Guild Wars 2

xarallei.4279:

This concerns me due to the pvp crying on the forum. If pve gets nerfed because of pvp I will be livid.

As a mesmer player…get used to this feeling. =(

Implying we’ll get sPvP balance before 2016. =P

reroll guardian and have a lot better group utility and survivability. Anet loves em too

It’s good that Arenanet is finally showing that they only want Mesmer to be good for Timewarp and portals.

How well does this work for PuGs?

Unless Warrior’s get a condition build I don’t think they’d care enough to change how it works.

They should work on fine tuning their small scale dungeons before trying anything more. Would a 15 man Dungeon group be 2 Guardians, 10 Warriors, 3 Mesmers? :P

ReginaBuenaobra.6953:

I’m just including the link to the post from Jon Peters that Laika quoted above, so people can see the context:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/25-Cooldown-on-Shatters/first#post1142800
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/25-Cooldown-on-Shatters/first#post1142946

Can you guys address some of the bugs with our traits instead of screwing with our heads with buffs that are “too much” then you just take the whole buff away instead of reducing the number a little

EsLafiel.4517:

Nemhy.5230:

SerMahad.4813:

Even when it’s among the most effective and customizable professions around in the game.

You must not play Dungeons where the only really viable build is crit/shatter spam

So you saying a build that gets all mobs into one area and then take complete control of them, so they never hit any team mate and also do multy perma damage buff to all team mates and keep perma regen/reta on everyone.
Also keeps up a perma reflect so all long rang kills it self.

Then on boss’s keep up all that and on most can keep it completely lock down so it never even hurt the team.

You calling that useless in a dgn.

I got a question, was you drop on your head as a child???

Ps I agree with this thread, plz all the babies leave this class. I hate seeing crying all over the place.(I dont like kids)

Perma reflection….where would that be? The only shatter that will grant reflection is distortion and the cooldown on that is hardly perma. Complete control of the mobs? lol Guardian and Necro do that 100x better. Perma regen and protection??? The cooldown on that is 15 seconds and they hardly last a fraction of that. Please tell me this “complete control” and “perma reflection” please.

Lorana.2468:

well the issue is nobody supports better than the guardian, and the Mesmer is one of the other elite supports to have because of Timewarp and other shennanigans.

if you’ve truly got bored of both, i would suggest the Elementalist as they can fill many supportive roles.

So many people say that about Mesmer but it’s really not that great. Sure timewarp, Feedback, and Null field are great but the cooldowns are far too long compared to how long the spells stay active.

SerMahad.4813:

Even when it’s among the most effective and customizable professions around in the game.

You must not play Dungeons where the only really viable build is crit/shatter spam

Solori.6025:

I think this was a great change.
Now people that rolled a mesmer for a gimmich build cant rofl stompe anymore and people that actually learned the class outside of this gimmick will go back to their unbugged builds.

This change also wasnt a suprise..
People have known this would be getting fixed for a while :I

or reroll thief and be just as op as Mesmer was pre nerf with higher damage

Mere Image.8376:

Nemhy.5230:

Mere Image.8376:

fix the freaking map completion star before you make a random buff and then nerf that buff the following patch. do any of the devs have foresight in any small degree?? balancing in this game is a mindless pendulum of idiocy.

We at Arena Net are aware of your 5,000 bugs. We will fix them soon™. Oh we’ll be lowering all your damage and increasing Phantasm cooldowns.

I don’t think the nerf was really all that bad. I’m just upset with how quickly they nerfed a buff they only recently implemented into the game, while leaving bugs that have been present since the game’s release.

I understand and agree. I’m just being a dick and making jokes about it to help cope with that fact. We still have about 30 bugs SINCE release and Scepter is still a complete joke weapon. (though I think Necros have it worse with the bugs that are being ignored)

pengfx.8376:

They nerfed shattered strength because tons of people kittened about how mesmer was actually getting buffed, and attributed the 100% shatter bug damage increase to the extra massive 10% damage increase from 9 stacks of might.

Too bad most classes have easy access to that kind of might anyway, just people like to complain hardcore anytime mesmer gets any sort of buff apparently, and ANET apparently listens to it. There were clearly a handful of people in these forums constantly complaining that 9 stacks of might were imbalanced and ridiculous for mesmers, you can easily spot who they are, lol.

But Mesmer’s Might gives more damage. It’s a really complicated exploit that someone with low understanding of the game (IE you) will not understand. =3

Has anyone legit said that anywhere? I have the feeling if someone said that on the sPvP boards we;d get more nerfs

Mere Image.8376:

fix the freaking map completion star before you make a random buff and then nerf that buff the following patch. do any of the devs have foresight in any small degree?? balancing in this game is a mindless pendulum of idiocy.

We at Arena Net are aware of your 5,000 bugs. We will fix them soon™. Oh we’ll be lowering all your damage and increasing Phantasm cooldowns.

plasmacutter.2709:

The patch represents the lack of consideration the devs have for mesmer play experience.

The biggest culprit in the overpowered burst was a ludicrous damage boost from bugged shatter calculation — and they did something to stop this (and again, this is VERY ironic considering it went unnoticed from launch until you could get 25 stacks of might due to how limp mesmer damage in general is)

instead of stopping there to “wait and see”, however, they borked the might stacking that had finally, at long last, un-sucked mesmer’s ability to generate lootable corpses in pve

This is the latest in a long string of patches in which mesmers have received a rifle-butt to the face.

