For some reason I remember a time when Mind Stab was a daze instead boon removal.
So why not add that back? Remove a boon and a daze.
Ill gladly take another interrupt
Mind Stab is a ranged skill on a low cooldown & AoE, so I don’t feel it needs to remove more boons. Maybe it could do 50% more damage if no boons are removed similar to Mind Spike.
If it removes more boons, it should only remove an extra one boon that it nonessential , such as swiftness or vigor and not protection/stability. Remember, it is a weapon skill not a utility skill. The only comparable skills are Unholy feast or Enfeebling blood.
i.e. remove one boon + swiftness
50% more damage with no boons will never happen anymore with the power creep. Maybe Mind Stab should remove 1 boon and always stability
Even as a dom mesmer main since gw1 (I was THAT guy), I find it really hard to play GW2 these days. I loved playing the game before the dumbfire and June trait revamp patches. Ever since then it has gone progressively worse. After HOT, which severely reduced the skill of all classes and increased the power creep to 11, I lost motivation to play my mesmer. I only play now just to see if the game is worth coming back to (Which it isnt for me atm). A real shame considering what this game could have been.
I really miss the old days of 20/20/30 CI mesmer. It was so much fun to play that spec, especially with my way of playing it
Currently playing Path of Exile, they just released a new expansion. PoE obviously isn’t for everyone though, but it’s fantastic if you like that sort of game.
I’ve been playing a good amount of Blade and Soul lately. The game is decent, but has a very long laundry list of issues that add up to it probably being dead within a year. It’s definitely fun to play for now though, just don’t get too invested into it as it’s just a temporary distraction.
Fay has been enjoying Black Desert. It’s a bit of an odd game, but sorta fun. It just lacks any sort of PvE endgame though. I haven’t seen the open world PvP fights yet, but the combat system smells like it would make open world PvP really questionable. We’ll see though.
On the non-mmo side, I’ve been enjoying DA:I a lot, if you haven’t played it yet. Just don’t try playing a daggers rogue, the combat system doesn’t work well for it.
I’ve heard of POE before. Seems like a diablo-esque game that I never really tried but im sorta interested in it.
Black Desert I will hold off on for a bit.
I have dragon age on my xbox and beat everything on nightmare
Yeah, PoE is diablo-esque, so if that’s your type of thing it’s fantastic. If it’s not your type of thing, it’s awful xD.
Might as well give it a shot then!
Even as a dom mesmer main since gw1 (I was THAT guy), I find it really hard to play GW2 these days. I loved playing the game before the dumbfire and June trait revamp patches. Ever since then it has gone progressively worse. After HOT, which severely reduced the skill of all classes and increased the power creep to 11, I lost motivation to play my mesmer. I only play now just to see if the game is worth coming back to (Which it isnt for me atm). A real shame considering what this game could have been.
I really miss the old days of 20/20/30 CI mesmer. It was so much fun to play that spec, especially with my way of playing it
Currently playing Path of Exile, they just released a new expansion. PoE obviously isn’t for everyone though, but it’s fantastic if you like that sort of game.
I’ve been playing a good amount of Blade and Soul lately. The game is decent, but has a very long laundry list of issues that add up to it probably being dead within a year. It’s definitely fun to play for now though, just don’t get too invested into it as it’s just a temporary distraction.
Fay has been enjoying Black Desert. It’s a bit of an odd game, but sorta fun. It just lacks any sort of PvE endgame though. I haven’t seen the open world PvP fights yet, but the combat system smells like it would make open world PvP really questionable. We’ll see though.
On the non-mmo side, I’ve been enjoying DA:I a lot, if you haven’t played it yet. Just don’t try playing a daggers rogue, the combat system doesn’t work well for it.
I’ve heard of POE before. Seems like a diablo-esque game that I never really tried but im sorta interested in it.
Black Desert I will hold off on for a bit.
I have dragon age on my xbox and beat everything on nightmare. Fun game.
