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this topic periodically pops up.
and still after 5 years we have what?
the tribal armor for male light wearer? and that other one that you can craft with those terrible sleeves.
then they did legendary armor and tons of outfit and all we see is the same thing female with belly out or just wearing a bra and male so bulky that i hope they don’t live in italy in summer.
and still only 1 pair of trousers with hundreds of butt capes all over the place.
i wish they would implement an option to make us chose for every piece of armor or outfit if we would like to show the male version or the female one despite the sex of our character.
or that they would all look the same (preferibly skimpy same, not bulky same)
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i am lucky enough to play with people who just don’t give a kitten about numbers, unless we are in raid, i get that and i still enjoy it as long as i am not doing the math (because i wouldn’t even know where to start from).
i get though what OP says, it would bother me if i had to comply to certain builds or stats to play everything
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i am with you there.
i like more the idea of what i can do with my character than how much i can do.
i like more the theme of the class than the effect it has in gameplay.
although i love content like raid i am also happy i am not the one doing the math for my class
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Please Anet,
I never thought I could say that one day, but changing build with a legendary armor and weapons is so much more clicking than just switching armor and trinkets.
Please help us somehow!
maybe a build template that we can save/load like default builds in pvp or maybe some qol changes like change stats for all armor and use runes in all armor?
please?
the idea of changing build every now and than make me so lazy now I am sad!
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I am so confused right now…
The more I play the story, the more I read the lore forum and the more I realize there so many huge plot holes that are never filled up.
for example:
- elder dragons death cause the other dragons to absorb their magic:
and yet the more the story goes on, the more room of speculation we have. At the point that somebody pointed out on a lot of posts before me that for example for Jormag to absorb Primordius energy would weaken or kill him.
but I was thinking siphoning power is a different thing than being attacked by the opposite energy, to the point that I assumed that if Primordious would die the other dragons would absorb the power without being armed by it, including Jormag of course becoming capable of using it. And therefore killing dragons would cause us to make the remaining one more powerful.
We don’t have any official answer to that and the more we go on the more things are added to the elder dragons, like weaknesses, domain of powers, magic is absorbed but not really because it can destroy the world…
I don’t even know now if elder dragons are good or bad or just part of a cycle we have to live with.
I am not saying that arenanet doesn’t know it either but it feels like it.
- Omadd’s machine
I am completely lost there what is it showing us? How it relates to dragons and cosmos and how Tyria works?
- The Gods
How can Kasmeer recognize him at first sight? It is said that he is the god the blinds and than we can just “oh yes hi balthy how are you doing, I know it’s you, statues and portraits are pretty accurate even if nobody ever saw you before or at least no one in our generation”
So what’s the deal with the gods? they already felt very far from us in gw1 and completely myth in gw2, the only ones we dealt with in the past where Abbadon and Dhum. All the others where just voices and mirage and one was kittening Kormir. So i really don’t know how they work or exist, but Balthazar felt a little out of the blu for me.
Of all the Lazarus Theory Balthazar was the one I never really thought of because I believed the gods were no longer in this planet.
So how Balthazar came to be? where did he arrive from? did he just appear when the blodstone exploded? did he set the explosion in motion fooling the white mantels?
was he walking among us and we didn’t know? how did he managed a god to pass unnoticed? can gods travels across worlds at will? he was weakened and yet he managed to absorb an entire bloodstone. Do we Know how gods magic and godhood even work? Are they even gods or just powerful beings? Mursat were worshipped as gods but does that make them really godly? and one of the gods was once kittening Kormir she was not a god, she was just a stupid kitten poking around with powers that almost destroyed the world.
I think I am done, I am sure in the maelstrom of my confusion right know there are more question without answers but I am not surely seen them in the story so far.
Feel like I am watching Lost again, entire seasons of kitten ending up in time travel and even more kitten finishing with good vs bad. It’s like the third movie of matrix.
I hate this, if a story just adds crap upon crap of mysteries without giving them context or proper explanation for the sake of cliffhangers you can only get me confused and angry
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she’s not very good at actually dealing damage.
Except for the time she one-shots three Mantle in a row?
