Guild Wars 2

Mesmer Elite Specialization:

The Master Illusionist
The Master Illusionist focus on empowering all illusions, especially phantasm, pushing the limits of what can be done with them.

Specialization Weapon Unlocked: Main-hand Pistol

Pistol Skill #1:
Repeated Volley (Autoattack) – Fires 3 consecutive shots, the first shot has a bonus 10% critical strike chance , the second shot has a bonus 20% critical strike chance, and the final shot always critically hits. Range: 900, 20% Projectile Finisher.

Pistol Skill #2:
Soothing Bullet – Fires a shot at the currently selected target that deals damage and inflicts 5 seconds of tranquility (New condition: Cannot critical strike), it then creates a clone that uses repeated volley once every 6 seconds. Pierces, Cooldown 10 seconds, Range: 900 Cast Time: 1 second

Pistol Skill#3:
Chaos Shot – Fires bullets in a wide cone in front of the master illusionist dealing moderate damage and the targets receive one of the following effects chosen at random, individual targets could receive different conditions:

• Slowed for 3 seconds.
• Crippled for 4 seconds.
• 3 stacks of confusion for 10 seconds.
• 1 second stun.
  Targets: 5, Arc: 135, Cooldown: 20 seconds, Range: 900, Cast Time: .75 seconds

Specialization Class Feature:
+1 Illusion Capacity: Increases the number of clones and phantasms a master illusionist can have by one.

F1 Changes: Phantasmal Assaulter
This skill no longer shatters all illusions, but instead summons 1 phantasm based on the current main hand weapon. Inherits all traits and effect that affect shattering, they trigger when and at where the phantasm is summoned. Cooldown: 20, Cast Time: 1 second.

• Sword: Phantasmal Swordsman
• Pistol: Phantasmal Duelist
• Scepter: Phantasmal Mage
• Greatsword: Phantasmal Berserker
• Staff: Illusionary Warlock

F2 Changes: Phantasmal Mesmerizer
This skill no longer shatters all illusions, but instead creates 1 phantasm that shoots a projectile that confuses 1 foe (range: 1200), inflicting 3 stacks of confusion for 4 seconds the phantasm attacks once every 6 seconds. Inherits all traits and effect that affect shattering, they trigger when and at where the phantasm is summoned. Cooldown 25, Cast Time: 1 second.

F3 Changes: Phantasmal Interruptor
This skill no longer shatters all illusions, but instead creates 1 phantasm that dazes your target for 1 second, the illusion attacks once every 10 seconds. Inherits all traits and effect that affect shattering, they trigger when and at where the phantasm is summoned.. Cooldown: 40, Cast Time: 1 second.

F4 Changes: Simulacrum
Shatters all illusions and summons a master clone. The master clone lasts for 3 seconds per illusion shattered (plus 3 more for the master illusionist). Gain distortion for 1 second. The master illusionist and the master clone shuffle their position randomly under a concealing effect (and thus confusing enemies as to who the real master illusionist is), and are always adjacent to each other. The master clone mimics all actions used by the master illusionist (Including swapping weapons, but not the heal, utility or elite skills, although it does mimic the animations to keep secret who the real master illusionist is), has all attributes and traits bonuses and deals the same damage as the master illusionist, independent boons (and conditions) as the master illusionist, and the master clone never counts as a minion for the purposes of boon or conditions over the master clone, although the master illusionist and the master clone have separate hit point pools. The master clone doesn’t count as one of your illusions for the purpose of determining how many illusions you can currently control. Can only have 1 master clone at a time, any clone and/or phantasm the master clone use fall under the master illusionist’s control.
Cooldown: 60 seconds Cast Time: Instant

Better for scouts to be able to count the # of ppl in a blob…now if there was a way to remove the dots from pets/minions/clones lol

Yes, thanks for a pointless change that’s the complete opposite of what people really wanted out of nametags.

Can you make it so that having Bolt equipped makes all teleports look like the elementalist’s lightning Flash?

