Mesmer farm build?

I don't get it how do you really farm w/ mesmers.

Every mesmer everywhere should read the following post:

http://forums.gwonline.net/showthrea...highlight=Solo

That guy made a mesmer build to solo Aatxes in the Underworld. It is amazing. The only change necissary is losing Chaos Storm (because monsters flee from it now).

Using basically his build, i can solo farm minotaurs and griffons like crazy. My build (though basically the same as in the link):

Distortion
Sig of Midnight
Epidemic
Spirit of Failure
Wastrel's Worry
Empathy
Phantom Pain
Ether Feast.

Fast Cast 4+1
Domination 10+1+3
Illusion 11+1
Inspiration 9+1

With this build, you aggro, and while you wait for the whole mob to get to you, use Distortion. Once the whole mob is adjacent, Sig of Midnight and Epidemic. Then cast Spirit of Failure on one of them. Now you are practically indestructable, as long as you've had some practice to make sure you don't do anything dumb. They have virtually no chance to hit you between being perma-blind AND distortion. You have an endless rediculous amount of energy with Spirit of Failure giving you 4 energy each time the enemy misses.

Now you just have to deal some damage with your remaining 4 skills. Wastrel's Worry is surprisingly good, because griffons and minotaurs barely use any skills at all. Empathy will chip away at them quite effectively, with as fast as griffons attack. Phantom Pain is much better than conjure phantasm because of the deep wound it causes. This is the same as a few hundred points of damage on a high-level monster. With those three, you'll have the first of the mob killed around the first time you have to recast Sig of Midnight and Epidemic.

Ether Feast is just for when you make a mistake and have to regain some health. Technically, if you play the build perfectly you don't need this skill, but we all make mistakes, and its nice to be able to recover from them.

Just make sure that there is ALWAYS at least one enemy with Spirit of Failure on it. Without that steady stream of energy, you're screwed.

If you wanna farm exp, go north of droknars and farm trolls. With scroll, I usually get at least 4000 exp in every run.(336 exp from each troll to be exact after the bonus exp from scroll)

I have a monk but in desert and other placed I started using my mesmer to farm with a 55 build. Works great, also great against those devourers since mesmer fast cast helps.
Mesmer superior runes are dirt cheap.

Channeling
Healing Breeze
Protective Spirit
Orison of Healing (key skill here since it substitutes for the heals you get from devine favor if you were to use a monk)
Arcane Echo
SoJ
Mending
Balthazar's Spirit

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I don't know if anyone has suggested this but try hunting hydra.

A Me/Mo should be able to farm decently. Use a standard 55 build, and deal damage with smiting (arcane echo + SoJ + ZF) or Domination. Not nearly as efficient as the original Mo/Me with 16 smiting and Aura of Faith, but good enough if you're only looking for cheap XP. Mesmers lack the ability to deal reliable AoE/group damage so a monk secondary is your fastest and easiest option.

I agree with FrogDevourer, when I farm for experience or gold I use a Me/Mo. Now, my damage comes from IW rather than smiting, but hydras are low enough on hp that you can kill two of them every cast of IW.

I have yet to attempt any serious farming as a Me/*. With the low armor, lack of strong and fast self-healing, and no point-blank aoes, you have to rely on your secondary for both damage and protection. Now, you could run the "blind mesmer" that has been posted, but hydras could care less about blind.

For Hydra farming I use:
Protective spirit
Power drain
Conjure phantasm
Illusionary weaponry {E}
Healing breeze
balthazar's aura
Essence bond
Mending (gotta love mending)

16 illusion
9 healing
8 prot
7 fast casting?
4-5 inspiration

I don't have the build in front of me, but you should dump the remaining points into fast casting after doing illusion magic, healing prayers, and protection prayers. The one or two points left over go to inspiration.

You can also kill aataxes with a very similar build, but the grasping darknesses will still get you.

The Blind Mesmer isnt really all that reliable. Especially for farming that area. Usually, no matter how far you run away from other enemies when you aggro a group, some other group will eventually come out of no where, not be blind and you get raped while trying to manage one group of blinded.

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When you guys use the 55HP Build for a Mesmer, what armor do you use? The armor I bought for the build (so I didnt ruin my other set) doesnt give me enough energy to really start the build very fast.

Would Enchanters be the way to go?

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This might be a bit off-topic, but my N/Me solved the "farming for XP" problem with two words: Sorrow's Furnace. While I did come up with a few things that allowed me to farm gryphons/minotaurs/hydras, I just couldn't do enough damage alone, and if I designed a build to do damage I couldn't live long enough. In the Furnace, however, I had steady support from teammates and ended up getting XP at a much faster pace. Of course, the occasional green item made up for it, too

I believe my most successful solo build looked something like this:

Channelling
Aura of the Lich [E]
Blood Renewal
Physical Resistance
Signet of Agony
Plague Touch
Epidemic
spammable 5-cost 1-target damage skill (or Mantra of Resolve?)

It was slow, did not kill all the enemies on me at the same time, and could not withstand a lot of attackers, but it did work. I'm hazy on the details, too, since I had several similar builds and it's been a while.

This is what I ended up with at the end of my 55 build

Not much different than what was prescribed to me.

Shield of Judgement {E}
Zealot's Fire
Empathy
Mending
Balthazar's Spirit
Essence Bond
Protective Spirit
Healing Breeze.

12 Smite
9 Prot
8 Heal
6 Dom
Rest into Fast Cast.

Other than the occasional annoying devourer and Distracting Shot, this goes off without a hitch. Empathy is more there for helping when it gets down to a single target and the energy gain off the enchants isnt all that much anymore. Zealot's works because you're constantly recharging Protective Spirit and Healing Breeze, and as long as you dont do them too often, the AoE running doesnt take effect. If it does, keep going and keep attacking them, they'll come back.

Personally i'd drop zealots and get arcane echo, because the 18s up /45s recharge disparity on Shield of Judgement is really annoying... with Aecho, you can cast 2 SoJ in a row, and a 3rd shortly after. You're avoiding the AoE problem with infrequent casting, but in that case the damage from zealots is also infrequent, and so i think you'd be better off with another 20 (with +enchant % mod) seconds of SoJ.

Also, with the 8 healing you have listed there, you gain 3 life regen from mending and 6 from breeze- you should try to get 9 healing (drop 1 prot for +1 heal maybe) to get a +7 breeze (totalling +10 regen).

Just my thoughts..

I'm sorry to say that, pals, but I have yet to find a true mesmer farm build, here.
Please stop posting Monk/Necromancer farm build as Mesmer ones (when I see only ONE mesmer skill in a so-called "mesmer farm build", I wonder if I am on the right thread.)

Only Flapper McSparkles and Sentao Nugra posted true mesmer farm builds. However the major flaw in their build is that Epidemic transfers blindness to adjacent foes, that is to say a very little radius. If one ennemy is a bit too far, you're dead meat.

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Another problem with epidemic is you cannot use things like Mantra of inscriptions to get an overlapping blind. With SoM and Epi having 15s recharge, youll have a 1+ second period where everything can hit you. Plus, there is still a 1/10 chance that stuff hits through blind. This isnt a problem for small groups of enemies, but besides maybe Aatxe, there aren't that many enemies with only physical attacks that its profitable to kill in small groups.

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The problem with a full mesmer build is that Mesmers dont have the type of damage prevention skills needed to fight so many enemies all at once.

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