Don’t know if most mesmers do this but it’s just part of my muscle memory now.
If you sheath your weapon just after the third tick of damage on your GS auto attack, and then recast the skill, you can cut off the after cast and dramatically increase your dps output. It’s very good for chasing fleeing opponents
You can also use it to bait people (on all classes). Everyone dodges the Illusionary Berserker wave-sword-in-a-circle animation but if you cancel before the phantasm goes off it goes on a short CD and they just wasted a dodge. It’s especially good on powerful long-CD abilities since people will always want to dodge them (good skills to use it on are moa, phantasms, cloak and dagger.etc)
You can also use it to bait people (on all classes). Everyone dodges the Illusionary Berserker wave-sword-in-a-circle animation but if you cancel before the phantasm goes off it goes on a short CD and they just wasted a dodge. It’s especially good on powerful long-CD abilities since people will always want to dodge them (good skills to use it on are moa, phantasms, cloak and dagger.etc)
Yeah, I’ve been trying to incorporate skill cancels a lot more recently (think I type that in chat in the video lol)
Stow/draw weapon is nothing new dude.
People have been using (abusing?) it for years now, especially mesmers because of their long post cast animations for their GS skills. It is also pretty standard thing to do in any mmo pvp, as fake casting is an easy way to bait cds and dodges. Granted some people might not know this, but if you read these forums, you probably watch tourneys/streamers, in which 90% of mesmers will use stow weapon to reduce cast times and to fake cast.
Mesmer – 1250+ Ranked tpvp WINS.
– 7772 games played, 5274 games won.
“Nuke or be Nuked” – Said every mesmer ever
This guy is basically spamming his skills. He uses mind stab on a blocking engi, he doesn’t set up spikes. He instantly uses Phase Retreat trough Chaos Storm for Chaos Armor while the engi is just running around,
Facetanking random kitten.
This guy is basically spamming his skills. He uses mind stab on a blocking engi, he doesn’t set up spikes. He instantly uses Phase Retreat trough Chaos Storm for Chaos Armor while the engi is just running around,
Facetanking random kitten.
I only watched the second one, but yes he did ‘spam’ alot of skills, and wasted alot of spikes (GS 5 when engi was blocking or no where near) but then again double ranged shatter is more sustained than stealth bursting with s/t. I don’t know. Mes is so op you dont even have to be amazing to win duels now. This is nothing amazing.
Mesmer – 1250+ Ranked tpvp WINS.
– 7772 games played, 5274 games won.
“Nuke or be Nuked” – Said every mesmer ever
This guy is basically spamming his skills. He uses mind stab on a blocking engi, he doesn’t set up spikes. He instantly uses Phase Retreat trough Chaos Storm for Chaos Armor while the engi is just running around,
Facetanking random kitten.
I only watched the second one, but yes he did ‘spam’ alot of skills, and wasted alot of spikes (GS 5 when engi was blocking or no where near) but then again double ranged shatter is more sustained than stealth bursting with s/t. I don’t know. Mes is so op you dont even have to be amazing to win duels now. This is nothing amazing.
I didnt spam anything. I use shatters for damage or damage mitigation. But I did waste skills, which is smt Im trying to cut down on. When I used skills when the engi was nearby and I missed GS 5, that was cos he used his mobility at the same time. So calm down. People miss stuff
This guy is basically spamming his skills. He uses mind stab on a blocking engi, he doesn’t set up spikes. He instantly uses Phase Retreat trough Chaos Storm for Chaos Armor while the engi is just running around,
Facetanking random kitten.
Fair on the mind stab, that’s a mistake. Once again, I don’t spam skills, but it’s not like you care/believe anyway. The chaos storm though, now you’re being unfair, because it was actually for a stupider reason. I meant to throw it on his body, and spazzed my mouse and completely missed him, and then phase retreated for clone generation and chaos armor just to try and make up for it.
This guy is basically spamming his skills. He uses mind stab on a blocking engi, he doesn’t set up spikes. He instantly uses Phase Retreat trough Chaos Storm for Chaos Armor while the engi is just running around,
Facetanking random kitten.
Fair on the mind stab, that’s a mistake. Once again, I don’t spam skills, but it’s not like you care/believe anyway. The chaos storm though, now you’re being unfair, because it was actually for a stupider reason. I meant to throw it on his body, and spazzed my mouse and completely missed him, and then phase retreated for clone generation and chaos armor just to try and make up for it.
I tried to rewatch the video’s, but I guess they have been deleted.
Video has been deleted: And i don’t understand what op wants to say. I really have no idea what the word “sheath” means? English is not my mother’s language.
Anyway Mesmer GS aa is completely bugged: i get some huge numbers if i just channel auto attack for 10 + seconds on a training dummy: starts with something around 900 dmg per first hit and after that every other hit i get increased numbers, something like 1280 – 2200 – 3400 – 4000 -5000 -……-12000! Lol. 12k with aa??? What are these numbers? I’m sure they are not damaging numbers, otherwise i would kill anything within seconds just with auto atttacking it.
Video has been deleted: And i don’t understand what op wants to say. I really have no idea what the word “sheath” means? English is not my mother’s language.
Anyway Mesmer GS aa is completely bugged: i get some huge numbers if i just channel auto attack for 10 + seconds on a training dummy: starts with something around 900 dmg per first hit and after that every other hit i get increased numbers, something like 1280 – 2200 – 3400 – 4000 -5000 -……-12000! Lol. 12k with aa??? What are these numbers? I’m sure they are not damaging numbers, otherwise i would kill anything within seconds just with auto atttacking it.
That is the total amount of damage. The game will keep ticking up the number provided all your hits occur within a certain time frame(and I think are from the same skill), which the GS auto attack does. Because of this, you can just auto attack forever to see the damage counter go up and up. It is not the damage of each hit, just the total amount of uninterrupted damage done with the auto attack.
Ele stow-cancelled lightning whip for ultra heals and super high dps. It got patched.
Necro stow-cancelled Axe #1 for wimpy damage. It got patched anyway.
How long do we think this is going to stay before it gets patched? Aftercast on skills is there for a reason. It’s part of how the skills are balanced and designed. If the devs intended for there to be no aftercast, they could just set the aftercast time to 0 for a particular skill. This will eventually get patched too.
Don’t know if most mesmers do this but it’s just part of my muscle memory now.
If you sheath your weapon just after the third tick of damage on your GS auto attack, and then recast the skill, you can cut off the after cast and dramatically increase your dps output. It’s very good for chasing fleeing opponents
