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Sup Nubu?
I was running a kind of PU condi build with less stealth last time i played, so no PU for me, too boring and too “passive” gameplay.
Kinda wanted to dive into the phantasm builds but i’ll give yours a try ^^
Thanks for sharing
Hello Mez community!
I recently returned to GW2 and made a build but i don’t know the actual meta (used to play a s\p – staff condi mesmer 0 25 25 15 5) and made this build cause i wanted to play phants.
So here it is:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fgAQNAscGlwzKqHTjtmk4MDoHd0HwOpCqukCczbA-j0yAYLBRiCARAkKAlALiGbxsIasqFMVpgs6MpejBN7PSqMAMLA-w
Is there something i can upgrade? Got any suggestions?
First of all i’m not particularly convinced about runes of speed. Then i’m not decided if i want to go for phant fury + ether feast or clone on dodge + the new signet heal
Bumping, no response whatsoever, even from customer service itself.
Same problem here, didn’t want to open a new thread. Tried to buy gems, nope. Waited for 24-48hrs as suggested by ANet’s customer service and when i got on today it gave me the same message (with a different credit card).
Made an online ticket, if you tell me i have to make a web ticket i’ll do and post the number here
EDIT: request number #36449
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Has anyone heard anything when it will be back up?
Nope. Still down for me, slowly loosing hope.
I was purchasing some items on the TP before it went down when it was buggy and not working, as in the buy button did nothing.
Now suddenly all of my gold has disappeared and I’m down to the starting amount of 1 silver 52 copper…. has anyone else experienced this?
Sorry to say, but as is ‘normal’ behavior when the trading post has issues, every attempt to purchase an item will deduct the coin from your wallet despite giving the error/failed purchase message. It’s a good idea to watch your coin when purchasing to notice when your purchase actually goes through. When the trading post is fixed, all of the items you purchased due to the multiple attempts to buy will be delivered to your pick up tab. In the future do not keep clicking to buy. If it doesn’t work on the first attempt, yet your coin is taken, then assume there is an issue and do not keep purchasing more of the item. You can relist the excess items you purchased to recoup most of the unintended spent coin.
Sorry to disappoint but coin were not taken, so i didn’t have any tool to say if the transaction went through or not
I was purchasing some items on the TP before it went down when it was buggy and not working, as in the buy button did nothing.
Now suddenly all of my gold has disappeared and I’m down to the starting amount of 1 silver 52 copper…. has anyone else experienced this?
Same to me, please do something.
Lost like 20g in useless stacks of dyes
Hey folks,
If you’re experiencing the issue still, can you let me know what server you’re playing on?
Thanks!
Playing on Gunnar’s Hold
As for DEX.. we just transfered, we had been fighting 10v30/40/50/60/70
Sorry, but i must inform you that you guys didn’t fight the ultimate tier challenge: 120GH zerg.
can’t wait thursday..what will the excuse be for loosing this matchup so badly?
Trying to arrange some duels tonight on AS BL Windmill, maybe some small scale GvG if you’re willing to.
9 pm gmt+1, cookies for everyone
you mean the server that is so good
Actually LOLed hard at this.
Next.
title says all.
Imagine the animation of 100b on a quaggan, or a quaggan iDuelist pewpewing around.
That should be hilarious!
Edit: Also let’s not forget the Sandwichmancer.
He plays Condi and i sometimes do so, also. There are basically 2 ways for a mesmer to kill someone effectively with condi:
- get a bunch of iDuelists and let them stack bleeds (maybe even trait for it and let them stack confusion in Null Field/Chaos Storm). This actually is quite effective, but can only work in a certain area.
- get iCounter off and have some bleeds, burning and poison (Doom Sigil works good) at that time.
First problem i see in your build: you rely on blind confusion from traited glamour fields.
Try to get the condi on clone death trait, best part is that the “on death” effect is triggered even when a clone is replaced (looking at you Phase Retreat\ iLeap).
The problem is: Condimesmers are quite stationary as they solely rely on illusions. Most of our condis (basically everything except that torment) is too short to actually effect someone when running away.