Also, skills that stun the target should make it look like they’ve been hit by a lighting bolt from the sky when stunned. It would be as if they were being stunned by lighting on skill impact.

Bolt’s legendary effects are awesome and it remains still one of the best weapons in the game, but I’d like to see it affect more than just slash attacks.

zengara.8301:

Ok……
You can not compare this with skin=legendary etc

Yes they should change it, this is stats, not skins, people need the stats to play, it is not an achievement or goal…aka legendary, stop being closed minded

I personally do not use time gated grinding…..But it does not make sense, why would you wait if you got the mats and can almost instantly make 1 copy of xx gear

There is literally no reason other than confusing it with legendaries or other skins that needs a long time to gather for the sole purpuse of showing off…and just so I can copy/paste later……
No stats are not an achievement or a skin, some builds can only work with them and it does not make sense to punish a person just because he/she did not pick a profession that only run zerker or any other cheap gear to be able to join anything

This one’s a rich post. Wow. Ascended is only 5% better than exotic so really the only thing that makes ascended way more powerful over exotic is the ability to slot infusions in them so you can do high tier fractals, which has nothing to do with stats. So try again. If you need a 5% boost in stats to play the game, maybe go back to hello kitty online. I know wvw’rs who insist they don’t need ascended to beat other players and just wear exotic and thats far more difficult than any of the PvE content.

Guild Wars 2 is obviously a breeding ground for Soviet spies and recruitment.

You will rue the day when Soviet invades America and all the frontline troops are Guardians shooting rainbows with legendary Bifrosts.

Ok……
You can not compare this with skin=legendary etc

Yes they should change it, this is stats, not skins, people need the stats to play, it is not an achievement or goal…aka legendary, stop being closed minded

I personally do not use time gated grinding…..But it does not make sense, why would you wait if you got the mats and can almost instantly make 1 copy of xx gear

There is literally no reason other than confusing it with legendaries or other skins that needs a long time to gather for the sole purpuse of showing off…and just so I can copy/paste later……
No stats are not an achievement or a skin, some builds can only work with them and it does not make sense to punish a person just because he/she did not pick a profession that only run zerker or any other cheap gear to be able to join anything

Ayrilana.1396:

No need for premium accounts. Just buy more gems. Do it on a fixed basis and there’s your “subscription”.

Thats nonsense and you know it as well as me, that a Premium Account with an optional chooseable amount will NEVER be the same with fixed given features, as like a silly gemstore with stuff, that comes and goes as like anet wants, where you never have the guarantee, that removed stuff will ever return, maybe eventually again months to years after the first implementation and if you have back luck eventually just for an absurd single day when you are unable to play and without any information before of that moment, that the item will return, so that you could prepare for that day to come.

Only because YOU have no need for Premium Accounts, doesn’t mean, that nobody else in general could optionally need/want one.

With an optional alternative to the gemstore in form of an optional monthly fee (monthly fee, is a difference, than your mentioned “subscription fee”, because a subcription fee is a CONTRACT between you and a company, where the company is allowed by contract to draw money from you.
By an optional monthly fee, Anet will be able to draw money from you only as much as you want and only as long as you want, without that there is a contract between you and Anet for a specific duration of time like “1 year” in background with that they could be able to force you to pay them by law if they would need to do so.

So the power to decide how long this goes is AT YOU, not at ANet ands thats the big difference between an optional monthly fee and a subscription fee that you bring now onto the table, which is something completely different that I’m absolutely not speaking about here!

Example:

I am willing to change my Free Play Account into a Premium Account by creating for Anet an optional Monthly Fee of lets say 15€ that I allow them to draw in from my bank account as long as I don’t delete that setting.
The moment I delete the setting, will stop all bonded services by Anet instantly – so I have a good reason to think twice about it, when exactly I would end what I optionally created for myself.

The moment I create the Premium Account via the optional fee, I get shown by Anet on the menu the service that I have from them for the chosen amount of money that I want to give them monthly, together with an attractive suggestion what I can get eventually, if I should choose to raise the amount, so that the player always knows, what he gets actually for his money and what could get for his money, if the amount would be raised higher.

