Guild Wars 2

Hey, I used to play mantra power build but sure after the lovely mantras changes, the build became so great that it is unplayable. I was very aware of this but I was busy in pve farming ><

Any real wvw power build that will be good overall? aka in group, solo, and good against power and condis?

and please let it be full berserk or something like that, I don’t wanna deal 100dmg =/

Is it not important skill anymore for them to even change its time when you are in water? or did I miss something? =p

Under water time is the old cast time of it.

Sorry to post this here or if it was posted by someone else … but!

Did Anet make change to the trading post that it doesn’t show the high prices mats people place or what?

I have placed some items on the trading post and they are definitely not showing there, I can’t see them and other people can’t see them as well, which is why some of the mats prices are dropping at the moment.

Sorry for late reply.

For me I play wall vs wall and mostly playing power.
I play inspiration, dueling and domination, even if I make changes, any other trait line I would pick it would be better than chrono.

The only trait line that I can’t tell for sure right now is chaos, other than that for me they all seem to outperform the chronomancer.

Well there is downside if other trait lines are performing better, I am not saying that it must outperform other trait lines, but it just seems to be falling behind compared to other trait lines.

That’s my opinion thought.

Besides pve is there a point of picking up chronololo?

I mean in every patch this trait line keeps getting nerfed, for me I don’t find it effective for anything except pve. (even for pve if you are not raiding I don’t think its effective except for the movement speed).

How are you doing with this change? WvW mainly.

I think it should give us protection when it reaches back the Mesmer, as compensation for the reveals or the time that you will not be able to stealth because of it xD

Or even better is to remove the extra effect that they added. I mean it is not April yet, they can keep such effects for next year April ( as someone said retaliation damage is more than the damage it will deal) and it put you in great danger.

Well besides the thief stealth there is this.

Add to the nerfs list:
GS4 will reveal you

“random buff”
GS4 will add vulnerability xD
and OFC !!! Well of Precognition… cough cough casting time reduced to 0.5

can easily add more to the nerfs list by the way, things like less alacrity duration and less healing.

Yes, instant nerf to power builds =D
oh by the way, even if you give your back to the target and cast it, you will still have the cool effect to get revealed

keep that in mind, if you look at torch 5 changes before, I honestly not sure if they play Mesmer.

Illusionary Reversion nerf will effect the Mesmer as well “alacrity time & healing on shatter +few other things” and incase you try to be smart and take the increase duration of alacrity I think they will also nerf that lol

They also doesn’t like shield on Mesmer.

And they don’t want Mesmer to be able to fight thieves at all it seems =p

STOP buffing condition mesmers, and if anet decided to change something related to “condition” please do consider other classes as well.

While you are looking at something to change/buff there is the chrono trait “Lost Time” make it triggers mantra of pain instead of this 2s slow.

“Danger Time” you can change this as well into something else.

No need to quote you or anything, just glad it got fixed =)

Actually even the revive speed works in WvW ><

I am pretty sure it is working in WvW, last time I checked (don’t remember which patch) the downed penalties were removed, since there was no changes I assume all the things in it does work, I think you will be able to res people as many times as you want and they won’t lose health 2nd time they are downed etc.

I will try to do further tests on it on this current patch but I am pretty sure it is working in WvW =)

Can you please remove the Noblesse Oblige from WvW?

Sorry to ask, but what is going to be the use or the point of changing the servers link again? ><

If it is to fix “population” issues just forget it, population just can’t be solved in wvw … at least not this way.

Other than that, I think that some people found some other people from one of the linked servers that they are with who they enjoy playing with.

So once again what is the point of changing? =p

It seems like this issues is caused by Noblesse Oblige from pact commander mastery xD

Hello, I will try to keep this short =)

My suggestion is basically make us able to use something other than the elite skill in that skill spot, it may create balance issues, but I am sure it will make things interesting and we would see many builds.

I am suggesting this so we can see more builds and more fun builds, we will see more builds everywhere I guess, wvw, spvp and pve.

