Disclaimer

This teambuild will work for you if you:

• Have 400 - 500p to spare. The Prodigy Insignias are a must have for anything in HM. You could get away with Major instead of Superior Dom runes, but that’s only 2.5 -3p less per E-Surge Mesmer.
• Have Mercenary Heroes. 5 Mesmers aren’t vanilla anymore :(

Purpose

This build is for everyone who played PVE for a long time and doesn’t care about “having fun” in NM anymore. You can basically rush through anything. For Hard Mode you will sometimes need to micro your Heros position or skill usage. I only played this as melee I don’t know if this will work for casters, it should, but I don’t know ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Equipment

Mesmers

If you don’t want to flex on yourself with Froggy’s and Celestials on your Mesmers get the 40/40 from the Factions Weaponsmiths

Kurzick Gertrud in Vasburg Armory

Luxon Telamon in Leviathan Pits

BiP

You can neglect the staff on the BiP because he mostly holds Protective Was Kaolai in his hands anyway.

Soul Twisting Prot

Cheapest and good looking must be the: Asuran Staff from Nojj in Rata Sum
(you will need one char with rank 4 in the Asural title track “Not Too Boring”)

General | Normal Mode

The 4 Energy Surge Mesmers provide spikes, rupts, hex remove and rezz.

They should be set to Attack.

The Ineptitude is especially useful for melee boss fights, bigger melee groups or longer fights.

This should be set to Attack

The Blood is Power is the only direct heal, which is more then enough for most of Normal Mode PvE.

This should be set to Defend (Evade won’t work, or it will not cast Blood Bond )

The Soul Twisting is the reason this works so well, even for longer fights or boss fights. If in doubt you should pre cast the spirits and flag him behind out of range of AoE. Ghosts dead, you are dead.

In Normal Mode you shouldn’t have problems beating:

• UW
• FoW
• ToA
• Any EotN Dungeon
• Mallyx

as long as you have a general understanding what you are doing.

Hard Mode

I mostly just pop a conset for vanquish or certain HM missions and I am doing fine with it. I did all mission campaigns / dungeons in HM and vanquishes with this exact build without any difficulties, if you need extra heal drop the wildcard Esurge and add the Signet of Spirits (SoS) healer. If you feel extra fancy you can also take a Smite Hero instead of the Soul Twisting Prot, change the SoS to the caster alternative then.

In Hard Mode you shouldn’t have problems beating (consets are recommended):

• FoW
• Any EotN Dungeon
• Mallyx

For the other ones you need to heavily micro your heroes, also the builds need to be matched to the specific area. I don’t think UW or DoA are possible with this team build.