Guild Wars 2

Nice! I’ll do that then. Use lesser ones until i need a bigger one.

So how about getting them? Buy them or craft them?
Buying costs infusion + silver, and crafting costs infusion + reagent…

But i’m not sure which one is cheaper…

Blood Red Arachnid.2493:

Attuning the rings is cheap, and you don’t get Agonized Essence as a drop. You have to buy them. Likewise you can by the shards and the globs from INFUZ. As for which is cheaper… I just craft them myself. If you have the artisan discipline it is almost always cheaper than buying it from the BLTP.

Yeah, i looked into those, but i can’t buy them. I need to have some mastery or something which i presume requires HoT. I have only the core game.

Or do i need to do something else for this to become available?

thrag.9740:

Just start putting agony resistance in your items. There is an agony extractor available for 24 silver from a fractal merchant, so its not like your going to lose that infusion.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Infusion_Extraction_Device

So whatever i do, no harm done? I can just put in the minimum required AR into my gear until i need more?

Hello!

So i started doing fractals in my ongoing quest to get ascended gear (blade backpiece First), and i already have all the ascended trinkets apart from the backpiece. That’s exotic.

Now, i looked at most of the guides i can find (like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONFHrt0-AZQ), but i don’t understand how i’m supposed to infuse and attune my rings when i can’t get the drops from the lower level fractals. Like, in this video, the person says to infuse and attune the rings, but i can’t do that yet.

Should i put agony resistance in the trinkets First? I don’t have ascended gear beyond that so idk what to do, and i’m fractal lvl 15, so soon enough, i’ll need to get agony resistance…

And on the topic of AR, do i buy the higher level ones from the INFUZ bot or do i craft them? What’s cheaper or the perfered way? I have a bunch of +1 and a few +3 agony resistance.

How do i get the +9 ones? What’s the best path?

Please advise me. Thank you!

I’ll have to check up on that, i have no ide if i did or not.
I have a sprocket node in my home instance so sooner or later i’ll have the backpiece. :P

Thank you very much for your detailed insight!
I will try the site you linked, looks very useful!

And as for the mesmer, i used something simmilar back in the day, but now they kinda changed some skills and stuff so what i used isn’t exactly the same anymore. I’ll try your build though, see if i like it, i even have a torch in my bank too.

Although i really would swap to a staff instead of scepter/pistol. That staff phantasm is OP when you cast it after chaos storm. And seeing as how you already cast Chaos storm on your own with Descent into Madness, whatever target the staff phantasm attacks is going to have tons of conditions amplifying its damage.

I used staff phantasms for bosses because they usually have hundreds of conditions on them. And the staff phantasm deals huge damage then. Combine them with traits that make them attack more often and a signet that makes them have more HP and you can just leave them while you apply conditions.

It was very effective, but sadly, some people just don’t want to play with you unless you have a zerker build, not that there’s anything wrong with that, the build i have now is ok too, it’s just a different playstyle.

Also, i decided on a long term project to get my tempered spinal blades. This is mindless grind i can do while doing other stuff. 1000 blade shards will take a long time.

I did some WvW, and i understand the reward track now. That wasn’t there before so i was confused.

And i wasn’t aware you can change ascended stats. I knew about the legendary but didn’t Know about ascended. If that’s the case then i don’t have to worry at all! That’s great News! Then i can just start gathering funds and Materials for whatever i want and just change them later if i want another build. Nice!

Still, in case of legendary, i still need to choose a build, i can’t use a staff with my current build so i’d create a greatsword, but if i decide to go condition build later that greatsword will be useless… So it’s great that you can change stuff on your legendary, but you still need to choose, legendaries aren’t cheap.

Thanks for your suggestions everyone!

So far, i’ve been focusing on world completion. 99% complete, i only need to do Orr and i’m done.

I’ve been to Silverwastes, i’m definitely going to spend some time there, and i decided on learning fractals and doing those. In the meantime i’ll save up for the expansion bundle so i can then go do more stuff.

And i’ll probably do more WvW, i don’t Know why i don’t do it as much, i had fun last few times i was there….

Oh well, at least now i have some sort of a plan and i don’t feel so lost.

