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What’s the big deal? What would it hurt? What’s the worse that could happen if you did? How much work could it possibly be?
Honestly , it does require plus work.
When Anet says there is a unofficial RP server , that only means , “RP players can gather here and find more like them” , BUT , they dont take any responsibility over the “special” kind of grief RPers got. Which means a few more guys to check complains … cause RPers server do generate lots more than a normal server.
That means , the server rules are the same , only part of the players in it are not.
Also to add the server now would require Anet to add another server , since they cant really force the not RPers to move simple because they want to change the server tag. usually in games there is a warning before you create in RPers or PvP servers ,right? While i admit , no idea how much it would cost for Anet to create/sustain another server.
I think we have a fundamental disagreement -
I don’t think adding an “RP” tag on the server list would ALSO require Anet to police the server and address people joining who weren’t RPing or impose rules.
I think it would just be a quick and easy way to identify the server with the most roleplay in the server list for new or transferring players.
I think that would be cool, although I’d be happy with just more emotes being usable manually by players who are sufficiently charming or ferocious, etc.
Both the charm/dignity/ferocity system and the emote system are very lacklustre and could be so much better.
Part of me wonders, though, if the reason for a total lack of /flirt /hug etc type emotes is that they will be available from the gem store on Valentine’s Day.
I feel like it ought to offer more reward, considering it’s harder to farm than Cursed Shore is.
It’s harder to AOE – mobs are more spread out and don’t all mass pull like in Orr, they hit harder (unless you’re all reflect) and there’s veterans everywhere.
While I don’t think the map is too hard, and it’s cool there’s actually somewhere mesmers can be useful, it ought to offer the same if not better rewards than Cursed Shore.
This would annoy me if I had to do it every time, since the new island is there to take some of the pressure off Orr farming. I assume the waypoint would stay for a quick option.
But a one-time quest/instance to blaze the trail and establish a guarded shipping route, or a meta event which included the boat instance and repeated, would be cool.
I think it’s a fantastic idea.
I think, like the others, it would be difficult to implement and a lot of work, but that’s not really our concern. It’s a great idea, would be a huge amount of fun and add a lot to the game.
If a dev wants to pop in and say “No way, no how, too much work” that’s fine but I wouldn’t argue their case for them.
I would assume it was to force any players who had avoided all the dungeons and PvE grouping content thus far to engage in it, considering that their storyquest is over and they have to find something else to do with their in-game time now.
I agree it’s a little annoying, although the Arah storymode dungeon is very fun, but there should be a solo mode.
At least while we’re waiting we can spec to reflect and farm young karkas.
I don’t RP, but I think that it should get a little [RP] tag, or you should get to know why it doesn’t.
All the “it wouldn’t do any good anyway” “yes it would” and “you can’t police non-RPers” arguments aside; why doesn’t it have one?
What’s the big deal? What would it hurt? What’s the worse that could happen if you did? How much work could it possibly be?
Maybe there’s players joining, hoping to RP, assuming there isn’t an RP server and going elsewhere instead, and never discovering otherwise. Maybe there are players with some heavy PTSD issues with RP going and, unknowingly, joining Tarnished Coast and then going into a cognitive tailspin.
Anet is perfectly happy saying there’s an unofficial spot for RPers, I don’t see why they would have a problem with recognising them officially.
All that said, if this gets no traction you could try asking why in the Lore forums. They get dev responses quite a lot, and I imagine the lore devs are happy that others like their lore so much.
Yeah. I think it’s a smart idea.
I’m seeing a lot of people unable to get groups in their difficulty range, or taking a night off and then finding their guild or usual group has zoomed on ahead and left them behind.
I think the new dungeon is great but I think this difficulty requirement is a big problem. I’m not a casual player, but I feel bad for any who are.
The reason it works the way it does is because the daily and monthly achievements are account-wide – they can only be completed once per account, not per character, and to keep players playing alts and not getting bored, any character on your account can contribute to achieving it.
For this reason, the reward also has to be account bound. If you accidentally claimed the reward on the wrong character, or accidentally used a jug on the wrong character and wasted the karma, you would be annoyed. If you used a jug on your alt assuming it would give you the same as your main and it didn’t, you would be annoyed.
The jugs were brought in to make getting your legendary a little easier. It’s mostly aimed at people who already have level 80s. It’s kind of moot, because you can complete maps as you level up and earn enough karma easily to buy an upgrade where ever you go, and the cultural items have the same stats as any other rare, so having a lot of karma at a lower level isn’t OP anyway. There’s nothing OP you can do with it that you couldn’t have done anyway.