If it didn’t work, it is not something that you can’t revert, you can always test it, if it didn’t work just pull it out =)

GO ANET make a poll for it so we can vote! =)

Oh do not get me wrong, I am aware of how it should work, but to make myself clear is, we actually me and my friend were able to down someone 4-5 times in very short time and each time his downed hp was 75% and yes 4-5 times in like 5 seconds (within 10seconds at least) between each down or something.

so maybe it have something to do with the enemies classes, which were guardian/DH and druid. and remember 75% all the time it was while he is down, that was his downed health

So unless it have to do with classes which I don’t think it have to do with classes, then I think it is a bug that happens =/

but this is not the first time it happens but this time it was just too obvious, so I don’t know if maybe it is one of those enemies classes traits or something.

Does people always start their hp at 75% while downed now? and is it impossible for players to be dead after you kill them several times in very short time now?

Don’t worry they will probably introduce more conditions in the future…. something like the warlock unstable affliction back in the days, when you cleanse it you get silenced and take massive damage, then they will make that condition spammable

and then people will say bring resistance, but then .. then we will need a condition that deals damage when resistance is on =D

Seriously conditions are not fine, many cleanses but not enough can never have enough cleanse for them.

“It makes sense, when players are able to use skills to guarantee hits on players that are on point” I liked this part, how about removing dodge and immunities too, remove stability too to make sure that abilities hits the target =p

I am surprised by the amount of people that wants small capping points, it is just bad design, if you have issues with bunkers or kiting that’s different matter that should be fixed but saying " It makes sense, when players are able to use skills to guarantee hits on players that are on point" just add everything like Mesmer’s mantra and get it over with including traps.

And your AOE damage is not weak at all I am just saying … you will see people not even bothering to know where you are, they will just spam their aoe on the capping points.

Again if people have issues with bunkers or kiting fix that issue, and from what I can see lots of the issues came with HoT spamming, BOONS spam etc pretty much everything is spammed even revealed was spammed in wvw =p

OH and another thing please separate the balance for spvp, wvw and pve. (Wall vs Wall mainly player)

Thanks for taking the time and typing this Menaka =)
As for Swagger, well I guess people have different opinions but the way I see HoT is it promotes spamming things, pretty much everything to spam, and as long as they would try to balance classes for pvp one day and for pve 1 week and pretty much wvw is forgotten??
As mentioned balancing classes for stand on point is BAD.

I remember back when confusion damage was soooo high but it would not deal damage unless you did action, then they added more condition/conditions which made more issues, then they changed the conditions like they want each one to be special, and they introduce those heals that removes some conditions “then the heals were removed?”

Then it started to not be conditions anymore specially with runes like perplexity, this rune actually is/was used by many classes, but I do remember fighting a thief that would only hit one or two hits with this rune and just run which is not hard, and YES you will run out of conditions clears and die eventually, and the condition Mesmer with it? this is burst, some would argue that condition damage doesn’t mean that they can’t burst you, well okay but what is the point of berserk then? less survival ability?

There are lots of things actually, burn guardians, alone? okay easily can get rid of this “burn”, but what if he is in group? then again we got resistance.

And at some point we had the 90% damage reduce from revenants?

Sorry if I typed too much and could be none sense for some people but all I am saying is the balance is just bad at the moment, very bad =/

Thanks again Menaka ^^

It’s okay, and I was talking in generally about classes pointing hehe, and I hope they take a look at things fast =)

I am pretty sure some people came up with good ideas in one of the other posts about boons, but I don’t think Anet are doing anything any time soon, good luck though, hope for some good changes =)

Honestly no need to point fingers at classes in HoT, the whole expansion promotes spamming of everything ><
Boons, conditions, stealth, and at some point even reveal but not sure since I rarely do anything these days other than log in and gather and then logout “I do remember having 22seconds of reveal on me at some point from more than one player” =p

Well since HoT and the patch before it if I remember right, everything in this game can be spammed, damage abilities, evades, blocks, conditions, boons and god forbid the perma stealth and some other things like reflects or even revealed in some cases (wvw) but lets not get to that =p

I am mainly wvw player and rarely pvp player but I kinda lost interest in this game due to the unkillable things as power build that you almost deal 0 damage to… ooh and they are considered threat to you, because they deal good amount of damage.

Supreme just relax and find another game or take a break for a while I don’t think they will change anything, maybe you become like some of us, login do gathering at home and take the chest and then logout, and if they changed something, another thing will be OP and people will just play that.

As for Anet how many times did people say separate balance for wvw, pvp and pve?

