Guild Wars 2

. * raise flame shield *

But seriously why so much hate? I personally love the utility the knock back brings, the might + weakness it gives and oh dear god iZerker is freaking awesome. Seeing iZerker hit more than 4 people and oh my the crit is the feeling that is even better than winning the lottery and seeing Miley twerking.

Guess I am the lonewolf here

We all love the Greatsword, why wouldn’t you, its a purple beam:) Its just when it comes down to it it’s probably the most situational weapon we have. I could be wrong, just how I see it. Other sets and staff give us more versatility I suppose.

Personaly when I’m running with the guild I go S/F Staff. But when I’m roaming and having fun with the pugs I go GS/Staff.

Nothing beats the rush of melting a fleeing target with yer purple lazer beam

IMHO, the GS definitely has its place. For ranged fights, you can’t beakitten and on top of thakittens phantasms and clones spawn on the target – great for ranged shatters. I’m a fan, and I run GS/staff when I’m running with my guild group in WvW.

I know there are folks that don’t like the GS, and that’s fine. The great thing about GW2 is that many different weapon sets and builds work well enough to be viable in the game, at least in my opinion.

/cheer GS!

If you’d actually spend five seconds evaluating the weapon, or even reading my posts you’d see why it’s weak.

Responding to posts in this forum is like pulling teeth.

colesy.8490:

If you’d actually spend five seconds evaluating the weapon, or even reading my posts you’d see why it’s weak.

Responding to posts in this forum is like pulling teeth.

I would agree with you, but then we’d both be wrong.

colesy.8490:

If you’d actually spend five seconds evaluating the weapon, or even reading my posts you’d see why it’s weak.

Responding to posts in this forum is like pulling teeth.

Not everyone in this game only fights computer algorithms, dude. I know you enjoy killing your PvE bosses, and more power to you if that’s what you like. For me, I like fighting things that think just like I do. And for that, the GS works great.

Quit being narrow minded and assuming that what you like to do in the game is the only thing that’s important.

Except when I criticise it I’m on about PvE, I never said it was bad in other formats.

Colesy go to a race game, and buy the car with best speed (not HP since that doenst equal speed – methafor to power > utility rant you keep doing). Go there, hack the algorithms, conclude, the Newest Ferrarri, is the fastest, get that car, and never look back. Feel proud of yourself of being the best in a simple/single minded game: being the fastest.

Now let guild wars players enjoy their freedom, cause that’s what’s choosing your own weapon set, own traits, and own playstyle do. They give you fun in their own way. If speed is all that matter’s for you so be it. But stop making this forum a mess with your attacks on other players calling them bad, cause you think only math matters.

Why even bother to play mesmer anyway? Warrior Gs 100b+axe has more dps. Yay colesy is bad player. He chose mesmer over warrior with more dps and easier survive mechanics. Where will we write this? Colesy ignoring a faster kill speed, cause he likes playstyle of mesmer more? But oh wait, he told us, only speed matter, not fun… Confused :o

If you read the OP, you’d see that he talks of hitting people – for me, that doesn’t imply PvE. The second post talks of PvP as well, and so does mine. From what I see, you’re the only one here talking about PvE…?

And I would agree with your assessment. This is like pulling teeth.

who’s hating on GS, like 3-4 ppl on this forum? lol who cares what they hate. the weapon is great and you don’t need to play 1k hours on mesmer to know this.

edit: there’s one thing i HATE on GS and that’s Spatial Surge sound. Its annoying as ^%$#. Mind Stab is also bad for whakittenoffers/CD but im not gonna consider GS as a “bad” weapon because 1 kill out of 5 is meh…

Well in dungeons people will get mad at you if you knock mobs away from 100blades, pistolwhip, etc with GS #5 so In most cases its utility is questionable.

Also most of the time you wont be at 900-1200 range, but feel free to use it If you do need that range. The main disadvantage is having extra access to better single target DPS phantasms on the same set, since while iZerker is pretty nice in a pvp phantbuild, its recharge time in pve and habit of getting killed faster than phantasms thats stay back from the boss a bit more (swordsman/duelist).

^big difference between spamming iwave randomly and balling enemies up with iwave/tc so aoe hits all at once. gs is worth running for izerker alone…

I wish i could duel wheeled grateswrods

Nilgoow.1037:

I wish i could duel wheeled grateswrods

Don’t worry, Dark Souls 2 is coming soon enough!

I like it since I’m a fan of long range burst weapons, but I wish GS was better.

Mainly Mind Stab, that skill is so underwhelming. It needs something.

Knote.2904:

I like it since I’m a fan of long range burst weapons, but I wish GS was better.

Mainly Mind Stab, that skill is so underwhelming. It needs something.

it needs a complete skill change for a 5sec duration high damage aoe or if they’re choosing the lazy path at least make it steal two boons while hitting targets automatically (as it was in the betas) instead of being an area targeting skill. This skill, Torch and Scepter is the reason why im 100% certain no devs read class specific sections unless the thread title is “thank you!!! best update ever!”

Phoebe Ascension.8437:

Why even bother to play mesmer anyway? Warrior Gs 100b+axe has more dps.

This isn’t always true. All factors being equal, Phantasm Mesmers with the right build and 2x Phantasms rolling have slightly better sustained DPS than Warriors. In the best circumstances and the right builds we can out DPS Warriors by a fair margin. On the other hand if we can only maintain 0-1 Phantasms our dps is low. Shatter builds are pretty low sustained dps, but have much better burst.

Warriors are consistent, Mesmers are a rollercoaster. Content and ability to keep phantasms on the field are big factors.

Blood~

I use a S/F + GS phantasm dps build most of the im and the reason I prefer using gs as 2n weap is coz of the aoe phantasm the gs provides.

I usually start with gs, use #2 followed by #4 then go to S/F until I need to heal up, then I fall back, heal & go gs until I can swap again.

GS is our best ranged dps option (especially aoe) but other than that it’s kind of crappy.

I hear a lot of people saying, good phantasm on a crap weapon but all skills together (iZerker + less useful skills) make the weapon a “decent” choice imo.

However, seeing 90% of the gs mesmers just sitting back spamming 1 and the casual 2 and 4 kind of makes me sad too.

The only place I see GS use in this game (if you care about maximizing your character’s ability), is two fights in dungeons, 2 fractal bosses, wvw zergs and event mob tagging….and skyhammer too I guess.

colesy.8490:

Except when I criticise it I’m on about PvE, I never said it was bad in other formats.

Except you do.

I really like GS in WvW. It’s great for catching runners. It hits multiple targets with all of its attacks. None of the attacks are impacted by projectile reflects. The damage scales nicely with power.