Well…i saw that it doesn’t matter the duration in the current meta. Everyone is running a sort of cleanse (or worse transfer) so in the end it’s how often and how much you can burst your condies. As a condi mesmer you should be able to apply every condition in this game except fear or the occasional torment if you’re not running with scepter.
I agree on the illusion relying part tho, cos a condi mesmer needs a build up time
Also, as Nubu just told me today: There is absolutely no way for him to every beat a halfway competent necro even if he specced all for condi-removal.
Must admit that i didn’t find a good necro, maybe because the class is fotm.
But with perma regen + null field + condi removal on ether feast i usually feel comfortable. Note that null field is swapped against heavy condition builds.
In the end i usually haven’t any kind of problem on my mesmer, but feel free to discuss with me or the other guys in game since it’s faster to type there and i’m a lazy guy
- our condi dmg can’t compete with other classes (except guardian because they don’t really have condis).
Loled at this.
Ask Nubu! He dueled me some time ago on my condi mesmer.
-A random [Imp] guy
tonight at 1h30 am on Bay on BL AS :
FR using cheat one more time
FR is the boriest server ever seen
Please, check the tags first and post.
While I agree that this matchup is kinda boring, with enemies running from a single guy even in a 3:1 ratio, let’s try to not generalize.
FR, please stop running away and hiding in camps/behind seige in towers/porting to waypoints. If it’s you vs 1 other then do you really need to run to uneven the odds in your favour?
Little bit ragey about the whole cowardice thing shown by FR so far and last week DL.
Weak individuals tend to run.
Currently running an OP condi build.
Why? cos i never loose, no kidding.Fight a good CD thief with the condi removal trait. They can literally stand there and just CD repeatedly because a condi mesmer has no pressure outside of conds.
That one particular trait from thieves has kept me from runing condi in wvw for awhile now. I hate being countered that hard by 1 tactic.
Uhmm…no?
U talking about the Remove a conditon every 3s of stealth.
Well, guess what, i’ve mained a thief for a long time and i perfectly know how that trait works (won’t spoil tho, ask me in game) and the main flaw behind that trait.
So, given that i can apply every condition (except fear) in the game with multiple stacks and in some cases i can keep up indefinitely, i think (and see) that the pressure is quite high. Even 0 10 0 30 30 elementalists with huge condition removal can’t keep up.
Major con of this build is out of combat mobility: usually i need a swiftness sharing group or focus to move around quickly, but if u don’t bother…
Currently running an OP condi build.
Why? cos i never loose, no kidding.
Fuq i lost my bet.
Was hoping for atleast a first page without blobbing accusation but….
Also:
stop blobbing u blobbers!
But the point stands all the good servers I’ve seen with ‘individuals’ that are decent have been lower ranked, blobfest based servers are generally bad.
Must agree with Kreshant.
I’ve seen so many baddies out there this week, except maybe a few (no not you Nubu!!!! ), and not talking about TUP or such.
Well, have fun next matchup and don’t forget to do your zergling homework!
Let’s have some fun tonight, shall we?
MS border windmill, GvG, duels and hopefully some Golems vs Golems.
Starting @ 8:00 PM GMT
(donations in golems and such are welcome)
If i’m feeling generous i could also teach some tactical siege placement to you newbs (kidding, basically it’s throw random siege around)
Actually wrong. I never wanted Xaoc to join GH and wasn’t happy when we got the boost in PvD players, Made nightime a PvD zerg that map hopped constantly and was overall very boring to play. I never understood why you transfered this far down when it was clear you would only be fighting doors and would leave once we got into a tier where you had actual players to fight.
I’m sure there are people from GH who did want you here, But to say we was all fine with it would be wrong.
Agree, same feeling.
Wasn’t Xaoc that was yelling “don’t go wvw” back in the days?
Oh Steelo…did we whine because we had only garrison and the north towers most of the time on sunday in our home land? May i remind you why you got it? Because you had a better coverage at that time ergo did more PvD. Im seeing you doing nothing but whining in here, which is pathetic since everyone who plays wvw knows that it is at least 50% about NUMBERS and COVERAGE.
