Guild Wars 2

I could have swore turning someone into a moa was supposed to help me. I was in a 1v1 and used the moa skill and the moa destroyed me… Anet Nerf PLS!

Thought this was a ranger post… so glad it wasn’t.

I love getting turned into a moa when the mesmer is at around 10 – 20 then go full out and claw him to death ;d

I have seen this happen a few times. When I get moa’ed in 1v1, I peck that mesmer’s eyes out!

As a Mesmer, I agree that Moa is annoying, but you’ll never really see a good Mesmer running the skill in PvP unless we see we’re up against multiple Necros. Mass Invis is really important for our survivability.

I always want to congratulate anyone who is still able to down me as a Moa.

Thanks for morphing me into a moa. I will use the escape #5. See you in 8-10 seconds when it is back on a overly long cool down. Good luck trying to capture the node entirely in that time frame.

My rock dog got moa’d by Azani. :<

Use 5 and gtfo! Downside is that its hard to aim for an escape with Moa, you’ll run into the wall if you try it without paying attention, lol.

lol I’ve done this before, some mesmer low on health moa’s me and I just kill him regardless with pecking attacks, and if there’s more than one 5 out of the place and LoS.

i saw a mesmer got moad down by the chieftain

Moa is a funny skill.
It can be used to win a team fight by using it on the guardian, cutting all of their support off and making the guardian extremely vulnerable to damage. Let mes and/or ele burst him after that = win. Also, using it on MM necros is epic.
DO NOT use it on Svanir. The damage is still there and it’s a lot faster/more agressive lol.
I was testing it out and I got 2 hit.
A few matches after that I knew enemy ele was going to be trying to kill Svanir, used Moa on Svanir and watched the ele get killed in 1 hit. Stomped the ele and killed Svanir.
I very, very rarely run Moa though. Just for laughs mostly.

Depending on the situation (team fight or 1v1 or whatever) people can change their reaction, in a team fight, most people moa’d are going to high tail it out of there, but in a 1v1 a lot of people have now adopted the attitude of “ahh sod it” and just go straight for the mesmer – it’s incredibly satisfying killing a mesmer with their own elite XD

My only complaint is the fact you cannot jump in Moa Form. That factor alone has killed me more times than any of the other penalties for being a Moa.

Demonts.4593:

I could have swore turning someone into a moa was supposed to help me. I was in a 1v1 and used the moa skill and the moa destroyed me… Anet Nerf PLS!

Mfw Mesmers want to nerf themselves…

Demonts.4593:

I could have swore turning someone into a moa was supposed to help me. I was in a 1v1 and used the moa skill and the moa destroyed me… Anet Nerf PLS!

On celestial war you can actually continue killing the mesmer even on moa…bird give no kittens…

Static.9841:

it’s incredibly satisfying killing a mesmer with their own elite XD

That!

With my Ele I usually love as well when a mesmer moas me.
Cause most of the Mesmers using Moa are bad (at least to a very much higher percentage than the mesmers without it, Id say 80% of the MOA mesmers you usually encouter are noobs) and this skill pretty much assures me, the enemies skill level is below mine.
So the very moment I get MOA’d I start attacking him and its a really rare occurance that this doesnt work.

thx for the compliment OP

Eurantien.4632:

Thought this was a ranger post… so glad it wasn’t.

haha! i totally did too! glad i read the post and didn’t just blind post an objection. idk about Mesmer Moa being too stronk. I usually just #5 skill away and then come back.
i actually wouldn’t mind if the moa had a shorter recharge IF the person being moa’d could use a stun break to get rid of being a moa. i think it would promote more skillful use of moa’ing someone by the mesmer.

if Moa is used early in the fight I’m forced to flee or die, if the mesmer saves it to when he is low on health I normally finish them in Moa form.
Using this elite as a “aw miau” button is a bad move.

Can Mesmers actually get a better skill than Moa? I mean its funny and all (until you get facerolled by a bird…) but it would be cool if Mesmers could turn into a Moa! Or better yet, a giant purple butterfly of dooooom >:)

Moa Morph should just be replaced. It’s worthless in PvE, clearly meant as a troll skill in PvP, and is just a sign that whatever mesmer uses it is cheap, not good, and deserves to be destroyed.

lol, moa the jade boss from fotm and it will still one hit you.
with less obvious moa skill.

Well the only problem for the Moa’d one is that he suddenly is confronted with different set of skills, but thats the only thing, once you know how to control moa-form, that skill is incredibly weak