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I haven’t really drawn anything in the last three years or so – some weird game completely stole my attention.
But over the last few days I felt the desire to draw again.
This is my Asura Engineer. I wish I was better at drawing hammers I don’t feel I did the Juggernaut justice.

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PvP badges gone in WvW

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While I don’t just pvp for the badge I do enjoy seeing it next to my name when I enter wvw.
Is it necessary in wvw? no.
Did I turn on my own name plate so I can look at is like a bird staring into a mirror? … yes, I am vain.
Personally a small square next to a name plate doesn’t bother me at all.
Seeing a sea of x server x rank bothers me a great deal. To me, the current system of wvw name plating is a hell of a lot more visual clutter then seeing a coloured square or shape next to a name plate.
Sea of Sorrows Platinum Invader (example only) is a very long title for just one enemy player.

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Sneak Gyro pathing sucks

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I am in love with this gyro. There have been a few times where I have spawned it and it has flown off in a random direction (not even kidding it took off after an enemy straight after being spawned) but for the most part I love jumping out of towers and watching as enemies stay there and attack my gyro while I am watching from a nice safe distance

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Dueling in WvW ... not a good place?!?

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Times like this I really miss the spot behind the mill.
Going to OS is fine and all and I can respect people saying to go there but sometimes it is just nice to run into a stranger in the middle of no where and start up a dual. It is even better when you have enemy and friendly groups that respect that though I wouldn’t say I expect that behavior by any means.
Still, finding a fight in OS just sounds painful, I have never casually wandered in there and found someone.

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Thoughts on new WvW

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I am agreeing with the op on automatic upgrades.
I am on a server that has very little server population outside of the European peak hour time zone. This match up we are fighting servers that have a strong night capping pressense.
When I logged in a bit later I found all three keeps and sm on eb waypointed to blue.
After standing at spawn for a while I saw maybe 10 people run past me, probably open their maps to have a look at things and very promptly waypoint out.
Gaining advantages like wp’s should not come free and with little to no effort just because you have different coverage to others.

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This is (almost) Halloween!

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Oh god yes the wizard and witches hats. I have wanted one of those hats since they became armor skins rather then the costume things.
One of my accounts has it and I honestly play that account more purely because I love seeing my little asura running around with the bobble headed witches hat.
That and the ping difference between NA and EU is substantial. But the witches hat definitely makes the NA account more enjoyable.

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[Suggestions] Gemstore Items

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I would love for the witches or the wizards hat to come back in.
I know it clips all the hair off on sylvari and human but I absolutely adore it on asura and Charr.

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When do they pass out mini llamas?

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love the commitment there. Thank you for the llama

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You know lag is bad when....

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- When your only indication of whether you are alive or dead is the word of your guildies. Insert lots of ‘Am I still alive, how bout now ….. now…. oh wait, I dced’ moments
- When you can rubber band to x place on the map and find yourself half dead to an enemy that has been auto attacking you.
- When you play ‘I am over here, no to the left no back a bit’ with your guildies who are trying to hard res your dead body that has been misplaced.
- Being hit by random attacks from out of no where when you are not even in combat,
- Dying to falling damage when you are already at the location you where trying to get to after taking a leap off a cliff that should have killed you.
- Rubber banding in and out of a fight so many times that it kills you (also up and down a cliff)

Hmm I think these are my main offenders XP

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AUS player, thanks for the grenade changes

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Try using battle ping if you are in oz. I find it normally stabilizes your ping even in the worst circumstances.
I play cele engi or condi engi in pvp all the time.
Normally I am fine (average ping is 400ish with the most insane spikes reaching 3kish) though obviously if I am fighting a good player that is running a meta build or something of the equivalent then I am probably going to loose.
Just try playing with a friend that can help you out if you want to play something other then turret spam. But warn them before hand if the lag spikes are happening so that they know that ressing is a no go due to misplaced corpses.

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The Strangest Accusation of Cheating

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Unstompable due to a ping of 2k that lead to the server misplacing my corpse when I was inevitably downed.
Accused of ‘speed hacking’

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Welcome to PvP

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Personally I am not unhappy to see a lot of engi’s provided they are not running turrents. At least with engi’s they will generally fight on point.
However when I see daily thief, Mesmer, ranger or generally any class that has a perceived easy spec that doesn’t involve standing on point I cringe.
Having a team that is made up primarily of roaming or ranged specs can often lead to rather frustrating matches both for those one or two point holders and for the ranged class that is incapable of going to res the downed bunker due to the fact they will melt as soon as they go near the downed ally.
But yeah other then that daily x class winner needs to be removed. That or maybe make it so that ranked games do not contribute to achieving this goal.

