Mesmer is really usefull in fast run of fractals. His best capacity are reflect and Portals.
You can totally continue with mesmer, but it’s true some people don’t know a lot and only want ele war and guard, you should avoid those guys.
If you want to be accepted in any group it’s easier with ele, (if you have ascended gear you can easily swap)
But as I said, the best would be to find good people that know the value of a good mesmer and do fractals with them.
It’s not about “adapting”! As a mesmer, I could change builds all I want, the core issue will still remain. The only thing I bring to a group, that others don’t do better, is reflects. No matter what I would do I will be subpar if I can’t reflect. There’s no other option for a mesmer. I wish there was, but there isn’t.
With chronomancer you’ll be able to give the new buff that’ll decrease everyone cooldown,
And now you can take the place of the thief with invisibility and portals for skip. And enough CC to be ale (with team work) to perma freeeze boss. You can also stack vulnerability if your group lack of vulnerability and you got blind for mobs fight.
Auto invis and portal, make you better than thief for skipping (since there is less chance that people don’t follow fast enough)
CC are a little bet harder than thief CC but bring so much more damage to the fight.
And blind are also harder to put than thief blind.
In fact you are better than the thief in most of his utility, it’s just a little harder to master it.
There is tons of things you can do more than reflect.
What he is saying is not that you have to play the game a certain way. He is just saying that each game mode should have his reward. So the high PvP player can show off his pvp skins and high fractal player can show his fractal skins. PvE could get something too.
And we should not be able to get everything everywhere.
Actually the most wanted stat in dungeon is berzerker.
In WvW in depend. But it’s not that hard to change stat when you’ll have your ascended gears at the end if the meta changed.
Everyclass as stability, if you choose not to use stab power, or trait for stability, ennemy should be able to CC you. And that’s only if you play solo.
If you play in team you can go all out with no stab and no condi removal and have a nice bunker guard who do that for you.
If taunt had an animation or indication, that would’ve been great. Am I the only one that plays on large screen and finds it hard to check the target every few seconds AND the movements of the enemy player???
It depends actually the biggest tunt come from ranger pet.
And it’s truein team fight it’s hard to see when he’s gonna use the skill.
But in 1V1 when the ranger is alone, you can easily see when he is using his f2. If you don’t go watch the animation of the ranger most used pet, and learn them. If you do, you’ll be able to predict taunt, and use stab or something before getting taunt.
send a mail to 3 and tell them to send it to 3 more, it’ll spread ^^
But no, thereis no good way, and you’ll be blocked for 5 minutes after sending 2-3 mails in the same time.
Cause it’s too easy to dodge through everything and have no stunt break.
That way if you see the enemy use taunt, you’ll be carefull on how you use your stunt break.
It’s true that low level fractals are “hard”. Cause only unexperienced player want to do them, and since fractals is about knowing the mecanics of each one of them it’s hard to chain 4 differents one with any group.
With this change you’ll be able to learn each fractal independently, play the one you prefer and leave the other. And still be able to have good time whatever is your level.
They could have change other stuff to make fractals harder, not just make the boss into huge HP bag that one shot you.
We’ll see how it goes.
What would be good is some ennemy are like husk and other are just tanky, so we have to get more variety, Some zerker dps, some condi dps, and maybe one tank that can get all the hit.
You know wich map you’ll get. In fact from now on each level is a map and an instability and that doesn’t change, if I undestood well.
Soifyou go level 92, it’ll always be swamp for exemple. And 93 could be Mai Trin.
So you know depending on the level what you are gonna fight.
I think the ones to hit level 100 first are just the one going to do 50 fractals in a row at the launch of the expansion. So it may be hard at some point but not sure they are gonna be the best players. Exept if the level get really hard going close to level 100.
The hardest IMO will be the underwater fractal if we are forced to do it, since we hardly do it, and are not full stuff (until we get this ascended undewater head piece)
Personnally Ithink it’s best to play a class you know well, with a build you mastered. Than trying to play the Meta and having the build but not the skill.
You won’t compete with good player playing meta but you’ll go fine with bad player playing meta.
Use a different class for those levels then, and don’t drag your team down. (Heck, you still have timewarp)
Everyone know’s different levels/situations require different tactics/setups/approaches, etc. So why bring a knife to a gun fight? When you can bring an .50 cal.
Adapt and overcome.
I spent hundreds of gold to gear my mesmer, my main, in full ascended armor, weapons and accessories. I don’t have another character with 70 AR. I can’t just “Adapt and overcome” by changing classes. I shouldn’t be forced to in the first place.
But, it’s only like one fractal level. Which you can most likely skip by playing a higher level that doesn’t have the instability.
Plus you’re talking one build here. The mesmer is not just reflects.
