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[edit] Build:Me/A Neutral IW
The Neutral IW uses Illusionary Weaponry to deal
armor-ignoring damage and chance of double strike, while staying
alive by keeping Dark Escape and Feigned
Neutrality up constantly. This gives the Mesmer 150 armor (60 +
10 + 80) and +7 health regeneration while dealing substantial
damage. Designed for PvP but can be used effectively in PvE.
[edit] Attributes and Skills
[edit] Equipment
- Max armor with +10 when enchanted
- Superior Rune of Illusion Magic
- Superior Rune of Vigor
- Rune of Purity
- 2 Runes of Vitae
- Crippling (for
Return) Daggers with of Enchanting
suffix and "I have the power" +5 Energy inscription (because none
of the +damage% mods will affect the damage from IW)
[edit] Counters
[edit] Variants
- For Alliance Battles Resurrection Signet isn't important, so Illusion
of Haste give you ways of kiting.
- Assassin primary; lower damage but stronger.
- Exchange Return for
Distortion. This
will sap energy but can be more effective at protecting
yourself.
- Replace Return for Shadow Refuge
to help further counter degeneration.
- Add Caltrops to
snare kiting foes.
- For PvE, consider bringing a scythe (with the same preferred
mods as the daggers) in a second weapon slot. The scythe will do a
steady 24 DPS instead of the
average 36 DPS of the daggers
(32 if you don't count double strikes). However, if two or three
foes are adjacent you
do a nice 48 or 72 DPS
respectively. Change between the daggers and scythe as the
situation warrants.
- Death's Retreat can also be used instead of
Return, or with Return to retreat further back.
[edit] See Also
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Build:Me/A Shadow Runner
This running build uses Illusion of Haste as the speed boost, while
using Shadow
Form to run past difficult areas with ease, with Arcane Echo to lengthen
its duration to allow a longer distance to be run while under its
effects. Particularly suitable for running in the Southern
Shiverpeaks. Both A/Me or Me/A profession combinations can be
used.
[edit] Attributes and Skills
[edit] Equipment
- Enchanter's Armor - For better armor (+10),
basically you will be under the effects of an enchantment 100% of
the time.
- Charlatan's Armor - For extra energy,
number of pieces from this set depending on your preference.
- A Major Rune of Illusion Magic would be a good choice giving
you 10 + 2 (12), more points in Illusion Magic will only provide a
1~1.2 seconds increase in Illusion of Haste.
- Alternatively, you may also choose to use a Major Rune instead
with Illusion Magic 11 + 1 + 2 (14) with Fast Casting at 6 + 1 (7),
trading off a little bit of fast casting for +40 maximum HP while
maintaining the same duration for Illusion of Haste.
- You may use a Minor Rune of Illusion Magic giving 10 + 1 + 1
(12) Illusion Magic, trading off 1~1.2 seconds off duration of
Illusion of Haste for +75 maximum HP.
[edit] Weapons
- Any one-handed weapon that increases enchantment duration,
preferably with increase to energy too:
- Rajazan's Fervor
- Totem Axe
- Fiery Flame Spitter
- Any +12 energy focus items with attribute on Illusion Magic or
Fast Casting. Examples include:
- The
Rockmolder - Relatively easy to find, and gives 10% chance of
half skill recharge for all spells.
- The Time Eater (focus) - Suitable if
you decide to use a Superior Rune of Illusion Magic. Only 9 Fast Casting or
more gives you the +12 Energy of this focus.
- Forgotten
Fan - Alternatively, you can also choose to sacrifice 5 maximum
energy for +30 maximum HP and +5 armor.
[edit] Possible Routes
[edit] Counters
While using Shadow Form, you must beware that...
- The following monsters can knock you down while you're under
the effects of Shadow Form:
- The following monsters uses certain skills that can remove your
Shadow Form and put you in grave danger:
[edit] Variants
Inspired
Hex can be replaced with:
This build could also possibly be run by Assassin primaries too
with the same skillset.
The Skill Template for the Assassin variant:
[edit] External Links
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Build:Me/D Extended Thorns
Extended Thorns is a PvE Mesmer build that uses Dervish's
ability to provide heavy amount of short-duration conditions on a
foe with Extend Conditions and spread them with Epidemic while not going
over the duration limit while maintaining your energy. This is
designed to play with a balanced PvE party. This build was designed
for the User:Defiant
Elements/Contest.
