Guild Wars 2

No more finnicky waypoints! I bring you the way of the future: MESMER PORTAL HIGHWAYS!
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Idea: you get as many mesmers as ya can, probably up to 10 max. You have them spread out from the nearest waypoint to the location of value you desire (smc or into the enemy corner or whatever). As the passengers are starting to lineup ontop of the waypoint (lets say ebg blue keep…valley or whatever) the first mesmer places the portal opening and starts traveling as far as it can to place the portal exit as far away as possible. You can nominate the mesmers to squad leiutenants and they can place markers on the exit/entrance portal locations. The mesmer hits its destination and waits as long as it needs to…or up to the time portal opening allows. Passengers arrive….mesmer activates portal. Passengers hit F they port…..1-2 seconds pass from the time of opening the first portals and the next portals are up from teh next mesmer who had started running 3-5 seconds after the first mesmer did….etc. SO if u are a passenger you are basically waiting for a few seconds if any….then pressing f ontop of the waypoint….running forward pressing f again….running forward pressing f again….running forward pressing f again. SO ur traveling across the map in the course of seconds. Could be used for runnign 25 supply to the frontlines or for suicide bombing an objective/enemy group by effectively doubling ur force, in 2 sets anyways. I mean people waste alot of time on camps getting new supply and what not, and they waste alot of time regrouping from teh frontlines. This solves everything fairly easily.

Just remember to pay ur mesmers well, or find volunteers who don’t know any better.

The trains can leave every minute on the minute with alarcity and what not reducing cd’s to makeup for human error….assuming they run rly fast and can place the entrance the exit within 10 seconds of the entrance or so.

Until a thief comes along and weeds out the weakest mesmer player and ruins the dolyak parad … er I mean highway.

thiefs killing mesmers…..lulz, u got some crazy ideas in ur head bro.

Assuming the mesmers can’t fit for a fight though: mesmers can just stealth spam to avoid fighting while they wait each 60 second interval….run nomads…..build rams….hire their own escorts.

Depends on the mesmer really. And while they’re fighting, the highway, um, is blocked.

Cerby.1069:

thiefs killing mesmers…..lulz, u got some crazy ideas in ur head bro.

Assuming the mesmers can’t fit for a fight though: mesmers can just stealth spam to avoid fighting while they wait each 60 second interval….run nomads…..build rams….hire their own escorts.

I have several friends who would enjoy nothing more than causing a train wreck here by:

Running a few thieves/mesmers and instantly downing the mesmer(s) from stealth.

Laying tons of traps on the portals waiting for people to come through both condi and power traps.

Supply drain traps anyone?

Contest WP whenever we see portals being set up.

The mesmer highway is far too fragile to work for long but it’s a nice idea, would love to see it done to get a group from spawn to mendons or something super fast and save it.

Once upon a time many a year ago there was a guild called Avatar [AVTR] who did exactly this. Many times their service was called upon for golem rushes. Most people don’t play WvW like this anymore.

Good luck finding ten mesmers willing to spend their game time doing something like this. Two or three years ago, when we did golem rushes, we often had four or five mesmers running portals. I haven’t seen more than two in the last year, year and a half. Most times we can’t even get one.

I used to train this tactic in Blood Pact way back when i was on Dragonbrand. It was primarily used for golem rushes. It requires a set of coordinated mesmers to pull off, which is surprisingly difficult to find.

Use for moving a large army(zerg) is limited by the portal’s usage cap. The mesmer positioning could potentially telegraph the attack on the objective as well especially with the last mesmer aggroing guards usually. Better to have the zerg run together and assault the objective as one. Players never scout well enough to give ample warning of the attack anyway.

What’s funny is there used to be a ton of mesmers around in WvW until the nerf to the glamour build that was being run at the time. The nerf marginalized mesmers to the extent that you’d be hard-pressed to find even one for golem portals. Saw something similar happen to warriors after the stability nerf and HoT release.

Chaba.5410:

What’s funny is there used to be a ton of mesmers around in WvW until the nerf to the glamour build that was being run at the time. The nerf marginalized mesmers to the extent that you’d be hard-pressed to find even one for golem portals. Saw something similar happen to warriors after the stability nerf and HoT release.

Ya mesmers are so underpowered in wvsw atm. Anet should buff all their stats and abilities A L O T. I mean all they are useful for is their portal….and that single ability definitely doesn’t determine the outcome of a fight.

Cause you know….kittens!!!!

Cerby.1069:

Chaba.5410:

What’s funny is there used to be a ton of mesmers around in WvW until the nerf to the glamour build that was being run at the time. The nerf marginalized mesmers to the extent that you’d be hard-pressed to find even one for golem portals. Saw something similar happen to warriors after the stability nerf and HoT release.

Ya mesmers are so underpowered in wvsw atm. Anet should buff all their stats and abilities A L O T. I mean all they are useful for is their portal….and that single ability definitely doesn’t determine the outcome of a fight.

Cause you know….kittens!!!!

Sarcasm about mesmer in meta right now doesn’t change the fact that there had been a nerf to their glamour build that directly lead to dearth of the class in WvW and we’ve seen the same thing happen to warrior when stability was nerfed. This is just in WvW. Balance is apparently hard, especially across different game modes, which becomes an argument for separation of skills. Rev is strong in WvW meta, but for example got sidelined in raids.