Guild Wars 2

Skill lag might be either side (server or client).
If you have not-so-high upload speed, your client won’t be able to send skill request among all ack’s, movement, etc.
And on server-side it’s not necessarily hardware. It might be plain internet speed limitation.
And btw, we did have skill lag before in big zerg fights. It’s just that now everyone tries out new wvw and zerg fights are more frequent.

Anyways, WvW became a LOT better now, thanks Anet!

Esplen.3940:

Also, you have to be in the field when you start Prestige.

If this is true, it’s a bug.

@Chipmunko
Yeah, catching up is not easy… (unless you stack confusion and blink after the guy so he panics and kills himself)
That’s why I usually attack 2+ players. They usually don’t try to run until it’s too late… =)

This is almost my exact build
I’ll actually modify mine, looking at your traits, a bit, thanks.

Just for those who have never used something similar:
- I can escape big zergz and not get downed
- I can harass big zergz with hit-n-run tactics, and still not get downed
- I make a lot people run away after 10 sec of fighting with me (with big stacks of confusion on them)
- I have to leave my toon in the middle of enemy’s spawn in wvw and go make myself a coffee to die…

This is the absolutely best thing I ever used (after shouts guard and condi traps ranger). Every mesmer should try it out at least once, it’s a lot of fun!

Running condition tanky build using scepter/torch and staff. (I mostly do wvw)
Torch 4 and scepter 3 are my standard openers, and if i manage to pop out 3 clones fast enough (and shatter them) it’s a huge damage spike, since it stacks a LOT of confusion and people usually start panicking when i jump out of stealth in their face from nowhere, bashing all their skills and killing themselves.
Scepter 2 is very nice if timed right.
Auto-attack is meh, i can spawn clones much faster with dodges/staff and staff clones are more useful anyways.

To sum it up: scepter is neat in condition builds and made many players run away from me as soon as i attacked.

Using #2 downed skill you:
- summon a downed clone at your possition
- port away (not far) in random direction
- gain stealth for 2-3 sec
Protip: only the real downed mesmer has the red mark over him (the one indicating downed players). Clones don’t have that.

I’m leveling my ele alt too atm. It’s 38 now.
Running D/D with 10 in arcana and others in air/water. The main thing for my toon right now is Signet of Resotoration. I pretty much cast anything all the time so i get constant heals. With reduced cooldown on attunements all i do is burn all cooldowns on attunement then switch to another and so on.
If i need some extra healing i switch to water. Other than that i do some small chains (standard opener: air 4,5,3 fire 3,4,5,2 then heal(water) or finish e’m off (earth 2,4,5)) and run cantrips for even more survivability. In extreme cases i pop out water/earth elemental (elite).

I’m pretty sure you can make something similar with staff, except you have to keep at distance.

I’m pretty squishy aswell, but you can achieve very high survivability if using hit’n’run tactics.

I run my condi/traps ranger with SB 99% of time because staying at range makes you more survivable (in wvw at least).
and since burning doesn’t stack in intensity, burning trap is more than enough.

Rolling conditional traps build with SB/GS
The bags are raining.

SB + positioning + Piercing Arrows + Traps + Entangle = annahilating AOE for zergs.
And you are still very survivable with all of it.

Rangers are amazing for wvw. Barrage is not your only skill…

Depends on build.
I’m running lvl 40ish conditional mesm in wvw (T1) and i die rarely. We have nice escape and confusing (not the condition, the real mental confusion) skills.
If you’ll be using a glassy build, you’ll deffinately be dead pretty fast.

The reason for this (imo) is the fact that running speed / moving skills distance is race-independent. In addition, the animation has to look natural (norn, running like a human or asura would look like he’s doing some sort of moon-walk).
For these reasons, asuras have to run like crazy rabbits, while norn or char toons have to be more slow and clumsy.

Same problem here.
Looks like guys messed something up on “login servers” (or those servers just failed)
error code 42:5:7:1008:101 after character selection
from UA loging in to US server

yesterday I had a chance to do similar thing, but better:
there were ~20 enemies standing on a small bridge near a keep.
I’d wish I came up with this idea at that moment: judge’s intervention → shield of absorption on them and set ~10 guys flying into the water…

Thank you for your proposals, but I’ve already joined another guild.
- eol

Hi, I’m looking for an active guild to join PvP/WvW mostly
Current Home World : Fissure of Woe (will change if needed)
Game type preferences : PvP/WvW
Character info : Cron The Bum – Guardian (supportive/offensive). Currently I’m low lvl (12), but starting some power-leveling right now.
Background : many years of professional Lineage 2 gaming, huge experience in mass PvPs.
Activity : ~2-3 hrs/day and 5-10 hrs on the weekend.
Languages : I speak freely : English, Russian, Ukrainian and a bit Italian. Desired guild language – English
Notes : I will only join the guild which utilizes Vetrillo (or another voice chat) actively and regularly does WvW.

Thanks for your attention.