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Yes it's a great game IMO, and everyone should have a chance to experience it.

I agree with you that so far from my experience GS plays best at close range even though its designed as range. It's easer to shatter and confuse foes. Problem is I find damage is just not good enough compared to thief, warrior and as long range you can just poke with 1. 2 and 4 is good but harder to utilize the clone damage. But I am lvl 41 now and so far this has been my experience. Theif, and Ranger have really good damage long range.

Trinkets > Weapons > Armor https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/User:Tanetris/So_You_Want_To_Gear_a_Character Wow thanks a bunch for this link. It lays out the roadmap nicely. Certainly going to be using this along with the other guide. You guys rock!

Yeah man I have now played WvW enough on the Mesmer to unlock a warclaw. I mostly PvPd on this toon. I have a thief main. I would say shattering clones so hard on WvWvW. Since they get killed so fast even before I can blow them up. And when they do damage is so low. Compared to like Ranger or Theif with their massive burst. But I am still only lvl 39. Maybe at 80 with Berserker or Marauder gear. You shouldn't play WvW until level 80, but once you hit level 80 on 1 character, you will get so many tomes of knowledge from WvW that you never need to level up manually again. You need 3/4-stat exotic, and preferably even ascended gear. If you run 2 stat greens, you won't even scale up well. Anyways, mesmer is definitely a cool class. Do try to get chrono for largescale so your shatters can get superspeed when traited. But yeah, id say run full marauder, it isn't that big of a DPS loss (10-15%) but the extra vitality allows you to deal more damage due to surviving longer/tanking retal. Thanks for the great information brother/sister. May I ask you what's the best way to get some marauder gear fast at lvl 80 ? I have about 100k karma saved up and close 400 badge of honor. Had some decent gold to until I decided to lvl LW to 500. You get 1 stat selectable exotic armor piece per week from pips (Warlords armor box, at the end of bronze pip rewards) and can get more from triumphant reward track, you can do some early HoT story achievements for ascended marauder trinkets or LS3/LS4 reward tracks for map currencies to buy stat selectable asc trinkets. And exotic marauder isn't that expensive to craft if you want to level tailoring to 400 https://gw2crafts.net/tailor_fast.html but just leveling the crafting discipline might be little too expensive for a new player. For berserker/knight ascended trinks (until you get the marauder): Accessories are quite easy to get from guild missions (until you work on marauder), using 20 + 250 badges of honor laurels for amulet or do fractal dailies (even low easy t2 dailies give 6 pristine) for 10 pristine for rings. Overall id prolly just buy https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Nika%27s_armor (berserker) stats from TP as soon as you hit level 80 and throw some cheap statheavy runes with vitality on them (Durability or Divinity) and play with those until you get proper marauder stuff going (then swap runes). You will be still quite weak but it is cheap way to get your first gear. Do note that ascended weapon is like 10% boost on damage compared to exotic so you shouldn't except to be strong as DPS without ascended weps (or trinkets).Wow thanks this is a lot of good information. I am definitely going to refer here as I level along. Thanks a lot! Also it's best to craft the ascendant weapons first before gear ? In terms of DPS those are the biggest upgrade ?

Yeah man I have now played WvW enough on the Mesmer to unlock a warclaw. I mostly PvPd on this toon. I have a thief main. I would say shattering clones so hard on WvWvW. Since they get killed so fast even before I can blow them up. And when they do damage is so low. Compared to like Ranger or Theif with their massive burst. But I am still only lvl 39. Maybe at 80 with Berserker or Marauder gear. You shouldn't play WvW until level 80, but once you hit level 80 on 1 character, you will get so many tomes of knowledge from WvW that you never need to level up manually again. You need 3/4-stat exotic, and preferably even ascended gear. If you run 2 stat greens, you won't even scale up well. Anyways, mesmer is definitely a cool class. Do try to get chrono for largescale so your shatters can get superspeed when traited. But yeah, id say run full marauder, it isn't that big of a DPS loss (10-15%) but the extra vitality allows you to deal more damage due to surviving longer/tanking retal.Thanks for the great information brother/sister. May I ask you what's the best way to get some marauder gear fast at lvl 80 ? I have about 100k karma saved up and close 400 badge of honor. Had some decent gold to until I decided to lvl LW to 500.

Yeah man I have now played WvW enough on the Mesmer to unlock a warclaw. I mostly PvPd on this toon. I have a thief main. I would say shattering clones so hard on WvWvW. Since they get killed so fast even before I can blow them up. And when they do damage is so low. Compared to like Ranger or Theif with their massive burst. But I am still only lvl 39. Maybe at 80 with Berserker or Marauder gear.

Update: I am level 35 now, Did quite a few WvWvW by now. My Server is OK since WvWvW is mostly zergfest anyway. But so far the damage seems so low compared to others. But then again I am low level. Hopefully it picks up a bit more at 80 with atleast exotic gear

Hello I was looking into leveling a Mesmer and so far I really dig the GS. Given how new I am to the class how viable is the GS in late game ? I mostly do WvW and Fractals.