We on RoS adapted to that and try to push till late night to have the coverage or the early morning.
There is really no point at all in whining about “nightcapping” it just showes that youre a sore looser ( not looser of the actual matchup but of the points you “miss” in your opinion).
If youre weak at some time you get picked up thats only fair and square since if you cant defend your stuff at night you dont deserve to have it.This is MY opinion feel free to disagree with me you cant change my mind anyways.
Uhm, i think you didn’t get the point.
From what i understand, Steelo is complaining about FRS guild nightcapping GH border, not general nightcapping.
About night peeps i agree with Hyung: if you have them, make use of them.
Anyway, looking forward to the end of this matchup to have some GvG and duels, with RoS and MS (hopefully).
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You missed my point.
If specific classes get specific abilities people will require specific classes to do specific stuff because of their specific class-ability.
Got it.
But by doing that, as you said, specific classes will fulfill specific roles on the battlefield: basically what they do right now.
So, my idea could be wrong (obviously imho) on paper due to balancing issues and whatnot, but i’m sure that implementing class abilities would make wvw more tactical.
To Gomes:
yeh i understand that.
Obviously you need to tune and balance the whole thing, so what you wrote couldn’t happen.
On a side note, leaving behind a man or two i think will reduce the size of a zerg, so more small roaming and less zergs\lag spikes
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No
They should NEVER add this, because that would suddenly mean that you “needed” certain classes in WvW, and that is never a good thing.
It would also be a balancing nightmare.
I don’t understand what’s wrong.
Every class should have one ability, in the case of Engineers they have to be protected for 15s (adjust the casting time to your own taste, was only an example) to use their skill.
Thieves can sneak into a tower but ony for 30s (adjust also here), boosting keep champs won’t effect zergs cause it will take them some seconds more to wipe the champs, but will nerf (or make extremely diffcult) the ability of a 5 thieves to ninja a tower.
Same with every other class, now i’m not into balancing but could be something useful like those two abilities.
P.S. ofc more engies =\ wall down, they will take only 50%\30% idk% of the wall hp
Why not consider some class specific WvW abilities, that would inject into the wvw meta some strategy beside zerging and some benfits to small roaming groups?
Let’s take into account Thief class, for example.
Boosting the HP and attacks of tower champs and vets, the Thief class could have:
20 wvw pts
Sneak: allows you to sneak into a tower, 3s cast time, 15s skill time, 5min recharge
at 50 pts becomes a 30s time window in wich you can enter a tower (only towers not keeps\ stonemist)
or, for example, Engineer class could have a Place Bombs ability: for 20pts and 15s cast time they could do 50% damage to a wooden wall, for 50pts to a fortified.
Hope i’ve been clear, english is not my native language so apologies in advance if something is missing or wrong
Cheers and /discuss
Since you’re going slightly towards a bunker\condi spammer and since i’ve discovered and been running that build i can tell you that, OP, you’re correct on some points but wrong on others.
Try to go up atleast 15 into Illusions, having perma-regen and and 3s of Protection every 15s is invaluable.
They are virtually immune to most condition based builds
False sentence.
You remove 1 condition while entering stealth and 1 whenyou exit (not really exit but the last second if you trait in SA), and if you got a cover condition, you’ll remove that first.
So, not really OP, players just have to actually put some strategy into this, cover their 15-20 stacks of bleed so you have to remove another condition first and then eat atleast 2 secs of ticking.
I find the Guardian’s condition removal much more better than ours.
As for Mug damage with Boon hate… I’m half on this. You’re making a burst Mug build again, which activates every 45 seconds to 40 seconds
Yep, but a “timed burst”.
Make Mug damage without boons insignificant and make it scale greatly with how many boons the target has.
A s\d could benefit from this timed burst but will have to choose when to land it (strip boons or moar damage?), same as a d\d.
Could actually inject some strategy into certain fights
If you’re new to thief class the best advice i can give you is go CoF, farm your zerker armor, place ruby orbs (cheap) and go kill stuff.
