Guild Wars 2

Got the achievement just fine but it does NOT count towards the 21 needed for the Glacial Gauntlets reward.

I did not know that, I have never really collected that much unbound magic, usually just enough to get my daily chests for the zone. I only noticed because the area I usually go to collect it in was empty. I was still able to collect it elsewhere on the map.

So, on some maps certain nodes didn’t reset after the daily reset today. This includes all of the rich mining nodes I hit along my daily routes. As its been more than 24 hours since I last played I thought it was kind of weird but wasn’t too fussed. However, when I got to Bloodstone Fen I noticed that the floating unbound magic I had collected more than 24 hours ago hadn’t reset either as well as all of the bloodstone crystal nodes. So here I am submitting a bug report and seeing if anyone else has had this problem.

Since nodes certain nodes have a daily limit I thought it might be related to that but the unbound magic not resetting is just plain weird.

My Bloody Price outfit is completely gone.

When I visited the BL Armorer with the character that my mad king outfit was on, it converted fine. However when I logged on to my other character to do the same for my bloody prince outfit, it was missing. It still quite clearly shows up in my Black Lion purchase history.

I really hope there is a fix for this, ’cause it is a little annoying.

For most part I have no real issues with any of the changes to the classes I play. The only one I dissagree with in the slightest is the ele vigor/elemental attunement traits being moved. It is really harmful to a PvE player like myself when changes are made to nerf a problematic PvP build. A better way would be to make the Elemental Attunement trait the 25 point static, or ditch it entirely and make it part of the static 5 point traits across the other 4 trait lines.

Oh, and will you please, please, PLEASE, make a click to toggle camera on/off function for the mouse? It can even switch from camera to ground targeting then back when a GT skill s used.

Please?

I am using T2 light cutural armor transmuted onto exotic lvl stats. I am very pleased with it. It is my favorite armor in the game for my sylvari, and runs second place in my favorite armor list. (Overall my absolute favorite is the Asura T3 light)

I use S/P and S/F all the time in dungeons as my second weapon set (GS being primary.)

I have no problems with it, and in fact the teleport from S3 and the distortion from S2 have saved my life many times.

Or people could just stop whining about the skill because their egos took a hit.

Time Warp and Mass Invis are both about 1000 time better, but you don’t see any threads complaining about them. Face facts, the only reason people complain about it is because its an excuse for their lousy ability to play.

Citadel of Flame light armor is extremely cool, especially on a charr.

I mean you and all of your clones have glowing magma tails of DOOM.

mmmm

The mesmer is my favorite class.

That being said, despite being able to solo champion level mobs the mesmer is much harder to play effectively. My guardian can take on much larger mobs than my mesmer with far less trouble.

The mesmer definitely needs a serious PvE buff.

The fact is that gem prices (in gold) need to be considerably higher than they are. The reverse is also true, gold prices (in gems) needs to be much lower.

One of the main functions of the currency exchange should be to prevent the sale of gold from 3rd parties. Its hard to justify spending $35 dollars in the gem store for 10-15 gold when buying it from a 3rd party gets you 65-70 gold for the same price. This also nets more gems by using the exchange then by just buying them outright.

I DO NOT CONDONE 3RD PARTY SALES OF GOLD. I still believe that people who use bots and gold sellers need to be banned. I am just pointing out that ANET can and should use their own micro-transaction business model to edge them out.

In addition, inflation needs to be curbed. As someone who doesn’t get to play as much as others, I find the current rates of inflation to be staggering. Since many of the cool exotics don’t have drop rates outside of the mystic forge (which they should, it would moderate prices considerably) I will never have a chance at them by just playing. At this rate I will NEVER be able to afford anything I actually want in this game without buying gold (I haven’t yet, but I’d be lying if I said I had not considered it), and even then I would HAVE to buy it from a 3rd party to get any kind of value for my money.

One way to help alleviate both problems is have actual items people farm for/craft sell for gems instead of gold. This would force people to use the currency exchange for more than the odd transmutation stone/black lion key.

Since ANET can directly control the price of gems it would simultaneously edge out competition from 3rd party gold sellers, increase their own profits (Who would buy 3rd party if you could buy from the source for less?) as well as moderate the economy.

I would say that the overall that the Mesmer has considerably less DPS than other classes. Its relatively easy to test in the heart of the mists. Anybody who think’s that the Mesmer has close to the DPS of other classes is fooling themselves.

On the other hand, a Mesmer is MUCH harder to kill than other classes, which allows us to solo champion level monsters.

There is a much simpler explanation:

Magic.

I am playing the world’s smallest violin for you.

