I’ve tried perplexity with torch and a speed sigil as well as perplexity with a focus. Neither has quite satisfied me.

Anyway, I was wondering what runes you run and if you have any ideas about my speed problem.

Hamster, why are you running blasting staff in your Fresh Air build link?

Ross, what do you use post-Maim buff?

Well you are running CI so I figured you’d be popping enough interrupts to make perplexity worth it. Do you just not run CI when you don’t run MoD? I thought interrupts were the whole point. I’m a noob though so I may be missing something.

I run p/d perplexity cancer in WVW because winning is more fun to me than having a fun fight.

Curunen, why torment over perplexity? I run a similar build with perplexity and I love it.

Hey, I want to create a WvW condi shatter roaming build for my Mesmer. Walking slow in WvW is terrible so I’d like Travelers, but can I still be viable without the extra damage from Torment or Perplexity, the other two runes I was considering? If not, would yall think Torment or Perplexity is better?

Would you rather make a warrior, get bored, and make an engi? Or just start with an engi?

What’s a good PU Power build?

What do y’all find to be the best WvW version?

I’m going to try this build with aristocracy runes for crazy might stacking. Here is my version for WvW. I went with ER for my heal for the Condi cleanse and the low CD to proc Aristocracy 6 more often. Also FGS because I like mobility.

Would Aristocracy work instead of strength runes?

Illusion of Wayne Brady:

Clones hop into an old Cadillac and shoot out the windows at enemies for 20 seconds. 1 gun per clone in the pink illusionary pimpmobile. 120 second cool down that’s shortened to 60 seconds when you harvest “plants.”

I’m going to try this build with MoD and Perplexity runes to cause as many rage quits as possible in WvW.

As for travelers runes, over the course of a sprint equal to the duration of the trained focus cool down (20sec) you have 33% extra speed for 15.5 seconds and 0% speed for 4.5 seconds. 33*15.5/20 = 25.575% weighted speed over the course of the sprint, which slightly surpasses the landspeed of Travelers if you use your curtain perfectly. Therefore I do not find Travelers runes speed for that 4.5 seconds of no swiftness worth the offensive power you give up.

Zadarh.1932:

PU condi offers the best escapes and will allow you to kill almost anyone that isn’t smart enough to move out of your range.

I have a non-pu condi Mesmer build on my YouTube channel. It works nicely because some players think it’s PU but I can do a 5 clone shatter creating a 10 torment stack AOE. In the video you see me land it on a near full health guardian and he gets downed in like 4 secs.
http://youtu.be/htmaw1uSzKU

I really like the looks of this. Thanks for sharing!

In his defense, admitting that you’re wrong on an internet forum is next to impossible.

……how is baiting somebody NOT active?

Do we really care that much if it’s passive or not? Let’s just all agree that PU is sunglasses passive aggressive.

YEEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

So my logic behind Sw/F is that with Pack runes your swiftness from curtain lasts over 20 seconds. I did the math and over a 25 second sprint (the cooldown of curtain) you have an average speed of 26.something%, meaning that you don’t really need Traveler’s runes. If I did GS/Staff, I’d lose the awesomeness that is Pack runes. I’ll try both GS and Staff and see which I like better.

So to recap and stay on topic:

PU Condi and PU Power are the best solo roaming builds despite their flaws,Power Shatter and CI Lockdown are the best for havoc groups, and Shatter Condi fits somewhere in that too. Did I miss anything? Anybody else want to add anything?

Maybe something like this for WVW group play?

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fhAQNAsdRlknpGtFqxMNcrNipxY6biJHSGQDlslxB-TlCFwANVOA4QAcVJISlcCeCAd0DkRTQt9HUp+TiTAAZAy3CA-w

I played Ranger in GW1 so I like the interrupt idea. Greatsword or staff though?

Calliope, is your CI build power or condi?

Gearing up a Mesmer for WvW roaming, both solo and small group. Is Condi PU good for both? If so, what trait set up? If not, what do y’all find to be the best solo build and best group build?

Maybe I can just equip a speed sigil then :P

Who is Lupi? Lupi Fiasco, obviously. Also I readily admit to only following guides.

As long as it has max tagging for bag$, I’m cool with it.

Toybox.2940:

Eh. I guess I’m just not pro enough for this forum, and this is just going to turn into a fight I’m not interested in, so I’ll just admit I’m wrong and take my leave.

