Guild Wars 2

Since my warrior has been nerfed, I wanted to test a new class that required more skill. How did you get better? By duels or roaming or SPvP? Any tips would help! Thanks!

Outstanding guide! You’re the reason I want to pick up my mesmer again. How many pu mesmers does it take to kill an old school shatter mesmer haha.

Couple things I’m still curious about.
1. How do you feel about using blur frenzy defensively instead of offensively at @ 12:35
2. How come you phase retreat stomp in that clip with just mesmers?
3. I know you want to maximize damage, and I saw Helseths build. Are air sigils better for damage or battle sigils?

Joe.4178:

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Joe.4178:

JHN.8749:

Wow this vid was beast just like your vid 3. Can’t wait to see your shatter guide w/ staff + sword pistol. Are you gonna change your gear when they nerf the cd by 10%? What about your 3 piece celestial + celestial staff, and what sigils will you use when you can double stack the cooldowns?

Thanks! I’ll have to see the changes to the celestial if its really significant or not. If so, I’ll prob have to go back to being full zerker to keep my damage up w/ prob double battle sigil/energy sigils to make up for the -10% cd lost. What you think about that?

I just hope they compensate for the waste of crafting celestial armor + 5 laurels for each celestial piece with the wvw infusions.

What about force sigil for 5% damage? Instead of sigil of battle for might stacks? Since sometimes I noticed you stay in staff when you get trained or stay in sword/pistol when you’re on the offense and able to free cast. That way it’d make up for the -10% crit damage lost.

Sound’s good but force will only apply to direct damage only, I’ll prob most like use the sigil of battle on double swap. Only because it applies to the condi’s & direct damage which will prob be higher damage overall. My build atm is just built for raw base damage/crit damage/high crit chance, so if I have 25 stacks of might on top of all that, then it’d make up for the -10% crit damage reduction nerf.

Ty for the reply, this makes sense I guess I’ll prob have to save up for battles for my noobie mesmer soon

Joe.4178:

JHN.8749:

Wow this vid was beast just like your vid 3. Can’t wait to see your shatter guide w/ staff + sword pistol. Are you gonna change your gear when they nerf the cd by 10%? What about your 3 piece celestial + celestial staff, and what sigils will you use when you can double stack the cooldowns?

Thanks! I’ll have to see the changes to the celestial if its really significant or not. If so, I’ll prob have to go back to being full zerker to keep my damage up w/ prob double battle sigil/energy sigils to make up for the -10% cd lost. What you think about that?

I just hope they compensate for the waste of crafting celestial armor + 5 laurels for each celestial piece with the wvw infusions.

What about force sigil for 5% damage? Instead of sigil of battle for might stacks? Since sometimes I noticed you stay in staff when you get trained or stay in sword/pistol when you’re on the offense and able to free cast. That way it’d make up for the -10% crit damage lost.

JHN.8749:

Joe.4178:

JHN.8749:

Wow this vid was beast just like your vid 3. Can’t wait to see your shatter guide w/ staff + sword pistol. Are you gonna change your gear when they nerf the cd by 10%? What about your 3 piece celestial + celestial staff, and what sigils will you use when you can double stack the cooldowns?

Thanks! I’ll have to see the changes to the celestial if its really significant or not. If so, I’ll prob have to go back to being full zerker to keep my damage up w/ prob double battle sigil/energy sigils to make up for the -10% cd lost. What you think about that?

I just hope they compensate for the waste of crafting celestial armor + 5 laurels for each celestial piece with the wvw infusions.

Yeah it sounds reasonable, sucks that you won’t be at 116% cd anymore and would have to make it up with the battle sigil. For the celestial, I doubt they’d compensate back 20 laurels (20 days worth of dailies)/matts/money/time that you invested in it. Well on that note, you’ll be able to go back to your roots in full zerk again but won’t have highest cd anymore

YESSS nerf joe pls, now I can duel him and win! Jk you’d guys wreck me in 5v5 group fights lol.

Nonetheless, amazing vids as always Joe. Loving those beautiful style stomps & phase retreats forward during the fights when you’re getting trained. I laughed when everyone in vent was telling you to go pu mesmer too haha.

awesomeee new vid, how you gonna deal with the new crit damage nerf? I see you got full ascended and infusions with celestial, what will happen to the celestial gear?