WvW is another option i forgot about completely lol. I remember going there a few times and i had fun a bit, but i don’t really Know what you get out of it. I Know you can get discounted ascended trinkets for WvW cash and laurels there. Other than that idk…

I googled Silverwastes now, i haven’t explored that part yet, it’s in Maguma and i left that for last lol. I’ll check it out, thanks. And i’ll ask my guild too.

As fro fractals, yeah, i’ll start my own LFG and specifically say i’m new, that’s a good idea. Then i have an excuse for being bad.

What do you mean “set it as reward track”?

Yeah, i’ve been meaning to get into fractals, but i have no idea what to do there, and people tend to get mad if you mess up their fractals so i’m scared. :P

Hello!

I bought GW2 more or less when it was First released, got my mesmer to 80, geared him up with Flame Legion Dungeon gear and then the guild i was in all quit to play another game (they all went and bought Wildstar – great choice o.O) and i was alone so it wasn’t as fun anymore and i stopped playing.

Now i recently returned and it’s fun again, i found a nice guild, but i’m kinda lost.

I only have the core game, and i won’t be able to get either expansion for a while so keep that in mind.

I’d like to continue playing but i feel lost. I need some kind of a goal to do, but i don’t Know what i really want/need on my mesmer. I’d like to get ascended gear or maybe a legendary weapon but i don’t Know where to even start and what i need to do.

I started combining blade shards in the mystic forge for the backpiece, but that’ll be months before i grind enough blade shards and sprockets for the whole recipe, i need something else to do in the meanwhile.

Also, is there a mesmer build that’s good (as in, people won’t hate how useless i am) that’s not Berserker’s? I’m currently using Sword/Focus – Greatsword Berserkers and it’s fine but i really like the staff (especially the back teleport ability – i used to rely on that lol). I’d like to use it more, but it’s not really good with berserker gear.

I have a set of Rabid armor (same defense as my dungeon armor) but if i’m going to be grinding ascendeds or maybe a legendary i’ll need to choose.

Right now i’m doing world completion and dailys. After that i don’t Know what to focus on or where to go. So if you can, please point me in a direction so i can have some kind of a plan. Again. No HoT or PoF for a while, i gotta save up Money for college First.

MithranArkanere.8957:

Veprovina.4876:

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I wrote 3 because i thought there are only 3 types of consumables you can have active at any time. Maybe i’m wrong? I meant, each slot for 1 type of consumable that you can swap.

[…]

There’s mainly 3 types of consumables: Nourishment, booster and others.

There’s 2 types of nourishment: Food and utility.

The other consumables that are basically environmental skills activated by using an item.

Food and utility could go in the slots or not. Some last quite a lot, so some people may still prefer to keep then in the inventory instead having them in the slots. My main concern is the skill consumables like Fire Elemental Powder.

As for boosters, they should work in a different way. So I do not count them.

Yes, now that you mention it, i forgot about all the other consumables. Mainly because i don’t bother with them, it’s clunky to always hassle around the bag to search for what you need…

Well instead of limiting what slot you can put something in, maybe then those restrictions could be removed, meaning, you can put any consumable you want in tose 3 slots then swap them as you need….

Dusty Moon.4382:

GW1 did not have these slots either. I think the point is to have a minimum but very functional UI. If you wanted a crowded one, there are other games that have them.

Well, i don’t think the UI is crowded, not now as it is, and not with the added 3-4 thinks at the bottom. If you see the attachment i made, it doesn’t look so obtrusive.
If you mean the red squares, they’re just there when you open up the swap menu, like you do with your skills. We’re talking about adding 4 icons to the UI. That’s not really crowded.

And implementing the show/hide funciton for that would also improve on that for the people who are bothered by crowded UI…

I also like the clean UI but i don’t think adding those 3-4 slots would crowd it much. I mean, compare this suggestion, with 4 buttons added to any other mmo that has a crowded UI and it still looks slick and clean.

I wouldn’t mind having those buttons. It would also give me more incentive to buy consumables. There are tons of them (i did a little search), some of them are funcional, some of them fun, but all of that is moot if they take up bag space and are not visible at a glance.

I remember buying some sort of a regeneration tree consumable. Some seeds or something. It looked nice (the tree growing and glowing) and at the time it would have been useful to have. I was lower level, and some regeneration couldn’t hurt for a few seconds it lasted.

