Guild Wars 2

Is something being worked out? Yes I am a mesmer, and I am having a really bad time doing events in Orr, mainly because theres so many people throwing AOE and I cant tag any mobs at all…

Is the solution simply rolling another class? Mesmer is my only lvl 80 and I dont intend to play another class, im sure other classes have trouble tagging mobs in Orr as well.

Does Arenanet aknowledge the issue? I like this game very much but farming in Orr is pretty crucial for me as being a lvl 80 is quite expensive… it really gives me a bad taste of mouth me pressing all my skills at the best of my ability and not being rewarded for it.

Getting gold in an event shouldn’t be too hard if you stick to high damage direct attacks like greatsword’s spammable laser beam. But slower attacks like sceptre and staff arn’t even going to LAND, and forget about using ranged phantasms.

But even then, don’t hold up any hope of TAGGING anything, a mesmer has to absolutely pull out ALL the stops, and spec into a suitable direct damage build and gear if they want to have any hope of getting a decent amount of loot, when any other class can pretty much roll their face on the keyboard for the same effect

Will they acknowledge it?

Hah… yeah right. We’ve been telling them this since the first week and their response has been to nerf us over the last 3 patches making it even harder

Make a warrior and craft its way to 80. Axe 5 has a very short animation time and CD with high damage output. I don’t have a warrior in live but I see warriors a lot in these events, and when they get in range to do that ability the HP of everything around them suddenly drops whereas as a thief I need a few hits with clusterbomb and manage initiative carefully.

I am running a greatsword, but by the time I land two lazer beams on just 1 single mob, everything else is dead and I dont get credit for anything. Its just terrible and I dont want to be punished for playing the class I enjoy. It only works on veteran mobs but the game only throws one in every 3 waves or so. Its only because of the veteran that I can barely achieve a bronze or silver medal.

I am not interested in playing a Warrior thank you.

Aaron, I run into the same issue and I play an Engineer. What irritates me more than the fact that unless you’re grouped you won’t get much of anything, is the fact that nearly everyone there spamming their AoE’s is a bot. You aren’t even competing against players for stuff, you’re competing against bots playing the game while people are away/asleep. So they are getting the rewards without having to do anything, while you’re stuck trying to beat them.

And even worse than this is that ever since ANet claimed they started to ban bots, there are more and more bots showing up. Some of these have been reported for well over a month. I found one bot train of 14 (yes, fourteen) Rangers that all had the same account name when I reported them. They were all made up of random characters (like sdjlwjertkljwerjlsjdlfs) but their account name was a 4 letter word and was the same on every one of them. It’s things like this, and the fact that the bot train is still there after having been reported over WEEKS, that makes me sick of competing against them.

TBH I’m really surprised this isn’t a top priority issue. Tagging in this game is a complete joke and extremely flawed design, and it only takes away from these events.

At the very least they need to just increase mob HP scaling when more and more people show up as a band aid fix.

Theres plenty of things that can be done, I am just worried how long will it take for the devs to implement some fixes. Until then, I wont even bother with Orr anymore, its just hopeless for me.

aaron.7850:

I am running a greatsword, but by the time I land two lazer beams on just 1 single mob, everything else is dead and I dont get credit for anything. Its just terrible and I dont want to be punished for playing the class I enjoy. It only works on veteran mobs but the game only throws one in every 3 waves or so. Its only because of the veteran that I can barely achieve a bronze or silver medal.

If you are having trouble tagging in zergs as a mesmer you should try a shatter build. You only need 30 in Illusions and 20 in Domination and just throw mirror blade/Iberserker, making sure you are near the mobs somewhat and shatter.

Also make sure you have signet of illusions and mirror images for obvious reasons. I really don’t have problems tagging with my mesmer but you are forced to use a shatter build to accomplish it.

In my honest opinion, I would like to see mantra of pain deal aoe damage. That would really make tagging easy and you wouldn’t need a shatter build. I really want to try a mantra build…

What server are you on?

Part of the problem is Bots are mass tagging mobs before they even appear on your screen, they get the info straight off the server, no load time. It’s basically melted before you see it half the time.