This kind of payment option allows in both directions far more flexibility, while the player gets the important advantage of this system, that you always get every month fix your services, for that you pay for optionally, without that it could happen like in the gemstore, that something gets removed from it, right before you actually were short before wanting to buy something from it, gettig just disappointing, that you have to wait a long time inhope, that the stuff you want returns maybe one day again as resale.

Lets suggerate, Anet would offer for an optional monthly fee of 15 Dollar/€ this:

• Always access to everything that is in the Gemstore, nothing gets ever removed from it for you as long you have the Premium Account active, with the only exception of Holiday Stuff eventually and thigns, with that players could get an advantage, like rng stuff that creates rare valuable sellable items like minis
• Every month you receive 2-3 Item Unlock Tickets with that you can unlock anything you want for your account that isn’t unlocked yet, be it Minis, be it Toys, be it equipment skins from BLT Collections, be it Outfits, or Glider Skins ect.
• No Waypoint Costs for you anymore
• Become able to buy Teleport to Friend Items ingame via Gold/Karma
• Get access to some kind of unique cosmetical stuff, like Weapon/Armor Skins, so that there is also visually cosmetical stuff with that you as playr can practically identify someone is using a Premium Account, and we still play anyways Fashion Wars 2, so why not – its cosmetical…
• Get Cost Reduction for changing Servers, letting you change Servers for free as long theres naturally space for you on the chosen Server and its possible to change due to this.

Together for example with a suggestion: Raise the amount to 20, and you get this ,this and that on top, like increased amount of Unlock Tickets pr months, more access to cosmetical unique stuff or quality of life items, like access cost free to hair style/character changes, bank acess from everywhere, and these thigns, that usually only ultra rich players in the game would have, or super luck<y ones which got these thigns through the RNG garbage in th game luckily as rewards in like 1 out of a trillion chance.

As long you can tranfer to servers there will be no balance…..ever.

Scrap the gemstore completely, just there to rip us off anyway. Introduce stuff in game as rare drops , quest items like the black moa chick in gw1

I still don’t understand what system is inplace, and how it determines which guild gets first claim on a new objective taken. Who gets 2nd claim….third….and why some people get no claims.
Can anyone explain that to me? Like ive had people say if ur closest to the supply cache u get it….if you have the most people in said guild you get it…..if you do the most damage to gates/walls/lord you get it…..or the guild that helped took that has the most people on the entire map or is apart of an existing larger squad that isn’t there….which if any of these is it? i highly doubt its the most damage one. and i assume its the most pop one.

More to the point of the thread though:

-Please make it so the commander and the guild they rep has first claim on an objective that said commander took with their squad. That is just beyond stupid that I can lead a group to take a keep and the guild I rep doesn’t even come up as an option. I did alot of damage to the lord. I didn’t cata though, but they were my cata’s i had prepped myself…..just seems dumb i don’t get first claim. Noone else had hit the keep for at least 30 minutes before I started prepping and then lead a group to take it.

-Please when there isn’t a tag, do NOT let some1 who already has a claim on something to get first claim. Prioritize guilds that took and haven’t claimed anything first. If some1 has a claim on a keep….they likely aren’t gonna take it off to temp claim a camp. its just really annoying and a waste of time sitting around waiting for the right guild to pop up that can place the claim without removing existing ones that you need inplace.

-Please allow guilds that don’t want to claim to cancel/waive their ability to claim first. So once an objective is taken….if guild 1 gets first claim they can simply x that box or something and that makes it skip to guild 2 in the lineup. Presently you have to just wait the full time until the guild you want pops up…..or it goes through alll the guilds and you can finally claim it with the guild that should have popped up.

Please allow these changes or similar changes. Quality of life changes like this are important.

A perhaps more sensible and easy solution, to situations where there isn’t a commander present, is to allow the first dibbers claim period to enact a free full objective aura. So as soon as a camp is taken for example, it automatically has +5 supply and all other aura’s until a guild claims and applies their own or until the first dibbers claim period is over.

