Guild Wars Mesmer
Mind over Matter

The mesmer is the master of mind magic. They can slow you down, make you miss attacks, interrupt, and even drain power from enemies. They are masters of the indirect damage, they prefer you make a choice, wait out an effect or make an action and do damage to your self.

The 3 main types of guild wars mesmer you will meet are:

The Interrupter - Stopping attacks and damaging the attacker at the same time is no easy task, unless you’re a mesmer. They force you to choose either to wait or attack and take damage, or they just stop your attack all together.

The Degener - You drain the enemies health from them.

The Hexer - Hex's you to no end many different effects may take place, from slowing down a foe, to making them miss more often.

Choosing a secondary profession for your Guild Wars Mesmer

When choosing a secondary profession for your guild wars mesmer, first you should decide on what your main goal is going to be. Once you have decided, look at the skills that the other professions have, you can even test some of them out in the game through missions before deciding. Then choose those skills that will help you do what you want. Example: you decide to use the degener build, you may want to go Necromancers because Necromancers have several degen skills as well, while giving you the ability to regen your Hp as well.

Mesmer as a secondary class for other primary professions.

The Pro's The guild wars mesmer makes a great secondary profession for many of the other professions in the game. It allows you to control the pace of fights by slowing down or stopping a major foe. Another nice thing about this class is they can steal power from the enemies and give it to themselves.

The Con'sThe bad thing about taking a mesmer as a secondary is that there are not a lot of direct damage skills. Many of their skills rely on the foe to make a choice, and they are caster or tank specific choices. Example one skill interrupts a spell that is caster specific, a tank may not have spells if they do they just wait it out while using their melee skills.

Armor: Mesmer have low armor, so they will take more damage in a fight. There are 31 sets of armor, each with its own unique look. You can mix and match the armor sets. There are five pieces to each set.

Weapons: In Guild Wars you can use any weapon in the game. Most Mesmer’s use staffs or wands, these weapons cast a damage spell that flies out the end of the staff for a ranged attack. The damage these weapons do is low to medium. You cannot specialize in these weapons to increase their damage.

Magic: All characters have the ability to use magic, so every character has a magic or power pool, mesmers have a medium amount of power and a high power regeneration or regen as gamers call it.

Attributes are the groupings that skills fall under.

Fast Casting - This attribute is the primary line for a mesmer, which means that only a mesmer primary can put points in this attribute line. For every point you put in this attribute the skills in it get stronger, The more points you put in this line the faster you cast.

Illusion Magic - This line is the degen line for the mesmer. The spells in this line do mainly damage over time or Dot's for short. For every point you put in this attribute the skills in it get stronger.

Domination Magic - You control the way the fight goes through interrupts, slow downs and many other spells. For every point you put in this attribute the skills in it get stronger.

Inspiration Magic - Helps make you and others spells more effective. For every point you put in this attribute the skills in it get stronger.

When you create a Guild Wars Mesmer build you will discover you can only take 8 skills with you. So making a build that allows you to continue to cast your skills is very important.

The Tips

• First and most important is to choose the skills that go with your play style.
• Balance your skills so you will be more effective. Be sure to bring skills to recapture your energy quickly.
• Don’t be afraid to try different skills and skill combinations.
• Pick a secondary profession that fits your play style and build.
• When creating your armor, each piece can have one rune and one insignia. Read each carefully because placement has an effect on some of the insignias.

• When you PvP you will be quickly targeted, the reason for this is because you can turn a battle quickly.

Playing a mesmer is very interesting, since you are in control of how the battles will be fought. Although this sounds easy it is not. A Mesmer is one of the more difficult classes to play, but once you get the hang of it you become very powerful

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