Guild Wars 2

That as of the update moments ago the berzerker is working appropriately according to my initial dummy testing.

In addition I have noticed that all phantasms are correctly displaying retaliation if traited.

edit: They also appear to be giving each other health regen because of traits…intended?

edit 2: Bug thread started:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/New-Phantasm-Problem-with-12-3-12-Patch/first#post914577

Except they managed to break the workaround for the bug where phantasms just stand there twiddling their thumbs before their 1st attack (phantasmal fury). My zerker does the right damage, but now hes like to implode before he even gets an attack off…..yay?

I can safely say that Anet AGAIN introduced a new bug when fixing an old one. My Izerker is dead before he does anything half the time and thats with the fury trait.
Thanks for nothing.

How do these things make it through the test ? or do they even test their patches I wonder.

Have you tried vengeful images?

Yeah vengeful images doesnt help at all.

I also have noticed a delay, in them spawning, and initial damage.. This seriously hurts Way to many things now… all our aoe is dead before damage. try getting kill credit solo inna pve event now…

snaring in wvw is laughable now also…

Sad day ;(

So now people have a chance to blind or dodge our summon, then if we get it off they have adequate warning if they want to try and dodge it a second time to take no damage.

I’ve just tested the Phantasmal Berserker after today’s patch:

1. Phantasmal Berserker’s damage is still not fixed. Its attacks damage are still inconsistent and no where close to the state it was before Nov 15th patch.

2. Phantasms and not only just Berserker now suffers a delay before they will initiate their first attack. Often times they’ll get destroyed or significantly damaged due to delayed Signet of Illusions not granting them health bonus before phantasms initiate their first attack.

The current state of Phantasms is even worse than before. At this point, I’m really feeling frustrated by this.

Mesmer

Updated the description for Blurred Frenzy to indicate that it gives evasion through “Blur,” instead of “Distortion”.
Phantasms will now properly have all boons applied to them via player traits.
Phantasmal Disenchanter can now be cast at the correct distance.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/Game-Update-Notes-December-3-2012/first#post913812

Why didn’t they fix the beserker??

Navi.7142:

Mesmer

Updated the description for Blurred Frenzy to indicate that it gives evasion through “Blur,” instead of “Distortion”.
Phantasms will now properly have all boons applied to them via player traits.
Phantasmal Disenchanter can now be cast at the correct distance.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/Game-Update-Notes-December-3-2012/first#post913812

Why didn’t they fix the beserker??

I guess it’s because we have portal. /sarcasm off

After reading today’s patch note, I was wondering if I could at last use the build I’ve always wanted with regen/fury/retaliation phantasm for pve but from what I’m reading, if our phantasms are even more messed up than before, I guess I won’t bother. It’s really disheartening.

“Area of effect heals and boons now prioritize players’ minions and NPCs.”
I hope it’s a typo. xD

Oh they “fixed” him alright.
He is now as neutered as any pet has ever been,

I also just tested this out and it seems very inconsistent. I went to heart of the mists and:

- There is a delay before it attacks now, regardless of traits as others have mentioned
- Three times I had the berserker just stand in place spinning rather than spinning through the target and moving (this seemed rare).
- And the attacks seemed odd sometimes hitting once, sometimes twice and sometimes three times on a target.

Mystiq Angelic.8193:

I’ve just tested the Phantasmal Berserker after today’s patch:

1. Phantasmal Berserker’s damage is still not fixed. Its attacks damage are still inconsistent and no where close to the state it was before Nov 15th patch.

2. Phantasms and not only just Berserker now suffers a delay before they will initiate their first attack. Often times they’ll get destroyed or significantly damaged due to delayed Signet of Illusions not granting them health bonus before phantasms initiate their first attack.

The current state of Phantasms is even worse than before. At this point, I’m really feeling frustrated by this.

Mine does seem to hit the correct number of times, at least in PvE. Havent tested it out vs players yet. Its just the delay that totally ruins the skill.

I had no problem with Blind and Dodge preventing Phantasms spawning, but this delay is ridiculous; My Phants are getting killed before they’ve even done anything.

I am sure the delay is a bug and not working as intended.

