Guild Wars 2

I kind of wish they did something to Mesmer like they did to Necro. Remove shatter skills and replace it with a new mechanic. Or more like what they did with guardian last specialization. Change the effect to add 4 different skills that each clone attacks with instead of shattering. As for traits that affect shatters, just make them be replaced if mirage specialization is selected (if they have the tech for that).

I like the idea of mirror shattering upon enemy touching it. Going a bit op would making it re spawn if enemies touching it, but with a reduced active time. Just some wishful thinking with that 2nd part :P. But it would make enemies be cautious of where they walk.

One more thing to mention is the range on Jaunt is just ridiculous. I know they don’t want to see Mesmer’s blinking 3,600 distance (we can actually do this) but 400 is plain ridiculous. At least make it 900. Vault and Infiltrator Arrow is just the elite skills among elite compared to this…. I want to immediately shadow step to the mirror’s I create not have to move half the distance before I teleport and showing my target that I’m not a clone.

I have seen some people mention going so far as to change all phantasm skills to clones, but as a spec that seem to rely more on clones than phantasms should go at least this far. Once the phantasms attacks it won’t be hard to tell a difference, but the little things are still nice to have.

Another option to add would be clones have “evade” frames for 2 seconds after creation. Maybe change “Infinite Horizon” to effects gained by dodge pass on to clones. This change in description will apply “Evasive Mirror” in addition to mirage cloak to clones. Probably have it ignore “Deceptive Evasion”.

I also don’t see why they made axe melee. Other than the ambush. It almost feels like you only have 4 skills on a bar. It’s not like you have the blur you gain from sword.
Maybe give axe auto some endurance back on hit would make it worth going melee.

It’s nice that clones created using Deceptive Evasion also ambush upon creation.

You would think it would be put on the legendary page of the gw2wiki. However it wasn’t and unless you new the name you wouldn’t be able to find it there. So I had to google it.

What new legendary shield? I’ve started trying to find it since I just saw you that and I don’t see anything And your fooling yourself if you think fog is an ice legendary. It’s like saying we don’t need the above suggestion since there is already 2 Legendary with fire footsteps and they all share the same color red…. You should look up the definition for solid, liquid, and gas sometime.

Edit: Found it on youtube :/. There goes my hope for a shield that looks good on my Mesmer lol. Anyway that didn’t stop Anet from making Twighlight/Sunrise/Eternity and Astralaria.
If anyone can post a link to the new legendary shield I would be grateful thx. I’ll probably look a bit longer for it.

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Glacial_Blade

One of my fav sword skins back in gw1. Believe this could be a good one to turn into a legend. Now that they continued to make new legends again hopefully this can be one. Even though I don’t play Mesmer as much anymore after they made them completely useless in every game mode other then pvp.

I came back a few days ago just to see this crap happen yet again. Think instead of a long break it might finally be time to quit for good. If someone ask what I remember from gw2 it would be the awful balance team anet has and their lack of reasoning for their patches.

Levetty.1279:

How about they just stop piling on multiple nerfs at once that multiply each others effects.

And delete PvP.

“and delete PvP”

I think this is the single brightest idea anet would ever have if they thought it. I used to like pvp, but they just completely destroyed it and given it to a bunch of elementary kids to balance. There is just 0 thought thrown behind these nerfs without any attention given to skills that are useless and made useless by said nerfs looks at well of precognition. Every profession was given 4 new utilities. Mesmer was only given 3. That well cant even be considered a being on par with racial skills its 100% times worse then those.

I was just about to create this post lol. Missed the DS map time so was going to do a few little challenges to get the exp to get to 166

“but a few of the components for the new legendary will come with this expanded future fractals feature.” It was in a forum post……., which was why I never saw it. This doesn’t mean that they shouldn’t have at least made a blog post explaining this. Especially since their original post had marketed the back piece as coming with the expansion.

It’s been almost 7 weeks since the first day passed that we could make the precursor. That we still haven’t even heard a word since then is rather pathetic.

I guess Anet is just going to ignore us and not give us a reason as to why its not released yet.

