Mesmer - Blurring Inspiration

The community gave this build a rating, making it second-tier: Good

Focused on: Condition damage and Sustain

Designed for: PvP Conquest

Difficulty:

Easy

This build was last updated on May 28, 2024 and is up to date for the October 8, 2024 patch.

Overview

A high-sustain core condition Mesmer build for PvP, made to win duels.

Available for F2P players as well and is seen as rather beginner-friendly (especially as far as Mesmer goes).

Skill Bar

Staff

Scepter/Torch

Utility

Skill Variants

Weapons

• Axe/Torch over Scepter/Torch - if you have Secrets of the Obscure you can take Axe instead of Scepter for more burst damage, a target break, and clone generation. A more aggressive weapon set that can work well with Staff.

Elite

• Time Warp - if you want a stronger team fight presence over the ability to moa a player.

• Mass Invisibility - if you want to provide more support via giving allies the opportunity to reposition or recover.

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Equipment

Staff

Sigil

Sigil

Scepter

Torch

Sigil

Sigil

Rune

Amulet

Relic

Equipment Variants

Sigils

• Sigil of Cleansing over Sigil of Doom - more cleansing over poison access.

Amulets

• - more damage, less healing.

Relics

• Relic of the Demon Queen - better Poison access and increased healing reduction. Consider taking Rune of Lynx to regain some of the lost mobility.

Usage

General

• Try to send your Phantasms on CD before using Signet of the Ether as your healing skill partially recharges them.

• Bountiful Disillusionment grants you Stability whenever you shatter, so consider using one of your shatters to prevent interrupts on important casts like Signet of the Ether while under pressure or if you're stomping a downed enemy.

• Don't be afraid to use Signet of Illusions if you need to keep the pressure up but you're all out of shatters. This signet also lets you be a bit more wasteful of your shatters, knowing that you can recharge them anytime.

• Aim to use Phase Retreat inside Chaos Storm whenever possible in order to combo Chaos Aura for yourself.
  • Keep in mind that auras don't stack in duration, so don't try to combo it with Chaos Armor.

Mobility

• Use Phase Retreat for mobility while roaming between capture points or chasing after targets. PR teleports you in the opposite direction of where you're facing, so in order to teleport "forward" simply turn around and use it then turn back. We recommend that you set up a bind for about face to do this in a fluid manner (Options ⇒ Control Options ⇒ Movement).
  • About face ⇒ Phase Retreat ⇒ about face is the rotation.
  • Make sure that you don't have an enemy targeted when doing this!

Damage

• Every shatter inflicts Torment via Maim the Disillusioned.

• Cry of Frustration is the strongest shatter skill here when it comes to damage, followed by Mind Wrack. These 2 will help you burst.

• Scepter is your offensive set while Staff is more about defense and sustained damage. All Scepter skills deal good damage.

• The autoattack chain of Scepter can be progressed without a target, even out of combat. This is useful because autoattacking the air twice lets you start fights with Ether Clone for a free clone.

Sustain

• The build has plenty of ways to deal with conditions:
  • Weapon swapping removes a condition via Sigil of Cleansing.
  • Signet of Midnight is your mass cleanse, removing a total of 5 conditions with Blurred Inscriptions.
  • Mender's Purity removes another one when you use your healing skill.
  • Auspicious Anguish cleanses conditions whenever you gain Distortion and when you are CC'd while the cool down is ready.
  • Last but not least, The Prestige is another source of cleansing.

• Every signet grants Distortion.

• Blink is an excellent panic button and mobility tool that instantly yeets you across the battlefield whilst breaking stun.

• Your strongest option against damage in general is Distortion, granting you immunity to any form of pressure including CC and conditions that are already on you.

• Chaos Armor can be used even while stunned, blinding nearby enemies and giving you a chance to gain Protection whens struck.

• Same goes for Phase Retreat, you could use it to get out of harm's way even while stunned.