Guild Wars 2

I doubt you’ll get reported for botting for a dancing as a group of identical characters. During one of the beta weekends, a guild did it as Charr Mesmers, made a video for it, and say they even got a dev to join in.

Enjoy… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPkXrro3HBI

Hi, I voted.
This does sound a lot of fun. I’ve not joined a meet before now because I’m still levelling. Just hitting 60 this weekend. Hopefully I can join in next weekend and contribute my butterflys!

I’m aiming for a Phantasm-based build with staff and sword/pistol.
Traits set at 10/25/0/25/10 slotted with Empowered Illusions, Phantasmal Fury, Duelist’s Discipline, Mender’s Purity, Persisting Images, Compounding Power. Running Signet of Illusions in utility bar.
I settled on Knight’s armor stats to give me a bit more defence, and to boost the phantasms survivability.
This is the first class I’ve taken to 80, and the array of runes and sigils is a little overwhelming. I honestly have no idea what would benefit me as they all sound useful in different ways. Also advice on accessories would be welcome. Should I go with more of similar stats (like emerald), or go a different way to balance and round it out?

This build is for openworld PvE, possibly some dungeon running with my guild. I’ve not done any dungeons before and my guild know they will be showing me the ropes as we go. So I was aiming for something not “glass cannon” so that I’m not so fragile.

p.s. I totally love mesmer, my little sylvari is beautiful.

Thanks for the feedback, nice to know I’m on the right track.

I did have a couple more questions about illusions. When they “die” as opposed to shattering from the F1-4 commands (either through being defeated, overwritten, or their target being defeated), do they do shatter damage then? Or is damage in that case just going to be from the “on death” traits? And is the radius on shatter damage known?

So I just soloed my first champion, to my utter surprise. Just poking around Ebonhawke when “[Group Event] Defeat Escaped Seperatist Leader” popped up. I went to poke it, thinking more people would turn up, and I ended up soloing it.

Level 40, with staff/sword+pistol, up to date weapons/armor, traited for dodge clones and extra phantasm health.

I could never do anything like this on my ranger, which I took to about 60ish, and with that being a medium armor with a pet, I thought it would be more durable. Is this normal for Mesmer and can I expect more of the same at higher levels?

Also questions:
Is staff/sword+pistol a good weapon combo for general openworld PvE?
Which stats would be most beneficial for this?
I don’t shatter much, just drop phantasms and go for the kill, unless it’s a boss or vet and it gives time for my phantasms to come off cooldown, in which case I do shatter before I make new ones. Is this ok or am I ignoring the whole concept of Mesmer?
And does my Sylvari Mesmer ACTUALLY have superpowers? Cos I think shes’s awesome!

I’m not sure if this is a bug, or working as intended, which is why I have not submitted it as a ticket.

I have linked GW1 and GW2 accounts due to Hall of Monuments. Both accounts share the same log-in credentials due to being linked.

Today I have been playing GW1 to do the Wintersday quests for about 4 hours. Logged into GW2 about an hour after that to find a grumpy friend who says I have been logged into GW2 for the same time period and not replying to messages. Assured him I had not been ignoring him.

I have checked my bank and character, no one has moved, no one has anything missing. I have the email authenticator and have received no notifications about log-in attempts elsewhere in the world. Checked the security tab here on the website and there are no other log-in records except my own. So I do no believe it to be a hacking issue.

I have tested it again with the friend in the last few minutes, communicating via IM program, logging into GW1 shows me as visibly logged into GW2, should this be happening?

What about allowing our characters to have the choice of either Attunement Swap OR Weapon Swap?

Keep Attunement Swap as it is now with access to 4 attunements, no change required there.
With Weapon Swap, can have 2 sets of weapon equipped, but locked into 1 attunement. Giving the advantage of more skills within an element, but limited by the overall number of available skills.

The option to choose would be available in the Hero Panel, but only when out of combat, like it is currently when wanting to switch equipment.

What about having the option of either Attunement Swap OR Weapon Swap.

System as it is now, single weapon, 4 attunements.
OR
Have 2 weapon sets, but locked into 1 attunement.

You’d have to use Hero panel to designate it, and can only decide out of combat, like we do now with switching weapons from inventory.

Whips sort of exist already. Some of the Nightmare Courtiers weaponskills are a whip/vine thing. I don’t recall what exactly, but one of the story missions,you have to be in disguise with Caithe, and you use their skills. So whip probably wouldn’t too tricky to implement.

Female Norn voice is Claudia Christian, of Babylon 5 fame.

I get the idea it’s a way to interfere, without interfering. I’ll explain.

The six human gods withdrew from the world so that humans would choose their own path. The gods still observe, but no longer directly intervene. By having the Mists, they can ensure all the races can receive combat training and experience of working with each other. But it doesn’t directly affect the land of Tyria.

They may have been aware that a big series of events were coming that may result in the extinction of one or more races, and knew the only way their humans would have any hope of survival would be to co-operate with other races. So they withdrew so that their direct intervention in some matters wouldn’t cause friction with races who have different belief systems.

The undead raised by Zhaitan seem to retain some sense of self and can function without direct instruction. Although they are corrupted. Such as in the book Edge of Destiny. The leader of Lion’s Arch asks them to go battle an undead champion called Morgus Lethe, who was a Captain of LA before he fell in battle. Yet he still retains knowledge and information of LA’s defences and tactics.

The Necro minions seem more like simple minded constructs, almost like a primitive Asura golem. Need direct input to act, e.g. go attack this thing that I’m attacking.

I went with Roxan Shadowblade. A Thief in the Ash Legion.

As you know, most of the game servers are named after locations that exist in one or both of the GW games. One of the new ones added is named “Devona’s Rest”. But I have no idea if this is an existing location, or hook planted for future expansion.

Gullik can sometimes be found visiting Kileens grave.

There’s a good chance it could be implemented in the future, as the feature exists in GW1 shop. It wasn’t available at release however, it came out further down the line. So hang in there!

If the character is doing any action that doesn’t involve direct player input, it is considered “botting”. Basically if no-one is behind the screen, but the character is doing some action, then it is against the rules and therefore bannable. Don’t do it if you don’t want to be reported.

The command is /age
It will tell you how long you’ve played that character, and how much you’ve played in total over all characters.