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Typical MMO response

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Preview happens for a class change.
People act like the world is ending
Everyone claims there “deleting there mesmer”
Everyone claims the “class is useless”
Pyro quits gw2 “again”
The people who have always played mesmer will continue, the other will hop to the new FOTM

nothing changes

ANET: Take more time if needed

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TLDR i dislike something in the balance changes. And by telling you to take more time, i mean take more time, to only buff and nerf the things i agree to.

Build help for Mesmer - The D&D Bard

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Not to steer you away, as i have much love for my mesmer. But my herald feels very much more like what you are looking for. He aoe buffs the entire party, has very decent healing. Most of which is passive and could be passed along as “songs”. The herald to me feels like the minstrel class in most MMO’s tho some play it far different then I. It does sound like your somewhat new to gw2, so an elite spec is far from where you are at, but honestly i would be it has what you are looking for.

My 2 cents

DH runes and Deadly trapper?

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Has anyone tried these on a thief build?

(1): +25 Ferocity
(2): +35 Power
(3): +50 Ferocity
(4): +65 Power
(5): +100 Ferocity
(5): Apply 5 stacks of might for 8 seconds when you place a trap.

And

Traps apply vulnerability to enemies and grant you might. Trap recharges are reduced.

Would be 10 stacks per trap in the right scenario.

Any thoughts?

Axe and Shortbow? Axe or Shortbow?

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Hello

Ive been running condition ranger a few weeks now. I’m having trouble justifying running both sets in WvW. They both have 900 range. Which is what I’ll call skirmish range.

I prefer running axe torch. I want to add the short bow in. So I’m asking some of you experienced druids how to use them both well, or should i focus on one or the other? And stick with longbow as my off weapon? I feel right now, as if long bow adds a lot to my axe torch set, which it doesn’t have. Which short bow does not.

Thank you for any advice you can provide

Has the camera changed?

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I’m not sure how to describe it, but my camera seems to be off where it used to be. I can no longer zoom in on my asura from the front view, when i zoom in it zooms completly over his head. This did not used to happen, did something change?

Great Hope For The Druid!

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Honestly it doesn’t matter what they do. 90% of the rangers on this board have there complaints pre loaded and are just waiting for launch. When the reveal happens they will all hate it, want it changed to there particular idea, argue everyone else’s idea is terrible, and then continue the circle of life around here. I actually submitted an idea for the druid, that i think would make the rangers that post here happy, but I’m unsure…. Something like

Staff 1 “Immediate gratification”
Every time this ability is used, a developer is instantly forced to log on and answer what ever petulant whim the player is currently thinking about. Flying? Sure. Dueling? sure. Flying while dueling while your best friend controls your pet from your dual screen keyboard. Sure! Just press button 1 and you can instantly have anything you randomly think of and put on a message board. Don’t worry if it’s an idiotic idea, someone else will be pressing 1 soon to over-wright you!

Staff 2 “Everybody gets a medal”
This is only triggered once you are defeated by a particular boss or class type. Once triggered you simply enter the name of the boss or class in the field presented. The next time you encounter this obstacle, simply press 2 again and it is instantly defeated and you receive a precursor.

Staff 3 “Every class gets better stuff then Ranger”
When you hit staff 3 you instantly gain the abilities of every class in the game. You simply have to scroll through and decide what class you want to play. Don’t worry you can still call yourself a Ranger, and come to this board to complain about every class you can become.

Staff 4 “Chart topper”
This has a pretty decent cool down. But it instantly places your name, and Ranger class in all the top charts for PvP and Speed Running Dungeons and Fractals. You are now the meta for whatever play style you were about to cry about.

Staff 5 “cake”
With staff 5 a cake is delivered to your house to help you over come the years of “trials and tribulations” you’ve “suffered” playing a video game. Also a copy of “The diary of Anne Frank” is delivered with the cake. In case you ever want to see what real trials and suffering are all about.

I don’t know if this will satisfy every ranger on here. But i thought i would give it a shot.

PU... PU's everywhere...