High level plays I thought was awesome and don’t think people saw:
02:46 – phase retreat blink stomp on guardian
03:44 – mass invis and jumped in water to juke since you were slow as a mesmer
04:38 – fadeaway shatter/turnaround burst then move on
05:25 – mass invis turned the other way
05:52 – phase retreat for chaos storm opposite direction/you always maintained chaos armor during the fights
05:58 – while running away you bursted that wa at the same time you were trained
07:02 – fadeaway/turnaround and hitting the group @ disadvantaged odds
08:53 – my favorite when you were super low hp and you turn around and shattered
10:20 – you were stuck but when they pulled you into the group, you blurred frenzy to avoid the aoe damage of their group then phase retreated out quickly
11:02 – blink blurred frenzy shatter instead of typical iLeap blur frenzy shatter combo
11:33 – you downstated but as soon as you got up you shattered everyone and didn’t heal
11:42 – interrupted the warriors heal, don’t see people interrupting intentionally often
12:14 – guardian rooted the ranger walked to him and shatter blur frenzy w/o iLeap and got a double kill with shatter
13:10 – guardian ringed in the warrior, ele updrafted him into your shatter followed by phase retreat stomp
13:37 – you iLeap blur frenzy shatter on engi, as soon as he went stealth from trait, you targeted the thief & cry of frustration to get aoe shatter on both of them while engi was in stealth

^ main reasons why you’re my fav shatter mesmer by far but @ 12:49 I still notice you wait till after you get launched you break stun when anet finally patched that you can break stun instantly haha.

List of mistakes:
00:18 – you tried to phase retreat blink stomp but forgot to press f
00:28 – healed with 1 clone
00:39 – walked into line of warden twice
00:50 – healed with 0 clones
01:13 – healed with 0 clones
01:36 – healed with 0 clones
02:01 – healed with 0 clones
02:26 – healed with 0 clones
04:10 – forgot staff was out but swapped to sword+pistol to run away
04:20 – healed with 0 clones
04:48 – healed with 0 clones
05:11 – healed with 0 clones
05:21 – could’ve summoned phantasm while running away for extra clone/damage
05:33 – could’ve summoned phantasm while running away from guardian
05:35 – healed with 2 clones
05:37 – walked into line of warden 3x
05:47 – could’ve summoned phantasm while running away
05:57 – healed with 2 clones
06:19 – healed with 1 clone didn’t summon phantasm while running away
06:47 – could’ve swapped to sword blur frenzy to evade damge but spammed heal w/ 0 clones out
07:16 – healed with 1 clone
07:44 – healed with 1 clone
08:09 – healed with 1 clone
08:31 – healed with 1 clone
08:54 – healed with 0 clones
09:22 – healed with 0 clones
09:44 – healed with 0 clones
10:14 – healed with 1 clone
11:10 – healed with 1 clone
12:22 – healed with 2 clones
12:50 – healed with 2 clones
13:56 – decoyed when chaos storm was out and broke stealth causing you to down

Despite all those mistakes, how fast you reacted to adapt and recover on it still amazes me and is a good reason why the skill level is on a different level. I’ll make a list of the high level plays that I thought were awesome that I don’t think many people see soon.

Just out of curiosity, how come you don’t play the current cheese meta pu condi mes or pu phant mes? From what I’ve been noticing, those builds is more popular than the shatter build you’re playing, and everyone is posting 1v1s vs your outnumbered series and for some reason they’re more popular. And the other shatter builds I’ve seen so far hasn’t been top notch like yours in outnumbered/team fights.

More vids of you and bamf joe pls, your duo is too strong for zerg slaying in wvw!

Solid group but I only saw 2 spca 2 tm 1 holy lol. What team comp would you prefer for all that zerg bursting you guys do?

Nice how you showed that you guys lost couple times at first then got it together and won in the end against that group. You guys have a lot of dps for a glass thief and shatter mesmer with 1 support, do you or the mesmer randomly die from splash damage?

I want to start a mesmer because of you. But I still have lots of questions to ask.

How come you use evon gnashblade/dress so bright/and jump around so much doesn’t it make you an easier target to pick apart from the clones?

Despite all that, you have swap bug + illusionary leap on top of all that stuff you do that would make it easier for people to fight you, doesn’t it bother you in any way?

Aside that I learned a lot from your solid stat distribution on your gear its awesome, and the phase retreat stomps + style points.

Overall was awesome watching/learning your playstyle, keep up the mesmer series & I’d like to see more engineer series too.

Very nice gameplay with the turnaround earthshaker

nice video keep it up!

Good job on video mugi! Everyone is gonna be copying off of the banish stomps now though :\

Wow awesome vid joe good job on the high level plays! Keep the vids coming please

Good job on the video, looking forward to your next upcoming vids with great plays.

Nice rotations! More support than the medicat build and you tank/last longer

nice mesmer video, that burst is insane

Hope you make more vids soon, eager to seeing the group play zerg slaying.

Very nice video and plays with all your tips, I enjoyed them!