Guild Wars 2

you know poeple who play mezmers say they are UP as well, turns out they are just bad like 50% of everyone who plays a class, they also tend to whine more.

I fought an ele 2v1 and we could not kill the guy, he was very mobile and very good. i was with a random that he downed 3 times (that guy was horrible).

This is what it boils down to:
Good Players > bad Players

Likely most complaining on here are bad players that can’t admit it because of their fragile egos.

If you think ele are underpowered your doing it wrong.
I ran into a few in WvW that were amazingly good, high mobility and tricky as hell. I dont have an ele but he was using some sort of lighting to gain swiftness and just be all over the place, it ws 2v1 and we could not kill the guy.

If your bored…. don’t play.
But i really don’t get how people say there is no end-game… the whole thing is end game.
Spvp and WvW keep me very enertained at lvl 80. Dungeons are fun and challenging as well, and those kitten jumping puzzles are actually fun too. I especially like the jumping puzzle in WvW, nothing like using traps on enemies in a Indiana Jones style area.
Besides that i find the gameplay a blast, also playing different classes, quest and exploring is very cool too.
It seems most poeple want a very long painful gear grind, or a grind to max level. At the same time these poeple dont want a grind. So they are kinda at odds.
Anways im having fun, if you’re not stop playing very simple.

I used to use him constantly but recently with the bug fix i have dropped the focus in favor of the pistol again. I’ve also dropped phantasmal Haste as well as the 20% reduction is somewhat buggy, and i figure i can get more out of the 15% phantasm damage in the domination trea.

Anyone else notice that Phantasmal hast lowers the Iwarden cd from 25 to 20 seconds while the other phantasms cds stay the same? Is it a tool tip bug?

Good players > bad Players
Please ArenaNet Nerf good players!
I believe that sums up your argument. Good Luck with that.

Pointless thread deserves pointless post.

Honestly you sound like QQing babies. If you actually want to help send how about linking what they are doing. right now you provide no proof of anything. What i really think is you have no idea what your are talking about. I think you getkittenin pvp but your ego is so huge the winner obviously must be hacking/exploiting.

Anet won’t listen to you because you give them nothing to go on. There was a post about how a sever was hacking by putting siege weapons in a place you can’t get to. Well guess what you could get there if you knew where to jump (obvious tiny jumping puzzle). Without proof of an exploit you are just noise.

Mes are awesome in groups. I’ve doe numerous runs with 2 mesmers in group and i usually do better with more. Anyone saying Mesmers are bad, are bad themelves. We do good damage, great buffs for team, tons of combo fields, timewarp. We increase the groups Damage and survivability. I would argue a groups DPS is higher with a mesmer than if they had any other class with them becuase of the combo fields, constant boons to allies and timewarp.

Only thing i would say is your discounting the staff too much. Try switching more for full command of your cd’s. You should also be using Chaos Storm Defensively since it will grant you aegis/retaliation constantly while your in it allowing you to regain your stamina. Works great to keep clones alive as well and when combined with Iwarden is just nasty defensively and for offense since all get aegis every 1-2 seconds while its up plus combo field you get confusing bolts everywhere.

I use Staff and sword/pistol in open world pvp glad that the GS is still extremely viable as well! I also find GS-Sword/Focus to be superb in tower sieges and defense. Ibeserk and Iwarden tear it up on the ramparts.

no dev in his right mind would read let alone take to heart that block of unformatted QQing. Blink is not meant to be used to to circumvent terrain. It is meant to be an escape ability, and that is what it does very well.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/en/?fgAQNAR8dlwzSqXVTqGaNJyZGMXzhWAJFtWqVSBudhA

That is my build 5/15/20/0/30
I use staff and sword/focus. And Blink or SoD, Feedback, null field as utility

I use this to do good damage and the extra bounce on the staff either will deal damage and appl a condition a second time or give 2 players boons with each auto attack. Combined with Chaos Storm for Aegis that will be applied mulitiple times to everyone inside it. You really can’t beat the staff for sustained DPS and Support. Iwarden provides great offense and Defense and temperial curtain zone control. build for condition damage and crit rate. I also through in Vitality in the gear here and there because toughness alone wont cut it.