My new rotation, summon phantasm, have a brief conversation with him about the nature of the universe while he stands there, shatter him once i get bored, rinse and repeat. :P

Nazer.7301:

My new rotation, summon phantasm, have a brief conversation with him about the nature of the universe while he stands there, shatter him once i get bored, rinse and repeat. :P

winner ^

Will only take 3 weeks to fix like the last bug.
Going by their recent accomplishments in regards to fixing bugs, I feel pretty confident that after next “fix” the phantasms no longer attack enemies but instead they turn on us, now with new and improved damage and attack speed.

I can honestly say (after almost 15 years of playing mmo’s) that the bug fixing in this game is the worst I have ever seen. Ofcourse me playing a Mesmer AND a Necro doesnt really help.

At least I can now have Phantasmal Fury and Vengeful Images together and they are given to my phantasms as soon as they spawn. Also, I’m glad they fix Phantasmal Disenchanter’s summon range issue. Phantasmal Healing works with each phantasm giving regeneration to each other.

I’m just happy that my phantasms can have more than 1 boon from my traits and gives me incentive to go into Inspiration without worry of buggy minor traits when having Phantasmal Fury. I may have Phantasmal Haste or Persisting Images in my build. ^^

~1.5-2sec delay on “Phantasmal Berserker” so he is dead a lot times with 0 dmg(even with no skilled buffs same delay),dmg more random now,overall dps of GS droped even vs 1 npc
Edit: yes 0 dmg since retaliation buff does not work so fast(Chieftain Utahein test)

Galrukh.6532:

Mystiq Angelic.8193:

I’ve just tested the Phantasmal Berserker after today’s patch:

1. Phantasmal Berserker’s damage is still not fixed. Its attacks damage are still inconsistent and no where close to the state it was before Nov 15th patch.

2. Phantasms and not only just Berserker now suffers a delay before they will initiate their first attack. Often times they’ll get destroyed or significantly damaged due to delayed Signet of Illusions not granting them health bonus before phantasms initiate their first attack.

The current state of Phantasms is even worse than before. At this point, I’m really feeling frustrated by this.

Mine does seem to hit the correct number of times, at least in PvE. Havent tested it out vs players yet. Its just the delay that totally ruins the skill.

I tested the Berserker against a stationary golem as well as a single targeted NPC enemy in WvW thoroughly. The result I got was that it’s still missing some of its attacks that’s causing its inconsistency. Since Berserker deals AoE, I confirmed the result again at HotM against a group of stationary Golems near DPS Trials Waypoint, and the figures from all of the targets that got hit by Berserker goes from as low as ~500 on crit to 1.9-2k on crit. Crit chance is at 58%, +Crit dmg is at 37 and Attack is at 2.7k. The damage output and inconsistency nature have not been corrected. Together with delayed responsive phantasms upon summoning introduced by today’s patch, this is a severe issue.

Galrukh.6532:

Yeah vengeful images doesnt help at all.

This delay bug(or intended? aren’t really sure) was there since gs auto buff patch notes and this new patch seems to broke our gimmicky workarounds. I have no words. GS dps goes down and down with each patch.

On the other hand, our shiny mantra heal spec is even more shiny now, with all these phantasms working as walking boon machines.

So iZerker is easier to kill than iWarden I suppose? It even copied the “standing technique” from iWarden.
R.I.P. Phantasmal build.
Goodbye build diversity, I going for shatter build.
Kind of Déjà vu isn’t it?
What was the game I was gonna mention?
hmm….I remembered it was voted The Worst Game of 2012.

Guild Worse? (Just joking.. I still like it, they just have to fix a lot of things..)

Mystiq Angelic.8193:

Galrukh.6532:

Mystiq Angelic.8193:

I’ve just tested the Phantasmal Berserker after today’s patch:

1. Phantasmal Berserker’s damage is still not fixed. Its attacks damage are still inconsistent and no where close to the state it was before Nov 15th patch.

2. Phantasms and not only just Berserker now suffers a delay before they will initiate their first attack. Often times they’ll get destroyed or significantly damaged due to delayed Signet of Illusions not granting them health bonus before phantasms initiate their first attack.

