Guild Wars 2

Well, they could always make dragonite ore drop from silver mobs. I’d totally clear the dungeon.

Link on reddit:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1b3syi/legendary_colors/

Preview links:

http://imgur.com/a/O2i0S

http://imgur.com/a/LsBbx

My thoughts :
If you check the reddit thread, these new exotic dyes will be aviable through RNG from the old uninteresting “Themed Dye pack” (that was a total failure til now). However, you’ll only have a small chance at getting them.

Arenanet is killing their game, slowly, and it hurts me deeply. WHY is there a NEED for RNG? Why can’t we have a random F&F dye, instead of a kittening fine/masterwork dyes that cost 1-20 silvers OR MAYBE a F&F dye?

Sad thing, these dyes look amazing and I felt in love with them. I wish I could unsee it and never be aware of this, would safe me some tears of despair.

It is our time soon ! Once the engis are out, its mesmer time to shine at http://www.twitch.tv/guildwars2 ! Talk, rant, theorycraft… everything is allowed here.
You’re at work? Check http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/33qrg0/specialization_ama_livestream_notes/ for (close to) up to date written recap of the Stream show.

For newcommers, regarding new trait system (aviable before HoT) :
- You can choose only 1 out of 3 default traits per tier
- You can choose only 3 trait lines per build
- You are able to put 18/18 points into a build (6 points per trait line)

Mesmer related changes so far :
- Quickness is a boon
- Every skill gets classified

After what they’ve done to Elementalists, thieves and guardians (all good stuff), let’s get our hopes high and our hype big.

Our damage be mighty and our interrupts be deadly.

UPDATED CHANGES

• Domination: http://i.imgur.com/IVzYWca.jpg
• Dueling: http://i.imgur.com/fIH0J9L.jpg
• Chaos: http://i.imgur.com/DKixfqQ.jpg
• Inspiration: http://i.imgur.com/LwCb3lm.jpg
• Illusions: http://i.imgur.com/h7a0WHQ.jpg
• Mesmer back in GW1 was a very high skill based class, we are trying to bring that back.
• Chaos Armor will be added to one of the Trident skills
• The stealth duration increase on Prismatic Understanding from Chaos line is only on Mesmer stealth skills, not on stealth applied on the Mesmer by other classes.
• Glamour all had their recharge rate reduced as a baseline
• Traits that are made baseline: Illusionary Persona, Illusionary Elasticity, Protective Mantras (gain extra armor when you cast a mantra), Phantasmal damage boost traits,Manipulation range.
• Alot of the retaliation traits in Mesmer got removed as we didn’t feel like you want people to hit you as a mesmer.

You make 0 sense due to lack of knowledge and bad grammar, but I’ll try to answer :

• You can’t “confuse” AI with your clones
• Getting the achievements has nothing to do with the illusion mechanic being severly hit by the latest LS content.
• Mesmer damage on its own is low, if you argue with that I won’t even bother answering because this is a knowledge issue I can not fix.
• Skill is irrelevant, the illusion-hate is a fact. It is a total oversight in design of the fights, can’t blame them, but they should be aware of this issue nonetheless.

Thanks for bringing up skill, as you have no idea who I am (you don’t have to, but just follows the lack of information on your side), your argument about "who is controlling the mesmer is laughable and pathetic. I’ve done the achievements myself and they are on youtube already, doesn’t make the oversight any better.

• Note that you can pick glamours too (they’re select-able in the Utility slot).
• CONFUSION PULSES OMFGFGGGGGGGG

RIP mesmer, 2012-2015. Hail Chronomancer overlords.

TOOLTIPS http://i.imgur.com/RslLmYy.jpg

Ripped from Dulfy’s

Chronomancer – Alacrity

• Alacrity make the cooldown text for skils green instead of blue like chill.
• Alacrity increase your skill recharge by 66% while chill decrease your skill recharge by 66%. So if you have both of them on you your skill recharge should be normal. If you are chilled for 3 seconds or so you get an extra second of recharge. If you are under effects alacrity after 3 seconds or so you lose a second of recharge.
• One of your minor traits will give you alacrity everytime you shatter.
• Alacrity can be gained via shatters and the Well of Recall, which is one of the few ways you can give alacrity to allies. We are purposely limiting this a lot since recharge is a very dangerous stat for players to mess with.
• Alacrity is a buff right now and not a boon. You can’t increase it via boon duration buffs. Alacrity stacks in duration, not in intensity. There are some chronomancer traits that make alacrity lasts longer as well.
• Alacrity benfits phantasms since phantasms have skills with recharges. Clones won’t benefit from it as much since they just have auto-attack.

