Guild Wars 2

Hey there, I’m returning from a loooong hiatus from this game and surprise surprise, the guild I was in is dead and gone.

I haven’t played for a long time, so there are a LOT of changes I’m trying to become acquainted with, including the xpac.

I’m looking for a mature guild (preferably like 20+ or so but that’s not a deal breaker for me) that’s not completely casual (is actually capable of getting stuff done, but realizes life happens and you can’t always play) but isn’t one of those hardcore “you have to spend X amount of time doing WvW” type guilds that’s willing to take me on and help me get back into the groove of the game. I’m mainly a PvE oriented player as well, but I’m willing to do some WvW every now and then.

Thanks!

If you look at Caladbolg’s skills, it’s not just guardian. It has ONE guardian skill (the auto doesn’t really count as anything in my opinion): Maelstrom strike. Electrolyze is elementalist, Skyfall is warrior, and Twilight Crash is sort of mesmer.

So no, Trahearne didn’t reroll necro, he brought back dual profession builds from GW1 but somehow managed to make it so he can have four professions instead of two. :P

Zuckerhund.4179:

“If a Norn is tugging on your horns, grab their beard, that’ll set ’em straight.”

…Kinky… O_o

Bathos.6341:

Garrus.5089:

There’s low calibre, and there’s high calibre.

But there ain’t anything like charr caliber :P

As for the shot above, 9/10. Should be more funny charr pictures :P

Is this funny enough?
“Nnnng… Hurry up and take the shot, this clucker’s HEAVY!”

Eating well tonight/10

Here’s my mesmer being kitten

My sylvari necromancer, made in tribute to Killeen.

My mesmer. If only mesmers could use shields and the amethyst aegis was in this game, I’d… almost have my mesmer from GW1. /nostalgia

I don’t see glitching bosses to be as big of a priority that needs fixing so much as glitching multiple paths into one. I drop group the moment people decide to cheat for more than one path, I find that both anti-fun and a silly way to risk being banned (Anet has banned for less, remember).

I had an offensive-support build that focused on phantasms and giving all the things regeneration, but as I started doing dungeons other than HotW (that’s what I farmed for my armor skin), I realized the drawbacks to it – namely phantasms can and will die too quickly for it to be of any real use in the dungeons I have to run, so I switched to a shatter build.

The phantasm build was pretty straightforward, traits that buff phantasms pretty much. Knight/cleric gear. It was really fun, but not very viable. :P

Regarding illusion of life – In PvE, it ONLY kills the player if they’re already at a red penalty when they have it cast on them.

In HotW with the ice AoE boss with the quaggans, I ALWAYS use this skill, as someone always ends up downed inside his AoE. Thankfully I only do HotW with a guild group who knows what IoL is and what to do when I cast it on them (hint: run away and rez, not jump back into the fight). IoL is extremely situational, but in the situations it’s usable in, it has potential to be very good (still not as good as signet of undeath, warbanner, etc though…).

When I hit 80, I thought it’d be better to use knight/cleric armor for added survivability and support. I switched to full berserker gear (including accessories) and my survivability is about exactly the same as it was before.

Butterflies are like a symbol of dreams and illusions. I don’t understand the whole “this is killing my macho vibe” thing going here… It’s like people thinking unicorns are for sissies (sorry, but a horse that can spear you with a horn is pretty kitten).

Purple is also one of my favorite colors, don’t mind the pink too much as I personally think it fits the mesmer more than any other color. Not everything has to have a grimdark sense about it, mesmers aren’t even that dark really, nowhere near as dark as necros.

Plus, I love my manly charr mesmer shooting purple beams and exploding in a cloud of butterflies. ;D

This is just a what if topic, not something I’m actually suggesting as it might be OP (though I would like it).

In GW1, dealing with a mesmer in PvP involved a lot of choosing whether or not to take punishment (backfire, empathy, etc. ), GW2 mesmers are still like that a bit, but nowhere near as much.

From what I’ve gathered, phantasms are supposed to be like physical manifestations of damage over time hexes right (conjure phantasm/nightmare, for example)? The way I see it, they’re only slightly similar to hexes in their current state. So what if phantasms were changed to where they did their current effects, but had the added effect of if the person/mob the phantasm is focusing on kills it, something else happens.

For example, illusionary warden gets destroyed by the person it was cast on, they receive a debuff of “your next weapon skill fails and you take X damage”, similar to clumsiness in GW1.

I honestly can’t see this being too OP in WvW, seeing how illusions have a tendency to die veeeery quickly inside a zerg, can’t say anything in regards to sPvP as I don’t do that much, but I do think this would help illusion builds in PvE (not saying mesmers are underpowered at all).

Thoughts?

Burning doesn’t really fit into the whole necromancer thing, IMO. All the conditions they have make sense for them to have, and since fire purifies and starts new life, that doesn’t really fit well with necromancers.

Lizard is the most wonderful person ever and needs to dye a certain character’s armor pink. It’s all I want for Christmas.

DiogoSilva.7089:

You guys are too frail. The mesmer is one of the strongest professions for pvp at the moment, and more nerfs will come. Phantasms cooldowns were too short, they were too spammable, and the consequences for killing phantasms were questionable.

Changing one build from overpowered to reasonably strong is not going to destroy that build, unless mesmers still have other overpowered builds, which might be the case.

Please answer me this: Were phantasms overpowered in PvE? If you say yes, you must not have played a mesmer in explorable dungeons.

Fozee.1083:

I implore you guys to take a bit and actually play with the changes. The Mesmer is not destroyed by this patch, it’s just brought more in line with its strengths, drawing back some things that didn’t need to be as strong as they were.