Those seeds were in my inventory for 3 months. I forgot i had them, and when i wanted to use them they weren’t handy (since out of combat you regenerate fully, and in combat you can’t bother with your inventory). It would have been a nice thing to have, but i just couldn’t use them.

I really don’t see how adding 3 slots for consumables would hurt the clean UI or the gameplay. In my humble opinion, this should have been in the game by default. There are so much consumables that are really only usable in combat, and in combat, who wants to bother with inventory?

Others that last longer, yes, you’re obviously not going to fiddle with them in combat, you activate them, then do what you are going to do. They last an hour.

Still, all of them would be handy to have in some quick slots.

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

I sort of would prefer to add a ‘stick multiple in the slot and let it auto deploy’ option to that general idea. Since even having them there I’d still forget to active the stuff.

Well auto deploy could be added to options, but since most of this stuff lasts an hour, idk if it would be really necessary…

Maybe the icon could change color to red when it’s about to run out. Less than a minute.
That way you’d see it and activate it again.

I messed around a bit with the idea, and here’s how it would work!

The additions to the UI wouldn’t be that obtrusive, just look at the attachment.
They would look like other swap skills, but instead of them being a skill, it’s a slot where you move the item from your inventory…

Outlined in red are other swap slots (you can only see one at a time), and you can’t swap in combat.

The most basic, you get:

2 food slots
2 utility slots
2 booster slots

To the left is the mini summon skill…

2 slots for minis

Other slots you’d need to buy with gems. That’s why there are gem icons there (but those wouldn’t be visible all the time, now they’re just there to illustrate a point).

Tman.6349 mentioned merchant summoning slots. Those could be to the right of the UI above the minimap.

In game options could include show/hide for any of these so if you don’t have a mini or don’t want one, you wouldn’t be bothered with an empty slot all the time. Same with merchants since not everyone has them all the time, and nourishment slots too.

And most importantly, none of those items would take up your inventory space.

dansamy.3752:

Oooh! Like a belt?!?

Could be! Yeah.
But i don’t think it needs to be a part of a worn item like an accessory or a backpack or anything, Just in general.

Conaywea.5062:

anet want money , so they make tiny inventories so people must buy extra slots

they wont do that (sorry for my english)

But i sugessted that ANet adds gem shop items to increase swap space for food and other items. That way, they could make money on this new system too, and it wouldn’t take away from bag slots. Inventory is cramped as it is, especially when you have a pile of collectables you can’t deposit like i have 5 stacks of 250 of bloodstone shards… Maybe more. And a lot of people have too, so sales from bag space wouldn’t go down much.

And yes, mini slot would be awesome! I have one cute Toxic Nimross but it’s a hassle to re-summon them all the time. I didn’t include this in my suggestion because there’s already a thread about it, but yes, i would like that a lot, even though i’m not a mini collector.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Anet-Mini-Pet-Slot/first#post4113185

Tman.6349:

It be nice to hear, “great idea, we’ll look into making this happen”, or “your ideas suck, so give it up”. Just….anything really.

Yes, it would be awesome if someone from ANet would reply to this. A lot of people are interested in this it seems.

MithranArkanere.8957:

There should be 4 slots for consumables. To use them while in battle, you’ll have to put them there. That way you can’t use more than 4, and that both helps people to use them more easily by just pressing F5-F8, and to balance things out a bit so people don’t stack too many of them like popping tons of summons.

I wrote 3 because i thought there are only 3 types of consumables you can have active at any time. Maybe i’m wrong? I meant, each slot for 1 type of consumable that you can swap.

And yes, good thing you mention this because i forgot, they would work like other skills, that you couldn’t swap them in combat.

I have a suggestion. Instead of keeping this all in your inventory, maybe add a small quick slot place somewhere in the UI with 3 slots.

One for a food item, one for a utility item, and one for a booster item.
Those items would then be moved from your inventory to the quickslots.
The quickslots don’t have to take up a lot of the UI so it wouldn’t be obtrusive.

There are no quick slots for anything in this game.

And to make it worthwile for ANet, they could even make some extra cash from it.

Think about it.