What happened between GW1 and GW2 that you decided to get rid of almost all the titles?
Particularly for PvE, there’s hardly any. It’s especially frustrating when you complete a story quest, watch the cutscene and hear an NPC award you with a title, grandly telling you that you will now be known as – then you check your title screen, and actually you’re known as exactly what you were known as before.
Was this an oversight? Why have cutscenes that give us titles and then NOT give us a usable title?
I’d actually like this, not for PvP, but for PvE.
There’s plenty of times in a dungeon when there’s no possibility that you will be able to res yourself, get ressed, or rally, and that dying and running back as soon as is humanly possible will help prevent the boss from resetting. At these times, it is frustrating having to sit watching yourself slowly die.
If hitting it accidentally is a problem, just make it possible to open the world map and double click on a waypoint to respawn there from the downed screen as well as just the defeated screen (you should still take the defeated penalty.)
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Mostly staves since they’re excluded from all three, but probably there are other weapons commonly left out, as well.
At the moment, most weapons have non-legendary pretty cool skin options that are expensive craftables you can work toward. The high-end sets (i.e. not destroyers, corrupted) are: The Foefire set based on the weapons Guardians summon, the Elemental conjured weapons, and the illusionary Mesmer-skinned weapons based on the weapons mesmer phantasms wield.
What these sets have in common is that there’s no staff. I assume this is because there is no mesmer phantasm which uses a staff, no guardian summon skill or elemental conjured staff in the game, so you wouldn’t have any reason to create that item model, so the item doesn’t exist.
I suggest that the weapons that are missed out of these sets be created and added. I mostly care about staves, since they’re left out of all 3, but the others that are missed, too. It’s a shame that greatsword has a bajillion options for a cool skin you can work on but staff has Bifrost, and that’s it.
Feel free to post any other weapons missed out of these sets you’d like to see included.
The Dev response said that it was dropped from a LARGE boss chest.
It’s ambiguous whether they meant a large boss, or a large chest, but the phrasing and also just common sense would make me assume she meant it was the chest spawned by a LARGE boss. The emphasis with the caps makes me think, you know, a LAAARRRRGE boss. A zone boss, since they are the LARGEst.
What makes me sad is the huge lack of cool staves in the game aside from Bifrost.
You can open a support ticket at the support site support.guildwars2.com
But you should know Anet’s standard policy is (outrageously) not to restore items lost through bugs.
Yeah it’d be nice if my mesmer didn’t try to fist her Flux Matrix and just held it like a normal person.
I’m sorry I can’t help anymore.
My group is full, the last slot is bugged with join requests which error whenever I try to accept or reject anyone. Party chat no longer works and I can’t even leave my group to make another without it erroring.
Instant spam ofc!
Try to /join me, my group is full of people trying to get in, when they do successfully they drop group and invite people. Too many messages to reply to them all!
I’m now on an active overflow with the event going. /Join Cameron Edge or Anastasia.8697 or send in-game whisper for invite
Maybe it would be easier for anyone willing & on active overflow to post, and us to try and Join them?
Invite Cameron Edge to any overflow with the event happening, pretty please!
After the pretty negligible reward from the halloween event, and nothing for the first two phases of Lost Shore, I wasn’t able to login for the final event due to the login errors so I missed out on a 20s bag and a BiS accessory.
I hope these will be obtainable somehow to people who were prevented from even taking part in phase 3, not just unable to loot, or repeated in the December event.
I don’t care about pre-cursors (the more drop, the cheaper they are for everyone) but I am really frustrated.
After the pretty negligible reward from the halloween event, and nothing for the first two phases of Lost Shore, I wasn’t able to login for the final event due to the login errors so I missed out on a 20s bag and a BiS accessory.
I hope these will be obtainable somehow to people who were prevented from even taking part in phase 3, or repeated in the December event.
Same here. I liked Miyani at first, but now she seems really needy, constantly mailing me.
Yeah, this was really terrible. Hopefully Anet learns from this feedback and the rest of the event isn’t so bad.
Agreed. Knowing Anet they’d probably make us suck, but give us more options for ranged mainhand weapon than a scepter, please, it’s a joke.
Or allow me to be ambidextrous and wield a focus and pistol together regardless!
There’s another thread reporting this problem floating around with a Dev response saying they’re aware of it and working to fix it.
Can we get a dev response on this game-breaking issue for mesmers? Even a “we’re looking into it” would be great.
Rangers got a fix instantly. Mesmer forum hasn’t had a dev post in months.
I don’t know if my observations will help at all, but here it is.