Seriously, I also have been a member of JQ since Day 1 and I don’t give a kitten if people want to transfer in while its free.

ANET told us at the very beginning that there were going to be free transfers for a while while the game is new. The WvW matches are eventually going to be extended to a monthly basis and transfers will start costing 800 gems or $10. When this happens most of the problems you are QQing about will disappear. So just sit tight and wait. Its a game for kittens sake. If you are so worried about finding a good WvW match you can leave JQ and find another world that’s less populated. Transfers are FREE right now after all.

I would say:

1) Increase AoE size to double what it is now

2) Increase Damage

3) Add Blind

The Mesmer Greatsword skill #1 out to have piercing for these reasons.

#1. All other skill slot 1 skills on 2 handed weapons
a.) already have piercing or some other form of AoE damage (either bounces or straight area of effect) -or-
b.) have traits that give all the attack skills on those weapons piercing(warrior & ranger)

#2. The other slot 1 skills on two handed weapons that already have piercing (necro staff and engineer rifle) have equivalent if not better DPS vs a single target than the Mesmer GS. (Keep in mind they have 1/2 the cast time of the Mesmer)

#3. There would be no real changes to balance in PvP seeing as other classes already have this ability in big WvW zerg situations and piercing really doesn’t make that much of a difference in small scale sPvP battles. It would also help the Mesmer compete with other classes in PvE when tagging mobs for loot.

Notice how I am completely not mentioning how unreliable 90% of the Mesmer AoE damage really is and how much this little change would help.

/sign if you agree.

P.S. It would also be cool to get some kind of feedback from the anet team.

I would say that many Mesmer skills do need quite a bit of work.

While I am not opposed to your ideas, Mesmer skills and traits need to be reworked so that the Mesmer class has the utility it represents instead of being split into clear cut shatter builds or minion builds as it is now. I would like the shatter skills to possibly have a MUCH shorter CD but only shatter one clone/phantasm at a time. This would allow for more control/micro and blur the line between a shatter build and a illusion build.

As for you skill suggestions, I would say instead of increasing Spatial Surge’s damage and cast time, just give it piercing. It would still function the same, but it would give the GS a more unique feel compared to other Mesmer weapons as well as close the gap for procing targets that exists between the Mesmer and other professions.

Yet another one of these threads.

The only people who actually think Moa is OP are bad players. It just isn’t that good of a skill. Especially not compared to other Elites that could be slotted instead.

I don’t know what could be ailing you.

Personally I had a little trouble during the early levels as well, but now I can solo most event bosses. I know for a fact my timing on using skills/shatters has significantly improved since I first started playing.

My personal build is very shatter/glass cannon oriented but I don’t die all that much unless I severely over aggro.

The only clones I have noticed not being created when I play are from sword #3 if I am slightly out of range (which is super annoying) and GS #2 which does happen somewhat frequently (unsure of reason, but definitely not being killed, traits for clone death don’t proc)

Mesmers are relatively weak compared to other classes. This requires much more skill to play without getting killed. The learning curve is immense.

However once you get the hang of how to play, the Mesmer becomes much easier to handle and you get to kitten off everybody in PvP who Mesmer whine and have no knowledge of how hard the Mesmer is to play.

As I was playing earlier I noticed a weird discrepancy between the MW tool tip and the actual damage put out by the ability.

Shattering one clone 25 times (no critical hits were counted in the total) averaged very close to the damage in the tool tip

Shattering 2 clones 25 times also yielded an average damage for each clone shattered very close to the tool tip.

However, when I shattered 3 clones, the average damage per shatter and the average damage overall was about 1/2 the actual damage listed in the tool tip.

Edit: I should also note that shattering 3 clones gave me equal or less damage overall than shattering 2.

I might be crazy however and would like someone else to test and confirm this.

I also noted that the Mental Torment trait wasn’t functioning correctly but I will need to test more to be sure.

yes, its absolutely stupid.

To top it off there is no party search window, which WAS a function in GW1 and for unknown reasons is absent in GW2.

Same for me…. I had the monthly almost 50% done.

Man, what an annoyance.

Today’s patch made an already annoying problem much worse, the single digit fps drop that I usually experience once every 20-30 minutes is now happening every 2-3 minutes. This is making the game nearly unplayable.

I have a problem with my Ele underwater just strait up failing to hit enemies with attacks. Its very aggravating.

It happens regardless of how close I am, of even if the enemy is moving or not.

sorrow.2364:

Don’t take just a sentence of my post and answer only to that sentence, please.
I’ve made a whole post, it is worth reading, don’t you think?