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I am in diamond and it is hilarious to see still 50% of players just random dodge when they see me pumping out a couple of clones. Ppl are spoiled that they just want to spam to win.
You know, thats sadly accurate. I noticed last week that people have forgotten how to play against interrupt mesmer and spam 24/7. Yay for free kills
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Even as a dom mesmer main since gw1 (I was THAT guy), I find it really hard to play GW2 these days. I loved playing the game before the dumbfire and June trait revamp patches. Ever since then it has gone progressively worse. After HOT, which severely reduced the skill of all classes and increased the power creep to 11, I lost motivation to play my mesmer. I only play now just to see if the game is worth coming back to (Which it isnt for me atm). A real shame considering what this game could have been.
I really miss the old days of 20/20/30 CI mesmer. It was so much fun to play that spec, especially with my way of playing it
Lol i read and found myself agreeing and then i saw that it was you who posted it. Anyway, i agree, only for me it’s old classic double ranged shatter instead of ci mesmer.
You do love your double ranged shatter. Maybe sometime if we are both on we should an old school duel because why not
Even as a dom mesmer main since gw1 (I was THAT guy), I find it really hard to play GW2 these days. I loved playing the game before the dumbfire and June trait revamp patches. Ever since then it has gone progressively worse. After HOT, which severely reduced the skill of all classes and increased the power creep to 11, I lost motivation to play my mesmer. I only play now just to see if the game is worth coming back to (Which it isnt for me atm). A real shame considering what this game could have been.
I really miss the old days of 20/20/30 CI mesmer. It was so much fun to play that spec, especially with my way of playing it
Well if I hadn’t left already, this post would have made me. Sad to see pretty much a legend retire. All things come and go, the good times in mmo’s maybe more so.
That actually makes me really sad. I didn’t realize I was a legend :o. In fact, I was actually terrible in the beginning of gw2. I decided to get better to prove people wrong that were always laughing at my ideas/me. I was a big wvw theorycrafter back then, so I had a lot of wacky ideas. Some of them like venom share and corrupt boon spiking stuck, but most of them were really bad lol.
On the topic of other games, I’m sorta looking for new games to play. Any advice?
I havent seen one of these for a long time. Nice to see. Lets get to the fun part!
Mind stab: Agree. Make it 2 or 3 boons removed.
OH sword: Agree. Give cripple to phant?
Focus: Id say just make the warden larger. Projectile negation is actually really good, the warden is just a bit lacking in aoe.
Pistol: Bleed or vuln on the phant?
Mirror Images: 15 seconds?
Shattered concentration: That’s tricky. Id say merge rending shatters with illusions of vulnerability. Keep this where it is.
Furious interruption: No ICD, also steals 2 boons on interrupt. This will make it compete with shattered’s boon removal (Maybe a bit OP).
Imagined Burden: Agree.
Desperate Decoy: Yes please!
Compounding Power: I never really used the trait so I trust your opinion on it.
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Even as a dom mesmer main since gw1 (I was THAT guy), I find it really hard to play GW2 these days. I loved playing the game before the dumbfire and June trait revamp patches. Ever since then it has gone progressively worse. After HOT, which severely reduced the skill of all classes and increased the power creep to 11, I lost motivation to play my mesmer. I only play now just to see if the game is worth coming back to (Which it isnt for me atm). A real shame considering what this game could have been.
I really miss the old days of 20/20/30 CI mesmer. It was so much fun to play that spec, especially with my way of playing it
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Not sure about them sigil choices Rylock..
I actually forgot to swap them lol. For gs I use impact and air, and sword is generosity and energy. I was testing superior sigil of agility for a time but I decided I like air better. Also, I think I would like to try leadership runes sometime just to see how good they are. Thanks for reminding me!
I was assaulting far and an enemy druid came to contend. He got me with a trap and stacked up some condi’s, including about 25 minutes of 7 stacks of poison. He died and two of the conditions cleared, but the poison was still destroying me. Fortuntely I had Leadership runes, popped a gravity well under shift, and cleansed that kitten before it killed me XD.
