Help with most useful mesmer/chronomancer spec

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Hi all, nice to meet you, i joined Gank yesterday.

Bio:
Profano, aka Prof, playing in WvW with my mesmer, following the pug zerg helping the commander, until yesterday.

Before HoT i was playing as a veilbot but now, with alacrity, i'd like to know what type of mesmer fits better with guild style.
I don't have a lot of time to play and don't like farming, so i can't have a lot of ascended sets; would be better for me to choose the best one and help the guild.

This is my actual build with double traited Veil.

Now, with the new HoT stats, sigils and runes, i'm curious to see how an Alabot would work, and how useful can be.
Can a build like this, with the new Vigilant set (boon duration and condition duration) or Commander set (boon duration) plus the Chrono runes (2s quickness on well) be more effective?

Thanks a lot


p.s. sorry for my english, i'm italian, lol.

[starrifyx]

Welcome Prof to GANK!

Your actual build looks nice, and we don't have a specific guild style really. We're all casual players really, so it doesn't matter much about how we play. So looking at your newer build, I personally don't know how to use to Sword on Mesmers at all, it might suit your play style though I dunno.

I would love to see how the shield and Chronomancer spare though! Also, what stats would your gear be? I'm just curious. I don't think we know much about the new builds yet, so we could all try figure out stuffs for each other. I'm not a Mesmer main, but I would love to look into builds, I'm just not good with figuring out stats and stuff.

P.S.: Don't worry about your English, it's alright! I'm Chinese so.. x3

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Ty Starr.
In WvW i my position during pre-inc is close to commander because i must cast Veil.
After that, i change my position to midline-backline ( mesmer is pretty fragile ) and cast alacrity wells and the elite.
Chronomancer with Alacrity and slow raise the team dps, so i would use a gear with Concentration (boon duration), chaos traits ( Chaotic Persistence : +2% for every boon ), Inspiration for longer Time Warp, every alacrity buff trait from Chrono and the new Commander gear: Power, Precision, Toughness, Concentration (Boon Duration).
I would like to double the Alacrity time, reaching about 40s.
Chronomancer runes give me Power + prec + 2 seconds Quickness

Sword is useful for block the enemy with skill 3, and protect from attacks spamming distortion with 2, plus is a power based weapong, and fits perfect with the gear and the runes.

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Ehm, Alacrity isn't a boon ... so boon duration is a waste but ... QUICKNESS is a boon, and this build can spam it AoE :
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