Guild Wars 2

Iruwen.3164:

Errtan.4526:

-Portal was only initially intended to be used by the casting mesmer. This bug was fixed.

They should actually make the cooldown 60s again but make it only work for the mesmer himself and four other players, seriously.

Actually, this would be very useful in tPvP, seriously. Nobody else, except you and players from your team, would be able to use portal.

Dinama.3764:

Doesn’t make sense to me.

It will if you read first line in my post once again

Warning: Troll Alert!

Weapon skills:
Sword:
– Blurred Frenzy – this skill now apply Protection for 1,5 sec
– Mind Stab – this skill is fixed and now properly remove condition instead of boon
Torch:
– The Prestige – this skill now properly apply 3 stacks of vulnerability instead of burning, cloaking last 1 sec now
Greatsword:
– Mind Stab – this skill now is blast combo finisher
Staff:
– Chaos Storm – removed AoE from this skill, conditions it applies last 1 sec longer
Scepter:
– Ether Blast (second auto-atack shot) – increased casting speed for 2%
Focus:
– Temporal Curtain – increased damage of this skill for 50%

- Phantasmal Warlock and Phantasmal Mage now properly run away from melee and maintain distance of 1.200 from their target at all time.
- Increased range of Phantasmal Warlock and Phantasmal Mage to 600
- Arcane Thievery – this skill now fixed, range is set to 130
- Moa Morph – this skill is renamed to Marmox Morph and it now transforms foes into Marmox with completely new set of skills
- Signet of Inspiration – this skill now grants boon every 12 sec

Traits:
– Master of Misdirection – this trait now grants 33% duration increase of all poison you inflict
– Critical Infusion is now Dueling XI, and Empowering Mantras is now Dueling V

Same here, up to 3 sec lag. Game is almost unplayable now

For more AoE, put Sigil of Superior Fire in your GS.

@Shrook: Currently running with Scepter+Focus/Staff and a Duelist/Illusion build for bleed on phantasm crits.

For scepter/focus I can recommend you to try Crippling Dissipation trait (Domination V), this will slow mobs down until Temporal Curtain is on cd. For Staff – Illusionary Elasticity (Illusions VII). But both weapons are slow with low dps, maybe best idea would be for you to try Greatsword / Sword-Pistol since iBeserker and iDuelist are best phantasmals and will work great in your “bleed on crit” build.

pyronix.4081:

I’m level 42 and I never ever do areas at my same level (I’m currently finishing all the 15-25 ones) but even then, the class just feels really really gi mp in terms of damage output and survivability in PVE (and let’s not get started on DE’s – geez).

Which weapons you use and what build you have on your Mesmer?
I`m asking coz I always fight mobs higher lvl than me. My Mesmer is now lvl 64, but when it was lvl 61, I was fighting mobs lvl 68 and 69 (finished Heart lvl 69 to buy Eggplants for my cooking) and I didn`t get killed once.

Embolism.8106:

Compounding Power doesn’t affect condition damage. Personally I’d go with Master of Misdirection, but that’s because I do use CoF occassionally for some Confusion burst. Confusing Cry is also worth considering (again if you plan to Shatter) as it gives 18s of Retribution for 3 Clones.

I don’t see why Rampager’s should be taken over Rabid. Rampager’s gives less Vitality than Rabid gives Toughness, the extra HP will allow you to last slightly longer versus conditions but you’re take significantly more direct damage. It also gives Power which is mostly wasted with the Staff, as a lot of your damage is from Clones which don’t have any direct damage.

I don’t recommend not taking any condition removal either. With low HP you are vulnerable to conditions and without a cleanser the first 15x Bleeding on you will spell your doom.

Rampager`s: Precision is something you WILL need, your clones don`t do any dmg, but they will apply bleed on crit, and they WILL crit a lot. With this amulet and 3 clones you can stack 10+ bleeds in no time. It also work great with Rune of the Forge + Signet of Inspiration. You will have 33% dmg reduction exactly when you need it. Extra 3,5k hp also helps.

With only 15 k hp you will get 2-3 hits and get killed, since with light armor pumping toughness is not really best idea.

