Not everyone chasing the same priority.
Regardless, it’s very, very impressive. Now I’m interesting about how long it would take 5 wars to do that. You guys should have enough experts in wars to do that w/o riding on the mesmer piggy back.
Not everyone chasing the same priority.
Regardless, it’s very, very impressive. Now I’m interesting about how long it would take 5 wars to do that. You guys should have enough experts in wars to do that w/o riding on the mesmer piggy back.
I kid, I kid. But nothing wrong with a little healthy competition all in fun. I’m just going to move to proving my game dominance with keg brawls or maybe the fastest veteran oakheart kill.
Regardless, it’s very, very impressive. Now I’m interesting about how long it would take 5 wars to do that. You guys should have enough experts in wars to do that w/o riding on the mesmer piggy back.
That would probably mean taking offhand sword instead of mace so we can have a more certain defense than two dodges for frenzied blast. But since the fastest solo was done in about 6m30s I would say, that by taking banners, it could be done in about 1 minute.
It was always stupid design to make bosses’ threaterning/lethal mechanics projectile based when you have certain classes that can trivialize projectiles.
I imagine they’ll just change reflects to where they don’t crit. That seems like a logical step for them to take. Who knows, though. They may just remove them from the game. and buff Warriors.
On a single global. That doesn’t seem wildly out of proportion?
At least the mesmer is a 45-36 sec cd for most of the other content, but guardians alone are ridiculously broken with wall plus a shield that can give around 20 seconds worth of projectile absorption. Due to the output of melee that very easily means well over half to two thirds of the fight a single class can defang a boss’s arsenal for the group.
I’d just rather the spirit shield be changed to provide something like the Phantasmal Defender benefit. Wall could use a slight reduction in duration. Altruistic Healing needs an ICD.
And so practically the one good boss fight in the game has been completely trivialised.
Stop giving Anet reasons to nerf feedback, they already hate our class enough the way it is.
All of us has solo’ed him numerous times on variety of classes, so it’s not like this fight is that hard. Besides, mesmers are the most overpowered classes on certain conditions and even high skritt tech looks prehistoric compared to them.
Chaos armour nerfed, Illusionists Celerity moved up to grandmaster minor trait, feedback has been nerfed already to have a reflect cap, quickness (and therefore time warp) nerfed, phantasms which still haven’t been fixed.
People QQ about omg moa is overpowered, videos like this get posted showing that mesmers can still do quite a lot and then Anet will just whack them with the nerf bat again.
All of us has solo’ed him numerous times on variety of classes, so it’s not like this fight is that hard. Besides, mesmers are the most overpowered classes on certain conditions and even high skritt tech looks prehistoric compared to them.
Mesmers are not overpowered.
Sanctum of Rall (NA) – [LOD] – PvE/Dungeon Phantasm Mesmer build
Morrï (Mesmer) | Serah Mahariel (Guardian) | Morrï Mahariel (Warrior)
“colesy’s on rampage today. Slaying casuals left, right and centre” – spoj
Don’t blame people who used mesmer skill to its fullest potential.
Blame the moron’s cavemen mentality. Instead of bringing everybody up, it’s easier to take everybody down. What’s an idiotic concept.
Dont know how anyone can say mesmers are unloved by devs. Mesmer is one of the tier 1 classes in both PvE and tPvP and WvW…. Not many classes can claim that. They are op, theres no denying that when you compare them to some of the other classes.
Boss was already quite straight forward, it shouldn’t be a surprise that when you put together 5 players with a good understanding of the bosses mechanics that he’s going to LOOK like a joke. If you got that same team to do Lupicus again with no Mesmer, it’d still look easy, that can’t be said about many other guilds/teams. I imagine that lupicus is a struggle for a large enough percentage of the player base to not even consider buffing/changing him.
I also agree with people going on about the Mesmers feedback. Giving Mesmers the ability to do >600k damage within the duration of one boss channel should not be seen as a balanced skill.
What’s the end result if you nerf feedback? Pugs don’t use it to its potential. They’re not speedclearing Arah to get some crazy kitten rewards since it doesn’t reward kitten anyway and you’re better off doing CoF or CoE for monetary gain. You nerf feedback, and then DnT, DS, LoD and HC can’t do their crazy-kitten speedclears. That’s it. Pugs keep pugging (read: playing like kitten), and the few people who actually do use it properly will feel it.
A nerf to feedback is a kick in the gut to people who are good at the game, that’s about it.
What’s the end result if you nerf feedback? Pugs don’t use it to its potential. They’re not speedclearing Arah to get some crazy kitten rewards since it doesn’t reward kitten anyway and you’re better off doing CoF or CoE for monetary gain. You nerf feedback, and then DnT, DS, LoD and HC can’t do their crazy-kitten speedclears. That’s it. Pugs keep pugging (read: playing like kitten), and the few people who actually do use it properly will feel it.