That way you’ll lear on your own skin and by your own mistakes that the most efficient way to play a thief is not getting hit at all, and you’ll improve in dodging and stealth timing.
Then, when you got some experience, find a weaponset that you like, a build aswell and start going towards that goal.
Play the build and finally modify the build to suit your playstyle.
That’s all.
I would like to see the rework of Mug damage to scale on how many boons are on the target.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Ballistician_Heavyhammer
You can find the Leggings here, they’re called Stentor Leggings, 588 Karma to purchase.
you aren’t exactly a “non-stealth” build, maybe i took it too literary?
That’s my fault.
Every thief relies on stealth, that’s obvious since the best traits and benefits comes from there.
But, as i stated before, i try to use stealth as a tool, and not just spam it mindlessly.
I won’t give away all my tricks here but for example the BP+HS combo is a huge waste of init vs an experienced ele; initiative that could be used elsewhere, for example a timed Headshot during the water switch or Ether Renewal, or a quick Shadowshot spam to quickly close the gap.
That’s just a mere example of what you can do with d\p but people just don’t realize the potential of the weponset and instead just spam the combo because they saw it in a video.
You have 3 traits totally relying on stealth
Shadow’s Embrace Remove one condition every 3 seconds while in stealth
Infusion of Shadow Gain 2 initiative when using a skill that stealths you
Shadow’s Rejuvenation Regenerate health while in stealthHow exactly is this a non-stealth build? All you did was kitten yourself with so much toughness with respect to the amount of critical damage you got.
I didn’t say that i don’t rely on stealth. I don’t stealth to lend the damage.
The best condition remover we have is in stealth, same as the health regen, i would be an idiot to not pick up those traits and go into stealth when i need it.
And yes, please, continue to build up for crit damage and crit chance, i’ll be glad to own you thief power users everytime.
Clearly, if you (no harsh intended) don’t see the point in this build and the sinergy between some traits, i can’t do much to explain.
I also got some videos up on my twitch and youtube channel, feel free to watch them and see how i manage to handle situations.
Ofc if you pretend that this is a burst build you’ll be clearly disappointed
Here’s the link http://www.twitch.tv/samoleth/videos videos are a bit dated due to the fact that i’ve been doing some guild wvw runs and i usually record solo play.
EDIT: about crit damage. You really want to make me believe that 97-109% crit damage is absolutely necessary? Or that a high vitality will save your BP+HS combo from a well timed Headshot? That you can C&D while permablinded by Shadowshot? Come on mate, i’ve tried every build out there, i’m not the casual thief player and i laugh everytime i find a dd burst or valkirye thief. Remember: d\p is more than that over used combo. I’m not talking about a build, that’s easy to figure and to modify if you feel more comfortable with less thoughness and more power, i’m talking about changing playstyle, the way most people play thief.
EDIT 2: Anyway, let’s cut this. Everyone got his own opinions, i’ll limit myself to do as i usually did since today: reading the forums.
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To everyone continuously saying non-stealth builds are viable, please share them! I have tried building one that doesn’t rely on stealth and I get absolutely nowhere, so I went for a Ranger instead (lol). Please, share.
Mind that i fight with 25 bloodlust and an average of 8 might stacks.
When revealed thief gets blinds only with D/P, the most stealth heavy weapon set in game. So u saying that every thief should run d/p or s/d evade spam just to have a chance to stay in fight instead running like a kitten for 30s? Oh right, after last update 90% of thief community runs D/P and S/D troll dedicated builds with perma stealth from black powder/hs combos and infiltrators strike abuse which actually didnt change at all, but somehow became new meta after flanking strike buff
( yea me too dont see any logics in that
).
I’m actually saying to all the QQers out there that there actually is a way to build a thief without heavy stealth usage.
And that it can still be effective, if not more effective, has some good staying power while maintaining a relatively good power (attack\crit\crit damage).
Usually i end up in worst cases (worst being those cases where i don’t screw up something, like doubletapping the black powder key and wasting all my init in 2s, like when i got some skill lag) in a draw 1v1, where we compliment eachother etc etc
But i don’t want to brag about, i’m not that kind of player, i was only answering to the op QQ about 30s revealed.
