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I find that once you get double bounce effects staff becomes a marvelous weapon to level with. It becomes even more effective with 2-3 mobs around you. Start from range and bring out a clone and phantasm, wade in and drop chaos storm. As it drops you staff 2 to get a another clone out and apply chaos armor. If for some odd reason they are not all close to death you can throw up another chaos armor. Shatter when they are like 20% and boom they will all be dead or very close.
Chaos storm allows your clones/phantasms and you to be very tanky for the duration. The bouncy auto attack stacks alot of conditions on your opponent and buffs you immensely. I love the staff so much I rarely drop into GS or sword/pistol just because Chaos Armor and Storm are that awesome (except vets and champions because the other phantasms are just awesome at upping your extended dps).
I find the mesmer to be a fascinating prof and very powerful. I started leveling this after I got my engineer to 80. I am contemplating scrapping the engineer because Mesmer is so much more fun and more powerful. I find with GS/Staff that I can destroy things fairly quickly and I have a ton of survivability.
I actually picked this class up because so many on here were saying it was a weak prof and I wanted to see if it was really that bad. It isn’t. This prof takes a little to ramp up but then it just unloads.
I also have a GTS 450. When set on autodetect I would crash about every 15-45 minutes. I have found that by setting it on best performance I can play almost indefinitely without a crash. I was even able to move a few things to medium like textures and animation with no negative impact on play.
Now today, I installed the latest Nvidia drivers and set to autodetect and still same issue (game ran incredibly smooth and looked amazing before the crash but it still locked up and crashed). Each time I get the ‘Memory could not be accessed’ or some such message. I did ALOT of waypoint ports this evening and found that I would crash about 15-20% of the time with my frequent porting.
Love the game, just want to be able to play on the higher settings so I can see the beauty that they have put into this game.
Oh and for those interested. my cpu and gps temps sit around 40 and 65 respectively at crashes. Also I am never maxxing out the GP or cpu processes, even when the crashes occur. There is a mega thread called ‘Crashing’ on here and no real resolution to this issue has been found, or any word from Arenanet yet.
I was having consistent crashing problems until I lowered my settings to the lowest. I have not had a crash since. I have played up to 6 hours at a stretch with no problems. I am slowly moving up one area at a time to see if I can determine what is causing the issue.
Windows Vista
4gb DD3
Nvidia GTS 450
Phenom II x 6 1055T 2.8 ghz
When I do jump back to higher settings to see if the issues persists (let the game auto detect) I end up with a crash within 5 minutes in upper level zones but can play longer in lower level zones (don’t quite get this open but oh well).
Love to hear this issue is being looked at and I hope a solution is coming soon.