Guild Wars 2

Same here I crash on average once an hour, almost always on load screens. I have the same problem in wvw but if i got to eb it crashes about every 10 minutes whether i’m ikittenerg or not so i know lag isn’t the problem

Osicat.4139:

@Dasboba, will test it aswell but as you say, staff is fantasic.

@Uranus, cheers mate.

@Qwyksylver Vyqtunos, The gear is shown in this film in start, only difference is that I now got the fractal chavalier backpiece.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svvbTHeDcOE

/Osicat

Thanks osi =)

I may have missed it somewhere but I was wondering what gear you use for a shatter cat mist build?

dani.1956:

Love the sunday players posting troll mesages on forums ! When an elite skill is nerfed 50% its a big nerf mate , so l2p ! And if you didnt play mesmer in PVE for the TW then YOU played the mesmer wrong !

Timewarp was a our best elite true, is it still our best elite, absolutely it’s just toned down a bit just like every other class’s quickness. Honestly with the cd on TW no one should have been playing pve mes solely for the elite. Mesmer’s bring so much more to the table than quickness, even more so after the patch that it’s ridiculous people are complaining that now TW doesn’t let you faceroll CoF p1 boss anymore

I would love to see a signet elite for mesmer that was actually a viable alternative to TW, I take timewarp only because it’s the only decent elite we have gimme a signet that gives a passive speed buff and proc’s 2-3 clones and stealths me when activated. (I know that may be OP but it’s my dream elite signet)

HaHa charr mesmer’s are everywhere, infiltrating your societies and when the dragons are gone you will all bow down to us =)

Sure you could use a GS and just use that for a build and it’ll work in general pve just fine because everything there dies in about 5s anyway, if you do dungeons, fractals, or wvw you are crippling yourself by not switching both because you lose 5 skills you could be using but also because now you’re waiting on cd’s have less combo fields/finishers, less defense against damage (such as blurred frenzy) and less flexibility. It really depends what you want to spend your time doing.

@Dastion, I knew you could do it with siege equipment but I was trying to get it just using character skills

@Zen Nice I’ll have to remember that next time i’m exploring around there, also nice name

Can’t wait for this, osicat is one of the biggest influences on my build and i’m very excited to hear what he has to say on anything mesmer related

I rolled a warrior about a month ago and he’s sat at lvl 14 since then because of how much fun mesmer is. I see nothing awful with this patch and plenty to play around with, so what if quickness is only 50% faster now the recharge on timewarp limited it’s usefulness anyway imho.

@mere image, every game has speed run groups or something approximate, it’s nothing to whine about since there are always other groups willing to accept people

I have been trying to get the tier 7 achievement for master of overkill for sometime now using character skills and it just wasn’t happening, then last night I was bored in swamp fractal waiting for last person to run wisp and I used Mind Wrack on a little frog and crit for 320k dmg. so if any mesmer’s still need this there ya go.

P.S. I was wearing all zerker armor and weapons

GS is absolutely a viable choice for mesmer especially now that spatial surge will hit up to 3 targets. I play classic shatter and despise using staff, not because it isn’t viable but because I like to be more aggressive than I feel it lets me, zerker and mirror blade are great because the spawn at the target ready to be shattered. illusionary wave is nice when you’re being rushed and havne’t swapped weapons yet. GS5 swap to sword ileap blurred frenzy /laugh over the corpse =)

I play a shatter mes with 20/20/0/0/30 which is a pretty classic trait setup for mesmers, weapons are gs and sw/sw at low levels you may have some difficulty since you don’t have traits that buff shatters and you don’t spawn a clone on dodge but hang in there till around lvl 30-40 and it’s worth it. basic strategy is to summon 3 illusions let the phantasms attack once and then mind wrack for big damage. Sword num2 gives you invulnerability and does good dmg and offhand sword 4 is a block and clone summon. Hope you enjoy mesmer =)

My Sweet Lily.1952:

You know that attack Risen Priestess of Lyssa does, the one where she evades attacks and teles around while creating clones? Now that’s what I want. Make it tele 3 times, creating 3 clones and every time you tele clones and you get the Blink effect so the enemy won’t know who is the real Mesmer. Duration could be like 5 seconds, because it seems 5 sec evading all attacks could fit an Elite.

Totally agree with this. Anet plzzzzzzzzz make this happen I would be so happy atm I have timewarp on my bar but outside of dungeons it just doen’st get any use cuz whats the point everything dies so quickly already

Leths.6751:

Interference – I will cry myself to sleep the day it happens.
Piercing – I will not sleep that day.