I don’t think it’s that she’s worse at doing damage than defending, I think it’s that she prefers defending to attacking, as a matter of political necessity. That difference in experience might mean her plot-altering powers are all defensive, but if nothing else, she’s at least on par with the PC where offensive magic is concerned.
except mesmers are the worst class at dealing dmage in this game, let alone one shot people like it doesn’t matter.
I would certainly enjoy Jennah’s power as a mesmer for once, instead of just sharing boons to every other better damage dealers I walk with.
I kind of want to believe that Jennah is a goddes herself, but the al everybody is someone else is getting old very fast.
just bring back the gods if you have to, but please make them return in a less confusing way
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well… i agree, it is nice to have a choice, i for once wouldn’t do the training mode because i am lucky enough to have a steady raiding group, but it is nice for everybody else to have a choice and it wouldn’t strip the normal raid of anything, so why not?
It would be useful to learn the mechanics, after that you just apply the same mechanics to the normal mode and try it out.
reward wise, it should be masteries and probably some magnetite shards not enough to make normal raid useless, but enough to make training groups satisfied.
edit: legendary insight wise maybe it should be 1 for every wing clear? or pieces of legendary insight that you can double click to make an entire 1 every n pieces?
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I don’t know how to add subtitles, but i can edit the original post so i can copy the lyrics
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We did this, sorry for my singing but it was so fun!!
Lyrics
Don’t give me meta build,
Just sit and putter,
Ping’s candy and fps
As High as ever.
Don’t bring around a cloud
To rain on my good raid.
Don’t tell me not to tank—
I’ve simply got to.
If someone takes the chrono.
It’s me and not you.
Who told you you’re allowed
To rain on my good raid!
I’ll march my squad out,
We’ll beat this boss,
And if I’m knocked out,
Ress me at once, friends.
I couldn’t even take it
That, friends, a wipe we didn’t make it!
But whether we’re the comp
Of sheer perfection,
Or pugging on the squad
Until frustration ,
The noobies or the shiny party of our life,
We gotta fly once,
We gotta try once,
Only can wipe once, right, friends?
Ooh, win is juicy,
Juicy, and you’ll see
We’re gonna have our loot, friends!
Get ready for me, boss,
‘Cause I’m a “tanker,”
I simply gotta block
Or blame the healer.
Don’t bring around a cloud
To rain on my good raid!
We’re gonna win and win now,
Get what we want—we know how,
One roll for the whole shebang,
One throw, that bell will go clang,
Eye on the target—and wham—
One shot, one gun shot, and bam—
Hey, stupid raid boss, here we are!
I’ll march my squad out,
We’ll beat this boss,
And if I’m knocked out,
Ress me at once, friends.
I couldn’t even take it
That, friends, a wipe we didn’t make it!
Get ready for me, boss,
‘Cause I’m a “tanker,”
I simply gotta block
Or blame the healer.
Nobody, no, nobody
Is gonna rain on my good raid
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i am not suggesting she is lazarus because we don’t see her, i just want to know what she is up to. we know what all the rest of the guild is wasting time with.
even blaine in the well is sending us mail, why can’t she?
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Where is she anyway?
What is she up to?
Why is she MIA.
When did she disappear?
Who is she with?
we are dealing with important stuff here, related to human even, 2 dragons awake at the same time, the new built guild is already falling apart and she is nowhere to be seen
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i would like to have clones that do damage, clones that switch targets, clear icon instead of dots and clones and phantasms be the same thing, i don’t understand why i should get a clone out when i can get a phantasm that do actual damage and other things.
shattering should be more spike damage, if i really have to give up my resources i want them to be impactful.
also i want retaliation, they want us to tank? than give us some retaliation.
