Guild Wars 2

I wish he handled class bug fixes. That kind of prompt, hot fix next day action is what is sorely missing from this games other areas in my opinion. :/

People saying TC caused this problem are pretty delusional. We didn’t choose this match up. Most people don’t even want this match up. We belong with T1 servers now, even if we will get our butts kicked (and we need it, based on the stupidity in the last match up thread…) simply because more & more people are coming to TC. People who keep track of this sort of thing know that it’s pretty imbalanced now. There was a time where FA could be within 20-30k points of us. Last matchups thread painted a different picture. :/

So yeah, don’t blame TC because people are coming here. Asking them to transfer off is also pretty rude. Still, I feel very bad for SoS/Mag. This match making system is stupid. You both deserve a prope opponent of equal or similar coverage, and so do we.

All you had to do was give us DB or a few T1 servers ANet…

Jinks.2057:

Quells.2498:

These matchup threads are pointless. We’re just giving low tier crybabies a place to whine about us. Let’s cut the umbilical cord shall we?

Normally this would be an awesome line….I’d laugh and give props

Problem is Ebay has more skill than TC. The only thing you have over Ebay a better ability to RP loot bags and zergballs.

ps. Thx for the glicko

I dont think one server has more skill then the other, you’d need to face every single person on TC in some mathematical version of hell in order to justify that statement. The only difference that can be accurately stated is that population wise IMO, TC > DB > EB, in that order. All 3 servers have great players. All 3 servers have players who aren’t very good, but still try and play. And yes, all 3 servers have unskilled bads. No server is immune to these strengths or weaknesses. It’s simply like real life, in that you won’t find the same kind of person or experience each time. They may be similar, but the player is different.

I also used these on my mesmer during certain fractals (Cliffside/Grawl, mainly) Null Field simply cant remove all the vulnerability that people get, and rather then let themk die, I I usually go about removing it so we don’t wipe. At level 26+, those cultists get real nasty. You need to remove it or you will get burned down, even if you are a bunker build. I’m pretty sad they removed it honestly. It’s not going to reshape many players though, I foresee more people dying since others aren’t coming prepared for the dungeon by these or utility/weapon choices. :x

The Seeds were powerful, but not because of the healing. Condition Removal was much more potent. I’d rather they have put a timer on it, so at least you can bring it out to support your team in a tough fight when you expend your utility. :/

When will this be adjusted to be less RNG like and more obtainable for those who don’t strike aces? :o

Cheers. Maybe I can do events on my server again.

Eviator.9746:

Sharpoon.8197:

Moral of the story: Make sure you know EVERYTHING about a server before transferring to it.

That’s silly, then nobody would ever transfer. Drama is unavoidable, even on TC.

TC has very little drama though. I’ve never seen guilds headbutt eachother or people jump ship in masse. Our community really is rock solid. Most people are into a lot of different game modes, so if WvW burns them out, they go RP, or PvP, or PvE. We also don’t have many of the problems that a transfer server would commonly have, since a lot of people who go to TC are for non WvW reasons but get into WvW later as time goes on. This is just my experience from being a PvE baddie when I did transfer 5 months ago, to watching all of my friends who did come with me find their niche while still partaking in other things. I myself RP, WvW and PvE now as a result of that kind of growth.

Whether the rumors are true or not, DB seemed to slip off after our win that friday morning, then what followed was week after week of WP’d Garrison and rather large leads in first for us, while you guys finished in third. This leads me to believe that there may be something going on internally in DB. Whatever it is, I hope you guys get it sorted out. A lot of TCers were disappointed at some periods in the final few weeks we were tiered together, simply because it felt like you guys either gave up, didn’t show up or just tried to wig it. When that happens, it isn’t fun for anyone honestly. Based on the new scores, you will likely move back up & I hope you guys get it settled before then.

gets free stuff
complains

Meme worthy, truly.