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Once again
Balancing WvW does not mean….
Balancing people who want to duel 1v1 in a battleground game.

The MOST Trollish WvW Build?

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I’ve tried the trap thief, i just cannot go without some kind of speed in WvW

PU condi mez

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Tab nailed it on the head. A condition mesmer, with perplexity runes “roaming” in wvw is someone just looking to duel, in there build powerful for dueling. They offer very little in ZvZ combat. They will have trouble keeping up with any group moving fast. And cannot stop a player from simply walking away from them. They are a slow moving spike wall, meandering around a wvw map that you gain nothing from fighting. People fight them, simply to lose to them, to come on the message boards and complain they can’t win an open world duel versus a dueling class in there non dueling build.

If i run into a Nike warrior, i just let him run away. I’m not chasing him across the map. I’m not out there to prove my superiority versus a class built to run away. If i come across a perma stealth tanky thief, i ignore him. He is nothing but an annoyance, built to delay me from my objective.

I think it’s funny people have to specify what class they tried to beat a PU mesmer with. “I was on my engineer, but not the super powerful burning engineer! That is on the no skill black list! And i need everyone to know my ability to push my keyboard far out weighs the other people pushing buttons on there keyboard!”

I’ve run PU when it was weak, when it was strong, and will run it when it’s weak again. I like the idea of a thief mage, that’s why i chose mesmer right from the gate. I like to be able to hide and get to my teammates in wvw. I enjoy dipping in and out of combat. When i do run across someone in wvw and we fight, i never assume it was my leet skill that put them down, or there keyboard mastery that beat me. There are so many factors out there, to consider.

What i do consider is weather an opponent is worth my time dealing with, or just ignoring.

Sigil of generosity

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I have two of these, and I will probably grab a third. I have one on my great sword, for when I run power PU and one on my staff for when I’m running shatter. This has made a tremendous impact on my survivability. I really can’t go one enough about these. I bought one when they first came out, and my second recently for buy order of 40+ gold. And they are certainly worth it. This is purely from a WvW perspective I can’t speak to pve, or spvp.

Mesmer pull in wvw OP--discuss

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How in the world is this over powered? Besides randomly pulling one or two people off a tower, how is this game breaking at all? They’ve already nerfed this once. I’m not one to speak for all Mesmer, but I’m sure they wouldn’t mind this getting “touched” if it meant getting at least some of the bugs in class fixed as well.

Download Client stalls and doesn't install

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Maybe they could stop putting out patches, that stop people from playing, until they fix this.

Playing P/P like it's P/D

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For me it would seem that the best way to play pistol/pistol, would be to play it exactly as you play pistol dagger. You lose some things, and gain some things, is it spec breaking? I guess we can all decide on our own.

Lose- Cloak and Dagger
To me the biggest loss. I plan on running stealing, stealth’s you, which will also change my taking of mug. So this is a pretty decent damage loss. I play in power,prec,condition gear. So for me it is a decent direct damage loss.

Solution-With stealing causes me to stealth, I think the play style will be similar. I also plan on using blinding powder and shadow refuge as utilities, so i’ll have a stealth on a 27 second timer, and to others on varying timers. Still you lose stealth on demand, which for some may be game breaking.

Lose-Shadow strike. This is a pretty decent hit, it’s nice for getting away from your opponent. I struggle landing this and cloak and dagger on highly mobile opponents. I’m sure if I practice more, I could be a lot better with it. Also two stacks of Torment is nothing to sneeze at.

Lose-Dancing dagger. I use this to try and stop runners, and to get better position in a fight. But for me personally, this is the least of my losses.

Gain- Unload. One of pistol/pistol thieves’ bread and butter. I run sigil of torment on one of my pistols. So that’s one way of applying torment, one stack isn’t as great as 3, but it’s not a complete loss. The rapid multiple hits almost ensure a sigil proc.

Gain-Headshot. I love me some headshot. I usually run with friends, and it provides pretty decent stomp protection in wvw. I’ve been able to interrupt some telegraphed attacks as well.

