Guild Wars 2

Worst idea ever. Anet just put the last nail on the coffin. WvW is unplayable now. Thanks Devs than don’t know anything about wvw…

WOW……………………………..wow

Scepter is difficult to balance because of the clone generation on AA. As a mesmer player I’d like it if the last attack wasn’t so slow too, but increasing the speed of the final attack risks imbalancing mesmer DPS by increasing clone generation speed.

Wouldn’t be better just to take the AA Clone off completely and give us a faster projectile and an extra stack of Torment on AA?

Scepter AA is just good on condi builds, that clone also cast ether bolts which applies torment too.

AlphatheWhite.9351:

Drgori.5724:

One of the reasons was to reduce dmg on burst. before mirror blade bounces would hit twice a single target with the 4 bounces (2 bounces on you 2 on target) now it hit just once on target. (2 bounce on you 1 on target).

This is a little misleading to a confessed noob.

Mirror blade before would hit 3 times on target: initial attack > bounce off you > bounce off target > bounce off you > back to your target.

Now it still hits you twice, but it only hits your target twice, as well. That’s a 33% damage reduction on the burst.
Mirror blade being unblockable, it was a big component of the mesmer alpha strike.

That’s what I said, initial attack doesn’t count as bounce. On my comment I said 2 bounces on target “Bounces” not counting initial attack

One of the reasons was to reduce dmg on burst. before mirror blade bounces would hit twice a single target with the 4 bounces (2 bounces on you 2 on target) now it hit just once on target. (2 bounce on you 1 on target).

if you add Sigil of speed to one of your weapons and use the signet, you can get 3-4 minutes of swiftness easily, just killing mobs…

1 mob killed = 20 secs swiftness (in 20 secs you get 10 secs of swiftness from signet) so,
30 secs of swiftness per mob.

Derenek.8931:

It’s for the sake of slowing them. Confusion isn’t for the damage, it’s for the control. DPS is important, but controlling the flow of battle is just as important

Since update, confusion it’s also DOT fyi, you can get 2k+ ticks on a good condi build.

I used to play Power PU a lot and I loved the surprised factor to burst from stealth, but is just effective on 1v1 fights, PU condi you almost wont lose 1v1 and a 2v1 even 3v1 you have a good chance, because you will kill your opponent over time I’ts also hilarious to watch your opponent trying to flee and dying on conditions (don’t they know the more they run more dmg they take?? LOL). For PvP either Power or Condi are good, for WvW Condi is a lot more reliable especially for surviving zerg bombs.

Im Sure Anet knows what they’re doing…..NOT…..lol

PU Condi-Shatter is the best for Scepter/Torch – Staff

Zarathustra.1458:

Lol, a fix that makes mantras worse than they were before the trait changes? Surely if this was intended, they would have given us a trait to reduce cooldowns.

Before patch we had a trait to reduce cooldowns on mantras, now they fix the “bug” and we lost the trait to reduce cooldowns so then…worst then before patch

yes mantra of distraction cooldown was reduced, but the cooldown now starts when the last skill finishes, not immediately after preparing the mantra as it was before.

Underwater event : all maps flooded, camps would be guarded by sharks instead guards, etc etc

How about everyone for themselves – you can kill everyone even your own server players….lol

yeah I know, but strength just gives you 100 power, which is not all that compared to 250 in vit. That’s a huge boost in health that can make a difference surviving a sneak burst attack

I don’t think the Meta changed much, so now we have a condi meta plus Zerk meta that is even more OP than before. Now is just matter of who hits first wins. It just don’t make sense to me the logic, if you want longer fights why boost damage and nerf vit? isn’t that the opposite? maybe I’m wrong but that’s my impression so far. we will see what happens on the rebalancing patches.

I’m trying to understand Anet’s logic behind all this updates. Since now the damages has been spiked up quite a bit, with full shatter build you can practically hit for 15+k, phantasms hitting 7+k, etc. I wonder when applied fortitude will be removed from WvW everyone will be one shot kill. Is that the future that Anet planned for GW2? I thought they want longer and more consistent fights than 2 secs “oh crap I died.” fights. I’m not complaining about the damages, I kind like it as a shatter Mesmer, but if you going to boost all damages this way, then boost vitality and toughness same way, so everyone has a chance to fight it back.

