Guild Wars 2

Hi Osicat. Newb Mesmer here.
Was wondering what you felt about using 20/20/30/0/0 with sw/t and staff to take advantage of the stealth buffs.
playing it like your mist 2.0 build.

is 30 I illusions a must for that style of shatter Mesmer? Also is sword allot better than scepter still? Since the minor Nerf.

Thank you for any advice.

Why scepter?
I am running pretty much same build but sword instead of scepter.
I am fairly new to mes so I might be missing something with the scepter.

Thank you,

Fiddler

So I am not yet 80 (47 when written) on my mez. But reading the patch notes and looking at the traits I was wondering about this hybrid roaming build. For WvWvW.
sw/f & sc/t
20-20-30-0-0
Domination = I & IX Reasoning is I will use it as a shatter/condition build so mind wrack bonus is good and the torch cleanse frees up some spots on utility bar.
Dueling = IV & X Reasoning is faster sword skills + more precision and the clones on dodge is great for any shatter build.
Chaos = II & VII & XII Reasoning is I love fall damage reduction traits in WvWvW. The mirroring of disables seems pretty good but long cooldown. Not real sold on that one.
Prismatic Understanding is really very good from what I am reading. I will run MI – Decoy – Veil. Add in the torch 4 skill and that’s a lot of stealth.

What do you think? If not this then I will probably run Shatter Cat Mist 2.0. love to be mobile.

Let me know what you think and thank you for any help you may give.

Your link is to a D/D S/D build. Not sure if that is intended or not.

On a side not I learned something from your specs and I am changing my armor around a bit. Was pretty much the same armor but wrong slots filled. Have to get rid of my knights legs. NO P/V/T legs at karma vendor. Need more badges…
How do you feel about Ruby Orbs? I use 6 right now. Div runes are pretty expensive.

I know you wanted feedback but just wanted to say thanks for your post. I learned from it.

So I have switched to the GS from hammer in WvWvW due to having issues when NOT fighting a zerg.

I am having a problem landing all attacks needed to get the symbol in 1vx scenarios. Fairly new to guard so looking for some help. I like the mobility of the GS but having the prot up from the hammer is great in larger group battle. So any tips or hints would be great. Seems I am constantly slowed with the hammer and kitted. Less of a problem with the GS.

My other we kitten taff. So I am not really looking for “use both” as an option.

Thank you for your help in this matter.

So is retaliation at 50% damage in WvWvW?

It just says it has been changed to spvp but I am not sure what % of full,damage that is.

Thanks.

Otokomae.9356:

DevonCarver.5370:

I don’t have access to the exact numbers at home, but I do know that the points do not change based on the number of people that receive credit.

UPDATE: JK everyone, I misread this post and have now contributed to the confusion. I thought the OP was asking about World XP. The points rewarded to the score for Dolyak kills are indeed variable depending on the number of players involved.

OK, so now we’re hearing that the number of people who hit a Dolyak DOES affect how many points the server gets. To be honest, that’s all I really wanted to know, was basically how the mechanic works. He hasn’t said specifically HOW the mechanic works, but based off of what everyone here is saying (except for 40 or so posts by “Isaac”) I think we can assume that points go UP with the number of players involved.

This effectively works to penalize anyone who wants to try any sort of small-group play. If you sneak into enemy territory solo or with a few friends and hunt down Yaks, it turns out that you’re actually costing your server points if you have fewer than the maximum number of people with you. Unless this gets edited again tomorrow, this is effectively one of the most nonsensical rules I’ve ever seen in a game, although I suppose it does follow the basic theme of WvW at the moment.

TLDR: You do, in fact, get BONUS POINTS for zerging a Supply Caravan (Dolyak) rather than soloing it or killing it in a small group.

Well if the cap is low at like 3-5 then it rewards small groups. you can put up a lot of points in an hour. Now solo roaming seems to be a bad choice unless you can get no one to join you.

So did we ever figure out if this is a 3 or 10 point cap? I did some quick testing [best I could so grain of salt] but I did notice it going from 1 to 2 points when a guild mate joined me real fast.

So the only thing I think we need to know is what the ca kitten et for.

Amadeus.5687:

To be noted, it’s late and I’m tired, so the tex might be a mess, will look at it 2morrow again xD

Here we go all you crazy gear heads on the Engineer forum! A wonderfull new roaming video, showing just how powerfull that Confusion actually is in WvW! Yep! you heard right! It’s time for a run down of my duel build! Thanks to all the Gandara and Auguary Rock People that lended me theirs heads to prybar on!