Gain-Black Powder- More stomp protection, and a very powerful blind. I use this in combination with blinding powder for longer stealth duration.

Now onto the spec I’m going to try and run, and see how it goes.

http://tinyurl.com/ohbufq7

My rotation will be
Steal, sneak attack, unload, black powder, blast with blind powder, sneak attack, unload, ect ect.

This isn’t my final draft. But it has enough of what I’m looking for that I may try it. Also the gear has been left blank, until I figure out exactly what I’m doing.

Stuck at 0 KB/s

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I’ve followed the instructions step by step and added the file. I didn’t seem to change anything for me

Download Client stalls and doesn't install

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I tried this line for line, and I must be doing something wrong I put it on the desktop, changed it, put it back, and it didn’t fix me

Brain storming Mesmer AoE capabilities

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Thanks for some of the replys

For those who suggested glamour’s I did use them in some of the builds above. But as I noted in my post, it never seems like enough. I do use spatial surge, and scepter 3’s line aoe as well. I think there is something with imbued diversion. I’m going to revisit chillruption and see if I can use the ideas there, to supplement what I’m experimenting with. I think mirror blade + immediate f3 in a zerg with the right trait, could provide interesting results.

Brain storming Mesmer AoE capabilities

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I’ve been smashing my head against the wall, trying to find a decent aoe spec, for WvW on my Mesmer. I thought I would write down some of the ideas I’ve been bouncing around to see if others have had some insight.

My first thought is that I don’t feel like glamours really get it done anymore. I know people still say they have there use. But for me, there situational, I wouldn’t mind them as part of a build, but they cannot be the focus anymore in my opinion. So that took me down some different paths.

My first thought, and the one I still lean towards, is using shatters at range for aoe. The theory on it sounds correct, but in practice I’ve really struggled with it. I noticed that my clones half the time were not making it to the zerg. I thought “maybe there dying before they get there”. So I mixed in some clone death traits. Hoping that one way or another, the clones would proc some kind of aoe damage. I’m still not successful with this, tho it may be a need to practice issue. I know shatter without DE is frowned upon. But with phase retreat on a 6 sec cooldown, and scepter, I think clone generation is fine.

AoE possibility
Feedback
Null Feild
Chaos Storm
Mind wrack
CoF
Sceptre 2 bolt confusion in a line

It looked like this
http://tinyurl.com/kyle2rd

I also thought of the possibilities in the lockdown builds. Halting strike adds a nice boost anytime we daze. And imbued diversion can give us an aoe daze. It again requires shattering at a distance. But unlike the above build, where I would make illusions and launch them in like projectiles. This build would require me to create the illusions next to the large groups.

Possible aoe
Feedback
Null field
P.Zerker (situational)
Mind wrack
CoF
Diversion
Sceptre 2

It wen’ t like
http://tinyurl.com/pd32xz5

So an improvement. But still not working great for me. I also had the possible crazy idea, that If I could somehow keep my Phantasms alive, they would be very decent in a zerg. Some of them hit a variety of targets. I always try to make a build, where if I’m caught alone, I wont be a complete waste, and this felt closer then the above two, since it doesn’t rely on glamour’s at all.

Possible AoE
Disenchanters 6 bounce
Chaos storm
WoC
Illusionary riposte line attack

It looked like this
http://tinyurl.com/mbgczmt

I feel so close all the time to having a great idea. But I just can’t see it. So if I can inspire anyone elses thought process, maybe we can put our minds together. I feel like all the pieces are here, I just can’t put them all in the right order.

Jester

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Need help with my Norn Engineer

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I actually went with a modified vigil set! Thanks a ton for your ideas guys.

My two zerg builds, looking for comments

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What I’m thinking, and my math could be poor. Is that at 33% health, with my antitoxin runes -24% and my food -20% that’s -44% when AR kicks in that’s -94% condition duration. I would love for larger bomb radius, but I just can’t seem to squeeze it in. I have thought of dropping speedy kits, and just using power shoes. But keeping up and staying on the commander, usually requires me having power shoes and swiftness.

