Hexway

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Hexway is a generalized PvP team built around a variety of Mesmer and Necromancer hexes and designed to shut down and/or weaken a team to make them easier to kill. Most of the hexes are chosen to target the enemy backline so the team can be beaten by a single melee player. Hexway teams commonly add pressure through Toxic Chill, a Nuker, or Wastrel's Worry (which forces foes into a lose-lose situation where they will take damage whether they use skills or not).

Perhaps the most important advantage of hexway is that hexes can be applied faster than opponents can remove them — some hexes even help complicate the removal process.

Commonly-used hexes

Mesmer

• Backfire
• Diversion
• Empathy
• Energy Surge
• Fevered Dreams (Used in builds relying both on conditions and hexes, as well as physical damage)
• Frustration
• Migraine
• Mind Wrack
• Panic
• Visions of Regret

Necromancer

• Depravity
• Insidious Parasite
• Faintheartedness
• Lingering Curse
• Putrid Bile
• Rising Bile
• Soul Bind
• Spiteful Spirit
• Spoil Victor
• Mark of Subversion
• Malaise
• Reaper's Mark

Covering hexes

Some hexes are primarily used to cover more important ones:

Necromancer

• Parasitic Bond
• Suffering
• Life Siphon
• Meekness
• Shadow of Fear

Mesmer

Some hexes are ideal to be used as covers so that they can be removed just before they expire and cause additional damage using Shatter Delusions and Drain Delusions.

• Calculated Risk
• Ether Phantom
• Fragility
• Mind Wrack
• Overload
• Phantom Pain
• Shrinking Armor
• Wastrel's Demise
• Wastrel's Worry
• Web of Disruption

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