Guild Wars 2

Alice.8694:

The guy they fired, whose list of contributions to the game all seemed to kinda suck?

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Nooooo! No disrespecting hrouda on the dungeon forums! This is a sin beyond belief!

K, ill just go reroll cause my mesmer does too much damage and its an exploit now.

Darthaemos.6370:

I don’t want it to fractal levels to be account wide, because then ANET will make the dailies account wide also, just like they did with dungeon tokens.

Right now, I have two characters at higher than 48, so I get to do two 48s and two 38s everyday. And yes, I do this on a lot of days, not because I need anything from fractals, but because I like it.

nice, finally someone who actually enjoys it and doesnt moan about rewards

Dastion.3106:

I’m enjoying the Chronomancer Rune. It’s very helpful for getting off a Continuum Split Well bomb. Just activate CS while in mid-cast for a slower Well (i.e. not Eternity, Action works).

Note that the Rune appears to have a 2-3s ICD, so if you’re spamming 4-5 Wells during a CS you’ll only actually trigger it 2-3 times.

That’s pretty dissappointing and really decreases the functionality. I’d be up for using the rune though you’ll have to compensate for the ferocity loss through a change of nourishment from precision to power. If you can’t keep up scholar it’d be a good alternative.
I personally run time warp in most cases so as long as I use that first, any CS well bomb goes fine without the runes. I think the runes are nice, and could be used with illusionary inspiration for a good support effect too, which could be great in long fights. The ICD kills it though, and they’ll stay below scholar on raw damage if you can handle yourself well.

Spawning wolves on one side of the arena has been changed a little bit at mossman. Looks like all wolves now have their default spawn point at mossman’s initial location, and therefore confirm stacking is intended by Anet.

Because science

;_; today I was blamed for soloing her because Anet must’ve watched it and buffed the boss.

on a good note: Anet watches my videos? wat?

Hey there my dear elitists, Sanderinoa here with another solo,

This time I did another solo on my thief, somebody requested another mai trin kill, so I felt like getting this done in our lovely free easter weekend.

I wasn’t able to do this on lvl 50 because I simply do not have the required agony resistance.

That aside I am not at all a great thief, as you all know I main mesmer, so try to keep thief related questions to a minimum xD

This was, however, a very enjoyable solo, and I hope its fun to watch as well.

Link: http://youtu.be/5vvlskuZv00

All of the extra info should be in the description, if not, feel free to ask me in the comments. This will likely also be my last video for a while, as my studies need my full attention in the upcoming months.

Also, pracitacaly 1000 subscribers! thank you all.

Have a great day and enjoy the video if you’re interested

Finally the forum isnt bugging anymore, here it is, my lvl 48 mossman solo on mesmer, it says ‘sort of’ because frankly I did not get that many direct hits off, because of all his stealth and quick attacks. If you dont like the music, well that’s just a shame, I apologise.

Lies, thats not your name, your normal one just gets censored

Wooooow this is getting super depressing xD I personally still play my mesmer thoroughly and enjoy it for the exact reason I always have. While the mesmer may have its problems at the moment, I have a good time trying to put in extra effort, finding out new tricks to work around our own inabilities. Mesmer is fun for me because it allows me to put some thought in my play.

I have faith in that the mesmer may become viable at some point again, but am very worried about the amount of good mesmers who will be left by then after seeing the enormous pile of depression these forums have come to be.

Tree.3916:

You can get 4 mantras and feedback with one lesser known trick. Making sure you cap vuln is probably the most important thing. If you have warriors make sure they Eviscerate during the feedback, if you have eles make sure they icebow #4 during it.

Exploit alert! sirens

Enaretos.8079:

Please do not bring ladderboards to PvE, I don’t have a gf atm, but a future one might leave me cuz of the ladderboards :’(

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/gf-left-me-coz-of-ladderboard

Right?

I shot a man but my friends said it was ok, and the government hasnt given me an official statement yet, its probably legal.

no, this is not ‘legal’ or well, not intended, the jade maw is immune to normal attacks, and Arenanet just forgot to take combo fields in consideration. There has, however not been an official statement as the dungeon forums are rarely visited by devs, and this exploit doesn’t get mentioned very regularly. Apologies if I come over more offensively than is professional.

Seeing you facetank alphard really made me realise how overpowered PVT is, wow this needs a nerf

Dub.1273:

PS: Sandy = Mes? How strong have your reflects been?