You know…this whole situation reminds me of that one time where DB and TC were fighting over FABL for days upon days to get stuff because it was easy to get. Then it happened to TC, and now it’s happening to DB. My point? If you’re stuff is easy to take, someone will take it.

It’s not 2v1, it’s being opportunistic.

Ascended Items are fairly easy to get. Dailies are easy, and the monthly is easy too. The only really difficult ones are the earrings, due to their pricy cost. But amulet? Easy, 20 days of saving. Rings? Fractals, guaranteed chance after 10 runs with pristine relics. Or you might get the one you want to drop beforehand! Generous system IMO, especially if I compare it to other MMO’s ways of getting top gear.

Please change this to an actual achievement ANet, and not a luck based thing. I’d like to get that last achievement, but it’s almost impossible to go about ‘achieving it’ so much as striking blind luck. A moderator said that the concerns were forwarded to the Dev Team, but I have yet to see anything done about it.

Yes. They show up on my clones, and sometimes on my phantasms to great hilarity.

Never thought I would see people complaining about Mesmer getting a much needed DPS spec. The world we live in , heh.

I can’ believe everyone who is saying ‘’guess my alts are useless now’‘. If the only reason you had or used your alts was to farm dragon chests all day, I think you should use a different term to describe your other characters. To people who play on their alts to have fun, and enjoy them, more power to you. This loot crowd that’s slowly growing in this game is becoming absurd.

Pino.5209:

Vindicus.2130:

Chris.3290:

Hey, I’m just glad they held off for 5 years before adding them.
Not that I hate the idea, but I think people need new things added and mounts are just a bonus.

The END IS NEAR if they add unique mounts to the BLTC (I mean totally unique, not just offering a skin to make your rabbit pink instead of red.)

Lol if you think they won’t monetize mounts you’re delusional.

But they didn’t monetize glider … oh wait, nvm. lol …
From the way they presented the xpac on trailer, mounts are the key selling point for them. It’s the new thing that will rack up $$$ for the next few years.

And?

Have people become so disillusioned with their own sense of what should be and should not be that they blanked out on the fact that ANet is a company and needs money? That if you really wanted x mount from the BLTC, you could get it without spending your real money? Jesus, the players in this game have it absurdly good but it really feels like they need a reality check sometimes.

My opinion is, the battle involved the players very little. And that means its not only very underwhelming in terms of fun, but it means you don’t really get to test your skills against him. You just shoot him from an airship.

I finished the event, liked it, but felt it should have involved me much more in the actual fight. Here’s how I would have it play out. It starts off normal until the megalaser shoots off the part of his body. From there, he latches onto the airship, and you have to attack his various arms and appendages. He constantly swipes at you, damaging the ship and casts lots of nasty spells that you have to dodge or avoid, while keeping balance on the ship. You do enough damage to where he flies off, spinning the ship out of control. He then attacks the back of the ship, where you must climb onto rubble and keep your distance since his weight is tilting the ship upward. Eventually all the fighting ruptures the engines, and they explode. The ship is faiklling into the ruined city, with you ontop several broken chunks of it. The ship crashes, throwing party members and NPC’s around alike. Zhaitan lands on a large piece of coral, or a building that impales him. He’s still alive though! You then fight him on the ground, and he targets actual players and destroys the environment around him in an epic final battle. Rather then just doing aoes in places, he comes after you with his superior size and height. Destiny’s Edge helps out too. That would feel involving and epic to me.

The dragon events could take this same principal, once the lag is fixed. Stop having them attack the ground. Make them more dynamic and alive, I want them to attack ME. Make me feel threatened, rather then sitting there and pushing 1. If the dragons involved players more as opposed to random aoe attacks, they would be much more fun.

Doomdesire.9365:

Man, it’s so weird seeing TC/SoS 30 man zergs. It feels dirty when you have 50 guys behind you. So used to tier 1 zerg sizes ._.

