The community gave this build a rating, making it second-tier: Good
Focused on: Strike damage
Designed for: PvP Conquest
Difficulty: Normal
This build was last updated on July 19, 2025 and is up to date for the June 2, 2026 patch.
Overview
A glass cannon core Mesmer burst build for PvP, meant to teamfight or roam the map looking for smaller fights to +1 and wrap up quickly.
Usable by F2P players as well, but be warned that power shatter builds are generally unforgiving to play - although they are rewarding and satisfying to pull off.
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Skill Variants
Utility
Heal
幻光盛宴 - slightly better cleansing in exchange for overall less healing.
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Specialization Variants
If you feel like you can afford to trade boon removal for higher burst damage, replace Domination Domination with Dueling Dueling:
Equipment
Usage
General
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Playstyle: roam the map looking for a fight to +1, don't try to 1v1 unless absolutely necessary. Leave fights as soon as your cds are going down and you become a target.
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群体隐形 is a very long duration AoE stealth, get creative! Couple of applications include stealthing yourself or the entire team in order to get to open on the enemy team, or cloaking downed allies to prevent a stomp. -
Poke with
幻光涌流 and 
幻影狂战 in teamfights if you don't see an opening. -
幻镜治疗 reflects projectiles while the skills is being channeled. This can be abused to an extent. If you stow your weapon before the channeling finishes, you get to reflect projectiles while only sending your healing skill on a 4 second CD. Of course if you do this you won't be healed. It's a niche things but worth knowing. -
The build is all about pulling off a major burst combo and getting a kill with it. There's a downtime between bursts where you should primarily just focus on personal survival and rotations.
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挫败之吼's true value lies in trait synergy with 
粉碎专注, this shatter is mostly for softening up targets and removing their boons. Could also work as a filler burst skill when 
心灵粉碎 is on CD. -
错乱咒语 and 
误导 gain a new purpose when playing with 
力量阻隔. Not only will you be able to instantly send skills on a 15s CD, but applying 
虚弱 on interrupt could help you mitigate incoming damage.
Bursting
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What the build lacks in sustained damage, it makes up for in bursts.
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There are upt to two important damage modifiers to note depending on the version of the build,
精神折磨 (when not using 力量阻隔) and 
优越自尊 (only with the Dueling variant). In a way both are tied to your opponent being inactive. The best way to ensure that both of these traits are going to take effect is to CC the target with 错乱咒语 or 误导 right before bursting them. Diversion itself may proc various traits on Domination for Vulnerability which translates to even more damage modifiers, but it does consume your clones so 心灵粉碎 might lose some damage. -
The burst combo is best done in melee range for various reasons. One, to get the most out of the
镜像飞刃 bounces and two, to make yourself act as an extra clone for shatters. -
Despite what the tooltip says,
烟花古物 can be activated by your F2-4 shatter skills (nut only in melee range of an enemy).
Basic combo:
- 镜像飞刃 in melee range.
- Optional 错乱咒语 before the blade connects to the target.
- 心灵粉碎 once the clone appears from Mirror Blade.
心灵穿刺 as soon as you can.
Extended burst combo example:
- Optional - start from stealth to make the burst less predictable. If you're using
虚幻魔术 you could time your burst in a way that the stealth runs out in the middle of the combo as The Prestige does AoE damage after it runs out. Breaking the stealth doesn't cause the damage to go off any sooner. - Optional - if you start from Sword/Torch you could try rooting the target with
移形换位. - Optional - 误导 right before the combo, boosting your damage through various Grandmaster traits. It's a rather short window however, the best scenario would be bursting a target that's already CC'd by one of your teammates and saving Diversion for later.
- Optional - if you can afford to discard a strong defensive CD, using
金蝉脱壳 right before the burst spawns another clone that can be shattered by 心灵粉碎 for extra damage. Just keep in mind that Decoy interrupts skill casting so don't try to squeeze it in in the middle of casting Mirror Blade. - 镜像飞刃 in melee range.
- 错乱咒语 before the first bounce of Mirror Blade.
- 心灵粉碎 as the clone from Mirror Blade appears.
- 心灵穿刺 as soon as you can.
- If the opponent is still alive, you can use 挫败之吼 /
恍惚狂热 / 幻影狂战, whatever extra damage is available. If they try to heal follow up with 误导 or 
幻象之波.
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Related Builds
- Core Shatter Roamer - the WvW Roaming version of the build.