Chronomancer – Shield Skills

• Tooltips: http://i.imgur.com/jPYxrIn.jpg
• Tides of Time (#5 shield skill) is an etheral field so you can proc some combos with it. The wall will attempt to return to your original position. If you touch the wall when it returns, you will get a recharge bonus to make this skill recharge faster.
  Shield #4 skill is Echo of Memory, it is a bubble that will block attack and create a phantasm on the enemy that attacked you or on the enemy you targeted when it ends.
• If you block the attack with Echo of Memory, you get a second skill in its place called Déjà vu. Activating this skill will allow you to block a second time, even while Echo of Memory is recharging.

Chronomancer – Well Skills

• With wells we want to provide some more AoE support.
• Well of Action slow enemies caught in it and when it ends it will give allies a burst of quickness.
• Wells of Recall is your alacrity well. It pulsates alacrity to all allies within its radius. When it ends it will chill enemies nearby.
• Well of Calamity – lowest recharge of all wells. It is a damage well that pulsates a few time with low damage and the final pulse does massive damage (over 50% of the damage on the last pulse).
• Elite – Gravity Well – It pulls all the enemies to the center of the well. It also grant stability to allies standing in it. The last pulse also a float effect which we may remove it since this well applies too many CCs.
• Healing well – Heal you while standing in it and grant vigor. Grant a second heal after 3 seconds.

Chronomancer – Traits

• New grandmaster trait – Chronophantasm. It will summon phantasms with butterfly effects that when shattered while be resummoned immediately (only works once). It only works on phantasms and we are still rebalancing it since it can be too deadly when you shatter 3 illusionary duelists and have them unload immediately. Each phantasm an be only resummoned once.
• Illusionary Reversion is the similar trait for clones. When you shatter clones it will resummon a new clone.You can have it along with Chronophantasm.

Chronomancer – F5 skill

• Continuum Shift – You can use it to catch the Tides of Time wall twice, recharging it twice as fast. However there is a caveat with using Continuum Shift and healing since it will revert you back to your health pre-heal. The Chronomancer wells heals are a bit different.
• Continuum Shift drops a Continuum Rift that marks the location where you will return. If this Rift gets destroyed, it will wrap you back to that location instantly. Other players can counter play it by destroying the rift and dropping an AoE on the location of the rift so the mesmer is wrapped back instantly to your AoE.

Thay also play Autoattack Pistol Pistol thief with no traits and no swap.

Too much hype building catch phrases.

Hello, after seeing the recent reaction regarding thie year’s plane disrespectful April’s fool, I got reminded of yet another tragedy. My hopes for a mature company are crashed into ground, shattered in pieces…
Last year’s April’s fool was a painful day to live, for me and for many others. Trying to escape my pathology, hydrocephalus, I took off by playing Guild Wars 2… only to get reminded of my desease by Arenanet on april the 1st. I was deeply offended by this game showing off and making fun of “bobble heads”.
I couldn’t forget this painfull attack, but I had hope Arenanet wouldn’t make twice the same error of hurting their playerbase under the wing of “joke”…

No to bobbleheads ! No to plane mimics !
I am truly leaving, seeking some fresh air.

Usless change noone wanted.

Thanks, being in one of the top speedclear/world record guild didn’t teach me how to play my class, good thing there’s people in this thread giving advice.

Yes, you can reroll necro now.

Nokaru.7831:

They obviously planned this joke for a while since it has sound effects and post-processing, etc.

Too bad it didn’t take off as they wanted.

They should at least add a particular visual for unblockable projectiles (maybe some red pulsing glow). Their half-kittened workarounds are getting out of control.

Bubi.7942:

Yeah, dungeons really teach you about your class

Shouldn’t have post this here, terrible and clueless players giving useless and out of place advises while remaining off topic (reminder of topic : LS is unfriendly for mesmer mechanic known as illusion summoning).