I personally don`t take any cond. removal since there are not many cond. build in sPvP, but that` just how I play. You don`t have to take my advice and make a Low of it

With Rabbid, your bleeds will do around 13-14 more dmg per sec, but with more pow. from Rampager`s, you, your phantasmals and Staff clone (no 2 skill) will do little more direct dmg, so difference is not that big. Especially if your foe use cond. removal.

I also don`t like glass cannon build, since in sPvP most of the time is zerg fest.

I`m not saying my build is best, I`m saying my build is best for ME. I tried many other builds and I didn`t like them, so:

Bottom line is: every build is good, but use the one which fits your playstayle most.

Jenia.2418:

http://www.gw2build.com/builds/simulator.php#1.8.7.2.0.20.0.0.0.0.180.196.191.199.205.0.0.0.530.0.0.545.550.0.559.560.565.0.0.0.0.0.0.10.25.30.0.5

heavy tough build, speced for mass clones with alot of Get Aways

3 rune of the lich and 3 rune of melandru and rabid amulet

bleed 481 dmg 5.5 seconds and burn 596

I still don’t know which is better, vitality or toughness but this is serving me well.

staff is main weapon and pistol is for stun or what you may wish.

I prefer mass invis because I like to do group ambush attacks or if I want to pop out of nowhere with an chaos storm – phase retreat opening.

is big battles I prefer to sit still with 3 clones near me so they would have to guess which one is me (unless they tab it, which is lame.) when they kill the clones they get crippled and an extra condition

not sure if this is cookie cutter or not but there it is, suggestions?

I played Mesmer up to lvl 23 in sPvP with almost same build, so I will suggest you next:
- take 5 pts from Dueling and 10 from Chaos and put in Illusions, your build will look like this now: 10 (V), 20 (V, X), 20 (V, X), 0, 20 (III, VII).
- Use Rampager`s Amulet and Jewel
- Sigil of Superior Earth in weapon
- 6x Superior rune of Undead in armor.

I personally like more 6x Superior Rune of Forge, Signet of Inspiration instead of Null Field and Moa Morph instead of Mass Invisibility.
Reason is (very) much better survivability (you WILL see difference) for just little less dmg (your bleed will tick for only like 6-7 less dmg per tick – or 5-6 if you get Might boon from Signet).

Usually, almost every item have several recipes of different level that can be discovered. When you discover all low level recipes of that item, it will turn red in your Discovery tab. That means you need to level up your cooking. When you do that, item will be available again. When you discover all recipes of that item, it won`t show up in your Discovery tab anymore.
I`m lvl 400 in cooking and I discovered ALL recipes of ALL items. Now, I have all maths in bank/collectibles, but when I click on Discovery tab, it`s completely empty, because there are no more recipes to discover, obviously

phaeris.7604:

Are you all insane?

Mesmer has hands down the best abilities in the game.

‘Blurred frenzy’ – 8 sec timer (6 sec traited), evade all attacks for 2-3 secs. The warriors shield block is on a 25 sec timer!!

It`s 10 sec (8 if traited).

phaeris.7604:

Time warp – 10 sec aoe haste ..Sweet jesus!!! 10 sec haste?? aoe??? That’s just insane.

With very small area and long cd. Only few Mesmers use this.

phaeris.7604:

Moa bird – 10 sec stun with no way to purge??

Moa bird is not stun. You can easily run away and dodge while transformed.

phaeris.7604:

It’s near impossible to stun/root a mesmer. Every other class is subject to cc, not the mesmer.

It`s even more easy to stun/root/immobilize/whatever Mesmer than other class, like Warrior with Stability.

phaeris.7604:

A half decent mesmer shouldn’t lose 1v1 ever, or 2v1. This is the point you know a class is unbalanced.

Against good player who knows how to play his class, 1vs1 can be extremely challenging and one single mistake can result in loosing match.
1vs2 good players = you are dead.

phaeris.7604:

All i see in spvp matches are mesmers/thieves.

I see all classes. Yes, there are times when I have like 3-4 Thieves in grp or 2-3 Mesmers, but that doesn`t happened every day.

phaeris.7604:

Thieves are still tough, but not that bad.

