Guild Wars 2

Honestly, I stayed around because I really loved Mesmer and WvW. WvW in barren and Mesmer/ chronomancer was nerfed extremely hard. There is very little left for me to enjoy in the game anymore. I’ve played Mesmer since before the glamour nerf, I’ve played through nerfs before, but I’m tired of this cycle of finding something I enjoy in Mesmer, just to have it nerfed into oblivion. It feels like Anet gives me toys just to smash it with a hammer, over and over again. So I decided to break the cycle and leave till Anet gets their kitten together.

Sorry to burst any ones bubbles, but raid content will be pugged with time, no matter how hard you make it, as knowlege of the fight spreads a winning formula will be created. With that formula, pugs will beat it.

But yes, lfg needs expand, infact the whole map system could use with some improvement.

Sooo… uhhhh… what does this have to do with Mesmers specifically?

HAH. To me any crafting is aweful, thats why I simply dont’t do them in any game I play.

First I would like to say, thanks Anet for making such a good fight, whether I succeed or fail I always have fun with it.

But I think there is a serious problem with his death. I have crashed off the map after he dies more then I have not, 5 kills so far, 4 of which I crashed. I even dropped my graphics way below what my computer could easily handle for the last kill and I still crashed. Its costed me a lot of loot and I really want to go explore the map more after he’s down, but I can’t.

I’m not the only one with this problem, normally I’m partied with 5 people when we kill it, and at least one or 2 also crash after the kill it.

Please fix this, its really frustrating.

Its sad day when players complain about the difficulty of content. What makes a game fun is that there can aleays be a goal, always a new challenge, and these new zones are just one huge challenge! Sure, some people aren’t ready for it, well thats your goal, get ready!

Woah, will it actually be fixed? makes me kinda sad about leaving :/

Anet… let me tell you a story… my story, of me and this boss.

The first time I made it to him. I crashed when he was at like 1%. I may have cried, just a bit.

Then another time again it bugged out and we wiped.

Now. this time, Anet, this time, be my savior. Please. I beg you.

HELP US ANET PLEASE!

Am I the only one that has really been enjoying HoT so far?

I mean when I farmed for poison mastery, it was tough, but I just explored and did events on the way. I feel like a lot of the complainers are trying to rush the content.

Anet needs to make a sticky “mesmer OP QQ” thread already they come around so often.

Though, OP, thats some powerful 6/6/6/6/6 build you got there, how did you manage it!?

Basic gliding is a must, then I suggest jumping mushroom as they are truly helpful in getting around. After that, I have no idea, maybe the next level of gliding?

tobascodagama.2961:

AlphatheWhite.9351:

Kaamau.5341:

This could be really really interesting for I-defender, if you set it on a raid boss, have some one come in to tank it, the the defender will only take 5% of 50% of the tanks damage, unless it some how still takes the full hit. If the tank out puts any healing or if there is a druid, the defender could be sustained indefinately. Making it instumental in raid encounters that use any kind of a tank as it will be a almost constant 50% damage reduction.

The damage to the iDefender should be coming from the buff itself, not the NPC directly, so I’ll be very surprised if iDefender actually takes any less damage that way.

Yeah, agreed with your interpretation. Creature attacks against minions have their damage reduced, but the iDefender buff is not a creature attack against a minion.

Worth testing out when the change hits live, though, just in case.

Yeah but mobs take damage from retal the defender has when they hit the player, suggesting that there is a connection of some kind.

This could be really really interesting for I-defender, if you set it on a raid boss, have some one come in to tank it, the the defender will only take 5% of 50% of the tanks damage, unless it some how still takes the full hit. If the tank out puts any healing or if there is a druid, the defender could be sustained indefinately. Making it instumental in raid encounters that use any kind of a tank as it will be a almost constant 50% damage reduction.

Bikini.

Behellagh.1468:

Kaamau.5341:

RoseofGilead.8907:

Kaamau.5341:

Heh. GamerGate nuts? You seem kind of misinformed, GamerGate is concerned with ethics in the gaming media, *not with genders politics. *

It most definitely had to do with gender politics, and women who most vocally spoke out against sexism and such in games were harassed and stalked for doing so. That being said, I don’t think Dulfy would necessarily be a target of any such harassment/stalking because I don’t think she tends to make statements about the whole thing.

It was feminists who inserted themselves into controversy, it would be the same if they were a man, and any way, these feminists are not well liked by more then just a few groups (For good reason), and so far there is no proof that gamergate supporters harass them. In fact most of gamergate wants the harassment to stop so these feminists can no longer play the victim card. Its likely third party individuals/ rogue elements that are responsible for the harassment. Another option is the harassment is fake so that they can continue to make thousands and thousands of dollars out of it as professional victims.

