Guild Wars 2

I’ve no idea where my MMR has slid in these past few months with me playing so sporadically, but I happened to be recording one of the ranked matches I was playing with Icyicyicy (A surprisingly talented offensive condi PU Mesmer) and noticed a few interesting things worth mentioning. I haven’t made the vid public yet since I haven’t written any notes on the gameplay, but still I wanted to share:

One thing I want to point out is how in a number of these fights, all it takes is a single interrupt to lead into pretty heavy bursts. Unfortunately not many 1v1s here, but the point is emphasized nonetheless.

0:45 – I shouldn’t have come to back up Icy, he was fine.

1:44 – I came too late, even if I had went straight for the rezz he would’ve died.

4:45 – Yes, that ranger was immobilized the entire time. This is a perfect demonstration of chaining interrupts for a heavy burst. Hitting him with an interrupt and dropping C-storm before using iWarlock is what allowed the 8k
hit.

6:10 – Helping end the fight quickly for the cap.

Nice vid chaos. We have both been playing dragon age too much (Rift mage literally is everything I wanted, we would also play multiplayer) so we will have to actually duel again. After all, I think Illusionary Aeoldyn (My sylfari mes) wants a peace of you

For the actual vid, the fight with the ranger describes most of my 1v1 experiences in unranked (including some top players). It’s funny how most people don’t know how to deal with this spec.

As for the s/d thief, I have actually found the solution to deal with them, interrupt consume plasma and the sword 2 return (if you’re quick enough to recognize the animation, which is a cloak and dagger like swing, you can actually interrupt the return, it really messes with them. Just be aware it is a 1/2 cast time so you do have to be quick). If you can do those 2 you can actually survive and beat 95% of all s/d thieves. Even though that s/d thief was kinda bad its still helpful to know

As always, awesome stuff chaos. One thing: your keybinds 0-0
Put your elite on ‘G’ and MoD on ‘R’, that would make you even quicker. But feel free to do whatever you want, maybe you have the worlds longest fingers :P

Rift mage? Pfft. Mage with a sword plz! Knight Enchanter allday errday.

And yeah, I’ve always had a methodical, relaxed approach to lockdown with Sw/f – staff. More recently, after working with CS for a bit, I’ve been trying to focus on max damage bursts.

That first thief was dead no matter what I did, conditions were melting him regardless so I didn’t take the fight seriously. I was actually gonna leave Icy to finish his 1v1 but he dipped once he saw me.

In general, the problem I have with Thieves is that.. everything they do looks exactly the godkitten same. I’ve no idea what to look out for to interrupt. (and most consume plasma in stealth x_x )

I think that it isn’t so much that people don’t know how to deal with this spec (though entirely true) as much as its so hard to fight a competent lockdown Mesmer on another class. Normal rotations don’t work, a lot of moves can’t be used like they could against other classes, it’s a real -kind of fantastic- pain.

Holl.3109:

As always, awesome stuff chaos. One thing: your keybinds 0-0
Put your elite on ‘G’ and MoD on ‘R’, that would make you even quicker. But feel free to do whatever you want, maybe you have the worlds longest fingers :P

My 6-0 keys are Shift+1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

And somehow I sometimes manage to alt+tab as a result x.X

But… But… But in the video it says 6-0…?

Chaos Archangel.5071:

Rift mage? Pfft. Mage with a sword plz! Knight Enchanter allday errday.

And yeah, I’ve always had a methodical, relaxed approach to lockdown with Sw/f – staff. More recently, after working with CS for a bit, I’ve been trying to focus on max damage bursts.

That first thief was dead no matter what I did, conditions were melting him regardless so I didn’t take the fight seriously. I was actually gonna leave Icy to finish his 1v1 but he dipped once he saw me.

In general, the problem I have with Thieves is that.. everything they do looks exactly the godkitten same. I’ve no idea what to look out for to interrupt. (and most consume plasma in stealth x_x )

I think that it isn’t so much that people don’t know how to deal with this spec (though entirely true) as much as its so hard to fight a competent lockdown Mesmer on another class. Normal rotations don’t work, a lot of moves can’t be used like they could against other classes, it’s a real -kind of fantastic- pain.

I have a KE and Rift Mage in my party so I can play both lol.

Anyway, most s/d thieves for me, and I’ve been fighting thieves like amon and kinz (The really good s/d thieves) don’t consume plasma in stealth, they usually use it after porting back from sword 2. They also really like to cloak and dagger with steal so I can predict that coming and always have a interrupt saved for that situation.

As for your view on people not knowing how to deal with lockdown, I can somewhat agree with that. Although if you want to screw up most lockdown mesmers, you can simply stop using any skills for 1-2 seconds and they will usually most some interrupt cd on you (Which you fall for every single time lol).

Also if youre trying to go for max damage with CS, run GS, you will get much more burst then staff ever can

My computer is also messed up so it cant run gw2. I will have to wait until Sunday to play x. x

you guys are nerds…

You’re addicted to jump dodging aren’t you? :p

Also, all this DA talk makes no sense to me. If you said asari sentinel with stasis bubble, submission net and nightshade blades (sad we were never able to customise kits…), then I might understand. xD

At 4:45 you leave your iWarden cast so late the ranger can see the whites of your eyes
Start your cast out of LoS to protect the channel man! That point is perfect for that sort of thing, whether you’re coming or going.

Yes I am addicted to jump dodging.

And good call Ross! I admit I got careless and overconfident. “He’s not gonna shoot me in the face. Naw.” But you’re absolutely right.

The rangers were… 1 trick ponies, RaO, 4, 2, 3, 5, 1. The valks Ranger didnt even weapon swap. lol.

Anyway. Youre looking great in the video (as a matter of fact, its been a while since I saw you this great, That DA makes you rusty! haha) keep it up chaos, can’t wait to team again.

Thanks man, but this stuff is all just building up MMR to face the real challenges. No one on that enemy team was particularly great, unfortunately, and its easy to look good against lower quality opponents. =/ (uh no offense intended to anyone)