Explosive Mesmer [balancing issues]

A mesmer that can deal a lot of damage? [as in approximately 50% hp in one spell set...] Problems I've run into are conditions and enemy hexes but aside from that this one seems fine. Note: CA and TA in mind... I'm not as hyper into 8v8 pvp as I used to be...

8+1+3 Domination
9+1 Fast Casting
9+1 Inspiration
10 Curses

Energy Burn
Energy Surge {E}
Arcane Echo
Mind Wrack
Ether Feast/Energy Tap/Drain Enchantment
Spirit of Failure
Price of Failure
Plague Touch / Res Signet

Some things are optional but the key here is to use your anti-fighter skills to bake everybody. By stacking the /of failure hexes, you get a cumulative effect of around 30-ish % vs. the 50% some people incorrectly calculate. [it doesn't stack, it overlaps] Ether Feast and Res Signet are usually for CA whereas the other combinations are for TA.

Setup uses Mind Wrack and for some odd reason, people run far far away when they see this hex... The idea is to Arcane Echo Energy Surge {E}, then unload using E. Surge and E. Burn. It's a 4 hit combo for over 60% their hp.

Since this is an energy hungry build, casting SoF and PoF on as many non-casters as possible is a good call. With a duration 3x longer than it's recycle time, it's a good hex to keep.

I usually run with Drain Enchantment over Ether Feast due to my aggresive suicidal mindset but I still manage to make room for the ever-popular res signet... ^_^

If your team is doing their jobs, you can easily 'finish off' a foe who has 70% of their hp left or less in some instances.

I can't deal with anti-casters so that's a given. Without Plague Touch, conditions will own me sooner or later... And hexes are an ever prominent issue that your friendly monk [if he/she's there] will have to deal with... I ran with another modified version of this build which I'll post in a seperate thread.

Any ideas for increasing dmg output?

if you are having massive energy problems and want to do more damage: drop price of failure and go for channeling. this will free you up to go to 15 or 16 dom (getting rid of curses) and get more out of your skills. it will also allow you to bring a res sig all the time.

thats all i got for ya except maybe empathy... but get rid of the curses, its a spread that seems too thin.

If you have to, swap wrack for parasitic. It's still a cover hex for 5E, but you also gain life when it ends. Damage is only 40 over 20 seconds, but it's consistent, unlike the possibly-zero spike of Wrack.

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My build runs something like that, but its completely mesmer.

Energy Surge {E}
Energy Burn
Mind Wrack
Hex Breaker
Ether Feast
Phantom Pain
Shatter Delusions
Rez Sig

16dom
9inp
9ill
rest in fast cast

A normal person has 455 hp (With a sup attribute rune + sup vigor). Phantom pain + shatter = some degen + deep wound triggered. So 455-91 = 364.

Then surge + burn = 160, so 364-160 = 204. So you're basically stuck here until you can get your skills recharged again, but I just recast mindwrack and use shatter delusions for a consistent 79 damage, adn if they offset mindwrack by themselves for 95 more damage. I always use the pp + shatter combo after I surge + burn for an instant kill when they are about a little less than 50%. This build runs into energy problems, and is only for CA.

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