It's a few months old, might make another one of these with clips I got a few days ago. Haven't been playing much.

@@KarlStradlin do you have access to isgarren, probably not. Otherwise it's thief, which almost doesn't feel worth it. if u are unable to run midnight king run infiltration runes over scholar on Chrono, ideally always with severance on gs. Could run adventurer relic on mirage

@OmniElite Thank you very much for the response, I will investigate this in order to execute what you recommend to the letter. Just to clarify, in the Chrono build, replace the Midnight King's relic with the Thief's relic, right?

@@lammoth8356 the 1v2 vs NT, and the other 1v2 vs Oath doesn't count?

@@OmniElite you're right, I guess that does count but next time I wanna see at least 3 sieges being thrown and spacebar spamming please. Thank you!

aspect ratio*

The following is based on the builds I have linked in the description. I myself mostly play chrono now a days. Chrono is far more aggressive, and you have a much easier time overwhelming and locking people down through cc and shatter vomit but you suffer from a loss in mobility and range pressure in comparison to mirage. You play alot more in melee on chrono and also more spammy. You are constantly looking for windows to land damage and often setup multiburst chains such that force opponents to use their cooldowns quickly in order to survive. You basically don't let your opponents think about trying to land damage on you as you have them panicking. Chrono is heavily cooldown reliant compared to mirage and the longer the fight goes, the more useless chrono becomes but you are often able to end fights alot quicker. Its important to note that the more defensive skills you take on chrono the less aggressive it becomes, and easier to play it becomes but you lose alot of the benefits that make chrono fun to play and also effectiveness in certain matchups. For example, versus dagger pistol thieves, I like running sword pistol / greatsword chrono with gravity well as it allows me to chain stuns and counterpressure, whereas if I ran torch, and mass invisibility, dropped mantra of distraction for midnight signet I would lose my ability to win those trades, and the thief can stealth for longer. It definitely has a higher skill ceiling and skill floor, and if you run into another mesmer thats somewhat competent, running more defensive skills, you are at an insane disadvantage. You also suck more into willbender. Hyperagressive chrono builds typically didn't do as well in 1vX until spear (as a second weapon set) came along, due to its aoe pressure and massive damage. Basically, in summary, you can drastically change how GS chrono plays, based on the utility skills. On mirage you play much more passive. You play from range more on mirage and keep your distance, rarely if ever going for mirrorblade blink bursts. Mirage, can't brute force tear through a single target nearly as well (don't get me wrong it can absolutely oneshot but its more finesse and requires precision rather than spam, which means against specs that can resustain rapidly it doesn't do nearly as well as chrono) but if multiple targets are stacked up, split surge (even with the nerfs, at least on double mantra) will rip through them (I can still occasionally oneshot 2 or 3 people with phantasmal berserkers and split surge if I have prestacked vulnerability with double mantra). Mirage may not have as much pressure, but it has a lot more sustained damage at least in comparison to normal chrono (not sure if that is true in comparison to the spear / gs chrono build but even for that I am committed to engaging in melee range for that damage, whereas mirage I can play it safer from range). In comparison to Chrono's playstyle variety, GS mirage on the other hand, generally plays relatively the same, assuming you are running jaunt, the main difference is fight duration. The more defensive / utility you run, such as signet of illusions (which I guess you could say is also offensive) and deceptive evasion, the longer you can stay in the fight (and therefore more sustained damage could be argued), but your spike is literally cut in half so it kinda evens out, especially since split surge nerfs, makes the old standard build not worth it, your split surge hits like a wet noodle. I might give double mantra deceptive evasion a try, which technically I shouldn't lose too much damage with as I have more clones. Both are relatively unforgiving but mirage's mobility and disengage gives it the edge in that respect unless you are running a ton of stealth on chrono. I guess you could also say that that also makes mirage the better roamer and easier to play but its harder to kill things as in terms of fighting capabilities, chrono outshines mirage at the moment (at least if both are running greatsword, I haven't played much spear / sword/x mirage). The spear / gs chrono mimic build seems to be a solid blend. I can disengage using a mimic blink, and mass invisibility, giving me burst mobility similar to mirage and I can hyperpressure the same way I could with gravity well because of spear, which also gives me more massive aoe damage, and allows me to chain like 4 oneshot bursts basically if I use continuum split, the pressure seems to make up for its lack of sustain, and also mimic allows me to use my port without fear. The one gripe I have it is that mimic is definitely really strong but it is often a massive waste if I get cc'd without already having used it, and if I wasn't going for a specific clip I would think about changing it out. Furthermore this build, I would imagine is not a duelist, (that said I haven't really dueled on it) and is more of a pug stomper.

if you aren't moving, mirror blade will automatically turn you to your target at the start of the cast unless you are immobilized.

@ hard to believe i consider myself a mesmer not knowing that 🤣 thank you

just wait...

@@OmniElite Has he really found a way to surpass an ascended sayan? Is that possible?

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big ranged damage

Miss your roaming videos, brother. Hope you are well. :D

@@Hossenfaus <3333

Unfortunate tab target

@@RYS_YT ...

@@conq1234 nah, my net is horrendous but I do hang out on grouto's stream time to time, roaming or dueling.

i got knockbacked by revenant downstate ability and stunbroke

@@OmniElite oh ok that makes sense, cuz it looked like an invis dash ability similar to blink but different animation but i couldn't see any abilities being used lol

@@OmniElite what is that 1shot combo btw? GS 2 blink GS3 is crazy lol

@@framinthor the usual combo is precast mirrorblade blink mindwrack and then mindstab. However, the no hud clip is a bit different. I precasted mindstab, used mantra of pain, mantra of distraction blinked mindwrack and then weapon swapped for hydro, which is basically an unreactable burst but it only oneshot because he was full zerk. I did the same combo except I used continum split at the clip starting at 0:20

@@framinthor I would not bother going for the meme combo, especially if you are new to the game or new to mesmer, as in my experience its in the top five hardest combos to get off in the game and required extensive practice on golems for it to look smooth. I would just go for the precast mirrorblade blink mindrack mindstab combo and if you are on mirage, dont even really ever use that combo as you mostly just sit back and split surge. Its a huge investment of resources.

thx m8

i said that for the majority of our fights xd