Guild Wars 2

It seems I’m having the same problem as most of the above.
I’ve seen these sorts of errors in other programs before, so I checked my antivirus schedule, and it has a record of deleting CoherentUI_Host.exe. The upshot being that:
a) the game won’t load.
b) -repair function doesn’t work
c) downloading the client to start fresh amounts to the same error
d) it won’t even uninstall

Would it be possible to have some dev response on the ridiculous amounts of lag and mass disconnects we’ve been experiencing for the past week? (EU). As it is now, the game is unplayable.
I understand the problems they’re facing, but openness and communication with the community only garners support and understanding. Silence causes mass discontent.

Mort.

I only get on twice a week and mostly roaming, so my rank is only 570. In that time I’ve had four rings drop (two sold to merchant), two weapon chests (both celestial), and two armour chests (zerk & cleric). Maybe I’ve been lucky, but I would only think so because of the stats of some of the gear. I am of the opinion that a lot of the stat combinations on gear are pretty useless. I’d be happier to get greens than crappy ascended gear – at least I can salvage those, and keep my bags empty.

I don’t see the relevance of the picture you attached. With such a massively populated server and WvW population, shouldn’t you be depicting yourselves as the Persian army instead? They had the numbers, and in the end, they won because of it.

Dogs. End of discussion.

Check again after the Season finishes.

As this thread has gone wildly off topic, can someone please close it? Please?

Ezeriel.9574:

1: Berserkers costs a fortune, and I’m broke.

My Berserker’s set for my Mesmer (now gathering dust) cost me roughly 5g and some badges…

Clones from Deceptive Evasion target the nearest foe, this includes bunnies. The only time I have ever had a clone switch target is when the primary target runs inside a tower or is out of range – I have noticed they’ll (sometimes) switch to my new target or defend.

It’s bugged me for a long time, and it’s probably been brought up before, but rewards in WvW vs PvE are backwards.
PvE offers huge loot incentive for minimal effort, whereas WvW is largely considered a money sink. If there is any comparison to be made with any war effort, the general population foots the bill to pay for weapons and soldiers. Another perspective may be that we’re like vikings, fighting and raiding for plunder. Either way, the disparity makes little sense.
Loot rewards definitely need to be improved, I think we can all agree on this. When the poorest person on the map is often the commander, it’s another indication that something’s out of whack.

I don’t suppose there’ll be any China/Asia servers in English? I live in Hong Kong, and my ping to Eu is between 450-600. I speak a bit of Cantonese, but not Mandarin, and I don’t read it, so a fully Chinese server wouldn’t work for me. It’s a shame they’ve put such a great divide in their own community.

I think that there are so many questions that need answering, that many people have given up the hope of responses. The community, in general, is becoming ever more cynical, and the number of feline related comments seems to be increasing.
I think we’d all like to see some more responses. Even some random chatter would help to alleviate some of the feelings of neglect.

Over time, I have amassed four full armour sets for my Mesmer: Berserker’s, Rampager’s, Knight’s & Rabid (Ascended). As I play WvW almost exclusively, the Zerker set never sees the light of day. If you plan on spending any time in WvW, then just consider crafting at least a couple of Knight’s pieces to swap in when you need to. It’s not a good sign when someone’s favourite opponent is a shatter spec Mesmer in full Zerk…

KingZmaN.6473:

I wonder, how many more pages of contrived duplicitous rhetoric from my topic antagonists will be manufactured disavowing what I’ve already shared and what I’ve already addressed.

Truly, my topic antagonists verbiage is of totalitarian proportions, and nigh Shakespearean, considering a game founded on diversity spurred the social community with it’s social medium through which my topic antagonists speak.

Bravi. Bravi.

Are you 12?
People have been giving you constructive criticism for days, and you keep brushing it off as trolling. Even when you pretend to accept their advice, you turn around and spit back in their faces. Now you’ve picked up the thesaurus, and think it makes you sound eloquent. Believe me, I’m not resorting to ad hominem insults, when I say it makes you sound really juvenile.
People above have been trying to tell you the build is not viable. They’ve been discussing the build and its weaknesses. Meanwhile, you’ve been discussing the manner of their responses, and not the content of their responses.
A forum is a place to open discussion. I suggest you be a little more open to the concept, and a little more mindful of basic etiquette.

I still use a Wayward Wand skin. Blue, and it looks pretty cool.
Note: you can open up the wardrobe tab, and preview every weapon skin in the game. Should take about 2 minutes to check every scepter available.

How has this thread gone on for so long? The mere fact that someone had to ask “Are Rangers THAT bad?” should be telling enough.

I’d like to see Commander mastery. Things like the ability to automatically add 5-10 supply to placed siege. It might help slow those ‘helpful’ individuals who like to throw random siege at gates. Perhaps also the ability to set priority markers for siege building (actually, this should be a general commander ability, along with the ability to ping those with supply to BUILD!).