My two zerg builds, looking for comments

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Good morning

I run two very similar builds when in the zerg. For my engineer I focus on survivability and staying on the commander. I’m usually fairly successful at this. The one thing I have trouble deciding on is a few traits. I love Elixir X in a zerg. When traited in one build it gives me tons of stability on a short cool down. But the other version gives me more protection and kit options. Well here they are.

With more Elixir X and Stability
http://tinyurl.com/mbwffv4

With more protection
http://tinyurl.com/kpjezmc

I eventually will just get Melandru for the +150 toughness. But right now im ok with anti toxin

Need help with my Norn Engineer

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Good morning

I have really been struggling finding decent looks for my Norn engineer. I have the Krytan armor on him now, and it looks decent, but I’ve been wanting a change. If any would be so kind to post screen shots for Medium armor male Norns, I would really appreciate it.

dealing with condis in wvwvw

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You can remove 1 condition from The prestige every 24 seconds. And one from casting Image, every 18 seconds. And if im not wrong, the bolts the Image fire, cure conditions on you as well. You will be shattering him, but he still may get a bolt off.

Black Lion Trading

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I can buy and sell from people. But cannot access any section where gems are used to purchase. I’ve relogged, and so fourth. This has been going on several days. Any help I can get?

Krytan Armor dye

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I tried iron, actually bought it, cus the previewer can lie. And its very blue/grey. I think this skin in particular is hard to get black.

Krytan Armor dye

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Hello

I have the Krytan medium armor, from the gem store. I am trying to find a close black for it. Midnight Ice turns it blue. Midnight fire turns it brown. Both of these have worked for me in the past. Abyss turns it grey in the preview screen.

Anyone with this armor that can help me out?

Healing Turret troubles in WvW

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Wow thanks a ton guys!

Healing Turret troubles in WvW

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Hello Engineers

I’m really wanting to use Healing Turret in WvW. I love the access to the water field. But as a personal heal for myself. I’m finding it very lacking for healing myself. I usually drop it, and then overcharge it, then detonate it. But when moving with the commander this heal feels very clunky.

I’ve thought about trying to stack regen on my Engineer so I wouldn’t rely on the actual heal as much. With backpack regenerator and mango pie I have decent regen, but not enough to keep me up most of the times.

Any advice you guys can give me on the turret?

Flamekissed: Before and After

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So you have to use the gems they give you, to reskin the armor they changed? The makeover kit just changes the appearance of your un-armored character correct?

Flamekissed: Before and After

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Pretty close to 24 hours here and no refund.

Flamekissed

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This isn’t like a balance change, or moving around skills. They took real money from most of us. Then took away what we paid for. And now we have to wait for an unknown amount of time, to see if we can get refunded. I do think it’s unreasonable to make the poster above wait 2 hours. I usually try to give the benefit of the doubt. But if this was going to happen today, then there should have been enough people ready to handle the influx of unhappy customers. As of now, Arena Net has a “we can’t make everyone happy, so if your unhappy tough” mentality.

They took my money for something, and then took that something away. And now I have to wait and see if its going to be resolved.

Are Mesmers broken?

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3. iDuelist bug – Targets something completely different than what I’m targeting, usually out of my field of view.

This also is not a thing. The only phantasm that will occasionally bug out from targets is the iWarden. The iDuelist will always attack what you summon it on, so perhaps you’ve summoned it on the wrong target?

This is definitely a thing. I notice it most on TA when I spawn a duelist to attack the champion wurm. While most of its attacks are indeed focused on the champion, it will occasionally turn around and run over to a random veteran wurm and start attacking it instead.

It only happens on world bosses or larger bosses when smaller mobs spawn around them. I get my target reset quite frequently and have to retarget the boss (e.g. the golem). So I guess that might be the reason for the observed behavior of the phantasms.

This happens on the golem, because you summoned him on the body, and the body becomes un-attackable, and the arms become attackable. The phantasm loses its target, and then attacks something else.

