character profile: Xyla Nu

Age: 13 months
Titles (in order as they apear on my Hero Log)
Sunspear General (7) 4,515 promo points
Mighty Lightbringer (4) 3,406 promo points
Treasure Hunter (1) 110 opened
Tyrian Explorer (60.0%) 67.5% explored


















Weapons of Choice
F1 Golden Boar Scepter (Fast Casting) and Illyana's Mirror

I use these pretty much all the time. I always have the 8+1 attribute points in Fast Casting, so its quite flexible.



F2 Zelnehlun's Longbow

OK, so a mesmer maybe does NEED a green longbow, but I generally find myself luring reasonably often, and hey... who says I cant have a little style.












F3 Gorrel's Staff
An Illusion Specialist Staff. I don't need this, its more there to show the warriors who's boss when they are flashing how cool they are cause they have a purple machete.













Builds of Choice.
1. Spiteful Spirit - Best Build for Real Team
My build of choice when it comes to working with real people - particularly you guys.

1 parasitic bond (self heal)
2 spiteful spirit (every time they attack or use a skill they and nearbys take damage)
3 mark of pain (thats the one that makes big groups die fast)
4 barbs (throw this on after MoP to make the target die quicker too - also good for bosses or other hard to kills)
5 empathy (probably one of my favourites - they take damage each time they attack - SS deals 27 per attack, empathy is more like 43 - but only hits when they attack, not skill usage)
6 backfire (whopping huge damage that hits them as there next spell casts)
7 power spike (awesome interupt - spells only - hits for 114)
8 cry of pain (interupts any skill - only deals damage if they are mesmer hexed - which they normally are - this is a sunspear skill, only dependant of my rank in sunspear)

2. Lightbringer Gaze Echo or Nightfall EndGame
makes the most of the Lightbringer Skill (Lightbringer Gaze) by tripling its use. I also use some interupts, as there are some whopping damage dealers that throw meteor shower (among others) your way in the end game. As LB gaze is a skill and not a spell, i start by arcane echoing echo, then i can triple my usage!

3. Anti-Melee
A fairly simple ineptitude build. I include one spell interupt just in case. Often I leave out 5 and 6 if i need a res, extra interupt, signet of capture or lightbringer gaze

4. Anti-Caster
another reasonably simple build. 1 + 2 slow down casting rates, 6,7 +8 are the interupts. 3 is anti melee (empahty rocks, really), 5 is conjure phantasm which is just a nice easy skill to spam, and 4 is my self heal illusion of weakness, which is an awesome skill - i include it in any build where i have illusion magic.

5. Lightbringer Farmer / Pet Leveller
i came up with this energy surge build to specifically attack the 3 mosters i come accross in the mirror of lyss while farming lightbringer points. Its also helping my level up my bear. skill 3 is the closest thing i have to a spammable spike, wastrel's demise, works well against these guys cause they all use spells (mesmers, eles and dervishes). 8 is my self heal, i rarely equip inspiration magic, but it works well here... i could as easily go illusion of weakness, but whatever...