You get 3 slots (food/utiliy/booster), and you can assign 2 items to swap out like you do your skills. Those items are then moved from your inventory to this slot. You can’t put a food item to a utility or booster slot and vice versa…
And i know those items last a long time (which is great), but i find myself not using them at all. And there are so many different stuff you can use to boost up a little, it seems like a waste.

And to make this profitable for ANet, add a gemstore items that increase how much items you can put in the quickslots.
Want more than 2 swappable items? Buy a gemstore upgrade (the same as an inventory bag expansion and a bank expansion), for some gems (whatever the cost) and it would generate some extra money for them surely! Maybe it would even boost “booster items” sales. As people would have have all the time at a glance and maybe use them more.

The reason for this is, i have tons of items like this in my inventory and i never use them. I forget they’re there, and they pile up. Sometimes i remember, sometimes i don’t but the point is, they’re not immediately there for me to see, and i have to search my bag for them which is sometimes tiring, as most of the bag graphics aren’t immediately reckogniseable at the first glance either.

What do you think? Would you like this added?

EDIT: Added the attachment of the suggested UI.

I’d be grateful for that too. They can like, add a slot somewhere within the interface for 1 pet, then, if you want more you can buy them with gems, and have more minis available to summon. One at a time only though, but for convinience you could equip more of them so you could change them on the fly if that’s your thing, without having to go to the bank to change them.

Now, they waste space in the inventory, constantly dissapear and are more trouble than they’re worth. If you could just activate them and they behave like pets do in every other game (and stay active no matter what until you deactivate them), that would be great.

Other players could choose to see others minis in options like Taygus.4571 suggested, and maybe forbid the use of minis in WvW and PvP to lighten the graphic and server load or whatever…

I’m not much of a mini collector. I only have 2 and i have no idea where i got 1 of them. The other (Toxic Nimross) i bought with the festival tokens. It’s with me always, and i like the pet systems in general, but it’s a hassle to summon it all the time…

And while we’re wishing for stuff, it would be cool if they add a short summon animation. Now they just appear out of nowhere…

Also, want different summon animations? Gem store! There are so much opportunities for ANet to make the system better and get some cash while they’re at it.

But there are probably more pressing matters in the game they have to deal with.
Like fixing mesmers… -_-

So i’ve been trying out necromancer… Man, that bleed stacking! Scepter/dagger… Everything dies so fast!

And skills that are more effective the more conditions target has! This class seems to have been built around the use of conditions!

Fun to play!

But i can’t figure out how to deal conditions with an engineer… Do i need traits for that? Because on necro, the weapon skills themselves just deal tons of conditions…

I do have a lvl 20 engineer. It was my first character, but it got weird and it didn’t feel comfterable. I was new to the game, so engineer probably wasn’t a good idea for a first character…

So, engineer and necro…

Do any of those two use any other gear besides berserker?
I mean, if i ever craft an ascended gear for my mesmer it’s probably going to be berserker, so it would be handy if other classes can use it, but i’d like a different approach for my alt…

I like the idea of making a totally kitten steampunk engineer though. I wish it didn’t feel so weird to play it. Maybe i’ll get used to it.

I haven’t tried to play necromancer though. Might be fun.

I just want some other type of gameplay besides brute force glass cannon that is actually viable generally… And that means conditions.

I’ll give necro a try, and i’ll get back to my engineer to see if i still suck at ti like i did…

But which one?

I have a mesmer as my main, and it’s berserker built, so raw power DPS more or less with certain tweaks here and there when needed…

I’d like to start another character, but i don’t know which profession to choose.
Which ones are heavily condition based? As in, they get their main damage from dealing conditions? Which professions have builds that allow that sort of thing?

Mesmer can have condition builds, but not as effective as just going for raw glass cannon builds.

So instead, what professions have heavily focused condition builds? I’d like to try those out, you know, for a change, rather than just berserker everything… :P

And i’m talking about general PvE and WvW content, not PvP. I don’t do much PvP.

I don’t know why they haven’t implemented it. But the “feel” of the game is kind of exploration, you roam the world and stumble upon quests/loot/events…

So making an in-game event finder would be great, but maybe take away from the “feel” they’re going for…

I don’t know, just “thinking out loud”…

If nothing else, install Overwolf. It has a lot of widgets for Guild Wars 2, one of which is the event timer.

