Guild Wars 2

It was tough to choose from my thousand of screenshots but here we go
Most of my screens are scenery without characters or loading screens.

I just got to 80 and crafted my spinal blades, and I need to choose a suffix. I have no idea what spec I’ll want to play. What would be the most generic and multi-tasking stats to choose?

Carrion (Condition dmg, Power, Vitality)
Berserker (Power, Precision, Crit dmg)
Rampager (Precision, Power, Condition dmg)
Celestial (a bit of everything)

Any word on these, or any other one?
I’m a bit time limited since I won’t be able to craft new spinal blades after the event ends. Or is there a better back item?

I currently play with GS/Staff, but it’s subject to change.

1 looks too much like one ingame. Does she have a ponytail? If so, cool
2 cool
3 not a fan but why not
4 hate the mowhawk, love the tatoos. Needs some arab/indian style hairstyles with tatoos, jewels etc instead of hair
5 looks exactly like one ingame
6 looks exactly like one ingame
7 looks similar to one ingame (with the dreadlocks)
8 not a fan but why not
9 way too emo for Asura

Mobius.2695:

Here’s another out of combat picture that shows it a bit better, it’s very obvious from behind. You can see that the ears are not matching, one hangs lower and one sticks out a bit.

How is that “different size”? One hear is falling and the other is straight.

Dogs can also do that irl. Asymmetry is cool.

Mistfire Wolf is the only option, ever

Not wielding greatswords in one hand? LOL do you even lift

Also, warden+feedback will have him place tons of stacks of confusion.

Nope. There’s the trait +3% speed per illusions out but that’s it.

Heh, that vid was actually amazing. I watched an early version around release and it wasn’t very good but this one rocks. I want to be 80 now kitten

EDIT: really, “dämn” is kittenized? Oh, America.

Videos, videos everywhere
Back in my time people read books with spreadsheets and numbers

Thanks Tina. Your name arouses me.
Dead in a simple chaos storm+mind wrack you say? I’m gonna try that. I just repec’d in power+dueling with GS, it is already much better. I didn’t expect condition damage to be good for a mesmer if you don’t play with confusion that much, since it’s the only major condition we inflict.

I missed that thread. Not calling you a liar, but if there is one thread that states this with proof, and stuff, I’d wonder how to discern it from all the other threads that teach you the multitude of ways to Hurt Things with a mesmer.

There you go
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/Mesmer-PvE-Omg-O-why

Heh, I watched that video a few months ago. It might be nice but it’s PvP. I’ll watch it again but I don’t expect much.

Also just for you: wee-wee.

Guess I ranted a bit too much about the Guardian vs Mesmer thingy because I’m at work and bored. Seems normal to me to see such a class take plenty of mobs at once.

No, this is actually about builds that allow you to deal “normal” damage". I think I did something wrong. Maybe it’s my use of the shatters, I dunno. I have 20 pts in… the +HP tree and 20 in Illusions.

This is strictly PvE.

So, I planned to main a Mesmer at release, got to lvl 58 and quit because Dark Souls.
I started playing again with a friend and got a Guardian lvl 80. Can’t believe how easy it was. I read on this forum people saying Mesmer is easier to level than Guardian, seriously wtf, I annihilate mobs by packs of 6 and fight a champion+2 veterans without breaking a sweat. On my mesmer I barely manage to kill a single mob per minute, and by then his friends already respawned behind me.
At level 40 my guardian did around 1k damage with his GS spin. My 57 mesmer does 330 with any phantasm.

So I wonder, how does one deal damage as a mesmer?
My current build is full-on health and condition damage, I thought it would be super clever to be a tanky dot machine. I play with scepter+focus/torch. Sad thing is, stupid confusion lasts like 3 seconds, mobs don’t even attack that fast. Once in a lifetime I manage to reach 12 stacks just as the mob attacks and do a whooping 1600. Rest of the time my stacks fade and mobs get hit for 600. Once every 15 seconds or so. Mind Wreck does… Well I don’t even know, I don’t notice any damage when it goes off.
My best damage skill is Feedback.

