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To be fair, I’d rather drink bleach then fight a Daredevil

Why introduce more counters to stealth when you can counter your own stealth

Though I’m sure this has been mentioned in the past but can I ask why Mass Invisibility is a Manipulation Skill if there is a trait that gives it projectile reflect which causes you to be revealed? Wouldn’t it make more sense if Time Warp is a Manipulation Skill and Mass Invis is a Glamour Skill?

Thoughts?

Hi everyone,

So today I excitedly pre-ordered PoF today but bought both the ultimate edition (which I intended to) and the standard one (after accidentally adding it to my cart). I have already happily redeemed the ultimate edition registration code but was wondering if it’s possible for me to refund the standard PoF I bought.

Thanks for your help!

Kthen

I will never forgive Anet for not giving us the legendary Quaggan Stance

Though I am not much of a PvE person, I think the primary reason there’s a lot of power Mesmers because it’s perhaps one of the most satisfying builds to play. Who wouldn’t feel a little hyped up after 100-0ing an unsuspecting individual from stealth

1 minute?!? That would literally be the final nail in the coffin for this game mode XD Though I do agree that there should be more penalty for death but maybe it involves losing 5 supply or something rather than being taken out of the game

This game is too unforgiving for an Ele so I propose that Eles gain obsidian flesh when dropped below 25% hp on an inherent 3 second
cooldown.

We have a /deaths option in the chat so I’m curious as to why there isn’t a /kills or /stomps counter as well. I’m sure I’m not the only one who wouldn’t mind keeping track of their kill/death ratio in PvP or WvW

Although I am a roamer myself and would love to have more rewards, keep in mind that WvW is based on large scale battles with many players duking it out at once. If Anet wants to focus on smaller scale battles then they would direct their attention to pvp

If you’re looking to hardly ever lose a duel, then the dire chrono condi build is the way to go https://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Chronomancer_-_Condi_Roamer

Hi guys, just bumping this thread cause I’d really like to see it implemented

If you’re looking to roam with gs, I recommend going full glass i.e zerker gear or marauder gear if you want to be a bit tankier. Power Mesmer often relies on landing quick/instant burst with the gs2, mind wrack, gs3 combo rather than sustain pressure and I highly recommend you maximize that burst damage.

Statwise, I’d personally aim for 2700 power, 50-55% Crit chance and 220% Crit damage.

Though I still hate the fact that casting phantasmal berserker from stealth reveals you now, i must admit that the animation definitely grew on me

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BeepBoopBop.5403:

Invocation sword/shield staff revenant. It has a higher burst potential than thief (maybe not as high as Mesmer) without any stealth carry. The reliance on active evasion and blocks brings me back to old sword dagger thief.

Another thing is I really like the attitude you need on revenant when facing all the condi kitten in WvW (thanks dire and trailblazer!). You can hardly outright cleanse: you need to think of other ways to handle condis, whether it be infuse light, waiting out confusion and torment stacks using shield 5, etc.

And you need to play aggressive as hell which is the primary reason I love power revenant. Kill the kitten out of them or be killed, that’s how I play.

Interesting, I did not know one could enjoy Rev so much after the nerfs (you must be quite dedicated!). I’ve been thinking of taking up the class for a while now and I’d love to know how you feel it fairs against the other classes.

With the sheer number of professions, traits, weapons, and stat combinations available to us in WvW, I’d like to know what your favorite builds to play as well as what your least favorite builds to play/play against are… besides ghost thief cause I’m sure we all still have PTSD from that godforsaken build.

As for myself, I personally love playing 2 builds in WvW:

One of those builds is D/D ele. While it may not be the most optimal build for roaming, I just love how flashy it is. Come on, who doesn’t love dashing around the battlefield in fiery explosions or perhaps ramming into your foe by literally riding the lightning? Win or lose, I find the build to be a blast to play (usually the blasting is for the might stacks) and nothing is more satisfying than landing that swagilistic updraft to go in for the kill.

My other favorite build is perhaps a complete opposite to the d/d ele bruiser playstyle. And that is the one shot pu mantra Mesmer. While I must admit, I feel like a scumbag everytime I use it but it is just so godkitten satisfying 100-0ing someone from stealth. I literally feel like a jumpscare straight out of a horror game and for that reason, I just can’t get enough of the build.
For those who know Dota, it also reminds me of Nyx Assassin which is my favorite MOBA character of all time.

For least favorite build, I personally hate dagger pistol thieves as they left a bad taste in my mouth in my early days in roaming by being constantly ganked, interrupted (when I used the Tempest elite spec), or seeing them bolt like the little engine that could when things went south. Overall I just found it very noob unfriendly when I was learning how to roam but ironically, as a power Mesmer that hunts them now, I’ve definitely sunk to their level.

