Guild Wars 2

has reported in a ticket i’ve got all the achievement from the HoM panel removed, even if 8 of them were legitimately achieved. I never had the 2 extras added to my account so i can’t understand why i received the email telling my they must be removed in the first place.

i tested ring of fire build by , torch version, in pve enviroment as requested.
General impression: the build offers a optimal survivability thanks to the high toughness in equipment and to the distorsion granted by the sigils. In my opinion the build is expecially good for players who are not so confindent running around as pure glass cannon berserk mesmer. I like the distortion on sigil activation but at the same time the sigils are the problem of the build. Sigil of Midnight is great, has a reasonable cd, break stun, blind and gives you distortion. Sigil of Illusion has a too long cd for this build and offer nothing useful. Sigil of Domination has a passive effect useful in this build, most of the time you want use it for the distortion becouse it will stun you target anyway, work well with the perplexity runes in the armor. Signet of Ispiration has the problem of long casting time if you try to use it for the distortion, plus it has a pretty long cd even traited. The thing is the sigils in mesmer are not so strong they don’t bring enough on the table and this is detrimental for this build.
pve open world roaming: if you want a build to run around the open world, to farm nodes, to complete maps, and maybe kill a few champs this one will work well for you. It’s hard for you to die with all the armor, the distortion, the blinds, the useful tools staff, torch and scepter offer you. Don’t try to kill the enemy one by one, or it will become boring but if you aggro 4-5 mobs you will kill them pretty fast like phantasm builds but whitout any problem to survive.
pve group events: no problem at all with big champions for the dragon chests , may be difficult to tag mobs in multimob farming events like the ones in orr. You’ll have to use the conflagration by the torch. It’s much easier using GS.
dungeons: this is where the build starts to have problems. Conditions in dungeons are not optimals becouse your conditions are in competition with those from others player. You will have a hard time trying to apply torment on bosses, and many of them don’t even move. In addition you are not bringing any of the utilities every mesmer should do.
TL;DR in short this build is very good in open world pve, expecially if you are looking for an easy time (you won’t die and the damage is good), but i will not reccomend it in dungeon where others build outshine this one.

i apology for all the time it took me to write this report.

I really appreciate the effort but i’m sorry to say i really dislike the results.
I liked the armor i bought but it’s ugly now in comparison in my eyes.
Please revert the changes or make them optionals, and in the future remember to add options, not to change what people already have taking away what they liked.
I’m sure you are working to gives us something we like but this time i think you missed the target.
I hurts me to whatch my main now, i will miss my t3 medium armor but i’m not wearing it anymore.

I will test the Ringbearer – Variant 1: by Phloww in the next few days.
Do you want it tested in pve enviroment right?

I’ve run something similar in dungeon and i found it easiest then in a wvw enviroment.
I’ve been using sword/x in both weapon set and so i was near the rest of the team in melee with the boss and the small radius of the mantras effect was not a problem.
I know best build in dungeon are phantasm with pure zerker, and with a build like this you loose dps but if you don’t have the ‘perfect’ party setup this build can help a lot.
I felt almost like a guardian giving all that stability to the party and removing more condition then a real guardian can.

The build was 30/20/0/20 sword/sword sword/pistol with mantra healing if i didn’t need reflect, sword/sword sword/focus with traited focus for reflect.
Runes and food for buff duration, armor and trinket berserk.

1) better mob AI, to introduce the need of build diversity and not only best-dps builds
2) RNG and grind
3) alt friendlyness

really great work man.

Mods pls sticky this

thank you for sharing this build, i’m testing it with a slightly different equip, i’m having fun so far with it roaming in wvw.

I’d like to join too

IGN: Maei Era Assillante
Server: Fissure of Woe
Playstyle: pve 70%, pvp 15%, www 15%
Role: Tester, maybe instructor in the future
Playtime: afternoon and evening GTM +2

With 2000 hours on mesmer i’d really like to partecipate in this project

I completely agree with the OP.

May be someone from ANET should explain us how this patch will improve build diversity…

Herr der Friedhoefe.2490:

As for the players on Vabbi and FoW, they’ve had plenty of chances to move to ANY OTHER SERVER.

It is becouse of people who though like this that Vabbi and FoW are like they are now, and if all people listen to your advice you will have a worst week on T9 (if it is possibile).

English is not my first language so please forgive my errors.

I play on FoW. We and Vabbi have been loosing every week for months and months. Most people don’t care to play WvW anymore becouse there is no point of playing it on our server. My guild i.e. used to play casually in wvw, 2 or 3 evening in a week, in the last to months we went on a borderland only once.
Now we have to face even stronger opponents.
I’m sorry for the servers coming down in T9, you will have a boring week.
Something has to be done for EU T9 and i’m thinking about what should be for a long time but i cannot provide a suggestion