Mesmer Build For Factions Only Characters?

Hey guys, like any nub that could be caught shopping in Best Buy I just happened to pick up Factions first. How was I supposed to know Prophecies was the first game released? I just saw GUILD WARS and thought to myself, "Yea, I could use a new MMORPG."

Hence the reason that I only have Factions. I noticed that most of the build guides in the Mesmer section contained skills such as Wastrels, I-Hex, etc. and that angered me because of course I'm not going to be able to use the primary skills that are required for the builds.

I'm open to any ideas. I mainly want a support Mesmer but would also like to deal great damage. The build I was using before I realized my mistake was the Jack-of-all-Trades Dom build in the mesmer section.

Has anybody successfully made an amazing mesmer using nothing but Faction or Core skills? If so, I would really appreciate the advice and could definately use it. I just love stealing other people's ideas! ;D (Actually, I'm just horrible at making characters).

Thanks guys!
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And I at least made the effort to do some hard-searching before posting too because I realize how some of you guys would like to punch us newbs in the kidneys repeatably. Oh and just in case I didn't mention, this char will be 100% Role-Playing. Also, as an add on, I've already made my secondary Monk.

Most of the very useful skills are skills are core skills, like Energy Surge, Diversion, Energy Burn, Shatter Enchantment and Shatter Hex.

As far as I-Hex, there's a Faction dupe called Revealed Hex

My standard skillbar:

HexBreaker, Rebirth, Arcane Conundrum, Backfire, Wastrel, Eburn, Esurge, Empaty.
On a Me/Mo with high Dom

You ask in the Mesmer forum, NOT the Question and Answer forum.