The current state of Phantasms is even worse than before. At this point, I’m really feeling frustrated by this.

Mine does seem to hit the correct number of times, at least in PvE. Havent tested it out vs players yet. Its just the delay that totally ruins the skill.

I tested the Berserker against a stationary golem as well as a single targeted NPC enemy in WvW thoroughly. The result I got was that it’s still missing some of its attacks that’s causing its inconsistency. Since Berserker deals AoE, I confirmed the result again at HotM against a group of stationary Golems near DPS Trials Waypoint, and the figures from all of the targets that got hit by Berserker goes from as low as ~500 on crit to 1.9-2k on crit. Crit chance is at 58%, +Crit dmg is at 37 and Attack is at 2.7k. The damage output and inconsistency nature have not been corrected. Together with delayed responsive phantasms upon summoning introduced by today’s patch, this is a severe issue.

Yeah you’re right, guess I just got lucky on my initial testing. Now its as crappy as your results.

Bug report thread started:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/New-Phantasm-Problem-with-12-3-12-Patch/first#post914577

Looks like everyone has had the same results I got testing this.

Phantasmal healing
Still not fixed, doesn’t kick in til a good 10 seconds after the phantasm is spawned (Who’s phantasms live THAT long)

Attack delay
Is now a class feature rather than a bug, no work around for it anymore. Now phantys die before they even get to attack

Berzerker fixed
iZerker is reliably hitting targets multiple times during it’s whirlwind, this is good.

So, like i predicted, we got a fix that broke more than it fixed, we got iZerker fixed but it came at a cost.

Ryuujin.8236:

Looks like everyone has had the same results I got testing this.

Phantasmal healing
Still not fixed, doesn’t kick in til a good 10 seconds after the phantasm is spawned (Who’s phantasms live THAT long)

Attack delay
Is now a class feature rather than a bug, no work around for it anymore. Now phantys die before they even get to attack

Berzerker fixed
iZerker is reliably hitting targets multiple times during it’s whirlwind, this is good.

So, like i predicted, we got a fix that broke more than it fixed, we got iZerker fixed but it came at a cost.

Phantasmal Healing works immediatly, if you’re close enough to it and the Berzerker damage isnt fixed, you’re just getting lucky (or the rest are getting unlucky). Its better though, I havent gotten any incidents where the izerker only hit the enemy once whereas I got plenty of those before.

Your berserker is fixed??

Horrible thought… maybe this is delibrate?

I’ve heard several times in recent weeks PvP’rs kittening that it’s unfair phantasms can attack them before they even render – perhaps the delay was intentional to telegraph the incoming attack in PvP

Ryuujin.8236:

Horrible thought… maybe this is delibrate?

I’ve heard several times in recent weeks PvP’rs kittening that it’s unfair phantasms can attack them before they even render – perhaps the delay was intentional to telegraph the incoming attack in PvP

I’ve had the feeling that this is deliberate as well. As I said earlier, now we have two attack checks, one due to the blind/dodge/aegis ect changes last patch and if those fail the person is now given time to see our phantasm and decided if they want to dodge or not.

Ryuujin.8236:

Horrible thought… maybe this is delibrate?

I’ve heard several times in recent weeks PvP’rs kittening that it’s unfair phantasms can attack them before they even render – perhaps the delay was intentional to telegraph the incoming attack in PvP

IOts already being telegraphed plenty if you watch the mesmer.

Galrukh.6532:

Its already being telegraphed plenty if you watch the mesmer.

If people had an ounce of sense they wouldn’t keep losing to Mesmers anyway, let’s face it, our nerf history is based on the lowest common denominator of PvPr

We already have a long list of counters, but why stop there when you can add more right?

Wow my dps just dropped big time with this bug. I would rather have the version of iberzerker from earlier then the one we see right now with this patch. It dies more then 50% of the time before it even gets off an attack.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t the berserker’s swings supposed to hit at least once?

I’m testing on the stationary golems in the mist right now, and every now and then the swings from the berserker completely miss and deal no damage at all. Other swing-by’s are completely random. Sometimes it hits once, sometimes twice or three times. Tried on the drakes south of LA, same result. On the dummies in LA it hits 4 times which is probably due to the phantasms being anchored to the dummy, so I guess three is the maximum hits the berserker can do on a single target.