This exactly lol

Ok as a preface let me just say that I am totally new to wvwvw I started yesterday, since then I have died uncountable times, repaired uncountable times and I still have 3g more than when I started. The repair costs don’t bother me at all nor is it incentive to stay alive. My incentive to stay alive is not dying and that’s it. In approximately 5 hours of wvw i’ve found one rare and a heap of greens and blues as well as some mid level crafting mats

I’m on Anvil Rock and have been getting dc’d about every half hour to an hour with regularity when i log back in i’m sitting in LA dead with damaged armor =(

I run Gs and sw/sw with a 10/30/0/0/30 shatter build, full zerkers and I frequently destroy ppl in wvw in a burst. my rotation is something like this: GS>mirror blade>izerker>dodge>f1>swap>iswordsman>ileap to target>blurred frenzy>f1 most ppl die after the first burst and if you finish the rotation and they’re not dead I use decoy followed by blink out of range and start again.

I really enjoy sw/sw because other than not giving any speed it really can do good dmg and iswordsman is mobile which I like. illlusionary ripost is great if you know a thief is stalking you and if that is on cd then blurred frenzy grants distortion

hope that helps a bit and good luck =)

I’ve noticed this some as well even with melee monsters. I’ll use decoy and dodge away and they’ll still come and hit me once before going after clones

Carighan.6758:

• Do you enjoy a trickster class with lots of random effects, Clones to sometimes make enemies waste timers on? Do you enjoy indirect combat more than direct one? Play a Mesmer!

I take offense at the indirect combat line just because in pve my mes is up close and personal as much as possible with sw/sw because i can proc 3 clones use sw 3-3 and hit blurred frenzy while shattering with illusionary persona. I played an ele for 10 lvls before rerolling as a mes and I never regretted it but it’s all about playstyle, I suggest looking at some different builds for each and maybe watching some youtube vids before deciding

I tried an OH pistol and focus when my necro was low lvl and by the time i hit 20 i was using OH sword constantly, that didn’t change all the way to 80 and now that i’m in wvw i use the focus for speed and swap out once i get where i’m going. focus is great and the tc pull has saved me when i’ve been ambushed before i could swap to oh sword but in general i use OH sword for the burst dmg just my preference tho

I encountered a similar problem lvling my mes, what I wound up doing was using gs and sw/sw with my fist 5 points in illusion followed by dueling. my rotation was: GS>mirror blade>iberserker>mindstab>swap>iswordsman>illusionary leap>blurred frenzy>f1. by then any normal mob should be dead if it’s a vet just swap back to gs and hit 5 then rinse and repeat.

At lvl 16 i’d go focus on the zerker stats (power/prec/crit dmg) in whatever amounts you’re comfortable with. decoy is a great utlility for the stealth and clone and feedback just makes ranged mobs kill themselves

If you wanna check out some guides I really enjoy osicat’s youtube vids and thats what I adapted my build from

I would sacrifice trahearne in half a second if I got tybalt back end of story

This post got me really excited, I haven’t been to orr recently due to lvling a mesmer but I will definitely have to check it out now.

I’m so sorry dude, I sincerely hope this is rectified very soon. If any active members would like to do guild missions until then I extend invitation to my guild for that purpose until you get your guild up and running you can whisper korgin shadowmind any time tomorrow afternoon and I will invite you in =)

Atherakhia.4086:

Not sure the class would matter. Mesmer is the best class in the game currently and what’s shocking is it doesn’t appear to be that overpowered in doing it.

I really agree with this post, after lvling a necro to 80 I started a mes and while I can shatter down whole groups of trash mobs if i’m not focused or paying attention I can quickly go down. Mesmer isn’t overpowered but mesmer players have always been some of the most shrewd and tricky players even in gw1. mesmer players just take the time to really MASTER their class and that makes them seem OP

I agree with zinwrath great idea besides the ranger similarity. possible make it so that turrets stay where you place them but you can “recall” turrets without having to pick them up. It’s a stretch as far as “how did you pick that up if you’re 100 yards away” but could potentially do the same thing as ordering your turrets to stand somewhere

I rolled a charr initially because of the roll they played in gw1 and since I so enjoyed making charr kabobs in gw1 i felt it fitting to play one this time around. since then what has made me roll 2 more charr chars is that the charr have gone through so much that they don’t have nearly as much inner strife within the society as the other races seem to. I mean humans have human politics enough said, the asura are the most selfish race i’ve ever seen. the norn are like high school jocks and the sylvari…i dunno. charr just seem to be the most consolidated and “brotherly” race even if it all revolves around killing everything not charr

edit ok I might like that they want to kill everything not charr

I think charr don’t need shuffle we need hardstyle haha XD

but a fahrar charr does tar wood so the fahrar charr tars as much wood as a fahrar charr tars ^/^

I’ll join, can’t represent all the time cuz of gw1 guild responsibilities that have carried over to gw2 but i’ll pop in for guild chat once in awhile

I’ve noticed some debate on whether the human “gods” are indeed gods and not just very powerful creatures who arrived on tyria through the mists from somewhere else. anyway charr are indeed atheist in that they refuse to worship anything and rely solely on what they can accomplish with “claw and fang.”