The injustice regarding our summons vs others was just another example.

I’m done with it. My mesmer is now a bank toon until ANet decides they actually care about the experience of people who play the profession outside of s/tpvp.

It’s okay! In GW1 Mesmer got a nice PvE update!………like 6 years after release

haviz.1340:

plasmacutter.2709:

TPVP – portal bot (just like in wvw(vw) )

There isn’t always a mesmer in speed clears. My speed clears have had multiple of the following:
guardian
warrior
elementalist

in fact, every dungeon run I do on my ele that has a mesmer is noticeably slower due to their kitten poor damage in everything BUT 1v1 pvp.

As for your continued arguments that phantasms are not summons.. just no. They are summons. Many of them are not even offense, they stick around after one animation, they provide boons to the group, they are independently targetable and capable of death — which backs up the fact they are summons and not attacks, conditions, or hexes.

tpvp, mes is still the best duelist.

Your speedclears might not include mesmer but you will get the quickest times with 4 warriors and 1 mesmer. If you build your mesmer around condition damage, then yes, their damage is bad (confusion being bad condition in pve is mostly the reason for this).

We can argue about phantasms but facts are facts. They are different from every summon in the game.

You don’t see anything wrong with the 4 warriors being essential to speedclearing? Warriors are stupid right now yet ANet claims they’re working as intended

It’s ok guys! Warriors are balanced

TBH I would rather they nerf our DPS but give us more control and CC. Since that’s what the class is supposed to be about

The only things that Mesmer has that is truly amazingly unique to the class is portal and Timewarp. Portal however is useless in dungeons and Time Warp’s cooldown could be a bit shorter

I have an amazing dungeon build written down! It has amazing AoE control that will really help your party dealing with groups as long with bosses!

……if they would JUST FIX THE KITTEN CHILLING DARKNESS BUG

This class is just good for it’s DPS nowadays anyway. I mean yea we have some amazing utilities….on 40 45 second cooldowns that only last for 3-4 seconds. I made a Mesmer because I thought it was gonna be about controlling the mobs and using CC. Not splitting the skills between PvP and PvE is ruining this class IMO. I don’t know why they’re so adamant to keep them the same.

Very op bug. Please fix it ASAP!

I love people who get insta offended and go on saying Null Field, TimeWarp, and Feedback are the best skills ever. Sure Timewarp is awesome….for 10 seconds every 210. Feedback rocks…for like 5-6 seconds out of 40. I think the cooldowns need a bit of work

I already sent a ticket about this…but I figured I would post about it here as well.

I got this last night when I tried to log in (see attached file)
Now I sent in a support ticket right away. I just now though did a little research on the error code. Every case of it seems to be an Inappropriate name or behavior…which is completely different from what this notification is telling me.

I have email Authentication on and I never once got an email saying another IP is trying to access my account. I don’t even see other IP’s listed in my IP log on the official site. Is this some kinda bug? If anyone else had this happen to them or something similar how did you fix it?

Not a Mesmer. I regret it

Mirrored Feedback reflects projectiles done by my party. Hurray! my best utility skill has just been bugged into obsolescence. :P

The Butcher path of this dungeon is COMPLETELY bugged. One of the Boss encounters had adds that would respawn RIGHT as you kill them. After about an hour my group finally got past that. We get to the Butcher…and it’s BROKEN. Something with the coding in the floor or something…but you fall through the floor whenever you go past the doorway, The boss also doesn’t spawn. So after about spending 80 silver on repairs we can’t even kill the end boss and get the dungeon reward.

What…happened? The floor wasn’t bugged like this a few days ago. How could the whole dungeon break in such a short period of time? XD

To be honest I’m happy they did what they did to dungeons. I WILL say however that gear should degrade at a slower rate

You’re making ANOTHER topic to complain about the dungeon patch? You’re dedicated I’ll give you that

So much butthurt over people not having their easy peasy farm fest anymore! :P

I say 7/10. I like that they want the dungeons to be a challenge…but for endgame gear the repairs can get pretty nasty fast. I think Gear should degrade at a slower rate

Wait so….people were farming to get the dungeon armor….for STATS?

face desk

I was in agreement until I read this: “And those people who can not farm the same gear to keep up with the other players in the game because they can’t complete CoF…let alone in a timely manner.”
As well as this:
“Now you have geared groups of people spam running other dungeons and fresh 80s at a loss for what they are supposed to be doing to keep up with those people with pre-buffed CoF gear who don’t have lockouts in other instances to stop them from keep getting further ahead of the curve.”

The dungeon gear isn’t really that amazing stat wise…The only thing people missed out on was a method to farm out money that was more than likely way easier to accomplish than intended. You don’t need to “farm CoF to get gear to progress”. It’s cosmetic

People going on saying that they don’t want to mine Ore or farm money other ways to get the current TOP END gear…what were you expecting? How is farming through other means less exciting than just destroying the same dungeon path over and over.

Yes…they killed good endgame content. Nothing shouts quality content like farming Magg for 6 hours a day. I can see why you’re crushed :P

I’ve been running 20 20 0 25 5 lately. But I feel like I’m lacking something… I want to have at least 10 into inspiration because 20% cooldowns on glamours seems to be amazing! For the Focus Mastery does that mean that the Curtain also reflects projectiles?

ANYWAY, I was wondering what other Mesmers have set up for their explorable runs.