So you basically can get that in game, but not directly implemented the way you want. You still need to use and external app, but Overwolf integrates into the game, so it’s like it’s implemented anyway… :P

Try it out if you haven’t already.

Xillllix.3485:

Same with elementalist Lightning Flash, doesn’t work on bridges, gets you stuck in the landscape.

Phase Retreat and Blink used to get me stuck in the landscape.
Blink got me stuck in the geometry (like turrets), and Phase retreat got me inside the landscape, out of the map.

Thankfully they fixed that, but at least then, when you weren’t in the caverns or somewhere with a lot of stuff, they worked perfectly. Now you just can’t rely on them.

Sad to see other classes have this problem too, but as mentioned before, all “shadowstep like” skills are bugged… I guess we’ll just have to wait for a fix.

Meluna.1764:

You can mouse over the name and it will show you the accountname. That is how I keep track =)

Yes, i know, but as i said, when i’m doing something that requires some focus, i can’t always mouse over people’s names. :P

Oh well… It’s not a big problem anyways… I was just wondering.

Ah too bad. I was hoping that i just couldn’t find it.
Thank you for your reply!

Is there an option somewhere to show account names in chat?
Guild chat to be exact. I get lost when people in my guild change characters and i can’t follow the conversation…

Something like

[Account name][Character name]; Message

Because, besides hovering over their name, or opening the guild window, there’s no way to know at first glance who you’re speaking to unless it’s their main character and you memorised their name…

And when i’m doing something that requires me to pay attention, and i want to follow what happens in the guild chat simultaniously, then the hovering and opening the guild window distracts me. :P

It’s not an issue really, but i thought i’d ask if someone knew if it’s possible. I couldn’t find such option but i didn’t try everything.

maha.7902:

Nobody is asking for that.

People just want gear that maybe shows a bit of skin, accentuates certain features, that kind of thing. Not that tasteless trash in the link you posted.

And sure, +1 for gender equality, give male characters the same treatment, I would have no problem with that.

I know, but everyone argues with heavy armor which, ecxept for a few pieces in game, is supposed to cover all the fleshy parts from wounds. that’s why i posted that.

Now, light and medium armors show a lot of skin and can be mixed to your heart’s content…

Why didn’t you just whisper that person in game? I’m sure they’d tell you…

Anyway, when i can’t find something i search for dyes in TP then spend an hour previewing them… I just gotta find the right one!

Fay.2357:

Not after the boss fight obviously, after the first boss fight when I can see if they’re actually horrid or not.

Ah, that’s what you meant. That’s ok i suppose, but still, i’d rather be kicked out immediately rather than in the middle of the dungeon.

maxinion.8396:

saw a pug running torch in AC yesterday

speed run zerker exp group

qq

See? Now those people you kick out! It’s easy to find a party and they won’t have any trouble with it.

Sartharina.3542:

Please, tell me again how skimpy the female armor is

You want this to be heavy armor? What possible use can a skimpy heavy armor have in a fight?

This has no place in guild wars, if you want that go mod skyrim or something…

From what i understand iLeap works the same way shadowstep and all “shadowstep skills” do. And shadowstep is bugged too, at least for me when i tried playing a thief. Won’t go into elevation either.

See this forum:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Mesmer-teleportation-skills-broken/first#post4077582

locoman.1974:

viennapleads.1784:

I just want heavy armor pants, that don’t have a skirt attached. That’s all I want.

[let’s make it short with the links]

You’re welcome..

All i’m seeing on each of those links is an asura in all possible armors… Each link is the same…

What’s wrong with a greatsword all of a sudden? When was it not acceptable? No one ever gave me any kitten for having one, and all the other mesmers in EXP, and zerker only have them.

Fay.2357:

At least personally, I like to give people the benefit of the doubt. I won’t ever kick someone on sight, I’ll at least give them a chance to fight the first boss and see what happens. That being said, if I see a mesmer using Scepter/torch + staff during a boss fight, I’ll kick them immediately afterwards, and I’ll tell them why. I’m accepting up to a certain point, but I’m not willing to drag random pugs through dungeons for no reason whatsoever.

