Guild Wars 2

I have done it all as a wvwvwer: zergling, scout, commander, havocker, ganker, escorter, naked RP, naked drunken RP. And I especially love being a solo or duo roamer the best. So much action your ears bleed karma and rank points. Choose to kill or run…fight to the death or live to fight another day.

Recently, I have seen these:

Wa: GS 100B Nike™
Gu: MediBurn
Th: D/P – the Return With A Vengeance
Eng: Grenadineer/Static Discharge
Ra: Pewpewpewpewpew or Condi Stealth Trapper
Nec: MM, Zerk Lich, or CondiDurationmancer
Ele: D/D Live Forever, with rare appearances by D/F or S/F Stone Cold Stunners
Mes: StealthBetterThanThief GS Shatter and/or ConfusionHell

What have you seen as solo roamers?

You pretty much see it all as a roamer. Gankers, roamers, ppl getting their daily on bloodlust nodes, ppl running back to their zerg, ppl waving from siege in towers, even uplevels that look lost

Oogabooga.3812:

Mes: StealthBetterThanThief GS Shatter and/or ConfusionHell

What have you seen as solo roamers?

Oogabooga.3812:

I have done it all as a wvwvwer: zergling, scout, commander, havocker, ganker, escorter, naked RP, naked drunken RP. And I especially love being a solo or duo roamer the best. So much action your ears bleed karma and rank points. Choose to kill or run…fight to the death or live to fight another day.

Recently, I have seen these:

Wa: GS 100B Nike™
Gu: MediBurn
Th: D/P – the Return With A Vengeance
Eng: Grenadineer/Static Discharge
Ra: Pewpewpewpewpew or Condi Stealth Trapper
Nec: MM, Zerk Lich, or CondiDurationmancer
Ele: D/D Live Forever, with rare appearances by D/F or S/F Stone Cold Stunners
Mes: StealthBetterThanThief GS Shatter and/or ConfusionHell

What have you seen as solo roamers?

All the above.

what do I see as a roamer? Less and less, as the PU meta is so imba that many dont bother to yolo-solo anymore

but when I do…

Ragelogging or salty whispers when I kill a stealther with sic’em, a longbow and a brownbear.

Spam laughter from mesmers when I run from a 3-5v1, because why not.

JDjitsu

Nice comparison on stealth length, but I was more thinking of the usefulness of combat stealth.

PU mesmers can get a minimum of 6 secs for 1 skill; SA thieves get 4 secs for certain 1 button skills, or the multi-skill initiative drain (as shown in your link). The extra time before another button needs to be pushed allows for greater possible recharge of skills for the mesmer.

Coming out of stealth, the Mesmer can burst from afar; thieves need to be in melee range which can be harder to follow and put them more in harm’s way.

So, the stealth is better on mesmer than thief.

By the way, the Mesmer can stealth for longer……(hint: Mimic)

If vulnerability now affects condi damge, why doesn’t protection defend against it?

Because there is already a boon, which prevents condition dmg. And buffing only classes with high access to protection would cause even further unbalance, because most of those are already very strong and/or don’t struggle vs condis anyways.