I jumped the sinking ship of mesmer a while back and switched mains to a class that’s actually still relevant, so I respec’d my mesmer from full zerker DPS (it appeared from testing that phantasms didn’t get the critical damage bonus from my equipment, so why bother with full set of exotic zerker – of course no comment from Anet on this issue) to reflect/support.
Now my mesmer has a lot less power, etc, she’s in all AC vit/toughness/power gear with new traits.
However.
My greatsword auto-attack does not hit for more damage than my iZerker – I suspect due to this low damage spec or traits, it hits on a dummy at max range for around 900. My iZerker hits on the dummy for 1500.
My only way to compare is to say that my iWarden always did about 500-900 more damage than my iZerker, in any spec. Now my iWarden does EASILY 2x the damage iZerker does. While iZerker is doing 1500, iWarden is doing 3000. This disparity was never so large, so I know something is off.
This is on a dummy with all iZerker hits hitting and not missing or bugging out, when it hits perfectly, its damage is certainly significantly reduced compared to pre-patch.
My point in posting this is that I haven’t noticed quite the damage nerf others have reported, so I wonder if heavy damage traits/specs are being effected more somehow.
I think you’ll find this is the top mesmer complaint.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/Overview-of-mesmer-bugs-after-patch
What breaks my heart is, every patch, seeing Guardians with PvP-only nerfs and mesmers getting smacked across the board.
I don’t PvP. I don’t give a kitten about it. I just want my mesmer to have a point in PvE. As is, everything mesmer can do in PvE another class can do just as well or better while bringing more DPS to the table.
Portal is already probably the most useless PvE skill mesmers have. It’s useful in like, 3 situations, and it’s incredibly broken with invisible limits and randomly breaks, can’t be cast on ground with aoe effects, or if you go up a ramp, has no visible timer so you can’t see how long or how far you can go to use it, and has half its stated duration. Instead of fixing it, instead of nerfing it in the situation where it’s dangerous – WvW – they nerfed it everywhere.
Every update makes me more and more glad that I switched my main. I don’t know what we did to make Anet hate us, but a PvE mesmer is a waste of a character slot. The lack of response on game-breaking unannounced bug/stealth nerfs is infuriating.
I play a mesmer and bring a tremendous amount of utility to the table.
That said, the damage has been pathetic and I acknowledge it. We’re balanced around 3-clone shatter and that just doesn’t happen in explore modes or when its actually needed.
Add in the recent iBerserker “bug” that guts greatsword, and I’m crying ‘uncle’ here.
I’m debating guardian vs Ele leaning toward ele.
Try them both! You’ll probably be surprised by how much utility other classes bring, as well. I was a mesmer fangirl until I tried something else.
I find Ele has a slow start as you get used to it (and stop hitting F1 to shatter and your defunct weapon swap) but once you get used to switching frequently, it’s very versatile, and it has some of the challenging elements that PvE on a mesmer had, it just does… more.
I was totally surprised by Guardian. Huge amount of fun, versatile, lots of great stuff early on. It’s not the boring low DPS tanky class I was used to from other games.
My big fun from mesmer comes from the fact that I enjoy “support” as a role and a deceptive or manipulative playstyle.
I trait projectile reflects and keep up a rotation that turns kohler and most of CM into a skillless joke (no dodges need be used), I enjoy watching things kill themselves on my little tricks, and sneaking around picking up scepter pieces without ever being hit.
I suppose I can try guardian for the control and wards, but it wont be the same.
Ele has the fun summoned weapons and a whole attunement specialized to support and healing, but again, it doesn’t have that feel to it thus far.
Thief is a nerf magnet and I don’t want to feel like an airline customer buying a ticket then getting smacked with fees for everything.
I really do suggest giving guardian a chance. Guardians actually have more reflect than reflect mesmers do. Although they lack stealth, they do have a group speed buff and wards to help the party move. They can provide aegis and protection for a group like mesmers, but can also heal.
They also have a blast finisher on a 6s cd untraited, and ethereal and light fields, just like a mesmer. The blast finisher can lead to a lot of really useful support whether it’s area might, blind, condition removal, etc.
In groups I find the most useful things an Elementalist does for the group are, providing ice bows & meteor shower for burrows (but supposedly HB can hit them now, so not such a big deal), fire fields for area might with blast finishers, and stunning/crippling the enemy, in addition to their DPS.
My ideal group would usually be a guardian, elementalist, thief and warriors. Guardians give melee characters protection/aegis and healing, Warriors give them fury and might, Elementalists give everyone might/healing and provide mob control, thieves have stealth/healing, and venom for petrifying targets, and they all provide DPS!