So what happens in a fight? I engage with illusion utility skills, pop a 3rd one from weapon skills, use Confusion. Usually I add the combo warden phantasm+feedback, as it (for some mysterious reason) puts stacks of confusion as well. I get 12 stacks of confusion, the stacks instantly drop to 5, the mob takes 600 dmg. And there we go, no illusions, no skills, no damage. I just run around and wait for 3 more illusions, thank you specter autoattack. Then I Mind Wreck. Ennemy should be at 30-50%, almost there! I wait some more and finally my CDs are back up and I can finish it.
Note that I am pretty much invincible. But I couldn’t even kill a Dredge mining suit, I took it to 50% and had to run, being overrun by 6 summoned minions.

Silly me thinking confusion was such a cool dot. It’s actually a one-hit delayed attack that loses power the longuer it takes the mob to attack. Maybe it’s cool in PvP with those scrub warriors spamming 5 skills per second, but in PvE that seems out of the picture.
So what? Do I put everything in power and get a GS like everyone else?
I understand perfectly Mesmer is supposed to deal damage over time, but I wasn’t expecting 10 times the times. What am I saying, 60 times the time, since my Guardian would take SIX mobs at once. Six because there usually isn’t any more to pull.

Btw, Guardian is boring as balls.

So half the time when I enter the dungeon, the entrance door is already open, all the mobs are here, the king doesn’t speak. We kill everything and that’s it, we’re stuck.

How to get rid of that?

Yes I did get upscaled to 80, I was doing normal damage, it just looked like he had billions of HP

But you can kill the mobs before pulling the boss.

49 Guardian here, I don’t get it, I couldn’t even take 1% of his bar, I fought for like 2 minutes and left. Am I missing something or?

So… We actually get 3 days to do that event? Talk about “super limited time you have to be here” :p

You know you are not limited in spaces in GW2.
You can always much call yourself “Lanaya Mortred the Unoriginal” or something like that.

Flabber Babble.8720:

What sucks is that people will blame big toons for messing up their jumps. Take that out, and it comes down to faulty cameras/poor reset detection/glitchy geography/etc…

No matter what, people won’t admit that they just simply haven’t mastered it yet.

This, that’s what I meant. Of course Charrs are a bit ennoying, they might make you fail a few times. That’s nothing compared to the hundreds of other attempts people are likely to fail on their own.

And how are we to answer that when we don’t know what timezome you’re in?

Here in France it will be at 8 PM.

should be in about 19h30m if im correct, can anyone confirm?

Correct

I don’t understand, event for all levels and kinds of players? I thought that’s what they did with kiddie pumpkin collections and silly minigames, and only one hardcore puzzle for hardcore gamers such as myself.

Why do casuals get plenty of events and brand new game modes and we only get ONE fun activity?

Yes but I hate that pause SO MUCH

It completly breaks the flow. Why is it even here? Is it so the green goo can catch up?

SoggyFrog.4170:

Rolling an Asura, I gave up on jumping from the big gear. The higher small platform is doable once you can time it properly, and barely anyone uses it. You land in with the zerg afterwards but you should know where you’ve landed which makes moving forward that much easier.

The “big gear” is where you pause? It’s actually near impossible to fall here. As soon as the platforms appear just jump towards it, you don’t really have to aim, you will fall on the small plate 100% of the time.

The few jumps after that are the hardest ones though

Have you no sense of evaluation and momentum? I could do the puzzle with my character invisible if I had to. Hell, I could go past certain points blindfolded thanks to muscle memory.

Charrs and Norns never bothered me in the puzzle. I did try and try for 4 hours, I raged a lot, and it was fun. But that was only because I failed.

90% of the people will fail after the pause, which is the trickiest part, and yet doesn’t require precision, it’s only big floating rocks (compared to later’s small wooden beams). After those few jumps you will only be 3 or 4, and you are rarely exactly synched, so even with a Charr it shouldn’t be a problem.

So there you are. The swarm of players is a bit ennoying, but nowhere near as much as you make it sound. It’s only ennoying for the few jumps right after the pause, and you should be very much able to tell where your character is, even if you lost him in the crowd.

You can’t? Well that sucks, guess you’re better at Call of duty than Super Meat Boy.

That’s what doesn’t seem right in this game, the duration of skills. 5 or 6 seconds is ridiculously short, I don’t really see the point.
Sanctuary is not an awesome dome that shields you from harm, it’s just a stupid block. It doesn’t create a safe haven for your team to retreat into, it just stops one or two attacks… Maybe. Most of the time Sanctuary will disappear before people can even get into it.

