Guild Wars 2

i would like to make a mesmer for my second 80. the complexity of the class appeals to me after getting a ranger to 80.

however i’m concerned about the lack of aoe’s in the class, at least decently recharging aoe’s for tagging and looting

how are you folks handling them?

Spec into shatter and clone spamming its good aoe for farming.

^that

Or: you swinging your sword in melee/being Chaos storm dependent.

I cry at night seeing how good Necro is at tagging.

necro’s give up a lot for that tagging ability

Iwarden + sword + Chaos storm = always having AOE ready to go

I suspect that the people suggesting shatter and chaos storm haven’t farmed the Penitent path.

Mesmers can farm low level DE’s just fine with Shatter and Chaos Storm. But once you hit 80 and start farming Orr, it’s really hard to deal damage quickly enough to tag mobs before they die.

Mesmer isn’t the only class that has this problem, but it’s pretty noticeable. As a comparison, my friend plays a Guardian and usually walks off with 3 times as much loot at the end of those DE’s than I do on my Mesmer.

While the Mesmer is a lot of fun to play, and I wouldn’t trade my Mesmer for anything, at the moment farming DE’s is definitely one of the biggest weaknesses of the class, so take that into consideration.

what is DE??

DE = Dynamic Event

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GS skill 5 helps with higher lvl DE’s-push them out of any friendly aoe to give yourself time to use 2/3 then switch to sword roll to the enemy and use 2.OR roll a warrior and buy the dumbest monkey you can find to play for you -you’ll get better results

The most reliable weapon set at high level DE’s is hands down GS + Sword/Focus.

Drop your GS skills, swap weapons, drop your iWarden in the front of the pack, and run along side them slashing away with your sword.

GS 5 to make them miss elementalist AoE.

Keep in mind that the Warden will finish his ENTIRE attack before popping due to his target dying.

a shatter/confusion build works perfectly fine for the DE’s and farming.

Espesh on the DE’s where you can see the incoming waves. pop your phase retreat for a quick single clone and MIrror images. Send them in for a cry of frustration shatter and Chaos Strom for extra AOE…. in addition drop a feed back bubble into them – traited correctly applies more confusion. Mobs hitting themselves for 1800-2000+ gets you loot

( i really need to stop giving away my secrets ) Just frustrating reading the forums and hearing all the QQ.

Gotta love that multiple people’s strategy consists of acting like jerks and knocking mobs out of AOE.

There are some more constructive options already posted. If you happened to make an Asura, you can also drop Radiation Field for 15 seconds every minute—it’s a pretty big AOE poison field. It really is a useful racial, especially for this class.

You guys really need to understand that DoTs will not tag anything in the DEs we’re talking about.

Feedback bubbles are not going to do anything, cry of frustrations and confusions won’t do anything. Confusion does nothing because they never attack.

If you don’t know what we’re talking about, go to the Penitent Waypoint and tell me how many tags you got with stuff like Chaos Storm.

interesting, i dont recall having issues there ( and iv got the whole map) maybe i missed that DE. Will check it out tonight.

I know the problem at the Penitent path … i stopped farming there. As mesmer there is no relieable AoE since GS AoE cant hit all those like 20 mobs (limited to like 6), 1h sword cant for the same reason and chaos storm isnt ready for every wave.
Instead i go for the two villages further south. At the gate you reach through the tunnel the mobs are not invurnable and thus a single swing with GS 2345 will tab each of them.
The jorfast camp (was that its name?) its pretty much the same. big waves that are attackable in far distance. Much more pleasant

^^ probably why i havnt run into the problem. Although now you mention the Invulnerable mobs, i recall just blowing everything later?

Is there a min damage you need to do to something to effectively tag it?

for those who dont know the DE:
The Penient path is attacked by waves of mobs. they are invulnerable until they are like 5 steps away from the walls of the camp. Then they are attackable and die not even one second later due to the massive AoE bombing those group of players keep spamming there.
I dont know how tagging exactly works, but all ideas using shatters can be forgotten anyway, since the mobs die faster than you can press like 7 and F1 (summoning a clone targeting a invu mob wont do anything).
You would need a relieable chaos storm-like AoE with a cooldown of less than 20 seconds to be equal with those brainless AoE spammers, although this would prolly make you one, too.