A nerf to feedback is a kick in the gut to people who are good at the game, that’s about it.
What’s the end result if you nerf feedback? Pugs don’t use it to its potential. They’re not speedclearing Arah to get some crazy kitten rewards since it doesn’t reward kitten anyway and you’re better off doing CoF or CoE for monetary gain. You nerf feedback, and then DnT, DS, LoD and HC can’t do their crazy-kitten speedclears. That’s it. Pugs keep pugging (read: playing like kitten), and the few people who actually do use it properly will feel it.
A nerf to feedback is a kick in the gut to people who are good at the game, that’s about it.
It wasn’t DS but SOLO, just check the screenshot.
Yeah, i came up with the idea dedicating it to some other guild this time, shame on me!
Nerfing feedback actually wouldn’t change much. It would simply be 4 Warriors + 1 huge norn ranger then.
….A nerf to feedback is a kick in the gut to people who are good at the game, that’s about it.
Playing a class with a certain skill does not make you good…so I don’t see how skilled players would be “kicked in the gut”…
Not everyone that plays Mesmer can just go in and kill Lupicus in under a minute. You have to understand the game very well.
Sure, understanding a game mechanic is key….but you can’t say that an “end game” boss should be able to be beat in under one minute…even with the most optimal group make up…it just makes no sense.
Killing a boss in under a minute should not be an achievement anyone should want…but that’s just me…but I guess that’s what you get when you have no “Holy Trinity”
….A nerf to feedback is a kick in the gut to people who are good at the game, that’s about it.
Playing a class with a certain skill does not make you good…so I don’t see how skilled players would be “kicked in the gut”…
Not everyone that plays Mesmer can just go in and kill Lupicus in under a minute. You have to understand the game very well.
Sure, understanding a game mechanic is key….but you can’t say that an “end game” boss should be able to be beat in under one minute…even with the most optimal group make up…it just makes no sense.
Killing a boss in under a minute should not be an achievement anyone should want…but that’s just me…but I guess that’s what you get when you have no “Holy Trinity”
Pretty much all boss fights aside from a few in Fractals can be killed in under a minute. It’s just sort of a thing in Guild Wars 2. Even average pug groups can kill bosses in 1-2 minutes. Some people enjoy killing things as quickly as possible, which falls under the part about “play the game the way you want to play it.” And I’m not really sure what doesn’t make sense about it. It’s just Feedback and Warriors.
….A nerf to feedback is a kick in the gut to people who are good at the game, that’s about it.
Playing a class with a certain skill does not make you good…so I don’t see how skilled players would be “kicked in the gut”…
Not everyone that plays Mesmer can just go in and kill Lupicus in under a minute. You have to understand the game very well.
Sure, understanding a game mechanic is key….but you can’t say that an “end game” boss should be able to be beat in under one minute…even with the most optimal group make up…it just makes no sense.
Killing a boss in under a minute should not be an achievement anyone should want…but that’s just me…but I guess that’s what you get when you have no “Holy Trinity”
Pretty much all boss fights aside from a few in Fractals can be killed in under a minute. It’s just sort of a thing in Guild Wars 2. Even average pug groups can kill bosses in 1-2 minutes. Some people enjoy killing things as quickly as possible, which falls under the part about “play the game the way you want to play it.” And I’m not really sure what doesn’t make sense about it. It’s just Feedback and Warriors.
Fair enough…I guess that’s why I have not really got into dungeons here in GW2, though I would like to. Seems that trash mobs can wipe you in an instant…then you get to the boss and bam…done in under a minute…to me that makes no sense. Anet could get a few pointers from LoTRO…that game had some of the best boss fights/mechanics I have ever seen. Again…that’s just me.
Don’t even get me started with the “play the game the way you want to play it”…Anet has kitten all over that statement.
They’re not, it’s just they shouldn’t have designed bosses with such lethal range attacks which can melt its own HP within seconds.
Hmm… Insta cast, ranged, amazing field, dome projectile reflect that CAN give big confusion if the guy walks out and stacks heavy confusion/buffs to anyone using the field. Doesn’t seem strong at all. Any aoe reflects are stupid strong in this game.
Dont know how anyone can say mesmers are unloved by devs. Mesmer is one of the tier 1 classes in both PvE and tPvP and WvW…. Not many classes can claim that. They are op, theres no denying that when you compare them to some of the other classes.
Mesmer is not a tier 1 class in PvE by any means unless you consider Lupicus and cof p1 the only PvE there is. In every other dungeon where you can’t reflect projectiles to damage the boss the mesmer is garbage and you can replace him with a warrior or guardian.
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