Guild Wars 2

When I choose a specific weapon set to use, I use all 2-3 weapons with the same stats.

I have 19 weapons and counting, not including underwater ones.

IC also affects the cooldowns of other abilities too.

Levitas.1953:

If there are enemies near you its reliable. You dont need to go in combat to use it, just target something. Im not saying its the final solution for mesmers but it helps a lot with that kind of build and was even better with IC.

Still not 100% swiftness.

shimmerless.4560:

I’m really sick of the whole “it was up 20% of the time” thing. Yes if you did absolutely nothing that sat in MH Sword and rooted themselves every time it was off cooldown that would be the case. Have these people ever actually played GW2? Who are they facing, Orr bots?

sPvP/tPvP

Yes I know you could (and still can) use Phase Retreat for a mini teleport but it still wasn’t practical unless in combat. It doesn’t make up for Mesmer’s lack of OOC swiftness without having to resort to bandaid solutions.

Lack of OOC swiftness is still the problem with builds that don’t run Focus or Centaur / Air runes.

Go Shatter because Anet wants you to.

Kusa.6438:

From what I can tell, most of the changes were buffs to mesmers… not sure why people are talking about rerolling.

You need to re-read.

Yes.

Anet wants us all to be shatter now since Illusionist’s Celerity was moved there.

Anet said they are adding diversity. Just not to Mesmer’s.

fadeaway.2807:

Xavi – overall phantasm damage output is higher with 25 points in illusions than it is with 25 points in inspiration now, assuming they die at some point during the fight.

That’s nice but focus reflect was really good and I could change on the fly by changing a few traits around to pick up pistol or scepter. Plus, Illusions healed players.

It isn’t always about the damage, especially in PvE.

fadeaway.2807:

Helios. Ask yourself why you are spending 25 points in that build for 15% phantasm damage, and still using a focus (bad choice for phantasm build compared to offhand sword or pistol) when you could spend them in illusion/duelist for a fantastic shatter build, still grab +15% phan dmg from domination if you want it, and suffer no drawbacks from using the focus since you no longer care so much about the phantasm’s dps?

For Dungeons/Fractals, my Phantasm build (20/20/0/25/5) had 25 points in for the +15% and used traited focus for reflects. +15% Dom + 15% Inspiration + 5 point illusionist’ celerity was awesome.

Don’t forget the nerf to bleeds.

DiogoSilva.7089:

Most professions were nerfed anyways. Out of the best professions in the game, only the guardian wasn’t.

Necros may be the new OP class.

fadeaway.2807:

There is no good reason to play phantasm over shatter anymore.

Anet only wants Shatter Mesmers now. RIP Phantasm and other builds.

GG DIVERSITY

Zumi.6384:

This is AMAZING news! A silver lining among all the nerfs

I feel a lot better about trying out a condi build now

Silver lining? It was a bug fix.

Yeah, I’m re-rolling Elder Scrolls Online.

For Mesmers, it’s Staff, Greatsword and Trident bounces.

No fix for bouncing attacks?

No OOC swiftness for Mesmers?

Fail.

Where the hell is OOC swiftness? I would love to run runes with increased boon duration but I’m stuck running effing Centaur runes. GG ANET.

Mesmer’s are now weaker underwater with the change/bug/nerf to bouncing skills.

Blurred Frenzy is fine. Why does this thread even exist?

Anet, please don’t change the Horn. There is no reason it should work in WvW at all.

Still no response? WTF.

Blankverse.4927:

Undeadkemea.4865:

[…]

Long story short: Every class can try to counter a thief, but a thief can counter all these attempts too. There are ways.
So in the end the Thief is always the one, who is one step ahead thanks to stealth.

This.

Esplen.3940:

Xavi.6591:

A blind won’t cause a Shatter to miss but a block, dodge roll, invulnerability or some other type of evade can cause no Shatter damage.

When clones get close, try dodge rolling into them 1-2 times to negate the Shatter damage.

Keep in mind, always roll into the clones when they’re being shattered, because they “reach” you faster and thus [almost] all shatter [hopefully] while you’re dodging.

Isn’t that what I said?

Anet needs to re-balance Karka queen as well, she is basically un-killable now with the few people that show up in Southsun.

Anet,

Please fix the bounce logic. My Mesmer Winds of Chaos (staff) likes to bounce and buff pets, clones, illusions, siege, rabbits, cats, rats. Everything except me.