Hah. That is funny, I’m guessing that is in response to

“Another option is the harassment is fake so that they can continue to make thousands and thousands of dollars out of it as professional victims.”

I stated it as an option, not as my opinion. I don’t think they are, but its a possibility,
In the future, please tackle my arguments, while you didn’t state is explicitly, it seems you may have committed the ad hominem fallacy.

RoseofGilead.8907:

Kaamau.5341:

Heh. GamerGate nuts? You seem kind of misinformed, GamerGate is concerned with ethics in the gaming media, *not with genders politics. *

It most definitely had to do with gender politics, and women who most vocally spoke out against sexism and such in games were harassed and stalked for doing so. That being said, I don’t think Dulfy would necessarily be a target of any such harassment/stalking because I don’t think she tends to make statements about the whole thing.

It was feminists who inserted themselves into controversy, it would be the same if they were a man, and any way, these feminists are not well liked by more then just a few groups (For good reason), and so far there is no proof that gamergate supporters harass them. In fact most of gamergate wants the harassment to stop so these feminists can no longer play the victim card. Its likely third party individuals/ rogue elements that are responsible for the harassment. Another option is the harassment is fake so that they can continue to make thousands and thousands of dollars out of it as professional victims.

Behellagh.1468:

Surprised she’s not on Patreon but that might require more sharing than she’s willing to provide.

I certainly know if I was to ever generate a fan site, it would be registered to a PO Box, in another town, possibly another state, for exactly what that gent in the link was trying to do. Especially if I was a woman considering the GamerGate nuts.

Heh. GamerGate nuts? You seem kind of misinformed, GamerGate is concerned with ethics in the gaming media, not with genders politics.

I think its important that we move to a position where more then one role exists, and unless there is some level requirement to using other roles, the zerker meta will continue.

Dude, these are WAY to long. Some people might make it through your videos, but, I highly doubt there will be many. Mostly due to the fact that, while I can assure you there is a lot to talk about, it can be fit into a video 1/5 the time these videos take up. This leads me to believe that these are going to be full of rants. This makes me not want to watch or even listen. I personally spend 4 or even 5 hours a day listening to people talk on youtube. They are covering massive topics mind you, and the longest is 45 minutes. People want high content density thrown at them in a way that doesn’t bore them and yet doesn’t confuse them. Unfortunately, you fail at the everything but the last. A good method to hit all three, if done correctly, is a well managed text that goes through everything on a point by point basis.

While I respect your effort, its not in a format that anyone but a small minority will sit through.

So, I wouldn’t say you will NEED it, but you will be missing out on somethings by not having it, and as a Mesmer, given how powerful Chronomancer is, you’ll be at a bit of a disadvantage.

Chronomancer will almost certainly be meta for Mesmer in every game mode, and I personally find it extremely fun to play.

Nike.2631:

Considering the 99% mass extinction of builds that just took place with the trait line/trait revamp, be very clear: ArenaNet wants players to stop surprising them with overperforming combinations a LOT more than they want the game to have rich diversity. At this point having only a modest number of strong builds emerging from a new Espec is a feature not a bug to the people charged with managing class balance.

I would say that they cut down the number of possible builds but increased the number of viable and competitive builds. I play the game modes pretty evenly, and I see a much greater number of builds being run.

I’m pretty sure this has a lot to do with traits being much more in sync with skills in general, giving rise to synergy that didn’t exist before.

Ohoni, let me get this straight, forgive me if I’m misinterpreting, but the rest of the game is being devalued because a game mode is being introduced with its own unique value? Mind you, you can’t acquire any of the unique values any other game modes have from this specific game mode.

“My gold ring is worth less to me because my friend has gold earrings!”

This feels kind of selfish to me.

Ohoni, I know some people can’t raid for time requirements, when I played WoW, I had that problem for half a year or so which I couldn’t raid. I however understood this and resigned myself from raiding. It sucked especially because its the thing I loved doing. The difference here is just because I couldn’t raid I didn’t go out of my way to attempt devalue it for those who could. The thing you seem to be attempting. You might not think so, that might not be your goal, but that is the outcome of your goal.

Then there are people who simply don’t want to raid. If they don’t want to raid, they need to understand that they can’t have the reward, honestly, its not that hard to understand. You have equal opportunity, its one of the basics of the thing we call liberty, but you also want equal outcome, which most certainly is not. I could have been a football player, I don’t like football, so I didn’t participate, so I don’t I don’t have a chance to win the NFL, I can’t get some golden football or something of that nature.

To raiders, those unique rewards are our golden football. But this is a game and its not limited as the real world, while I’m to old and out of shape to EVER play in the NFL, its never to late for you to raid, in fact as time goes on, its going to become easier for you to participate in raiding as the content becomes well rehearsed and probably nerfed. In fact, you can raid, pvp, farm you brains out in the Silverwastes, WvW and everything else you could possibly want to do in this game.