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Huge loss streak today

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I have gotten to the point where I do not want to queue in tpvp unless I have a friend with me.
Even then when we queue together we often end up with people who seem to have no idea what they are doing.
Some people seem to blindly rush mid even after it has been called that there is a turrent engi camping the point. Others seem to go so far as to be unsure about leaving spawn alone.
It is becoming an unappealing game mode at this rate and especially since I have been experiencing some god awful lag spikes (the worst so far has been a ping of 2k)

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Most hated builds

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I am stuck between the pew pew ranger build and turrent engi.
I think I hate ranger more then engi at the moment. Mainly because I think that if played by players completely new to the class a turrent engi can be more supportive to a team. Where as ( It could also be because today is ranger day) I have seen a lot of pew pew rangers who will, once any one capable of standing on a point is dead they will slowly inch off the point allowing the enemy to get a free cap while they wait for their skills to come off cool down. They do not seem to realize that they have a secondary weapon which can be used in order to get into melee range.
(lots of pent up rage here because of a lot of lost games due to having 3+ rangers in the team who would not enter the point)

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In game VOIP/VoiceChat a good idea?

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I do not think that this is a good idea.

I know that I often play with French people and yet I do not speak a lick of French. People that play on EU servers have a chance of being in teams where they are unable to communicate which just makes things difficult as is.
That and I know I love that I can verbally rage at my computer without any one hearing me when I soloq. It is a frustrating experience most of the time especially when you end up in the unbalanced team. I don;t want to add voice comms into that mix where every one is just waiting to take a bite out of your head.

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Dreamer for Thief

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While messing around with the short bow ‘The Dreamer’ (legendary) a friend of mine noticed that he would see the unicorns shooting while he was in stealth, this isn’t so much a problem when you are shooting at someone as you will be revealed anyway once the attack hits. However you can also see them when you try to use Infiltrator’s arrow which is a problem.

We asked a frienemy if they where also able to see the unicorns and they said that yes, the unicorns where indeed visible making the thieves location very easy to pick up on when they are trying to be stealthy.

In the name of science; we tested this further in the pvp arena’s and when the Dreamer was used in pvp, while in stealth the Infilrator’s arrows appear as normal sb thief arrow rather then all pretty and horse like. When the thief came out of stealth, they where, once again, back to their glorious selves.

Is it possible to have this same mechanic (basic arrows) converted over to wvw so that the bow is more viable and less of a hazard to ones health.

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Condition spec in tpvp - Q/A

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Over all I would say condi mes in pvp while okay is not great. Most classes still have a lot of condi clears engi being one of the few that is sorta still susceptible to it.
The main problem with condi mes is that it has little to no spike damage and relies on the enemy being unable to clear the conditions that are placed on it. This means that fights last longer which is something that you do not want in pvp unless you are a bunker guard holding point against a few enemies.
While I think condi necro is sort of on the edge of being viable the power builds are far more useful at the moment.
Condi necro has the benefit of having fear which it can easily reapply allowing it to take enemy players out of the fight if they do not have a lot of stun breakers.

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Your Favorite Partner?

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For me my partner is a d/d thief. He doesn’t use that much stealth so the focus isn’t always on me.
That and we both have multiples of our favourite classes so we often play two zones either both human or both asura.
Oh and engi I love engi’s though my friend has a habit of laughing at my lack of speed when we are just running around the map.

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Mesmer Fashion: Lets see them outfits!

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My little asura mesmer. Love her to bits even if she doesn’t look all that mesmery.

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[PvP] Shatter Perspective: Supcutie Interview

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It is nice to hear the opinion of other mesmers on what classes are easier to fight against.
Recently I have changed over to engi when it comes to pvp.
The extra survivability is nice (in general) but mesmers do give me trouble because of the potential to burst me down with ranged shatters.
Personally, I don’t think engi is in a bad place at the moment (it could be because I am playing it) but it has a few weaknesses which are easy to apply for just about any class. The range on the rifle isn’t that great so it generally has to be quite close in order to do significant damage and it is susceptible to cc and conditions.
The current meta engi with three kit cele only has the one condi removal from it’s healing turrent. Though I will admit the cool down is short but if you can stack them with condi then cc them a bit they generally crumble.
While I was playing mesmer in spvp I found the class to be very lacking. There are not that many classes that you can burst down quickly and generally you need a lot of support from your team that, in a spvp match you are generally not going to get. Though at the same time, it still is my favourite class it is just that playing on my engi offers a lot more to the team I am with.