The movie!:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoReMSCI0js&feature=youtu.be

Build name: The Confusion Bomb (Also named Demented Engineer, cause Kardiamond. was so much faster then me with throwing a roaming video out! kitten!! )

The build I used: http://www.gw2db.com/skills/calc/engineer#10|10|1207|1095|4603|4052|4065|20|1795|1422|0|20|1419|1866|0|0|0|0|0|10|1015|0|0|20|1446|2270|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|

Gear Setup:
Armor: Rapid – Condition/Pre/Toughness
Jewels: Acsended Rapid neck, 2x Carrion Earings 2x Rampager rings
Weapons: 2x Carrion Guns (pew pew)
Sigils: Generosity and Corruption
Runes: 2x Lyssa 4x Lich! But Drakeco! They are bugged! Yes I know, but I can’t be kitten to replace them, Anet just gonna pull their **** and hopefully fix it soon!

Concept idea:
Confusion is broken in WvW, and it’s fun to see people kill themself, let’s abuse that! yay!
So Prybar got a brutal buff (yeah guys, it will be nerfed, we all know this), so I thought I would create a up and close build, stacking up to 14 stacks of confusion in a condition build (Yeah, that’s like 4.5k on every skill use). Combo that Confustion with burning, because overkill is fun!

Pistol/Pistol – It’s a condition damage build, and I wanted as much confusion and burn as I could get!
Medkit – Standard healing loadout for when I run 15+ in tools
Toolkit – Dat Prybar! Enough said!
Bombkit – more burning and confusion! I’m up close and personal anyway
Elixir S or Net Turrent (Take sitting duck instead of longer range on pistols for fun times) – Most of the time I run Elixir S, just because it’s easier and more safe when roamin (Stunbreaker and inv. for 3 seconds), but on the other hand, Net Turrent is freaking amazing in most 1vs1 fights!

Strength:
Burning, Blind, and confusion (all there got each two diffenent skills that apply them), while still having a pull, block, and plenty of cripple! Which makes us able, if timed well, to constant keep an condition pressure on the enemy! Meanwhile you will deliver some decent Thrown Wrench, Prybar and blowtorch (and bombs) power damage, 1500-2500 crits from these skills helps putting up the pressure!
Tip! – Never waste and stack all your conditions on the same time, better to spread them out, so you can apply 5 new stacks of confusion when the first 5 run out or get cleansed!

Weakness
Here I would say condition removal, but that’s simply not true! A top tier D/D elementalist player (see Intigo) will be able to outcleanse your conditions, anything else don’t stand a chance at the condition pressure this builds deliver!

The two biggest problems I have with it is 1. Good ranged kiters can take longer to kill because bomb kit is hard to use vs them (Unless you use Net Turrent) and it’s tough to pull off in large teamfights and siege defences (even then, when you jump down from a wall and run up to 5 man from behind and give them 5 stacks of confusion while they spam every skill they can and die it’s a blast)

My opinion
But this is probaly my best 1vs1 build yet created, and any class I came a cross could be taken down by it in a 1vs1 when just roaming. It’s just silly how easy it will beat a Warrior, Theif, Guardien and any other proffesion running a melee build!
The Confusion burst you can deliver (I got so much footage of that, but only taken a few clips in the movie) is just silly beyond helping, people die in 2-4 seconds if you get the drop on them and they don’t realise what just hit them!

I have 3 80s but am currently leveling my engineer. I like your style and am going to give this a go. Thank you for sharing this.

I notice you do not take very many defensive traits. What do you do to cleanse conditions. Please forgive me if missed something.

Thank you for your time.

Iove.3902:

7/10, like that armor but it is over used. The purple skin doesn’t go with the colors too well, but the colors make the armor look nice. Could try to contrast the colors with your skin.

No one laughed at my second picture!

@Nefarious, I ran out of Trans Stones QQ

NEW HAT!

I went back and clicked the second pic. I have to admit I laughed.

Kravick.4906:

9/10. I like it. I have no idea what chest/legs/gloves/shoulders/boots are though. Care to share? I like the scaled armor look. The hat is a nice touch. Sadly, hats look like crap on charr. :/

I gotten quite a few compliments on my armor from random strangers. Guess I’ll share it with you guys.

Boots and legs are Vigil, chest and gloves are Duelist, shoulder is Whispers, hood should be obvious to everyone who has ever played a thief. When I feel like being silly I’ll put on the headband. :p

Thanks! All but the shoulder armor and hat are T2 human gear. I just like the look of it. The shoulder are just some lowbie shoulders. I like understated basic shoulders.

Notice the zombie eyes?