This happens on shatterer when he flies away.

There is also a period where worm is unattackable or his attack point switched I’m sure, probably during his spin.

Would it be nice if the clone knew to switch to the same target on a mob, when one part becomes immune? Sure it would. But I wouldn’t consider it a bug at all.

Deceptive Evasion nerf

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replacing clones not triggering Debilitating Dissipation”

Still fail though.

I thought you quit? And you decided not to “wait and see”. Because you got an offer you couldn’t refuse.

Debilitating dissipation, and all clone death traits were always supposed to be, if an enemy killed your clones. It was never meant as an ability to grant conditions by dodging. It was a neat unintended trick, that was never supposed to be that way, and there fixing it.

Deceptive Evasion nerf

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I don’t see how anyone can honestly say, that playing using DE with clone on death traits, is anyway near what those traits were supposed to do. The clone on death traits were obviously supposed be, for when an enemy kills a clone. Denying this is just silly. Mesmers found a neat trick to make that mechanic work for them. And then a spec using it became super popular. It was left alone for a long time, until now someone had fixed it.

The same goes for people wanting 6 clones for shatter. The Mesmer class is supposed to have 3 illusions up max. I can tell, because that’s how many little bubbles I have to fill up. Again people found a neat trick where they could summon more clones after shatter. And it worked for a long time. But no one can say that is how the class was intended to work.

We were always supposed to have 3 active pets at a time. And the clone on death traits were always supposed to inflict conditions when an enemy killed the clone.

People posting here to say “I’m quitting the game and holding my breath till I get my way” or “I’m rolling warrior cus I am mad!!” Are the worst kind of posters. If your going to stop playing then stop. If you want to play a warrior now, go for it, I hope everyone finds a way to enjoy there leisure. But to make such a dramatic departure is like slamming a door 6 times when you leave a room.

Zerker or Rampager?

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I’m sure it’s not the ultimate build or weapons, but It really suites me. I gain a lot of might very passively which buffs my direct and condition damage. Roaming about I very rarely find someone who is my exact equal match skill wise. I’m either a good bit better or a great deal worse then the people I meet up with.

As for Celestial, I want to be able to run with a zerg, and not become rally bait and hurt my team/server. But on the other hand I just can’t do pvt. I know there are great mix’s of beserker and soldiers. Or Dire. But I’m always afraid something is going to get nerfed somewhere. If I had gone full zerker, I would be sweating this announcement about crit damage, even tho no one has any idea what’s going to happen. With Rampagers or celestial I feel I can switch to condition if direct damage ever got screwed with, or vice versa. I won’t be min maxed, but like I was saying earlier, I think that really would matter in 1/10 fights.

Zerker or Rampager?

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This is what I’m running now, except my armor is exotic, but I could start going ascended. I usually do pretty well, especially if the fight lasts a little bit, and I can get my might stacks up.

http://tinyurl.com/mdz95re

Here it is with Zerker stats
http://tinyurl.com/kkj8osl

And now with a possible zerker nerf, I’m kind of leaning towards all celestial, which I run on my Mesmer and do fine with. Which would look like this.
http://tinyurl.com/mazpzxf

I know a lot of people will say “oh dual pistols is this” or “celestial sucks”. I still roam around and am able to kill people, not everyone, but enough that I still go out there every day :P

Zerker or Rampager?

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Currently I play a pistol thief, in all rampager armor. I’m just about ready to start crafting my ascended set, and I’ve thought about going rampager’s again(since I love the stats on it). My fear is that at some point, a condition build on thief will no longer be strong enough to warrant the armor set. So I’ve considered just making beserker, it’s pretty secure that direct damage will always do well. Any thoughts on this?

Retalitory sheild?

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This is what I’ve been running, in my ever daunting search for the one build to rule them all. I’ve been using it in WvW for maybe 3 nights. And I’m having some success. I haven’t used mimic with it (tho I’ve used it in the past and liked it). While I like the stun, I would switch out the sigil possibly for mimic.

http://tinyurl.com/nu9nhdy

Edit : I’m using the 15% bonus damage to phantasm in the domination tree, not sure why I put the mind wrack damage, I must be sleepy.

