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10/30/0/0/30 is probably the highest damage phantasm build, but for the sake of dungeons, x/x/x/25/25 is solid because you get focus traiting and the haste and celerity which the 10/30/0/0/30 build has.
Being able to replace your phantasms quicker and them attacking more frequently helps us preserve our phantasm DPS better than just making them hit a little more harder if they’re still going to die just as quickly.
This pretty much sums it up. Though I have to stress that I could never get used to x/x/x/25/25. Going 25 points into illusions just for iCelerity was never able to take root in my head.
best:
1. fractals – pretty fun overall
2. queen’s gauntlet – challenging, fun, nerve wrecking at times – loved it
3. zepyhr sanctum – great map design, good story to it, and fun JPs cause of the gimmicks on the map, lots of fun
4. MF redesign – something that was needed from the getgo
5. the story of living story since dragon bash – many people complain, I don’t really see a reason for complaints. Life moves on after zhaitan gets his head bashed in in a very sad way.
worst:
1. tequatl redesign – not cause it’s hard but cause it’s inaccessible to majority who don’t give a rat’s kitten about guesting or mumble or ts.
2. SAB – I don’t even know what that was supposed to be. Annoying ugly and boring as hell
3. minigames tied to the living stories – never really could make myself do any of those more than once or twice. really just a timesink for ppl who don’t find anything else to do. personally if I wanted minigames I’d go and play some flashgames not this crap.
4. southsun cove and everything tied to it – most useless map ever.
5. ascended weapon crafting and timegating – not so much the crafting of the weapon per se, more the road from 400-500 for anyone who doesn’t have a frigging gazzillion gold
I disagree, Teq is too easy. I mean they expected ppl to take weeks to do it. It should one shoot everything with laz0rb3ams out of it’s eyes and the fingers should just poke everyone to death. Also 5 min to kill it, 15 is too long. And make it so that using 3rd party software like TS gets u banned. choo choo -.-
The main issue with this event for “casuals” is the crap needed for participation. I don’t consider myself a casual player and I try to minmax my stuff as much as I can, but I feel really strongly that this event is utter kitten when it comes to convenience of access. Many people, myself included, really don’t feel like joining a special guild with a gazillion ppl and hanging out with hundreds of ppl on TS all day long just to kill one freaking boss that is completely impossible to do otherwise.
That said, I play on desolation, the server which has the highest number of teq kills EU, and I still haven’t been able to get out of overflow in sparkly fen once.
Is the event hard? Honestly no idea, never got to an overflow good enough to do more than just hit it a few times then afk for the achievement. But it’s definitely poorly executed. Such open world encounters shouldn’t have such restricted accessibility in order to succeed. That’s what instanced raids are for. And if it was like that I would have 0 problems with it being as hard as possible. Hell after a certain update in a certain mmo on “A” I was persistent as kitten to kill the then-new bad mad hard kitten dragon Tiamat with my legion. But the thing is – as hard as that content was until ppl learned to do it properly, it was all instanced. As should this kind of gw2 content be.
Instead of recycling old dragons it would be far better to just create instanced raid zones with new epic bosses, but that’s asking too much I guess.
I think they should leave things as it is and just decrease the amount of ppl allowed per map to like 20. More overflows, more fun, more “challenge”, ur gonna love it.
During the first 48 hours of the patch I did it like 8 times, every time in an overflow because kitten you desolation, since then I stopped logging in for anything but doing a daily as this kind of content is really irritating and uninviting to me.
yes, yes, desolation definitively needs more guesters and overflows. gtfo.
Blow me with your guesting and overflows. Honestly ever since this Crapuatl kitten started I wasn’t able to be in sparkly fen ONCE on desolation, ONCE -.-
I can’t tell you how low my server got tea kettle to, cause I spend 99.9% of the time in a neverending overflow.
Don’t nerf? Really? I’m of the opinion it should be nerfed and attacks made more visible.
Why you ask? overflows that’s why. It’s bad enough to try to organize as a freaking realm, but constantly having to do it with totally random ppl in different overflows is major suckage. Anyone who claims that it’s easy or not in need of modification is an utter ignorant kittenbag. There’s one thing in getting a challenge, another thing is an almost impossible to kill boss. Yesterday and today I did almost ever tea kettle event and only once was I on my home server and it was the only time I actually got to see the phase 2. And it’s also way to moronically unrewarding considering the effort that needs to be put in. My suggestion is getting off your high horses and playing the game. I can’t wait for you to get frustrated with the repeated waste of time in overflows because people can’t “rise up to the challenge”. lmao.
Zerker stats are the absolute top in pve.
Sigh. Nothing like coming in on page 6, reading one post and thinking your on top of things Ay?
