Guild Wars 2

Alissah your videos are hilarious
Love it!
Please more :’(

Don’t you dare take away my Medic’s Feedback!
It’s a very good trait in fractals since there are many projectiles and it’s really effective.
Also it’s a must-have in the Molten Bosses fractal, you kill the Molten Berserker, you stack on Rox or the pet (which/whoever is closest to the center), and I provide 80% feedback! (traited Medic’s Feedback & Temporal Enchanter) I.e. deals damage to the Firestorm & protects my party.

I don’t like the fall dmg traits though, especially cause the mesmer one is in Chaos, which is dead useless for a power build (except for PU) i.e. I’d be wasting 10 points for that.
Mesmer Chaos Storm bomb was funny :/

The on downed traits are pretty meh… Smoke Screen, Lava Font… nothing too useful. At least it increases your damage by 50% which is quite nice for Open World PvE.

Here are my thoughts about your build (& video):

Showing combos like you did is really helpful for starters, especially for the weapon which none used in s/tPvP (until now )!

I’ve had great experiences in soloQ where for example thieves were QQing at me… “If only I could catch you”. Or when I somehow managed to get rid of two foes at the Skyhammer Cannon (evil laugh). Although we eles are squishy as hell wearing only cloth, I prefer to use the Berserker Trinket over the Celestial one (To increase our squishi… umm… I meant damage obviously).

Also I switched out the Lava Axe for Signet of Fire (atm; couldn’t really decide), because I don’t really like it. Which doesn’t mean that I don’t find it effective though! It’s just that… when I use it, I feel like it’s a burden. Usually in combat with more than 1 opponent I don’t have the time to think how I should pull off a triple burst/leap heal.

Back to the zero-toughness build: My survivability is pretty high albeit wearing a Berserker Amulet. Until now I rarely had problems with conditions (maybe because there are few running them in tPvP? I’ve observed that about 90% were running power builds) and generally no problems with many classes. The only opponents who really ‘pwned’ me were:

• Minionmancers (Those minions do such op high sustained damage QQ) But seriously, I am downed before I killed every minion of those Necros. (I even check the other team whether any necros are present, and try to avoid them, if any are)
• A shortbow ranger who critted 1k per hit (Crossfire!)
• Hambow warriors, who aren’t that frequent fortunately (Only 1 stunbreaker is kind of… meh)
• And lastly, thieves, when I didn’t pay attention

P.S.: My ele fittingly bears the name “Glàss”. Maybe you’ll meet me in soloQ

Alissah.9281:

Lol. Did you try halting strike?

Sadly not

So I was just casually drinking and this is what happened!
I hope that we don’t receive vulnerability if a foe interrupts us ._.
(Domination 5)

If three illusions are up, you gain about 1000 hp every 3 seconds.
The cooldown is 35 seconds

In my opinion it became worse, my warden now attacks like 1/5 of the time (on the very first cast!). It is now super unreliable and I really can’t use it anymore for 100% projectile reflection. Just revert the change so I have an although not moving but attacking warden! Sometimes I just wanna scream “DO SOMETHING!” at it -_-

Alissah.9281:

Im more excited about the sylvari cultural revert C:

They really kittened t up in the last patch… Ruined my whole look :/.

But now they reverted it, so im happy :P

THIIIIIIIIIIIIIIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But the warden change is cool.

They listened to us!

Ronkdar.2091:

I don’t care about the glow. Can I have the old look back?

This is supposed to be Abyss!

I think the new dye patterns are horrible… Just keep the glow and revert the dye pattern sections. I’d also be more than happy if you just reverted the whole change…
The colors are now way too vibrant & there’s not much detail at all compared to the previous look!
This was the look I had. I apologize that I didn’t take a screen before.
It looked great!

The second picture: Exactly the same dyes at the same pattern used. The black is supposed to be Abyss, one of the darkest blacks! It now looks like grey

They have to change it. Or my expensive t3 will be super crap….
Maybe just add the glow and keep the details? Right now it looks really bad!

SuLor.2840:

I don’t like how my dye looks at all any more, I guess I’m going to have to try and find something that works, but right now it looks terrible! I think what a lot of us are missing is the subtlety there used to be, and a certain amount of gradient, now it looks a bit too bright, or just washed out. It feels like there is less detail.
Before is on the left.

I have the exact same problem and I think my armor is now terribly ugly in the dye combinations I used before… (t3 light too)

You click skills even though you rebound them? Odd

I lol’d, OP.
Came here to cry about mesmers?
Mesmers are already bad enough with the condition meta.

• You don’t need to post 4 times… There’s an edit function
• Why do you keep renaming your build?

