Guild Wars 2

As far as i understand – noone forces you to do the achievements. I play for 1-2 hours a day if i have time, so you can call me pretty casual – and i am not stressing as much about not being able to complete everything.

Not everything should be designed for casuals ONLY.

New Years Eve – 1 time event (albeit every year)
Easter – 1 time event,
Christmas lets you slack a bit and is 4 days long.

Life is not all about you you you…

This is “it” by the looks of things.

Hey Ramos,

Nice insight and a view on something i’ve been doing for a while as well.
I run a 0/20/30/0/20 build myself and most of the time am the last person standing

One thing i wanted to mention – I personally prefer to keep a healthy balance of Rabid/Carrion gear to keep my hp around 20k mark. That gives me a big enough pool to deal with high burst or heavy conditions while still keeping the armor at around 2,3k.

Hope you find this useful.

Mostly you will get zone appropriate gear, with a random your lvl bit dropped in as a treat for being there.

And you certainly have a possibility of having exotics drop there as well.

Halloween itself lasted only 1 day. Your point being?

Don’t be scared, just don’t bring you kids up thinking that it’s a fantasy world where burgers grow on trees and everything lives forever.

I play a Warrior as an alt, because my Mesmer is a caster and i wanted something that’s more “in-your-face” kind of character

I’m sorry, but if you cannot explain the difference between imaginary game/book/film fantasy world and the real world to your children – you are a bad parent.

Kids need to know that things die. It’s your duty as a parent to explain why it happens.
If you don’t – imagine what happens when someone or something close to them dies… what are going to do then?

Sorry for being a cold-hearted b.. kitten, but this is real life – and it can be and is for the most part – very cruel.

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plasmacutter.2709:

I wish they would just make blink teleport you a fixed distance in whatever direction you want to travel (mouse, dpad, or arrow depressed).

Requiring it be targeted adds two encumbrances which make it difficult to use when its most needed.

1 – the time taken to move the mouse to where you want to go when it’s supposed to be an “oh **** that warrior’s unleashing 100 blades!” button.

2 – the distinct possibility you will target an area with your cursor OUT OF RANGE and therefore nothing will happen, again leaving you eating another precious few seconds in a hundred blades.

I’m sorry but that is a HORRIBLE idea. How about situations where you are trying to blink somewhere specific and now you would be thrown somewhere too far or somewhere where you don’t want to go. While in pvp when my friend goes down I go into stealth and blink to him to rez, now if I had no control I would stealth and blink into a mob of enemies and un-stealth into death. Not only this but while in pvp I use a sword/pistol combo and I use my illusionary leap and immobilize them and use skill #2 to do damage, since I used my leap I then use decoy, and blink directly next to them to get a few more hits. Having no control over where you blink would be a major problem, you might just need more practice using the mouse and keyboard at the same time.

PS Hundred blades is a stand-still skill so a simple roll will solve your issues, no need to use a utility.

Also if you go into options you can enable easy target or something, where when you use the skill it will go to where your mouse is looking at. So if you skill it properly that would eliminate your problems.

I am sorry to bring “that other game” into discussion, but after 5 years playing a mage i beg to differ.

It is not a horrible idea, it’s just different from something you want. Having blink work without ground targetting with predictable range and direction is also good – in some situations it can be a lifesaver.

I personally can’t choose between the two ways of implementing blink – both are good and bad.

I personally do not think it is dumbing down… I only would use this feature in mass PvE fights where there are 50+ people beating on a dragon and i am physically unable to see where the kitten are my illusions..

Yes, of course, it doesn’t matter if i bring up the 4th warlock shattering the 3rd, but sometimes it’s just good to know.

Nothing constructive to add really – i can only agree as this would be a nice and easy implementation imo.

I do not have a fancy mouse (only RAT 3 which is a typical 5 button setup) though i have rebound the keys for easier access.

If this would be any help to you this is my key layout:

E,Q,R,Mouse4, Mouse 5, Mouse3(healing spell on mouse wheel click), Shift+E, Shift+Q, Shift+R, Shift+ Mouse3 (Elite).
The Shatters are rebound to 1-4 number keys and the weapon swap is Shift+Mouse4

This does mean that i have to sometimes “play the piano” with my skills but all of them are very close reach and i do not have to stretch my hands to execute anything.

