Guild Wars 2

I have all classes lvl 80 fully geared but this is my main and I spoil her with all the fancy outfits…

remove titles… investigation complete.

… you run through temporal curtain, blink, use your heal and still manage to miss the bus.

It was just an example. Balancing is something better left to others

2) Why not make banners function as a backpack while you keep your regular skills so it follows around with you, removing the horrid cast time and keeping the banner’s unique skill slotted where you had your banner skill after use. I might seriously consider it then. You no longer have to worry about your target kiting you around outside its range. You dont have to worry about the cast time.

They should remove burst and just make banners the class skill. like a ranger chooses their pet out of combat, a warrior would pick their banner out of combat and have the banner skills on F1-F4

Yes! Thank you Goloith

That’s a lie. I got my Gift of Battle before taking WvW seriously or even getting into it. I didn’t know what anything was, except for a zerg (which I rarely took part of). To get my badges, I would run around, gather omnomberries, gather orichalcum, do the jump puzzle, get killed, tag an enemy or two, then go dungeon some more. If commander’s compendium was 1000 badges of honor, I, and a lot more people, would run around with it and pretend like we know what to do.
If you want to be a commander, you should work for it.

Lets go over some points about saving up gold:
- 99% of the actions you do in the game result in earning money
For example:
- killing a mob (chance)
- opening a pouch (chance)
- completing an event
- completing a heart (1-2s)
- map completion
- completing the daily (5s)
- completing the monthly
- killing a boss in a dungeon (12-15s)
- completing a dungeon (26s)
- selling junk
- selling on the trading post
- playing the market
- trading gems into gold
- and lets not forget gold farmers

Now lets go over some points about Badges of Honor:
- Only obtainable in wvw
- They are not a 100% drop
- When badges of honor do drop, you’re not guaranteed to get 2.
- Only enemy players and camp leaders/tower lords drop them
- Completing the jump puzzle will award badges but you are open to attack from enemy players while doing it.

… So you’re gonna tell me that you don’t have to work for badges? Now that’s a lie.

You may have casually gotten badges while gathering materials and maybe you got really lucky and every person you tagged happened to drop 2 badges. I don’t know… The point is that you had to spend time in wvw.

As of now, the rewards for Badges of Honor are lacking. Why not have commanders compendium as a reward?

For all we know, someone could be a PvE focused player, buy the commander title, and then jump into wvw as a commander with no experience.

If someone has earned 1000 Badges of honor, then they’ve obviously spent a lot of time in wvw and are most likely experienced enough to lead. Also, if you spend most of your time in wvw, you don’t make anywhere near as much money than if you were to just farm dungeons and its a lot harder to get that commander title.

I learned to play my thief without relying on stealth. the only stealth ability i use is refuge and its only for emergencies.

let me help you

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/Mesmer-List-of-bugged-abilities-and-traits/page/10

depending on your build scepter is always bad.

mesmers can’t make money anymore

13. Instead of illusionary persona causing the “shatter” effect on the mesmer, it now causes the “clone” effect. the mesmer must now wait for 2 seconds before attacking, you may only auto attack, and your hp is reduced to 1.

I’m a mesmer from maguuma. The other day me n a thief buddy pushed a blue(think it was ehmry) zerg back from our spawn. It was like 2v30 no joke. Just sayin.

Whittle them down before you burst…

You need map completion for a legendary but once you’ve done that you also get the little star next to your name which doesn’t apply to your clones. So basically you get a kitten sword with the added perma target over your head as a bonus! Until it gets fixed you probably won’t see many mesmers with any kind of legendary.

Combos are great… when you’re not running for your life.
It’s about survivability. Once you’ve outrun the zerg, you turn around and kill the greedy ones that kept following you.

GS/Sword + Focus

I won’t even bother with the torch. Yes someone will argue that you kill people with it and that there’s a stealth, but I’d have to give up focus and that is just too much of a cost.