To be honest, we are missing a lot of people. Not sure if that’s RL or unwillingness to face SoR, but the people you are seeing now are mostly the ones who you will be seeing regardless of the score. We’ll keep fighting & trying & learning even if things aren’t going well for us. Normally though, I think we could be way more competitive. But yeah, we are missing a lot of people.

Also, to the Choo I chilled out with, much fun! Sorry about the passerbys :X

ParaldaWind.4523:

Arale.4207:

Lol @ the people trying to troll Agg in here. I’d love to see you guys actually GvG them. Would be some sweet massacre.

Would the massacre be like this one?

http://youtu.be/jE4TVTQyqoc?t=5m

Maybe. I’m not familiar with SF, only with the experiences I’ve had fighting against Agg. Then again, no one wins forever.

Arkanfel.8403:

Coinin.2590:

Dear Dragonbrand,
I regretfully inform you that you have incurred a massive infestation of Tarnished Coast. The buggers seem to have wormed their way inside all of your keeps and made it their homes. The best action is to be patient, wait it out, and after enough bag’s and time I’m sure they’ll migrate away.
Sincerely,
The Guild Wars Exterminator

Sounds like someone’s a little full of themselves.

Full of bags yeah.

Mesmers aren’t. What it is, really, is that 90% of our class abilities and mechanics actually work reliably. We have a few bugged traits, and skills. Other then that, everything else is nicely balanced around the mesmers skill or the other players, usually both. What I notice from other classes is, they don’t have a lot of working parts, a lot of buggy abilities or broken traits, and just feel incomplete. Part of what makes Mesmer feel so awesome to play is how everything syncs together when you do everything right. As other classes, I noticed that a few hiccups in a similar process with that classes main mechanic would diminish the end result, to where it just felt much worse to play.

Finally, we have certain things only we can do. Things like Portal and Time Warp, for example. These are cool, exclusive feeling abilities. What other classes need, besides to be brought up to our level of balance and internal synergy (within their skills/traits/class mechanic) is special abilities only that class can bring to the table. Fun, useful abilities which benefit you & your entire party. Some already have it, but with people crying that every class should have a portal skill, it’s not enough. I personally feel if other classes were given such staples that pertain to their mechanics, that would be a very good step in the right direction.

Pyroatheist.9031:

@ArmageddonAsh: Yes, I can easily beat condition necros when I slot those skills.

@Arale and ArmageddonAsh: A well played mesmer should not lose a 1v1, regardless of the class or build facing it. That is simply a fact. You may believe it not to be the case, but it is.

As much as I like reading your posts, this is an opinion, not a fact. Mesmers lose in 1v1’s, even good ones.

Razeor.6271:

So what new minigame are we going to get, let me guess, battleship?

If it involves 5v5 Arial combat in airships, hell yes.

Mesmers…useless?

wut.

Deyja.6745:

If this is the best EB has to offer in terms of individual ability you guys are going to suffer in the 1 v 1 tournament.

I obviously can’t speak for every EB 1v1 oriented person (no one can) but the few small scale fights I’ve had with EB have been much, much harder then any other server. I 1v1’d a lot of EB’s this week. Some weren’t so hot, but a majority would standstill the fight, if not give me a lot of trouble/beat me. I’m pretty impressed so far, personally.

Lol @ floater issue.

Anyways, this will be fixed next year guys. Though in all seriousness, I did read that they comb the bug report forums but dont have time to reply to every single person. Then again, during several SOTG’s., they were like ‘’wait…that’s a bug?’’ even though, ya know, its been reported and discussed in MEGA threads on their very forums. Hopefully they fix things before the summer MMO betas kick in, otherwise…tbhe reputation of the game could shift as more people feel neglected and leave due to broken class issues.

PearlGore.7419:

clay.7849:

PearlGore.7419:

Levitas.1953:

PearlGore.7419:

And GL with high lvl Fractals or Arah EXP in beserker Gear lol.

if you say so.

I do, have fun in your downed state.

You just need more practice.

I do just fine with 3 Valk pieces at 38, but okay I’ll practice more.

