Wow. First up, I just want to congratulate you on your determination.
I can imagine a lot of people will simply say, WTF? But there is a fine line between genius and insanity.
I can't offer much in terms of expertise but I'm interested to see what you come up with because it looks like a lot of fun regardless of whether it gets accepted as being 'serious', which a Mesmer looking to frontline is not after anyway.
So at the moment your benefit as a Mesmer comes from better use of defensive signets through FC and Symbolic Celerity? and PI, if that's what you go with. (Even though you found you didn't need Symbolic Celerity with PS on you and your heroes under SY). If you're going to push to keep the Mesmer flavour maybe you should adjust your Heroes to balance them so that your defensive skills come into play, like you were saying with the PI, SY anti-synergy (arguably Mesmer + melee = anti-synergy).
What about Sig of Strength, or is +5 too little/recharge too long? I haven't used Sig of Strength so I don't know how useful it actually is, but on paper it doesn't seem to add much IMO.
Have fun, looking forward to trying it out at some point too.
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