Regeneration and Perma Protection, the two one most useful boon[s] in the game

FTFY
160 heal per second? Will totally outheal damage… (Fyi, let alone burning does like 700 dps)

you will realize it can kill anyone

I lol’d

I usually only use it in FoTM at Maw :/ (in order to melee the tentacles)
I think it could be pretty nice as a third (instant) invulnerability (Distortion), using the Blurred Inscriptions (Dueling; VIII) trait.
Everyone knows that our passive signet effects are bad anyways

Just quoting some things & commenting on them

[…] but I lost with that too because I dont know how to use it as well as him(Since he is the creator of that build).

dude why you choose this map lol. i hate hammer

you jsut got an op build man
why you got so op build

I believe i can do much better in WvW
i wish this was wvw. i would have more chance

can u beat me without that build??

sarcasm Who told us that your build was unbeatable? /sarcasm

pyros do you really think you can beat me without all those stuns???
im just asking you man. PLz answer from bottom of your heart

• Pyro’s spec has 3 ‘stuns’ available (2 of them are dazes). He used only 2 of them (Counter Blade, Magic Bullet; didn’t use Diversion) [4 crowd controls in that duel, but actually 3.]
• rude
• no need to exaggerate

-> This is what I call lame excuses

Pyro beated you easily with both power based and condition based builds? It’s even more obvious now.
P.S.: This is not about Pyro playing an ‘overpowered build’ or his stuns, it is about player skill and your build.

Offtopic: I didn’t know that iDisenchanter was that good

First of all, this is related to the Pistol version.
I think that Dazzling Glamours (VIII; Illusions) and Blinding Befuddlement (IX; Illusions) are just crap after the nerf. Both together only apply one stack of confusion every 5 seconds. Which is even lower than Scepter #3… Not even mentioning the rune (which is overpowered anyways).
I’d suggest putting 20 points out of Illusions into another line (Yes, you’ll lose IC, but I don’t think it is superior in this build, mainly because you spam your clones through Deceptive Evasion)
20 points in Chaos would be great, imo. You could take Debilitating Dissipation and Chaotic Dampening/Bountiful Interruption (which even compliments the perplexity runes).

All of the utilities are fairly mandatory, but I’d like to take the Mantra of Distraction instead one of them, so we have 2 additional interrupts, which are instant and almost impossible to avoid. The hard choice is to choose the utility we’d lose.

• Decoy, no (superior for survival)
• Null Field, maybe, but lose condition removal
• Feedback, probably the best choice cause not every class uses projectiles a lot, and it ‘only’ lasts for 6 seconds.

At the moment you only have 3 skills which interrupt, namely Chaos Storm, Magic Bullet, and Diversion.

Chaos Archangel.5071:

-snip-

A few things of this might be true, but

So, generally I don’t like to nitpick, but I’m going to do so here because it highlights one of the main problems that I and others have with your attitude. Even in your attempt to be gracious, you fall flat because of that little detail there that I’ve bolded.

You still believe that I was beating you out of build choice and not out of playing skill and/or experience, and that is given away plainly by your choice of words. You need to learn to take your punches, and sometimes understand that people will be better than you, in addition to builds being better. You even switched to using my own ‘Overpowered Phantasm Build’ a couple times, and I still beat you for a couple reasons, even though you claimed that build was monstrously overpowered (which it sorta is, but that’s besides the point).

People give you criticism, and you are unable to take it. At the beginning of this thread, the first few responses were very civil and constructive. Your responses were not. You responded in highly inflammatory tones and manners, insulting and berating. From that point on, the quality of the posts in this thread, predictably, went on somewhat of a decline. However, there were posts (notably from jportell) that were still constructive, and yet you still replied to them in the same inflammatory manner.

People aren’t judging you based on your past threads, and they weren’t even judging you based on this one. They were giving you valid criticisms of a build that has some rather glaring deficiencies, and you refused to listen and respond in a reasonable manner, and THAT is why this thread has ended up the way it has.

^this

(Apparently I’m not able to properly quote Pyroatheist for some reason.)

I actually tried to record a video once, my monitor is 1680×1050 too, and it did not crop (recorded in native resolution like Pyro mentioned).

Nice gameplay and choice of music!
Only one thing you could change is to adjust the record window
A bit was cropped ^^

Very exciting story!
10/10

Feedback

Kind of ironic

It is a complete fail. You just don’t get it, hybrid builds might work for necros but this doesn’t apply to mesmers.
You seriously start to annoy me. This isn’t about your past mistakes but about now. Apparently nothing has changed since then either.
Yes the builds are terrible. Stick to the meta or come up with a good idea. Which this isn’t.
They suck because hybrid does not work.
You seem to repeat yourself. We got it, your build is the ‘top 1337 build ever’.
If it is that good, why didn’t anyone else come up with it?!? Other theorycrafters (You can’t even call this theorycrafting) like Pyroatheist, Osicat, Countless, Chaos Archangel, and many more have done a great job coming up with effective new builds. Why didn’t they ‘discover’ this ‘great’ build yet?
We’re spamming verbal abuse at you???