[edit] Attributes and Skills
[edit] Equipment
- Aggro you foes and group them close to you
- Cast your enchantments
- Use Conviction to survive on the front lines
- Use Mystic Sandstorm to spread conditions
- Cast Extend Conditions on a foe
- Because all the conditions last 106% longer on target foe, use
Epidemic to spread
conditions with much longer durations
- Repeat when you have sufficent energy
[edit] Counters
[edit] Variants
[edit] See also
[edit] Build:Me/E Air Spiker
This Mesmer build is a powerful air spiker that utilizes the
Mesmer's Fast Casting ability to quickly spam spells to take down
opponents.
[edit] Attributes and Skills
[edit] Counters
- Any massive damage or degeneration will kill you in a matter of
seconds. The build is best suited for teams containing monks or
other support characters to offset the health loss.
- Anti-spamming skills such as Backfire or Spiteful Spirit.
- Enchantment removal will shut-down the build for a long period
of time.
[edit] Equipment
- A 20% HCT/HSR Air Magic Staff with a 20% Enchantment mod would
be ideal.
- Charlatan's for the +10 armor while enchanted.
[edit] Variants
- Blinding
Flash can replace Channeling for more defense against
attackers, but beware when replacing Channeling, as you will remove
your only option for a cover enchantment.
- Lightning Javelin can be used for
interruption.
- Arc
Lightning can serve as a replacement for Channeling;
sacrificing longer recharge for less energy spent.
- Lightning
Bolt can also replace Channeling to fill intervals and hit
moving foes.
[edit] Build:Me/E Flashfire
This build relies on the Mesmer's primary ability of Fast Casting, coupled
with the power of Auspicious Incantation and Echo, to produce a quick spike of
highly damaging Fire
Magic spells.
[edit] Attributes and Skills
[edit] Equipment
- Enchanter's or Radiant armor is needed for the extra energy.
In addition to the Fast Casting and Inspiration runes, use the best Vigor rune you
can afford and an Attunement rune. For the last slot use either a
rune of Recovery or another Attunement rune, depending on how often
you find yourself Dazed.
- Use a +15/-1 energy Fire Wand with a 20% chance to halve the recharge
of Fire Magic spells (such as the Fire Wand crafted by Honglei Sun) and a Fire
Magic Focus with a 20%
chance to add +1 Fire Magic and a 20% chance to halve the recharge
time of Fire Magic spells (such as The Kindlerock). Swap to another weapon
set when not in combat to regain the extra pip of energy regeneration.
- Keep Fire Attunement up at all times, without it
energy management becomes very difficult. Beware of enemies with
enchantment removing skills.
- When facing small mobs cast Echo and Fireball, then spam Fireball. When you get down to 30 energy cast Auspicious Incantation followed by Rodgort's Invocation - after these
spells you'll have around 50 energy. Auspicious Incantation and
Rodgort's Invocation will be disabled for 50 and 45 seconds,
respectively.
- When facing a large mob cast Echo, Meteor Shower, Rodgort's Invocation, Auspicious Incantation and finally the
Echoed Meteor
Shower - at the end of this chain you will have a full energy
bar of around 50 (due to the energy lost to exhaustion). This allows
you to keep Meteor Shower up for 18 consecutive seconds,
and immediately follow it up with Fireball, Breath of Fire and Fire Storm (in Competitive Missions/Alliance
Battles).
- Use Breath of Fire (and, if you have it, Fire Storm) as your
standard damage over time spell - Meteor Shower should only be used when
absolutely necessary due to its high energy cost and exhaustion.
[edit] Variants
- If you find yourself often interrupted use Mantra of Concentration as the
optional skill.
- Auspicious Incantation can be swapped
for Glyph of Lesser Energy. This makes the
build easier to run at the cost of a slight reduction in energy
management capabilities.
- Breath of
Fire can be swapped for:
- Fire Storm
(in PvE), which costs 5 more energy but causes more total damage
over time (assuming enemies don't break aggro).
- Lava Font, if
you find yourself often surrounded by foes.
- Immolate, for
more damage against one enemy.
- Glowing
Gaze, for more energy management. Echo Rodgort's Invocation rather than Fireball or Meteor Shower if
you bring this spell.
- Mark of
Rodgort, for less direct damage but more degeneration through
burning. If you bring this spell consider using Glowing Gaze in the
optional slot.