You kick people during boss fights or after the dungeon is over? Because, then they just leave anyway so i don’t get it…

If you’re gonna give someone the benefit of the doubt, at least let them finish the dungeon, or kick them at the start. You can see what they’re wearing at the start, so why waste their time by letting them think they can finish the dungeon?

I mean, if i make a party, and say speedrun, EXP only or zerker only, i’m not gonna allow scepter mesmers. But if i don’t care and say, write everyone welcome, i won’t just kick anyone just because they suck with their build. There’s others too.

PRO tip: Better kick someone on sight rather than allowing them to feel like they’ll finish the run with you, then kick them after the boss fight before they can get their rewards. They did just go trough the dungeon with you, and you did allow them in the party so at least let them finish, that 2-3 minutes of extra time from the lack of DPS isn’t going to hurt anyone, and there’s nothing worse than wasting people’s time by doing this…

maha.7902:

If you zoned in with a staff, that’s probably why you were kicked.

I appeared with a greatsword, so idk what went wrong… But it’s not like it’s hard to get dungeon parties so it’s not a big deal. I can just make one myself and use LFG. Hehe. :P

Anyway, yeah, Fay, i understand the predicament of conditions. It’s not going to be my main build, just a side build that i run for fun, when i’m not needed anywhere.

I want to have some fun experimenting with different weapons. And who knows i might develop a taste for PvP at some point.

Why is this not a sticky yet? Awesome guide!

maxinion.8396:

Rampager is better than Rabid, but the Warlock will still be better with Berserker because Ferocity transfers to the Warlock and he’ll hit harder. None of his damage is condition based, so he gets nothing from condition damage gear.

Casual groups don’t care about berserkers anyway, so just stick with those if you want to run something eclectic. Or stick with open world.

And there are many ways for us ‘hardcore’ folks to tell what build someone is running (sigils, signets, stacking type, weapon choice, approximate damage output, how much damage they take from a hit, etc.). But again, stay away from “speed run” or “zerker only” groups and no one cares.

I’ll add— there’s quite a bit of build diversity available for all classes. Customization exists along many axes, and because there is a consistent choice along one set of decisions, does not mean choice is completely eliminated. And, almost all games have an “optimal” choice at the end of the day, no matter how diverse the build system. Anyway, for mesmers, you can check the link in my sig and see the current popular berserker builds— they’re all similar, but there are 5 or more different choices, and quite a few more choices inside each of those.

Yeah, i did my share of dungeons and farmed myself a full flame legion set. :P I know what zerker only, exp and speedrun means. Now they know i’m berserker, they just have to look at my armor, but i don’t know how they knew before. :P

Most of the time when i got kicked, i got kicked right when i entered the dungeon so no one could even see the damage i did. :P

Anyway, about iWarlock… It’s still just one skill, so making a full set of armor around him, while every other skill i use is condition based would be kinda pointless maybe.
So in order to maximize it’s usefulness “within” the condition armor set, Rampager’s the way to go i think.

Also, i hear he’s bugged, that he runs around chasing mobs instead of shooting?
Nice, Focus phantasm is bugged, teleportation skills are bugged, what else is bugged on a mesmer?

And i’ll check those links of yours, thank you!

hannah mee.7925:

They can release an expansion that includes more armor sets, more explorable areas, more skills, more story, etc.

Well since the launch, they did exactly what you just said… Except for more armor sets. (1 ascended i guess, but whatever)…

Long story short, ANet promised no subscriptions and that’s the end of that.

/thread

I don’t know. Adding this would essentialy mean turning GW2 into some kind of a worefest (you know what i mean, with the H) like all the other asian MMO’s… While outrageous outfits fit into the JRPG style since we’ve been force fed protagonists that have no practical clothing whatsoever, i don’t think it would work here. Suddenly everyone would be running around naked.

I like this direction of art style. I can be more “immersed” in the game if i see that my armor has practical use.

But i do have to agree, some of the armors are legendarily ugly and more variety would be apreciated… Just not in that “sexy” direction. :P At least for me.

People, if you want skimpy dresses and “sexy” pixels and polygons go play every japanese or korean MMO. I mean it. The less clothing you have there, the higher the armor rating…

GW2 goes for a more “serious” approach to armor. Yes, heavy armor is a tin can. What do you want? Steel hot pants? And two bucklers for a bra?