I do Fractal 38 regularly in full Berserker Gear, and I’ve done every path of Arah in Berserker Gear as well. Yeah, things hurt, and in the formers case, 1 shots can be common. But with reaction time, dodging, and knowledge of visibility ques on said attacks, I rarely die.

To each their own; not impossible but speaking on experience, not for everyone either. I personally like letting my dodges/timings dictate my downed state, then stacking defensive stats.

I said the same thing on the mesmer forums so I’ll say it here:

Other classes need to be brought to the mesmers level of usability. Revamp their elites/utilities so they have worthwhile abilities to bring to a party, to the degree of people saying ‘’ya man, go get your necro, we need this ability for this dungeon’’. In my opinion, Necro lacks way too much for the Deathshroud mechanic that they get in return. They need a reflection skill (main reason people want guardians/mesmers in high fractals) as well as a good group elite that benefits the entire party at high levels of play.

Currently they don’t offer a whole lot in the utility/supporty area in my opinion, still I love seeing necros and playing with them as I have no class bias. But other people definitely do. Sounds like you have some of those people with you unfortunately. If they give each class something unique they can bring to a party on a group scale, I believe this will be a much easier playing field.

Shoot, let necros summon a wall of souls to reflect projectiles for 10 seconds. Boom, that’d be a step in the right direction. Currently, classes are a bit too separate in what they can do, and the gameplay/mechanics only adhere to a few of those. Reflection/absorption/aegis, boon ripping, and mob skipping. Mesmer does all of those very well. Every class should have some form of AoE reflection in my opinion, that way any class would be welcome in high level fractals where PVT isn’t king, but reflection/absorption is. Then, give them meaningful group elites that are similar to time warp.

Until this happens, I feel that the class playing field will cater to certain classes sadly.

I hope she has a new model. This recycling of veteran karka models kinda sucks. :x

Ryuujin.8236:

DPS
Even specced full glass cannon a mesmer’s DPS doesn’t come close to that of a DPS specced warrior, guardian or engineer; there’s no point even trying to go full on DPS.

When you say DPS, do you mean damage per second or overall damage? I’ve never seen a guardian or engineer peel aggro off my shatter mesmer in dungeons via damage. Warriors can, yes, but if I play smart enough, I can pull aggro off of them as well sometimes. Phantasm Mesmers do fairly consistent damage per second, but low burst. Shatter Mesmers aren’t too grand in damage per second, even accounting proper pZerker spawning, but we have godlike burst in dungeons. 14-18k mindwrack crits every 10 seconds? Yes please.

I’m sure Guardians or Engineers can go their respective damage specs, but I have to disagree with your post. Having done all the toughest content on both specs of mesmer, I can honestly say I feel as though I’m doing top tier damage when I do everything right.

Commoner Path is faster.

Lol @ mesmers being worst open world PvE class. xD

Interesting results, though. I guessed a couple of them!

I was hoping this update would fix this issue. Will this be addressed before the 28th or is it going to be ‘’next time’’? :/

Can we get an update on this ANet? Luck based achievements are like precursors, you aren’t really achieving anything, you are just getting lucky.

erebuss.5294:

So I’m just coming back to the game after a break for a few months and I thought it might be fun to go back and try out my mesmer. He’s only level 45 and I’ll admit right now, I am a complete noob when it comes to mesmer. I started my mesmer near launch and haven’t touched him since.

I came on the forums to look for a decent guide to leveling and from what I’m seeing, people think mesmer got nerfed into the ground. Now is this true, or is this just the product of negative opinions getting the most output?

Is there still a viable leveling guide out there? I’d really love to find a build that is good for leveling, but also FUN. I PVE almost exclusively, so I just need something for doing world completion, and perhaps a dungeon every now and then.

Thanks ahead of time.

Mesmer is still really great, some builds just cant do things as efficient as they used to. Ignore the QQ on the forums, it’s rarely ever worth it. In response to your build question, this is the leveling guide I used 6 months ago.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/Lazy-Kai-s-Guide-to-PvE-Leveling-Guide

I used this to get to 80, and still use it at 80 except I’ve always used greatsword and staff for group/personal support.