8.5/10. Like the mix and colors. Is that the BoH coat?

LoneWolfie.1852:

Fiddler.5174:

LoneWolfie.1852:

Fiddler.5174:

For WvWvW I use 0/30/30/10/0. I prefer it over the other builds that are more about Ini Regen. I rarely have an issue with Regen.

As for how to beat my spec. Pretty much just catch by surprise. I am not a great player but I rarely lose to D/D thieves.

D/P is a good counter to D/D. S/D does give me problems though.

Are you serious? There’s a lack of init regen with 0/30/30/10/0, I simply don’t see how you can get escape from any zergs at all. Roll for initiative seems to be the only saving grace but it’s unstable imo.

You are correct in that i cannot stay behind the lines forever.

I do not use Roll for Initiative. http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Opportunist_ is really all I have besides http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Infusion_of_Shadow.

To be fair i can not run around in stealth for ever like the other build but my damage is better and I can get into a Zerg kill 1-2 and get out no problem. I rarely lose a 1v1 or a 1v2. Now I am not very good. Not compared to some of the thieves out there. But I kill D/D thieves with out an issue most of the time. No class really gives me a huge problem unless the player is above average in skill.

The amount of people that will stand there in my smoke screen is insane. GS wars and D/D thieves act like they do not understand the concept of Blindness.

I have seen players who purposely interrupt the heartseeker after one casts black powder, and that’s a full 9 initiative lost or 3/4 of your initiatives gone. Not too sure about you, but a lot of the opponents I see in Blackgate/SOR are strong enough to bring thieves down quickly.

I get my kitten handed to me sometimes. A good player (mainly mesmer or D/D ele) can really mess me up. Most just are not that good. Really with this build I am doing decent damage and abusing people who do not know about blind, or are not smart enough to move.
I had a Mesmer beat me twice this morning.

I do not want to say I am great or this build is the best but I do believe a D/D thief is at a disadvantage when fighting a D/P thief of same skill level. Just a good counter to that style of play.

As far as the Ini regen goes. I do not triple cross my black powder and like I said I go for 1-2 people ikittenerg or try to get a one on one going. After words I retreat. I am not good enough to do what some of these guys do with D/P. But I am learning.

If i was trying to stay behind the lines and harress a whole zerg i would be dead in 3 seconds. Neither my build or my play is good enough for that.

So far I like it better than D/D. One of these days I will try to master S/D in WvWvW.

LoneWolfie.1852:

Fiddler.5174:

For WvWvW I use 0/30/30/10/0. I prefer it over the other builds that are more about Ini Regen. I rarely have an issue with Regen.

As for how to beat my spec. Pretty much just catch by surprise. I am not a great player but I rarely lose to D/D thieves.

D/P is a good counter to D/D. S/D does give me problems though.

Are you serious? There’s a lack of init regen with 0/30/30/10/0, I simply don’t see how you can get escape from any zergs at all. Roll for initiative seems to be the only saving grace but it’s unstable imo.

You are correct in that i cannot stay behind the lines forever.

I do not use Roll for Initiative. http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Opportunist_ is really all I have besides http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Infusion_of_Shadow.

To be fair i can not run around in stealth for ever like the other build but my damage is better and I can get into a Zerg kill 1-2 and get out no problem. I rarely lose a 1v1 or a 1v2. Now I am not very good. Not compared to some of the thieves out there. But I kill D/D thieves with out an issue most of the time. No class really gives me a huge problem unless the player is above average in skill.

The amount of people that will stand there in my smoke screen is insane. GS wars and D/D thieves act like they do not understand the concept of Blindness.

For WvWvW I use 0/30/30/10/0. I prefer it over the other builds that are more about Ini Regen. I rarely have an issue with Regen.

As for how to beat my spec. Pretty much just catch by surprise. I am not a great player but I rarely lose to D/D thieves.

D/P is a good counter to D/D. S/D does give me problems though.

I like to get a few mobs together underwater and use 5 then 2. Seems to get the dodges pretty fast.

Underwater fighting is good for getting your dodge daily fast.
Other than that I avoid it.

So after looking at links and reading this thread…should I be getting my precision and crit damage from ruby in my slots? And not from any actual gear or trinkets?

Wotah.2975:

wads.5730:

number one question people should be asking when joining a top tier server, how long are queue times in NA primetime.

On most nights there are no queue times. If there is one you are in within 5 minutes. This of course is not the same on Friday night. You might have to wait 10-15 minutes at that point.

that is not bad at all. Thank you for the
Info.

I am also wondering about the que. Can we get an average? Thank you.