If I have someone run away from me in a 1v1, then I consider that I have failed. It means that I was unable to pin them down, and kill them. You could quite easily take other positions on this (win by forfeit/stalemate/robbed of a kill/unworthy opponent), but at the end of the day, if he’s not dead, it’s because you couldn’t kill him.
I had a glorious turn-around on a runner last night – some button mashing warrior. He ran away from me up the hill in front of Anza. It was at this time that he whispered me with a bit of trash talk “Noob, blah, blah, blah… Can’t run, etc” I usually ignore these PMs completely, but this guy sounded like he was 9, and in need of some education. I guess he didn’t expect me to run around the entire hill, and hit him from the other side. Plenty of time out of combat for a weapon switch, quick armour change and tweaking a couple of traits (love that, btw). My PM to him, shortly after “Noob here, p***ing on your corpse.” He disappears, stops responding completely, and quits out of the game.
No gloating. Especially if you run.

Nanyetah Elohi.4852:

who gives a frak about roamers feelings. They don’t contribute that much to anything but themselves.

They kill a few yaks and people trying to get back to their tag, but that is not much more respectable than trolling.

Whut? So someone who caps camps, prevents supply delivery, and stops reinforcements isn’t contributing? Roamers are absolutely essential for precisely these reasons.

As someone who often carries a second armour set for versatility zerging/roaming etc, I’d like to see a pack to put armour in, rather like the armour satchels for complete sets. As much as I’d like to see something like this as a craft-able item, I’m sure it would be a popular addition to the gem store.

The generally accepted way to beat certain builds in WvW is run away. Some people are so useless against Mesmers, in general, that they just run from them. Add some meta BS build to the mix, and it just becomes a matter of not giving them the satisfaction of a kill.
I split my time between roaming and zerging, switching weapons, armour & traits on the run. I have a hard time against engis, but I won’t run from them, because I want to learn how to beat them. Then again, I don’t have much in the way of running skills/buffs etc.

The only gripe I have about it is when your downed skill requires a target. They could at least make an improvement to this.

I get to play about two days a week, about 3hrs each time, and I’m just about to hit 11 achievements (no EoTM, no JPs). It’s a lot more reasonable than S1 – there was no way I was going to go near the JPs just for that.

Banzie.5248:

Only a WvW player says “kitten yeah, water combat!”
Anyone? Yeah? No? Ok
Dives Into the krait lake to find pearls

Only a Mesmer in WvW says “kitten yeah, water combat!”
Where is everybody? Why won’t someone come and fight me? Why are the krait lakes gone? No pearls, either?

So… You can’t keep sigils when upgrading a weapon. Brand new ascended sword, and I can’t keep the 8g sigil attached to the old one. Can’t even salvage the old one, cause it’s already transmuted.
An upgrade extractor currently works out at about 20g. Seriously?

I’d go for the idea, but I’m betting on something like a Ritualist being a future profession (if ever). There are already a lot of parallels between Ritualist and GW2 Mesmer, I think they will have to leave something to set them apart.

Only a WvW player dyes his outfit once a week, to remind him which colour his team is.

I’d like to see a change in the number of golems that can operate in a specific area. Right now, it’s too easy to roll up to a T3 keep with 8+ golems, and melt it. There are limits on placing static siege, but nothing to limit the number of active golems.

I’d suggest a mechanic that prevents more than 3 golems operating in a given area. Three omegas is already OP, for most circumstances. Perhaps, excess golems would just shut down, and sit. Yes, you’d still have the option of bringing them in waves, but it’s then up to the attackers to protect their incoming machinery.

The cry I see most on my server is “Skill lag, FFS!”

Loving some of these ideas, guys. Not so in love with daggers or shortbow for Mes. Dual dagger is the Ele/Thief thing. When the game first started, I had a guildie ask why he couldn’t have a GS, and I said “Cause you’re an Ele.” Bwahaha!
If there’s to be give and take…

Tommyknocker.6089:

To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women.

^Win^

I love getting ganked by invisible/invulnerable hackers. That, and losing keeps and towers to glitchers. I think ANet has created the perfect environment for those with a masochistic streak. Ooh, yeah, baby! Moar hackers, please.

Dusty Moon.4382:

Then you didn’t play a GW1 Mesmer. GW1 Mesmers were about control – energy control (Energy Burn), control foes skills (Diversion), make foes not use skills (like with Backfire and Blackout), speed control, preventing melee (Clumsiness, Signet of Midnight), etc. They could put out damage but a good Mesmer was in the background, if you did your job well, everything dies that much quicker.