They were all around 32.7k, not as high as they can be, as you know.

http://youtube.com/user/sanderinoa

nuff said

Jeremlloyd.6837:

Iris Ng.9845:

Iris of Statics and Delvert, feat. Jerem The Light
Arah, path 3
While Jerem was dancing passionately with Madam Lupicus Giganticus, Delvert decided that it is time to do a a bit of spring cleaning in the audience row. Joining him was the little miss Iris, as both enjoyed the approaching finale of Madam Lupicus’ Swan Lake under the clear spring sky of Arah.

I indeed like to dance with Lupicus Especially with classes I’ve yet to do a solo with.
http://youtu.be/WUAolcZt1x0

Jerem showing off so much, posting his solo left and right

While I see your point, I find this to be utterly ironic and kind of embarrassing.

Bombs weren’t exactly hard to begin with, just be glad clown cart is nerfed and ask for challenging content in some other topic.

lvl 13, frankly I couldnt beat the dps test thing on levels higher than this for the mob started moving too quickly, anyways, Im happy with it.

I didn’t make use of strafing, racial skills or timewarp, I found that it wouldve destroyed part of the challange, as it was already easier because of my class.

its effective, you admit that, and removing this is going to be an enormous project which will not be given attention because of just that. This makes it a ‘problem’ to do with people’s mentalities, which you are not going to change by posting here Im afraid, there seem to be plenty people who agree with you already, considering the amount of posts like this which we get.
The dungeon forums are not even looked at by those you are trying to reach, it would be a better use of your time to create your fun yourself, instead of wait for others to help you with it.

Dub.1273:

Sanderinoa.8065:

Iris Ng.9845:

Great. No me. I hate you.

sulk in a corner

XD sorry you’re too new

As rT former that doesn’t go for me. :c

Lorek’s challenge is way too easy, if you think about it. He could possibly consider haviz a friend.

I wanted to put you in, dub but I cant go giving people lagg as a reward. I think we can agree that it would have been the only suitable thing.

As for the challenges, I would, again, like to clarify that these are for anybody who is interested. It wouldn’t make sense if I would give people their own stuff.

As for the haviz challenge, I need pics xD and I know people who are friends with haviz already. Any creature of darkness will do. Pics can be chat conversations with haviz or just ingame footage of whatever you think fits.

I’ve updated my dulfy guide on my own thoughts on the chrono in pve.
What it basically comes down to is that for long fights you’ve made a great choice. Because of the difficulty in traitchoice with dueling(plus melee dependency of fencers finesse), domination comes out slightly better than dueling, but if you like your vigor, you should stay with dueling.

Illusions is great for the shatter reduction and phantasmal haste/compounding power both got buffed with the reduced damage change and chronophantasma.
Especially short fights can use dueling+domination as you can spam alacrity ooc through shatters to decrease CS cooldown, and phantasmal haste loses functionality in fights without a decent duration.

Inspiration can be slotted later on if you really need a lot of reflection, but I’d suggest attempting to master a quadrouple feedback first with mimic&CS. Inspiration can replace domination/dueling if you want enormous reflect uptime with phantasmal haste, but you can replace illusions instead if you want to exchange some for damage.

Mesmers have switched traits frequently since forever, the static chrono line simply makes things a bit easier.

EDIT: for clarification if you’re not aware, I’m referring to the class guide on dulfy which presumes a dungeon/fractal/(raid) scenario, implying a standard level of support coming from partymemembers.

Back in 2012 I saw the fractal weapons and thought wow! that’s a fancy sword, I’ll try to get it. After that I went on endless fractal runs, reached lvl 80 twice in the meantime, once when maw was still available, giving about 90% chance of a fractal weapon each attempt. After 80 got cut off I kept going to reach 50, and continue daily runs.
Right now I have every skin apart from the sword, and I must’ve gotten at least 15 spearguns ;____; all is vain. Dont get your hopes up.

Takuuu, dont be mean, a lot of work went into this! Looks good Mirta, I love the mini hippo xD Im sure people who prefer written guides will appreciate this a lot

Got wrecked so bad! ;__;

Well swampland is the fastest fractal in the game as long as you have an idea what to do with the wisps and preferably have bloomhunger. The wisp event only takes about 30 sec to complete, and bloomhunger is just a punching bag if you have some reflects.
Mossman can be a pain in some groups, this is true, but in a relatively experienced team he’s still much faster to take down than doing an entire other fractal.

I suggest looking up some videos or written guides on how to do the wisp event consistently and you’ll find yourself liking the fractal more.

Enaretos.8079:

As I had announced, here comes the “fleuron” of French Fashion !

http://samajestay.imgur.com

Look for the GW2 Fashion folder.