I think we mesmers players need mental defense in reality from Anet, I mean based on what they nerf things? =p

I swear its like every patch we are expecting nerfs to mesmers, and they obviously only look at this pvp stand on point smash keyboard. they forgot that there is pve and wvw.

Keep "shaving things, soon you will shave the Mesmer by mistake too, and we will have one leg, one arm, one eye etc =p

you are not even reading, power before Hot was good/great after HoT boons are being spammed, power was good or even OP thanks to that alacrity, after it got nerfed you will lack something, but you believe what you want to believe whatever not going to continue arguing with you =)

Something not related to the topic, is the shield kittenting more than 2 hits intended or not? as on the same target.

The issue with your build is not condition clear or against conditions, the issue is against power stealthers or against power builds in general.

As power Mesmer you will always lack something, it will be either the damage, or the condition cleanse or stealth.

SteepledHat, you can think what you want, but that is not really a build where you can survive things, as for conditions I won’t argue it has good cleanses, but it doesn’t counter condition Mesmer, and what roaming you were talking about? is it 1vs1?

I don’y know but not having PU and playing berserk I am telling you it is tough (by tough I mean not even playable most of the time), and will put you in lots of disadvantages. If you do that great that’s good for you.

Keep in mind it won’t always be 1vs1 fights, and it won’t always be zerg vs zerg fight..,
Guardians burn is one of the easiest conditions to cleanse, but when he is with other people that put conditions those f1,f5 are not really dependable at all and I know that you have that cleanse mantra. =)

And no point of condition reduction food by the way =p

People wake up, I am not going to say I am a pro at Mesmer but I am not bad at all.

First of all, playing against people who have berserk stats can work when you play as power Mesmer, but there will be times when people are not running berserk stats and are having some boons that are being spammed on them such as protection and regen, you will hate your life as power Mesmer to those.

second, please when making builds as power make sure you have enough of condition cleanses, there are some builds that god forbid who burst you with condition faster than what berserk can burst and actually condition mesmers are one of them.

I myself don’t like to play condition build, I have been playing berserk Mesmer for long time really, and since HoT came I didn’t play chronomancer at that time but I was aware of it a bit, but after the alacrity nerf that happened which I don’t mind even thought there didn’t “shave” they cut it, we started having another issues as power build mesmers, if you want to actually deal good damage which doesn’t get healed by regen when someone is not running berserk who have protection on, you will have to mess the build or take really high risks (lack of condi clears or stealthing issues), ooh and don’t forget that revenant dwarf dmg reduce thing + protection and chill =p

I played mantra build and still playing one, it is fun and good, but there will be lots of time where you will feel that you are not dealing damage or should I say you hit emm like every 10seconds?, lots of time I feel that power Mesmer is really unplayable at the moment (in before someone try to give me link it is unplayable due to many times you will not deal enough damage to be a threat)

Last all I am saying is this game is going to a wrong kitten direction with all these boons spamming, remember when you try to use GS3 to remove stability from warrior?

Sorry for long post but please lets address the Mesmer problems (and sorry if I got away from the topic) xD
and if anyone wants the mantra build that I play feel free to ask, with or without chrono =)

As if protection + chill wasn’t enough =p

I am just wondering why do they allow such silly things in the first place, by the way did anyone tried that food that gives endurance refill rate if it works with vigor too and how it works? =p

Sigh, did they play games where damage reduce abilities stack before? =/
How do they expect people to die with that hehe

Also thanks for the reply Chase.

Hello
Does protection boon & Rite of the great dwarf stack together? as would they reduce even more damage when someone have both of them on his character?

I sure do miss when Ghostcrawler used to work on Blizzard and used to post on WoW forums, people might have not agree with the changes that are being made etc etc, but at least he was someone that truly read the forums, and he actually used to join funny threads like when paladins used to say something about paladins being nerfed and he joins and write “To the ground baby!” and then they actually gets nerfed.

But here … eh it is like the last place to look for information that anet put or plan to do, and as a player who WvW, that place is where the developers ignore the most, we felt that we have been ignored for loooong time and we are probably still being ignored.

Use your forums even if they are not the best, I am pretty sure many people used to read MMO champions, but at least the information were taken from WoW forums, here if the developers say something it might not even reach this forums.

