11 Juin 2012 Beta WE#2- I still played a power base mesmer to very great success, I still firmly believe that Sword / Pistol and Staff are the best weapons and would really disagree to running the torch and decoy build; as it only means that the mesmer is difficult to kill which means that more than likely he is having less of an impact on team fights.

Simply said your loosing out on
An 2s Stun a 2s Daze and a Blind on three targets, in favour of being able to go invis for 3s and doing minor burning damage.
You also loose the Duelist who if compared to the mage is far superior.

Taking Decoy instead of mirror images, means that you are loosing out on being able to quickly create an extra illusion, which in my case means 1.7k less damage done and or 1s less invul from distortion.
I just find Decoy to be a very defensive ability, since you can easily tack defensive traits but build offensively.

I will have videos up for you guys so that you can see the build in action as soon as possible.