About the “new meta”: if the majority of thieves follow a preset build\weponset\gear they simply can’t be effective and will be stomped by someone with a bit of knowledge of the thief class.
I’m saying this because i was one of them, then found a build where i felt comfortable and started to tweak that build\gear and finally changed playstyle.
What i’m suggesting to the OP and all the others is to wait and see what happens..in the end it’s a 600×90 trap, if a guy is standing in there just shortbow spam or stealth and /laugh at him while he can’t do nothing because of his “precious” trap.
EDIT: i wrote quickly so i don’t know if there’s any typo or error, if there’s some i’m sorry for that i’ll edit my post when i got some spare time
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how possible to be a thief survive in WvW without stealth
Blinds and evades.
Since i balanced my thief gear around some precise stats, changed the way i play and focused on something else than OMG backstabz!!!!111!!1 i can stay in stealth or without stealth with no consequences.
Drop a trap for 1v1? No problems, i can stay in the 1v1 fight as long as i want to, and in the end it’s always the enemy to flee.
I’m much, much, much worried about the other trap.
3 in a row, claculate the right distance between each of them, place those traps at certain points and you can steal all the supplies.
(3 is just a number, didn’t test anything, maybe it will require more, maybe less)
0/10/30/30/0
Knights\Zerker\Knights\Zerker\Knights\Zerker armor
Zerker trinkets except Knights earrings
Cavaliers\Soldiers Backpiece
Zerker Waeponry with: Bloodlust on SB, Fire on MH Dagger\ Accuracy on OH Pistol, Air on MH Sword\ Force on OH Dagger
Withdraw\Blinding Powder\Infiltrator’s Signet\Signet of Shadows\ Basilisk Venom (Thieves Guild\Daggerstorm, swap as needed)
Nothing else to say, figure the rest yourself.
2 misses of CnD and your done.
Agree.
You can’t C&D when perma blinded.
This comes from a thief with a long d\p experience, never had any sort of problems vs other thieves.
Against a heavy C&D user your best ally is Shadow Shot and against a burst d\d is blinding powder + withdraw.
Never had any particular problem with S\D too, they’re a bit tricky but i can stick to them thanks to the underlooked Shadow Shot.
Got some videos on my Twitch and YT for those who don’t believe
I see you’re using the Vigor on Heal trait, what others are keeping you from using Power of Inertia?
Vigor on heal is an extremely powerful trait.
Coupled with withdraw and at least 15 in Acrobatics, it makes you not worry about dodging at all.
You always have enough vigor to dodge, that’s why i prefer this trait over the others, and why i’ve build my d\p s\d thief aroud this (and some other) trait.
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And last things, every time we find a GH’s guild who plays without the zerg, SHE RUNS AWAY !
That’s really weird to say.
I can speak as (mostly) a solo roamer but that’s the exact behavior i see while i run around the map.
Few people of both Dzag and RoS are willing to duel or kill me 1v1, most of the time they run away scared in a keep or call for some sort of back up or try to kill me with SM cannons while i /laugh at them.
Same as when I run with my fellow [Imp] pack, even numbers = flee.
So, don’t assume things you don’t know. I could do it and say that the players of both my enemy servers are a bunch of fleeing noobs, but i won’t do it, because i’ve met some really good opponents and nice persons.
Cheers,
Hot Shots
ANet said that they wanted to introduce boon hate so here’s my idea (i don’t really know if it’s been already posted): damage of Mug scales with how many boons are on the target and is still able to crit.
So Mug will be exactly as it is now if the target has at least 6?7?X? boons, else the damage will be lowered, with of course a base damage of a classic skill.
No boon stealing.
What do you think?
/discuss
+1 for your change of mind and the nice video Frenk, hope you didn’t switch back to D\D!
T1 guilds? Meh, they didn’t even know what T1 Guilds are.
/troll mode off
Anyway, stop commenting and hating eachother, try to have fun and make your opponent life harder.