- For Competitive Missions and Alliance Battles consider swapping
Breath of Fire and Fire Storm for Immolate and Glowing Gaze. This
increases the amount of spike damage you can do at the cost of
reducing the area of effect damage you can cause.
[edit] Templates
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Build:Me/Mo Faster Caster
The Faster Caster uses almost maximum fast casting for full time
50% reduction in recharge and cast times of all spells. This build
is not recommended for people with slow reflexes as it is an
interrupt heavy build targeting hex-users and spellcasters.
[edit] Attributes and Skills
[edit] Equipment
- Savant's Armor for the +10 armor in a
stance
- 20/20 domination wand, 20/20 inspiration focus
- Keep Mantra of Recovery up at all times. At 15 Fast cast, it
should last 20 seconds with a 20 second recharge time. No skills
are over 20 recharge, which means all skills have less than 10
second recharge under this stance.
- Watch out for wild blow warriors , wild throw paragons, and
wild strike assassins. They will end the stance!
- Use Power Spike on spells you think you can interrupt. This
deals damage.
- Use Power Drain on spells you think you can interrupt when low
on energy. This gives a net energy gain when you use it.
- Use Cry of Frustration when there is a non-spell skill you want
to interrupt. Do not use this on spells as its damage is pitiful
for the energy compared to Power Spike.
- Use Drain enchantment for energy and to remove an enchantment
from your target. This gives a net energy gain when you use
it.
- Use Draw Conditions frequently, that avoids burdening your
monks.
- Use Remove Hex for hexes that may hurt your party. With Mantra
of Recovery and 15 Fast Cast, it should have roughly a 1 second
cast and 4 second recharge.
- Always be the first to resurrect, because you have the fastest
cast time.
[edit] Counters
- Wild Blow, Wild Strike, Wild Throw (stance breakers)
- Mass poison/condition based health degeneration. On the other
hand, your team will be safe from these.
- High Spike damage such as Elementalist and Ritualist bosses'
spike damage
[edit] Variants
- Use Shatter Enchantment instead of Drain
Enchantment for a more offensive build. Do keep in mind you lose
one of your energy management skills.
- Shatter Hex
instead of Remove Hex for a more offensive (but more energy
intensive) build. This is not recommended because of the extremely
high energy cost of Shatter Hex.
- Complicate,
instead of Cry of Frustration. It will disable signets of the foe
for a short duration so it is best to save this for signets
(especially Healing Signet or Resurrection Signet).
- To participate in a spike, exchange two interrupts with Energy Burn and Shatter Enchantment.
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Build:Me/N Incetol Farmer
This build is intended to obtain the unique healing offhand, Incetol's
Focus, quickly by soloing Incetol, Devout of Depths
himself.
[edit] Attributes and Skills
[edit] Equipment
- See map for directions to Incetol.
- Once at Incetol, there are usually 2 separate patrol groups,
along with Incetol's envoy. It is suggested that at least 1 of
these patrols be defeated, otherwise Incetol may be difficult to
separate from the mobs.
- There is a spawn of Onis just SW of the resurrection shrine,
against the wall, which are hostile to the Outcasts.
- There are 2 methods of isolating Incetol: pulling the patrol
and his escort to the Onis, or pulling/re-pulling Incetol until he
separates from his escort.
- You can also isolate and solo individual Outcasts, since you'll
find only Assassins, Warriors, and Deathhands (Sword-wielding
Necros) in the groups.
- Once Incetol is alone, begin this casting chain:
- Distortion, Reckless Haste, Spirit of Failure, Parasitic Bond,
Spirit Shackles, Price of Failure, Spiteful Spirit
- Try to time the durations and recast as necessary. Be sure to
keep Distortion up as much as possible, especially while setting
up.
- It is necessary to keep Incetol's energy as low as possible,
which Spirit Shackles+Reckless combine nicely.
- Despite having multiple hexes and you having Distortion on,
Incetol may wand you for as much as 100 damage each hit. Parasitic
Bond will heal you every 20 seconds, and use Ether Feast when
needed.
- Incetol will eventually wand himself to death, and possibly
drop the desired focus.
[edit] Variations
[edit] Pure Mesmer
- This variation uses only mesmer skills, where the main source
of damage is from Empathy, Wastrel's Worry, and Spirit
Shackles+Mind Wrack.
