Guild Wars 2

while this is a bit tongue and check I would like to seriously thank Abandons!

While fighting on EB Sunday night, I crashed due to the mega blob.

Said crash ended up putting me in queue, so I went to get a drink.

As I got to my kitchen I heard a noise outside, and when I checked I found a guy trying to cut my bike lock with a pair of bolt cutters.

After cursing at him he ran off.

But I am rather pleased that my bike was saved.

Thank you abandons mega blob! You saved my bike!

In case u haven’t known already, u can check to see if u out of range by looking at the skill icon, if theres a red line underneath then u r out of range. Same goes for any other skill.

I appreciate the delay between using Temporal Curtain and Into The Void, there have been many times where an accidental double hit canceled it way too early for me. However the 1 second delay now between them is painfully too long. Using ITV as a pull has been brutally nerfed. This delay would be much better served as a 1/4 second delay instead of the full second. Please, ANet, consider reducing the delay to 1/4 second, that’s more than enough time to prevent accidental cancellation.

Did anyone else notice how painfully long a one second wait can be when you expect instantaneous? Ouch.

Master of Timespace.2548:

What are you talking about double click nonsense? That’s not the reason the delay was added. It was added to slightly nerf the skill, which was before a little too strong. Instant area pull to a desired direction on a relatively low cool down.

If that’s true, then the 1 second delay is a lot larger of a nerf than was likely intended. The skill wasn’t that powerful to begin with due to the fact that the lip of a wall, a pebble, anything would interrupt the pull… now people are easily dodging away before the second half can even fire off. A quarter second gives the alert time to react yet would leave the skill still useful in WvW.

It was always 2s, they only corrected the tooltip.

It’s interesting that the biggest nerf was to Focus’ Illusionary Veil/Into the Void and no one has complained about this one specifically. I guess we saw it coming and it is a reasonable change. However it greatly harms the Focus as a viable weapon with iWarden’s placement and A.I. being so luckluster.

There is no difference when you factor in that ele’s get 3 heals total plus damage minus via protection all on a short cooldown yes we evaded everything but after we got lit up. Yes having it on a 8sec (if specced) was a little much but the evading everything was needed us being squishy and being in a melee range just like ele’s need 3 heal protection and a way to escape which no one can catch up with(actually 2 rotl and there slot 5 skill in air attunment) o ya we have invun from everything but remember we have 1 heal pretty much no wait to actually escape combat unless we spec into it and our protection has to be specced into too with a 15sec cooldown or via stealth which again needs to be heavily specced into.

I would say vinceftw is correct.

Retaliation would be the real culprit for this and maybe conditions, ret hits really hard when you use multiple quick attacks (imagine confusion but much more difficult to remove ) and conditions keep ticking (before invulnerability would protect you from conditions during the duration of that attack).

Kinda sucks but when the people start to cry there ain’t much you can do.

Isn’t it annoying when the QQ screws you over?

problem is not cathing him without dodge . problem is if some1 have a brain can run / jump / hide / go away from focus easy now

Lowering condition duration is balanced by the runes and food you can use to increase duration. The only truly unbalanced thing in this game involving conditions is that silly engi trait that stops all condition effects. It is a grandmaster trait that reduces all condi durations by 100% when health is below 25%.

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Have to quote a guild-mate here:

That’s the issue, you just don’t understand why we complain, making this whole week just pure aggravation on both sides.

Less and less ppl care about objectives or winning matchups, they look for fights.
Ongoing fights, back and forth, are fun. AC’ing not so much.

If you guys are better than us – and yes there are better WvW Guild / Players (i hardly play wvw tbh) – than you should be able to kill about 70% of our blobs. Top Tier Server proved this.

They proved they can bust your blob with 15ppl? Because thats the number most of our guilds run.

Da Nazgul.3172:

Xenn.3809:

Da Nazgul.3172:

i can hear u.

so, where´s the problem=?

Abaddon is zerging with 50+?
u know what to do then…
If u don´t have the man power to face em, hunt their dollies.

But when u got a queue on your BL, too, u are not that good (organized) as AM is.

NAZ

You do hear, but fail to listen.

We choose to run separate, to avoid lag amongst main reason, so we ‘organise’ that way. X goes north, Y goes south is the kind of map chat you would expect, rather than let’s all met at spawn in 30sec and run as one big mass.

I do understand is your way, it’s the most effective way for points and yada yada it’s all been said before.

The answer is defitnetly not going to be to counter blob all week long, it’s not a fun way to play WvW, that’s why we run small and tease you to give it a try, it’s good fun.

ok…i goo your point before, but i hate it reading here bout “Blobaddon” …all they can do…no skill…and so on.
That´s what u could read between my lines.

Just stop complaining bout Abaddon doin blobs and giving u and all lags.
ANet is guilty for that, not Abaddon !!!

And yes, i am not on Abaddon but Kodash.

NAZ

Because so many unskilled people are concentrated on one server, who only see option in running 60+ people blobs, it is ANet’s fault? Tbh, the server lagg is the least of my issue, we are all tired of fighting 60vs30, tired of not being able to take something, because of the insane amount of siege, or not being able to defend something, because there are too many golems. AM has no skills whatsoever, they win because they have numbers in people who blob up, and the number of siege. AM is not worse, or better than Gandara, they’re different, and we don’t like it, in fact, we hate it.

I made this exact face!

The healing power of the individual using the blast finisher.

No, I still love my mesmer. Besides, if these changes really hurt the profession, I’m sure that Anet will address them. The best way is to keep playing them and show the problems, if any, so that Anet has enough info. to correct them.