There are a lot of mix and match “sexy” armor combinations in GW2, i see them all the time, so really, no need to add more.

Draknar.5748:

Actually in support of this as an option $15/mo. I don’t think people are actually reading the entire OP before responding (for those saying the no sub is a selling point — OP is saying it would be no sub still, you could opt in to pay a sub to have DR and only DR removed).

No other bonuses or extras, just the ability to repeat any content without having diminished returns. This is actually a great idea.

No it’s not, we all read the post, and even if you “only” remove DR, the difference between the paying and non paying players would be huge!

Then, paying customers aren’t going to be satsfied by having a gem shop because by privilege they should have all that available for 15/month.

And that’s where the problems start, the end result being a ruined game.

Well since this build is mainly for fun, i can accept that…

I didn’t know about iWarlock though. They did good damage whatever i was wearing. Mainly because it doesn’ matter how many stacks of conditions you do but how many different ones are there. So in parties or open world content, bosses have every condition. So if you can summon 3 of them and keep them alive, the DPS is quite good.

Also, Rampager’s adds power, so that would buff iWarlock’s damage. Rabid, on the other hand is more defensive.

Kinda lame to add a skill like iWarlock to a condition type weapon then make it dependant on power which you can’t achieve properly…

Maybe mixing Domination and Illusion, supported by Rampager? I’ll have to check that out too.

Anyway, this is about me trying out different things. I’m that just about any build has been tested at this point, but i want to find another fun one to play, when i’m not required to play berserker. If it’s not that good, so be it, it’ll never be as good as berserker, sadly, because all i ever see are berserkers… Berserkers everywhere! If you’re not berserker (and not just mesmers), you’re not welcome to the party.

Kinda takes the fun out of a good skill system when everyone uses the same thing. I went berserker mainly because it’s a really good DPS build and really, i had to, the “hardcore” dungeon crowd just kicks you out if you don’t have berserker… How they know what my build is exactly i don’t know, but whatever…

I’ll fiddle around with it… Maybe something like this:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fhAQNAW7fnsISRa2pGOoB1aG52gOVNQdQeSKLdAC2IB-T1hOABdu/QKK/w8rAElGh3U/BAdB0oEEA-w

It has a reasonable amount of survivability (more than i have now on berserker) and good condition applying…

I’ll have to test multiple builds with some rare gear before i go farm exotics and stuff…

maha.7902:

Veprovina.4876:

I know berserker builds only use swords… I use both Sword/Focus and Greatsword… Sometimes Sword/Pistol… I don’t plan on using this build in dungeons, just general PvE i guess…

So basically what you’re saying is, conditions are useless? kitten …
Is berserker the only build that does any damage?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tssCh7xThQE

…conditions not so useless

you just need to be solo and have a way to apply them heavily which a mesmer doesn’t

I wouldn’t say a mesmer can’t apply conditions a lot… My playstile use to be, pump conditions on something then summon a Phantasmal Warlock for massive damage… And when that something has more health, i can summon more Warlocks to do their stuff. Then i just added a trait that gives phantasms more health.

Staff skill 1 gives conditions and skill 5 adds ton of them. Pair that with the trait that makes them last longer and it’s more viable to use Warlock for damage. Also, a signet that adds condtition damage is nice too…

All in all, i haven’t had the experience that conditions from a mesmer are bad. Maybe other classes can do more damage with them, sure, but if nothing else, Warlocks do a lot of damage especially in parties or any group content when people pump conditions on a target. Maybe something changed from the last time i played a (kinda) condition mesmer but i found it enjoyable.

I was pleasantly surprised at how much damage 3 Warlocks can do, even when solo, but they’re better in parties. Maybe not now since everyone and their mother plays berserker, but still.

Basically anything on a scepter or a staff adds some kind of condition, and scepter 2 torment is always nice to have on an enemy. :P And torch has a Mage phantasm that adds confusion.

Staff skill is nice to have to boon your party (not quite the guardian boons but that’s not what mesmers are for anyway).

