Guild Wars 2 PVE Long-Range Glass Mesmer Power Build: Solo Everything

By Lander7August 3, 2018 ( 1 )

This post is for Guild Wars 2 game players only. I will be using game terminologies that will not be understood by non-gamers, possibly at times not even understood by non-guild war 2 gamers.

For this build, I only focused on 3 simple concepts: “Distraction“, “Power” and “Crit“. My goal was to spam clones out of the detection range of adds or bosses and then spam long range attacks. I can solo all low-level bosses and most mid-level bosses, like the “Bandit Bosses”, which usually takes about 5 or more people (slow but doable).

My philosophy is simple:

Distract all “Adds” or “Boss”:
- Drop Clone with Mirror Blade
- Drop Illusionary with Phantasmal Berserker
- Drop Phantasmal Defender
- Drop Phantasmal Disenchanter
- Drop Bonus Adds if you have one (like the mistfire wolf) (Then Swap)
- Drop Phantasmal Warden
- Drop Ether Clone (every 3 hits) (Then Swap)
Cause mass damage:
- Spam Spacial Surge (Then Swap)
- Attack using Confusing Images (Then Swap)
- Mind Wrack (Shatter) When Replacements Are Ready (You have two Shatters with this build)
Support “Direct Damage” with attributes:
- “Power” for direct damage
  - Power: Increases outgoing direct damage
  - “Might” to increase “Power”
- “Critical Chance” for more critical hits
  - Critical Chance: Increases critical hit chance
  - Precision: Increases Critical Chance
- “Critical Damage” to increase direct damage
  - Ferocity: Increases Critical Damage

Below are the standing attributes with food and utility buffs (on the left) next to a typical full run against a high-end boss with 25 or more players in combat (on the right).

Know where and how to use it:
- PVE
  - The build is perfect for PVE. You can solo most content. The game AI is not currently capable of countering Mesmer fight tactics.
- WvW
  - Difficult to keep alive for WvW. You can cause a surprising amount of damage to WvW players because they are not focused on taking direct damage but you have little to no defensive capability and if you get hit you could suffer from DOT even if they break off the attack.
- PVP
  - Very difficult and you could be killed easily but if you can keep in a tight-knit pack with lots of meat shields in front of you then the DPS is somewhat overwhelming for the other PVP players since they were building to resist “Condition Damage”, not direct “Power Damage”.

Specializations:

I’m only going to touch on the specializations that greatly boost the power build.

Domination:
- Illusions deal more damage
- Shatter skills deal more damage
- Deal more damage to foes with a lower health percentage than you.
Illusions:
- Mind Wrack becomes an ammo skill. (Meaning you get two of them)
- Creating an illusion increases your outgoing damage
- Gain quickness when you create a phantasm (More attacks in shorter time span)
- Phantasms’ damage permanently increases whenever they attack or gain might
Chronomancer:
- Gain alacrity for each clone you shatter
- You move 25% faster. The duration of incoming movement-impairing conditions is reduced by 25%
- The first time a phantasm would become a clone, it instead resummons itself and attacks again. Resummoned phantasms inflict a percentage of the original’s damage

Combat Bars

Consumables:

Plate of Roasted Cactus

Nourishment(1 h): +100 Ferocity
33% Chance to Gain Might on Critical Hit
+10% Experience from Kills

Potent Superior Sharpening Stone

Enhancement(1 h): Gain Power Equal to 3% of Your Precision
Gain Power Equal to 6% of Your Ferocity
+10% Experience from Kills

Sigils:

Superior Sigil of Force

+5% Damage

Superior Sigil of Battle

Gain 2 stacks of might (20 seconds) when you swap to this weapon while in combat. (Cooldown: 9 seconds)

Superior Sigil of Strength

60% Chance on Critical: Gain Might (10 Seconds)
(Cooldown: 1 Second)

Runes:

Superior Rune of Strength

(1): +25  Power
(2): +10%  Might Duration
(3): +50  Power
(4): +15%  might duration; 25% chance when struck to gain  might for 5 seconds. (Cooldown: 5s)
(5): +100  Power
(6): +20%  might duration; +5% damage while under the effects of  might.

Guild Wars 2 PVE Long-Range Glass Mesmer Power Build: Solo Everything

My philosophy is simple:

Specializations:

Combat Bars

Consumables:

Plate of Roasted Cactus

Potent Superior Sharpening Stone

Sigils:

Superior Sigil of Force

Superior Sigil of Battle

Superior Sigil of Strength

Runes:

Superior Rune of Strength

Infusions:

Mighty 9 Agony Infusion

Armor:

Zojja’s Masque

Zojja’s Epaulets

Zojja’s Doublet

Zojja’s Wristguards

Zojja’s Breeches

Zojja’s Footwear

Zojja’s Cloth Breather

Weapons:

Zojja’s Wand

Zojja’s Artifact

Zojja’s Claymore

Accessories:

Book of Secrets

Althea’s Ashes

Magister’s Field Journal

Call of the Wild

Attuned Ring of Red Death (Infused)

Attuned Crystalline Band (Infused)

Under Water Battle

Zojja’s Cloth Breather

Zojja’s Impaler

Zojja’s Trident

Mesmer Signets:

Signet of the Ether

Signet of Inspiration

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