I mean the best analogy is the guild that did none of the work getting first claim, claiming, and then boasting that they were the ones that did all the work. Its funny sometimes but that doesn’t make it fair. The enemy neeeds to know who was responsible!!!

Need to remember that many many players only play WvW when their server is leading.

The problem Anet has, as evidenced by McKenna’s post, is that Anet has just shown to the NA WvW population that they have no clue about the population of WvW.

If your population data is wrong your fixes to the problem are also wrong.

“We moved for fights”. That’s why most guilds stacki in already full timezones. Biggest lie on gw2.
If you move for a fight your transfer target are heavily underpopulated servers, not tier 1 or tier 2, but at least you are honest about "Alot of us who transferred alot didn’t give a crap about the state of wvw "

I respect the handful of solo roamers that are still trucking along in a dying game.
I fear the next idiotic move anet decides to implement.

…..wearing it?

The real problem is, anet does nothing agaisnt this. As a player you just always have the ill feeling, like as if the devs are totally desillusioned with their own game, like none of them plays it self, so out of touch is the game balance with that what the devs do and put priorities on.

The game’s balance is totally out of control in regard of balance since the june 23rd of 2015 patch, which changed the way how conditions work and totally made them brain deadly overpowered. That was the day litereally, where everything for this games balance fall down into the abyss of eternal dev ignorance and large parts of the game became basicalyl totally unplayable and unfun, everbody and their mom changed to condition builds basically as the term “condition cancer” found into the game basically

has done Anet anythign to solve this crap until today?

NOOOOOOOOO!

Instead they just threw more oil into the fire and rushed out the hoT expansion and added with them practically way too early for the game’s balance aroudn all of its combat system designs the Elite Specs and added with them naturallx out of marketign reasons alot of power creep, because HoT had to sell itself good to wash in tons of $$$$$$ cash into the funds, because lets say it as it is – the gemstore alone isn’t good enough, especialy at times of huge content droughts when the comunity itself is also demanding for new content through expansions.

The game uses still way too much totally outdated systems and mechanics of a game design thats still coming from the original release 2012, where all this unbalanced stuff of the current game state didn#t exist at all, where all the tons of trait system changes weren’z part of the game’s balance of many skills and combat system emchanics, which ANet SKILLFULLY totally ignored for over 4 years now to ADAPT to the current state of the game, while alwyys doctorign around only skilsl and traits, but always totalyl ignoring all the other way more important aspects of class balancing, that belong also too to the whole aspect of the combat system, than just only skilsl and traits alone.

The game is already at least 2 years, if not longer, OVERDUE to get its combat system overworked and rebalanced fittign for all the changes that have been done meanwhile to al the skills and traits, but especially to the conditions, while in all of this time NAet has mostly never done at all somethign to Boons to rebalance them fitting to all the condition changes.

Personally right now, i’m just at the opinion, that anet has to fix first alot of thigns for the vanilla game, to create a right balanced environment and foundation for this game, than to rush another expansion after another, which add only more balance chaos to GW2 with each new E-Spec.

The ignored systems need to get fixed finally, otherwise this game will never get anywhere near to be balanced at all, when they keep adding more and more power creep E-Specs.

Health System
Attribute System
Boons & Conditions
Upgrades (Sigils/Runes/Gemstones)

These 4 systems need to get direly redesigned and rebalanced for the whole Elite Specialization System and it was Anets most biggest mistake to not do this before adding too early E-Specs with HoT under the lead of Colin, so it wasn’t surprising for me also as well, that Colin – as responsible head for HoT left Anet then as well under a classical “family” argument, once everybody could saw, that HoT most likely did’t sell itself so well as like hoped by Anet/NCSoft

Now we have practically the “salad” and must see, how we get used to it, until Anet has the ressources and the intention to fix these things eventually, before they add expansion 2 now under the lead of Mo instead, which has hopefully a better vision for this game, than Colin had over the practially last 3 and a half years.