I appreciate your attempt to troll, but considering that I read the whole thread and that the post I quoted wasn’t even on the last page, I’m gonna disregard it, the same way I disregard anyone who suggests pvt as epic awesome gear. cheers~
http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/83701-the-perfect-dps-guardian-build/
Is pretty much the best dps guide there is. There are also videos on Brazil’s channel aswell that you can check out for the way the build plays.
And the best gear for every situation in PvE happens to be Berserker’s gear.
That’s a matter of opinion. The best gear (and traits, etc…) is dictated by who you run with in your team. Maybe FOR YOU, it’s the best, because you are so selective about your team mates gear and skill level. For others who aren’t, more support or front line contribution might be necessary.
No. The best gear is dictated by the game mechanics. And the game mechanics indicate that defensive stats are putting groups in a disadvantage. Since there are no designated healer or tank roles in gw2 dragging the fight out will only cause more people to get downed or die, lowering the already low dps caused by PVT or cleric gear or whatever other trash stat gear you are running, even more.
PVT is garbage, cleric is garbage. If you find these stats “fun” or “useful” or god forbid “best” then you can do everyone else a favour and state right upon joining a group “hi I use pvt gear” so that the ppl can either kick you right away or decide that they don’t mind the crutch.
Zerker stats are the absolute top in pve. There is ZERO difference in support that a guardian can provide while using PVT armor in comparison to zerker. And there is little to no use for anything else. If you are having trouble learning the boss tells and dodging then take knight’s armor with zerker trinkets and overtime you’ll probably switch to zerker like every other half-skilled half-brained player that actually doesn’t want to be the black sheep of the group and wants to help make runs better.
2 zerker sets, one with centaur runes and one with scholar runes.
every weapon, I just used iZerker as example since u named gs cd reduction.
the tooltip was always bugged showing only the effect of one cd reduction trait. when u trigger the skill the cd of iZerker should be going down from 12 though and not 16 as the tooltip number indicates.
you level up, it gets easier as you get more traits in. mesmers are very trait dependant. 40 is the milestone~
this is srsly going overboard….
As of today in frostgorge sound my clones and phantasms have a low quality look as if my graphic settings were set on lowest ._.
to put a portal on the other side.
You can lose max 3 condis kitten doesn’t work with iPersona.
Though I’m not sure if it’s bugged atm or not, as it removes 1 condi per illusion shattered, while the description says per shatter skill.
Can’t say for sure about the radius, but it seems pretty risky to use if if ur ranging or blinking away. I also think it’s pretty crappy that the condi removal isn’t instant, but comes with a delay as you need to wait for the illusions to reach the target and blow up -.-
How about you do that yourself? XD
The crit chance does not change with switching out the order of the weapons in the way you described. The damage dealt to the golem was exactly the same no matter what the order of equipping was.
For the sake of potato I even tested the dmg with only force equipped and only crit equipped and the dmg only decreased when I was using only the accuracy sword.
the test results are (using only mind slash, waiting for vuln to go off etc)
force MH / accu OH – normal attack 143 – crit 284
accu MH / force OH – normal attack 143 – crit 284
force MH / no OH – normal attack 143 – crit 284
accu MH / no OH – normal attack 136 – crit 270
take that as you wish.
edit: managed to find a thread of previous testing done by some players that post on gw2guru
I rest my case.
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force and accuracy stack, and they’ve stacked since a patch in May iirc, would have to dig out the thread where it was discussed to figure out exactly when though, and I’m too lazy for that.
anyways to answer the question of which sigils I use → I use accuracy and bloodlust on my mesmer~
yea arenanet is really well known for separating things in gw2 for pve and pvp -.-’’’’’’
And I know many mesmers who don’t take shattered conditions because of its unreliability. The condition removal isn’t instant, it comes with a delay. so the clones need to get to the target, break, and then the condition gets removed. Also if you are too far away your condition doesn’t get removed, so blinking or phase reteating or whatever only gimps you with this trait. but yea totally reliable…
anyways offensive guardians or defensive ones that know how to apply pressure can take down phantasm mesmers pretty easily aswell.
shattered conditions is unreliable junk -.-
Not really… guaranteed 3 conditions every shatter… Seems pretty sweet to me. I love mesmers and I hate when they get nerfed but this is one spec that is OP. And any Mesmer that cant at admit it… well
Any mesmer that can’t see why shattered conditions isn’t as good in practice as on paper… well… and it seems to me that you don’t even know the mechanic of the trait….
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shattered conditions is unreliable junk -.-
your statement about 1v1 is valid for shatter mesmers aswell, which is atm so strong that there’s no point in playing anything else in pvp. if you nerf phantasm builds, then mesmers in pve get hit badly even more than they had already been hit with the last patch. So before blurting something out, think a little bit.