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had the same issues surviving any hot maps but now is less difficult with full commander gear, although it takes a lot to kill things so in some occasion you just die.
if you are just running around take invisibility with you, and blink. i usually use the signet of ether as healing skill in solo play because of the passive heal and to generate more phantasms. also with domination you can reduce its cooldown.
anyway surviving hot maps with mesmer it is still difficoult, if i really have to do stuff there i’ll bring necro. although i have all of the maps full explored with my mesmer, but i did that with my boyfriend a guardian who can kill things in seconds i just had to buff him and do the casual damage
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if you are looking for pure dps condition vanilla mesmer is the way to go.
although power builds are best suited for boon sharing and alacrity which is why mesmer are the queens of the parties^^
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I wanted to suggest to bring back some of the cool looking armors we had in gw1, so less butt cape back than, unless you were an ele.
i’m going to attach one of my personal favourite.
but there were so many more option i wish i could see some of them
here is a link from where you can preview all the classes:
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maybe a companion system like swotr or neverwinter would do for normal pve?
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the mad moon is small enough. and yes i would love more buckler like shield.
also OP have you checked the machined shield? sounds very engineer although it is not round or coggy
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mesmer has 3% increased damage adn condition damage for each illusion up.
deal more damage for each stack of vulnerability on your foe (don’t remember the %).
i believe these are the only two trait that increase personal dps.
there are some that of course increase illusion dps which sadly they don’t do dps, only phantasms do dps
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guys, does any number of spirit shards really change your game experience? you can get spirits shards from tome of knowledge, from dailies, from so many surces that the original OP just sound like an angry rant for something very stupid (xp numbers distract me cause i don’t raid and raid is evil).
if anything i find stupid to not even take a look at raid content to try to unlock the mastery track which honestly is not gating anything that you can get more or easily elsewhere
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are you trying to solo challenge mote? because that is 5 persons content.
because otherwise the fight is not that hard. there is a branch during the updraft phase that you can reach and stay safe there. you are going to need break bars any way make sure you bring some. it makes the fights easier
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as far as i know not a one handed sword. you can get a katana 2h sword with gems
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torch 5 is the best damage output for condi ranger/druid and i never see them too far from the enemies.
but anyway guardian (i would suggest power greatsword for the bursty damage, or any other combination, guardian is good at everything) or warrior as suggested above but more boring than gardian in my opinion.
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everytime i make a new character i think i want to level him up to 80, than i realize i am to impatient to do that so i tome up to 80, than i realize i know nothing on that class and go explore maps so i can learn and read traits lines for ours before i can even play. but never the less i’ve tome up all my remainng characters. i feel like this game it’s not punishing if you skip the learning curve of leveling.
eventually you’ll have all your mastery maxed anyway, but you know… autoloot and gliding make the game so much more fun
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I don’t know what you are used to but guys, you can do high level fractals with whatever build you like in my opinion. Fights in there will not help with the quickness and alacrity stacking anyway since bosses move all around teleports and whatnot.
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as much as i would love a dps option for mesmers, if you really want to play dps you should roll a guardian.
if we have to play what we have we are amazing tankers that can do the job and share boons and other things without giving away anything since our dps is already trash to start with. if any other class want to tank same way we do they have to give away all the damage to get the job done.
that said i fail to see how giving quickness or alacrity or any other “mesmer unique” skill to other classes jepardize the position of mesmers in all game modes. i mean i believe the mesmer thing is the illusion casting, i don’t see any other class do that, if anything their pets are doing a better job than our illusions.
also wasn’t the gw2 advertize that said you can do anything with every class you chose to play? are you surprised now?
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i would be all for musical kits like engi kits, it would be fun to have dps for a change, who said the ministrel or bard need necessarily to be a support class? or it could be situational just like the kits on an engineer are, you can have instrument for power damage, instuments for condition damage and instruments for healing/support.
also i would love to beat enemies with my guitar on their face!
also as much as i like the idea of a musical specialization the one described above it is pretty much what the mesmer already is but with a music theme instead of illusion theme…
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well I for once am happy about these changes, especially to phantasms and never use stealth in pvp anyway, maybe i should, but i don’t.
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Honestly i’m all about spreading boons to everyone, also because i am kind of tired of being the alacrity quickness bot with no other purpose as a class.
Also alacrity and quickness done from a mesmer is so much better than a revenant that i don’t understand what you really fear? are you scared to not have your spot in raids anymore? that would be crazy!
