confusion

i have a canthan mesmer that i am not sure about. i have spent a lot of money on him and am not rly willing to delete him. but i want to make a ranger. also i can not think of a skill bar which frustrates me. any ideas on a good skill bar that would be useful through out all of cantha.ty for all the help.

I assume you're talking about Mesmer skills. I'm continually developping my skill bar after reading what people say on this forum (I'm fairly new to Mesmers myself), currently I'm running with a little illusion magic (clumsiness, empathy, conjure phantasm, Crippling Anguish {E}) to take down warriors and the like, and some Domination (backfire, cry of frustration/other interrupt skills) to try to help stop casters using spells like "Flesh of my Flesh" (the afflicted ritualist's favourite!) and good old "Breath of Fire" the Temple Guardians use.

I've never tried going down the Inspiration route - I maybe shall one day...

From reading your post, I'm guess you want to have a Me/R.

Either that or you have an extra slot for a Ranger.

Anyway, an okay build for a Canthas Mesmer would be:

Conjure Phantasm (Illusion)/Conjure Nightmare (Illusion)
Images of Remorse (Illusion)
Phantom Pain (Illusion)/Accumulated Pain (Illusion)
Illusionary Weakness (Illusion)/Ether Feast (Inspiration)
Channelling (Inspiration)/Kitah's Burden (Illusion)
Power Drain (Inspiration)/Revealed Hex (Inspiration)
Spirit Of Failure (Inspiration)/Power Return (Fast Casting)
Rez Signet

Since right now, I don't know what 2nd profession you have chosen, I've only done the Mesmer build. The ones listed after the "/" are for alternatives if you do not have access to the initial spells listed. As this is Canthas only.

If you have access to Fragility, and decided to become Me/R, then you can go for a condition build.

Hope this helps a bit.