Guild Wars 2

Fay.2357:

Traits

• Phantasmal Haste: Fixed a bug that prevented this trait from working with Illusionary Avenger.

So, PH is still being “fixed” many years later?

Fay.2357:

Since you’ll realistically be boosting 5 people, your effective dps modifier is going to look more like +35k, so you could be doing literally zero personal dps and still be worth it.

I actually just pushed a new feature to the gw2dps specifically to aid us in answering questions like OPs – the thing will now show Personal and Party DPS values side by side.

Stand to the side, watch party dps. Join in and see by how much it increased. That will show you how much “personal” dps you are doing as well as how much is your contribution is, personal dps + party increase.

Time to brush off my rusty chrono skills and make some ele friends

AndyJo.8794:

Because Raiders are the ones who requested it, and
Raiding is the only area where it’s actually of use.

False. False.

Does the double false make your statements true?

Hmm…

Hmm, buffs all around. I kinda like this

This thread is why I still frequent the forums

cranos.5913:

I’ve yet to see another MMO that actively promotes not playing its content, but sure. xD

the GM here is actually suggesting a feature that would encourage you to AFK.
- http://forum.blackdesertonline.com/index.php?/topic/64349-auto-path-looping/

Set multiple points on the map and your char/mount wil run around in a loop, while you’re afk, like a true bot would.

:D

It’s safe to say that ANet just doesn’t see mesmer bugs as bugs. The issue tracker is more or less a “bugs we actually may bother fixing someday” list.

SlyDevil.3952:

It’s currently unavailable, gw2dps was previously the name for frifox’s dps meter.

Previously?

skcamow.3527:

RM, Mistrust, Scepter AA nice …

Mesmer

• Feedback: This skill is now ground targeted and no longer requires a target.

FB is powerful. Ground targeted FB is godly.

<3

Cyninja.2954:

Why would I be upset?

I’m not the one hijacking a thread with a topic which has nothing to do with:

A. Guild Wars 2
B. the thread itsself
C. on an issue that had quite a few people rilled or confused

This thread is a nothing more but a simple community chat box for those who used to run Dungeons. There is no defined topic of discussion.

Just let us post-how-i-want.

so… gw2dps x64 build is up

Nova Stiker.8396:

I am fine with zerker.
I am fine with sinister.

I am not fine with 80% of your team must be zerker or sinister. As it is an absolute MUST.

Let me put it for you in simpler terms.

- Anet made raids targeting specific hardcore playerbase.
- You want Raids to fit your playstyle preferences.
- Raids do not fit your playstyle preference.
- Raids are not for you, you are not the target playerbase.
- Go play something that does fit your playstyle.

Or, adapt your playstyle and complete Raids how ANet actually made them.

Einlanzer.1627:

I don’t find that attitude acceptable.

right back at you, thief forum is this way >>>

Also, fix thieves.

afaik they went with b2p for na (and eu?) model, same as gw2.

Talking about which… NA/EU version just went on pre-order, today. Though, I’d hold off till more is known about how the NA/EU version will shape up, specifically the “p2w” korean cash shop and the kind of pve content (not a fan of pvp).

I’m guessing it’s something similar to gw2’s specializations, where they add new weapons and skills to existing classes… less than 1 year since going open beta.

what reaper could have been, https://youtu.be/x1iWmbJKvf4?t=5

Xyonon.3987:

• Illusions grant you faster attacking iAvengers…

Did ANet fix PH not affecting the Avenger?

Xyonon.3987:

• Alacrity can be kept up 100% for the whole party with 3 iAvengers. This means ofc you included wich combined with quickness lets you charge AND cast a mantra of pain about 3 sec.

You have Improved Alacrity traited. Did you assume alacrity duration for allies coming from avengers at base duration or the +50% duration? It may be self explanatory but not long ago I made a mistake assuming allies got the 50% bonus too, which they don’t since trait affects alacrity applied only to you…

Half a year after the ban, after 3 weeks of trying anet still refuses to unban my old account. Their reply was, “no can do, but we’re ok with you playing on your alt if you want”. Guess that means it’s time to move on (but probably won’t, this abusive gf that is gw2 has too stron of a pull… sigh)

Arshay Duskbrow.1306:

-Blurred Frenzy is a DPS loss over sword AA since it got buffed. As for evades, see previous point.

No, BF still is a DPS gain.

Arshay Duskbrow.1306:

Compounding Power is a bad trait because a Mesmer’s personal damage is terrible compared to the damage phantasms do, which is not affected

Once you go chrono you’ll be pumping avengers for perma party aclarity, which are nowhere near close to the usual swordsman/duelist dps. Your personal DPS will be the bigger chunk of the dps.