And it’s now time to play a game, who can find the NPC that is hiding in one of the pictures ?

you must have trained with weth on your fashion sense :O

Fay.2357:

Sanderinoa.8065:

Fay.2357:

Sanderinoa.8065:

As for reflections, Im THINKING that if you’re capable enough with your mesmer you won’t be needing focus anymore. if you really need reflections you’re going to have to choose to give up a well or a weapon+ traitset, as you can get about 4 feedbacks out of continuum split with mimic.

Yeah, it’s possible that you could get by without focus. The thing is that your utilities and use of continuum split are VERY locked in if you want to maintain the quickness and alacrity. Using a focus to just drop some wardens if you really need that reflection uptime is definitely the easiest way to accomplish that.

Looks like we do agree on most things, so that’s good. Im aware that this will lock you very much, which also means you’ll need to execute everything quite perfectly. Depending on the amount of reflection required and your party’s dps, situations will obviously ask for their own approach. I just hate wardens+quickness ;__; so Ill do my best.

Heh, I didn’t even consider how badly quickness would bork up wardens. FWIW, all the quickness is 5 target caps, so if your party is properly stacked, none should overflow to the wardens.

not if the warden stands just a little bit closer to the boss than your partymembers and he gets hit by tides of time .__."

Hey there, Sanderinoa here again

This time soloing cliffside on lvl 20. This project actually took me quite a while to finish up, even if it doesn’t look amazingly tough. Im sorry about the final seal hit being a bit sloppy, quite frankly I just messed up there.
I’d like to credit some people who helped me murder bloomhunger an excessive amount of times to get me to the right fractal:
Zelyhn.8069 / lordcaedus.8493 / Haveageez.5349 / Darniwal.9617

I hope the music doesn’t bother anyone, and otherwise, there’s always the mute option.

http://youtu.be/xGunBqtyxkg

Please enjoy, and either way, have a nice day

Im on the berserker side of the argument. Raids may not always, but SHOULD always have a ranger with them. If you’re going to run an accuracy sigil(which I think you should during daytime), you’re going to go above the 100% barrier. of course if you want to go extravagant you can take assassins trinkets, but it’s no longer worth making an entire new set for it.
In raids you’re likely going to be running the improved alacrity trait, so you can ignore the plus30% there.
In dungeons and fractals you may not have a ranger, but due to the short lifetime of fights in those, you can keep up perma slow and the danger time trait will take over.

Remember that we are trying to get max precision for reflection. Also remember that we haven’t even seen a raid boss with projectiles yet, I think it’s better to keep from trying to get numbers like 110% crit chance until we do.

I pretty much have to agree with what has already been said

Mesmers have a very good ‘potential damage’, and their damage output is therefore dependant on the situation. In a situation in which there is very little aoe damage, and/or only a single target to kill, the mesmer can put out an amazing amount of damage if running the right build, the same is true for fights which have a lot of projectiles involved, as reflections can sometimes do outrageous damage.

That aside, mesmers aren’t really good at aoe damage, our best phantasms(dps wise,no reflects accounted) are the duelist and the swordsman, which are both single target, making your damage output lower than classes with lots of cleaving damage.
On the same note, as you need to put illusions into the fight, damage scales with time, in trash mob fights, mesmers are unable to attain their maximum damage output, simply because they can’t spawn their illusions quickly enough.

Running 30/30/0/0/10 in non reflect dungeons is a blast though, the amount of damage you can put out with battle signet might upkeep and 4 mantras up is insane, but on the other hand, there are many bosses which really ruin my experience due to their constant aoe that almost literally destroy your dps.

Uhm.. unrestricted then, right? Be more specific with that but allright, gj

Ok Im really late to the party, I read up until some stuff with scepter on page two and then lost track.
What’s the current discussion point?

Personally I was planning on running domi-duel-chrono with sword/pistol-sword/shield.
I am aware that weapons like scepter and staff are going to get some more viablity but depending on the amount of time invested in a fight, as well as the amount of targets you have, these will all get their own time to shine.
I dont usually talk on the forum here because I simply don’t have a lot of time, but as I need to update the dulfy guide in october I think Im sort of obligated to now

Because of the lower direct dps I was unable to kill the grub, but this seems like a decent time anyhow, while this is one of the few places where this gearset is useful, it looks like atleast for reflect focussed fights, this stat combo is useful.

http://youtu.be/LEC1DO-j5fw

I’m always surprised by the people just barging into the dungeon forums for the first time and calling us bad…. Anyhow, we play how we want and expect not to be attacked because of it. If the OPs intention was really just to ask when it will be fixed, he would nothave felt the need to continue this thread, as it was answered ages ago. the devs are on our side today(I know, surprising, right?), respect their decision and leave it at that please.