But you don’t want to participate, you want to participate in the NBA get your golden basketball and still get your golden football without participating in the NFL at all. Its not enough that you have equal opportunity, you want equal outcome. Would you want to participate in NFL, base your entire career around it and when you win, the thing that represents your achievement, all your hard work, is also handed out to all the baseball players, the basket ball players. soccer players and all the other sports you can imagine. I think not.

Edit: Typos

I was running an offensive Well build in WvW, they can be absolutely devastating to the enemy. Gravity well is really strong if traited with interrupt traits, drop your two damaging wells inside and its death. At the same time, their damage can be a little lackluster, however you can tag everything that moves.

You guys can have legendary armor for doing what you want, but each kind of content should be given a different and unique version. In fact its very likely that I won’t get this legendary armor. While I don’t like it, I can recognize that its healthy for a game to be like this. This unique armor is your reward, your “medal” it shows what you have done, something for you to be proud of, and like it or not that item is devalued when other people get it through other methods. Would be nice if that wasn’t the case, but it is, humans are illogical and petty in that sense. But it doesn’t change the fact that is how it is and its healthy for a game to have unique rewards to feed this. Sorry.

But to the same end, why should you get to deny these people their pride in so that you can have your shiny?

Ohoni.6057:

Removing any pull from the events that everyone is doing anyway makes the game stale. People need rewards outside of their grasp in order to enjoy the game to its fullest.

Of course, and like I’ve said, you shouldn’t start with everything, you shouldn’t be handed everything, you should have to earn it, my position is only that you be able to earn it via multiple methods, and choose the method that appeals to you. Players should not have to choose between whether they want to do something they don’t want or go without the item, there is no benefit to forcing that decision.

It’s because it removes incentive to do other things that they might or might not like.

There should be no incentives for players to do things that they know that they do not like. If there is something they know that they do not like, then they should not do that thing. If it turns out that there is a less than viable population who do want to do that thing, then that thing should be closed down. It’s not the majority’s job to do things that they do not enjoy, just to support an activity that only a small minority enjoy. If that minority wants to do that activity, then they need to justify its existence themselves.

And again, for about the two-dozenth time now, there is a place for rewards that encourage people to try a new activity, but once they’ve tried it and decided it isn’t for them, the game should respect that and let them go. If you respect your players, let them go. If they don’t return, they were never yours to begin with.

One of those methods will be branded the easiest and will farmed and accomplished into infinitude. Unless you want them all to be hard, then your title is extremely misleading. Also who quits a game because there is some item that is in a game mode they don’t play? I don’t do fractals and I think those fractal weapon skins are amazing, but I understand that no matter how much I like them, they are the reward for that game mode and the people who put in the effort deserve them, that not being me. In fact I despised dungeons in this game, but just recently I needed a set of monk runes for a build I was setting up. Those runes are exclusive rewards from AC, not difficult or hard by any standard, but I had to do it. For the few runs I did to get the full set, I had a blast, sure by the end I despised the kitten ed place, but it gave me an objective and a method to accomplish it, and you know what. I wouldn’t have had it any other way.

Understanding that you can’t get everything you want by doing what you want is part of being an adult, get over it.

here is an idea that might please both camps, make it so you can get the rewards of this hardcore content without actually doing it but make it heavily time gated. You can still get it, but you have to spend weeks, maybe a month or two to get the same reward.

Maybe you earn 2 currency a day and need 60 maybe even 100 currency to buy one, you can earn those 2 from a wide spread of reasonably easy goals a day that should reasonable to even the laziest of casuals. At the same Time I think there should be certain prestige items from the hardest of the hardest content that you shouldn’t be able to buy through this method that resemble lower version of that items, but have something just a little special.

Hard content is my favorite content to complete, but at the same time its my least favorite to do. I need a reward that I want to give me a reason to do it, otherwise I’ll rage quit and do something easier.

For example; back when I played WoW during Wotlk, my guild was working on the heroic mode Lich King fight. We much have wiped 50, maybe a hundred times, I dreaded showing up to raids, but I wanted the gear that you could get from that fight, great stats, looked great, and there was no way I was going to not get it. When we finally killed him, my guild cheered and shouted, we would have hugged each other if we were in the same room. It was one of the greatest moments in all my years of gaming. That is what hard mode content bring for those who will put in the effort to complete it, and I wouldn’t have done it if I could have got the loot any other way.

While I understand that people don’t want to put in the effort, its worth it to the few who do it, but we still need a reason to do it.

I don’t really have an opinion on this, but Anet has shown some support for this in the past.

