Guild Wars 2

“Deceptive Evasion” is probably one of the mesmer best trait. Really good for when you need to shatter (torment). Clones also stack condition on your target when your clones are killed, so the more you can pop out the better. But yeah its really up to you, play around with different traits and see what fits you.

And iv never had a problem with crits as a mesmer, as long as its around the 30%. Beside you can always just take rapid chest and leggins, that should get up to about 40%.

Maybe im just unlucky, or maybe i just suck with iLeap.. But this new change has got me pulling the root of my hair out. It miss its target so much, and have you facing a completely different direction to the target when it actually works. Not to mention the instant cooldown if the target happen to be out of reach, or if you click to fast it wont even appear.

I ran this for awhile tho got bit bored of it: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fhAQNArfWlknpMtNqxUNcrNitBZyLUCUnkjsySGghB-TVyCABOoEEgjQwe7P8i+EfU/pAzfU8AAm+UAckyPSBAx0I-w

It wasnt all bad, torment on shatter had its moment. Usually didnt have 4 in chaos, took 2 in power for cripple for the most of my condition play, tho the exstra toughness didnt hurt. Sigil of Energy is a choice of your own, build already grants vigor on crit so maybe poison on weapon swap.

Its horrible in EB. Every few minutes i get lag spikes, borderlands seem to be fine for me.

Somethings wrong with EB.

Malthurius.6870:

Ilien.5302:

Ceremonial plated outfit is the armor shown in Cursed shore loading screen…

Um, no it isn’t. It’s Grasping Dead Heavy Armor set from Arah and the Avenger’s Heavy Armor set which is a human cultural set. The third character in that loading screen isn’t visible enough to identify; but it doesn’t look anything like the Ceremonial Plated Outfit.

Glog.4275:

Is it not unlocked across all characters?. I bought it for my warrior and notice none my other characters unlocked it.

It is, just use the item you got in the mail and it’s unlocked under the outfit wardrobe slot. It’s quite nice that is doesn’t cost any transmutation charges to change your outfit.

Yup it was! I hadnt clicked the proper outfit button. Cheers.

Is it not unlocked across all characters?. I bought it for my warrior and notice none my other characters unlocked it.

Yeah im getting this Error code 7 more frequently during prime hours (EU) now. Its quite bad, cant play for more 20 min without a spike then Error code 7.

I had this last night during WvW, would lag “pause everything for a few seconds” then continue. Today in Iron Marches im having the exact same happen.

Im on EU server (GH).

I usually just run straight up shatter pow/pre with some toughness (roaming wvw).

But lately given condi mes a try, or the tormenting mesmer. Got bit of mix feeling for it, applying condition is very slow compared to my engi, necro or any other class for that matter. Since your clones have to get destroyed to apply anything. So that leaves tormenting and confusion on shatter, which quite frankly gets cured so fast before any other condition is set upon em. And once your skills are on cooldown you just open yourself up to a whooping (thieves almost always get the better of me).

I run this build atm:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fhAQRAsd7fnsISZa2oGGpB3aIp0gMVOQdZuTTJVAK5IKHA-T1yAABAp+DAmgcw0QM6HATJG17PcmyAKUCqxTAY7TCwTKNCAgAwMToDNpAYSaE-w

Downside is mobility so i have to use focus for swiftness which iv never really enjoyed. As i use the tormenting rune set there is no +25 movement.. Some really slow moments inbetween focus cooldown.

Tho i do get a kick outta seeing someone run to their death with torment and confusion eating away at em when ever they do something.

Its different for sure, and can be fun at times. But kitten can it be frustrating aswell.

Just got booted from WvW “client lost connection”. Now i cant log in again.

Same just happen to me last night.

Have around 4 hours left and when i used a food item i notice it was on its normal timer (30min). I tried different food to see if it was the food item that was faulty, but nope the MP just dosnt work anymore even tho i have a few hours on it.

Its a pretty expensive bug i must say.

Yeah definitely necromancers, and next for me personally are condi mesmers and then stun warriors. Thieves i really have no problem with, tho i dont actually kill many of them as they tend to just run off into the distance after a few grenades. Rangers, again no problem, if they want to duke it out in range combat the condi from pistol usually does the trick.

Never really fight eles, only ever see em in groups with their staff so i dunno.

I run a condition HGH p/s build with rabid gear plus a mix of toughness on rings etc, and have had plenty of success stories to go with it. Ofc there has been some not so good stories (swapping Elixir S and getting stun pwned type of stories).