I’ve long given up hope for anet and trying to understand why they….. comparing anet balance to anything would be too much of an insult. Nothing deserves to be compared to anet’s balance team. I only log in to help my raid team complete their daily then I log right back off.

Woops my bad, probably should have doubled checked to see if it had vipers. That’s kinda week that it doesn’t. They should at least do that much and add it at around the same time they fix the pvp back piece.

You can get viper stat currently without legendary back piece. It’s called sabetha’s assaulter crucible. I turned mine into commander stats for my chrono, but I wish I had turned it into vipers. Can always get another one, though I used a lot of my tokens on the ghostly infusion.

They actually made it quite clear that the fractal back piece would be released at the start of HoT for HoT players. If they didn’t market it as for HoT players and said “in the future” then our complaints would be invalid. However they DID market it for HoT and DID NOT say in the future. So for them to be completely silent on something we paid for (since it was part of the HoT package) is quite wrong and says a lot about how Anet thinks about their playerbase. All they care about is PvP and it shows in how they balance things, refusing to split PvP from PvE balance updates.

When they made a post about the legendary back piece they said, “With the release of Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns™, we’ll be making some sweeping changes to the Fractals of the Mists that I want to share with you.” The key words here being “with the release of” and yet for some reason they refuse to even say why it’s not in the game yet….. Anet has shown again and again how little they care for their player base and i’m continuing to see more and more quit the game because of it.

It just amazes me at how Anet seems determined to drive their own game down under. Though, if this gets my guild to go back to Gw1 then by all means knock yourself out Anet. This game just isn’t worth the nice graphics and ability to jump anymore.

WTF they now just nerfed mesmers ability to switch squad to give entire raid group quickness? What is going on in their 3 year old minds.

I’ll give you a year because that’s how long anet will take to fully destroy this game and that’s being modest.

Stop feeding the 11 year old. If he truly is ignorant of how terrible Anet balance team is then I kinda feel sorry for him. Well then again, ignorance is bliss? I guess someone can enjoy this game while it last.

Are the really only going to commit to 1 patch every 4 months after this screw up? Maybe I should take a 3 year break. After 9 patches you think they may get it right? Ah who am I kidding its Anet we are talking about here. Maybe the old Anet from Gw1 might have a clue, but now they are just hopeless.

I’ve been a Mesmer main since half way into year 1. Ele was my first and still 2nd class now. Survived through all the nerfs/buffs, but now they finally got me to make my Ele my main again. Will have to find a 2nd class for pvp that I like to play now. If I pvp anymore. I’ll prob just create a condi war for raids now and only log on when my raid group gets together. When that starts to bore me I’ll just quit I guess.

I can’t believe they actually made Well of Precognition aegis. I really thought it was an early April fools joke to make us be relieved after they nerfed alacrity. Why didn’t they just remove the skill entirely? That’s basically what they just did. With his change they just basically said they don’t care about our feedback and will do w/e they want. When will they learn that if they split skills from pve/pvp less people will criticize them. I’m not even that mad about the alacrity change, but I am about the number they nerfed it by. EVERYONE agrees that 50% nerf was too much. Learn to do small increments anet. In fact just quit while your behind because your never going to get it right.

Anyways i’m glad i’m on FA. Can’t spell FA without F*** Anet.

I used to love pvp and was pretty good at it. Got my dragon rank and continued to play with friends. Now I pretty much avoid pvp even when I get asked and haven’t even played 1 match since the leagues started because of everything I have heard about it. I just got tired of how horrible the balance is.

Now why can’t anet just try one test with splitting Pvp balance changes with Pve? It was done with gw1 and it should be done with gw2. Its two completely different games and skills/traits should not be balanced to work between both game modes. This 50% (why is every nerf done by increments of 50%?) nerf to alacrity because of the affect it had to Pve ruins a lot of the viability of mesmer in other aspects of the game such as raids. Their dmg isn’t balanced compared to other classes and alacrity/quickness really made them a fun and viable class to play since their dmg numbers just aren’t there.