Do you really think that the 5 skill is an heal? It is a 3 seconds casting time heals which heals only for 2k, not worth using. Also that was said before that it is not worth fighting as a Moa, now you are saying it is worth? Have you tried to fight as a Moa? Seriously.

Guys, I’m wasting my time here. Your point of view is extremely spoilt and you have no idea of what overpowered means, you are keep saying the same things over and over, hoping that they makes sense if you keep repeating them.
You will realize that Moa was op when ANet nerfs it in the next balancing patch. Have fun with your fair and well balanced Moa Morph.

You are the only person here with absolutely no logical basis to his argument. In fact, whenever a logical counter argument is presented, you immediately dismiss it as Bull kitten.

Plenty of good players on this forum have given you tons of ways to deal with/avoid Moa Morph. Even by reading your posts, it is apparent that you don’t engage a mesmer with any kind of forethought or strategy. The reason why you lose so bad is because playing a mesmer is all about forethought and strategy.

Your ego is so big that being the best player, anything that kills you must be OP. Face the facts, Moa only works on scrubs like you. Most good players don’t even give it a second thought. Not to mention most Mesmers don’t even run Moa because it isn’t as strong as TW.

Mesmers are the single hardest professions to play. The AI of PvE is quite challenging, but that’s nothing compared to a human player capable of strategic thought backed by at least 16 skills at his/her disposal.

sorrow.2364:

I think you didn’t understand my question. I’ve asked if you tried all professions at least in sPvP/tPvP, that is the main gamemode in which game unbalancing is felt more strongly.
You are making another assumption. Guardians performs way too good at the moment, both in PvE that in PvP. You should know how guardians are requested in dungeon groups and in tPvP teams, which is a sign of a bad game balancing, considering that ANet wanted to put all professions at the same level.

Can’t talk about Engineer, because it is the only profession I didn’t try enough, but it doesn’t look like people are complaining about them being weak.

You are mostly playing PvE, in which Mesmer is quite weak at it as far I’ve heard, isn’t it? The complains about Mesmers being OP are strictly related about sPvP/tPvP, which is a quite important game mode. They should split PvP and PvE balancing as they did in Guild Wars, where mesmers were in the same situation, they were extremely weak in PvE but extremely strong in PvP… They were nerfed in PvP and buffed in PvE!

I would like to invite you to try out Necromancers and Elementalists, the other 2 caster professions with Mesmer, to realize how game balancing is broken.

Once again proving that you are in fact a bad player. If you actually bother to read the rest of the posts in this forum, very few people have a problem dealing with Moa Morph, and I have also stated ways in which I deal with the skill quite effectively. Just because you can’t figure it out doesn’t make it broken.

And just FYI if you have Ctrl +T up on a mesmer and the BIG RED ICON suddenly disappears, you know exactly when he went into stealth and that there is a 98% chance that stealth will last exactly 3 seconds (the 2 most used stealth skills being the prestige and Decoy.) Between that and the casting time of Moa, its easy to figure out when to dodge or block.

To top it off, you also seem to believe that it is somehow HARDER to kill AI enemies that have discernible attack patterns than it is to kill a human player with a full skill bar and a functioning brain.

So…….

do Slyvari poop?

You could search Google w/ any number of topics and come up with millions of pictures that would fit the “slyvari” look. That being said, I can’t think of many other games where you actually get to play as a plant.

So far, I have had no issues at all with coloring on my T2 light armor, other than I can’t find a dye that is the same shade of green the T2 cultural weapon handles are.

All of the 2 part illusion summoning skills are bugged in this way. It is already well known and documented.

sorrow.2364:

This is an answer to what? Moa counter? If so, exactly, how can I know when to use my dodge, daze, kd, launch, stun or interrupt when the caster is stealthed? Try the luck? Spam my dazes in the air? Oh, and don’t forget that you can’t even realize that the Mesmer is actually stealthed, because there are surely a bunch of his copies around!

Ctrl + T

Maybe you should actually learn some of the basic aspects of the game before you complain how you cant deal with one skill.

And just so you understand what an OP skill is, the slyvari racial skill Grasping Vines during BWE3 was originally an AoE spell that both immobilized and did DoT for an extended period, with a very short CD. Disabling one person for 10 seconds with an Elite skill w/ 180 second CD that can be dodged, blocked or interrupted with little effort is not by any means OP.

Every single prof has skills that kd, launch, daze or otherwise interrupt. Failing that everyone has the ability to double tap a movement key for a dodge.

If you can’t figure out how to utilize these skill properly, the failure is on you.

sorrow.2364:

Guess why people are also complaining about Guardians? Saying that there is another OP profession isn’t a valid argument. Also, Guardians need to use utility/weapon skills to do the job Moa does in just 1 skill. Bar compression is another cool feature that makes Moa OP.