Anyway i run this:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vcAQJAqelUUpErlcx+KseRiMqQnBSBgpXiKkffe8WsFEC-zUBBINBk8GgIAMHqIasVTFRjFA-w

Most of the time i dont even have to swap to my HGH as my pistol just burns, bleeds and torment them to hell. 20 in firearms can really go wherever, i just like the increase in pistol range. My favorite time of day is standing on a tower ledge lobbing nades down on a zerg, tho it can hurt from retal the condi numbers and lootbags make up for it.

Past 10+ hours (not kidding) iv been trying to get the achievement “No Free Lunch”, and so fare even zerged people have failed to destroy the cocoons in time, its getting so frustrating. No amount of explaining before hand seem to have any effect. Dosnt really help either that it only seem to spawn during the knight phase.

Not to mention the times someone decide to troll before people show up and get themself cocooned and eaten, just to screw everyone else over.

Gah, maybe im just going bonkers from the failing and waiting…

Trying to accomplish a goal with random zerg is frustrating as hell, especially if you get stuck in a overflow where half dont speak english.

This spider queen has been my personal nightmare for the past 14 hours, and still going strong. I cannot for the life of me find a zone where people understand how to fight it. And the insanely slow respawn dosnt make it any better.

Iv had this happen three times aswell, also with the green knight. Thought it was due to the mass of people on screen but then i think i do wvw so that cant be it right?.

Yup, same on GH. Twice in overflow aswell. Nothing.

On our server we killed all 3, i try to enter a portal and instantly get crash to desk. And now im stuck in a bugged overflow. Perfect.

Didnt get anything either, my account is 11 months old (according to forum posts atleast).

If its the characters that has to be 11 months i think im fubar. Pretty sure i deleted my first character after a month or two (fell for asura instead). Meh, i feel cheated.

Its incredible powerful for a warrior 1v1. Used the runes with bull rush, stomp and hammer, not to mention the mace+shield combo.. I can see these runes catching on very fast now that it’s being addressed by the community.

Untill “nerfed”, its going to be a confusing time ahead.

Focus is good, it really it is. Tho my personally beef with it as a wvw roamer, is it dominate over the other offhand weapons way to hard because its our only access swiftness. Without it your relying on a rune heal/5s swiftness or a random boon now and then, and thats just not good enough.

So i never end up trying any other loadouts (love to give pistol etc a try one day).

30 min for 5 min is abit overkill. Add another 5 min or take 10 min off CD imo.

Caedmon.6798:

Glog.4275:

Tried fighting with 1h swords, but it just feels like im hitting stuff with a rubber duck. So i always end back with gs or hammer, or both. =)

Yeah final thrust hitting for 10k+ is really not worth looking at huh…

I didnt say it was crap.

Tried fighting with 1h swords, but it just feels like im hitting stuff with a rubber duck. So i always end back with gs or hammer, or both. =)

Iv been running Mace/Shield & GS for awhile and it was top in beginning because nobody knew wtf was going on, but people are catching on. Second they see me drop GS for Mace they pop on stability and burst away, or just range kite. Its that easy, and if you cant for the life you fight a stun warrior then just run the other way.

I was personally being kited around to much today, tho granted i didnt die (<3 rush) i didnt kill much either. Its sorta meh. Or maybe i should try the hammer again, them clones got nothing on my hammer!.

My warrior has 2 signets, whats wrong with that?. Meh i dont get it.

Anyway, id rather know wassup with UW being awol all evening and here at midnight you pull 40 something online and stomps everything as most people are going to sleep. Almost every night. Strange stuff man!.

63 tries, finally did it (warrior). It was frickin brutal. Never again!.

If any warrior is having trouble i used this dudes guide (still took me another 20 tries tho):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYIedfHmFwk

Tip: get the “Champion of the Wild” buff befor going in, speeds up endurance regen (the hoelbrak NPC down by waypoint).

Niko.8901:

Healing signet then greatsword and shield and mace. all skill. do it.

kitten dude, you spam that in every frickin topic. Did a warrior finally rear ended you?.

M/S & GS is new thing to the current meta, and people are freaking out because they have to adjust to a warrior who can fight back. Its frickin hilarious.

Mesmers can cripple and immobilized you every 12-15 seconds (more so if their phants are active), they can also daze. Thieves can daze you every second with a sword, and they can escape nearly anything not to mention quickly burst you down. Guardians are like full on tanks, or they can knock your rear end to the ground more times then you can switch on stability. Dont get me started in engis. Well list goes on.

Yeah you people should worry going up against a warior just as I think twice about going up agaisnt thieves, mesmers and skilled engineers.