Phantasm builds pretty much wreck everyone in a 1v1 situation. It is likely the only Mesmer build that is in actual need of a nerf. Sad and sorry but true.
no, go away.
for someone who claims not to care, the OP sure writes a lot a kitten kid-like posts and even disables comments on his vid so someone doesn’t say that it’s actually bad. cute.
more or less standard 20 20 0 30 0 phantasm spec with glamour/reflect utility for pve with s/f and gs. in spvp I run a 20 20 0 0 30 shatter spec with s/s and staff or gs depending on my mood and/or map, however with 15% in illusion damage for the extra kick on my phantasms before they turn to purple butterflies, as I prefer to make use of my illusions and not shatter them asap just coz my shatters are off cd.
when it comes to wvw that I don’t do much at all as I prefer not to lag my kitten off, I use either of the above, depending on my mood~
You can’t make skills ally-targeted.
Why not? Let’s break the mold!
knowing anet it would break the mold, the coding, the game and probably would have something to do with the CERN super collider blowing up Earth.
As much as I loved iCelerity, dropping everything useful for its sake now is not the smartest thing to do, and I am saying that with the biggest restraint ever.
Compounding power, is cute, but it’s not very efficient as the newly summoned phantasm doesn’t get the full buff effect: this means – u have 2 things out, you summon third, the dmg bonus it gets is 6%. The only reason to have this trait is to boost your own personal dps, which will blow, coz u kitten yourself by taking 0 into domination.
Phantasmal haste. There has rarely been a trait that just refuses to work. This one is it. It doesn’t work on iZerker or iSwordsman. You’re using gs, so what’s the point of this exactly?
iElasticity – yea no not really dependant as something that would be useful as a buff to you when you are not the only person around.
And during all this time that you are using these bandaid traits you lose out on – 15% illusion attack, dazzling, gs training – which btw reduces the phantasm cd aswell w/o actually crippling your damage.
In the end u get to summon weaker phantasms faster, while your own attacks do lower damage. Yea not my cup of tea sorry.
If you so desperately want to keep using iCelerity, then do what anet wants you to do and go shatter/phantasm hybrid with 20 20 0 0 30. get illusion 15% and mind wrack dmg or gs training if you prefer, get compounding power, shatter recharge and illusionary persona and you’re golden. You’ll do pretty much the same crap you do with 0 20 0 25 25 only better. True you won’t bring as much utility as with 25 in inspiration, but you’ll compensate by having your damage not suck donkey balls.
Feedback is awesome the way it is, leave Britney alone~
another idea would be to leave.my.sword.alone -.-
too bad that the group is taking you for your utility and not for your burst. having 3 reflects instead of 1, all of them having cd reduction, is kinda a huge deal…
I couldn’t find any info on the numbers on wiki or on forum, or at least it didn’t kick me in the face while I was looking, so I’m asking:
How much hp do the spirits have?
phantasmal assassin
summons an illusion in stealth that hits the target for 12k with backstab.
changing one of the signets, like ionno, midnight to give 25% movement speed, or inspiration to provide swiftness periodically instead of random boons.
if there ever is a livestream for mesmers, it’ll probably include every class that isn’t a mesmer and the topic of the day would be “which aspect of the class should we nerf more in pvp so that it makes it even lamer in pve aswell”
20 20 0 0 30 or 10 30 0 0 30
mind wrack dmg bonus is sweet, permanent clone production is a kitten to fight against, u can cast f1 f2 f3 f4 w/o having to have a clone up if it comes to that and the cd on shatter skills is lowered a lot by having 30 pts in illusions.
if I missed something someone fill in.
torch is fine btw
that’s fine . . .
put confusion on scepter 1 and make the attack work like necro’s (like Carighan said in several posts), put torment on scepter 3. fixed the scepter -.-
seriously the idiocty of putting torment on scepter 2 is over 9000 -.-
They separate skills from pve and pvp, hell they even separated the phantasm hp increase between pve, pvp and wvw. You’d think that they’d do the same for other skills but noooooooooooooooooooooooo -.-
He means that pyro mentioning phantasm builds not being completely kitten means they’ll get hit with the nerf bat again.
Erf…ok ok I am sorry :-)
I fear I am still not too used to the nerf bat chains.We have a sentence in France for that: “http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6em7tGl7A1qdtdz6o1_500.jpg”
fixed
pretty much everything u wrote up here has already been repeated and commented upon 50 times since the patch. It’s just… tiresome to reply the same thing to the same thread over and over again xD
I read all threads in this mesmer forum. Haven’t seen a single thread dealing with it in a constructive way. Only saw some “this is BS, just revert” posts here and there …
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/A-Formal-Complaint-Take-2/first
cheers~
pretty much everything u wrote up here has already been repeated and commented upon 50 times since the patch. It’s just… tiresome to reply the same thing to the same thread over and over again xD
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