PSA : I have recorded a 3:00 minute Terragriff kill on Challenge mode. The fight isn’t as much of an issue as Predator (Bees are aoe, invulnerable, eat staff autoattacks, kill everything near the boss + follow you so your summoned duelists or staff clones get killed).

Bubi.7942:

I heard a rumor that is possible to shatter clones using the f1-f4 buttons.

You’re either not reading, clueless or just trolling. Have you even done this on mesmer? Let’s reply anyways : shatter either misses or clones die before they reach their target.

Pick an other game maybe?

Marcelinho.3190:

Already spoken once again and talk the problem and you do not know what a noob is going to play and learn to play then come here complain

I don’t understand what you are trying to say. Can you rephrase?

This thread became a gem, thanks Yakubyogami.7586 !

Mirage is so clunky its pulling my hair. The whole ambush mechanic so awkward. Mirror cloak is too short, and your ambush has a freaking ICD on top of using your endurance. The mirrors spawns retrain your movement and Jaunt is a real pain to use. Most other elite specs are fluid and pleasant to use but Mirage is a trainwreck. Half the time your ambush doesn’t even cast because XYZ (you dodged too early, you canceled your auto, you’re suddenly not facing your target after you teleported and god knows what else…).

3/10.

Sird.4536:

I like the different style with no dedicated tank and condition damage. One thing bugs me is the enrage timers could have been shorter. Had 2minutes left on both bosses on first kills with mistakes.

If I recall Crystal said they toned down difficulity was due to achievements being too hard. The extra minutes on the timer might be that – allowing these achievements to be done.

This is totally not a good suggestion.

tldr of the comments : “As long as it doesn’t share my opinion it is baised.”

a) It’s not a give away, it’s a prize.
b) Nobody knows if it’s a skin, or a true legendary.
c) The effort of winning an international PvP tournament > a month of grinding gold. You have wrong conception of intensity.
d) Why can’t there be equity between game modes?

The fights can be fun, but they are essencially frustrating for this one class that relies on low HP, slow hitting AI – Mesmer.

We had the issues with Hidden Arcana where the illusions wouldn’t hit the bosses in Glint lair because they blew up on summoning.
This exact same issue happens with this chapter. The fights are challenging BUT there is no fun in killing the boss with autoattacks.

Issues

• Mesmer looses potential 60%+ of his damage
• No other class suffers from this
• There’s so much AoE that phantasms barely live (Predator fight) or the boss hits so frequently and randomly that their survival is tied to RNG (Trasher).

This is frustrating and unfair. My solutions? Give phantasms possible immunity (not that Duelist trait line crap doing nonthing anyways) to aoe, or even damage reduction? Start to design fights FOR EVERY CLASS WITHOUT LEAVING ONE OUT (its the case for necros on trasher too afaik, DS specs at least).

Wrong, people that have 1000 gold bought with $ are better than the normal player, because they can afford pretty much anything a normal player needs but can’t.

I ask for a 1000 gold week-limit.

But guys, we fixed fractal weapons drop rates.
But guys, Final rest IS dropping from Behemot.
But guys there’s virtually no DR active on any given day.

You get the idea.

Today was a confusing day, people realized mesmer was a support class in PvE metagame.

Almost nothing changes for mesmer in Dungeons. We are getting some nice addition (Fragility, MW, Phantasm damage boost, IP, Glamour cd, all QOL changes needed) but some PvP-centric decisions are making it worse to compete with a flashy DPS guardian or an even better DPS thief that got even better with their changes.

• Dueling minor locks us from either Fury or Duelist’s DIscipline
• Phantasm traits are scattered in 4 lines and we can only choose 3.
• No worthy GM whatsoever, in any line (bare Signet from Inspiration, unless its a worthless 45 sec ICD proc).
• Add to this more AoE centric content and we’re pretty doomed. HoT content is locked for mesmers.

Our place will not shift in next meta. Nothing game changing (PvE) came out of this update. We’re forever the glamour bot when a guardian is not needed for aegis or stability. Too bad guard’s DPS goes so kitten high now.

spoj.9672:

Why are some people so determined to change the game to reward bad/unskillful play.

Why should ranging at max range have no disadvantages? Can you give me a good reason?

You should play how he wants, isn’t that enough ?

Urque.6837:

stopped reading at “Berzerker is the best gear”

Well it is…

Evapor.6849:

Talyn said he misses the days when they would get together and be cynical kittenposters on the dungeon forum 3 times a week.