Stop the moaning and adjust your playstyle.

Havnt really run into any necromancers that have been all that impressive, tho warriors seem to have changed completely for me. They are either learning or something has changed, either way they seem to destroy my clones befor they even get fully deployed. :/

I dunno, 7-10 seconds of aoe stealth sounds like it would be quite overpowered.

You can already sorta sync decoy with your elite and get up around 8s of stealth if you need to escape a bloody mess.

p.s and comparing it to a thief/shadow refuge is futile, they have traits dedicate to being in stealth. Its their class thing, not ours.

Is it worth having both like 10/20/10/0/30?.

I personally loathe these minigames (like all of em), it really annoys me i need to do em so frickin many times if i want to get the achievements or some skin. Sure i can enjoy em for 3 maybe 5 runs, after that they just bore me to death. And then it becomes a grind, and i dont really like grinding.

Just glad i dont have an OCD for achivements.

All done!. Tried that lfg site and found a group within 2 minutes. Pretty neat actually, and kinda annoyed i didnt know about that site long befor.

Doggie.3184:

I didn’t feel like making a pug just for the achievement so I solo’d it. Took about 10min I think to kill the boss just by kiting him around with shortbow (Thief). The rest was pretty easy.

You didnt need to kill some mobs to break a zeal or whatever it is i read about it?.

Either way, cheers guys. I’ll give it a try tomorrow.

So iv been standing in LA the past 2 days “LFG” to get the final kite in Fractal. No such luck. Now im wondering if anyone know if its possible to solo?.

Im getting bit frustrated. =(

Heh, i feel you OP. Just got my mesmer to level 21, and its going really slow compared to the other classes iv leveled.

If i might just ask the mesmers here, what do you guys do to keep swiftness going? Most classes get a run speed bonus from a sigil or otherwise passive skill/trait. Im not 100% sure but i cant seem to find anything that match that with mesmers, is focus the only access to a speed bonus?.

Had a disconnect every hour on the mark (almost) for the past 3 hours. 2 of em were in WvW and another in Sparkfly during dragon fight.

Forgot the exact error code, but it says “lost connection to client”.

If your going engi as your alt, i highly recommend the asura race as the hobo sack is smaller & less of an eye-sore.

Well i cant comment on the higher tier traits as im only just started leveling a mesmer, but man.. This class has got be the slowest one iv yet to go through.

There seem to be such a large gap between cooldowns and continuity of a fight(s). Especially compared to the other classes iv played.

Well ill stick with it for abit longer, hopefully the end reward gets better.

Blob thing works nice if people can keep and dont panic.

And cheers for the stealth tip.

/nod.

Same with us asuras, our ears got chopped off with the helmet. Its horrifying!.

Asuras unit!. Bring out the ears!.

Agree, asura without the ears is a big no-no. Need my ears back. =(

Dont know if anyone else is having this problem.

However on the medium set i bought i cannot dye the boots, they revert back to pottery whenever i exit the dye to save its new change. Just dosnt work!

Tried rebooting the client, didnt do anything. =(

*FIXED – That large brown pottery dye option not suppose to be there. Dont know why it is. The two small dye option below are actually the only two dye options. Well, its still technology a bug, but you can work around it.

Think it looks pretty good on asura (dig the light/medium set), and it looks quite awful on a male norn. :s

Wasnt to hard for my engi, just kiting the golems around while my team lay dead. xD

Me and the party got to “Mai Trin and Horrik” area, but the place is locked by blue shield, and a panel you cant access. In short, we cant progress the dungeon.

This happning to anyone else?.

/edit

Was the NPC Kiel that bugged out. She didnt move after we open the door below, so she didnt access the console for Mai and Horrik. Meh.

As a p/s HGH/Condi engi myself i find melee fights to be among the favorite as the target will be within short range of my grenades at all times.

Personally there are 3 things that can very easily get me killed.

1. Retaliation. Pop this as you go into melee with the engi.
2. Range between me and the target, further away the easier grenades are to dodge.
3. All else fails – Duo with a Mesmers, especially sword/phant/confusion type.

And watch out for the pull.

HGH/Confusion/Rabid engi here, p/s.

Iv found d/d thieves to be easy marks, just place my crowbar confusion on em and they spam themself to death in matter of a second while i block em for 3 seconds,. Should they get the jump on me bursting, the shield shield 4 kickback or shield 5 daze will stop em in their track. The s/d thieves i havnt had much success with tho, they flip about all over the place and got a constant daze/slow/immobility spam.