How about the effect triggering if you attempt to leave the AoE, it pulls you to the center, however this can be avoided if you dodge roll out of have stability. It keeps them inside, but at the same time its not crazy CC spam, and has counter play, but at the same time it leaves room for interesting plays by the Mesmer.

Inspiration is really strong imo. I run it with the BD from chaos, I’m shatter but my boons and sustain is out of this world, I run full zerker and I feel like a tank.

Threads like this make me think that the GW2 community is slowly going bad.

Its sad that this is even considered politics, the role of government is not to enforce moral guidelines. Not saying anything either way on this issue, but, the role of the government, state or federal, being so involved in social issues is a mistake. Looking at things morally rather then rationally. It shows that we still haven’t removed religion from politics.

What ever. I’m normally Ok with these threads, but I’m tired of people kittening. its an MMO. This happens in EVERY MMO IN EXISTENCE THAT THAT HAVE PATCHES. Deal with it or go play a single player rpg.

kitten . Some one has released the build before me…. but that is really close to the build I made a while back and that I intend to play when the patch goes live. I just traited for manipulations and picked up arcane thief/decoy/blink with mirror for crazy amounts of reflects. But the version I’m planning on running would be a class cannon hybrid, so I picked up protection on chaos armor, not the condition damage bonus, because protection with a high up makes out to be a really strong defense.

some comparisons / suggestions for you

A build I’m thinking about calling; “Chaos Rogue.” It uses Dueling, Chaos, and Illusions, lots stealth and blind, with a mix of condition application souses, to create a mix of different pressures. Torment, burning, bleeding and confusion, while relying on blind and stealth to keep me a live. Could run it with pure condi, a hybrid, or just power, should be interesting.

That patch is the day after my birthday! THANKS Anet I didn’t know you cared!

I think its a good idea, keep a slot open for 3 minutes, when they re-log into the same character, they end up in the map they left. I’ve been disconnected near the very end on a map quite a few times when my internet service had a spell of random disconnects (it lasted 6 months, it was horrible). Sure it might make full maps slightly harder to get into, but as the guy above me stated, “deal with it.”

It would be an interesting Duo: A Chronomancer and a Reaper, Chronomancer could lay down wells, have the Reaper pull them in with the right timing , Reaper does AoE, Chronomancer wells blow up, it’s a very deadly combo. While at the same time the Chronomancer and Reaper both get a boost from the effects of shouts and wells.

Yah, lots of long cast times, and that stability can only do so much. Mesmer is very good at moving in and out of melee range, it’ll be hard for Reaper to find time to even chill us. The moment they feel like they have a beat on us, we will just back out again. A slow moving target will also have to fight in our wells if the Mesmer has them.

A specialization that takes a twist on Mesmer and adds a “sanity” bar to the Mesmer for it to manage and use might be cool. Kind of like a resource bar that has its own side effects as you generate it, and you go more and more insane. Though that might be cool as its own profession. Maybe an Occultist?

THESE TRAITS ARE AWESOME! my brain is already busy with theory crafting.. don’t respond to me.. brain.. to.. busy..

unless there is some really great trait for them, no way in Spvp, but certainly in WvW and PvE

I get the idea behind it, but the name is far to strait forward for me taste its to in-your-face about what it is, and it feels like it doesn’t mesh, its calling Chronomancer “Time-mage” its so literal and feels lazy, finding a synonym of some kind might be a a better idea.

This might just be my reason to come back to the game!

I used to be a WvW raider till my guild died, and I have always been interested in an all Mesmer raiding team and I’m currently on FA. I’m most definitely interested.

Burakkurozu

I’ve seen companies do it, but their outlandish ones that you pretty much know are fake. SO I seriously doubt, if its an announcement, its anything any one will take seriously.

hmm….. maybe make it specific to phantasms? that could work, it makes opposing players choose, take damage from killing them… or take damage from keeping them alive?

Well I gave it some thought, and came up with a mechanic I think could replace illusions without to much work on Anets end. I call it “time dilation.” The gist is as you use abilities that would normally generate clones right now, instead you generate a certain amount of time dilation, this fills up a bar that has 3 specific slots, traits or abilities that currently scale with illusions would instead scale with time dilation. Time dilation allows you to bypass the cool down of certain abilities. Say, while you could use something like phase retreat on cool down by sacrificing one bar of time dilation, using an elite on cool down like mass invisibility would require you to sacrifice 3 full bars. `

Its unlikely, but I think it would be pretty cool mechanic.

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

I’m not so sure the Revenant channels the dead. Both given examples of legends to channel were immortals, neither of which we can really say as being dead. Since The Mists hold echoes of past, present, and future, I think the Revenant channels echoes of legends, rather than the souls of the dead.

Yah, but they are very much a long the same lines thematically, to close in fact. You already have Elementalists who channel the different elements.. that would make 3 channeling themes, it seems like its to much to me.