Guild Wars 2

With the map showing enemies in freshly capped keeps, it looks like it’s pretty pointless for Mesmers to hide and wait for a Portal recap. May even be useless to have Portal on their at all.

I haven’t been able to test it much, but can someone safely “hide” in a keep and not be marked upon it being flipped, as long as they aren’t seen by an npc?

I reported it as a bug in a keep in the Borderlands. Only afterward did I realize the merchants are screwed up everywhere in WvW.

SpellOfIniquity.1780:

Lolol, I could imagine situations such as in EotM where it would be insanely OP but otherwise I think it would be a really fun and useful trap. Imagine trying to solo defend a tower from a zerg, trying to hold the capture ring until your zerg comes to help. Place a Launch Trap on the bridge just before the lord and watch half the zerg get fired straight back out of the tower. Would be a really good way to buy time. Or even in the Borderlands at Hills by the catapult spot, setting the trap there and having roaming groups get launched to their deaths when they try to snipe the keep, lol.

I love every bit of this.

A friend of mine runs Axe with his minion Necro in WvW. He loves popping Axe 3 and having 30 seconds worth of retaliation on him and his minions. Claims spinning Warriors and Thieves just melt.

Unfortunately beyond that, I’m not sure how his build is set up.

Snakebyte.2804:

Here is exactly what I run. http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fhAQNAsaBGx0QOVVSHIxgSX60CA-T1SDwAm2fIoygDHBABmBScIAlgPV6tT9HQ6DW8AAAYCSyJAgMA5bB-w

Still not sure about the blood sigil but I’m keeping it until I can think of something better. Also there are better foods and wrenches but I’m cheap

I have to ask, how do you deal with conditions?

Reading through the thread for a few giggles, wasn’t expecting to post. But kitten all, that Launch Trap sounds pretty awesome!

If stability is useless, and cc is more effective against melee, then doesn’t that mean stability is just as useless and cc is more effective to ranged classes too?

Rozbuska.5263:

I tried simillar build in past but it only works well on quite large groups of mobs.
Pistols are condi weapons and with soldier gear is your dps almost zero. If you wanna survability use at least dire and you will have much faster kills. Best idea is use rabid because you have many crit procs and it have also decent survability.
using elixirs are pointless without HGH, Switch MA for HGH and your dps will increase by half. Runes probably Nightmare or simillar condi focused

Like I said, still working on armor stats. Although I will ask, HGH only gives 2 stacks of Might. How much extra damage is that really compared to 2% extra damage per condition on enemy from MA?

Also, does the extra damage from MA (or any other traits/runes/etc) apply to Condition Damage too? Or is it just Direct Damage?

Oh yeah the Sigil of Incapacitation were to be a cheaper route than Torment, but I see Incapacitation maybe hard to get without a recipe. Maybe just a Accuracy, Air, or Fire sigil instead? Haven’t decided yet.

So I dislike meta (I disdain being like everyone else), despite knowing that meta is there because they are the most effective. Anyway I’m always looking at alternative builds and Coated Bullets with Modified Ammunition has caught my eye.

http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fdUQJAqalcTpAr1Xx6KseNCbBB6OEi3KyjElPGxAA-TFCEABhfCAsZ/hdU+1i6PeoHYAzfHoEEgHAAA-w

Granted, it is more of an autoattack build, so I know it won’t likely buy viable in PvP, unless maybe paired with someone who is running a condition build. I’m thinking this would work better in PvE for farming mobs in Cursed Shores, and maybe some potential in WvW.

I’m still tweaking the armor stats, and not sure what to use for Runes. Melandrus is always nice, but just a place holder for now. Was looking at maybe Citadel for Fury duration + Power.

Just curious as to thoughts on how to improve it, or maybe even what some of these traits could use to become more viable.

I had heard a while back (a year ago?) that diminishing return for overall Armor was around 3k. Not sure if it’s still true, or was even true to begin with, I just accepted it because I knew the person I heard it from was a stat monger.

I’ve been playing Mesmer, Necromancer, and Engineer the last 2.5 years without Stability; and I’ve never raged quit WvW.

I’ve also been playing WvW without practical use of Confusion for 2 years now. So if you’re looking to complain about losing a key component to your class, expect no sympathy from Mesmers.

Here’s what I run in WvW and PvE, it’s nothing fancy, but I love it a lot. I’ve survived some crazy zerg situations with it where my Mesmer or Engi would have been annihilated. I might look into swapping Staff for something else, but I love the AoE too much.

http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fRMQNAW3Yjc00SbPN20wfbihBRyVpmeWwfRWIAA-T1hBABA8EAia/BU0Ncj6PYp8zMlgZfBACAgAwQv5Qv5QHaA-w

I do not own a full set of Zerk gear.

I’m not expecting a storyline for Revenant. The storylines are based on race from 1-20, not class. After that, the stories are the same for everyone.

I remap almost all of my key commands; I do for every game I play. I cannot stand the cramped and limited space default bindings leave you with. I don’t have time right now to post what binds I use, maybe I’ll remember later after work.