In all i find it to be a durable, sustained damage dealing build with supperb support rivaling a guardians. I think choas storm/feedback/Null field makes it better for buffs, condition removal, and combo fields which are huge in this build.

Im curious does Chaos add boon duration to those you give allies?

Only Way to improve the Mesmer would be to add a Main hand Pistol. Honestly we are a very powerful class

In any team setting any mesmer worth his salt will take Timewarp. Only time i use Moa is to troll some noobs. It is exteremly powerful 1v1, but then again so is a thiefs stealth, a guardians full heal, ect.
You also have to time your moa correctly to secure the kill. I use it when my cd’s are up and they are at half health, to basically stop them from healing.

What it boils down to:
Good players > Bad Players

So much QQing im going to pop (not just this op). Please for the love of god L2P. Take a moment and look at the skills you are using and everything that means. I bet you use Chaos storm to attack with instead of defensivly as well…

Iwarden Blocks all incoming projectiles…. Think about that.
Iwarden IS AOE damage… Think about that
Iwarden hits about 12-13 times in 1 channel….. now look at “Sharper Images” trait and think about it.
Iwarden can do about 3-4k damage direct and add about 5-8 bleeds in 1 channel eaisily when traited

Iwarden is on the Focus same as “temporal curtain” that can give speed and cripple and also throw all enemies to it and give a short 1-2 second knockdown on them… Now think how that could be useful in conjunction with Iwarden.

If using staff as second weapon use Chaos storm ontop of him to give him Aegis many time over if he is being attacked.

Or don’t use Iwarden he is situational but extremely powerful. But seriously instead of QQing how it is not good, becuase if he did move it would be the most OP/broken skill in game hands down, how about you say Hmmmm how are other poeple using this so i can improve. Instead you take the route of this is not workign well for me therefore it sucks becuase obviously the problem is not me im too leet. You should change your attitude if you want to get better.

Or don’t change, i love schooling 90% of mesmers in PvP becuase they have no idea of their true potential.

Agree with game is an awesome value! and im like 100 hours in and love it. Peopel always whine in MMo’s. they also let dumb hingskitten them off. Honestly this game is not perfect but the good parts are just so good.

So you spent what 600 gems on more bank space? Wow almost what $8-$10? Crazy. Oh wait you bought the gems with in-game gold for about 2 gold total? Even crazier. It would be so much better to pay $15 every month!!
Sarcasm Off.

SO here we have an awesome game, with tons of things to do. Spvp, wvw, dynamic events, hearts, jumping puzzles, exploration, crafting, personal storyline, ect. And poeple say they will quite the game becuase they made a 1 of the 4 paths in 1 of the 8 dungeons harder to bring it up to par, and becuase if you run that 1 path more than 2 times extremly fast you get half xp/gold.
Wow QQ much? Heres an idea… explore some of the other dungeons, explore the others paths. You all sound like little chiildren that are told they can not have 3rds on their desert.
People just want their “I win” button. I play EVE online and thankfully children don’t play that game. There is kittening but theres also the adapt and overcome crowd. SO adapt or quite. I dont care, this game has so much to offer and i’m sorry but nerfing speed running a dungeon will not break suddenly make this game crap.
I here WoW just luanched a new expansion please go try that. I’ll be having a blast here.

I love how people instead of adapting to the game want the game to change to please them.
Downed state is fine, in fact i enjoy it. Please L2P

TL:DR:
large force has advantage over small force.

Um no kidding.

Man you are all over the place with this. I don’t even know what your point is it is so badly written.

QQ… man you guys ever play sports with brackets? You win some you lose some. Sometimes when you win you get to play against a server thats in a higher bracket to see if you can hack it there. And you will get stomped or you will win and get better. Suck it up.
instead of whining how about you organize your server or try and organize with the other server and make it a 2v1. Or you could whine on a forum about how hard the game is. Please show Anet on the bear where the mean server touched you.