So those are my favorite and least favorite builds in WvW and I’d love to hear about what you enjoy playing and what you absolutely despise to be against

I look forward to reading all your comments,

Kthen

I’d say with the removal of sigil of air/fire, this is more of a condi creep :P

Hi there! Big fan any chance you could show us some duels using ONLY conjure weapons

OriOri.8724:

@K THEN You’d be right if the intention of this change was to buff GS, but that wasn’t the intention of the change. The change was, or so we were told, supposed to give the mesmer more sustained pressure. And it still fails miserably at that

o.O much like scepter on the elementalist I always thought the design philosophy for gs was to be an inconsistent burst weapon. If we want sustain damage then go condi…then again this change was probably made more for pve than pvp

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I found that the gs 4 skill was perfectly fine as it was before the “buff” but with the changes, the skill received more drawbacks than benefits due to the increased cast time and the reveal when used in stealth. If they were going to buff a gs skill then I personally believe they should of looked at mind spike. Currently, it seems to be the most underwhelming skill on gs mesmer as it does average damage, removes a single boon which is not really relevant in today’s boonspam meta, and it is on a rather lengthy 12 second cooldown. Perhaps if they removed the changes to gs 4 and put the extra damage and vulnerability application on gs 3 it would be a much more beneficial buff.

Funny enough, besides maguuma, I get angry pms more frequently from tarnished coast roamers when I refuse to fight their condi mesmers and pre-nerfed warriors

The player base is still grieving over the loss of their favorite builds

Turk.5460:

No thanks. This game mode doesn’t need more encouragement to run condi.

Wut o.O

NICENIKESHOE.7128:

Just curious if anyone could test it for me.

Does the bonus damage happen after illusion summon or before? If before it could help clear blind a little if thief is close enough

Before

anduriell.6280:

yeah i always thought WP was right on the money
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN1grzxrs4o

He definitely brings up some good points! I feel that in many areas, our rune system has a lot of variety since there’s many condi, power, defensive and celestial stat options. However, there’s currently only 2 playable rune sets in wvw that give the +25% movement speed and are rather lacklustre stat-wise.

Levetty.1279:

K THEN.5162:

I must admit, I started playing power mesmer cause I was tired of thieves just evading everything and I wanted to beat them at their own ganking game. However, that’ll definitely be a lot harder now without the burst sigils.

If you want to take on thieves power Mesmer is pretty much the worst build in the game to do it.

In a dueling sense, power mesmer is awful at fighting thieves but you used to be able to 1 shot them with the 1 trick pony mantra pu build if you got the first strike on them from stealth

I must admit, I started playing power mesmer cause I was tired of thieves just evading everything and I wanted to beat them at their own ganking game. However, that’ll definitely be a lot harder now without the burst sigils.

We can no longer cast it in stealth without that boomerang revealing us o.O

anduriell.6280:

Pinko.2076:

The easiest way to more roaming build variety (because in-combat movement and out-of-combat movement are 100% different things) is to remove the out-of-combat penalty that a lack of 25% movespeed imposes.

anduriell.6280:

I think more speed in game is in general bad idea as it hurts the build variety.

Any runes that gives +25% should be removed as it is a powercreep and instead give all classes a couple of different ways to achieve speed. I never got the lack of swiftness in the necros, even while in combat for example.

I mean, come on at least some minor trait that guarantee long swiftenss on kills.

It’s a bad idea to have more speed because it hurts variety, but you want a lot more ways to reach the speed?

yes?
i thought the idea was simple enough but apparently isn’t: a rune\food\sigil that gives that extra mobility makes to have the speed over your builds.While having traits\skills to get it, makes you sacrifice something for it same if you can go for dagger\dagger(and trait) or the signet with the same necro you can get 25% speed.

Now that i think about it i realize every class have native access to speed in a couple of ways. So i think there is no need for such a runes.

While I will agree that all classes do have access to +25% movement speed, just to achieve it, some would have to completely modify their own builds in order to receive that +25% movement speed. This would include either a full specialisation tree where the user would lose many major traits that have synergy with their build or a valuable utility slot that could be key to their play style. While sacrificing a rune for the +25% movement speed may have an effect on the strength of a player’s build, it would be nowhere near as detrimental to the build if they were giving up a full specialisation, trait, or utility. That being said, currently with the amount of movement speed runes we have being runes of speed and traveller’s, are rather lacklustre and none of them provide any significant offensive stats. I personally believe that there should be a rune set that provides a fair amount offensive stats so that those who lack the +25% aren’t pigeonholed into using the celestial stat spread of traveller’s or the vitality from runes of speed

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I personally always think of this song whenever I play this little guy

While I do think that the +25% movement speed should be a luxury for those who seek it, I also believe there should be a few more runes that grant the +25% in wvw instead of just the one

Dear Anet,

as a roamer (that’s elementally challenged ;D) having +25% movement speed is certainly a luxury when chasing or retreating from enemies. However, some builds such as core mesmer or guardians don’t have the pleasure of that small but noticeable movement speed boost and are forced to run the mediocre travellers runes if they wish to keep up with everyone else at the cost of a power or condition based rune set that would greatly benefit their build. I noticed in pvp, players have access to rune of the lynx that gives both a significant boost in power and condition damage. Unfortunately, I also noticed that this rune set is exclusive to that very game mode. By introducing the rune of the lynx to wvw (perhaps through the provisions master vendor) it would be greatly appreciated by numerous roamers that have trouble incorporating the +25% movement speed into their build without it impacting their offensive capabilities due to rune of the traveller’s rather small 36 point stat boost to everything.