Sorry that this post is mainly from an engi pov the class is still new and fresh to me so I am still semi gushing over it.

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Lets see your engineers!

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Human Engineer, recently became my main so I figured that I would make her look pretty.

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Ranked Arenas "Algorithms Fault or ppls?"

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Dear god yes I agree.
In the end I went and “asked” my guildies to join me so that I could avoid getting in a team with a lot of beginners.
Prior to that I was in matches where three people would run to an empty point. It was rather sad since we lost the game because of that mistake.

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DC Punishment

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So over the course of the last few days I have been encountering crazy ammounts of dc’s.
Under normal circumstances it isn’t too bad but every now and then I have a huge increase in lag then will start getting randomly kicked for no apparent reason.
Yes this has occurred in the past but never to this extent and it will occur randomly.

I know that there is a punishment system in place for players that choose to dc during match ups so as to prevent teams from having to fight 4v5 however I am talking about the legitimate lagging out issues that are occurring.
When I did lag out I immediately went back into game (win or loose I do the same if I can) however my points in the team had completely reset and since the match was reaching it’s closure I wound up with the over all score of 0. This was extremely frustrating, since prior to the dc I had a fairly decent amount of contribution points.

I guess what I want to know is whether or not it is possible to have a grace period in which you have a chance to reenter the game without worrying about being punished for something you have little to no control over.

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Forum Community Combo Challenge!

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Chaos armour o.0
My guild kinda uses that a fair bit in roaming since the storm lasts for quite a while and it is easier to run a staff mesmer in small scale roaming then a staff ele.
The protection procs quite a lot and it makes it really easy to hide in if everyone has a bubble around themselves.
If anything, I guess I want a reliable blast on mesmer, The idea they had to put one on gs was a really nice one and when they chose extra damage and greater radius I was slightly disappointed.
However more access to frost Armour would be nice and the choas armor. Maybe add the chaos armor to Concussion Bomb on engi since it already causes confusion. To me the engi bomb kit should just be all blast fields (and it mostly is) but I guess if it had any more it would be way to op.

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Crafting Superior Siege in lots of 10

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This idea, why has it not been implemented. You can buy lots of 10 obsidian shards now and you can (by chance) make more then one clover at a time.
Please anet, I will beg for this.

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Does playing PU make me a scuumbag?

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You have not moaed a moa until you moa a ranger’s moa pet.

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Adopt-a-Dev for the WvW Fall Tournament

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GFoing to add a little something here, already a large zerg, if well co-ordinated has the opportunity to go around without being seen. Orange swords don;t pop up unless 20 or so people are in combat after all.
If you have a group of 50 people who are back away from a door and the white swords are removed not only do you not realize something is under attack but you have no accurate understanding of what kind of threat your keep is under. They could easily get threw to the keep lord and have the 50 man team melt the lord within seconds without anyone being able to respond.
These sort of sneak attacks do happen btw, I have seen it a lot where a zerg will come onto a map with full sups build a few omegas and start heading straight for garrison.
Normally with mid tier servers, if hb isn’t under serious threat there aren’t a lot of people running around there, a few roamers at most. With a sneaky enemy zerg and no white swords I can see the potential for a lot of keeps short of having a wp in them flipping very very quickly.

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mesmer race ?

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No, there is no such thing as a mesmer race. In fact, if you are going strictly off pvp, norn mesmer is actually the best as having three huge norn clones out plus yourself clutters up the screen for the enemy. Asura mesmers while tiny have very noticeable animations as far as the mesmers go. Like blurred frenzy where the toon actually jumps up before casting the skill. They also make a lot more grunting sounds when they are summoning phantasms.
Creating a charr mesmer is if anything taboo because of the background behind the charr race. They are an aggressive race that were constantly at war with the humans and the mesmer class is so …. purple. Tbh, I dislike seeing char light armor classes in general but it is purely cosmetic.

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Leveling a Mez is so Painful.

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I disagree slightly, that the problem of leveling existed, as mesmer was/is very trait dependent and therefore back heavy. The change in the trait system just pushed that back heaviness further.

Yeah that was the point I was trying to make. I have leveled a few mesmers and while I enjoyed it the first time (previously only having leveled a thief) I found it to be more and more painful after each attempt. Even now I have a mesmer on lvl 20 and the smallest thing like a blink not reaching as far as I want makes me sad.

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PVE Question

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You don’t get the blood stone in pvp chests.
But you will get it from any exotic champion bag.
My recommendation, wvw farm. If you take a tower in wvw you will undoubtedly get blood stone dust.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Pile_of_Bloodstone_Dust

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Leveling a Mez is so Painful.