Hopefully a quick question. I’ve looked at Chaotic Interruption a few times and am wondering if you interrupt someone with GS5 or Temporal Curtain, are they still pushed back (or pulled)? Or does the Immobilization lock them in place?

I would hate to lose the ability to push or pull people over ledges if I interrupt them and they’re immobilized instead.

I have a suspicion that the new Slow condition is going to be the nail in the coffin for Confusion. Not that Confusion isn’t already dead…

Makes me wonder if other classes have as many unused skills as Mesmer does. I’m sure there are some, but as many or more unused skills? Hard to imagine.

Dawdler.8521:

Every human female in the game is already baby faced. If it wasnt for the bewbs, I would have assumed most of them was 10 years old or so.

Yeah, human female legs are so sickly thin. Are they 12 years old, or malnourished?

Tseikk.9032:

Use common sense. One of the only ways for a weaker server to fight a stronger one is to cut their supply lines. This often happens by sniping the dolyak, since the higher population server has (duh…) more people defending the dolyak. Killing the dolyak with even 4 players defending it is quite hard, imagine if the four players could hard ress the dolyak?
Outnumbered fights suck already because of the way hard ressing works. If a group of 5 could survive and defeat people from say a group of 20, 5 of the bigger group will just hard ress the defeated ones even if the small group could stomp them. Naturally applying the hard ress system to dolyaks would hurt smaller servers and make bigger servers stronger.

How does sniping dolyaks when you’re outnumbered help get you points if the numerically superior server is still holding Keeps and Towers? Whether or not they’re tier 3.

I don’t want to play a flight simulator.

Skills I don’t use:

-All the signets. Some have potential, but they just don’t sync up with anything well enough.

-Mantra of Pain. For as long as it takes to charge it, I can do that much damage just auto attacking.

-Mantra of Distraction & Concentration. Same with signets, have good potential, but seem to lack with how other builds work better for Mesmer.

-Illusion of Life. Probably the worst class res utility skill. If teammates are going to get downed, it’s far more likely to be from a boss that isn’t near dead enough to rally before IoL kills you. And if you’re teammates are dying to trash, I think you need new teammates.

-Mimic (old and new). New looks like it has some potential, but not enough to justify using it.

-Phantasmal Disenchatner. Limited use. Not an effective cleanse; too random.

-Phantasmal Defender. Dies in like 2 hits, so what did it save me from?

To expand further on Signets and Mantras, again, I think they have much potential, but the mechanics of Mesmer itself don’t work with the skills. Mesmer is centered around Clones and Phantasms, and Signets and Mantras don’t do much to help on the illusion front. Not sure what changes would be needed to fix the issues.

Tseikk.9032:

Before making up new ideas for WvW, remember that they should NOT favor the server with more population! This is another idea that would just make the higher population servers stronger and smaller population servers weaker!

So, until ANet fixes population unbalances i say
HELL NO!

How would it make smaller population servers weaker? Evidence supporting your thesis would greatly help your argument.

Oh yeah, I vote for bringing the Crenellated Sword back!

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/File:Crenellated_Sword.jpg

Agreed, these need implementation. Opening ToT bags during Halloween was a pain and I’m pretty sure it killed my mouse as well.

I’ve been noticing that my arm has been hurting from holding right-click down to look around all the time too.

My desktop has been down for over a month so I haven’t been able to play; I’m excited to start playing again, but my arms are kind of dreading it.

I’m with you guys, a lot of the skins are ugly in this game. One of my friends quit playing GW2 for two reasons, one of them was the lack of real looking weapons, he can’t stand all the fantasy looking ones in here.

I’ll agree with Infinite Light, I’ve been eyeballing that one for a while. It’s a great mix of real and fantasy. I still like a few other too:

Fiery Dragon Sword (I came from GW1, if only they’d make the vampiric dragon sword)
Golden Wing Sword
Ebon Vanguard Sword isn’t too bad
Honor of Humanity
I use the Super Sword skin on my Mesmer, but only a Mesmer can get away with it.

Greatswords have a few more options, but not as many as I’d like.

I always thought the cooldown timers were off by a second. Though my desktop has been down for a month, can’t remember how it works to show an example. :/

Gregori.5807:

What I called the devs during this probably blistered the paint, all the while loving/hating every minute.

And an addiction was born. Oh, Goemm’s Lab also taught me that I could compose entire sentences just using the F-bomb.

It wasn’t my introduction to JP’s, and I was fairly good at them at the time. However, I had a very similar experience in the Clock Tower it’s first year…

When you’re on your Mesmer and try to Blink up stairs or a hill to catch your fleeing prey… ><

Sincanister.9812:

I would like PANTS. Not a skirt, not a dress, not pants with a skirt on one side. Regular pants. Heavy pants regular pants, medium pants, light armor pants. I want more pants skins. Give us a meta 2 week content with PANTS as a reward. Sick of this lack of pants.

I’m in favor of more pants too, but I would argue there is very little for decent skirts. Most right now either look like some sort of shredded rags stitched together, and/or have pants underneath. Either make it a skirt or make it pants; not both!