@Duke. the forgotten were in fact around before the gods arrived in tyria, they along with the seers, mursaat, dwarves and jotun were the original races that fought the elder dragons the first time around. it was the forgotten or seers that entombed all magic that the dragons hadn’t corrupted and created the bloodstones

In gw1 charr hadn’t had any interaction with other races except through warfare and maintained a unique “charr” language. When the durmand priory was established they promoted New Krytan which is basically the trade language now which every race speaks

I’ve noticed that too, doesn’t bother me I love switching from my gf’s tiny sylvari and having my beastly charr necro fill the screen ^/^

I love how the charr run although it seems that they’re just a tad duck footed and they kick their legs high when they jump not enough to bother me just stuff i’ve noticed btw all my chars are charr

not at home atm but my necro is 80 wearing CoF and Arah armor. with the CoF chest you can’t really see legs and boots+CoF gloves and Arah helm with shoulders hidden looks awesome and perfectly fits the image I have for my necro

make a charr scholar type charr and class and get norgu or vizier khilbrons armor I promise you’ll look awesome

Absolutely awesome, I really enjoyed necro wish I could shout that in game whenever I killed something.

When the tybalt back becomes available i will spend whatever is necesarry to get it =)

honestly one of the strangest race/class combos would be a charr spellcaster of anytime if you take into account the history they had with the flame legion who were the primary spellcasting legion. imo charr mesmer would be pretty strange. a very strength dominated culture race playing a subtle “in your head” spellcaster

My biggest dissapointment went all charr elites actually is that i’d rather use my class’s weakest elite than any racial elite, I know anet couldn’t make any racial elite overpowered but i’d like to be decent at least dunno about other races elites tho maybe they’re better

My mesmer isn’t ready yet but once I hit 80 I’ll post a pic of Korgin Shadowmind in Norgu’s armor

Condition Necro ftw lol. Honestly I love my condimancer and while I can’t burst down a single target like other classes I can round up any monsters within 1000 yards, stack 10-15 bleeds plus poison cripple chilll weakness etc. then spread it to the group for consistent second by second dps while I run around them laughing (necro brings out the sick and twisted in me ^/^)

Keep in mind that if you do you’re story quest as soon as you are the “appropriate” level then the next story quest will be 1-3 levels higher than you are now, this doesn’t mean you are underleveled at all, take some time to do events nearby and heart quests as well as grabbing any vistas/skillpoints/points of interest along the way and you’ll level fairly constantly. If you have anymore questions feel free to message me in game whenever i’m on =)

Gestankfaust.4216:

3. You transmuted it…stats are what they are.

Q – Why would they change?

By transmuting the item…you choose what it’s stats are for life. I don’t even remember anywhere Anet saying that if the level increases…or however you wanna put it…that the current item you own would increase.

I hope it doesn’t. A retro active increase seems …. well….dumb

Anet has said that legendary items will always be the best, therefore if they add in items with better than current legendary stats the legendaries will get a stat boost to remain at the top

I may get yelled at for this but if you want a ranged class that can melee, is worth more than just dps and is good in dungeons/wvwvw I would suggest mesmer. Granted it will take you getting to around lvl 20-30 before you start to be dangerous and lvl 40 to really shine mesmer is the most fun i’ve had so far and I look forward to hitting 80. anyway hope you find something that works

I’d love to see an alliance/cross-guild chat very soon. I belong to a guild that a bunch of us from gw1 created and i’m very loyal to but i’d love to join other guilds without having to give up guildchat there. also i’d love to have guild capes too, especially with a length cuztomization feature as the ones in gw1 were a tad short for me

I think there should be some kind of bonus for real guild loyalty I already see guilds requiring representation in their recruitment messages. personally I am part of a guild that many of us from gw1 started and to see the loyalty we have to each other rewarded would be great but I see the problems there too. If anet or anyone else finds a solution to this that’d be awesome till then not a big problem

I totally agree. I currently have full exo gear and have no desire to get a legendary because i’d much rather do anything but grind and farm t6 bloods and ectos and waste hours tossing stuff into the mystic forge for nothing. I’m fine with a quest/event chain that takes 2 months or more to complete plus a decent expenditure of funds but I won’t just between areas just to farm something I did enough of that in gw1