Mesmer - Blurring Inspiration

Skill Variants

Weapons

• Axe/Torch over Scepter/Torch - if you have Secrets of the Obscure you can take Axe instead of Scepter for more burst damage, a target break, and clone generation. A more aggressive weapon set that can work well with Staff.

Elite

• 时间扭曲 - if you want a stronger team fight presence over the ability to moa a player.

• 群体隐形 - if you want to provide more support via giving allies the opportunity to reposition or recover.

Variants

• 幻象壁垒 turns into an instant defensive CD that applies 保护, but you give up a procs and the combo synergy that comes with it.

Variants

• 同情容貌 is a more selfish option you could take for better condi cleansing.

Equipment Variants

Sigils

• 洁净法印 over 厄运法印 - more cleansing over poison access.

Amulets

• 腐朽项链 - the higher power damage can be useful vs high cleansing specs, but you don't have a lot of hard hitting skill in the build. The extra HP is good against condi builds, but Rabid is better when facing power-based specs. With Carrion you should take a condi rune with extra armor, like 工程师符文.

Relics

• 恶魔女王古物 - better 中毒 access and increased healing reduction. Consider taking 猞猁符文 to regain some of the lost mobility.

• 迷雾异客古物 - armor ignoring damage procs that also heal you throughout the fight.

General

• Try to send your Phantasms on CD before using 幻光纹章 as your healing skill partially recharges them.

• 富饶幻灭 grants you 稳固 whenever you shatter, so consider using one of your shatters to prevent interrupts on important casts like 幻光纹章 while under pressure or if you're stomping a downed enemy.

• Don't be afraid to use 幻象纹章 if you need to keep the pressure up but you're all out of shatters. This signet also lets you be a bit more wasteful of your shatters, knowing that you can recharge them anytime.

• Aim to use 相位撤退 inside 混乱风暴 whenever possible in order to combo 混沌光环 for yourself.

  • Keep in mind that auras don't stack in duration, so don't try to combo it with 混乱护甲.

Mobility

• Use 相位撤退 for mobility while roaming between capture points or chasing after targets. PR teleports you in the opposite direction of where you're facing, so in order to teleport "forward" simply turn around and use it then turn back. We recommend that you set up a bind for about face to do this in a fluid manner (Options ⇒ Control Options ⇒ Movement).
  • About face ⇒ 相位撤退 ⇒ about face is the rotation.
  • Make sure that you don't have an enemy targeted when doing this!

Damage

• Every shatter inflicts 折磨 via 幻灭伤残.

• 挫败之吼 is the strongest shatter skill here when it comes to damage, followed by 心灵粉碎. These 2 will help you burst.

• Scepter is your offensive set while Staff is more about defense and sustained damage. All Scepter skills deal good damage.

• The autoattack chain of Scepter can be progressed without a target, even out of combat. This is useful because autoattacking the air twice lets you start fights with for a free clone.

Sustain

• The build has plenty of ways to deal with conditions:

  • Weapon swapping removes a condition via .
  • is your mass cleanse, removing a total of 5 conditions with .
  • removes another one when you use your healing skill.
  • cleanses conditions whenever you gain and when you are CC'd while the cool down is ready.
  • Last but not least, is another source of cleansing.

• Every signet grants .

• is an excellent panic button and mobility tool that instantly yeets you across the battlefield whilst breaking stun.

• Your strongest option against damage in general is , granting you immunity to any form of pressure including CC and conditions that are already on you.

• can be used even while stunned, blinding nearby enemies and giving you a chance to gain whens struck.

• Same goes for , you could use it to get out of harm's way even while stunned.