Been testing Torment from a mesmer perspective and as much as I love them adding something new to scepter, I’m decidedly underwelmed. They REALLY need to increase the damage boost when targets are moving. People who get Torment on them should be terrified to move around. Instead, it’s like the slightest uptick from a super weak bleed. This won’t be stopping anyone from doing anything. Not even worth a condition cleanse. It’s the GW2 equivalent of getting a small pebble in your shoe.

How do you guys feel about Torment?

Sinaya.4201:

Actually, I have a question about the iMage.

How does it work when you have the Cleansing Conflagration (Domination IX, 20% reduced Torch Skill cooldown, and Torch Skills remove conditions) trait?

I understand that you clear a condition on yourself when you use the Prestige, but do you also get a condition removed when you cast the iMage? Or does the iMage’s auto attack clear conditions on targets too?

I’m at work so I can’t really test this right now, but I’m curious as to how that trait works exactly… it might make it a slightly more viable Disenchanter-like Phantasm if he actually cures stuff too when traited.

(Thanks to Kate Austinmer on Crystal Desert for pointing this out!)

I believe that it cleanses on the cast, and the bolt will cleanse as well.

Basically it becomes a disenchanter on a 3x longer cooldown that attacks 3x slower, clears half as many conditions, doesn’t remove boons, and requires 20 trait points + a major trait.

Pyroatheist.9031:

Sinaya.4201:

Actually, I have a question about the iMage.

How does it work when you have the Cleansing Conflagration (Domination IX, 20% reduced Torch Skill cooldown, and Torch Skills remove conditions) trait?

I understand that you clear a condition on yourself when you use the Prestige, but do you also get a condition removed when you cast the iMage? Or does the iMage’s auto attack clear conditions on targets too?

I’m at work so I can’t really test this right now, but I’m curious as to how that trait works exactly… it might make it a slightly more viable Disenchanter-like Phantasm if he actually cures stuff too when traited.

(Thanks to Kate Austinmer on Crystal Desert for pointing this out!)

I believe that it cleanses on the cast, and the bolt will cleanse as well.

Basically it becomes a disenchanter on a 3x longer cooldown that attacks 3x slower, clears half as many conditions, doesn’t remove boons, and requires 20 trait points + a major trait.

Oooh… sign me up.

Now unless you want to sink 20 points in dom for torch cooldown, or 25 in illusions, iMage is going to be on a kittenly long cooldown.

30s is way too long, it needs to be reduced to around 20s base.

AoE retaliation pulsing to nearby allies?

Torment/confusion on bounce?

Burning on bounce?

Lower CD?

Another thing fadeaway, with this change there is basicly no shatter build that can be considered vaible without 25 point in illusion, and if you 25 p in illusion its a big misstake to not go 30 for ip alternative mass interupt builds and get the mass daze.

So overall this change narrov the viable mesmer builds to 0-0-0-0-25 (30) and for al dmg dealing builds we look at 0-10-0-0-25. Sure there will be some experemental 10-0-30-0-0-30 interupt mass daze builds and some healing speed 0-0-0 30-30 but it will be hard to argue for any build without atleast 25 in illusions. This due to the fact it give a 20% ability drop for al our builds most important abilitys and utilitys.

Personaly as a shatter mesmer from the start I only se posseblitys in the changes as I already run mandatory 30 in illsuions, BUT the beuty of the mesmer class is the flexibility to run different builds, not glad to se that get worse.

Osicat

The TC nerf really annoys me. It was literally made as a direct result of high end pvp play. It will still be very useful as a weapon, but it will be exponentially harder to catch people in WvW now with it.

Don’t engies have a pull similar to TC in their Toolbelt? As far as I understand it the reason for the nerf is you couldn’t see the pull coming, and it seems the engie one works the same way.

RIP confusion/condition.
RIP phantasm builds.
RIP build diversity.

x/x/x/x/30 = mesmer spec.

Afraid I’ll have to decline your most sincere and genuine offer. I’m afraid cross-server relations won’t last.

Different builds.

Let me repeat that.

Different builds.

Different builds.

The thing that everyone complaining always forgets about.

Mesmers and Thieves aren’t inherently better duelist classes. They do have, however, better duelist builds. There’s nothing that’s implying that Mesmers and Thieves will get Torment for their strongest builds – if anything, it’ll just open up new possibilities for condition builds, which Mesmers and Thieves are weak at. Also, both Mesmers and Thieves lack build diversity, and are pretty much stuck on one or two builds, so new food for conditions makes sense.

wombatpanda.8165:

Ps: also looking forward to fighting that uncatchable JDGE asura mesmer again

That’s likely Osi. Here’s a tip on catching/beating him;

In the middle of the fight whisper him with “OMG YOU’RE OSI! YOU’RE SO GREAT!!!1!!11!”. He loves a good ego massage, and as a result, tries screenshot all whispers of that nature. Now the clever part; in order to take a screenshot he needs to use a key that isn’t part of the three keys he uses to play his class and kill people. So he’ll stop, stand still and look at his keyboard for a while. At first he’ll literally look for a key labelled “Got Screnshoot”, which obviously doesn’t exist. After about 10 seconds of scanning the keys for phrases like “phooto gud osi1!” and “getz +10r egos” he’ll resume fighting.

If you’ve not killed him in that time, then they’re done for.

Maul.3284:

@garr. I’m in T1 and it gets used quite a bit in WvW and in PVP. Not sure what server you’re on.

LOL.

You really think people use moa in wvw? In T1?

‘guyzzz, I moaed one of the 60man zerg over there.’

’i’m helppinnggggg’

SoR is losing rating because they haven’t kept TC and SoS to as low a score as the relative ratings predict. at around the time when SoR had 250K points, TC should have had 120K and SoS should have had 60K.

-ken