Smirgel.9460:

Try this: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fhAQNAW7fl0npRtdqxINcrNyqBdqlg6sUlgW6MktAA-T1RHAB6u/gRK/K4CAwo6PAcQAE4JAElSQA-w

It’s a torment shatter build which uses the weapons you like and the trait spread that you were thinking. It’s mainly for WvW though (condis arent really viable in pve). Very good condi removal and survivability. You could perhaps go for a more hybrid gear to increase power based damage skills like mind wrack and iWarlock. Also you could try balthazar runes for burning on heal (only 10s cd) instead of torment duration.

Interesting! Thank you!
I might tweak the gear, but it’s an interesting build.

I know berserker builds only use swords… I use both Sword/Focus and Greatsword… Sometimes Sword/Pistol… I don’t plan on using this build in dungeons, just general PvE i guess…

So basically what you’re saying is, conditions are useless? kitten …
Is berserker the only build that does any damage?

So i’m loving my berserker build, and i finally geard up most of the required stuff (except some ascended trinkets and rings, too lazy to learn fractals for rings, blah, blah)…

But i’m also kinda bored by it sometimes. I wanna mix things up and try something different…

Somewhere on this forum i found a “Blackwater Mesmer” or something build that i find interesting. So i’m thinking of farming the gear for that build and try it out.
Staff and Scepter/Torch… Condition/confusion build…

Also, instead of Chaos trait line (toughness) maybe i would try out Illusions trait line for more condition damage. I never had a problem with survivability, mesmers being all cloaky and stuff, so i wouldn’t necesarily put traits into Chaos (toughness)…

So instead of rabid i’d use rampager’s armor stats… The problem with rampager being, the main stats are precision and power, while the condition stat is secondary. Rabid’s stats have condition and precision primary while the toughness is secondary. So maybe rabid, idk…

My question is; Will everyone hate me? I asked a few people in game and everyone said it sucks in PvE and i’s a PvP only build. When i was leveling to 80 i mostly used staff and i love it! But berserker build uses greatsword instead and while it is fun and has cool skills, i wanna get a staff build too…

EDIT: I forgot to mention. I’d be doing PvE content and maybe WvW like EOTM and stuff… Something like attrition. I can put conditions on something then cloak/phase retreat/blink and gtfo the harm’s way. :P

Thoughts?

If you want anything “more sexy” then you’ll have to ask ANet for bikinis or nude skins because most of the female human and norn races armor i see around shows so much skin that i really question how useful that armor is in a fight. What more do you want?

And i would love to see my Charr male in some bondage leather straps and a thong. That would make him so sexy. /sarcasm

Seriously, wtf?

Long story short: the pics in this thread prove OP wrong… There’s ton of “sexy” armor around it that’s your thing…

Duke Nukem.6783:

i would do ANYTHING for anet to give me a construction skill, where u build ur own house. starting off with shaggy wood furniture and ugly wood walls and stuff at lv 1 and by 500 building giant statues of myself in solid diamond and marble fire places where i get buffs from logs i throw in and a fancy room with maps and book cases where i can get knowledge scrolls and tomes of experience once a day after building the extremely expensive bookshelfs (yea it would be a huge cash sink this entire thing) and throwing parties where everyone battles the exclusive bosses u can add to ur dungeon basement that drop unique loot not available anywhere else!

DROOL*

I don’t know about knowledge scrolls and tomes of experience… It’s already very easy to level and (at least) I get a lot of knowledge scrolls randomly from events and chests. It would maybe be too OP. Idk…

As for other stuff…
YES!

So, in the end, it’s a stupid idea and ANet said they would never charge subscription so it will never happen. I never felt DR is such an issue when playing and i’m glad it’s there. Better that than this game being overrun by bots. Seen it happen to other good MMO’s and it’s not pretty.

DR is generally good for the economy too. Some addicts that want this subscription nonsense are gonna farm gold all day and how do you stop that which has no life? :P

DR forces you to actually play the game and all it’s content. Are people so addicted to grind? This game is one of the best examples on how MMO’s don’t have to feel like a grind.

There are downsides of DR, of course, but basically, subscriptions – stupid idea.
Want gold? Buy it with gems.

Stupid “hardcore” elitists wanting to ruin a good game.

Well of course it’s not a priority, it just would be nice to have around. If ANet gets around to it, cool, if not, ok…

I’m much more satisfied with them making the living story and making the game better than some home instance.

It’s a cool idea, yes, but for me at least it wouldn’t add that much to the game that i’d consider it a priority.