I think they should go as far as making a completely different trait set for pvp and pve. This could create more choices and builds since each trait would actually be meaningful to pvp or the game mode its designed to be for. I know this would create a lot more work, but aren’t these guys paid to work on kitten for the game and not just to slap random nerfs to skills people cry about and then outrageous buffs to builds people don’t use. This could be seen as a bit of a rant, but I don’t think anyone can argue that pvp and pve modes should be 100% separate. The only thing keeping me playing this game atm is my raid group. I don’t play anymore other than to log on for them.

Just want to suggest a Teleporter decoration item that you can use to go from one place to the 2nd and other places you’ve placed the decoration. Basically creating your own wp’s to make the GH more convenient. There seem to be a lot of places not accessible normally and with some work and maybe decoration privileges you can reach them. Such as the jumping puzzle all along the north side of Guilded Hollow and the secret room that you can reach by making stairs starting at the pvp arena and then playing leap frog with poles (only have 2) until your high enough to glide to it (its on the same lvl as the arena).

Also would like to suggest the envoy weapons from gw1 to be a skin :/. One of my favorite skins from gw1 and haven’t liked any of the new ones in quite a while.

Pls enable updrafts full time in Lost Precipice. We switched to try it out for a month and are disappointed that they aren’t on full time. They were during the gh claim so why bother turning them off now :/. Guilded Hollow was convenient to walk around and Lost Precipice isn’t even close and is just a chaotic mess without them being on.

Fire dmg probably wasn’t nerfed because of all the QQ about Dragonhunters. They probably didn’t want to make more guardians quit the game. However, I heard some very great things about upcoming changes to dh so maybe that nerf is incoming soon.

Since rangers are getting insane healing capabilities now can they just remove the ICD they added to it. It was really only op when synced with vampiric aura from necros, which required 2 classes…….

Soo idk how I posted that in this thread Klonko lol. Anyway there are tons of builds that counter the builds you are talking about. Everyone always complains about mesmers because they don’t want to get their * out of metabattles to change their builds. But when mesmers have to change their build to counter others its fine. If you really want to talk about something being op go look at fire dmg.

Guys they aren’t nerfing dungeons because they feel like it is farmed 2 much. They are nerfing it to FORCE people who don’t have HoT to buy it else they’ll go broke. Fractals only reward 1/3 the money it should reward to begin with and has long been overdo for an increase.

Anet really needs to stop being lazy and split pvp from wvw/pve like they did in gw1. Trying to balance between all modes has proven to not work so why are they being so stubborn about it? I would love to see whole new trait trees for pvp/pve but I know that is a lot of work. It would make us feel we have more choices since you can give us traits just to use for each game mode, instead of having certain useless traits that you will never use. Though we are paying a lot for HoT such as $100 for items that should be counted as a pre-order bonus and not as additional items you put it the gem store.

All the guard mains I know all say burn is too easy to use in pvp but nothing has been done about it. But its a nice build change to use in pve. Some say just bring condi cleanse, but it only took anet 1 hour to nerf mesmer condi. Why coudln’t you just say bring condi cleanse back then? Just one example of why it should be split between game modes.

Btw PU isn’t as big as a nerf as people think it is. You don’t need that amount of stealth in pvp unless your just trolling. In that case thank the mesmer for the easy win. As for wvw always made me laugh at people complaining about it here. All I see from roamers are people who want to fight random guys who don’t even have pvp builds for easy kills.

I’m fine with the builds currently and I can adjust for now. But all I see is anet failing to balance between multiple game modes and can you actually nerf things in small increments. Why is everything nerfed by 50%. What made these things work the first time if you have to nerf it so much later.

Ya idk why I said confusion. As for stripping it off isn’t really the point.

I would like to point out why can’t we reap the benefit of gs #1 hitting multiple times when we feel the agony of it hitting multiple times with retaliation and confusion? Can you put an icd of .25 sec delay on those then?

I like to point out I don’t mind the .25 sec icd, but i’m just annoyed we can only reap the negatives out of a kittenty #1 skill.

thx I went ahead and bought 1 before it went away. The Account Jump Start stayed tho, just went back up 150 gems or so.

