Concept Farmer: New Age Me/Mo

Previously there was the 55 mesmer that used IW or Shield of Judgement. Than there was the spirit bonder that was used to farm shiro'ken as well as the underworld. And now...

There is a new reason why not to delete your mesmer!

Introducing.... The NEW and improved Mesmer solo farmer! (yay...)

(Idea developed from New Age Monk build as well as looking at the new Nightfall skills)

Mainly, the build is based on Signet of Illusions- "Your next spell uses the illusion attribute instead of it's normal attribute"

Attributes:
Illusion Magic: 16 (12+3+1)
Fast Casting: 12 (9+3)
Inspiration Magic: 4 (1+3)
Protection Prayers: 9

Weapons: Totem Axe and -50 Grim Cesta

Skills:
Signet of Illusions {e}
Protective Spirit
Shield of Absorption
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Retribution
Mending
Balthazars Spirit
Blessed Aura

Alright this might be pretty slow but it's the first stage of the build so bear with me.

First, when you spawn, cast Signet of Illusions followed by Mending and than Signet of Illusions followed by Blessed Aura. Now cast Balthazars spirit and than Signet of Illusions followed by Retribution. Now you are "super-awesome" pumped up and ready to get started with farming. But...

I can't think of a consistent dmg source that isn't an elite (i.e. with Signet of Illusion I can't bring along Shield of Judgement or Illusionary Weapon). I suppose you could sit there and let retribution pound your enemies but 33% of 5 dmg... it isn't much at all and most enemies regen counters that

So.... at this stage of the build you can only use it to duo farm places with an SS or Famine ranger (if you swap retribution and the blank spot for ss/sv.)

Well, this isn't much of a build after all but that's why it's a CONCEPT farmer. Any suggestions/comments would be nice.

The Phantom

you could use conjure nightmare as a killer, the hefty degen from that could work, and possinly remove retributon for maybe another illusion degen spell.

However, jus realised you were planning on using this for taking down largeish mobs, i assume.

In that case, there really arent any aoe killers u can use that wont cause melle to run away.

LOL! where do u cap that elite? it sounds awesome

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Another way you could do this, and still have some effective damage is bring a mesmer hero. Give him the signet. You bring arcane mimicry instead of the signet. Enter the area, flag hero there and mimic his signet. Cast aura and you're set. IW would probably fit in nicely.

I never considered taking a hero along This brings up new possibilities!

so we could still bring a scythe and hack away with IW cause we don't need 55hp with SoA
Than we would have something like:
Arcane mimicry
IW
SV
PS
SoA
Mending
Balthazar spirit
Blessed aura
(hmm no essence bond, so take on big groups for nrg, but too bad melee enemies flee from AoE scythe attacks )

Oh and i was thinking of empathy (haven't really looked on it since the last update)

Not sure about this, but I read somewhere IW doesnt work with a scythe, it only damages the enemy you target. I could be completely wrong on this though.

It works

So the old Mesmer farm build still works Guess I don't need to keep working on this build anymore XP

It works but new builds are still interesting
And yours is

so we keep thinking

too bad heroes can't maintain enchant's on you while their name is gray (so not get any drops), because i used Arcane mimicry, IW, SV, PS, SoA, Mending, Balthazar spirit, Blessed aura but i ran in energy problems a bit...

In response to the original post, Retribution wouldn't work with SoA because you're taking 0 damage.

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Ooh, I stand corrected. I was also thinking of a SoI build like this and using Blessed Aura, but all I could think of for damage was Retribution. After I realized that I'd be taking 0 damage, I was put off. But if that's true, then I might start working on that build again.

Gonna test a build similar to this with the mighty shiroken tomorrow, i'll let you know how it goes