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This build utilizes the mesmer skill Fragility in combination with the necromancer elite skill Virulence, at minimal ranks
of Death Magic,
to deal large amounts of armor-ignoring damage within a short
period of time.
[edit] Attributes and Skills
- Cast Illusion of Weakness at the beginning of
every battle
- Cast Fragility
on the target.
- Cast Phantom
Pain to cover Fragility.
- Shatter Phantom Pain for 55 damage plus a Deep Wound.
- Quickly cast Virulence before the target removes the deep wound,
resulting in 63 damage from Fragility. The conditions from
Virulence lasts three seconds, resulting in an additional 63 damage
when the conditions run out.
- Cast Conjure Phantasm to increase health
degeneration.
- Cast Clumsiness and Conjure Phantasm while the first four
skills recharge.
[edit] Counters
- Hex
Breaker, if the first hex
you cast is Fragility.
- Infuse Condition, but is rarely used.
- Any skill that removes the hex Fragility.
- A target who removes the deep wound before you cast
Virulence.
- Relies on four skills to work effectively.
- Fragility spikers typically run out energy quickly after doing
a great amount of damage to one enemy.
- Active prot
Monks using Contemplation of Purity.
[edit] Equipment
- Use Enchanter's Armor for maximum energy.
- Use one piece of Mesmer Performer's Armor, for
+15 armor while casting.
- Use a Superior Illusion Rune to get the most damage out of this
build.
- Use items that decrease the recharge of Illusion Magic
skills.
[edit] Variants
- Replace Phantom Pain and Shatter
Delusions with Accumulated Pain, causing Deep Wound with
only one skill, triggering it using Conjure
Phantasm, Images of Remorse, or Clumsiness. This frees up
one slot for an additional skill, but does slightly less damage
with a slightly longer recharge time.
- Replace Clumsiness with Distortion to increase your defenses.
- Replace Illusion of Weakness an offensive skill
for more firepower.
- Replace Illusion of Weakness with Illusion of
Haste for the flag running ninja (Note: This was a popular flag
running build in GvG for a
short period of time, before proper split teams became popular).
- Fit in Epidemic
to cause the enemy additional problems, and to speed up the damage
from Fragility itself (since it will remove the conditions from the
target). This is more useful if you put attribute points into Death Magic.
- Many players replace some of the secondary skills with Signet of Agony
and Plague
Touch, and adding "leftover" attribute points into Blood Magic.
The short term goal is to put long-term Bleeding onto enemies.
Casting Virulence at the end costs only 10 energy to put four
debilitating conditions on an enemy, and a total of 20 energy to
put Fragility on first, causing massive damage. This provides
multiple lower-energy plans for mid-battle, when the initial flurry
of spells is recharging or too expensive to cast.
- Mark of
Rodgort could be used on a Me/E, but this version does a lot
less damage and needs a large amount of inspiration spells to keep
it up.
- Do not place any points into Death Magic.
- This build deals armor-ignoring damage, as well as high amounts
of Health Degeneration. Those characteristics makes this build
excellent for killing off Warriors.
[edit] See Also
Mesmer / Necromancer 