You all know that quickness is now a boon right? So it can be removed…just a reminder…

Also, for those who play WvW, it will be no more vitality bonus from killing guards :’(
We are so screwed…retiring my Guard…Mesmer is my new Main…

Just reminding that Ascended gears stats will be changeable in the new patch..

Every time I think about the Reaper the only thing that comes to my mind Cowbell

What happen to Illusionary Persona in the new System?

yeah I know, but I have weapon and armor smith to 500 which makes sense for a guardian, now huntsmith for a guardian is kind of odd… Iwill have to spend more money on other toon just to get an ascended bow for a guardian…

Since we getting a long bow, are they going to add long Bow to the weaponsmith list for crafting?

Mesmer name : “Obviously Not Me”. Pretty self explanatory…

I want a deck of cards that we can trow on auto-attack and explodes on impact. LOL

Well Im having the same dilemma, I posted my condi-shatter build but I just got feedback to stay away from this build…so I wish I could help. If you find something good let us know.

ouch, looks like shatter is not too popular. I founded fun to play tho.

Nice Video. What is the armor/runes/trinkets you use?

PS: Basically I play WvW 95% of the time,

Hello everyone, I’m starting running a shatter cond build, since Im a little new to Mesmer, I tried power build and PU, not bad both but not enough challenging, so I changed everything to a shatter condi based.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fhEQJARWlsnpTtlpxRNcrNCrBh6rslfSyEEgSWhrB-TFzCABAcEAsU9njvEAErEDLlEX8AAyTTgWKDCa/hqUKMnOgxUCGAABI0tMDYmzcmzcmzsMA+zB-w

Im having much more fun than the other builds but still I want to improve. so any constructive critics is appreciated.
thanks

I like meditation build a lot too, but for WvW I would do 0/25/30/10/2. The reason for that is that you need “Stand your ground” in WvW, stability is the best skill for stumps and to not get your kitten wiped on a zerg without change to react.

ahahahahah, that’s awesome

Let’s have some fun smashing some chicken and see what is the top hit we can take on them. If you can’t find chickens, all white names like Mosquitos, rabbit, etc still counts. Post your screen shots, here is mine: I hit a chicken for 524,485 today as my higher score so far. The winner gets the title of Chicken master, LOL.

I’m could try, it’s like a trade off :

20 Valor = +100 toughness, +10% crit damage, 5% tough to precision, lose condition every 10s.

10 Honor = +100 vit., +100 healing, vigor on crit, faster shouts

Since in this build I was trying to get more offensive it felt better to keep 20 Valor and deal with longer cooldown. But hey, that’s a good options too

@ Lonewolf – not sure on bosses because I dont do much pve or fractals, mainly I play WvW 99% of the time. But i will tried soon. I do really love the meditation build more than AH, so I know that the healing is pretty good

@fisherfrip – I tought about it, but 10 in honor will compromise my damage out put, so I left alone this way, and I dont feel that is bad since I can get a lot of protection/retaliation mean while the skills are on cooldown. If I want to run a more defensive build, yes I would take 15 points from Radiance and add 10 to honor for shouts 20% cd and add 5 points to Virtues to get longer retaliations. But I trying to get the most output damage as possible with a reliable survivability, so shouts cd is not a big deal…

gonna try it tonight

well, I dont really see guardian that bad, for me is the best profession, but I do feel that it need a feel improvements:
1. Zeal line: true, it’s useless. Needs total redone
2. Reduce animation times on weapon skills
3. Faster and more precise orbs on ranged weapons (staff/scepter)

If Anet could fix this, I would be satisfied…

I have been playing Guardian since the release, I tested lots of different builds, but I found myself now restricted between Meditation or AH builds. So I was messing around a few days ago and I came up with this build: 0/25/20/0/25. To be honest, I’m loving it…
Here is why:
Best damage I got so far from any build. I was hitting 4k-6k constantly (GS/Hammer) with my top crit for 9k. The survivability is great, I was surprised by been able to survive from zergs much better than the other builds I tried before.