That sucks! I’m sorry it’s so persistent for you, I hope they fix it.
It might help to post the server you and your guild are on as well.
“Being”, probably wrong tense, more like “been”.
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I play a mesmer and bring a tremendous amount of utility to the table.
That said, the damage has been pathetic and I acknowledge it. We’re balanced around 3-clone shatter and that just doesn’t happen in explore modes or when its actually needed.
Add in the recent iBerserker “bug” that guts greatsword, and I’m crying ‘uncle’ here.
I’m debating guardian vs Ele leaning toward ele.
Try them both! You’ll probably be surprised by how much utility other classes bring, as well. I was a mesmer fangirl until I tried something else.
I find Ele has a slow start as you get used to it (and stop hitting F1 to shatter and your defunct weapon swap) but once you get used to switching frequently, it’s very versatile, and it has some of the challenging elements that PvE on a mesmer had, it just does… more.
I was totally surprised by Guardian. Huge amount of fun, versatile, lots of great stuff early on. It’s not the boring low DPS tanky class I was used to from other games.
When I’ve had this error, closing out of the client and restarting it usually fixes it.
Try deleting some mail. Especially if you still have the halloween mails. Some stuff says it doesn’t count toward the mail limit, but actually does.
Tiniest possible human girl with big blue eyes, adorable blonde pigtails and a giant smashy hammer.
I thought about asura but they’re too smug. I wanted innocuous adorableness followed by surprise smashing.
I have a lvl 52 warrior alt and it’s easily 100x easier in pve. I use a sword in mainhand and warhorn in offhand. I push 2 to get close to target then autoattack the 3-4 npcs that are 2-3 lvls higher than me till they die. That’s it. I’ll push 4 after a fight somtimes to take the movement impairing effects off me. I switch to rifle ONLY for dragons. If I had to describe that same fight on my lvl 80 mesmer main it’d take me about 5 pages of type…….
Yeah. I tried a warrior first after my mesmer and almost cried.
On a warrior, for even more fun, you can trait so you have fury up 100% of the time, gain might everytime you crit, apply bleed/vulnerability every 3rd crit, do 12% more damage + 9% more crit chance + 10% more damage to bleeding foes (all of them!) and your hundred blades becomes insane. I couldn’t BELIEVE it when I saw the incredibly powerful synergy their offensive traits had.
Bump.
Will this rune set ever be fixed?
Will you stop saying you’ve fixed it when you haven’t?
Yeah I have this problem with Heavy Nightmare armour from Twilight Arbor. On the character selection screen, these pieces look fine dyed to match other pieces of Heavy armour with Celestial dye.
However, Twilight Arbor heavy gear does not react to lighting in the game any all other kinds of heavy armour do. So, when I enter a dungeon, when it’s night, when I’m anywhere other than standing in a sunbeam my armour looks ridiculous. The other heavy pieces get darker or change and TA heavy remains impervious.
This is really frustrating. There should be consistency with dying armour types without having to use all one set.
At least we could still beat a Jagged Horror in a fight!
I’ve been in plenty of dungeons when my group has wiped, and the mesmer has had to stand alone against the tide to save the day. It got the job done.
I think what I’m reading over and over on the forums is “If it hasn’t got the highest burst DPS possible in the game, ITS JUST NOT VIABLE.” If that’s how you view things then that’s fine, you’re welcome to it. I simply think it’s obvious there are others who disagree on solid grounds.
I’ve been in plenty of those situations, too! And also ones where any other class has had to save the day. Mesmers can kite but so can everyone else.
If you read my post, I wasn’t talking about burst DPS, or even DPS generally. It just seems like everything a mesmer can do – reflect, burst or sustained DPS, ranged DPS, buffs, conditions, condition removal, tanking, stealth – someone else can do just as well, or better, with more utility, DPS or survivability than the mesmer currently has.
I have a few 80s and I feel like a kitten if I bring my mesmer to a party, because I can do so much more on an alt in equal gear. I can do more damage on another class than a full zerker mesmer, I can reflect and buff more on a guardian, I can inflict more conditions and cure more on a necromancer, I can stealth longer and more often on a thief, etc.
Perhaps mesmer is supposed to be a jack of all trades and a master of none, but I can’t think of a single dungeon encounter when I’d rather have a mesmer than something else. Personally I respec’d my mesmer for Giganticus Lupicus, but when my guardian is 80, I’ll bring her instead for more reflect and durability.
So what I’m saying is, if you’re only playing a Mesmer and you’re despairing, and feeling like you’re not doing enough in groups in PvE, then try something else. There’s other fun classes that are really beneficial, and they’re worth a try.