Please, please stop trying so hard making builds!
Just go with the meta and make everyone happy!

I gurantee taht much.

I swear to God that I dont even know who Keelam is.

You must be a great advertiser.

Umm okay…. lol
Apparently you can’t take some critique “man”.
“a bunch of money” i lol’d
“all other builds” not really
Btw: how does something you don’t understand applies to other builds?!
Dammit your comment really confuses me and it makes no sense!!!11
“qualities” mkay. Show me.

Whatever. This build’s kinda useless. Just retrait when you want to play power or condition based build, no need to have both in one and making it less effective. I won’teven start to talk about the build itself. 10/25/10/0/25 for a cond build lol.

P.S.: No offense man!

Why use a ‘Change-Up’ (=/= hybrid btw) build when retraiting costs 3s50c and is available at major locations?

I actually worried about the same lately so I took some screens
http://imgur.com/a/DfFVj

It was ok, nothing new…
Stopped watching when you were spamming HS on an invulnerable foe… facepalm

Who told you that shatter spec isn’t very effective anymore? :o

I like using a 10/30/0/0/30 build but 20/20/0/0/30 does too.
Traits
Domination: I (and X if you put 20 in here)
Dueling: IV, X (if you have 30 here I like Far-Reaching Manipulations (I) a lot, because I almost always use Blink and the 1,200 range is awesome)
Illusions: I, XI (the 3rd trait is any you like, but I normally use VI)

Gear
For PvE I’d say full Berserker (what I am running too) with Ruby Orbs in the Armor
Weapons are either GS & Sword/Focus or Sword/Focus & Sword/X if you don’t need to range. Put Bloodlust into the weapon you use the most. I like Force & Accuracy on S/F ^^

vinceftw.5086:

I actually didn’t know that that twitching was an effect and I thought you always did it yourself during blurred frenzy haha.

So did I

The video is pretty good!

Despite many users loving the staff in WvW/sPvP I still can’t understand why not to use GS or sword/x instead ^.^
I think the damage is just really bad (iWarlock has a long cd on its skill :/) and the conditions do bad damage.
Also the thing that Pyro pointed out (bounce unstealths you)

I lol’d.

One of the best moments was when you hit that guardian with your stolen skill & he had aegis on.

Also nice tentacle hentai kitten backpack

Hey guys, so after the FS/LS buff what/how long was the longest boon you stole?
Here a screen of stolen fury… there were some foes around which had 5 minutes of fury on each of them (they were Cuatl). 37 minutes of fury… LS OP OMG QQ

Ruby Orbs > all
24 Power 14 Prec 2% Crit Dmg X6
(Same Crit Dmg as Divinity but more offensive stats)
Price wisely… Ruby Orbs… 6x Runes of Divinity 50g yay!

If he has like 15k hp, the crit chance would be around 60%+- (assuming 30 points in CS)
You can use gw2buildcraft.com to calculate that

Great video & really cool spec! /irony off

I lol’ed
15 cc

IMO shadow arts is way op

• I am fairly certain that you, as a “thief” (good lie, why would you cry about your own class that it is OP) got owned by some thief.
• No one cares whether you think that something is op or not
• Stop qqing. Only noobs do. Owait your name is “noobftw”, i forgot.
• Deal with it! These kind of players destroy good classes because they don’t have enough skill!
• If you think that the might stacking + “big” hp-regeneration is “OP”, look at the ele…. might stacking: 3x Blast Finisher into its own Fire Field + Sigil of Battle (works on Attunement swap) = 12 Might (+30% Boon Duration from Arcana). Hp-Regeneration: not high but lots of burst heals.
• The might stacks stacking point is a joke i assume? Truly one of the most ineffective ways to achieve up to 10 stacks of might!

• The Zerg vs Zerg is kinda lame because watching how someone is spamming AoE’s into a mass of players is…. boring?
• The close camera in melee is horrible (not only when you’re watching i guess).
• The cookie cutter build is nothing new (& slow-mo of “high crits” is not really “necessary”)

Overall not too bad (I’ve seen worse) but not really interesting either.

