Guild Wars 2

Another commander and myself stayed awake for the final 37 hours of the match and co-commanded the NSP BL for the final 23 hours we knew every point would count so we managed the point tics and had the best group of player/defenders we could ask for. I don’t normally engage in the forums but I felt compelled to congratulate SBI and Dr on the best match up NSP has ever had , the great crew that helped us defended rather than chase champ bags, and everyone that played on all servers because that was the most fun I have ever had in guild wars 2. Can’t wait for another SBI / Dr/ NSP match up! Also to a few of the SBI and Dr roaming groups pushing NSP BL I have to give you props I play a lot of PvP and some of your guys target calling / switching , focused burst etc was phenomenal in those camps. Loved it had a great time , thanks to everyone that played !

Just bumping so that one day we might get an answer

they wouldnt know they nerfed before release

why is it so hard to get a response in here ? … maybe i should have posted this in the warrior forums .. in fact i think i will

Aethgar, funny enough i switched builds and went back and now no matter what as you said can not get MR to proc with it

I wonder how long we will wait for a reply. I thought it was 2 straight forward questions, the fact they are either not going to respond or carefully crafting a response does not make our situation seem any more promising.

Ya I do I turn to crystal and it reflects wish we could get a dev response here

silverfire.2547:

Bumping this because I was trying out one of these builds (2/6/0/0/6) in WvW last night.

Cooldown is 10 seconds (splitting hairs here, since 10 isn’t 0, either) and worst of all, the distortion granted by this trait does not interact with Masterful Reflection (Illusions4).

Feels to me that the non-interaction is an oversight since they just fixed the distortion on signet activation this patch.

I do have it working with Masterful Reflection, strange about CD though it seems to be fluctuating .. First night I thought it was 3 seconds … Your saying 10 I have had 20 but regardless we were told no cool down. Let’s hope they answer

So last night and today I tried the new trait Triumphant Distortion , because it was the only thing I was even slightly interested in. I have 2 questions for the developers :

1. At what point did we decide the “no cool down” was going away ?

2. How did you settle on 10 seconds ?

This has taken an otherwise interesting mechanic (a way for a more burst built mesmer to have some survive-ability )into 1 more useless trait. Between this disappointment and the major decrease in burst from shatter (has anyone looked into if this is critting post patch ? Sure doesn’t seem like it to me ) am I to assume that you guys want us to all roll condi mesmers ?

I had assumed that this trait option was to try and ween some people off the current pu condi mesmer meta builds, than you boost perplexity runes and nerf this before it even gets implemented.

General thoughts and observations

Fundamentally I think there is one major problem with mesmer that continues to get overlooked and why the meta builds are being used ( I despise them and wont use it) By your own admission Mesmer is a Class built on deception , than of course there is that little thing called target. Clones/ phantasms / illusions etc don’t deceive anyone without the use of stealth because all they have to do is target the real mesmer once ( usually before the first shot is fired) and without the use of stealth no amount of illusions is going to trick them into anything, they are automatically locked into the right target. The phantasms etc have such a low health pool that they really are not much of a concern. Bottom line is a change needs to be made here be it loss of target when illusion is summoned or another mechanic like I thought you were creating.

Down skills

Why is there a clear marking over the head of a downed mesmer so it is clear which one is the illusion and which one is real ?(once again no deception here to anyone who has played longer than a week) Why do we not have ground targeting for our blink skill while down like thieves do? I have had suggestions brought up from other classes like rather than the blink it summons 3 illusions none marked and people have to figure out which one, but currently what exists is useless and 7 out of 10 times leaves you in the AOE of a spike flag anyhow .

Thanks for taking the time to read my concerns and answer my questions

Bugged and I am not happy about it