- Note the blind caused by Ineptitude will only last half its
cooldown duration, so remember to activate Distortion after the
blind wears off.
- Since this variation lacks Reckless Haste, it may take longer
for Spirit Shackles to drain all of Incetol's energy.
- Once Incetol has about 0 energy, cast Mind Wrack and Wastrel's
Worry freely.
[edit] Necro Primary
- For those players who do not have a mesmer primary.
- The 2 major differences are the increased damage from Spiteful
& Price of Failure, and the longer casting times.
Important attribute level breaks,
- 10 Inspiration Magic, Spirit of Failure is 4 energy gained
- 6 Illusion Magic, Distortion is 3 seconds, at 10 it is 3
seconds
Theoretically, as long as Incetol has no energy, any class can
solo him. Since Spirit Shackles effectively keeps his energy near
0, and he has no offensive spells, he will only swing his wand at
you until he needs to heal himself, which he will not be able
to.
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Build:Me/W Illusory Forge
Runner
The Illusionary Forge Runner is, perhaps, the oddest of
Forge
running builds. It is optimized
for the Beacon's Perch to Droknar's
Forge route, but is in principle adaptable for any running
situation. By echoing
classical Warrior stances, shouts, or hex-removers it is
possible to run with greater efficiency and longevity.
[edit] Attributes and Skills
[edit] Equipment
- Superior or Major Rune of Vigor
[edit] Weapons
- Any one-handed weapon that increases enchantment duration, and
energy:
- Rajazan's Fervor
- Totem Axe
- Alternatively: Sword of Enchanting [+5 Energy, +20% Longer
Enchantments Mod]
- A shield with maximum armor (+16) with attribute requirement in
Tactics:
- Grognar's Defender - The Runner's Best
Stance Shield Choice.
- Malinon's Shield - Preferrably the first
choice because you stay in Illusion of Weakness most of the
time.
Attention: This build needs a relatively high knowledge
of the spawns at Lornar's Pass, and average to high skills at
aggroing and evaluating the NPCs' aggro behavior (e.g. Allowing
Avicara Guile to cast his last Death Swarm to lower his aggro
moral; Worm aggroing). It is not possible to run every Lornar's
Pass spawn with; though it is not too difficult to run with a death
penalty of 15-30% Dreadnought's Drift and Snake Dance.
[edit] General
The Mesmer is an enchantment runner: making him a perfect target
for enchantment-stripping foes like Avicara Guiles or Grawls. Try to avoid these groups, and rather run
through groups of Ice
Golems or Pinesouls. Echoing the skills of your choice is a
powerful weapon if used to your advantage. The Mesmer Runner is one
of the characters with the worst healing abilities - always stay in
Illusion of Weakness. Two or an echoed extra hex-remover round off
the build for a reliable Droknar run.
[edit] Running Sequence
- Use Echo and duplicate
the skill of your choice.
- Duplicate Balanced Stance for running through the Worm
Tunnel or along the Worm Pass. With Echo it is possible to use BS
three times.
- Duplicate "Shields Up!" for extra armor -
possible to use three times without a gap then.
- Duplicate Inspired Hex for an extra hex-remover.
[edit] Countering Hexes
- You can remove up to two (plus 1) hexes quickly, so never aggro more than three Ice Imps at once.
- At the mouth of the first cave, wait until you have a clear
path before aggroing the Avicara.
- Echo Balanced Stance and try to cross the cave in a single Illusion
of Haste. With Echo you can use BS three times (3 x 18 secs of
BS) without a gap in-between.
- Generally run in a straight line away from Frost Wurms. The 33%
increase in movement speed ensures that you can outrun any given
wurm.
Note: In case of your Echo gets interrupted escape from
the dangerous situation, and begin a new pass-through after Echo
has recharged.
- Run straight through all Avicara and Grawl spawns, then heal with Healing Signet.
You can easily regain up to 215 health automatically when your
health drops below 25%. This should give you enough of a buffer to
make it to safety before recasting Illusion
of Weakness.
Note: Avicara Guiles will quickly strip your Illusion
of Haste. Recast it as soon as possible for you will be crippled
and motionless without it. Practice and experience will be of good
advantage here.
- When engaging Tundra Giants, activate Balanced Stance
and use "Shields Up!" - feel free to echo BS
for a straightforward run-through without stops.
- Take time to heal. It can get tricky towards the end if you
don't have enough health to run straight through all the Giants and
Blessed
Griffons.