It’s not “only like one fractal”, it’s one instability. It can appear on many different levels. On its own, and with other instabilities.
Plus, mesmer is just reflects. As I said, other than blink and portal, everything else other classes can do better. dps, healing, might, stability and protection come to mind. You name it, other classes can do better. Heck, even reflects can be achieved more easily and more reliably by a guardian. I can’t count how many times floor elevation screwed Temporal Curtain or how many times Phantasmal Warden spawned on the opposite side of the enemy. But it is the best I have, well, until HoT.
If you are full ascended you can easily swap all your gear to an ele. When you need only dps and no reflect. So it’s easy to adapt.
And with chronomancer coming with HoT you’ll have lot of thing to do instead of reflect,
If you have lot of materials you can do it, but the price of those mistic forge weapons are up to 200+ gold cause they cost lot of materials.
Actually what are your gear and experience in dungeon? cause it’s possible to make that much gold in 2 weeks But you’ll need to run some dungeon.
And so the only think you need to do is find the skin you want, the price or recipe, and after we’ll see how you can get it for the lower time and effort possible.
So making a level 10 character and getting his story done get you a black lion chest key.
It take around an hour or less if you craft a little or use tome of knowledge for 1 key.
Those key can open black lion chest.
And in black lion chest you got chance to drop some scrap or complete black lion ticket. (1 black lion ticket = 10 scrap)
And with enough black lion ticket you can get skins at the seller in lion arch, those skin are usually really cool. And cost from 1 to 7 black lion ticket.
So it can take some time and RNG, but if you see a skin he would like for 1-3 ticket it’s possible to get it in 2weeks.
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drop rate are around 1 scrap each 2 box, so it would take 20-60 hour ^^, less if you get lucky. 3 times less if you use items or crafting to level up you character faster.
Actually even if they don’t remove the limit, I have 2 Maudrey and both got the same limit, when first is full second is too, so It’s useless to have the second one.
I agree with you, a choice would have been great.
Actually the first time I done it I didn’t watch the mini map and was just reading everybook I found looking for one about centaurs. Then the star show up, and I understoud that it was useless to try to do it by reading and just looking at the mini map was giving every answer.
A choice could be great.
When i look at the topic of the PvP forum, I see lot of different posts saying some class are OP, and other saying it isn’t. rankink that are completly different from one person to another.
So Icame to the conclusion that the game can be really different if you are playing at different level, or server (NA/EU)
So I would like to know how we could know our level? And for that I need to know the level of the player I play against.
So is there difference in the match up if I play ranked/unranked? If I’m level 80 in PvP or less? If I play in a team of 5, 3, solo? Or is it completly random and one day I’ll fight strong player and the other I’ll meet a team with only new players.
If we had away to know our levels, and to be able to say on forum, I thing X is OP, I’m playing at that level, you playing at the same level what do you think? It would be easier to understand the forum posts and situation of other players.
It could be a good idea.
But I don’t think Scarlet could be a legend, in fact it’s only a minion of mordremoth. I’m not sure she can even go to the mist.
What happens to sylvari when they die since they are dragon minions.
I am usually playing type of professions that are about magic, cc, support and who fight at range. Also healers in games which features those.
However I am open to something else as well.
I like professions that take effort to get the maximum out of them.
At least as long as its rewarding, as in, as long as your profession is not shunned upon.
In some games, certain professions or talents from those, are not wanted and groups prefer to play without those professions in the team, even if the player is good.
That I do not want. Any professions like those around atm?
the elementalist fit perfectly with what you want.
Actually one build shine in PvP, but require some experienced to be mastered.
And most dungeon run ask for 1 to 3 ele.
They got lot of power compared to other classes (20 skills, 5 * 4 attunement)
So it can use all sort of spell, CC, support, heal, damage.
You’ll need some time to master it, as when and how to use your skill to be the more effective, to what attunement you should switch. And to master combos, that is a mecanic of the game.
Ranger arn’t really strong actually, in fact they can snipe you and do tons of damage if you stand there and wait for them to kill you. But with ele it’s not hard to conter them. You got projectiles reflect and some block depending of the weapon you choose.
You also have great mobility to easily close the gap between you and the ranger, and when you are near him you’ll be the one hunting him.
Actually, I don’t think ascended is mendatory, except for high level fractal.
An exotic stuff will do the work. You’ll be at disadvantage in 1v1 if you fight a full ascended foe but in WvW you don’t go alone too much.
And as I say, each WvW level you get, you’ll win 4 items. And sometimes you get ascended stuff. So if you play only WvW you can still get ascended item just by doing what you like.
bad side: it’s RNG, but it’s not as low as precursor ^^
If you like dungeons, do some fractals, if you like WvWdo WvW, if you like PvP, do some PvP.