I would say I am bored and disappointed with the lack of variety in builds now. Time gated zerg events leave me playing other games now but I am sure there are others who find them much more palatable.

McKenna Berdrow.2759:

Solution 1: Alliance Names Proposal
• Names would be generated from a pool of names that we create.

If this name pool is as bad as the one from the PvP, I would rather not see this one.

McKenna Berdrow.2759:

Solution 2: Guild Focused Proposal

Instead of having an alliance name, worlds would be referred to by their color.
• The borderlands would now be called Red Desert Borderlands Green Alpine Borderlands, or Blue Alpine Borderlands.
• The color designation would replace the “host” world’s name in almost all areas except within announcements.
• When objectives were captured, the name of the guild that contributed most when capturing the objective would be displayed. For example, “Objective Captured! [Guild Name] has captured [objective name].”

Seems legit. I could almost work with this one, although it would make WvW rather dull fighting only against colours. The guild name thingy could be pretty confusing, since no one knows, which guilds are on which servers. ANd what about meaningless bank guilds?

McKenna Berdrow.2759:

Solution 3: Some Guest Names Proposal

In areas where there is more player involvement, such as capturing objectives, guest world names may appear.
• When objectives are captured it would now display the guest world’s name: “Objective Captured! [Guest World Name] has captured [objective name].”
• The map name would remain the host world’s name.
• We would not display guest world names to enemies because we believe that would make fighting enemies more confusing since it would be harder to tell which world you were fighting.

This one seems most interessing. Working with both names simultaneously. But what about Links with 3 or more servers in it?

Altogether all three solutions have more disadvantages than advantages and I would not vote for any of it.
Why not show all server names and put a colour tag infront of it?
Red—-Dzagonur [DE] Bronze Invader

We are a proud profession. We came through some really dark times in the beginning. We still struggle today. Other professions look down on us, saying we are the jack of all trades, master of none profession. I say take pride in that fact!

Masters of none we may be, but we can still do it all! Sure our turrets struggle from engagement to engagement, but for a time they were things to be feared on control points across the mists! We only have four weapons to our name but their synergy is unmatched! With kit and gadget and gyro we stride across the battlefield!

Nerf after nerf we have remained a stalwart profession. Always I have seen the Engineer forum as different from the rest. Whereas other professions have lamented their nerfs and slandered other professions, Engineers have always continued to innovate, adapt, learn, and overcome. We take our nerfs in stride, figure out a different way to succeed, and say “please ANET, may I have another?” Other professions may look down on us, but we stand defiant! With hammers and rifles in hand we continue to march on to victory!

Brother and sister Engineers, remember where our profession came from and take heart in all we have accomplished! Be proud of your adaptability and remember…

WE ARE ENGINEERS!

So far the goal of ANet seems to be reducing build diversity…

Med kit totall rework – raids need a 1 healer for 10 ppl. Druid is ranged heal with utilities, ele is meele range with great heal, engi can be mobile average heal with great cc… but this is only sci-fi..

Engi need rework streamlined kits to be more rewarded for carpal tunel kit switching.

Alchemy have many potentional. Dont tell me if you drink elixir B then elixir C , inside you this two different elixirs must do something (some reaction) only thing for think.

Engi must choose path why you need him. Biggest condi dmg? Biggest cc? Meaby unique condi debuff? If anet don’t want touch on this, so make engi much easier to play….

Well after reading your post I can say that your title is wrong. It’s not the game that’s disgusting, it’s the player mentality when it come to group content. What disgust you is the fact that players desperatly seek efficiency through known build. The game itself does not force you to follow this trend.

Players are at the center of most of the great issues of the game. Things like meta build hurt group content, thing like “want to win no matter what” kill WvW because player stacks on winning server and leave losing server… etc. It’s always the competitive mentality of the player that hurt your experience, not the game itself.

I’m not saying that the community is bad but the community is responsible for a lot of issue that hurt the gameplay experience of most of the player. There are even player that complain about issue that they seek for (WvW queue).