Guild Wars 2

Maybe I’m imagining things because I’ve gone back 6-7 months in the patch notes and can’t find anything about a damage change for Spatial surge. I just switched back to my mesmer to level her and the amount of damage that spatial surge seems to be putting out is very very low compared to what I remember it doing, or even compared to the other classes I’ve played around with since leveling her last(about 3 months ago).

It feels like I’m fighting a veteran with every mob I attack if I use the greatsword and that’s even with current lvl weapons near max range.

Did something get changed, or am I imagining things?

not imagining things your assumptions are correct. ninjaed

You are imagining things, the damage on greatsword autos has not been changed in this game. It was not ninjaed, it was never nerfed, and it was never buffed. Shadowkiller is just straight up wrong.

Don’t forget that SS does greater damage at greater ranger.

You may have leveled her a bit without upgrading gear.

it’s aoe beam is not as wide since last patch. maybe giving the illusion of less damage? anet has some good ninjas pyro…they’ll nerf you and you wouldn’t notice a thing

Shadowkiller.6725:

it’s aoe beam is not as wide since last patch. maybe giving the illusion of less damage? anet has some good ninjas pyro…they’ll nerf you and you wouldn’t notice a thing

The aoe beam width used to be massive on gadgets, and normalized on everything else. That gadget width was nerfed months and months ago, and the normal width has not changed ever.

The GS is still the GS.
Unless you played before the famous GS patch, when they increased the attack speed. Than it is better.
Or if you played before it pierced. In that case it is better too.

ever since they put that LoS check on GS…it’s been slowly nerfed…telling you guys anet got some good ninjas. i can tell they used theird jedi mind tricks just by reading some of these post.

Shadowkiller.6725:

ever since they put that LoS check on GS…it’s been slowly nerfed…telling you guys anet got some good ninjas. i can tell they used theird jedi mind tricks just by reading some of these post.

Unless you can actually point to skill coefficient data that shows the nerf or specific testing for beam width that you’ve done, I’d appreciate you not spewing garbage in our forums.

pyro i don’t understand why you keep quoting me and my sarcasm. i’m going to have to charge you the next time you quote one of my jokes…but anyways…GS was great for getting people up on walls and even behind them. if you could target it then iberserker could hit it given that player or object is within range. maybe “nerf” is the wrong word for it. GS has been getting “balanced” or “fixed” through out the patches..like idueliest projectile finisher when traited giving 100% chance.

So I guess the consensus is that damage wise it hasn’t changed. No biggie, it just feels like it’s taking alot longer to kill things than it should. Last time I started her up again I remember thinking how fast I was killing stuff.

Guess I’ll shelve her and try again in a few months and maybe I’ll think back to now and imagine they improved the damage.

FrostyBou.5491:

So I guess the consensus is that damage wise it hasn’t changed. No biggie, it just feels like it’s taking alot longer to kill things than it should. Last time I started her up again I remember thinking how fast I was killing stuff.

Guess I’ll shelve her and try again in a few months and maybe I’ll think back to now and imagine they improved the damage.

Honestly, if you’re expecting to kill things fast with any sort of Mesmer autoattack, you’re going to have a bad time. That’s not how this class is designed to work. You need to put some effort into killing things to get results.

Pyroatheist.9031:

You need to put some effort into killing things to get results.

gg!

A phantasm-mesmer needs to put some effort into killing things?

Most time in arah i just brainafk spawn my 3 iDuelists and hit autoattack+dodges :P

FrostyBou.5491:

So I guess the consensus is that damage wise it hasn’t changed. No biggie, it just feels like it’s taking alot longer to kill things than it should. Last time I started her up again I remember thinking how fast I was killing stuff.

Guess I’ll shelve her and try again in a few months and maybe I’ll think back to now and imagine they improved the damage.

Greatsword has and always will be terrible, nothing changed besides the sound effect and the trash phantasm being fixed.

i swear iberserker was different. i remember it would whirl further and quicker before anet “balanced” GS and iberserker started miss almost all it’s attack during it’s pass…hilarious if anyone remembered..i think it took anet a few patches just to get iberzerker to do any damage at all .nobody used GS for the longest time…some maybe forget how good it was when the game released and new players coming in at the time had to deal with the bugs when GS got “balanced”. pretty sure about a year ago around this time of the year

Me Games Ma.8426:

Most time in arah i just brainafk spawn my 3 iDuelists and hit autoattack+dodges :P

AFAIK some other professions with DPS builds need to only press #1 as every other skill is a DPS loss, so compared to them you are basically a piano virtuoso.

I just used it in the ‘new’ TA path and somehow was able to deal 10k dmg with each iBerserker.
Don’t know how much might I had or how many stacks vulnerability the enemy got.

Also in PvP/WvW roaming the greatsword IS a good weapon for

• pushing enemys out of a point
• dealing good ranged aoe dmg
• chasing enemys who want to escape (like thieves who took too much dmg and want to come back later)
• might with Mirror Blade
• boonremove (even if it’s only one)

In theese gamemodes it’s good so who’s talking about what? I think you CAN use it for a save gameplay in dungeons/PvE.
Damage isn’t everything not everyone knows every skill of the enemy to dodge perfectly. Give them time to learn the animations as they play ranged with gs.

ALSO: I think Mirrorblade -> iBerserker -> Dodge near the enemy ->Mind Wrack
is one of the strongest damagespikes a mesmer can do