Not bad? If you don/t have Staff in your hands and Blink is on cd, good Thief will kill you in 3-4 sec. So, yea, I agree, not bad at all.

phaeris.7604:

Mesmers…..running around with similar hps to melee classes, all the dps and 100x more utility.

Which build is that? If you have a lot of hp, your DPS suck. If you have high DPS, you die fast. And what “100x more utility” you are talking about?

Deepblue.1237:

I am not interested in the complexity of my class
I am not interested in other classes and their mechanics
I am not interested in playing around and optimizing my traits
I am not interested in coming up with a build that fits my playstyle
I am not interested in swapping weapons infight
I am not interested in line of sight and the whole enviroment
I am not interested in optimizing my equipment because i dont care about stats
I dont know what my traits do and i dont care
I dont know what a build is
I dont know what dodging is
I dont know what a condition is
I dont know what a boon is
I dont know what conditional damage is
I dont know what toughness does
I dont know why i should stack defensive stats
I dont know how my skills scale with stats
I dont want to play with defensive stats
I dont want to block
I dont want to dodge

This game needs no skill and is unbalanced thats why i get wrecked so hard in pvp.

PLS FIX SO I CAN PRESS 1-5 WHILE I LOOK COOL AND PAWN PAWN EVERYBODY!

NERF THIEF
NERF MESMER
NERF FORUM

Do I have your permission to use this and make dubstep song?

It is, just try to combine Arcane orb, Arcane crystal or Arcane silver with Arcane powder, Deer token and dagger token and you should get 3 different daggers.

This is just an idea, you decide is it good or bad.
How about an option to separate players by their lvl in sPvP?
For example, you will have matches who can join only players lvl 1-9 (rabbits), then 10-19 (deers), 20-29 (doylaks) etc…
I`m currently lvl 21 and I see a lot of new players who don`t play their class well (people new to PvP, kids, ppl who just started with that class and don`t know much about it etc…). Some of them don`t even DODGE and having them in your team usually means you will lose match. On the other hand, it may seem nice if they are in opponent team, but it`s not the case. It`s not fun to play against someone who you can kill easy, or without trying too hard. There is no sport in that.
Much better would be if all players in both teams are Doylaks (sPvP rank 20-29), much more challenging, you would know who you play against and there are no room for mistakes. You would have to play as good as possible, use all your skills and be concentrated 100% from first second till last second of the match. Also, winning this kind of match would be much more satisfactory.
I know this sounds like hardcore, but it`s only an idea.
So, what you guys think about it?

Hyeena.4286:

Ya, at rank 27 that guy is exploiting or lying to his teeth.

I don`t think so, I`m lvl 21 and I play less than 2 hrs per day.

Deepblue.1237:

Candiru.5279:

For example:
how is it even possible that a mesmer illusion is hitting the same dmg then some highest burst attack of other classes?

My Illusions are hitting for 0-4 dmg per hit.

Not sure if trolling or just plain stupid.

It`s not direct dmg that counts, It`s bleeding they apply. I have 57% crit chance and trait Sharper images (illusions inflict bleeding on crit hit). My clones apply vuln or bleed on hit plus one more bleed on crit (and they crit a lot), so if you have 3 clones out and Staff in your hands (with Sigil of Earth – 60% chance to apply 5 sec bleed on crit) it`s really easy to stack up more than 10 stacks of bleeds in only few seconds.

Lewk.8359:

So far the hardest single hits i have received are from Heartseeker and Mesmer pet. Both of these have 0 drawbacks to the reward they receive. Compare that to Warrior HB (self root), Elementalist (requires combinations of area targeted skills) and oh wait… guardian, ranger, engi, necro dont have any single abilities that burst that hard…

You probably didn`t spend too much time in sPvP. I have Mesmer lvl 21 and I`ve seen a lot of stuff. Thief who can burst me in 4 seconds, Warrior who can kill me in 3 seconds (bullscharge+1000 blades+quickness), Necro who casted 10 stacks of bleeds (and other stuff), fight didn`t last long and at the end I received 23k dmg just from bleeds (I would really like to know what spell / combo / whatever was that).
I play conditional build and my strongest pet is duelist who can deal up to 2,5k dmg (in power build it goes up to 4k) and it`s still nothing compared to Eviscerate which easily hit for more than 9k in single shot.