Yes, that sounds a lot like a PvE Mesmer.
I enjoyed interrupting the most, and shutting people down, but just like Monks getting tired of healing all the time, sometimes you’ve just got to destroy something.
Did some PvP, but a lot of JQ, for more of a mixed bag, rather than ‘meta’ builds left, right and centre. Took plenty of 1v1 challenges, too. Another thing I loved about playing Mesmer was the versatility, and not having to be told what a Mesmer was supposed to be by some random figjam on a forum.
Cheers.

GW1 Mesmers were such a unique class, and I really enjoyed playing it. If I could play WvW for just one day as a GW1 style Mes, that would be glorious! Vaporise an entire zerg in ten seconds, solo!
Whilst it sounds totally OP, it would force a much more open style of play, with no blobbing or AoE bombs. Everything in the game would require much more strategy. Bring back the punishers!

I’d go for a rune similar to a dungeon specific rune. Maybe something that gave a speed buff while running with allies, or while you are carrying supply. Another buff could apply when you’re in range of controlled territory.
Absolutely no to all runes being available for badges. It would put a massive hole in the economy, and everyone on the map would be running around with traveller runes anyway.

Seras.5702:

3 Throw hammer and knockdown target.

I’ve always thought of Mesmers as more Loki than Thor.

selan.8354:

whip. i dont think shortbow is a weapon for a mesmer, but whip would be epic!!!

Main or off-hand? Definitely paired with a sword!

I’d go for an off-hand shield with phantasmal shield basher at #4. A properly defensive off-hand would definitely help make use of our melee weapon. Mind you, if #5 turns out to be throwing the shield Cpt. America style, I’m deleting my Mesmer.

Bump

Well, they’re still here, and still no response. If you’re having grief with hackers, please feel free to add. Just try to keep Server/Guild names out of the discussion, or the thread will be deleted.

I don’t consider someone beaten, unless he’s dead. Warriors and Guards have been running from me since I started in WvW. Most unsatisfying. They brush off crippling easily, tons of stability – even when traited to immobilize, you can’t land an interrupt.
Any thoughts on actually killing them? I’ve managed to bait a few into thinking that I’m on the ropes, so they push forward when they ought to be running.

I honestly don’t see anything wrong with the current rallying system. Most of you have come up with some pretty weak arguments against it, mainly based on how antisocial your attitude is towards fellow players. It sounds like you’d prefer a dedicated raiding environment, and WvW isn’t giving it to you. Perhaps this just isn’t the place.
Then imagine if the uplevel system also upped your AR, traits and weapons to a proper lvl 80 standard (account bound wxp, anyone?). They’ve managed to do it in PvP, so I don’t see why it would be a problem. Not only would you not have to worry so much about uplevels, it would also give you more incentive to run with your alts.
Leave the tantrums and abuse for the 12 year-olds playing CoD.

I think that any issues I’ve had have been well covered above. I’d just like to say thanks for taking a look at this issue.

Cheers
Mort

Boonprot.6274:

Note that I never said we wiped after that happened; the point of the example was to illustrate how ridiculous the rally system can be.

By all means, though, don’t let me stop your tirade.

If you won the match, then what’s the problem? Why all the tears? So many above complaining about low level and inexperienced players joining them to play a GAME. I honestly believe a lot of you guys take yourselves way too seriously. If you think that means I’m on a tirade, you’re also taking it too personally.
I’ve been asked to join guild raids, and gone along with it. Yes, very organised and effective. Then all of a sudden, something doesn’t go to plan, and everyone is swearing at each other, calling their own teammates noobs, people logging off, the whole bit. There’s a HUGE difference between being pro, and taking yourself seriously.

At the end of the day, the true inexperienced players are the ones who can’t adapt to one of the most fundamental parts of the game – the ones who can’t make use of uplevelled players – the ones who have to blame someone else in their team for their failures.

serialkicker.5274:

Call me crazy, but i’d love shortbow on mesmer

OK, I’ll do it. You’re crazy :P

But seriously, we’ve been teased with promises of new weapons, races and professions for ages, so it’d be nice to see more on this. Until then, we can only dream.
I’d like another short range weapon, and others above seem to think a mid range weapon would be a nice addition. What weapons would you choose to fill these slots? You could take the boring option of choosing from the existing range of weapons (like I did), or think outside the box. No nunchucks! Too cheesy.

Straegen.2938:

Biggusbiggus.5789:

I don’t get it. Who QQs over rallying? I’ve never seen it. All teams have to deal with the same things. It’s part of the game, and has been from the beginning. If you lost a fight due to someone rallying, then you didn’t deserve to win. I’ll bet that for every time you’ve lost a fight due to rallying, you’ve won one the same way. Did you cry about it then, or revel in your good fortune?