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Agreeing with Pyro on this.

Mesmer became horrible to level when they changed the trait system. Without access to traits mesmer is very frustrating to play, unfortunately you don’t even unlock a trait until you get to lvl 30 so you might as well go and craft for those first set of levels that or join a nice train in eotm.
I think mesmer only really becomes fun now once you manage to unlock your master traits, that gives you access to de as well as a few nice phantasm traits that make it a lot smoother leveling.

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Thank you Anet

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Even though they didn’t physically show us that Iwarden is fixed. I believe them whole heartedly and look forward to giving up my days as a interrupt mesmer to becoming the best condi pu clone spamming beast that I can possibly be.
Now, can anyone point out a pretty scepter skin for me?

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Need help building tanky melee mesmer

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Tbh, and this is going to sound mean. I would say reroll to a guardian. By the look of your guild you are trying to provide a fair ammount of support. Something that you would find a lot easier to do on a guardian, it would also be a lot more effective as you have more access to healing, boons such as might (sharing that is) retaliation, aegis and protection.
However if you are set on maintaining a mesmer I would trade out your your gs for a staff (chaos storm blast for more of the pretty bubbles)
Also, maybe instead of relying so heavily on glamour traits, maybe trait your phantasms instead, since you aren’t shattering them you might as well make those bad boys work for their money.
Also, instead of using sword off hand maybe try focus, it will be fixed (fingers crossed) on the next balance patch so maybe maybe maybe maybe it will work. That will give you some cleaving as well as allow you to reflect projectiles (traited) in the same manner that using feedback would. That way reducing the necessity of having to trait your glamour since you will have access to the second and third reflect (phantasm reflect) as well as the staff choas storm for another glamour.
But yeah I made up a rough build of the suggestions I stated to give you some idea of what I am talking about.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fhIQNAsdWnsISlaWqGuqB1aIB3QM5iQnc2JUGsZpCA-TxxFwAEeAAX0x8e/BaK/Mp+DAlgaN/BA-e
I left out the confusion and blind thing because without the added benefit of a condition build I don’t think it would be as efficient, however I could be wrong. Not sure if confusion works like most conditions or if it is relying on enemies power for the amount of damage it does (?)

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how im feeling now

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At this point all I want is the aoe MoD and a Ileap that works. Don’t get me wrong. using a blurred frenzy point blank in your enemies face after immobilizing them with an interrupt is price less. But I am sick of the amount of set up it takes to get that attack to work, normally I just use it defensively now.

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Flame for playing CI?

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Haha I love this. I run a interupt build with ci and bountiful interupt. I get to bathe in a fair few tears and have been accused of running pu a few times though most skilled players figure it out in short order. Best complaint I got though was from a ham bow war who couldn’t seem to decap me.
Still interupt builds are already a lot of.fun to play and this new aoe mantra has me bouncing in my seat.

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Disruptors Sustainment -> Explosive Shatters

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I am not sure if this could be really good or just another meh trait. On the one hand, you have the possibility of three blasts (assuming each cloneplosion is the equivalent of a blast) which is something that would be rather nice to have and rather epic.
But at the same time, to have to trait into a grandmaster line just for blasts.. I dunno, especially if it only includes as one blast. Seems like a hexy price to pay especially since I would assume that they would make it a illusions gm meaning you would have to give up IP.

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About Deceptive Evasion

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Sadly I don’t think they will ever agree to make it as a class mechanic. Yes it is kinda disgusting how heavily mesmer’s rely on this one trait and I think I know of only one maybe two builds (phantasm or interupt) where it isn’t a must have and even then most people still choose to take it anyway.
Remember that only last big balance patch anet wanted to nerf this trait so that you couldn’t spawn more clones if you already had the maximum number in play already.
In which case I can’t see them making this a core mechanic. However having a new or otherwise reliable source of clone generation would be a nice change.

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best screenshot you have

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I have way too much love for my asura but here is just one of the screens.

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warriors speak up please

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Mesmer shatter is a high risk skill tbh. If you choose to shatter and you for example have three phantasms out instead of clones and you miss that shatter you are going to loose almost your entire damage pool.
You will be stuck auto attacking and using the one or two attacks that mesmer has access to while waiting for the cool down to go off either on your next shatter or your next phantasm.

Most mesmers have to trait 4 points into dueling in order to have access to clones. In which case we do have a build up to get them we have to ensure that we have enough endurance in order to complete the dodge rolls.
Why is this even a comparison, clones are cannon fodder, majority of them die before you can even set up a shatter any way. At least warriors don;t have to worry about their Adrenaline draining out while they are still in combat. If a mesmer is fighting a heavy aoe class or a class that can do decent cleaving damage most of the clones will die before they have a chance to shatter anyway.

