Mesmer poll
Bmont3779
OK whats everyones favorite mesmer build? Mine is a shutdown/interupt
Dahnel
IW ! theres just somthing about slicing over confident warriors to ribbons that does it for me 
Bmont3779
yeah IW is good, but a good spike mesmer wil rape you, so be careful
Caros
Edit: migraine now :P
Bane of Mortality
I love mass degen mesmers.
Epinephrine
Varies. I play every sort. I have been playing with MoR to try to make a workable build out of it, but the huge fast-casting investment is a pain. My newest mesmer isn't even a mesmer primary, though with 6 mesmer skills she's undoubtably a mesmer. I guess I really enjoy shutdown, but I have a fondness for an anti-melee build as well, particularly in RA. I love mesmers and play a variety of pure mesmer builds, but feel that ANet has given them the short end of the deal in many ways.
Saborath Gilgalad
I would have to say my favorite type of Mesmer is an Anti Melee Hexer. I Just like stacking about 6 hexes on a Warrior and watching him die. I would have to agree alot of people underestimate Mesmers, and ANet has given them the short end of the deal in many ways, compared to the more favored classes (Warrior, Elementalist and Monk)
SilenceWeaver
shutdown/interrupt is great when your running it well, but i lag bad so often that it gets very hard for me to use effictively, but when i do.....YEAH!
max degen is lots of fun too, just watching their health drain away....hehe.
and finally IW, just fun to use, extremely easy to counter, but so much fun....
max degen is lots of fun too, just watching their health drain away....hehe.
and finally IW, just fun to use, extremely easy to counter, but so much fun....
Caged Fury
Ahhhhhh! Nothing more satisfying than stopping monks from healing, stopping Elementalist from casting that high damaging spell or making warriors wonder why every swing of their weapon is missing their target.
Yup, my favourite build is shutdown/interrupt.
I agree that many people do underestimate the capabilities of a mesmer. I did, too, when I first started playing GW. Looking at the profession and skillset, the mesmer wasn't one that I wanted to play. But after spending some time trying the mesmer out, it has quickly become my favourite profession to play. It isn't an easy profession to play, as I find many of the mesmer skills/spells are conditional and require patience and good timing. But the results are rewarding. These days when I play my warrior and I come face-to-face with an enemy mesmer, I get very cagey as I have a good idea what they can do if given the opportunity.
Yup, my favourite build is shutdown/interrupt.
I agree that many people do underestimate the capabilities of a mesmer. I did, too, when I first started playing GW. Looking at the profession and skillset, the mesmer wasn't one that I wanted to play. But after spending some time trying the mesmer out, it has quickly become my favourite profession to play. It isn't an easy profession to play, as I find many of the mesmer skills/spells are conditional and require patience and good timing. But the results are rewarding. These days when I play my warrior and I come face-to-face with an enemy mesmer, I get very cagey as I have a good idea what they can do if given the opportunity.
Esuna
I love interrupting but shutdown, I'm not so good at. Energy denial is fun too, but combined with malaise, it's more fun 
And I agree, I feel limited as a pure mesmer - there's really only domination or illusion lines, while other classes have 3. Inspiration is more for support on your energy management, so you're stuck with one line to work with. Fast casting goes unsaid is also support. I must always have fast cast and inspiration, so I feel stuck sometimes 
And I agree, I feel limited as a pure mesmer - there's really only domination or illusion lines, while other classes have 3. Inspiration is more for support on your energy management, so you're stuck with one line to work with. Fast casting goes unsaid is also support. I must always have fast cast and inspiration, so I feel stuck sometimes
Nibbler
Shutdown/ interrupt every time, having the opposition too scared to try and cast is fun.
Damien
Must be a E/Me interupter. Got enough energy so i dont have to worry that much about energy and not a first target as a mesmer. Only res signet and mesmer spells in my spellbar so i consider it a mesmer
jciardha
Shutdown/interrupt FTW. I'm pretty sure the last team my guild faced in GVG were wondering where the hell the mesmer was, as I was standing safely behind a wall, throwing out echoed Cries of Frustration. I may not do a whole lot of damage, but demoralizing the opposition works just as well.
"Chaos! Panic! Disorder! My work here is done."
I may not do a whole lot of damage, but demoralizing the opposition works just as well."Chaos! Panic! Disorder! My work here is done."
Sir Hadies
I love EoE bomb mesmers Ahhhhh so fun to blow up on u guys..
