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For science! :p I might go for it in a few weeks.
Esplen, when your thief does get the traits, mind sharing what you find out? You might get to test it faster than I would.
“The harbinger of the deceiver, the mark of
the wicked, the symbol of Colin Shiro Johanson.”
the wicked, the symbol of Colin Shiro Johanson.”
Hello everyone, I was wondering if people would know on whether Thief stealth traits trigger/benefit from the stealth produced by the Norn racial elite skill Prowl from Summon Snow Leopard? I’m asking this because I’m considering making a Norn thief after the Anet key farming nerf. It’d be a big disappointment if one levels it up only to find out it doesn’t benefit at all, and nothing on the wiki/forums suggests if it does or does not.
I know the argument on racial skills not being useful enough to be a concern, but situationally in WvW this might be of some use. Thanks in advance!
“The harbinger of the deceiver, the mark of
the wicked, the symbol of Colin Shiro Johanson.”
the wicked, the symbol of Colin Shiro Johanson.”
Hey all, and thanks Pyroatheist for sharing and creating this awesome build.
I read through the forum and although I don’t happen to have a full leveled mesmer yet, I do run a modified immortal guardian, warrior and am attempting at making a similar ranger.
I do have a question though – what are your thoughts in using a scepter/torch instead of the staff?
Someone at the first page asked that but presumably wanted to swap the focus out (which would be really bad). I’ve heard that these weapons are generally awful on a mesmer, but prior to some fix the Prestige could send out two blast finishers as I understand, and coupled with the blast field of Feedback could also cast chaos armor like the staff and get stealth, burning and loads of more confusion, a block/blind and hopefully more retaliation provided the iMage does its thing?
It would be a pretty horrible idea.
First, what you lose: You lose phase retreat, a forced movement leap combo finisher capable of being used while stunned/dazed/knocked down/immobilized/crippled/chilled that creates a clone and is on a 5 second cooldown. If staff only had 1 skill and it was phase retreat, I still wouldn’t give it up. You also lose chaos armor, which is 5 seconds of protection on-demand, as well as providing pretty much permanent swiftness while in combat, even more regeneration, and cripping, blinding, and confusing the enemy. Chaos storm is a potent defensive and offensive tool. It can generate chaos armor with phase retreat, applies aegis to yourself and any illusions in it, applies some more retaliation, and is a highly reliable aoe interrupt. Lastly, its cooldown trait provides 50 more toughness.
What you gain: A block from scepter. Confusing images, a long and slow channel that stacks 5 confusion, scaling off of condition damage of which I don’t have very much. The cooldown trait clashes with that of focus. The prestige is an awesome skill, no way around that. Unfortunately, the iMage is objectively the worst skill for any weapon, on any class, in the entire game. You can find my analysis of that here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/Torch-isn-t-viable-in-PvE-Dungeons/first#post1788743
Additionally, the cooldown trait for torch is 20 points into domination.
Overall, you get a decent stealth tool from scepter and torch. That’s pretty much it.
Wow, very thorough reply, thanks so much for the explanation.
“The harbinger of the deceiver, the mark of
the wicked, the symbol of Colin Shiro Johanson.”
the wicked, the symbol of Colin Shiro Johanson.”
Hey all, and thanks Pyroatheist for sharing and creating this awesome build.
I read through the forum and although I don’t happen to have a full leveled mesmer yet, I do run a modified immortal guardian, warrior and am attempting at making a similar ranger.
I do have a question though – what are your thoughts in using a scepter/torch instead of the staff?
Someone at the first page asked that but presumably wanted to swap the focus out (which would be really bad). I’ve heard that these weapons are generally awful on a mesmer, but prior to some fix the Prestige could send out two blast finishers as I understand, and coupled with the blast field of Feedback could also cast chaos armor like the staff and get stealth, burning and loads of more confusion, a block/blind and hopefully more retaliation provided the iMage does its thing?
“The harbinger of the deceiver, the mark of
the wicked, the symbol of Colin Shiro Johanson.”
the wicked, the symbol of Colin Shiro Johanson.”