Get out of this thread please.

It only took me 5 hours trying over and over to get the illusions on a good RNG and be meaningfull while using a particular trait else they would die. Reasons :

• Terragriff has some damaging aura wrecking everything melee range
• His cleave on “stand still and pulse tendrils” kills the phantasms
• Phantasms try to be in range and thus will attack only when they are in melee range, meaning they will hug the boss and suicide.
• Terragriff runs in a random pattern accros the room, this seconds the range issue on melee phantasms (1). Moreover, terragriff will randomly kill your phantasms by rushing over them without any logical reason as aggro or proximity (2).
• Terragriff takes off and lands randomly near his rush end position, the landing deals damage and kills phantasms
• Phantasms have a value expressed in “damage/duration/cooldown”; in this fight their value depends on RNG (randomly generated numbers, positions of the boss).

Now, remember Hidden Arcana? Here you can’t deny that clones and phantasms die on summon.

Second fight, phantasms are useless even with the trait. Had to use Consummable summons. What is your take on that?

Two years later, my 1st lupi solo. I’m one of the cool guys now.

“Personal Reward Level” was renamed to “Personal Fractal Level” because you don’t get real rewards any more.

Windwalker.7421:

Anet is deliberately moving away from passive play for the Mesmer and that this naturally affects Phantasm builds. (PvE and PvP!)

It is irrelevant passive or active, its PvE; You won’t kill the mobs by interrupting them or removing their boons.

It seems that Anet feels that Phantasms should be only supplementary in nature rather then a fundamental play-style.

60% of our damage is supplementary. Sure.

That aside, it may not be much for PvE, but the 1s invuln at least should do something

It has a 10 second CD, you spawn 2-3 phantasms every 8 second (swap/signet).

want to try more active builds in PvE. They are improving Conditions in PvE, Confusion will get boosted as well, and you will be able to do some serious boon sharing in a Boon/Support Shatter build for example.

Conditions are always subpar unless Tough skin. Shatter is burst and you need steady DPS instead. Bonn share isn’t mesmer’s job, warrior and ele cover that and are mandatory to any team comp.

We will also have a ton more reflect options. Just on dodge roll alone or using BF, and/or using a Manipulation which will apparently include Mirror.

Its self reflect, low uptime and totally unreliable in teamplay due to bodyblock.

Much tankier builds will also be possible thanks to baseline IP making IR a viable choice for self-healing on shatter, and traited staff now providing on-demand Protection and more Chaos Armor in general.

Ele’s (waterfields) and Guardian’s job. Chaos armor is a weak combo in PvE (if not the weakest, tho lifesteal bolts… lmao).

As for Sword being the only melee option for PvE, isn’t Staff with IE and the Dueling line going to do pretty well too? Lots of bouncing Burn, bleed, and Confusion & Bleed on crits? (Not to mention Fury & Might)

Fury and Might from staff are selfboons, warrior and ele give permanent fury and might. Isn’t bouncing autoattacks more passive than swapping phantasms?
Sword is still better mathematically. If conditions really become a thing, engineer and warriors will cover that role (unless something is done with confusion in pve being garbage).

Wikipedia is not saying the truth, you can’t trust an open source site like this one. Anyone could put any fake number.

We can’t be so sure, but when you check the Worlds, most of them are Full/High and that means alot of players (iirc around 40k per server?, read that on reddit some time ago).

However with the free perma bans handled out here and there, we can expect the population to drop, slightly.

On the table.

A Ranger you say? No cookie-cutter builds or classes you say? Well, you’ll see everything in time.

Well it’s better to know before hand what reality is about in PvE?

• Rangers are in a bad state and have an awful image in game. Learn to give the best you can if you want to run dungeons using the Looking for Group tool.
• Cookie cutter builds.. well there is the meta build for each class, not sure if you consider that a cookie cutter build (to me that equals to non-unique). Sooner or latter you’ll see that this one build is the best you can have and most people do not want someone to play selfish by using a sub optimal build in a group, resulting in kicks and insults. Rangers are the first to be targeted (Most people will not accept “RP” in dungeons, so say bye to your bows)
• Warrior, Guardian, Mesmer, Ele are the optimal classes so sooner or latter you’ll be discouraged by “No ranger” parties on the Looking for group panel.