How long will the bag slot be on sale? Will it start a countdown when the final 24 hours start because i’m still waiting on my 4k gems to come in :/

“Check in every day for 21 days for big discounts” Ummm all they did was bring back weapons we ALL know they will bring back regardless of it being their anniversary for the exact same price??? Didn’t they give these weapons a discount before so why aren’t they at least discounted? Anet stop being so god kitten cheap. We have enough over price kitten in this store already.

They should just give timewarp alacrity instead of slow. I have yet to find slow useful in dungeons/fractals/pvp. Sure it might be slightly convenient when pulling a big dmg group in some instances during fractals. But it was never needed and still is not needed. Giving tw slow, still warranted a cd reduction but none was given. In some instances it actually hurts the group because it messes up some timing on dodges and the animation doesn’t always line up perfectly.

It’s only if you have temporal enchanter traited. I know because I had to turn it off so I could solo the wisps in fotm. I kept taking the portal instead of placing the wisps making me a few seconds late :/. Also you cant quite spam up all 20 charges before a ICD finally stops you.

Not this one http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Glacial_Blade :P

Hey, I don’t know if anyone posted a topic like this since nothing came up in the search. So I figured I create one since I have been praying for a while now that they put these weapons in the game.

Weapon: Envoy weapons
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Gallery_of_Envoy_weapons
if anyone wanted to know what they look like.

There is also glacial Blade, but that is only 1 weapon.

Hey now, I have faith in Robert and the others in his team to make Chronomancer a viable and fun….. For all of 3 hours till the balance team nerf every trait by over 50 percent in intervals of 3 hour patches 1 by 1.
Landhere.8567 said, “I hope they take the person who thought of this and nerf his/her paycheck to a ten week cool down”

landhere.8576:

I hope they take the person who thought of this and nerf his/her payday to a ten week cooldown.

Hahahaha kitten that lightened up my mood a bit.

Anyway ya I was expecting the synergy to stop, even though it made me actually want necros in the party. Have u ever seen anyone post lf Necro? :P. But what is with this 10 sec bs. Anet: “Hmmm we cant have necro+mes act as a monk so lets slap a random cd on it.” I would put a maximum 3 sec cd on it, if they are really that lazy/pathetic to fix it from proc every hit. That would be just long enough for blurred frenzy to end.

I’m calling mantra to be nerfed next patch. And if it really is the “next” patch, bye gw2. Glad I haven’t pre ordered yet.

I think the problem here is that the only actual pre order bonus you get is a title which is complete crap in my opinion. The other items you get are all being treated as another item that you could buy from the gem store (overpriced like 90% of the items in there).

It was the same thing when Gw2 first came out. When I bought the digital deluxe edition I thought I was buying items that only people who pre purchased the game would get since you are supporting anet since day 1. Not only did they add it to the gemstore, but they added items onto it for only players who upgraded “after” they put those items on it. So even though you spent $80 on it, people who waited to upgrade to it got more items and most likely for a discount and new players got the “added items” and the entire game for $10 during those sales.

Idk about you but a Mini, finisher, decoration, and glider do not cost $15 (took away $10 from character slot – should still be baseline though) and should be considered a pre order bonus.

Anet you are not giving us anything physical that should increase the price. Stop treating items that should be considered a pre order bonus as a gem store purchase.

Mini Pet no longer triggers the 6th bonus, which is (7% dmg boost while active companion). A companion is someone or something which accompanies another, which is 100% a mini pet. If this wasn’t intended then every 6th bonus of rune of guardian/mesmer/etc need to be changed so only they can use it. I’m sure it is a bug though because I doubt anet intended to let only certain professions have access to one of the best runes in the game for pve and again outright screw over mesmers who needed a buff way more than rangers did. When you see people starting to say no necromancers AND mesmers you know something needs changed. I always laugh when I see people saying hounds of balthazar is better then tw, one of the mesmers best elite skill. Sorry last part was kind of a rant, but i’m annoyed at how bad anet balances kitten.

FA is the perfect server for me. Obviously I won’t say why, but most should understand.