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For WvW,

Would you ever take this over blade training, in a scepter/sword phantasm build. I like mimic as well, so I could definitely work that in if it weighs the decision one way or another.

Anyone use Veil Offensivly?

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My point was not to make another glamour build. But to try and add some aoe ability to a PU spec, that already used glamour(veil). Making a glamour build is easy, making a decent roaming build with some aoe is hard.

Anyone use Veil Offensivly?

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Thinking of maybe working it with reduced cool down on glamours, and confusing enchantments. Anyone tried this?

I’m thinking something like this

http://tinyurl.com/llknwbk

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Having a hard time sticking to my mesmer

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Hello fellow Mesmers.

I’ve been playing Mesmer (and posting on this Mesmer board) here and there since gw2 came out. I have always loved my Mesmer, and he has been my main for a long time. He is my highest WvW ranked character by a huge gap, and he has my only legendary. The problem I have with my Mesmer, is I just cannot find a spec that is just right for me. It’s always a pull between either good as a roamer, or good in group fights and zergs. And at least it seems to me, the drop off is pretty dramatic when you choose one over the other. I’ve tried the Pu builds, and actually played PU and torch combo well before the buff ever happened. And sure it’s great roaming, but in a large fight I feel out of place. Switching places, I’ve played glamour specs, which are awesome in group fights, but when I’m caught out in the field with null field and feedback on my bar, I feel underpowered for a 1v1 encounter. Now this could definitely be a L2p thing on my behalf, I’ve never pretended to be some elite gamer. Lately I’ve been running a shatter build, and I really love the pressure it can provide, but it also feels like a bit of a one trick pony.

I only have 3 80’s I had more but I deleted a bunch of them to focus on my game play and focus my resources. The other class I play is thief, and lately my thief is really taking over my game time. I feel like I have that roaming capability, while still “ok” in a zerg fight, just because I find short bow to be probably one of the best zerg weapons out there.

So I’ll post what I’m running now, and maybe some of the elder Mesmer’s can give me some advice. I’ll never delete my Mesmer, but he’s definitely losing his playtime as of late.

I’m running
http://tinyurl.com/l972zgb

I’m open to any weapon combination or armor. I honestly would love to keep the torch since it’s my legendary, but if using something else makes me play him more, I will.

Did i miss this? or am i crazy?

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I read today that power shoes was an out of combat +25% speed increase now? I had thought this was just an in combat buff. When did this get changed? I must have completely missed a patch note. I’ve been racing a thief in La and It seems to be correct? So am I crazy or did I miss this?

Might stacking condition build help

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‘Ive been enjoying my condition thief for some time. And I do reasonably well with him. But I thought I would come here for some build advice or any tips. Right now I’m running.

5/0/30/15/20

Right now I’m using might on dodge, might on stealth, and uncatchable, with feline grace. I really love the acrobatic feel of this fighting style. I’ve been using perplexity runes and a torment sigil. Today I swapped out two perplexity runes for altruism runes for even more might stacking. I just don’t think I was interrupting enough to make the 6th bonus worth it. But I kept the runes, in case it doesn’t work out.

Any ideas or thoughts on how I can improve on this? I would love the might on crit sigil, but I cannot with the torment sigil. I’m going to experiment with poppers for might on crit food.

Thanks for any help in advance.

PvE Out of Combat Inspiration Signet

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I feel our speed is fine. But if they were going to do something, I would rather them just add a movement speed signet. There not going to give anyone a 33% movement signet, unless they gave it to everyone. And some people’s builds use SoI in it’s current form, and they shouldn’t have to respect just because others want speed.

As for the engineer mentioned above, it’s not like you put points in speedy kits, and then kapow instant swiftness for ever. You need to spend 10 trait points in place you might not have wanted. Then you need to have a kit in a utility spot, and then you need to spam it every 10-15 seconds. I still love it, especially now that the swiftness is buffed, but its not a freebie.