Considering the minor stat difference (to power) between it and Pack, it’s well worth it.
I wanted to run it on my Berserker too, so it’d clear blinds when I used headbutt. But the cleanse takes a second meaning the headbutt would hit/miss before the cleanse -_-u. Would be worth it to cleanse weakness though. Either way, solid rune.
I think the issue for me would be that I use gravity well as soon as I can with f5 so I probably wouldnt get the condi cleanse very often. Just a playstyle change I suppose
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Well, I have a build that is pretty fun to play for interrupt. You can swap around weapons and go for staff if you wish, but I like to play very aggressively so I run GS. Just be aware that you dont have a lot of opportunity for condi cleanse outside of other rune choices or swapping decoy and that other classes are pretty broken atm. However, you can overcome the lack of balance if you are good with interrupting because landing chain interrupts with CI feels OP.
Played around with an sPvP version of this first on just the Golems, but I’m starting to somewhat like Lost Time. I totally wrote it off after the nerf and some after a little testing on a very similar build even (very interrupt oriented), but I have to say there is some nice synergy between LT, Delayed Reactions, and of course Danger Time.
Had a blast with this in sPvP matches too, which surprised me a bit. I did end up getting rid of LT and went back to CP, as well as taking Time Warp. Also went with Ether Feast and thus PI in Inspiration.
Had some really good 1v1s and bigger chaotic battles, and felt that I was definitely doing pretty darn well. My favorite was a Trap DH laying down everything in 1v1, me just waiting it out and then countering with that lovely ToT=>MB=>MS=>MW=>BF combo with a Daze mantra in between. So much lockdown, and so much pain! Love it!
Thanks for sharing, was a very fun night even in sPvP with this!
I guess I will test Lost Time today or tomorrow. Will see how it does.
@Amadeus
He used mirror images into f5. From there, he used every glamour and shatter skill. After f5 ended, he used them all again and finished it off with signet of inspiration. It isnt reasonable in a real fight ofc, but I think he could get pretty close to a perfect boon storm
@Amadeus
Nice to know you enjoyed the build. With a couple of modifications, the build can be used for boonshare. As for the chrono boon share, I believe Kentigem already beat me for a chrono boonshare build. He uses a glamour boonshare build and I thought his build was chaos, inspir, chrono with null field and time warp for glamours. He went max boon duration (in spvp he had about 60%) and with the proper f5, I had every boon on me for 20+ seconds as well as 30 seconds of quickness and 50 seconds of resistance. It did take all of his cds, but it was a pretty silly amount of boons.
If you are going to run 5 wells, I think running chrono runes and swapping sieze the moment with chronophant would be better. The shield and staff phants are really good so why not have more of them? Otherwise the build looks good.
I guess it is pretty much a work in progress and will most likely look quite different next time.
Personally I would also pick the chrono runes & chrono phant tho.When I made a chrono bunker build, I ended up with the exact same traits as Helseth (but slightly different utilities and gear). Quickness on shatter is on demand instant quickness. So if you need to rez/stomp someone very fast, you shatter anyway for the stability, and now you get quickness on top. That is huge!
Quickness on well is nowhere near as easily available when you need it.
Fair enough. I guess I didnt include that bunkers have to res people. Although just for fun, why not run chrono runes and seize the moment :o
You play very well. It is nice to see a chronomancer version of my “Boon share” build made with less boonshare and more offense. I do have 3 quick questions for you.
Why dont you ever use the active of signet of illusions? That active with Bountiful disillusion and resto illusions is soooo good. The passive 50% health is good, especially with no DE, but I think with alacrity you can get away with using the active
Why time warp as an elite? You didn’t really use it with that much with f5 to make it a shorter cd so why not go for something like gravity well or mass invis?
With the way you play, you tend to always be close to enemies when you swap to staff, so why not use hydromancy? Its a good 1.5k-2k extra burst and the chill helps your warlock land your hit. Leeching is ok but I think with your playstyle hydro would be better
Otherwise, great vids. Looking forward to more and maybe a duel or two
Never really tought off it as a boonshare build, but maybe if I made these trait and skill changes if running with a group or maybe in sPvP, you would actually have a decent boonshare?
