Guild Wars 2

A number of [OMFG] members, including myself, like to PvP. Sometimes, we form a full-mesmer team. We win some, and lose some. However, given we’re doing this more than a little, I think we can start thinking more advance-like, with game plans made for full-mesmer teams. Of course, anybody can contribute, but I think we have some unique options for strategy because of our utility. This is not meant to be a sure-way to win an entire match, but a way for teams to compensate for a mesmer’s weakness and build around a mesmer’s strengths.

One-Kill Courtyard Trick
Map: Courtyard
Quite a simple, yet ruthless trick. In the arena Courtyard, there are no other ways to get points other than killing a player. The trick here is using Portal, Timewarp[Optional, but advised], and Mass Invisibility and/or Veil[Optional, but highly advised]. Once the game starts, drop a portal entrance at the base where the enemy can’t reach you. Stay together with the team. Mass Invis everyone, then place a timewarp around the area. As quickly as you can, burst that single target down. Drop the portal exit, and go through back to the base. Once this is done, you’ll have more points than the other team. Wait out the clock, and you win.

Yeah.

This isn’t going to end well.

Ross Biddle.2367:

Yeah.

This isn’t going to end well.

Which part?

Ross Biddle.2367:

Yeah.

This isn’t going to end well.

It is fun tho.

I don’t think you’ll be able to portal through base and I’m a 100% sure it’s not gonna work either way. It should be pretty clear to you that you can not premake tactics or rotations. PvP isn’t about doing set rotations or using set tactics. You’re supposed to react to what’s going on in the map and rotate accordingly to that.They all depend on a billion factors and you need to figure them out during the match. Be it a simple deathmatch game on courtyard or a conquest match. You don’t say “I’ll bust this guy and then portal out” I can give you an infinite amount of situations that this will not work in.

Yeah, base (meaning the physical base, not the adjective meaning ‘not good’) tactics won’t.

I do think we should have one or two people running Time Warp though. Stomping/Rezzing seems to be the hardest thing in a mesmer team. The long CD is killer considering what the skill does, and our elites are kind of ‘meh’ to begin with. But that haste will help, no full-clone distortions needed, quick blinds.

Something like two run with TW, two with MI, and someone with MoA, when boon strips seem to fail on Liches, etc.

Jurica.1742:

I don’t think you’ll be able to portal through base and I’m a 100% sure it’s not gonna work either way. It should be pretty clear to you that you can not premake tactics or rotations. PvP isn’t about doing set rotations or using set tactics. You’re supposed to react to what’s going on in the map and rotate accordingly to that.They all depend on a billion factors and you need to figure them out during the match. Be it a simple deathmatch game on courtyard or a conquest match. You don’t say “I’ll bust this guy and then portal out” I can give you an infinite amount of situations that this will not work in.

Not saying to not be flexible, but a little planning, tricks, or start rotation isn’t bad. On that note, I’ll edit the thread a little later to not sound so confined and more as a general strategy.

Courtyard trick won’t work, and here’s why: you get “nudged” (an actual condition is placed on you for a few seconds) out of the base after a few seconds (I’m assuming 20-30 seconds).

I am unsure, however, of what happens when you place a portal in base right before being nudged out and try to re-enter the base with the “nudge” buff on you.

We came up with some strategies in another similar thread here:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/Lets-Build-The-Ideal-5-Mesmer-Team

Theres some good, interesting stuff there that we haven’t gotten to try out yet.

DeathReign.7821:

Courtyard trick won’t work, and here’s why: you get “nudged” (an actual condition is placed on you for a few seconds) out of the base after a few seconds (I’m assuming 20-30 seconds).

I am unsure, however, of what happens when you place a portal in base right before being nudged out and try to re-enter the base with the “nudge” buff on you.

Huh, didn’t know that. Well, that’s failed attempt #1. Looks like ANet thought that through~.

If you planned to quickly kill one person and succeeded, why not just wipe the rest of the team as well…once you outnumber them 5 to 4 you can overtake them no prob. That’s how courtyard is played to begin with.