Hope it at least help someone

No Officer, I can put my portals correctly i promise…hic!
I didn’t miss…hic!

Rule of thumb in MMOs i’ve played, is that once reflected, the projectiles cannot be reflected back. And from what i’ve seen – a Dagger Storming Thief under a Feedback is a dead thief.

To make things easier – If you use Phantasmal retreat (staff #2 skill) from ANY of the fields you cast – you will get Chaos Armor. That includes – Chaos Storm, Null Field, Reflection and time Warp.

You will also get some sort of effect if you do that from other “fields” from other players.

These are called combos – and they are very very VERY useful.

quote GS doesn’t have great synergy, but it’s a power-house of a weapon. Berserker gives you bleed stacks just like the duelist does. Mirror Blade is a fantastic source of Might and Vulnerability. The cone knockback is always handy. Clones seem to stack bleed pretty admirably as well. I run a similar spec and find solo PvE play much easier with a GS to swap to than some of the others. /quote (forum didn’t let me use the quote function for some reason…)

This is what i was thinking of when using it. It comes in handy in those PvE situations when you’re 1 vs 5+ (Chaos Storm + Phantasmal Retreat + Mirror Image -> Shatter, swap weapons, iZerker, Mirror Blade, dodge for a third clone -> shatter for confusion = mop up if anything is still standing.) With this setup i have survived in places where others are dying left right and sideways, but it just doesn’t feel “condition damagey” if you get what i mean.

This is how my build looks like. The only difference now is that i am getting more Rabid gear (precision/toughness/condition damage) which cannot be crafted.

Does anyone have any suggestions about the composition? I feel it is very well rounded with high survivability and good damage output. I cannot blow stuff up in seconds, but i can weather all but the heaviest of storms.

Cheers,
Max.

Quite an interesting watch i must admit Would you mind posting your build please?

Cheers!

I am running a full condition build and am using Carrion with some carma crit/toughness/cond gear in the mix (plan is to swap all armor for that and keep carrion jewelry). Carrion will contribute well for the survivability much better than rampager.

literally – if you don’t want to die EVER – go carrion or the karma crit/tough/cond

Thanks for answers,

I will have to play around (and upgrade my rubbish scepter ) and see which offhand suits me better…

And for the love of all kittens – Anet, please make the scepter a cond damage weapon, not power!

Hey fellow mesmers,

I am running a condition heavy build with Staff being the obvious choice for primary weapon. (0/20/30/0/20 with loads of clones, Carrion or crit/tough/cond gear if anyone is interested)

I am currently using GS as a secondary weapon but that is not very useful on it’s own, nor it does contribute to the condition damage playstyle a lot.

So my question is: what realistically would be my best option to have as a secondary set?

GS – too power oriented which I don’t have much and no traits in the power line
Sword – same thing
Scepter – would be good if it would be of any use (a bleed on main attack please? or anything like that?)

Offhands are pretty straight forward – torch is semi obvious choice for cond heavy build.

Anyone has any ideas?

Cheers,
Max.

I hate to bring up the ghost of that other game (It died with BC in my mind, so yeah – ghost) but Thunderfury and Gates of AQ quests were truly EPIC… Please Anet, take a look here and there, read a book, watch a film – some of those have truly great ideas on how to get an epic story to the players. (talk to your players – some of them might give you ideas which will leave you completely in awe!)

I heard whispers that you can get here some really nice apples…

Tybalt is one really epic motherkitten I really hoped that Traehaernebushpersonwithanannoyingvoice dies and Tybalt gets to live and be the best!

Here’s to you Tyb!

Self proclamation is not a good thing i admit.
Watched his videos – he’s got skill, but then again – which mesmer doesn’t if he gets to 80?

There is no such thing as lvl80 exotic geared BAD mesmers…

Edit: Typo

I am also noticing quite a lot of misses.. It is dissapointing that you have to blindly guess where to shoot to actually get the damage off.

Can we please get an official reply to this mechanic as it seems to be very frustrating if trying to kite and dodge (as one is supposed to)