Guild Wars 2

Ah, thanks very much!

I recently returned to the game after a break of over a year as I would like to finish my Legendary. I earned over 1,500 Badges of Honor before WvW ranks were introduced, but I just went to purchase my Gift of Battle and the vendor tells me I don’t have enough WvW rank.

Really??!!

I earned enough Badges to get the gift three times over if I had bought it previously but now it is inaccessible until rank 14?

Is there anything I can do or am I screwed?

Jelle.2807:

Furthermore your choices ingame will influence personality so it can still change should you chose actions befitting another persona.
I’d say both charm and dignity befit a mesmer. Mesmers are sophisticated, not ferocious like boorish thugs.

Unless said Mesmer also happens to be a Charr!

I recommend going Celestial.

A lot of people on the forums will say you want to focus on 3 specific stats to optimize your build, but the Celestial amulet gives you so much more in terms of overall stat benefit. Compare Celstial Ammy (324 to stats, +7% crit damage, +4& mf) to Berzerker Ammy (211 to stats, +9% crit damage). The numbers speak for themselves.

And since your illusions inherit your power, precision, toughness, healing, condition damage, and crit damage you are also making them much stronger than you would with any other amulet.

Also, Celestial allows you to easily change up your build without changing up your gear.

Single target enemies should be no problem, so what I did when I was leveling was to use the weapons that are well suited for fighting multiple enemies. This is the Staff and the Sword + Focus.

Chaos Storm + iWarden + Sword #2 will put the hurt on a group of enemies.

CJay.4067:

try to undstand the game mechanics.

for ta:
youre supposed to us to portals to get inside, then you can use anything

for arah p2:
same as goes for the players goes for your illusions aswell

For TA, the current game mechanics instantly kill all illusions a Mesmer attempts to summon while they are standing in the bubble. This essentially reduces a Mesmer inside the bubble to auto-attacking. It’s pretty boring.

Esplen.3940:

Overall, I enjoy the build, but I’m going to go 10/0/30/10/20 instead of your 10/0/30/0/30. I also will be running Sword/Focus + Staff instead of Scepter, since the Scepter doesn’t add much to the build for the way I play it, in fact it tends to gimp me since I sit in Scepter building for a shatter instead of going back to Staff to get more boons.

I would also use a sword. You can Illusionary Leap from Temporal Curtain to get Retaliation. You could also use Precision/Toughness/Condition gear instead of Carrior gear and put Sigil of Strength on the sword for more Might.

I would suggest traiting for Illusionary Persona instead of Dazzling Glamours so you get an extra stack of Might every time you shatter.

I was fortunate enough to purchase Zap right before the price increased about a week ago. I ran dungeon after dungeon for gold. I ran fractal after fractal to get fractal relics and ectoplasm. I used those and every single mystic coin I had to create The Anomaly, which I sold on the TP. Only after that did I have enough coin to purchase Zap.

Now it will take me a few more months to farm the mats and do the daily quests for the mystic coins to even be able to even create the legendary. But I think it’s worth it because I really enjoy the game and it’s a challenging goal for a gamer, such as myself, who is more casual now than hardcore.

It took a lot of effort, time, and strategy to obtain the precursor I wanted. I would feel betrayed if ArenaNet makes it a simple thing to obtain a precursor.

I love bringing utility to dungeons as a Mesmer.

My favorite builds involve 20 points in inspiration, traiting for longer lasting and faster recharging glamour skills, and making liberal use of null field and feedback. Along with Time Warp this will give you at least 3 long lasting combo fields. Chaos Armor does not stack, so it is usually best to stagger the use of these skills.

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