Guild Wars 2

1. When casting Winds of Chaos (staff auto attack) if you stealth while any of your attacks are still en route to their target, you immediately break stealth when they hit and have the “uncovered” condition. Is this intentional? It’s lame.

2. When casting a phantasm from stealth, formerly you would not break stealth. Since the last patch though, if you cast a phantasm, such as Phantasmal Mage (Torch 5) while stealthed, you begin auto-attacking, which can break stealth. The workaround is that you can face away from your enemy which prevents autoattack, but doesn’t prevent you from casting the phantasm. Then you must lose your target and reaquire the target when you turn to face them. It seems like a clumsy mechanic and doesn’t feel like playing “as intended.”

3. Shatter skills don’t seem to break stealth. Am I seeing this right? It also doesn’t seem to make sense, and feels powerfully unbalanced in my favor, as a mesmer.

Comments?

And, it’s harder to get stacks now. I don’t even run my bloodlust weapon when in EotM.
It’s great for my mesmer, though. When I dodge and it spawns a clone, the clone attacks an enemy, not a deer.

Thank you for the info! I’m just looking to see what our server is doing in WvW, or rather, what we’re not doing.

There used to be a forum for WvW matchups; now I can find nowhere to discuss our current match. Is it lurking around somewhere?

Rifle, however, has a nifty knockback that strikes multiple foes, as well as a snare on a short recharge, making its user harder to escape from/catch.

He had been sitting in the camp for quite some time before we struck, maybe a whole minute. So, it is very unlikely that he would have rallied or levelled at that moment, but possible, I suppose.

Tonight, a guildie and I attacked a Dragonbrand Soldier, a Thief, inside a supply camp held by DB. We took him down very quickly. As we were going for the stomp, he used his #2 downed ability and moved away, as we expected. I quickly located him again, where the Veteran Supervisor was reviving him. I closed the gap very quickly and began to melee him down. His health bar continued to drop despite the supervisor’s help. Once he was below 50% health, he suddenly revived, with full health. My friend and I died to him and the guards, as we were low health and out of tools at this point from avoiding and fighting the entire camp while trying to finish him.

He had no allies nearby to revive him, no enemies nearby for him to rally from. I cannot think of anyway within legal game mechanics that he could revive at that time, especially not with full health. Any ideas?

Sorry, forgot to rate Cruxie… 7/10, because it looks cool on paper, but I’m not sure how to pronounce it.

My main is an Asuran Mesmer named “The Real Maccoy”
In WvW, He keeps as many clones out as possible and stealths a lot, to confuse enemies as to which one is actually him.

I recently bought a piece of ascended gear (berserker ring) that delved for 8% crit damage. This replaced my existing ring that displayed 3% crit damage + 3% more for the gem.

Before equipping the new item, my crit damage displayed at 99%. After equipping, it still displays 99%. Is this a new cap? Have I done something wrong with my equipment?

Thank you for your input!

Snow White.9680:

While I appreciate the cutesy clouds and terrible graphics are supposed to trigger a nostalgic response from me and make this new content fun, I can really only say 1 thing..

If I wanted to play a mario, I’d be playing mario.

I want to play Guild wars 2. Please spend your resources on content for that game.

I feel the same way. Even further, every time I get suckered into a jumping puzzle, I keep whining to my guildies “I hate this Mario s—-! I’m not here to play —--ing Mario!”

The Real Maccoy; I keep as many phantasms on the field as possible at all times.

I’ll try to get Centhis to log on and post his build, but I’ll make an attempt at describing it here:
His points are spent. 30/20/10/0/10 in that order. He has 30 in the first line to get piercing arrows, 20 in the next line to get longer range and faster rest timers on longbow. I think also +10% damage when endurance is full. 10 in the next line, I forget what that gives him. 0 in the fourth line, and he just put 10 in the pet line to get quickness when pet swapping and something else. Also, somewhere in there he has +33% pet speed.

Not a great description, I know, but I hope this helps. :-)

I play the mesmer that the OP runs with on a regular basis and I can attest to the fact that no ranger has ever killed him 1v1. Even without crit damage he burns enemies down real fast when he has the opportunity to lay into them. With all the distractions I create, he has impunity to QZ/Rapid Fire people down without being dodged very often because they don’t see it coming. But this strays a little off-topic, as this thread is about playing the ranger, not duoing with the mesmer. Anyway, just my 2c: He mops the floor with other rangers in WVW every single time.