So your argument it that if someone complains about it, it MUST be OP. Wow, according to these forums that would make every single profession OP. Chances are that these professions are all pretty well balanced, and the people who are complaining are just bad players.

As I have said before, I have played plenty of PvP with other classes, and never ONCE had Moa drastically change the outcome of a fight. The times I have been hit by it once I see the mesmer casting is around 10-15% of the time. Which means the only times I really worry about it is when a mesmer gets the drop me, which in reality is not much different from any class getting the drop on me. They are ALL capable of dealing considerable damage before I can react.

Rottaran Owain.6789:

You can cure these.

Moa is un-cureable.

After being hit, there is very little you can do to improve your situation other than to use up your endurance dodging attacks, and attempt to run away.

If you bothered to actually look at the skills listed, most of those can’t be cured, and the other two are parts of some pretty hefty hex builds, which being on the receiving end is enough to shut you down permanently, not just for 10 measly seconds.

…. Your opinions speak to your ignorance. A good build for a Guardian can keep a person flat on their back for just as long as Moa “dazes” them, and doesn’t even need an elite (or the CD time that comes with it) to do so. And that’s just one example of many.

That’s the way its supposed to work, clones don’t do damage. (That’s what SHATTER skills are for.)

And FYI, illusions are super strong once you start putting points into traits.

iBeserker is a finicky skill. 1/2 the time it comes out of the gate swinging, the other 1/2 it just sits there and or dies. I don’t think traits matter much.

There was a trait that gave Spatial Surge piercing

Perhaps by merging Furious Interruptions and Boonful Interruptions. Then replace what used to be Furious with a new trait?

Just a thought.

Honestly, I would be happy with a SOLID 40 or even 30 fps, as long as it doesn’t do the single digit kitten while I am playing.

Sorry it took so long for this post. I have been out of town.

My specs are
Intel i7-3610QM @ 2.3 GHz
8 GB RAM
Nvidia Gforce GT 680M – 1GB
Driver version 306.23

And while I am an air head, this computer should be able to run GW2 with no problem. I have no problems with other more demanding games like Battlefield 3.

Mesmers are balanced just fine. Not once playing as a Mesmer have I felt that I got a “free win” and not once playing as any other class have I felt the Mesmer got a “free win.” There are plenty of instances where I have completely rolled over a mesmer w/ moa morph as if he wasn’t even there, and plenty of times I have been squished by other classes while playing as a mesmer.

I have been hit with moa morph more than enough to know its not broken. If you feel the mesmer got a free win just because he disabled your skills for 10 seconds, you were probably gonna lose regardless. The fact is if you are playing well most of your skills should be recharging anyway (many of which have longer recharges than 10 seconds). Moa is a powerful ability, but it doesn’t stop you from kiting/running away. I can name plenty of elites on all the classes that are just as powerful. As with everything, its how the player uses it, and how the other player reacts that determines how powerful it is.

Mesmer are more powerful in 1v1 combat, but on the flip side, they are much weaker than other classes in big group battle situations where illusions die at the drop of a penny, often making large portions of a mesmer’s build unusable.

Cbuzz.5083:

Jungle Quack.1368:

Please keep your useless off topic opinions to yourself.

I am asking for a workaround for a technical problem.

There is no technical problem here. Delta is spot on the money & I agree with him 100%. Doesn’t matter how much tweaking, driver/Windows installs you do. Nothing is going to make a slow laptop faster. By all means, feel free to waste your time trying (I’m sure you will), but it won’t get you anywhere. You’ll realize sooner or later, I’m tipping probably later because you think there is a magic fix for slow laptops.

Once again, please keep your baseless self important opinions to yourself. This a tech support forum. It is not the place to post such things. And if you bothered to read, I am not the only person with a decent rig (laptop OR desktop) having FPS problems. The only reason I posted in the first place was because its hard to wade through the thousands of useless posts like your own to find a bit of good information.

Still Looking for any suggestions on how to make this problem happen less frequently while anet come up with a fix.

Please keep your useless off topic opinions to yourself.

I am asking for a workaround for a technical problem.

Same FPS issues as already posted by other users, but I am having a hard time sorting though all the posts for useful info.

Normally runs at 60-65 FPS which suddenly drops to 8-10 for no apparent reason.

My machine is more than capable seeing as its a brand spanking new gaming laptop. All drivers are updated and running GW2 only uses about 16-22% of my computers processing power.

Is there any kind of workaround to prevent this from happening?