ANet doesn’t make changes that weren’t very carefully thought out and implemented. If you play it for a while and still dislike it in any way, then you need to provide CONSTRUCTIVE feedback in the correct places. Filling this forums with “kitties this” and “kitties that”, we aren’t going to get anything done as a community, and we’re certainly not going to help the Mesmer become what it needs to become.

The thing is, we can already tell this is going to hurt us, hard, in PvE. Our illusions are so easily killed and now we have to wait even longer to get them up. Chaos storm’s recharge nerf makes even less sense than the phantasm nerfs IMO.

Nokturnal.6903:

Hey guys, mesmers are OP so let’s nerf their one and only reliable AOE weapon set. That’ll show them!

Seriously…this is ridiculous.

To be honest, I found the greatsword to be better AoE. Berserker hits multiples, has a faster recharge, and hits harder. That’s mostly why I stopped running a staff unless I need the warlock for large events like Claw (because all dem conditions = silly damage).

spankproof.4618:

From a pvp point of view, its good that killing phantasms might counter these builds slightly as 12 second cd’s meant spamming phantasms and running was far to easy, as was gettin 2 of any one phantasm and as they are able to do 4-5k’s each with no actual effort from the mesmer it was to much, I imagine the chaos storm nerf is more to increase the time someone can actually fight back against a mesmer without screwing themselves. I hope this brings mesmers back in line so everyone who currently plays mesmer can go back to the class they picked before they realised mesmer was so easy. I think this makes shattering much more of a choice which is how it should be. Now fix portal working with repair kit.

The thing is, in PvE they are NOT over powered. Our illusions get destroyed by the slightest breath and we’re left there with nothing.

I hope someone from Anet pops in here and explains the logic behind this patch, because I’m definitely not seeing any whatsoever. The more and more I think about it, the more ticked off I become. If they want to balance mesmers for PvP, they need to split the skills like in GW1. Mesmers are by no means overpowered in PvE and these nerfs are just ridiculous.

This patch ticked me off… I run a phantasm build and RARELY shatter, so most of my damage comes from phantasms – phantasms that get freaking one shot in every single dungeon – and now it’s going to be even HARDER to pull off my damage? Are you freaking kidding me? Can someone PLEASE explain the reasoning behind this?

And a recharge nerf to chaos storm, one of our extremely few AoEs that is stupidly easy to avoid and was already on a high cool down? Why???

If you’re not having fun, you’re doing it wrong.

Irate Gaming [IG] of Sorrow’s Furnace is now recruiting! IG is a group of players who have played various games together over the years. We are a community focused guild and are dedicated to making sure everyone in the guild feels welcome and has a fun time in a mature environment. We play various games together, from MMO’s to Shooters and Puzzles. We are open to most types of players, be it casual or moderately hardcore, as in general we are a pleasant mix of both. We get stuff done but we also realize that not everyone’s schedules will always permit gaming and we believe that real life obligations always come before gaming. If you want a good balance of hardcore and casual play, we may be the guild for you!

We focus on both PvE and PvP. Our main activities include:
- Dungeons. We do plenty of dungeon runs, so if you want to join one, ask! We are not strict on builds, we generally let people run what they’re comfortable with while making utility suggestions depending on the situation/dungeon. We just ask that you be fairly decent at surviving, follow called targets and instructions, and don’t tunnel-vision the boss.
- Events. We have people that try to keep an eye on the ‘big chest’ yielding events like Claw and Shatterer. They will usually let the guild know if an event is starting.
- WvW. This is a big one. Most of our members are fairly active in WvW, and we plan to have a strong presence there. If you want an organized guild to run with and avoid the zerg, we’re for you!
- sPvP. We’re currently not that big on this mode of PvP. We have several members who participate in sPvP and we’re certainly willing to expand if there is a demand.
- Exploration! We enjoy seeing the world and finding new forms of content. These are at their best when done with friends and we’ve done various Jumping Puzzles and tours of areas like cities as a guild.

And of course, we have our expectations of members.
- Be polite and mature. You’d think this would be a given, but people always seem to take it for granted. We absolutely do not permit bashing on religious or political beliefs; in fact we try to keep political and religious talk completely out of guild chat. We don’t care about race or gender and treat all members the same. We expect anyone that joins us to be able to follow this.
- Be willing to hop onto mumble. We don’t expect or require you to talk, you’re totally free to remain silent, but for coordination purposes we really would prefer everyone involved in a guild dungeon or WvW event to be present on mumble.
- Have fun. If you’re not doing something that you enjoy, then it just becomes a chore. We won’t force you to do something you don’t like. In any of our guild events, if the tone and attitude is off, we’d rather call it for the night than keep going and upset everyone.

So, if you’re interested in joining our community and always having someone to game with, talk to, and have an all-around good time with, head over to our website and check us out.

http://www.irate-gaming.com/home

Oh my word THANK YOU SO MUCH!

Aren’t jewels only for accessories?

So I take it with the lack of answers that this weapon skin isn’t available in PvE yet? :[ Oh well. Here’s to hoping Anet adds it eventually.

It’s in the PvP Locker, so I’m assuming PvP players can unlock it. Trouble is, I don’t know if it’s currently available in PvE or not. :\

That’s the fiery dragon sword, not fiery gladius. Thanks though.

Hey there, I saw this weapon in the PvP bunker and, as it was my favorite weapon in GW1 I was wondering whether or not it’s available anywhere in PvE.

Thanks!

(Also, I wasn’t sure whether or not this was the right forum to ask, so if it wasn’t, apologies in advance)