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i have this idea for a very long time now, raid spectator mode should be a thing. non raiders could be able to enter the istance in spectator mode, maybe follow the pov of someone playing the same class.
anyway, while you fight bosses in the raid nothing is happening, some bosses have some dialogs, but most of the story is told by interacting with npc or collecting letters from the ground or moving from a boss to the other, so i don’t understand all this bitterness non raiders have against raid.
edit: also i believe than when people is asking for story mode is asking for a solo istance much like arah story is now. which not only makes the instance boring because every fight should be scaled down to a normal champion encounter, but lose so much meaning that they might as well go on a cleared instance and experience the story that way
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All this episode made me realize that i am tired of the dragons plotlines.
This episode was everyone favourite for a reason.
we have to face something we know and we have interaction with. Caudecus as a villain is something we can understand and talk about, the npc had interaction with us, his minions had motives and speak, and even turncloack at the end (vallette for example), we saw his personal human grudge against his daughter and wife. we experienced some plans and politic games and so on.
While the dragons on the other end they are just evil, we can interact only with their evil brainless minion, their plan is just to consume magic, destroy and corrupt.
we don’t talk to the dragons, they don’t have emotions they are not an evil we can relate too or understand, we don’t even know their actual nature. it’s boring! They are just a general evil with no personality much like a cosmic disaster, yes we have to deal with them otherwise extintion, it’s all action and no story.
So I guess my conclusion is I want to see more of this last episodes and less fight the evil because it’s evil. If anything please arenanet make this remaining dragon more interesting, give them personalities, allow us to interact with them, answer to some question as why they do what they do and what they want to achieve. Dragons in this game remaind me a little of the reaper menace in Mass Effect, but less effective because while the reaper menace was something unknown and we discover a little by little about the cycles, about the technologies about the fact that all the reaping is programmed eons ahead, that there was a reason for the reaping and so on. Please give us some lore for the dragons but something consistent otherwise I’m happy to get over with and hope taimi’s plan will work so there will be so much less dragons to take care left
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if truth be told original personal story, was more cohesive than it is now, during time arena net decided to remove or rework some content from the original personal story that can cause confusion.
anyway, you can have a more knowledge of the lore by playing different character races, like sylvari for example, which will fill the gap on things like the wyld hunt and so on.
also the part about primordus and jormag are from season 3, you shouldn’t play that if you didn’t play heart of thorns story.
about dragons it’s a matter of lore.
we now elder dragons exist and usually are in slumber, every cycle they awake and bring destruction to the world we know and than go or are put to slumber again.
the time we are playing is a cycle of elder dragons waking up from their slumber. they are a great menace for all the living creatures of tyria reguarding of their races and personal history. dragons corrupt and destroy.
the difference from the past is that we now are killing elder dragons instead of putting them to slumber, by doing so we are somehow (explained in season 3) making the remaining dragons more powerful and even more dangerous.
so yes, dragons are the main of our concern as a renown hero
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also neither healing or condi damaga can crit so precision is worthless
Well, that’s obviously not true. There’s a large amount of mechanics in the game that gate condition damage application behind crit procs. Mesmer in particular has sharper images for that, so precision naturally goes with condition damage for mesmer. It’s just this particular mix that doesn’t really make sense for us.
oh yeah for a moment i completely forgot about that, because i was thinking to use those stats for my condi healer ele, and i realized precision was a waste in that case.
i don’t play condi mesmer for a very long time now i guess
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also neither healing or condi damaga can crit so precision is worthless
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at this point i’m thinking kasmeer is lazarus.
anyway, why any single mesmer npc in this game is so much stronger than any mesmer player?
Xera can create well of gravity so big that can cover half a platform, create 3 phantasms in a single cast.
the queen can kill by pointing, create a feedback so huge and powerful to repel bloodstone cannon shards, maintain it for more than 6 seconds also not to mention cast a timewarp more often than i can cast a well of action, uses a single hand sword as range and close combat weapon and in the book she can create an illusion of an elder dragon so believable that even dragon minions decided to retreat.
everybody can open portal to everywhere and any mesmer mob can do a mind stab from greatsword with multiple aoe, not to mention reset their health with portal.
anise can be invisible for, disguise everybody as she sees fit, creat illusions that talk.
and yes at this point i believe that kasmeer is powerful enough to pretend to be lazarus. this lazarus showed some mesmers powers when he completely stopped us with a timewarp in bloodstone fen before he could burn everyone down.
also kasmeer is from janthir and already has the power to detect lies as gift of true sight wuould grant and totally get marjory on her side
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don’t we use the scepter of orr in a personal story istance as human during risen attacking queen jenna in the throne room?