Cheers,
Hot Shots
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I can provide a couple of videos of fights vs a S\D thief and a Guardian, here they are
S\D http://www.twitch.tv/samoleth/c/2158154
and
Guardian http://www.twitch.tv/samoleth/c/2142265
Hope this helps
A simple question about the runes:
why don’t you go for the classic 2 Krait 2 Centaur 2 Afflicted for 45% additional bleed duration instead of pumping up condition damage, so you can invest some Deadly Arts points into something more useful?
Bumping this thread because i recently capped the 2k views, so thanks to all who viewed my cannel and provided criticism!
Hi guys,seems i keep getting kitten easy mode by all classes on WvW,serious dunno what to do ,im using my random gear…seems the enemy does a lot of damage on me and never seem to loose health bellow 50 percent…what can i do? do i have to use any pvp gear or something? i feel thief is very weak atm.
First of all, you need to be clear on what weapon setup you’re using.
I assume you’re going D\D so the main issue here is timing and learning how and when to Cloack and Dagger.
Talking about gear i’m a balancaed stats fan, so my advice would be to try to improve your gear, reaching the goal of atleast 1,2-1,5k thougness 90% crit damage and around 40-50% crit chance.
This can be reached via Valkyrie gear (Power Vitality Crit Damage) with Berseker Trinkets and the 0/30/30/10/0 Hidden killer build (http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fYAQNAoYVlUmiO3ey5E+5Ey2jKcnIKuHGVS1UdF4KA)
The build showed above is a good start if you’re aiming to play mostly D\D, credits goes to Yshis for providing the build.
If you’re going to be a P\D condition build with loltrops i suggest going full Carrion armor (Power Vitality Condition Damage) with 2 Krait runes 2 Centaur runes and 2 Afflicted runes. Trinkets will be Chrysocola.
Two builds i can suggest are P\D loltrops (http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fYAQNAqYVlUmKP3ey5E+5EB3jk60m6p4rjtTBXlPA) or P\D venoms (http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fYAQNAqYVlUmKP3ey5E+5EB3jkC1mqpQm2sTBXlPA)
These are the goals you can keep in mind and can work towards in my opinion.
Hope i’ve been useful
Cheers,
Hot Shots
Headshot? just lol.
Reading your sig i know that you talk about PvE perspective but you’re terribly wrong in the quoted sentence.
Let me start by explaining that in WvW D\P can perform very well without being in stealth 90% of the time, so the new 4s revealed isn’t that big.
Then, unlike a D\D user a non permastealth D\P player can, in a PvE environment, be untouched by mobs: blinds, stealth, evades and, with Withdraw, a gap maker with a built in evade.
In conclusion, i can do PvE content very well, blinding mobs\bosses and such, meanwhile performing insanely good in WvW.
We’re talking about 5k backstab crits and 3k Headshot Crits, while having 2,6k Thougness and 15,5-16k HP.
If you want more details on the playstyle (not the build because it’s a pretty standard one, same as the gear) feel free to hit me up.
Cheers,
Hot Shots
Hi fellow Thieves,
i’m here to introduce my newly created Thief WvWvW Livestream!
I hope you’ll enjoy, follow and of course provide suggestion and feedbacks so i can improve both my channel and my gameplay.
Here’s the link: http://www.twitch.tv/samoleth
I’m streaming a D\P thief, already got some funny highlights up, every other information, included my thoughts about thief class can be found in the channel description or in the related videos, where i try to explain as much as possible in a few text lines.
I want to clarify that i switched to D\P, non permastealth, about 2,5-3 months ago, so i’m not a newbie (but sometimes i’ll be back to those stupid habits such as distracting myself or overextending and be killed)
I also want to thank all the community of Gunnar’s Hold, especially Praxium Guild for making me join and providing me some of the best WvW nights i’ve had, commander Catinka for the great lead in EB, my buddy Waunaeron for being that funny guy who joins me when i roam and last but not least High Tier guild for welcoming me back when i came back to Gunnar’s.
I hope you’ll enjoy the footage i’ll provide and i’m sorry for the stream quality, i’m improving day by day because i’m a noob in editing and livestreaming.
Cheers,
Hot Shots
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