That kind of stuff should stay waaaay longuer. Maybe 15 seconds. It just feels ridiculous to block a single attack on a 5 or 10 minutes long boss. It’s the same for every “shield” ability in the game really.

It’s not like in WoW, where your tank’s panic button actually serves durint tight situations. In GW2 there’s no tank and no real heal, your life keeps going back and forth, and as soon as you get aggro you are forced to run away untill someone else gets it, then repeat. It’s kinda kitteny as it is, but it means that unlike WoW where you sometimes have dangerous situations, in GW2 the situation is always the same. As far as I saw, bosses don’t have super attacks once every 2 minutes, they just spam the same few attacks on a small cooldown. So there is no special moment to use your protection skills. You just drop them as soon as it’s up and soak up one or two hits that wouldn’t make a difference.

It would be awesome for Sanctuary to stay for 15 or 20 seconds, so you can actually run to it if you get damaged and regen a little before going back to the boss. It would be awesome for Wall of Reflection to stay 20 seconds, forcing the ennemy to get through it instead of just waiting (well the wall is 10 seconds, which is STARTING to get noticeable, that’s why it’s the only shield I like. Still feels a little too short). You know, create an actual wall that really modifies the battlefield.

I dunno about PvP but it’s all purely defensive. Maybe make it so you can’t attack either through Sanctuary and Walls, so it really becomes a way to temporize the fight (for both sides, so it’s not OP), giving you time to heal and get CDs back.

And I’m not even talking only about terrain spells. Stuff like Chaos Armor, Fire armor etc only last THREE SECONDS, or a CD of 30-40 seconds. WTF? I feel like many, many skills in this game seem useless because you don’t have time to see the effects.

I kept trying and trying yesterday when I should have gone to bed

That moment of peace and exaltation when I did it, best sleep of my life
It was only 3 hours long and now I’m dead tired but it was all worth it.

@Elektrohund:
10 tries? TEN TRIES? It usually takes hundreds, you’re only at the beginning son

Or you know, you could look at your skill icons and wait for the red marker to disappear before pressing the button

…Anet won’t add difficult stuff in the future

A-Am I kawaii uguu?

Weirdly enough, the most approaching helm is the T2 human helm, with wings like those.

Also, the human female on the art is amazing, but you can’t create one like that (the haircut doesn’t exist). I mad.

Act 1:
- Ghost search: talk to the NPC in Lion’s Arch near the cauldron to get a ghost radar. Use it here to find the first ghost and clues about where to find the rest.
- Pumpkin carving: just click on pumpkins around the world to get an achievement. Talk to carver masters (there’s one in LA) to get a title.
- Haunted doors: there are doors in several beginner zones. They spawn at random locations pretty fast. You’ll see them from faaaar away, they glow green. Open them to get random stuff: candy bags, monsters, events etc.

Act 2:
- New ghosts to look for
- Enter the Mad King realm. I don’t know all about it but you can enter it through haunted doors in the world. Maybe there’s a NPC who can teleport you in LA for easier access.
Inside the ream there are 4 things:
- Labyrinth: the zone you spawn in. Just bash monsters, open doors for events, there’s a big boss in the middle sometimes. You can get chests with a LOT of loots.
At the entrance of the Labyrinth there’s a NPC you can talk to enter:
-Lunatic Inquisition: same map as the Laby. It’s some kind of silly PvP mode where you can either be a villager or a ghost. When villager, you will be unarmed and need to survive the ghosts. Pick up items on the ground to gain new actions. As a ghost, you need to kill villagers, you have several skills and can also pick up items for a new skill.
- Clock Tower: a crazy-hard jump puzzle. The floor is now lava, RUN!
- Reaper’s Rumble: currently buggued. Apparently you can also enter that from LA, making me assume you can also enter the other modes from here.

Act 3:
- Not yet revealed. Expect some kind of group event boss battle against the Mad King

This is simply amazing.
I play so many MMOs and in every single one of them events are complete crap.
This one is mindblowing. New zones, super hard puzzle, ENTIRE NEW GAME MODES.

The pumpking collect and the ghost search were pretty standard (I did like the ghost search though), but the act 2 is crazy.

Thanks. That transmutation thing seems more like an exploit. Guess I’ll have to level a char to 30 just for that

Because I want that sweet 3rd banner on my character select screen, but I can’t stand the priory’s armors.

Can I get the whispers armor even if I go with the priory?