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also when you lit the fire braham will cast sanctuary which will give you stability so you can finish lit the fire, just lit the one where the sanctuary is cast
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sword and pistol could me also mesmer. someone remember the trial by combat you have with him in the personal story istance? i have done it so many times but i didn’t pay attention to his skills
That was a different noble, not Caudecus.
Oh right, now i remember, it is hinted that Caudecus suggested him the trial by combat
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I love the new LA and despise the old one, so I guess it is a matter of taste
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sword and pistol could me also mesmer. someone remember the trial by combat you have with him in the personal story istance? i have done it so many times but i didn’t pay attention to his skills
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I don’t miss influence for the reason i don’t have to ask people to rep all the time although I think I have enough of guild missions, I litterally can’t bear it anymore. When guild halls were announced and they said there was a quest to claim it with your entire guild i was under the impression that on a weekly basis we also had to defend the guild halls from mordrem invasion and that we could launch the invasion as a guild mission which would be more fun than the actual guild missions. Instead we have huge guild halls that are empty and deserted all the time and old guild missions that nobody in my guild care to do it any longer
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I believe that calling the elite specialization that way is self explanatory lore wise. the lore it is that the characters master their magic at the point they could specialize it to something else. i don’t know what you are looking for but for example do you need lore to explain chronomancers? they mastered the chaos magic o the point they can influence time and space, the skills gives you the hint of what the class is able to accomplish. same can be said about any other specialization, i don’t even see the need to explain something that character wise was always there once they realized how they can acces different branch of the same magic.
if you instead are talking just about rytlok story that’s a different matter.
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they are account wide
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for me she appears also when you are downed, at least i saw her when i got downed in the new map
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that is due to the fact elite weren’t labeled before. they were just elite. than they decided elite would be of the same kind of utility and labeled them. so technically i don’t think there are missing skills. it’s true though that some classes saw their elite changed over time, especially guardians which had an elite skill that summoned a tome to spam healing s and the other to do damage feel my wrath and the signet are what is left of them
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i think gravedigger doesn’t go on cool down if you hit enemies with less than 50% health or something. i have no idea about longbow 2 on ranger, that sound like a bug
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we use thief in a couple of fights in raid, we use it on sabetha, gorseval, macLeod, keep construct and xera. it is 5 bosses out of 9
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Signet of Ispiration for mesmers will help during the lack of chronomancer traits, it gives so much swiftness that you don’t even need a focus anymore.
that said there is nothing i can’t do with my mesmer when solo although the illusion don’t take that much of mobs attention if truth be told, they always go for me most of the time and also they die so fast they are unreliable as a form of mob distraction, they also die when the mob you are targeting dies which is annoying when fighting groups of mobs
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I suppose her superpower to know when someone tells lie would have been inconvinient when lazarus filled us with crap words that convinced marjory to watch him closer.
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the regular quartz increased in price since the utility consumable that gives 10% boon duration became meta in raids. now the price is comparable to the food that does the same thing but has no time gate.
my consumption rate is higher than my purchase rate and the final product can only be crafted since it is account bound, also it last only 30 mins against some food that i use that last 1h.
so far i decided not to bother and get that 10% from other sources.
time gate on ascended crafting was introduced because at the very beginning of this new tier of crafting arenanet didn’t want us to have full set of ascended from day 1. they were meant to be very rare and took effort to get.
they wanted to solve the lack of end content with this new tier and the ever increasing agony resistance that fractals require.
but now that ascended gear is no longer a rarity the time gate is just stupid and should be removed. otherwise the only people to benefit from it are the blessed from the rng god. i have guild members that get an ascended weapon or armor every 5 fractals or so, while others that never get any and have to craft everything by themselves. i run fractals always with the same people and always the same people are getting the ascended drops.
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