0 in Zeal is almost a must, because zeal line is pretty much useless especially after the SW nerf, 25 in Radiance because I want increase damage on conditions, so if I use VOJ gives me: burning+blind+vulnerability+might+10% damage on conditions+%damage on how many boon you have (Power of the virtues)+Retaliation and is renewed on kill, so you will be using it a lot. 20 in Valor, well just because I need the other points in Virtue otherwise I would put 30, but since I’m not running Meditations or AH build, 20 points is enough. 0 in Honor is pretty much the same, I dont feel the need for more HP since I got about 17k with 0 in Honor, and Honor skills pretty much is a must on AH builds and I’m not doing that. Then 25 in Virtue just because I want to maximize my output damage with boons and get protection/retaliation all the time. And this works very well. here are the Skills I choose:

25 Radiance – I, VI (Using Shelter gives me Blocking and retaliation+heal)
20 Valor -V, VI (losing condition on 10 secs, and more precision is always good)
25 Virtues – I, IX (having Aegis gives 20%damage and using VOR cures 3 conditions+heal+retaliation+regeneration)

6 – Shelter
7 – Stand your ground
8 – Hold the line
9 – Retreat
10 – Renewed focus
I use (P/T/V) armor, GS/Hammer most of the time.

So if you bored from AH or Meditation builds, give this a try, is very fun and reliable.

Meditation for solo play, Shouts for group

Hammer is better, GS has a lot of damage on #2 but with that Cooldown you can hit Hammer#2 twice which will do a bigger damage. GS used to be my #1 weapon before I tried hammer, since then Hammer is my main wep – GS/Staff second

Only a guardian can say " Eat my dust!" and still remain in the last…

I never liked the SW at all, they are slow, long cooldown, easy to avoid, etc. So I never did a build based on SW, but now I feel the pain of those who play with SW, now is just useless. before it wasn’t OP, it was just annoying, now is just pancakes…LOL… wan’t some fries with that???

Only a Guardian gets nerf every single patch

ZuperTrooper.9145:

Would like to know where I could make some improvements on my build? Currently running with full Zerker armor and weapons, mainly use GS/Hammer and Staff ( Staff is knight) and using runes of the soldier. Also have 75% crit damage. Not sure if this will help but my traits are 0,15,30,20,5.

I have a pretty close traits to you, but I use 0/10/30/25/5, the reason is that 15 in radiance you dont get as much as the 5 extra in honor which gives you Elusive Power that adds 10% damage if you endurance is not full, and since you going to be dodging a lot…10% extra damage is way better. Plus you get a little more HP…

D/D are hard to kill, but also they hardly kill a bunker guardian. What I usually do is start with Hammer and stability, because they always run to you with lightning trying to knock you down, then give them a few MB (keep hammer as long you are in melee range) when they start to run away switch to staff > #3 > auto attack. Use JI if they get out of range. I found that Hammer/Staff combo is the best to deal with them, but be ready for a long fight…

I play as guardian since the begin of GW2 and I tried all other classes in sPvP, but neither was as fun or good as a could play on my guardian. Now I play 99% of the time in WvW, I was looking to level another class, I always think about mesmers when they hit me with berserk phantasm, but besides that, is there anything good about it? Any suggestions for armor/weapon? I like GS for berserk phantasm but is it the other skills that good?

I run a bunker/meditation build 0/10/30/25/5, maybe that’s why D/D ele dont hit me as hard. Also use Hammer/GS so a crit hit with hammer takes 5-7k on a ele what usually makes them run away. But it’s true they maybe popular because you can mostly of the time escape alive, but I too can jump in the front lines with JI, hit hard and get out with my guardian as well…

You bring a good point about combine with others, but the thing is the you will always depend on others or be in zergs, which is kind of “eeeh”. I would prefer a lot more a to play Mesmer than a D/D ele.