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Mesmers & Quip

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The quip was the first legendary I got and I got it purely so that I could see my phantasms dual wielding them. It was such a let down when I found out that they didn’t actually change to the quip. Oh well, still got that legendary and for a while I even traited my pistol as someone suggested earlier.

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Mesmer confessions

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Confessions:
-I have four level 80 mesmers and after every single time I got them to lvl 80 I complained and said I would never do it again, I am now working on a fifth.
-When asked to portal golems I quickly say I am not a mesmer and switch to my ele that has a mesmery sounding name.
-I often mess up portals to inner keeps by dying on the jump down or because I have misjudged the range on the portal.
-I once ran a warrior in a zerg and died because the ‘save my skin’ button (blink) wouldn’t work.

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Why the heavies are commanders in WvW ?

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Yup, pretty much. A guard or war is able to tank a lot more damage in general while blasting fields and giving eachother stability.
It is also the ability to lead from the front of the group while other classes are forced to at times take a few steps back.
That doesn’t mean that it isn’t possible for other classes to lead and stay at the head of the zerg it is just easier for the heavies.

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Mesmer Map Completion

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The one that is inside the mountain, yep that is the one. I did it on my ele as well in about half the time since I didn’t worry about being knocked off or anything like that

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Mesmer Map Completion

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arg, I remember taking revive orbs with me since I had so many of them at the times. That and when you had to sneak past mass amounts of mobs ( I remember a specific vista in dredge naught cliffs with a particular shudder) they are a …life saver?
But yeah the lack of mobility coupled with horrible damage makes it something that I would recommend doing with at least a few friends.

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What's Life Like For a Mesmer Main?

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To be honest I don’t. If I run with a zerg I switch from my normal Chaotic Interupt (I play interupt mesmer) to pu. Other then that I don’t use it, I am still in the mind set that until that gets nerfed anet isn’t going to do anything to help mesmers as everyone will continue whining about that one trait.

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What's Life Like For a Mesmer Main?

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Mesmer is still my main and I still love it even with all of it’s quirks.
For the most part I am doing alright but it does feel like I need to work extra hard to survive in most fights than others that are playing say a thief or a war.
It could just be because I avoid pu like the plague and that seems to be our best source of well staying alive at the moment which is kind of really sad.

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Mesmer: The #1 Nerf Prof.

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Have to agree on this, my wvw experience while I am on mesmer at the moment is limited to scouting, running from bigger sized groups (normally I just roam with a group of three or four) and hiding in sm when our zerg is unable to respond.
When I do follow the zerg, if we wipe the enemy zerg I am left to run all over the map collecting my 9 or so loot bags while every one else is crowing on how many loot bags they got.
Now it could be that I am just not playing the class well, but I do the whole blurred frenzy in the melee train (or if the ranged stack up nicely) thing but most of the time I have to get out of there so quickly so that what remains of my health isn’t eaten up by aoe’s. After that I spend a lot of time running around the edge hitting some random that has moved too far away from the melee train and waiting for my next heal so that I can attempt another suicide leap and without the illusionary leap ‘bug’ it really is a suicide leap.

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Completely Confused

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Dei Veien.2456

The other way to think of it as a guards wall of reflection. Normally once I have cast it I ensure that at least one side of the bubble is between myself and my enemy, Often I run into the bubble when they leave it so as to maintain this. A lot of people forget that just because they run out of the bubble doesn’t mean it stops reflecting enemy attacks.
That way you are still getting the use of the bubble. I think, not sure on this, but I think, you can cast this skill on an ally. If not I have cast it on a white enemy that we were on top of right before we ran into a pug zerg. Works wonderfully in this situation.

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On the topic of Moa Morph

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I normally have no use for the skill as well, though at the moment I am running into a lot more cheesy builds in wvw then normal and if I am given the opportunity I will normally run out of combat and switch in moa just to annoy them.
Sadly the pu mesmer suffers the most, mainly because I play mesmer pretty much full time and seeing pu mesmers especially those adding in on an already out numbered fight makes me growl and admittedly change focus straight to them. I always find it funny when the pu mesmer comes back he is almost always running moa as well instead of the previous mass invis.

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Class action lawsuit vs iMage bolt speed?

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Dei Veien.2456

The good thing is that image never gives up, watch it chase that yak down in an attempt to be proven not a complete disgrace to the phantasms.

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