But no hits at all? Was it like that before nov 15 patch?

edit: The swing-by’s that miss and deal no damage still apply cripple for some reason.

All phantasms now have a stupid delay, making them null in WvW or PvP on a moving target or if there is any AoE damage in the area. iBerserker is now completely kittened and useless. iWarlock is at least ranged, but still this bug could not have possibly been intended.

I want more splits for pve and pvp skills..

They hurt the pve players with every nerf/ fix/ whatever which they made to cater the anti-mesmer- pvp/ wvwvw community.

Does any testing at all go into the changes anet makes? I log in today download the patch berserker dmg still isn’t fixed and now ontop of that it sits there for 2 seconds before attacking

So to do our attacks we have spend time casting instead of attacking, hope the SUMMON doesn’t get dodged or blocked (lolwut) or one of the many spamable sources of blind doesn’t get throw our way, have the phantasm appear wait for it to attack, hope it doesn’t get blinded, dodged, blocked or killed. and then in the case of iBerserker we do all this for hardly any damage at all.

How is this balanced? How are these patches so bad? How can they be this bad at running a game?

The sad thing is that we will probably get nerfed again next patch. This absolute crippling of the class probably still won’t be good enough for the pvp whiners as they just want to spam their skills, they don’t want to think.

Levetty.1279:

The sad thing is that we will probably get nerfed again next patch. This absolute crippling of the class probably still won’t be good enough for the pvp whiners as they just want to spam their skills, they don’t want to think.

The PvPrs recognised phantasm builds got nerfed to oblivion weeks ago. They’ve been petitioning to get shatter damage reduced.

Ryuujin.8236:

Levetty.1279:

The sad thing is that we will probably get nerfed again next patch. This absolute crippling of the class probably still won’t be good enough for the pvp whiners as they just want to spam their skills, they don’t want to think.

The PvPrs recognised phantasm builds got nerfed to oblivion weeks ago. They’ve been petitioning to get shatter damage reduced.

Man I called that after the first phantasm nerf and nobody believed me.

What have PvE Mesmers got when the whiners get their way again? Time Warp suppliers for events? People won’t even notice in the zergs that go on.

Man, the balance guy from Arenanet must have had a really hard time against mesmers.

easy fix would be:
summon works every time,iZerker spawns @ mesmer -> teleports to old spawn pos(stucks @ walls etc like all teleports) -> fires whirlwind attack(4 virtual shots from pos1 to pos2 for dmg calc). if they would spawn with the buffs the delay would not be needed.

Edit: 4 virtual shots → 1 shot collision test(with width ~ the whirlwind size) + 4 times dmg calc,blind could be transfered from mesmer to the spawned illu

It’s a sad day when illusions are more useful than phantasms

Seren.6850:

It’s a sad day when illusions are more useful than phantasms

Phantasms are illusions, I think the word you were looking for is clones <.< In all seriousness though I think you are right. My build will definitely be changing after this patch until things get back to normal. No reason to throw a hissy fit and frustrate yourselves even more fellow mesmers. Just take solace in the fact that you’ve probably got your 60 bucks worth out of this game, keep Anet informed on the issues, and wait patiently for things to get better. Hopefully they will. Until then I’ll change my build and keep having fun with my alts.

damage isn’t even fixed and now we have a delay so its double r***? I DON’T KNOW SUP WITH TEST TEAM at anet… Zerker misses the majority of its attacks AND takes 3 months to even attack like wtf this is a disappointment after disappointment.

Well, at least we still have portal right? ¬_¬

Which makes us IMBA. 1111!!!!1111

It can’t be deliberate. If you test out the Mariner you’ll notice that its attack time is instant.

Ryuujin.8236:

Well, at least we still have portal right? ¬_¬

Exactly what I was thinking. xD
It’s so sad and not going to change anytime soon anyway so it’s better to laugh of it really. Been some time I forfeited and just play my guardian. I have an ascended ring waiting for my mesmer in case it get fixed one day though. sigh