Just sharing a fun mesmer build for PVE levelling that I'm using. It's also really group friendly since your passing around random boons and curing conditions. You're weapon of choice for this one is the staff, and your 6-10 skills are:
http://www.gw2db.com/skills/2647-ether-feast
http://www.gw2db.com/skills/4090-mirror-images
http://www.gw2db.com/skills/4089-decoy
http://www.gw2db.com/skills/4361-signet-of-inspiration
http://www.gw2db.com/skills/8987-time-warp
Traits are Domination 20, picking up:
http://www.gw2db.com/traits/2205-rending-shatter
http://www.gw2db.com/traits/1751-crippling-dissipation
Dueling 20, picking up:
http://www.gw2db.com/traits/1817-desperate-decoy
http://www.gw2db.com/traits/2304-sharper-images
And Illusions 30, picking up:
http://www.gw2db.com/traits/1775-compounding-power
http://www.gw2db.com/traits/2310-master-of-misdirection
http://www.gw2db.com/traits/2223-illusionary-elasticity
Summary:
Major
- Rending Shatter: Shattering illusions causes vulnerability for 8 seconds to nearby foes.
- Crippling Dissipation: Clones cripple nearby foes when they are killed.
- Desperate Decoy: Cloak and leave a clone of yourself behind at 25% health.
- Sharper Images: Illusions inflict bleeding on critical hits.
- Compounding Power: 3% more damage for each of your active illusions.
- Master of Misdirection: Confusion you inflict lasts 33% longer.
- Illusionary Elasticity: Bouncing attacks have one additional bounce.
Minor
- Illusion of Vulnerability: Inflict 3 stacks of vulnerability (5 seconds) when you interrupt a foe.
- Dazzling: Dazing a foe also applies 5 stacks of vulnerability (8 seconds).
- Critical Infusion: Gain 5 seconds of vigor on delivering a critical hit. This effect can only trigger once every 5 seconds.
- Sharper Images: Illusions inflict bleeding on critical hits.
- Illusionists Celerity: Illusion-summoning skills recharge 20% faster.
- Illusionary Retribution: All Shatter skills inflict confusion.
- Shattered Strength: Shattering illusions grants you 1 stack of might per illusion (10 seconds).