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Not in the wrong thread.
I know, it’s very sad that mesmers are only becoming more and more redundant in PvE. This thread is entirely about PvE.
Of course they can PvE (in b4 l2 play mesmer) but, well, if you’ve played any other class (barring perhaps engineer/ranger) effectively then you should know by now that Mesmer is not on par. It simply isn’t bringing as much to the table as others.
If you work hard and you’re good, you can do decent DPS on a mesmer, remove and inflict conditions, use timewarp, save allies, etc. Thing is, if you work hard and you’re good, you can do that more effectively on almost anything else.
Mesmer isn’t the only class that’s fun to play in PvE. Guardians have a huge number of very fun, very versatile skills, surprisingly high DPS (try a hammer!), a scepter auto-attack that will make your inner-mesmer jealous, and a ton of reflect, buffs and heals, as well as nice looking skill animations. Warriors are fantastic for facerolling, mob-melting DPS – try a 100% fury might stacking build and giggle watching your hundred blades damage go nuts. And hey, they can hit Burrows now!
If you want range and versatility, try an Elementalist. They’re a little tricky but nothing a decent mesmer can’t handle, and with constant element swaps they have some of the adaptability and always-busy elements that mesmer combat had.
Thieves are great in groups, they can save their teammates with a clever refuge and have spammable blast finishers. If conditions are your thing, try a necromancer – chill is awesome!
If you want to play the underdog, but don’t like subjecting your guild mates to wasting a group slot on a mesmer, then hell, try an engineer – if nothing else, you can use it for Orr farming. Even a Ranger is useful against Subject Alpha, or any close-range high damage fight.
Point is, the mesmer nerfs are clearly a trend that isn’t going away any time soon, so in the mean time it’s wise to try and find something which is both fun and competitive. You can save your mesmer for PvP, or if that’s not your thing, you can also switch characters in a dungeon and bring in a mesmer on a particular fight, say one you need to range but also reflect, or you need time warp or a mechanic you want portals for.
It’s sad that they are becoming more niche, but there’s a lot of fun to be had elsewhere. Hopefully as the game progresses, Anet will realise mesmers are not the threat they think we are in PvE and act accordingly, or some new dungeon that requires a huge amount of stealth, portals, quickness, teleporting and boon removal will emerge.
Stop being a baby, our class dominates in PVP, they only fixed a blatant BUG and increased our portal CD.
I am proud of my class and regardless of changes, I will adapt and play to the best of my ability
But they completely suck in PvE, and other classes (coughguardiancough) are getting split PvP-ONLY nerfs, whereas Mesmers are being nerfed in both, despite being incredibly redundant in PvE.
PvE wise the only reason to bring a mesmer now is… time warp? Necros/Guardians do conditions/condition removal better, Guardians do reflect and buffs better, plus healing, virtually everyone has higher DPS.
I have a few 80s, and I feel like a jerk to my team if I bring a mesmer in PvE. I can be so much more useful on anything else.
I’m not a fan of divinity runes at all. I’m not sure why you’d want to split your stats.
I like runes of rage combined with the 100% fury uptime, insane might stacks dps warrior spec and defensive stats on gear.
I’m really glad I switched to a warrior as my main, since they keep getting buffed and mesmers just keep on getting nerfed. Oh, and more PvP only nerfs for Guardian, but nope! Mesmers are OP in PvE! Must be nerfed across the board! It’s not like they’re the most useless PvE class or anything.
It’s absolutely ridiculous, but what can you do. Anet hates mesmers. Jump ship, warrior is tons of fun!
Mesmers’ motto should be “Anything I can do, absolutely anyone can do better”.
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When I checked, it looked like it was still only granting 115 power instead of 165 but I didn’t see the 50 healing power this time.
Still, all they’ve done is update the tooltip for (4) and the (3) effect for 50 power which is the one EVERYONE CARES ABOUT, ANET is still broken.
Players are getting hit with the DR when they go to complete other dungeons, after farming the new Halloween dungeon Ascent of Madness for a while.
Considering that the new dungeon is designed to be very, very short, it seems unfair that players are then hit with hugely reduced bonuses because the DR system applies across all dungeons, not just the specific one they were doing. Due to Anet’s purposeful vagueness on the topic, they also don’t know how long they need to wait before they can do their daily dungeons again.
In addition, the clocks changing in the UK last night also hit players with the DR system unfairly. According to the server time my team finished CoF 4 minute before we went in, so we only got 30 tokens instead of 60. This is obviously impossible, and I hope a bug that will be fixed before it affects players in other countries.
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