Xander's PvE Builds (Project under construction)

I hope you’re patient Woo 😅 Will have time starting end of next week. Working until I go on holidays for a week😇

Alright... so now that there have been a few changes in the game, I am once again pondering what to do next... The missing skills are the PvE Elites.

R/A: Idea is to run 5 Critical Strikes to improve the damage of Unsuspecting Strike (+23 +35^90%) whilst decreasing the cost of it with Expertise (10energy -> 3 energy).

D/N: 5 Soul Reaping to increase duration of Masochism and use Dark Aura on a hero to trigger large AoE together with Scythe Attacks (+Splinter) and Aura of Holy Might.

A/W: 5 Strength to increase damage a little through armor penetration (while pretty much critting 100%).

P/R: 5 Strength to increase damage on bow attacks.

W/D: 5 Soul Reaping for more spam spam.

W/D: Same as above :p

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Each build would get a different hero team to increase it's potential :p

Any thoughts? :p

Here are some other Mesmer builds Woo !

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Alrighty, back to the drawing board.

So: I have been playing a setup of R (player) 1xR 6xP (heroes).

Conclusion is that I can't handle the slowness of the playstyle once you fight something with a good block/blind/anti-physical. Just something that never bothered me before (after 10 GWAMMs and even a GWAMM paraway, I did try to use as many new mods as I could so maybe that's why it wasn't as great xd). So I have come up with a few new player builds (some old ones returning just for the sake that I can't improve them xd).

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The ideas:

Warrior: just smack shit and it will die. ezpz

Ranger: Apply Poison (+ Withering Aura) for Reap Impurities

Necromancer: Sacrifice health with AoE damage on top for big deepers (note; might require more healing from heroes:P)

Elementalist: build idea from Krschkr (dropped Elemental Lord for Air of Superiority)

Assassin: Big time crit dagger boii or gurll (with +5 Expertise for less energy pressure from Unsuspecting Strike)

Dervish: Avatar of Lyssa for big time ench spam combined with Aura of Holy Might

I'm mostly leaning towards the sin tbh, it seems to do amazing damage; with pcons/cons and Shadow Theft you will hit 20 Critical Strikes and 20 Dagger Mastery (21 actually, but it's either this or CS with 1 too much xd) and 20 Air Magic.... Doesn't that just sound amazing?

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Or more something like this:

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Or.... Should I run this for the Ranger... It adds either heals, energy management or holy damage. Plus the other benefits from the Avatar skills (armor, heal etc). And since the new mods exist, this is now actually doable Idk if BU also reduces the set cd time for the Avatar skills (if anyone knows, otherwise I'll find out myself)

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Tyvm:p I like to call myself a build master 😜 some will agree, some will disagree haha. I enjoy the theorycrafting and thinking about what would work with what. If you need help or anything just hit me up^^

Latest thought of my brain:

I noticed my brain did an oopsie on the mesmer attributes. But was thinking of changing it up a bit anyways

An auto attack machine (esp with 33% IAS) combined with a fun hero setup:

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Okay, so I think I accidentally made my own version of petway :o

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Still working on getting through campaigns atm so dont mind my build too much :3 I simply cant use dagger attack skills Made it a Deathless (atleast try to.. the setup isnt really that meta, so far been trial and error but it worked really well so far) Auto Attack Only GWAMM because... why not :p

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Who knew you could break the game with just auto attacks xD

Since I have yet to die, I was considering swapping the Me/R to Me/Mo and add live vigorously and/or vigorous spirit atleast (trust me, this will give the most healing... if anyone's curious to see what the team damage is, here is a little snap. Note: this damage does not reflect the whole build as the N/R putrid bile+explosion don't get to shine really at the master of damage, same goes for the mesmer)