Dude, you can’t go around admitting that you are wrong. This is the Internet, for goodness’ sake!

Does focus work with the CS build? I want to play it in WVW and need some sort of swiftness if I’m using Mesmer runes instead of Traveler.

Snakebyte.2804:

IGN: Illuuusions Michael
Role: Scholar and Tester
Server: Isle Of Janthir
Playstle: WvW Main, PVE for money.
Time: Most Weeknights, Random times on weekends.

I couldn’t get in bc my guilds were maxed but now I have free room. Add me please!

Underwater also makes them lose stacks if they don’t have a sigil on their water weapon!

Knight’s gear. I use it with Pack Runes for both my SD gank squad/power roam build as well as my power backliner nade build.

He should have dropped bombs. He was already in combat thanks to the mesmer so he could have dropped bombs to get more folks in combat and used glue bomb.

I run 4/6/0/4/0 but that’s bc I prefer less phant damage and less healing in return for the GS cool down.

Engineer equipped with mobile siege capabilities is something I’ve wanted for awhile. It just makes so much sense for the class! Replace mortar with this suit.

I actually kind of like this. I’d still probably run full dire bc of poor power scaling but combining the annoyance of P/D with the annoyance of Panic Strike intrigues me. You trade P/D’s legendary sustain for doubling your cheese on offense, basically.

Edit: This is what I’d run if I adapted it to my preferences http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fZAQNAqYVl0Mp0pdPx8J8PNBMBxVP8eNlpNangdHAA-TVSEABKoEE7jAQK6DAw83RK/Ke/BcU/xgHAgDnCASBAzcA-w

Well of course color schemes match skill colors. What fashionista would have black armor with guardian blue fire coming out all the time? What necro would match his dark green skills with bright pink?

I m currently running GS/Staff bc iWar kitten s world bosses but in situations where I need to cleave fast I just wish I had a sword. I guess I could always just swap out though. Thanks yall!

If I use MoP, would training harmonious mantas be worth the cd reductions Id give up for one of my weapons tagging-wise?

Fay.2357:

vincecontix.1264:

Fay.2357:

vincecontix.1264:

Celestial hands down.

Celestial is incredibly inefficient for mesmers. The stat combo just doesn’t work at all, it’s a horrid choice. If this question were aimed at engie/warrior/ele you’d be right, but not for Mesmer.

Actually for a wvw build celestial is a good choice esp when you stack might.

This would work…except mesmers don’t stack might.

Bountiful Interruption would like to have a word with you.

Could somebody theory craft me a mesmer build that achieves maximum mob tagging in large groups? I know they aren’t guardians or FT engis but I want to see what our best option is, according to Mesmers that are far smarter than me. Show me the loot, yall!

Make bosses that are only vulnerable when a necro is in 600 range. Fixed!

GW already has those. They are called “kits.”

Rangerdeity, I approve of your wvw realism and your build that takes advantage of reality. Since your build relies on upscales, call it “The Flyswatter”

I’m pretty sure grenades underwater is the strongest aquatic damage possible. If I could use FT, I don’t see why Id ever use it over nades.

Malhavoc Adhamar.3675:

On the odd occasion I find myself running in a zerg (mostly roam these days) I tend to use one of three builds (unless I’m lazy and cba changing spec, typically when I’m running condi). For the most part I run celestial with traveller runes (because why not), 4 ’zerk accessories and two knights, all ascended.

6/2/0/4/2: The standard grenade setup. Its a good, effective and reliable build that gives you the AoE coverage, poison, and chill along with decent survival. Just have to watch for the retaliation damage when lobbing grenades.

2/0/6/6/0: Tanky healing bomb build designed more for support than damage. Usually take HT, Elixir S or Rocket Boots, EG (best condi cleanse in the game imo) and BK. I usually run this with P/V/T armour or celestial with PVT accessories.

4/4/0/4/2: The good old classic flamethrower build. This one you have to pay attention to the retaliation damage so you know when to drop back to the rifle or EG. Does decent damage and can usually catch a fair few enemy squishes as well as near death ones. Its not a popular build because of the amount of retaliation in a zerg but most often you’ll find that focused on the enemy tank ball. Their DPS however usually is retaliation free for the most part or at least small enough to handle through the amount of background healing in the zerg.

Indulge my curiousity: what traits do you run in explosives for that flamethrower build?

Asuran cultural armor looks sick nasty for an engineer. I kick myself every day for making my Engi a human and not an Asura.