IW Slasher

So I was j/w about suggestions for Def for an IW Me/W. I know its been hard now that distortion uses double the energy. I dont' use it as often as I did. I've thought about going Me/A because of the higher armor and mor cover enchantments. But is it worth losing the DMG over?

Since Dervish came along its seems to be a well rounded seconary for an IW mesmer. Earth prayers provide you with healing and defence, wind prayers gives you a speed boost.
I'd say its superior to the combination of Me/W.

Try Me/A.
With deadly paradox and an exhaltation weapon, you can maintain feigned neutrality constantly, wich means +80 armor and +7 health regen.

My set up :

[skill]illusionary weaponry[/skill][skill]deadly paradox[/skill][skill]feigned neutrality[/skill][skill]death's charge[/skill][skill]death's retreat[/skill][skill]illusion of weakness[/skill]

Switch between a scythe and a sword+shield depending on how packed are the ennemies. This builds as no IAS unfortunately, but has 140 armor and health regen.

feigned neutrality got nerfed, and i think deadly paradox may have been too so im not sure if the me/a IW still works. back before nightfall i used a simmilar me/w build that is still on guildwiki.org. now that build is pretty obsolete with all the new skills and its now very easy to counter. i believe your best bet is going with me/d.

The new update left deadly paradox alone. Feigned Neutrality was reduced to 10 seconds. But with an enchanting mod and Deadly Paradox you can keep it up with less than a second of downtime.