Arshay Duskbrow.1306:

It’s time to move on from Dueling

I’ll move on when it’s justified. Atm I don’t see that being the case.

Arshay Duskbrow.1306:

Let go of your dependence on it and learn the power of pure phantasm-shatter.

I don’t have math on this yet but judging form my experience so far you’re too overestimating Chronoplasma.

AlphatheWhite.9351:

Also, you left the synergy between Persistence of Memory and Chronophantasma off your Illusions list. For shame!

I intentionally left it out since that trait competes with Compounding Power, which is a very good dps trait especially where you can now actually keep your illusions out pretty well. And, I haven’t explored that synergy enough to judge whether it’s worth giving up CP.

Iris Ng.9845:

Agree. Which strikes me suddenly whether aclarity and quickness are affected by Boon Duration? and whether a Power/Toughness/Boon/Condi Duration gear would be worth it for a mesmer “tank”. Throwing Condi duration for extra Vuln stacks and/or longer Slow, for example.

Boon duration only affects quickness. I guess Aclarity isn’t considered a “boon”, probably for balancing reason (?).

spoj.9672:

Phantasms dont die anymore so yeah.

Assuming all 3 are swordsmans. It actually may be worth sacrificing swordsmans ~2k dps for the Avenger, for more aclarity on the party. Wells alone can’t sustain aclarity 100%.

Arshay Duskbrow.1306:

Drop Dueling and go with Illusions instead.
…

Dueling has nothing going for it anymore.

Dueling:
- about 50% vigor uptime
- 20% sword reduction = more dps = more active evades (even with aclarity)
- phantasm bleeds on crit
- Fencers Finesse
- perma fury at 75% or below

Illusions:
- 3% multiplier for each illusion
- 20% phantasm reduction
- Phantasmal Haste (bugged for avenger)

IMO you’ll gain more by going Dueling than Illusions.

Correct. Which is why pyro said mes does low dps – low personal dps. In which case whatever gear you run will not affect mesmers “dps” as much as other classes since mesmer “dps” is actually whatever the party is dishing out. By taking this approach, mes would actually be a very good “tank” since the aclarity/quickness uptime is not affected by your gear but rather your build, meaning you can still be an effective utility bot as well as keeping the boss attacks to himself.

SirMoogie.9263:

(e.g., a mesmer doesn’t survive a hit by mitigating damage completely, they take it and warp time backwards to when they had full health)

Maybe in raids that may be necessary but in the current content, not so much. I ran a few dungeons with my chrono this week and all the time F5 was used for offensive purposes – ie doubling TW & well(s).

As a chrono you have 2 pretty massive dmg mitigation skills Sword #2 and Shield #4. One does nice dmg and other summons aclarity bot – both are great.

NikeEU.7690:

Chrono does low DPS? What?

From what I’ve tested so far (granted, not as extensively as pre-hot mes studies) chrono personal dps is quite low. If you consider the party dps gained through aclarity/quickness as chrono dps then yes, dps will be insane.

ThyShadowPaladin.9521:

deSade.9437:

… may I advise you to at least play druid, so you buff your team’s damage while healing? condi, preferably… se-settlers? /shudder

I guess you and that blade guy posting here share something in common shudder. I did post that we decided to use oldschool builds and setups for this run without elite specs.

You posted a video in a subforum where pve elitist reign supreme. That video displayed very non-elitist and arguably terrible-as-kitten gameplay. Of course you’ll be met with appropriate responses. What else did you expect… /facepalm

Painbow.6059:

Sick heals mate

Except when rezzing. Rez heals is no party heals ™

afaik only explorable modes reward dungeons tokens.

Shield is nice for running through packs of mobs without taking any dmg, of which new maps have quite a few of.

Personally I just run a staff build with chrono line for that 25% speed boost. Works very well, especially vs hard hitting mobs, of which the new maps have quite a few as well.

Cat Has Ducks.1982:

have the remaining members make armorless/skill less/ dodge less run across the second arah p2 skip. What ever 2 makes it the fartherest will be the 2 who get to raid.

Totally not related

Many mob attacks were CD-less and weren’t affected by Power Block, so it was used only is a very niche encounters. The trait was quite useful against hard hitting bosses in dungeons where you’d coordinate defiance strips with interrupts. Now with defiance being a break-bar, Power Block got shafted down to the trash level even for those niche encounters – it’s useless.

Unless you’ll be fighting a boss without a break bar (ie Bjarl in CoE) then there is no real point in running the trait.