I suggest you to watch this! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWfgaA_MJw0&feature=youtube_gdata_player (credits go to Strife)
For CoF speed runs i suggest you to run a x/30/x/x/x build with Sword mainhand and full Berserker’s [It’s even better if you make a Warrior or Mesmer alt because you’ll find more PuGs]

Same here, Sea of Sorrows

Definitely Mesmer!
I have a Level 80 Ele and it’s so boring! Mesmer will be 80 soon

Comparing Mesmer: Sword/Focus & GS 10/30/0/0/30 vs. Ele: D/D or Staff 0/10/0/30/30]

• Damage: I think Mesmer’s dmg is better. Both sustained and burst!
• Fun to play: Definitely Mesmer, Ele has only (imo) two reliable & fun weapons, D/D & Staff. Also it’s lots of fun confusing people in WvW etc.
• Level of skill to play: Mesmer, but it depends where you use the class. Like in normal PvE it’s just button spamming. In fractals though, you need to know when to dodge/use your invulnerability
• sPvP: Both but Mesmer is more useful in tPvP {TW, Portal}, though Ele can tank like 2+ enemies
• WvW: If in a zerg, Mesmer at any rate {Portal, Focus #4 Pull}. Watch this! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1LQq_Dd1qQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player When alone I think Ele, because it can tank 5+ Noobs
• Utility (mostly about PvE): Mesmer all the way!! Mostly in Fractals, Ele compared to Mesmer is so useless!
• Projectile Absorb/Reflect Ele has only 1 Projectile Absorb, Air Focus #4. Mesmer has — Utility Projectile Reflect
  -- Focus 5 untraited absorb, traited reflect [untraited pretty useful against bosses which projectiles you can’t reflect but absorb (i.e. Old Tom)]
• Invulnerability Mesmer has a lot and also better on-demand invulns! {Shatter F4 (up to 4 sec, 45-60 sec CD), Blurred Frenzy (2 sec every 8 sec!), Mimic when used correctly}. Ele is a lot worse {Mist Form (3 sec duration, 75 sec CD), Earth Focus #5 (4 sec duration, 50 sec CD)}
• Stealth Running through trash, Veil (& MI), gg
• Portal/TW Nothing to say, Portal/TW>ALL

I’ve made the mistake to make a mesmer this late (had already 80 guardian & ele)

Also the biggest argument mesmer wins: Style & Animations… Nothing to say :P

No one has aquired them yet, right? Right.

What I think they’ll do (Yes work like Elonian Wine but another way) also I hope they’ll work like that:
Costs 10 Laurels, is Account Bound
-> IMHO it looks like it might be an “Endless Elonian Wine”, because why would it be worth to spend 10 Laurels on 1 “Elonian Wine” (or how many uses it has, but if it is not ‘Endless’, it would be probably 1 use)… Sooo I guess it is that…

Another thing to point out is that a lot of ppl qqed about “OMGWTFBBQ LODES ARE SO kittenIN’ HARD TO GET!!!”. So i estimate that this might be the way to make Lodes’ cheaper, because the Core Promotion would get cheaper (25s less; it’s a lot per promotion).

[The only thing I ain’t really sure about, is why will it be usable with Lodestones in the MF itself?!]

{If it really worked how you guys suggested, it would have been a BIG fail and I do not believe that ANet would do something like that!}

Well, we’ll see how it’s going to be 10 days after the update

Edit: IMO the name is really weird! It sounds like you would soul-bound a Lodestone/etc. :o

Apparently he did lol. At least the quote is still there -shrug-

4 seconds of daze and 10 seconds of chill are very powerful! I don’t know why you consider them weak!? At least the daze is very very strong. Also I’d like to point out that you don’t have to use them on the class you’ve stolen them from! Keep them as long as you want until they come in handy.

4 seconds of daze: The foe can not do anything except running around or breaking the daze with a stunbreaker. That isn’t strong!?

The 10 seconds chill are VERY long for chill! The foe moves 66% slower (more effective for other classes who does not have good condition removals), it is not also effective for movement, also for movement skills, for example Burning Speed or the warrior’s Eviscerate. 66% cooldown increase!? That’s really awesome!

Conclusion: Your argument is invalid

It should work but apparently doesn’t (:P) because I think the Bountiful Theft working without a target wasn’t really intended either~

Also the vigor is not that important because you use the steal outside of combat (or else there would be a target) obviously

@ Rayya
He meant that when he stole something that he can’t see the cooldown of the original Steal skill, because the “field” with the cooldown is being overlapped by the stolen skill ^^
@ OP
I don’t think that steal is that important for the one except of WvW if you run a CnD Mug Backstab build~

@ Stiv
Yeah of course there are reliable condition removes but they are not enough, because P/D thieves apply lots of bleeding (no whining intended) rather short for many times than long for some.
@ nerva
Stop being annoying because noobs (I am serious!) just whine their kitten off on forums because they can’t COUNTER these thieves. I repeat it for you: LEARN TO PLAY!!! or use P/D yourself if it’s “SO OP”

Edit: Look up “slicgw” on Youtube if you’re so eager to play P/D (or learn to counter it by watching maybe?)

Yeah but only a Sword/Any thief, because none of the other skills are that reliable for condition removal (spammable)
Also Condition Builds are way harder to counter than burst builds (except if the foe uses immobilize but even then, use a condition clear, run away and cc him).
Harder to counter because there are almost no great condition clear skills (see above)