Guild Wars 2

I don’t play warrior but main a mesmer and would like to share my side of the duel scenario.

As a shatter mesmer in spvp/pvp, the first thing I think when I see a warrior is “oh kitten. I am kittened if they aren’t brand new or help doesn’t arrive.” Fighting hambows and shoutbows in spvp/pvp should be impossible for me to win if the warrior knows what his skills do and has healing signet. I just can’t burst them down before they regain all of their hp and all my clones, phantasms and I die to the fire field or I try to run away.

As a shatter mesmer in wvw, I think the same thing as mentioned above mostly, except with hambow and shoutbow replaced with the super mobile, high burst, still good sustain of the GS wvw warrior with healing signet. I have a glimmer of hope though; if I don’t make ANY mistakes at all, I have a small chance of downing him when i am downed. It is basically the same situation for lockdown and condition shatter builds.

As an op condi PU mesmer in wvw, the first thing I think is “hah! That warrior is kittened unless he is running a condi build and cleansing ire!” I do not play condi PU in pvp or spvp and have so far not lost to a solo warrior or even 2 warriors at the same time while using it in wvw. They either run away or die slowly and painfully as my op combination of damage and strong defense overwhelms them.

Tactics and strategies I try to use: try to run if things go bad (unless in a wvw duel), keep calm and don’t get angry when you are downed (there is no point in getting angry over something that is inevitable), try to avoid being hit and try to stay out of range (as always).

Lastly, I would like to add that warriors seem to have it easier in terms of what they have to do to win the duel. All they need to do is to dodge a shatter combo and wait for the mesmer to come out of stealth (3-6 seconds depending on the skill) and move in any direction. As soon as they move, you can tell that that is the real mesmer and they become an easy target after blink and decoy have been used. Mesmers cannot patiently wait for warriors to become vulnerable. Their high toughness, large hp pool and Healing Signet will not stop working after any amount of time. Mesmers simply do not have much of a chance against a decent warrior if they aren’t running condi pu. .

If you think about it, PU does not make you a scumbag. It is the same as pretty much any thief going into the shadow arts trait line with an off-hand dagger or using p/d. It’s kinda op sure and doesn’t take much skill to play well, but that shouldn’t stop you. Play what you enjoy

As a mesmer, I have no problems with longbow ranger in pvp. They aren’t too hard to kill if you initiate with stealth (Torch 4) and use GS 2> F1> GS3 at close range. My issue with rangers are the wvw roaming condition rangers. The healing is insane! Also, if they are using a sword, most of them are, then they can escape and reset without any issues. I can’t even dent their health in the slightest with neither my condition or shatter build and some of them kill me in under 20 secs. It is incredibly frustrating and is deterring me from playing wvw because I encounter them everywhere.

I don’t really play warrior; my main is a mesmer. Also, I play shatter (20/20/0/0/30) with the staff/ sword+focus. The only issue I ever had with fighting warriors in spvp is that they could passively heal most of my damage without resorting to using endure pain pretty much ever. I can avoid the majority of the hammer skills, except the bursts skill, as long as I was in staff or had most of my skills off cooldown. However, once I start kitting with staff, they switch to LB destroy me with burns, my illusions die and they remove all of the conditions I put on them.

I think that healing signet should take a slight nerf to the passive effect and that the other healing skills need to be buffed to make them more viable compared to HS.

Tbh, I never really noticed how strong CI is since I play a burst build, but not being able to kill someone because they passively out-heal all the damage I throw at them needs to be addressed.

Deleting the folder did not work for me

After the festival of the 4 winds update, I cannot access the game. Clicking ‘play’ only brings up a blank window, entitled “Guild Wars 2”, and a darkening of the entire display. My cursor changes when i hover it over the window; becoming the usual guild wars 2 cursor but changing to a golden hand icon near the middle.
This is pretty unsettling as the black lion trading company, currency exchange and gem store screens are still not loading after weeks of waiting for a patch and trying to use work arounds. At this point the game is giving me more frustration than satisfaction and the constant problems that arise are deterring me from playing.