- You rarely have to worry about hexes here.
- Concentrate on staying in Balanced Stance through the large
groups of Tundra
Giants and Azure Shadows.
- At the Mountain Troll cave, you might consider Inspired Hex to
avoid being slowed down in a tricky point. Try to lure the trolls
out of the cave first.
- A good way to lose a train of trolls is to run them to a spawn
of Stone Summit Herders.
- Use "Shields Up!" when running through the Troll Tunnel.
The only difficult area is near the beginning where you have to
run through two groups of Azure Shadow spawns and a large Avicara group immediately
after.
- Begin with Echo, Balanced Stance and chain cast Illusion of
Haste to run through the groups of shadows. Just before running
through the Avicaras, recast Illusion of Haste and immediately cast
your cover enchantment, then run through the group of
Avicaras.
[edit] Variants
[edit] External Links
[edit]
Build:Me/any PvE Domination
Mesmer
This build utilizes high, unconditional damage from the Mesmer's Domination
Magic line to deal fast, heavy damage in PvE areas. With many
Area-of-Effect damage skills, this build allows for the user to be
able to provide ample "Nuking" style damage, comparable to many
other popular PvE builds.
[edit] Attributes and Skills
[edit] Equipment
- Max AL armor with Radiant Insignias are necessary for the extra
energy.
- Runes of Superior Domination Magic, Superior Vigor, Minor Fast
Casting, Minor Inspiration Magic.
- An Insightful
staff is recommended for the additional energy gain, Milefaun's
Staff is excellent.
- Begin by precasting Arcane Echo.
- Follow up, targetting usually the center of a party, with Energy Surge or
Spiritual
Pain.
- Activate Auspicious Incantation, then cast the
copied version of the previous spell for a quick boost in your energy. This will
negate the longer recharge of that skill, since it will only stay for the remainder of the
effects of Arcane
Echo.
- Lastly, cast the skill
which has been left last.
- Energy Burn
should be used on generally standalone targets.
- Whenever encountering a Boss monster, do not use the previous combo. Simply spam
Wastrel's
Worry for extremely high, unresisted damage. On most end-game
bosses, you can easily outdamage any other character by simply
using this skill.
- Ether Feast
can be used for a quick heal.
- Remember that in areas that contain Spirits, it is better to use Arcane Echo on Energy Surge, since
Spiritual
Pain will recharge instantly.
[edit] Counters
- If relying on Auspicious Incantation for Energy
gain, beware of skills that remove enchantments. This usually won't
be a problem with Fast Casting.
- Being Dazed can pose a
threat, but with the skills available, its threat is limited.
- Diversion can
be hazardous if more than one skill is hit, but it should not be
too much of a problem in most areas.
[edit] Variants
- The open secondary profession provides additional flexibility
with this build.
- Backfire is
almost always recommended for areas where casters are plenty. It is
especially potent if used in combination with Arcane Echo. In
combination with Auspicious Incantation, this provides
even higher Energy Gain.
- Another option is Empathy, which is excellent against fast
attackers.
- Your Energy Recovery skills are quite flexible. If you dislike
Auspicious Incantation, you may wish
to choose from other skills from your Inspiration
Magic line.
- A skill such as Power Drain can quickly refill your Energy pool,
providing you make the interrupt.
- Energy Tap
provides less energy gain, but it is unconditional. Beware of
interrupts if using this skill, since its cast time is quite
lengthy compared to your other skills.
- In areas where Monster Skills are used, and they just happen to
be Hexes or Enchantments, you will want to use Inspired
Enchantment/Revealed Enchantment, or Inspired Hex/Revealed Hex.
- Element-based energy recovery can be useful in specific PvE
areas, so you may want to use Mantra of Frost, Mantra of
Flame, Mantra of Earth, or Mantra of
Lightning.
- In combination with party members' evasive stances or blinding,
Spirit
of Failure can provide excellent energy gain in PvE
situations.
- Ether Feast
can be dropped entirely if your team provides ample healing, but it
is always nice to have a means of self-healing.
- Using Mistrust
can be deadly in end-game zones. Energy Burn should be replaced here.
[edit] Templates
Mesmer / Assassin 
Mesmer / Dervish 
Mesmer / Elementalist 
Mesmer / Monk 
Mesmer / Necromancer 
Mesmer / Warrior 
