PSA: infinite gliding is no longer infinite
in Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns
Posted by: DanielHarvey.7320
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DH is failing to point out that it’s very easy to avoid and/or disrupt that rotation, and then the Mesmer is gonna get ripped to shreds by various professions/builds whose “rotations” consist of 1-2 buttons -mashed at random- producing twice the result, with a fraction of the CD, and with an order of magnitude more sustain then the Power Shatter Mesmer has.
You don’t have a rotation in PvP. But if you catch someone with their pants down you can pull off a rotation. If you honestly play a rotation in PvP you are gonna just die, but there isn’t a good way to communicate every single possible change to a fight over text. Do you really need someone to give you personal coaching tips in game in order for their points to have validity?
TL; DR git gud.
Which is clearly why condie shatter has been a top tier pick for a long time now. All we need to do is git gud.
Well he did give sensible advices that any mesmer worth it’s part should know :/
But yeah Fay, why don’t you just git gud! Every build can be meta if u gud enuf
That’s literally true, and even if I am not good enough it’s fun to have something to play for.
@TheLastNobody That’s your optimal rotation for blowing anything up. You can even do what I do and run the sigil that gives vigor and quickness to wrap all this up in about 3 seconds absolute tops. And that’s including changing that rotation mid combo. The thing is you are probably not doing it as fast as it can go. You should be doing things like GS2>F3>GS3>GS4+Dodge>Weapon Swap>Sword3+F1 just routinely, to throw out huge damage without wasting cooldowns. If you catch an enemy without stunbreak because you used this combo on them and they panicked at the F3 or dodge clone you can turn it into the F5 combo or wait the 8 seconds for it to be ready to go and hit the full F5 Combo on them. If you manage to land the Sword 3 and use it to immobilize them they are going to have to pop something major almost instantly or they will be locked down for your entire combo, which includes up to 2 dazes, minimum 3 blinds, 3 1 second stuns that apply separately (basically only teleporting stunbreaks counter that) and 100-0 damage on any class.
Welcome to all of the problems with Mesmer that 90% of the player base doesn’t understand.
You can’t afford to take any defense on mesmer, because all off your defense will be use offensively.
Your dodges will be used to summon clones.
Your blinks will be used to gap close and burst.
Your decoys will be used to invis and burst from stealth.
Your portals will be used to contest a second point.
Only thing I see here is that actual skill in the game can compensate for all of that. In fact, I have to argue that you are doing all of those wrong if they don’t have the benefits AND the defensive benefits for you.
As for Portal. Don’t drop it on the second point. Drop it somewhere with no line of sight to any point, but close to a path you can take to the second point that is short and shielded from enemy LoS as much as possible. Boom, it’s now defensive and offensive as you can use it to get out of combat when feeling too much pressure, reset your health, and take far point.
Dodges to summon clones is good, you can use your dodge to avoid an attack, have a clone be created, and then shatter to interrupt his next cast. Boom, used the same skills you said, did twice as much.
Don’t blink to gap close, you don’t need it. Hell, if you want stealth run Sword/torch rather than decoy, stealth in to a fight and blink out. Or position yourself into a fight rather than blinking. If they are running pressure a point. If it’s a foot race to a point in a 1v1 situation you have to think about if you can get there long enough before he does to actually decap? Or if you can get a partial decap do you have the knock-backs and imobs to fully decap it if you have a slight advantage? If not then you don’t need to blink to gap close, most fights can be positioned into rather than blinked. If you need to blink to get an interrupt it better be for a stomp or a heal, and if you do that then it’s both offensive (vulnerable to your shatter while dazed) and defensive since you saved an ally and locked out their casts for a moment.
TL; DR git gud.
mesmer with berserker amulet and still realise u can’t down anybody without bombarding them with kittenloads of clones and phantasms till they kitten up really shows how hopless a-net is. Man I already said that i despise A-net for what they did to thieves. But man this is terrible. Man abso kittening lutely terrible.
You are doing it wrong. Domination with daze-stun trait, illusions with greatsword might granting. Sword 3, dodge to close distance and clone, shield 5, as the cast is happening for S5 hit F5 and swap to greatsword as it finishes casting. GS2, F3 for secondary stun and interrupt, GS3, GS2, GS3, GS4 (manually end continuum split if you need to) dodge back F1 and stomp. Additional gs4 before CS ends if you are nailing the combo. You can also work in Gravity Wells in there if you need to, or have the opportunity to wreck more than one.
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There are, and I am saddened to see this, a lot of bad players in this thread. I am sorry but HoT is not hard. If you are patient you can solo almost any event. I have solo’d boss hero points, entire meta-events and pretty much anything else I want.
I am also not that great, it’s not about skill. You just have to use your head a moment, and don’t tunnel vision. Believe that you can react to the situation and don’t visualize failure. Concentrate on “slowing the game down”. It may seem like everything is happening fast or you can’t pay attention to enough things- but just try. Do it til you DON’T fail, don’t quit when you do.
The towers barricades blocking the easy paths going north to south can be destroyed with siege.
You can actually kill them without siege. Especially with any of the following: Hound Buff from Bay, Mesmer running quickness well and switching to Time Warp with a 4 man or 5 man group can Continuum Split and get it down very quickly. A couple of revenants running auto Shiro, or a scrapper or 3. Many ways you put together a common havoc group (at least in my guild) you are going to have the swiftness buffs and group combat buffs to get around the map surprisingly quickly.
Ok so I have been getting into it a bit more and it’s actually smaller once you are used to it. Run a few mesmers with Portal Entre, scout around the cliffs work out the math to run supply through areas that technically have no path. I feel this map is actually smaller than the old BLs and you can certainly get around it more quickly.
One thing I have always admired about the WvW setup was that what you are talking about is somewhat built in already since the size of the maps means you have to run from your waypoint to the actual objective. If your objective is not your home Garrison or something like that you are going to be about 1 minute out, at best. If anything the alpine borderlands felt bigger in this respect, once you learn the desert BLs and have enough of a presence in the shrines you can get around the map very very quickly.
. sn getting 1000 sups all 15 mins ? And so on ..
Fixed.
The only feedback I have is roll this out as soon as possible. This is seen as a great response by most of the WvW community and already we have had several guilds transfer back to Blackgate or reactivate from long hiatus’; simply based on this news. So don’t take too long to make the changes or that surge of momentum may peter out.
You guys realize that they are changing it in the beggining of January to be not auto but based on the number of dolyaks making it into the structure? This is changing, it’s not for much more than a week or two at most left.