Iwarden + sword + Chaos storm = always having AOE ready to go

Im using sword/focus and staff. Sword focus just synergies so well. and Iwarden synergies with staff extremely well also. I used to be sword/pistol but the Iwarden does about 1.5x more damage and reflects projectiles (helping you and allies to melee). Only downside is you have to know when to use him to position him right. I find two Iwardens keep about 15-23 stacks of bleed up, and they are AOE attacks. Throw in a Iwarlock and you got some good damage.

I just like the sword better than focus as confusion in pve is very lacking, and sceptor auto’s will erase you phantasms in long fights. with the sword you get blurred frenzy, great for offense and defense (aoe too) plus autos give vulnerabilty and more damage than focus, and you get a root/gap closer with its #3, which works well with the Iwarden since he is stationary.

Good players > Bad players.

And i think you are exaggerating on how often you see them. They are also one of the least rolled classes atm.

Mesmers kill things slower. You will see a warrior kill something while you still have 40% left to eat through. Mesmers are a finesse class that requires a lot of skill and practice to be effective. You should be constantly swapping and timing your skills. Its a very “busy” class and the shatters are difficult to use but you should be using them. If you did not like the ele you probably wont like the Mesmer.
From what you said i would roll a warrior.
PS. how are you taking more than 4 spells (let alone 20) to kill something as an ele? They are one of the highest dps classes.

Im on Fort Aspenwood. my gear is mediocre at best around lvl 65-75 blue/green/ some yellow im lvl 80. I also had a bit to drink haha. But it just made me mad(jealouse?) that a class could go up against a large group pick off the squishies without fear of actually dieing. I understand a CC chain would be the end of him but what class wouldn’t it?
seriosuly kiting a large group within range of attacks and living because he can stealth non-stop is very annoying.

He actaully managed to kill me 1v1 later on, funny part is he was stealthed the entire time he was going for the killing blow. 75% health (downed) to dead with nothing near me. There was no way to kill him 1v1 either as he could disengage at any time. Only two outcomes: he runs away or i die.

Dodge, Blind, Diversion, Aegis, Warrior skill… just to name a few things that could of happend negate all damage fora long time. i mean without even trying i can negate all damage for 5 seconds as a mesmer. Also if you increase melee range you jack up half the fighting system in this game and if they are hacking it wont fix the issue as melee is not even half of the damage types.

So im curious if any have had thiefs kite 10 or so poeple around in WvW.
Honestly saw a guy pop out of stealth for 4 seconds do some burst, go back to stealth for 4 seconds, pop out do some burst immediatly back to stealth rinse repeat. If he ever got down to half health simply would stealth up and come out full health.The guy was simply not killable even with a group of 8-10 (pub not talking to each other) trying to kill him.

It seemed slightly OP that he could seriously go into stealth continously and he was never in any danger of dyeing when facing 10x the numbers. Unless you can get off a chain CC until he is dead there was no killing this guy. And that seems OP to me, considering his burst potential.
So my question is this…. how do you counter a thief that can go into stealth at any time, multiple times, non stop? Is this a bug? if not what counter is there? Its very frustrating so im asking for help in a 1v1, 2v1 and xv1 situation. FYI this is coming from a Mesmer and i thougth i had a ton of survivablity but this was just insane.

The warden is very useful in WvW. Especially if you have phantasmal haste.
Useful in attacking or defending objectives. If attacking you can summon them ontop of keep walls, then switch to GS and summon the berseker. When defending throw him on meleers attacking the gate or in the middle of a pack, again switch to gs and get a beserker to support, and plop down a combo field and watch the fireworks. Spvp he is much more difficult to use (and open world wvw fights not on a keep/tower)

I believe we need to be able to main hand the pistol. I love the offhand pistol and use it with a sword/pistol combo but it would synergies better with a ranged weapon. I do not like the scepter so with the sword it stays.
The problem i’m having is sword/focus synergies so well and that Iwarden is a beast if you can set it up properly. But i cant seem to part with the Iduelist and trick shot as they are so versatile and project very well.
So what we need is a Main hand Pistol to help fill out the 1 handed main weapons we can use.

So what abilities do you all think the main hand pistol should have? And more importantly do you think we will ever get it?