Facepalm…

XD

Just checking if someone tested this out already.

Will 100% boon duration + Improved Aclarity give us +150% aclarity or will it get capped at 100%?

Delta.1526:

, Rune of the Ranger adds some nice crit damage and 7% extra damage if you have at least one clone out.

Unless this was fixed recently, illusions don’t proc the 7% dmg bonus.

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

No one bothers with reflects on mesmer anymore now that Chronomancer is a thing.

That’s quite a bold statement. Why throw away a niche playstyle at which mesmer can actually be VERY good at?

Math I can do. What DPS value a class has to reach to become “viable”, and over what period of time.

Zeppelin.6832:

Any class that focuses on burns is completely viable as condi dmg. Any class that focuses on bleeds is not.

That’s… debatable.

“Chronomancer—Tides of Time: Fixed a bug that allowed this skill to destroy unblockable projectiles.”

I cried, a little. So much for hoping it would slip by like the old warden…

Gale: 66.7%
Updraft: 55.3%
IB5: 50%
LH3: 38.7%
Gust: 25%

Run whatever you feel does more dps because both sets are so close that in the end your “feel” would probably be the deciding factor anyways.

Assassins is “meta” because fully buffed it matches and slightly overtakes zerk dps. Juicy reflects are a nice bonus. Underbuffed zerk is preferred unless you value reflects above personal dps (~3% loss or so, been a while so can’t remember exact #’s)

I’ll see if I can add breakbar %’s to gw2dps later today. Ability to get the values is there, just need to cook up some code to display it on screen.

edit: done

Mikkel.8427:

Try it! Or dont! Its PvE, play however you want. Tickling things to death with staff is still an option.

I wouldn’t exactly call doing 7k – 10k dps, SOLO, less than 10s into the fight “tickling” by any means…

bugsquahs.

Telekinesis.8312:

fri, need help regarding staff clone attack speed

All that data is in my sig. For the lazy:

• 2.442 sec per hit
• 1.701 sec per hit with TW

BlaqueFyre.5678:

With the upcoming Raids and so on do you think the Meta/Optimum gear will stay Zerker/Assassin’s

That’s the catch, we don’t know what Raids are. I saw a remark from those who beta tested them that each encounter would have it’s own “meta”. I’m going to assume that simply means some encounters will have hard-counters to specific damage applications, ie having insanely high toughness or being immune to conditions.

If gear is such important investment for you, wait till Raids are actually out. It’s too soon decide on “meta” for raids and best we can currently do is speculate, and basing your investment on speculations as we know is risky business.

That’s lifetime completion, not daily. If you’re grinding for Dungeon Master title then I guess this will be useful, otherwise… :/

It’s 1.32 sec/hit or 0.66 sec/hit with the bounce. Or, 0.88 & 0.44 with TW respectively.

JoshuaRAWR.4653:

“How do we make it challenging?”
“Give it 5 billion hp.”

Dang son, thats 3,432 lupis

Min/maxed pre-HoT way was quite simple – staff AA in melee while keeping 3 staff clones out for that juicy dps. Post-HoT, well I’m still grinding out my Chrono specialization so couldn’t experiment with any of the chrono goodies, so can’t say for certain just yet. Using duelists for power/condi hybrid is looking promising but I personally haven’t played with them yet since duelists are limited to single target and were very hard to keep alive, though with new 95% dmg reduction tweak that shouldn’t be an issue anymore.

As far as how to play staff, it’s so simple it doesn’t even require explaining but if you are still not sure, I have a few vids showing how (pretty sure many of you already seen them plenty but oh well):
- vacuum: video
- arah ooze: video
- coe wolf: video

Quickfoot Katana.8642:

Lol frifox

That game has some serious graphics. But I heard there are no dungeons and devs are making it directed for casual play, is a korean casual MMO even a thing? Or is it the first haha

I did play on both KR and RU versions (not for long tho and not till the “max” level either) and while graphics are nice, the rendering engine is actually pretty bad. GW2 feels MUCH more polished.

I would consider BD a PvP game with casual PvE. There are dungeons and raids are being planned but they’re all open world and very different than GW2 implementation, so if you want something like GW2 then you’re out of luck, BD doesn’t have anything like it.

NA/EU version of BD is actually doing the Alpha test right now so we’ll start seeing reviews coming out very soon. I have my hopes up but from what I’ve seen happen to KR and RU versions, it doesn’t look good.

On a good side, imo BD pushed more game updates and new content releases in one year than GW2 in whole 3 years… so there’s still some hope