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vhAQNAW8encfCtfilfCGoBUrhFij6cDugPzMASgFquS/0QF-TVCEABRcEAcS5BBXEgEV/ZLlgMpEj89HaT3DAPAgAAIA38mZz2MYoDdoDdoDtbezbezbezSBQ3yI-wThen with another rune set for sPvP ect hmmm, the tought is intrestring atleast!
The reason I don’t use the active on the signet is I suck and I forget, it’s really that simpel haha! I’m slowly getting better at using it these days and I think on some of the newer footage I have it actually see a tiny bit of use! But I should use it more for sure, I’m just really really bad at it and something I try to improve a lot on!The elite is a silly mix of arrogance from my side, I’m allways saving it for the “Critical moment” or secure a stomp! I am also improveing on this matter, when and where to use it, and allowing myself to use it! Also have a lot of work improvement needed to really use CS probaly, but that will hopefully come aswell!
I do use gravity Well somedays, and can be used for sure, it’s a nice eite.
I just really enjoy Timewarp as this 10 secs of “Buffer” zone, where I can secure stomps/migate some dmg ect.You might be right that Hydro is better, I have tought about using it over Blood or Leeching, but never came around to give it a try. But seeing as none of these sigils really cost anything I might try swap it out today and see if it’s any good!
And thanks for the feedback! I have some half decent footage I’m thinking of putting together, just for a quick video so people can see it in live! But many fights are against zerlings have a hard time understanding what’s going on xD
Super late on this, but my “Boonshare” build was a build Chaos Archangel and I made just after the trait revamp. Basically, the build could spread almost every boon in the game constantly from 2 signets of inspiration (2-3 stacks of stab, 9-15 stacks of might, 20+ seconds of fury, 10+ seconds of prot and regen, aegis, retal, and swiftness sometimes and a ton of quickness with time warp from just 1 signet of inspiration) do a ton of damage due to mara/zerk gear, and be very tanky due to perma protection and stab. I usually only would die if it was 1v3 and I didnt have time warp. If i ran mass invis, I would usually never die.
This was the build we came up with. The GS could have been swapped for sword/sword for more protection. http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vhAQJAWRlsnhy0YHawANQtGL4G05MextNzQIGZZAW9vA-TZRGABA8IA6uMwBXAgEOCArt/AA
Elite stuff: All good. Time warp is a good elite for roaming, especially since zerglings like to fight in it. The slow and quickness is really underestimated in fights. As long as you use it with f5 it is only on a 75 second-ish cd as well, so feel free to somewhat spam it. Another good alternative is mass invis. You have no stealth so all of your fights it’s do or die, and sometimes you just cant 1v30.
Looking forward to more vids!
You play very well. It is nice to see a chronomancer version of my “Boon share” build made with less boonshare and more offense. I do have 3 quick questions for you.
Why dont you ever use the active of signet of illusions? That active with Bountiful disillusion and resto illusions is soooo good. The passive 50% health is good, especially with no DE, but I think with alacrity you can get away with using the active
Why time warp as an elite? You didn’t really use it with that much with f5 to make it a shorter cd so why not go for something like gravity well or mass invis?
With the way you play, you tend to always be close to enemies when you swap to staff, so why not use hydromancy? Its a good 1.5k-2k extra burst and the chill helps your warlock land your hit. Leeching is ok but I think with your playstyle hydro would be better
Otherwise, great vids. Looking forward to more and maybe a duel or two
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As can be seen in this thread already, anyone that is going to cry about mesmers being op won’t also have the intellectual capacity to read and understand a post like this.
It’s a nice write up, but you’re preaching to the choir here.
Hi im Rylock and I think mesmer is op. Then again, I have played mes since beta so I am super biased by now. I do think my boonshare mes is amazing in teamfights though, just not broken like other things.
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