Same goes for greatsword Mirror Blade #2 skill.

With the previous nerf to confusion, this is now a double-nerf to Mesmer Staff users.

Yeah, I use the same pets both above and below water and I don’t usually switch pets (playing a BM bunker power heal GR+Sword/Dagger) and my pet loses it’s stacks when I enter water.

I guess what Paken Kai says is what is happening.

Maybe this should be reported as a bug.

You’ll be back.

As a Mesmer, every time I get MOA’d myself by another Mesmer I’m like ‘oh fun! This is what those buttons do?’ Push 5 then wait for MOA to end before killing the Mesmer.

In other news, no one uses MOA.

I use this Skoteinos’ Phantasm build (the one on the first post, not the one later in the thread) for dungeons and fractals. I am currently doing lvl 28 Fractals.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/OP-Phantasm-Mesmer-Build-Fractal-Dungeon/first

Weapons – Greatsword + Sword/Focus
[]: Inflict 15% more damage from “Empowered Illusions” and 15% more damage from “Phantasmal Strength” = 30% YES they STACK
[]: Illusion Summoning skills recharge 20% faster YES it STACKS with every Weapons 20% reduced recharge on skills! Even though it doesn’t show on tooltip. Test it checking the cool-down timers on Phantasms summoning skills.
[]: Glamour skills recharge 20% faster (Feedback-Portal-NullField)
[]: Retaliation, Regeneration and Fury on Phantasms.
[]: Reflection on Focus skills
[]: +50 Power on Greatsword, +50 Precision on Sword
[]: Great Damage and Crit (even when you shatter)

I often use the ascended cavalier jewelery with either Knights or Berserker armour depending on my spec and my mood.

Is this a bug where your pet loses it’s Master’s Bond stacks when you go into the water or when you use the waypoint (same map) in wvw?

What?

Is this build still an improvement over the first version of the WvW Melee BM Ranger build?

Still waiting for a response from Anet on this.

Keep in mind that you can use Veil twice to get two x 2 sec stealth.

Prime.8792:

I’m personally going for Twilight All legendary have PVT stats anyway and isn’t optimal for most specs. Get the one that you think looks the best.

You can transmute the stats on any legendary to something other than PVT.

Under-leveled characters will always have a disadvantage. Just stay with the zerg and gain levels and you will quickly get to 80. It is also a good idea to buy green items of your level every 10 levels off the TP.

My favourite Mesmer, most of my builds are built around Seven’s.

/sadpanda

Some dungeon uses:

Lazors (CoE)
Balls of Fiery Death (CoF)
Swamp Fractal

I play a lot of different builds and often switch between them including:

GC Shatter
GC Phantasm
Bunker Shatter Hybrid
Bunker Conditions
Immortal Build
Inspiration/Support (for dungeons/fractals)

With 4+ sets of armour and over 20 weapons to choose from, I regularly switch it up.

A blind won’t cause a Shatter to miss but a block, dodge roll, invulnerability or some other type of evade can cause no Shatter damage.

When clones get close, try dodge rolling into them 1-2 times to negate the Shatter damage.

I think this is still a great Dungeon/Fractals build (the build on the first page). I use it in dungeons and fractals and can’t see any problems with it. The bonus is you only need to change a few major traits if you want to switch from Focus to Pistol or Sword to Scepter for certain bosses.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/OP-Phantasm-Mesmer-Build-Fractal-Dungeon/first#content

Anet, please look into this change in the bouncing mechanic.

What buff? Mirror Blade and Winds of Chaos bouncing off my clones, ranger pets, inanimate objects, rats, rabbits isn’t doing jack.

I like this build (the build on the first page, not the later one).

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/OP-Phantasm-Mesmer-Build-Fractal-Dungeon/first#content

I’m not sure why it was removed from the stickies.

Ramiah.5648:

Pistol has that weird thing where the trait doesn’t actually increase the range of the phantasm or something weird like that

Unless there is a recent new bug with Pistol, this was fixed quite a few patches ago.

wads.5730:

you cant get more conditions, but i believe all current conditions you have on you will continue to affect you.

Yeah that was my understanding too but I was wondering how I was getting feared when I had Distortion up during a stomp. Maybe it just ran out or there was lag or something.