So once again, please use these forums even if they are not perfect or not the best, you can try to improve them a bit, and people will have more respect for you I guess.

Thank you.

Actually what DR did people should have done it loooooooong time ago during the lame tournaments, I guess many of us got to play in a server where they know where they will end up and they should have not participate in those matches or even the whole tournament, I know that it is long time to just wait but at least it would probably be better than keep getting these things.

Also during that week I met many of DR and they are actually nice people.

Wasn’t it usable before on other characters but then they said it is bug? =p
Also as some have mentioned its too late for that.

Arcane thievery can’t have cd reduced I guess, reason is the condition stats (I am Mesmer too) so don’t eat me hehe.

While it might not be attractive for power build it can be attractive to anything with condition, can be even PCV. =p

And I think they should control the boons spamming more than focusing on boons removal ><

I will try the golem and super speed thing when I have the time to confirm it, I believe you though, and in the end they can just say it is “bug” which will lead us to why it is not fixed yet

Like the guild 25% movement speed thing and the golem I guess unless they fixed that recently hehe.

In wvw bugs zerg as well O.O

Super speed affect the golems? O.O

Also I play Mesmer, and if you are one mesmer portal won’t do much, we used to run 2-3 anyway so using it for me was pointless (we like to fight). =)

I do not get your point exactly Dusty, but I suppose it is something like golems/class thing affecting the other, such as the Mesmer’s phantasm damage getting increased while you are in the golem, these are not big issues and can be fixed, but that’s not my point, I just want the 25% movement speed can throw it anywhere even in the golem mastery. =)

Also many things are/were issues because anet didn’t care to fix wvw bugs ><

1.Outnumbered buff: please redesign it to make the server/servers who are being outnumbered to at least when they kill and finish someone, that person have to use the way point.

2.+5 supply for the guild thing: give it to everyone in wvw, small guilds suffers because of it.

3.Golem and 25% movement speed: either give the golem 25% buff, or make traveler rune work with the golem again (this point is related to point 2)

4.Introduce a wvw food only: food that can only be used in wvw, make it use karma or something.

5.Remove items being damaged in wvw: no point from items being damaged at all.

6.WvW ranks: I don’t know if there is something added to use it or not, but I think there is nothing.

7.Boons: Adress them please, some boons are wrong to have 24/7 such as protection.

8.Ressing downed players: if I am not mistaken, ressing someone who is downed is faster than finishing even if you tried to finish the target as soon as they are downed, address it as well =p

9.Class balance: when balancing things please don’t balance them over pvp where people just stand on point and put necros marks on them/traps, there is wvw and pve also.

10.Keep mark: that 5 minutes mark, you know it is not only Mesmer/thief that hides there right? and usually people needs to hide because gazillion enemy was capturing that keep. ( I know that some people like to hide)

For now these are just basic things in my mind not much. =)

Well stacking one server will lead to empty servers, which will lead to faster quitting I guess? =/

And I forgot to mention something, since that PvP season thing came (sorry pvp people) Anet balance became just over that pvp thing, not that there is balance there but I am just saying that they try to balance things around pvp and forget other things completely. PvP where you will see some people using AoE on the capping points even when you are not even standing there =p

As for HoT maps, I am not sure I haven’t played pve a lot, but isn’t it focused on having a map filled with people otherwise you can’t do much?

I don’t know if someone said it, but pretty sure that they said they will focus on WvW this expansion =p
Please don’t tell me they are focusing on WvW =p

Well protection is a VERY wrong boon to be honest, in most games these things have cd but in this mmo … =p

Also Dusty .. if I for example don’t go for those people who outnumber me I mostly won’t find anyone to fight =)

Something that can be done is making the server that outnumber people gets a debuff that makes them unable to hard res =)

Anet can just tell us if they want to put it back or not, no need for us to suffer continuously really =/

Just be honest and tell us if you want to bring it back or working on it or not going to put it again, being honest is not a bad thing after all.

Thank you.

Well, I myself liked all those human female animations, and believe me getting more options is usually good not a bad thing, I mean we are not asking for naked characters or something like that. =)

Thank you very much. =)
I suppose they don’t want to bother with putting it back then =/

Sorry to ask but really what happened to it? =/
talking about the topic that was being discussed about it =p