Team Build: Mesway

Drk Dervish

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Feb 2012

D/W

13 Feb 2012 at 23:03 - 1

First thing like to say hello to all, from an new member to here.

I just got back playing GW from 4+ years absence of the game. So I a new but also vet player to the game. Anyways was VQ and playing new area/quest in HM. I tried lot of team build ie discard, ROJ, etc. Ended up using discord for most of the time. But after vqing Canthan with discord I found it a little to slow for my pace since I like to use onslaught.

So I got the merc pack this weekend and started to have some fun with a mes team. Below is what I came up so far please let me know what you guys think and always open for improvement.

My toon survivor pretty well thank to extra armor bonus and heath gen. with Vow of Piety. And spamming onslaught/attack's insight keep it renew all the time +50% block bonus. With my SY at max title + 2x SYG the team have lot of extra coverage.

Without MM and lot of spirit I can run this team in a very fast pace. But the trade off is from the lack of MM and Spirits facing a very large mob or in a long draw out fight an hero will often get kill (usually the mes/rit). So I replaced 1 Ineptitude with Shared Burden to slow down the spike from foe. Or do you guys think replace one of the e-surge for panic will help.

Gabs88

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2011

13 Feb 2012 at 23:33 - 2

There's just so many things I dislike about this build.

1. The idea of having 5 mesmers is ridicilous unless you ball the enemies perfectly. Trust me I've tried and tried to make this work, but overall it does not perform that well.
2. If you have no MM you use ST, not ER Prot.
3. MM, SoGM and SoS are tested and proven staple builds for general vanquishing. If you want it fast thats what you get. If you want it safe, you drop the MM for a ST rit and learn to flag it. You don't really want it safe except for like in a couple of zones in the entire game, because it's unnessesary.
4. ER prot sucks.
5. Death Pact signets on both of your healers? What happens if they ress each other xD
6. SoS bar sucks, especially by it self. Drop Painful Bond and Spirit Rift grab ancestors rage and PWK.
7. Esurge mesmer energy management, and mesmer energy management in general. This is one of the big problems about using multiple mesmers, they rely on the same kind of energy management. And it doesn't stack well. Drop Power Drain for Waste Not, Want not. Grab some Drain Enchantment, basically you can see you have a problem here? ;P
8. Panic on say the dom/resto hero over esurge. This basically allows you to drop both ineptitude and shared burden, frees up some slots for other interesting skills.
9. If still going with 5 mes, grab 4 domi and 1 ineptitude. Or 3 domi, 1 shared burden resto and 1 ineptitude.

Thing is you can get almost instant kill AOE spikes with a lot less AOE then this. A good build has a good balance between heals, prots, damage and utility. This one is a one trick pony, hit or miss nuklear weapon.

Drk Dervish

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Feb 2012

D/W

14 Feb 2012 at 00:06 - 3

Good pts about ST to replace ER Prot I'll try that one. Like I say I know MM/SOS/SoGM is good for general VQing I come from that, I just got bored

with it.

As for death pact i just put a res on the slot copied off a template in another build. Normally I don't even take any res, let the team warp and use a candy cane.

Hmm I use to have ancestor rage but switch Spirit Rift to again access to cracking armor condition see if there any trade off from my melee toon. Thank for the input I'll adjust some skills around and test it out tonight.

Don't get me wrong I do believe the term "If it isn't broken don't fix it", and pvx have proven build but why not have some fun its an game. ^_^.