Mesmer - Core Shatter Roamer

• Core Shatter (sPvP) - the Conquest PvP version of the build.

Skill Variants

Heal

• 幻光纹章 - this results in worse healing, but this skill has some synergy with Inspiration and the CD reset on Phantasms is a nice bonus if you want something more offensive.

Variants

• 幻影之怒 can improve your damage a bit in exchange for some 活力 uptime.

Variants

• 医者反馈 lowers your personal survivability but adds a lot of rez power to the build in case you're roaming in a group.

Specialization Variants

Chaos can replace Inspiration. Both of these are defensive specializations, but Inspiration focuses more on dealing with conditions whereas Chaos improves 潜行 durations and adds 保护 sources to the build:

Stats

• Beginners can mix in a few additional Marauder pieces for more sustain (don't overdo it though), while more experienced players could even consider going full Berserker for higher burst potential.

Equipment Variants

Relics

• - improved mobility at the expense of some burst damage.

Runes

• - bit higher burst potential but lower consistency due to the loss of crit chance.

• - the stats aren't great, but it's an F2P option with mobility.

Sigils

Sword/Torch

• - sacrifices some sustain for better burst damage, if you're willing to bother with a stacking sigil.

Greatsword

• You could run Cleansing + Energy on this set too if you're having trouble surviving.

• over - armor ignoring damage proc that heals you, but your main combo becomes a bit slower.

Consumables

Food

• - good stats and passive damage mitigation.

• or - cheap crit chance bump with armor ignoring damage procs which also heal.

• - defensive food that lets you dodge more often.

General

• is your best defensive CD as it breaks stun, grants distortion and removes conditions via on top of giving you while blinding enemies.

• The build has several condition removals but no real mass cleanses:

  • Inspiration-only: Phantasms take 1 condition from you when summoned.
  • Inspiration-only: Using your healing skill removes 1 condition.
  • Inspiration-only: cleanses 5.
  • Swapping to Sword/Torch procs which removes another 3.
  • cleanses 2 other conditions when used.

• works both defensively and offensively. You can use its to disengage from fights or sneak-attack your opponent. As it's AoE you could even stealth downed allies to make reviving easier or prevent them from getting stomped.

• is a rather flexible skill, how you're going to use it could depend on what other CDs are available. If both and are on CD then you might want to hold onto it as a stun break/panic button, otherwise this is a great mobility tool to either chase down enemies or surprise them with a sudden melee burst.

Damage

• The build doesn't have much in terms of sustained damage, but it has quite powerful bursts. Landing them is crucial for getting kills.

• If taken is mainly a defensive skill, but because it reduces the CD of your Phantasms sometimes it's worth using to gain early access to especially if you need to pressure a low HP enemy.

• Swapping to GS procs , the brief serves to speed up your burst rotation.

• The GS combo is best done in melee range for various reasons. One, to get the most out of the bounces and two, to make yourself act as an extra clone for shatters.