Guild Wars 2

Torch 4 is excellent. The problem is the torch 5 phantasm is a kitten That’s the only skill keeping the torch from greatness.

Torch 4 is a good skill; almost great in certain builds. Excellent would be if it wasn’t a channel. Yeah, the iMage needs work.

Alternatively, if they’re going to keep it as a channel, it needs to be an unbreakable stealth – sometimes projectiles I’ve sent out before using the skill break my stealth and it’s really annoying. The iMage needs to be a bit more responsive (the iMariner could be a great thing to pattern it off of), but this Torch hate is frankly a bit melodramatic. It’s not stupendous in PvE or anything (mostly down to the phantasm), but hardly worthy of all this hate.

Am I the only person who likes multiple stealths in WvW? I pretty much never run in zergs, though, and I spend most of my actively attacking time in Staff rather than Sword/Offhand.

Heh, when roaming I usually have 2-3 stealth skills. Mass Invis, Decoy, and Blink are almost always on my bar when in a group of 3 or less, and I switch out my OH a lot depending on my mood.

Yeah, I switch my OH a lot based on situation. My core group would be focus, pistol, and torch – OH sword is fun, but probably the worst of the four for a condition build since there’s only one possible proc of sharper images. For tiny team/solo roaming (80+% of the time for me), I run exactly what you do – Mass Invis, Decoy, Blink. I like Null Field for my 3rd utility.

This may not me a mesmer nerf excatly but i was messing around in Ascalonian Catacombs and when the cave troll spawned i naturally automatically put Arcane thievery on my utility bar, because stealing the Trolls 25stacks of Regen just makes me giggle constantly.

However, after the patch Arcane thievery doesn’t steal the trolls regen anymore. (I don’t know if this is a change else where. or just a bug.. either way made me sad.)

Snoots.2970:

This may not me a mesmer nerf excatly but i was messing around in Ascalonian Catacombs and when the cave troll spawned i naturally automatically put Arcane thievery on my utility bar, because stealing the Trolls 25stacks of Regen just makes me giggle constantly.

However, after the patch Arcane thievery doesn’t steal the trolls regen anymore. (I don’t know if this is a change else where. or just a bug.. either way made me sad.)

Regen doesn’t have stacks, maybe this is a monster buff of some sort and not the true regen boon?

Yeah it might have only been on the Cave Troll in AC, But all i know is before the patch a Mesmer could Arcane thievery it and steal all 25stacks of it’s troll regen (or whatever special regen it was) and have all 25 stacks of the regen.

And after the update. you cannot steal the regen.. You can’t even use the Arcane Thievery to take off the buff. but other skills still work (Null field for example) will remove the buff. but the thievery won’t steal it.

/shrug it may just be a bug on the one boss and there fore not really that terrible. I just miss giggling at stealing 25 stacks of regen.

Snoots.2970:

Yeah it might have only been on the Cave Troll in AC, But all i know is before the patch a Mesmer could Arcane thievery it and steal all 25stacks of it’s troll regen (or whatever special regen it was) and have all 25 stacks of the regen.

And after the update. you cannot steal the regen.. You can’t even use the Arcane Thievery to take off the buff. but other skills still work (Null field for example) will remove the buff. but the thievery won’t steal it.

/shrug it may just be a bug on the one boss and there fore not really that terrible. I just miss giggling at stealing 25 stacks of regen.

Didn’t matter, when you stole the 25 stacks of Troll Regeneration, they didn’t actually apply to your character, you just removed it from the troll and got a shiny new 25 stack buff.