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Posted by: Jester.1236

Jester.1236

I feel like proper credit for this post idea was not given. This post was originally posted here.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/The-only-thing-I-want-by-x-mas-for-Mesmer.

You have chosen to post this, and yet did not give any credit to Taldren for taking his post. The only reason i care is because it was an awesome post, and i love all awesome posts.

Aparently you saw this post, and got these ideas.

1. Posting about swiftness gets people attention
2. I love attention and will do anything for it.

Please give credit to peoples post if you are going to steal from them. Yes you asked for swiftness in PU but it’s basically asking for swiftness for Christmas, and i think the author of this post should have been given credit in your post.

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Posted by: Jester.1236

Jester.1236

We’ve all tried to be decent and have a conversation since you asked for one. But every person who has disagreed with you, you have spoken down to. Your basic point is, you want what you want. If anyone disagrees with you, they haven’t played enough to reach your area of expertise.

There are plenty of mesmers on this board that use boon sharing builds. You do not. That doesn’t make you better or them worse then you. So saying SoI’s active is worthless for you really doesn’t mean anything.

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Posted by: Jester.1236

Jester.1236

Engineers Do not get swiftness by simply toggling on a weapon kit, they need speedy kits. They cannot simply rely on medkit 5 for swiftness. They can also use Elixir B since we are listing them all. To get 100% reliable Swiftness an engineer needs speedy kits, which is something that they have to sacrifice for which i stated above.

SoI’s main ability is not the one buff every few seconds, but the ability to give all your buffs to your party. And a random buff for yourself. This, in Addition to more buffs like you proposed is to much. Like i said if they reworked the trait to make it like the other signets that would be fine. But there is no reason why a mesmer should get more then anyone else.

On my Guardian, and maybe your doing it better then myself. I have to trait staff and use shouts, or traits staff and use + boon duration for 100% swiftness up time. On the Guardian it seems like i’m pigeon holed into unto staff. But if there is another way i would love to know it. I really dislike having to have retreat on my bar just to maintain swiftness.

For a necro to get swiftness don’t they have to use the warhorn, and spectral walk for 100% up time? pigeon holing them into a weapon. Or they can use there signet for 25%. Which again would be fine on a mesmer, if it were just a signet like everyone else.

I do think the condition damage version wouldn’t be a bad idea.

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Posted by: Jester.1236

Jester.1236

The problem with all of these posts, is people ask for to much, and then make ridiculous claims. For one Necro’s and Engineers get there speed from two completely different sources. Necro’s, Theives, Rangers, and Elementalist use signets. The passive affect from these signets is nowhere near as powerful as signet of inspiration. It seems very unlikely there going to just tag on even more to that signet. They would have to rework it, which would be fine with some people. But i do not think they are just going to add it on.

Engineers have to put 10 points into speedy kits, which might be fine with some mesmers. But it would change all of our builds, which are already stretched if they did this.

Many thieves and rangers and ele’s are now using traveler’s runes like mesmers, because they are learning what good mesmers have known all along. A utility spot is far greater then speed. Sure you can change them out, but in my entire time fighting other players, i think I’ve seen an enemy change out a signet a second before battle, right around never.

People always post things like this. Like every class has unlimited access to swiftness (they don’t) and they have to sacrifice nothing (they do). We have access to swiftness, we have access to centaur runes, and we have access to travelers runes.

It would be nice if they fixed the focus so it wasn’t so buggy with the swiftness. But getting a signet of inspiration that constantly applies swiftness for nothing (which no sigil can do) and a random buff, and the ability to give everyone buffs is a bit much.

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Jester.1236

Don’t get me wrong! i really appreciate anyone who takes the time to read my stuff. And i thank you for your advice. Plus me leaving sword out of the build was my mistake, since i’m not using the scepter atm. I was just more looking for what people thought on the idea of using shatters into a zerg, kind of like launching missiles. Or helping me tweek that idea, rather then giving me something completely different.