Guild Wars 2

reminded me of listening to ’It’s Friday’ for the first time

anything open EU? a PM ingame would be muuuuuuuuuch appreciated :p

there should be a guardian and mesmer in pretty much every dungeon group apart from cof p1, missing a guardian is more noticable than missing a mesmer

for pvp/wvw really depends on what you want to do… huge difference between the classes…

When you trait your Glamour spells to apply blind, do combo finishers using the field also apply blind?

same, do not even want to log in anymore as I am now a burden to people I play with.

Every other program I use via the internet works fine, get your act together Anet

Logged in today, eager to spend my day off grinding toward my legendary. Tried healing myself to gain swiftness (rune from armor); after waiting 6+ seconds for anything to happen, I went to another zone to try it, but the same thing happened.

I found something else to do while waiting for the lag to calm down as this has been happening over the past few days – ran around a bit in the game with small intervals to test it out. 8 hours later I’m still lagging, and I really don’t feel like playing gw2 anymore. Today was WvW event day for the guild too, and I just feel like Anet is trying to make me quit.

hi, there’s a list of guides stickied at the top of the forum

or just let everyone have swiftness when out of combat, for free

What’s the ‘breaking point’ for condition dmg to make your confusion tick for serious dmg?

How much do you need to make it more than just a nice side-effect?

I just plugged the gear/build I was thinking about into the website; question is really if it’s too “all over the place”

http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/mesmer/?4.0|c.1h.0.c.1h.0|6.1b.0|1b.71a.1h.71a.1h.71a.1h.71a.1h.71a.1h.71a|211.0.211.0.311.0.211.0.311.0.2w.0|0.k4a.k4a.0.u56b|39.d|33.34.3d.3b.0|e

nah, there’s no combo like that, I wish

unfortunately you lose out on condition dmg if you go knight, which I think would kinda defeat the purpose, and also don’t want to give up too much critdmg which is why I was thinking of the celestial rolls

maybe i’m just beating a dead horse and it’s impossible to get the best of both worlds, but i’m buying the gear now to test it out

worst case scenario i wasted 50g and some pristine tokens :p

Cataca.3867:

The main point with confusion hitting hard is making it last long. 33% confusion duration and rare veggie pizza are absolute musts imho.

If you take the above build, with the stats there you will get around 250-300 more condition damage than a pure shatter build. This equals to ~45 more damage per stack of confusion on the enemy. Which in and of itself isnt bad, with usually 4 stacks thats around 180 more damage per skill activation. However, if you make it last long enough for say, two or even three skill activations instead of one, thats potentially double or triple damage.

Above build has around the same toughness as a heavy shatter build (well, a bit less) 80% of the power and 50% less crit damage. Normalized with crit chance and whatnot, that equals to around 30% less oomph on normal hits, while his confusion deals 20% more damage and his bleeds deal 25% more damage. (not to bash the build, but to use it as an example). If your shatters usually hit for around 6-7k to make up for the loss of damage with going that route, the aditional condition damage has to hit for some 2,1k damage to make up for the loss. That might be possible with veggie pizza if you get another aditional confusion off and certainly is possible if you pick the 33% longer confusion trait as well (plus the condition damage from that traitline). This doesnt figure in eventual bleeds from crits of phantasms and clones, but the damage is pretty marginal in real combat situations in wvwv imho.

As for a clear cut answer, i dont think there is any. At least for wvwvw. Condition damage in PvE is utter trash. Also, keep in mind that condition duration does not apply to bleeds from clones.

Thanks for the reply, now I’m going to do some math on exactly how many stats it is. Not sure if I should include weapons as to be honest not sure what is best (thinking Rabid staff, and would need +power on the sword)

Current gear: Knight chest, remaining armor zerker. Cavalier rings/amu/back, 1 zerk ring and 1 valk ring.

Total stat bonus from current gear (will calculate with full ascended as I’ll have that after reset today):

660 power, 289 precision, 481 toughness, 60 vit, 55% crit

Theory gear: Carrion armor, Celestial jewelry (ignoring +healing and MF), Rabid backpiece

Total stat bonus: 440 power, 251 precision, 251 toughness, 587 cond, 440 vit, 29% crit

Difference: -220 power, -38 precision, -230 toughness, -26% crit, +380 vit, , +587 cond

To me (very rough math here) that looks like I’d be losing around 200 dmg per shatter on crits to gain around 90-100 confusion dmg per stack per tick, meaning it would even out after 8 single stack confusion ticks, and increase further in favor of condition dmg if you get more.

Am I way off here?

I’m currently running zerk gear with a few pieces of cavalier for wvw, but feel like I’m giving up a lot by not having any condition dmg for confusion.

I was thinking of getting the celestial roll trinkets with a mix of po/v/co + pr/t/co gear and making a ‘mixed’ power+condition build (sword+x and staff), but feel like either:
a) the loss of 30% critdmg (didn’t actually count exact %) would easily be offset by the condition dmg
or
b) i would be gimping myself in both aspects

I would be running a 0/20/20/0/30 shatter build

Has anyone tried this, and/or are there any guides anywhere? In theory I feel like I would be able to get almost full use out of a confusion build while not actually giving up much burst dmg by doing this.

That completely depends on if the +stats to healing power and condition dmg are more useful to you than the extra stats you would gain from one with more focused stats

thank god, i was about to quit

arenanet trolling bigtime

I’m lvl 19 fractals, and I want to get the lvl 20 daily chest today.

If I do lvl 19 first and then 20, I know I’ll get it, but seems impossible to get a group for 19.

If I do lvl 20 to get to 20, will I have used my daily reward already, or can I do lvl 20 once more and still get the lvl 20 daily chest?

Thanks.

Taril.8619:

pahldus.1678:

mattenator.4328:

This is mine, still a WIP

I’m not sure about the boots/gloves/shoulders, which is why I came in here for inspiration

Also: Please ignore the staff! Haha

Please do tell what pieces those are and what your color scheme is. I really like it, I might try a variation of it on my elementalist as my mesmer is a male.

Looks to be:
Head – One of the Necromancer starting options (I forget the name of it)
Shoulder – Human Tier 2 Cultural
Chest – CoE
Legs – HtW

Not sure what the Gloves/Boots/Exact dye selections are…

Yep.

The gloves are from the Winged set, boots from cultural T3.

Dyes used in the picture are a combination of sapphire, burnished steel, tarnished steel and blue ice.

Currently using the T3 gloves as well, as it was more ‘battle gear’, and I melee a lot with my mesmer :p. Got lucky with a 5 laurel dye pack and got Abyss, so dyes are also changed now

I really like the svanir pants with T3 boots, as they have something that looks like shinguards behind the boots, which gives a different feel to the armor.

Grimms.9016:

Cyyrix,

Yeah when I use a focus I can switch runes, so I use earth runes. The added protection proc, plus protection duration means a whole lot of 33% damage reduction.

Mattenator,

I’m currently using the ascended Triforge, but I will switch it out for the collar, power/tough/+Crit damage.

so you must be above 2k toughness, dayum

This is mine, still a WIP

I’m not sure about the boots/gloves/shoulders, which is why I came in here for inspiration :D

Also: Please ignore the staff! Haha

have you decided which ascended amulet you’re going for? the ascended jewelry with +all stats seems to be the most enticing

Dastion.3106:

Plus OH Sword synergizes with MH sword for the CDR trait.

I’m pretty sure it doesn’t – at least the cooldown on tooltips dont change for offhand sword when you get the trait (they do for mainhand)

Playasaurus, as in Playasaurus Rex