And one day you’ll drop some. Then you have an easy recipe to change the gear to the stat you want.
And in PVE, there is a collection that give 1ascended gear
You can also get them with luck during guild mission.
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What i want to say is that there is lot of way to get them, it’s just harder than getting exotic, and that’s normal since it’s higher tier.
I like them, but it’s maybe becuse i learned to know them during LW s1.
It’s sad that new player just get to s2 and 5 character randomly appears in your team.
The recap of season 1 don’t help enough to getclose with these caracters. We’ll really need the return of season 1 to have a good continuity in the story.
And about what you want, you’ll be disappointed cause for what we saw with beta the story is still with them.
I think theonly possible way to getit back is to have is account back in time, it’s something the dev can do when you get hacked and someone steal all your items.
You need to send a ticket to devs, but I don’t know if they will do it for this reason.
How many gold do you have?
It’s not the best way to do it, but actually when i need lot of gold to buy precursor and make legendary) I make another one ^^
Actually with 600 gold I can buy dreamer precursor and if I have the mats, make the dreamer, then I sell it and get 2k+ golds that i use to get any legendary I want.
You need some mats and 2 gift of mastery (meaning 2 gift of exploration)
As I said it may not be the best way to make money, but it’s usefull when you need lot of gold.
Playing on the trading post, buying, crafting, selling is the best way to make money, but you need lot of money to start if you want to win a lot.
Else doing dungeon rush can get you 30 gold a day by playing around 4 hours a day. You can get more or less depending on your group.
Usually the people with most points are the one withthe most kills, so mostly the ones with mobility that goes from one team fight to another.
And the people with the less points (exept the one doing nothing) is the one keeping close. Since he cap it only once if he is good, and never cap it again, and kill only a few ennemy cause he need to be able to get backto close as soon as someone try to take it.
But you won’t know if they are good or not just by looking at those numbers.
Cause you can have one guy on a killing spree but not keeping any points, making lot of points for himself and letting the other team win with cap. And you can have bunkers that hold cap against lot of opponent but not winning any points.
We have Mawdrey, Princess, and the Star of Gratitude.
We toss those 3 along with a stack of say, T6 mats, into the forge and gain a karka/mordrem hybrid of doom that eats bloodstone dust, dragonite ore, and empryeal fragements.
After X amount of mats have been consumed by this creature, it transforms into the next incarnation of an elder dragon!!!!
This is how the Elder Dragons came to be!!
They started as small innocent creatures, but grew and changed after consuming so much bloodstone, dragonite, and stars….
BEWARE!!!!! BEWARE!!!!!!
IT would be great to be able to mixed them and have an item that consume every useless mat in the game ^^
The only 2 things i can see are:
1) Stealth
2) A melee weapon with cleaves attack
3) Boon stripping
But in my opinion ele is the class that can do the most stuff and don’t really need more. If ele can do everything what the point in picking other classes.
Mastery if they are well made shouldn’t be maxed out.
It’s a way to have always new stuff to discovered, new powerto unlock, so if we mnage to max out all mastery it would be boring.
Isn’t that just already an activity called Southsun Survival.
There is power up, you can camp in stealth or in corner, you get point only by going in and killing people ^^
Remember that specialization are not here to be better than the main class. It’s not an evolution, it’s another way to play your class. If the specialisation is completely OP and fix all the bad points of the main class, noone would play ele anymore and everyone would play tempest.
Here they offer us the opportunity to choose 2 playstyles.
elementalist who can swap between lot of attunement and use lot of different habilities.
tempest who can be a good melee support by staying in the same attunement and getting buff for his team with overcharge.
Two different playstyle, some will play the first, and somme will prefer the second one.
my ascended dagger gets put in my sell/salvage bag area every time (even though I’m switching to invis bag, etc) I switch to staff. For whatever reason. Its beyond annoying. That isn’t what I’d call ‘weapon swapping. ’ And if all classes had to do this to switch, PREEEEEEETTTYYY sure you’d be up in arms about it too. It gets 10x worse if I switch multiple times/offhands/etc. I am so super paranoid one of these days I will accidentally sell one of my ascended weapons then log off/change zones before I can buy back.
Actually all class have to do that,
in fractal with my guard for exemple i’m always switching between scepter, focus, shield, mass, and hammer, (mostly keeping longsword)
So i also got 4 items in my inventory, and i also need swaping.
Every class got this problem not only ele.
So as it is said by lot of people in the thread, we don’t need a weapon swap for engi and ele.
We need a way to change build easily for every class.
100% doesn’t mean immunity, or it would say immune to those condition.
that mean if you have a power to have longer frost or longer cripple, they will get through this trait. That’s how iunderstand this power.
But you’ll need to run some dungeon.