Blaine Derrick
Glyph of Renewal shutdown mes/ele. There are so many variations and different neat tricks you can do with Glyph of Renewal and domination skills.
Sir Hadies
Quote:
Originally Posted by Blaine Derrick
Glyph of Renewal shutdown mes/ele. There are so many variations and different neat tricks you can do with Glyph of Renewal and domination skills.
True that..
IamI
I play all the types which costs them greatly.
Toral Xi
I love using empathy and clumsiness on warriors, nothing like seeing them go down quick.
Crimson Eyes
been playing mesmer for my guild for a good 4-5 months now,
my fav build has to be the silent 'energy' assassin mesmer
a mesmer which allows the enemy to take blame for their own losses, i.e. casting whilst having shame/guilt/diversion on them, spamming panic in clusters etc
so i guess it comes into the shutdown/denial catagory
but i must say that migraine mesmers with mass interupts own too cos sometimes its just too EaSy.
my fav build has to be the silent 'energy' assassin mesmer
a mesmer which allows the enemy to take blame for their own losses, i.e. casting whilst having shame/guilt/diversion on them, spamming panic in clusters etc
so i guess it comes into the shutdown/denial catagory
but i must say that migraine mesmers with mass interupts own too cos sometimes its just too EaSy.
Bmont3779
wow i put this tread out there just to see what the mesmer community was like, and i have to say there are alot of us. Got to love that shutdown/interupt memser though. Expecialy agenst you necros (your spells are so slow got to love it)
-Commander M
--PS Mesmers my favorite class
-Commander M
--PS Mesmers my favorite class
Victory Gaint
Denial Ftw!
agentblade
I love interrupting pple but i'm just not fast enough to interrupt monks without migraine.. maybe cos i lag 
Anyway, that's why my love goes out to energy denial using mind wrack to spike. I can kill while taking out energy from monk, imo it's killing two birds with one stone..
Anyway, that's why my love goes out to energy denial using mind wrack to spike. I can kill while taking out energy from monk, imo it's killing two birds with one stone..
Cymmina
I think they're all fun. Resmer, FC ele, opportunist (think inspired hex/enchantment + arcane thievery), or just plain being a nuisance like mesmers do best.
LouAl
I love running a Me/E
true the Ele damage isn't as high as if I were ele/me, but stacking in a few interrupts like leech and power drain and adding in about 9 or 10 lvls of fast casting...
Meteor, meteor shower, chain lightnig, obsidian flame, malestrom...anything with cast times over 1 second is much more effective with a bunch of fast casting.
It really takes ppl down fast when you can cast so much so fast
oh yeah, and interupting ppl is about the most fun you can have. Ever. I love it when ppl waste a whole pile of energy on a spell that never gets cast, and if you wait until the spell is almost finished they just wasted energy and 4 seconds of valuable killing time.
true the Ele damage isn't as high as if I were ele/me, but stacking in a few interrupts like leech and power drain and adding in about 9 or 10 lvls of fast casting...
Meteor, meteor shower, chain lightnig, obsidian flame, malestrom...anything with cast times over 1 second is much more effective with a bunch of fast casting.
It really takes ppl down fast when you can cast so much so fast
oh yeah, and interupting ppl is about the most fun you can have. Ever. I love it when ppl waste a whole pile of energy on a spell that never gets cast, and if you wait until the spell is almost finished they just wasted energy and 4 seconds of valuable killing time.
Turbo Wombat
Domination/General Shutdown is by far my favorite. Most classes I come across call it the "OMG ****ing piece of **** lame *** get some real ****ing skills noob" build.
Fenix Stone
I would have to say that the anti warrior build is the best. You use clumsiness and spriteful spirit and weaken armor and other hexes on the paladins that charge. On their first attack, they lose almost 3/4 of their health. And since you have weaken armor on them, all your warriors can just start attacking the paladin. They will be dead in a few seconds.
Hegemon
Disrupt or Energy Denial/Mind Wracker
fergburger
heavy degen/anti-melee type is my fave.
bele
Anti-W aswell. as i'm now in Random and must be "all-in-one", have put a few points in Dom aswell with blackout (Monk annoying)
Dodo The Extinct
Energy denial is my fav mesmer build. U can even mindwrack warriors w spirit shackles. It shuts people down pretty well while still maintaining a strong dmg output.
Ipse_Dixit
My favorite has always been health degen. My favorite varity of degen right now is Me/N with soul barbs.
I also like anti-healers (Me/Mo).
I also like anti-healers (Me/Mo).
LightningHell
Me/N Shutdown!
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