Thanks for all you have done and I look forward to your reply!

Cheers,

Kthen

For unexplained reasons I think of this theme whenever I look at this little guy

Junkpile.7439:

Condi reaper problem is that they can’t land any hits against average or better players. Of course only maybe 2% of roamers are average or better.

2% = average?????

Fighting a thief makes me want to drink bleach XD

TheDarkSoul.1938:

Eh, just play DH with Longbow and traps and you can literally roll your face across the keyboard and still win.

Anything with good long range pressure… so, basically Druid and DH. We don’t like not being able to kite away from your damage.

Good Scrappers have a pretty good matchup VS us I think.

Berserkers (if full melee) are… eh. Problem is you’re just so darn easy to kite and evade your key skills (Bursts, Shield Bash, HB, stuff like that). You pop Resistance? We just swap to SB and wait it out. You pop Endure Pain? Same deal, just kite it out and re-engage. If I kite you then you’re struggling to hit your Bursts which cripples your rejen even more. Yeah sure if you land a Burst then thats a pretty good chunk of my health gone… but good thieves won’t let you do that, lol. Idk, I always felt like Berserker was one of my easier matchups (unlesss you’re playing Condi, in which case, kitten you.)

Condi pretty much kills us. We have pretty lackluster cleanse considering most of us take Pulm instead of cleanse on dodge. Just put a few condis on us, wait for us to pop SoA/Shadowstep, or whatever, and then just save your real condi burst for after that. If they are using cleanse on evade, just…. don’t attack afterwards. I see very few people that actually do this: if you land your condi burst and then STOP attacking, there’s literally nothing I can do about it. I fought a Condi mesmer the other day who would just stow weapons every time he landed a burst on me and I melted pretty quick.

Tempest is dependant on how good the Tempest is I guess.

Thief mirror matches are kinda boring tbh. Just whoever lands the first Steal + SS usually wins unless someone kittens up. ALL about the opening. Land your steal, dodge theirs, Pulm any heal/stealth attempts, done.

Rev just isn’t a great matchup against Thief. Idk about condi because I don’t think I’ve ever fought a good one, lol.

If you play power Chrono then you’re basically just gonna lose unless you catch us totally off-guard and land the PERFECT burst. Power Chrono just isn’t great, particularly against Thief because we can reset and burst so much more often and reliably than you can. Condi is the way to go.

I mean in general? Interrupt 5-2 from D/P to leave us with no initiative, dodge the shot from SS and play through blinds, ALWAYS count the cd on Steal! It’s so so essential for us to land it that it can often decide the fight, so dodge it/invuln it, whatever, just make sure we don’t hit it. Count stealth as well, because the backstab nerf means we basically get one attempt to land it everytime we go Stealth so just count 2-3 seconds and then just hit dodge. Stow weapons when you’re not attacking (this goes for full melee builds in particular) instead of hitting AA into thin air because Pulm procs off interrupted AA as well. Make sure you hit your CC skills, bait out the stun breaks and then burst. Every time thief enters stealth, try to anticipate where he’s moving (this is actually easier to do than it sounds). Pressure the kitten out of him because Thieves hate being pressured, we don’t have the defenses to put up with it for long.

Don’t think there’s much else tbh.

To be fair though if a power Mesmer hasn’t 100-0 a thief with its burst when landing the burst then 1 of them has built… unconventionally

Turk.5460:

Sarika.3756:

Turk.5460:

This thread is just chock full of salt. Some people just don’t understand how to play this game adequately. x3

This comment is helpful how?

Its about as helpful as any other comment in this thread, aside maybe one or two. How about the very first one that says “Alt F4”? The fact that comments like that are then edited to be included into the OP’s post makes this whole thread a joke.

So again, this thread is mostly people that have some sort of issue. I forgot what it is…

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A surplus of sodium chloride.

But I’m serious :‘( :’( :’(

Alt f4 seems to do the trick for me

Mist fire wolf is by far the best elite

I think that if your opponent is under the right conditions then you may win :P

No one can defeat my 4 conjure weapon glass staff ele roamer! Although every time I die it’s definitely due to lag or Anet servers inhibiting my true potential…not because I’m secretly elementally challenged

Although at launch it would be hilariously overpowered (we’ll get to use 45 skills + overloads!!!) but admitedly, having access to an offensive/bursty weapon set such as scepter/dagger and having a healing/defensive weapon set like dagger focus would easily solve the current ele problem of being forced into a healbot for pvp

My biggest complaint is that Rangers still can’t wield 2 longbows

I’m pretty sure it’s Aang

+1 I always love statistics

To hunt thieves preferably the Maguuma thieves

Timelord.8190:

Ofc it’s bugged.
It’s not an insta cast skill, that’s tue. If it was it wouldn’t have been an evade skill lol. The duration is 3/4 sec, and the evasion duration is the same.

I see where you’re getting at but after a few tests, it seems that there’s a 1/4 second windup time to the burning speed with a 1/2 second evade frame.