A few tips to make reality enjoyable :

• Learn your class weakness and strenght
• You can always form your own parties with your own rules
• There are ALWAYS people with the same state of mind as you, just find them and play with them. The game will be enjoable for you, them, and those who do not share your way of thinking.
• If you adventure in the endgame, check out the cookie cutter build as you name it, that’s the only one which will make you go far and enjoy the “Group synergy” aspect of the game. It might how ever not correspond to what you like to play.
• You play how ever you want with friends, your guild, solo in Open World, in PvP, WvW BUT You play the best you can for all those people you meet for only a dungeon run, that’s respect of their time and fun (fun coming from group synergy, not from some role play perspective).

Alice.8694:

Didn’t read what I had to say, did you? Don’t worry I’m used to it around here.

Making yourself stand out to be the ill recieved won’t lead you nowhere tought.

The problem is poor knowledge of encounters by newcomers that copy mindlessly what they see on youtube, and then teach this same badly learned strategy to others.
If you ask most of them why they stack they won’t be able to answer. Pros do it so the bads try to do the same. Funny thing is – that doesn’t make them any better.

It’s easy to achieve something as a mesmer, it’s hard to excell at it.

Guard does great damage, it’s not a support only class for group content. It’s a L2p issue here.

On top of not having instances locked, other MMOs had leader status for parties. The leader could invite, kick, make someone else the leader, leadership was transfered if the leader left/dc’d for 10 minutes. In return he couldn’t be kicked.

GW2 doesn’t have this system and thus is failing hard.

Ps: THANKS LILITH LOVE YOU

NoTrigger.8396:

ODB.6891:

They also appear to be trying to seriously diminish casual play? "this new system is about players working together and coordinating. I don’t think the people calling for this have really thought out how much this will also negatively affect them. They are actually less organized in most cases than zerk players…as most of them will just try to do their own separate things in encounters…whereas zerk usually coordinates the exact same strategy.

this will force people to wake up and l2p. once you have to earn your rewards in this game instead of getting everything for running around in circles mindlessly, the player base will become much better at playing it.

Or they complain hard enough for it to get nerfed.

2nd entry because of boredom.

Starring Miku Lawrence
In Twilight Arbor Story mode path

Once upon a time, in the Far far away world of Tyria, lived a rock. The rock was happy of his existence and was proud of being a rock. He lived many many many years, not moving by an inch. He didn’t question anything in the world he lived in. He was indeed a happy rock!
But one day, a sunny Spring’s day, the rock tought for himself – This is a beautiful day! I wish I could run and jump and have fun like all the progenies and fastfooted humans around there! I wish I was a little boy.
His wish was heard by Dwayna, and the goddess gifted the rock of a magical kite. This gear piece made the rock stand on his own feet and walk, strong and fierceful just like a berserking warrior!
’It’s the best day of my existence!’ yelled the running rock! Dwayna heard my prayer and fullfilled my Springtime wish!
He didn’t suspect anything to hurt him. When he was still a simple rock, nobody would approach him or even concider him. But that wasn’t the case, he got crushed by a Nightmare Guard.

THE END.

Moral of this story – don’t kitten’ skip trash mobs. #elexploit

10/10 would read again? Replace ‘rock’ by ‘casual’.

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One Note Chord.5031:

phirefox.2568:

One Note Chord.5031:

Navi.7142:

The question is: Will they fix the existing bugs?

Of course not. They will, however, break iwarden further.

wait – is that even physically possible!?

Absolutely! Right now it still attacks sometimes.

Next patch : Warden runs away from foes but grabs their aggro and thus breaks any possible coordination in yor party.

Since yesterday’s patch it feels like we’re in beta already without access to beta content >_>

Assassin armor, Assassin weapons, Berserker Accessories, Of Ranger Runes, Force on mainhand, Of Night/Slaying on offhand. You should stop aiming for Critical chance when you reach ~96% buffed (Fury gives 20%, Banner of Discipline gives about 8%).

JasmineLong.6514:

You don’t bring a Mesmer for their dps :P

Gs offers a decent pushback which is what was needed in combination with the focus pull in order to get the initial mobs away from the dredge cart.

It also gave me the excuse to put the twilight skin on the gs xD

The spot is terrible tho.