I’ll cast another vote for more GW1 skins being brought in.

Also, I’ll throw it in here as well, as many of us have. Whatever happened to these?

You just have to play all three a little bit and see what suits your style.

As for me, I can’t get the hang of Thief, get bored with Rangers, but love Engineers. Engineers have a uniqueness to them, while Thieves and Rangers are rather generic.

But, who knows how specializations will change things.

GrandmaFunk.3052:

The only thing worse than “I will play how I want” is “you should be playing how we want you to play”

I’ll agree with this.

I’m generally helpful with others in the game, but if you start telling me how I should be playing the game without my having asked, expect me to ignore you.

Sometimes people have only a small amount of time to get a few things done before they have to be somewhere, or just had a kitteny day and don’t want to interact with anyone else until they’ve had time to relax.

I get that some people are more rude than what is called for. I just don’t want to see people painted with a broad brush.

joneirikb.7506:

The new WvW map is not making a 5th map in the weekly match-ups, it is another “borderland” map, which will begin to rotate the other borderland maps. So each week you will get EBG + 3 borderland maps, and the borderland maps will be a random mix of the OLD BL and the NEW BL. So you can end up with 2 new BL’s and 1 old BL for example.

TLDR: Still 4 maps.

Yeah, I was reading about that right after I made the post. I need to stop opening up so many tabs at once. xD

the krytan assassin.9235:

Only a WvW commander can talk like an auctioneer

That would be awesome to hear. An actual auctioneer commanding in WvW.

Yeah, nevermind literary symbolism.

Would be handy in WvW to be able to have a zerg build on but when your killed be able to switch to a more roaming or solo build while you work your way back to the group.

I still need to tweak my controls a bit for better efficiency. But I play casually so it’s not a huge deal.

coglin.1867:

Neglect? Like all of the changes coming up in the expansion?

You mean adding another map the lower servers don’t have the people to cover? In addition to the already empty maps that are currently in…

Windsagio.1340:

I didn’t want to massively reboot the caithe issue, beyond 1 specific difference.

Logan made mistakes, so did Caithe. The comparison is clear and almost certainly intentional.

Logan came clean, even from the beginning he had guilt, but when push came to shove he said “I did what I thought I had to do, maybe it was the wrong thing” and he has the good taste to feel guilty about it.

Caithe still has never chosen to face her mistakes, and shows no sign of doing so. She hides her guilt and makes excuses and says “YOU MUST TRUST ME!” all the time, but she’s unwilling to come to terms with her past (and present) mistakes.

~~~

The interaction between Logan and Rytlock is one of the most legitimately heroic things we see in the story of DE. Both of them had to admit their own mistakes and prejudices and come clean… and they both acknowledged that it was only a start. It was brave and noble on both of their parts.

Caithe has nothing like that, and probably can’t because nobody actually likes her anyways (as far as dialogue goes). Nobody likes her because she’s secretive and dodgy, because she can’t and won’t come to terms with her personal guilt..

One sounds like an adult, the other a child. Perhaps a play on the fact that the Sylvari are still a young race?

I’m not expecting much to change for underwater combat, if anything at all. Other than they’ll probably program less underwater locations in the new maps.

I completely remap all of my keys binds, shifting all of my controls to the right a few keys. Makes a bunch of more keys available to me to use for my pinkie and ring fingers. My friends all call me weird for it, but some do get why I do it. I think one of them have started experimenting with whole new setups too.

For me, weapon swap is Q.

The harder part might be getting armor swaps done quickly or more efficiently, but I imagine it’s still doable.

My main character from GW1, although that would likely be impossible
Norgu, or as me and my guildies called him: Mesmer Bob.
Gwen
Tahlkora
Glint
Evennia
Saidra
Alesia, so we can continue to heal ourselves instead of having her to do it.
Mad King Thorn
Goren, because why not?
Carlotta

I’m sure I’ll remember others…

Blude.6812:

Mount Trolls—-give it up already!

This. Enough about mounts. Go play a different game if you want mounts.

Exciton.8942:

Also, in terms of servers rising and falling. It all ends up into a cycle.
What does not change is that there are always plenty of fairweathers who zerg on to the bandwagon.

I have yet to see any people migrating to Sorrow’s Furnace. Only people fleeing.

<—Long Guild Wars 1 player. And yes, Tengu is mostly a desire for us veterans. I don’t foam at the mouth about the possibility of having Tengu as a playable race like others do. But having played GW1 for so long, I know the idea of playing a Tengu has been around well before we knew anything about the Norn, Asura, or the Sylvari.

I decided to skip it. Well, mostly because my desktop is broke and I’m waiting for parts to come in… lol

Trick.9370:

Only a wvw player plays wvw because of other/fellow wvw players and not because its refreshing.

Probably why I don’t play much WvW anymore here on SF. Pretty much everyone left. :/

penelopehannibal.8947:

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

My Asura Guardian is Yont Karts.

It’s an anagram.

Nyto Rakts is my hero! :P

Winner!