Light field + warden seems interesting but I spend most of my time running from zergs. I’ll stay and fight a 3v1 but most of the time its just “oh kitten zerg incoming” and wardens are useless at that point.

I’ve been having condition removal issues as well. Mender’s purity is mandatory in any of my builds but only removes 1 condition which most of the time isn’t enough. Decoy and blink are also somewhat mandatory for any build but filling that last slot is tough. If i choose anything besides condition removal i get rolled but all the options are pretty weak.

I’ve tested iDisenchanter in a dungeon and nothing happened. I’m not sure if you need a target to use it but i was in range of the mob, with it targeted, there were no AOEs on the ground, LOS was clear, and i had an open illusion slot. When i used the skill the phantasm never showed up. If it isn’t reliable in pve why would i use it in pvp? Besides the fact that it can die if looked at the wrong way, its just too slow and unreliable, especially when running from zergs.

Arcane thievery is also unreliable most of the time and does nothing half the time even when i’m in range.

Prayer to dwayna(human racial) removes 3 conditions but takes 1 second to cast and has a 40 second cooldown. Its pretty straight forward but sometimes that 1 second cast time is enough to get you killed.

Null field is meh. Pve its fine but in wvw it lacks. Ground targeted, and takes some time to work. Offensively its kinda weak. When someone uses it on me i just dodge out of it…

So far i’ve had the most success with mantra of resolve. I’m not a fan of mantras but after its charged it removes 2 conditions at instant speed, which is crucial when immobilized. Its also a pain to recharge it in the middle of a fight and for some reason it just loses its charge sometimes. Not sure why.

Last option is removing conditions on shatter but you have to trait a full 30 to get it and with the patch relying on your illusions is risky. If you get rooted with no illusions up youre screwed and sometimes i would shatter and nothing would get removed. Again unreliable.

Suggestions?

Centaur runes are perfect for my mesmer and have saved my life more than i can count. With a focus you can have swiftness up the entire time, as long as you’re wise with your heal that is. If you see incoming enemies then its best to save your heal for the fight. I use GS/sword focus so the only real condition i apply besides cripple is bleed from the clones so the added bleed duration is welcome. I keep it simple and only rely on swiftness so the added duration is also perfect.

Sorry, let me rephrase. Scepter/torch isn’t good for hit and run. Focus is a must have because its the only thing that saves me from zergs.

A better look at stats

Hi all,

I main a mesmer and have perfected the art of the GS and sword/focus, using them to knock people around and yank them wherever i want with ease. I generally roam WvW either solo or with a small group of 3-4 and have no trouble taking on any other class in 2v1 or more. I’ve even single handedly stopped a tower from being taken by like 15 invaders(doubt that is possible anymore). Even after this horrible patch and the iBerserker dmg problem i still find it fun rolling people in WvW using iWarden and blurred frenzy while they’re rooted from illusionary leap.

The only problems i have are with thieves. They were tricky enough before and now i’m stumped. As if their ability to constantly stealth wasn’t enough, now its even harder because of the constant blind a thief can produce. I can’t run from a thief even with decoy, blink, and constant swiftness because they eventually catch up with shortbow + the increased range on scorpion wire, and if i stand my ground(which is rare because i’m always outnumbered) i either get zerged or have no chance due to lack of a target and blindness/dodging restrictions.

Staff isn’t WvW friendly and scepter/torch is pretty much a joke. Shatter is also counter productive to a mesmer if you ask me. How are you supposed to confuse someone when you’re blowing up all your clones?

So that’s it. I’d say i’m a confident mesmer that’s good at getting out of sticky situations, but i know when i need help.

Setup:
Traits: 20/20/0/25/5
-Empowered illusions, but i might swap for cripple on death since the burst isnt there any longer
- Greatsword training
- Blade training
- Deceptive evasion
- Mender’s Purity
- Warden’s feedback

- Full knight’s armor
- Berserker’s jewels
- GS w/ +5% crit chance
- Sword/Focus both w/ + 10% quickness on crit

Le Claire on Meguuma