Congratulations Snow Crows!

much love,

Rektaliate

joey the creator.3587:

hahah our hotw p1 record was perfect timing :P

You mean disqualified

The mesmer is a strategist class in my eyes, every encounter you need to see which appraoch will make you get the best out of the situation. Do keep in mind however, with the absence of reflection, the mesmer is a very low damage class, though phantasm builds were boosted with the viability of strength runes(use strength/battle sigil for 12-15 stacks of might upkeep).

In any situations in which you can not rely on phantasms there are two options, both of which you’ve already sort of mentioned.

First off, phantasms are all different, they have their own ways of dealing with things, and all end up getting useful at some point:

-Swordsmen dodge-> phantasmal haste -> more attacks -> more dodges -> more survivability. That aside, they stay at around 200-300 range, making them perfect for some enemies such as lupicus(they jump just outside kick range).

- Duelists do a good amount of damage and stay stationary at a distance, these are often what I end up using when I end up in an AOE fight. Consider traiting them to 1200 range, as I do with the abomination in arah, to keep them alive better.

Wardens – duhh, projectile reflect nothing else.

So after considering all of your viable phantasms, and you still dont get any good results, consider either of two options.

- Spam phantasm build – get a lot of cooldown reduction, use your signet heal properly and just spam the …. out of your phantasm skills, when they die you just make them get up again just to have them die again, because they hit once spawned, you’ll keep up some dps, but also have some meatbags around to keep your own damage more consistent.

- Shatter build, with the new traitsystem and all you can swap builds on the go, so techniquely you can always consider using shatters, Try to always use deceptive evasion with it, mantras, and as you’re running direct damage. NEVER forget about illusionary riposte, its our highest direct damage skill. Only use shatters in PvE as a last resort though.

Builds for full non reflect damage in solos should usually be around 30/30/0/0/10 or 30/20/0/0/20, but solos like yours are about getting by through any means necessary, so if you’re going to play a mesmer and solo, please look at your traitlines and decide your own approach

Last note: Never forget about Crowd Control, this may seem obvious, but as this mechanic is not used in groups very frequently, people tend to forget about its existence. In solos, and definitely in ones where your phantasms get killed, and you cant get in melee a lot. CC is definitely something you can count on, signet of domination is awesome.

rojak.1894:

Is ranger viable for soloing? Compared to classes like Warrior/Thief/Guardian it could take twice the effort and prob a much longer time to kill something, which is really sad how underpowered they still are, and most of the time pet is dead.

Reroll mesmer before thinking solos will take longer xD ranger should be fine

I have recently soloed lupicus as a guardian with the mace and sword, if anyone is interested, I think it is a great way to keep in close combat while sustaining survivability, if having problems with close combat using just a sword, like obal100 did recently. So if any guardian is having problems with lupicus or thinking of attempting a solo, you can look at the video.

Enaretos.8079:

Gimme the power Iris, you know you can trust me

Everybody knows giving french people power ends up in cold weather

GOSU.9574:

For a very long time I did not do this games instances. For a very short time I did, just for cosmetic gear pieces I wanted. Since that short spurt, I haven’t done an instance for over 6 months. Why?

They are uninteresting. Dodge-athons, bang-on-meatbag-athons, down-athons, revive-athons. During the period I did them they were also glitch-athons, bug-athons, avoid-athons.

Why am I even bothering to post?

Anet just doesn’t seem to get it. When I ran the instances and those peeps who would reply when I asked why they did them would say “They are fun!” and I would ask “fun exactly how?” pointing out the dodge-athons, bang-on-meatbag-athons, and they would inveritably reply “cause I run past X” “cause I glitch out Y” “cause I bug out Z”.

Yeah. Leaving this post so perhaps the future dungeon design team at least reads it. While I am no WoW fan, the dungeons were far more entertaining (aside from Occulus).

Solike, you dont want to dodge things, dont want to hit things, dont want to ress people and dont want to go down, but you want to do a dungeon in guildwars 2. Ye I already kind of see the problem

winterchillz.2564:

God kitten it, rT, get your kitten together, my fanboyism is hurt! :’c

Its all part of our major plan! Fear not!

Yo! New video up again, ikr, fast

This is my last video this year, it was a lot of fun to make! I hope you enjoy watching it.

Here it is: http://youtu.be/dYfyggu8QRY

Happy New Year and happy holidays!

new version uploaded