Not really. But nice try [NR]. Hope you liked my krait train.

‘’Listen, I think we have more spies!’’

LameFox.6349:

kurtosis.9526:

Have it come in the mail, soulbound but you can apply it to whichever character you want.

Why soulbound if you can apply it to any character anyway? Seems like account bound would be simpler, like the karma from dailies.

Absolutely ridiculous. This is NOT what TC should be doing, or any server for that matter. It’s makes me feel like WvW is turning into some crappy PvE farm train where no one actually does the content as intended, and simply exploits it to get items and experience in the most optimal way.

ANet, please adjust the matchmaking system. Give us T2 servers next week so we can make sure this habit dies. This only happens because of lop sided matchups. While I salute CD and SoS, I don’t think it’s fair to them either for us to not try & simply goof off in this manner either.

No. Mesmer is the most unique profession in GW2, maybe tied with Engineer. The rest are fairly generic. I very much like doing all the colorful awesome things that I’m able to do as a mesmer.

I’d switch Mesmer and Ele, also move Warrior up. Other then that, I agree.

Doomdesire.9365:

Arale.4207:

Doomdesire.9365:

Man, it’s so weird seeing TC/SoS 30 man zergs. It feels dirty when you have 50 guys behind you. So used to tier 1 zerg sizes ._.

To be honest, we are missing a lot of people. Not sure if that’s RL or unwillingness to face SoR, but the people you are seeing now are mostly the ones who you will be seeing regardless of the score. We’ll keep fighting & trying & learning even if things aren’t going well for us. Normally though, I think we could be way more competitive. But yeah, we are missing a lot of people.

Also, to the Choo I chilled out with, much fun! Sorry about the passerbys :X

LOL that was me!

Lol. I schooled that mesmer, then in the distance…a snowman. So I was like, THIS ISNT EVEN MY FINAL FORM! So I transformed.

Also, I’ve followed the T1 threads for awhile, and always seen your signature. Can I try 1v1ing you? :O

magikfox.9658:

Arale.4207:

To the 6-8 SoR spawn camping SoS on TCBL, you guys give your server a bad name.

How? lol

How what?

Theres like 2 SoS there, and people just have to spawn camp them? It’s a pretty kitten move.

Much respect for SoS though. You guys are hanging in there, and you’ve shown more determination then other servers that have been in T2 when the going gets tough.

No. I feel that…the cycle of hatred and conflict can only end if both races meet half way somewhere. They don’t have to be besties or anything, but some degree of understanding would be nice. I go about RPing with this in mind.

Fuzzion.2504:

pot.6805:

Imaginary medals, cool!

MOS stopped updating so i created one

Medals don’t mean anything anymore due to the volatility of the matches these days. Stomping a lower coverage server 6 times will give you 6 medals, but that doesn’t mean you are a top server in the slightest.

What’s a good name for a sylvari deep cover agent?

Metal Gear Salad.

Wethospu.6437:

Ryuujin.8236:

Wethospu.6437:

LordByron.8369:

nerf to ele and buff to warrior rofl…..

Do you seriously think that change will somehow affect Warriors in PvE?

Beats me :p – I play mesmer and PvE almost exclusively. All i know is that Warrior is crazy OP in PvE, and yet every patch Mesmer get another nerf, and Warrior gets another buff; whether the buff is objectively useful to warrior is largely irrelevant given the only thing warriors need right now is a good solid nerfing to the DPS (Or every other class a significant buffing to their DPS)

Warrior DPS got nerfed while ago.

100swag still hits for a ton of damage, son.

Still no fix for this? <.<

Trinity? No thanks.

Lol, if its like the last time this happened then yes.

Arale Gray. The name has a lot of sentimental value to me.

I wish we in TC were here. I’m ready to learn more.

Hope you all have a good match up!