When a smaller group takes on a larger group every mistake can lose the match. This is particularly true with small skirmish groups and when servers are fighting seriously out manned (which happens A LOT on my server).

Getting stomps in a 8v4 situation is difficult enough. Losing because some random player doesn’t know how to play well and is running a poor WvW build is irritating to say the least. If it hasn’t happened in abundance to you, my guess is you don’t run in smaller skill groups much. As for the shoe on the other foot, not really. I dislike being rallied from an unearned kill and I usually run back when killed.

My point still stands. If you deserve to win the fight, the ‘rally bot’ shouldn’t be what causes you to lose. Every server has to deal with being outmanned. Every roaming group has to deal with people tagging along. Every server has their share of uplevelled players. If I get uplevels following my small group, I ask them to equip a ranged weapon, and tag from the back. If you don’t welcome new players on your server, then I’m not surprised you’re persistently outmanned.
If you’re in a 4 vs 8 fight, then the only real way to win it is if one (or all) on the opposite team doesn’t deserve to be there.
You dislike being rallied by an unearned kill? Do you think there’s honour in winning as 4 vs 8? No way. If you think that you’re fighting a team of equally skilled players, and winning against those odds, you’re kidding yourself.

Jake.5017:

what if “press 4” Summoned a Phantasm that spins spear like a fan and blows everything away while making a circular sheild to stand behind. ;oooo

Nice. Good defensive idea too. Sounds like it would have a place in 1v1 fights as well as in a zerg match.

Again, missing the point. I’d like to generate some discussion about weapon ideas, and get some input from people. If you’ve got something to add to the discussion, I’d genuinely like to hear it. If you’ve got something better, lay it out there. I’m not being facetious, I want to hear ideas. I’d prefer an actual discussion over a slagging match.
As you said, sword main hand is the melee weapon for the Mesmer. One weapon, with two actual melee skill slots. You can’t tell me you’re satisfied with this.
The spear was just my suggestion because it’s largely a defensive weapon in many fighting styles. A weapon that focuses on defense and reflection definitely has a place on the Mesmer. Don’t like the skill ideas? Make your own, and add them. Don’t like the weapon? Give us something else.

Nineaxis.1826:

1. Basic auto-attack
2. same function as Sword 4
3. same function as Greatsword 4
4. same function as Torch 4 + 5
5. similar function as Focus with traits

Nothing new or creative, nothing that fulfills any new roles. No strong direction for the weapon design other than “spears are cool”.

Needs work.

Wow. Way to open discussion! If you have nothing to add, apart from pointing out that every single weapon skill in the game is repeated elsewhere (in some form or another), then it’s kind of redundant. Don’t you think?
The point was to generate discussion and thoughts on new melee range weapons for Mesmer. “Needs work” is something I pointed out quite clearly in the OP.

I’d like to see a new melee range weapon for the Mesmer, kind of like sword main hand. The spear was a land-based weapon in GW1, so I don’t see why it wouldn’t make a great addition here. The Paragon’s successors may like to get their spears back too!

I’ll leave skill names to the more creative, and feel free to flesh out any skill ideas as you see fit. The idea is completely new to me, but I wanted to get it out there.

Visualisations that I’d love to see:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqUeQWet_xM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pPMIfmrJPc
The movements would be a great fit for the Mesmer, and might generate a few more ideas.

1. Engaging skill: throw that converts to thrust at close range, and becomes more effective.
2. Block skill that creates a clone on block.
3. Crippling leg sweep.
4. Summon phantasm that throws spears and causes blindness and confusion.
5. Reflective spin skill. Evade and reflect incoming damage.

I don’t get it. Who QQs over rallying? I’ve never seen it. All teams have to deal with the same things. It’s part of the game, and has been from the beginning. If you lost a fight due to someone rallying, then you didn’t deserve to win. I’ll bet that for every time you’ve lost a fight due to rallying, you’ve won one the same way. Did you cry about it then, or revel in your good fortune?

Boonprot.6274:

Engelsstaub.4356:

Randoms following guild groups instead of pug commander are quite common in WvW and since they are often upscaled or just bad, they can ruin the battle for a guild easily by rallying the enemies.

Such a change would make it significantly less annoying for guilds because now there is no way to prevent randoms from following a guild raid.

Preach, sista. I’ve seen a random pug rally 15 people out of a 30-man guild group. 15. Then people wonder why we tell pugs to follow the tag and get away from our guild group.

That’s just sloppy, or a blatant lie. If you’re not focusing on those in downed state, it’s just bad housekeeping. Alternatively, if you were able to down 15/30 and lost only one in the process, then surely you can just do it again, no?

The most obvious solution to ‘rally bots’ is to fix the uplevel system. AR, traits and weapons should all be buffed. Personally, I don’t think it’s an issue. Leave it alone.