Guild Wars 2

mantik.1603:

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I am aware that the Problems are caused by the ISP – just waned you to know that the problem is still around

Its not.
ISPs dont care who NCsoft is or what GW2 is and they dont have to.
NCSOFT wants to sell a game (content) so they have to ensure to have good uplinks to all major ISPs , jes they have to pay for that like serious companies do.

you dont have latency or bandwith issue with e.g. netflix for a reason and this reason is called money.

Lord Kuru.3685:

If this change means guild groups who fight zergs will be stunlocked because of the numerical difference, a large core of WvW players will quit the game.

Yep, thats what I read out of it too.

Stability will work pretty much the same but now huge groups can burn through smaller groups stability simply by random AoE bombing and players facerolling the keyboard, instead of trying to do boon removal.

This is going to be bad to WvW and promote zerging even more than before.

If this change means guild groups who fight zergs will be stunlocked because of the numerical difference, a large core of WvW players will quit the game.

Siphaed.9235:

Dominik.5162:

Can you please stop balancing stuff just for sPvP, things going to be ridicoulos for Melee in WvW espeacially Guardians. The amount of CC (and stacked CC) is so high Stability will be very unreliable.
Somebody needs to use a brain before implementing sh** like this.

First off, please don’t go directly insulting the developers as it’s disrespectful and rude. You have no way of knowing exactly what they’ve tested and worked with to come up with these changes.

*Secondly, this change is equally for WvW and a good one at that. Right now Guardians -and Warriors- are stacking stability so heavily that it is an impossibility to CC them during fights. The “zerg blobs” that go from gate to gate to gate all consist of a heavy amount of Guards/Warriors at the front with that anti-CC “all or nothing” push of theirs. By making this change it allows for groups of players to whittle away that anti-CC and start using theirs to defend a bit more. *

I’m pretty sure change is in line with the other changes they’re going to be making to have defending be more beneficial to the individual as well as the overall realm.

This is not true at all. There’s no way you can stack stability so high it will be maintained 24/7. That said, there are many ways and soon to be even more to remove boons due the introduction of the revenant and specializations. You need a pretty specific rotation already and use your stability on the right timing will you not get caught by CC, let alone the cleanses for the immobilize spam you have currently going on.

After this patch you will see lots and lots of CC stacking on 1 spot. 25 stacks of stability (which will probably require at least 5 skills, which is pretty much 60-70% of your total stability skills in your party) will be ripped off in just a matter of time.

WvW is just gonna be 1 big ranged fight where guardian and warrior will be close to useless.

The change just seems quite unneccesary.

Tbh, anyone who plays WvW knows the hammer train meta isn’t even a thing and hasn’t been for a very long time. Youd have to play on a server with very bad people to see it still exist. The actual meta for large scale combat nowadays usually revolves around what it is for GvG, and that is stupid amounts of range pressure.

If you observe the open field fights of T1 and T2 where people are a bit more familiar with the current meta of fighitng, you’ll see that melee are actually the ones who have a hard time. It really depends but this change could completely eliminate melee in total. I mean a lot of fights now really just come down to who has more ranged pressure anyway.

Making no changes to the achievements in wvw for so long (since start of game) just shows how little they know or care about wvw in general.

But….. but…. but…. :<
Back in GW1 Power Block was able to disable the whole skill bar for 12 seconds on 20 seconds cooldown.

discosoc.6510:

Just a funny side comment here, but I appear to actually do more damage when I’m in a downed state. It’s like a DPS cooldown.

It might be worth just popping into the SPvP hub area and fighting a couple of the sparring NPCs just to get a feel for what you’ll be able to do at higher levels.

For a really “in at the deep end” approach, you could even try levelling exclusively through SPvP. You’ll have access to all of the mesmer’s toys while there, although that route would leave you a little shafted when it comes to traits for PvE and WvW.

discosoc.6510:

Fay.2357:

discosoc.6510:

Mogar.9216:

Don’t judge the class as you level up. Mesmer does a lot of damage at level 80.

Isn’t the process of leveling supposed to be the time to judge a class? If not, why does GW2 even have levels? I guess your response is about what I expected though.

In theory, yes. In practice, leveling a mesmer is an incredibly awful experience that should be rushed through and avoided at all costs. It didn’t used to be this way, but anet made a lot of mistakes and caused it.

What changed?

Traits. Mesmer is an incredibly trait-dependent class. It used to be that you’d be mostly non-functional until 20, at which point you’d just be getting hints of what you can do. Then at 40, you’d get some more interesting toys, but still be rather weak. Once you got to 60, you’d have your toolset unlocked for use, even if you still couldn’t use all of it at the same time, you’d have access to it.

Now, you’re nonfunctional until 30ish (can’t remember exactly), you get a couple of toys at 60, but you can’t actually play the class until 80. On top of that, you don’t just get the traits as you level up. Once you get to the required level, you then also have to go out and grind through random encounters and/or pay an extortionate price just to use them. It’s awful.

Honestly, while I like the idea of updating my leveling guide, I will be waiting to see how Traits 3.0 are going to work first.

And to be fair about leveling right now, my guide would be like:

Step 1: Create a mesmer.
Step 2: Go to EotM and follow the zerg.
Step 3: Profit.

I realy hope ANet will get the fun back into leveling with Traits 3.0, otherwise I will just delete my guide and write something like:

“Wait till you got enough tomes of knowledge and insta-level to 80. Good luck and have a nice day.”

Spooksie.4930:

O.O

Wow? Those kinds of shenanigans are that pervasive?

I guess that answers my question on whether or not the mode is worth playing.

Servers have been buying guilds for a while, the end game is 9 servers full of players and 15 barren wastelands full of people screaming “SERVER PRIDE”.

HoT may slow or hasten the process.

Good, stability is OP in zergs, having perma stability (or near to it) is a joke, it negates what should be one of the most powerful things in a PvP format – hard CC.

As for boon stripping, yeah right, the only boon stripping that works against competent groups (and when I say competent I mean rolling your face across the keyboard rotating stability/boons and not standing in wells you know too long – cos that is leet skillz), is focusing individuals like the ‘driver’ with corrupt boon.

Stripping boons in the group context is a joke, stability is last in the order for well of corruption if I remember correctly, most of the time there are 4+ boons over that stability, most of the boon stripping skills in this game are not even used in zergs because they are not suitable or on classes that don’t exist in large groups (thief sword 3, engy mines, etc), meanwhile the amount of boon generation in a melee ball scales to silly levels with guards everywhere.

As for the crying of guards, really? Go look at the class balance of WvW/GvG over the last 2 years, 4 classes have made up the vast majority of zergs/guilds, with 2 classes barely existing and two more not existing at all, where were your posts complaining about the plight of ranger or engy, and now you want sympathy, because the class that has been the most common in WvW for 2 years is getting a well deserved hit, lol.

It’s always Telia. It happened in WoW, it happened in EVE and it happens in GW2.

24 pages already and zero kittens given, that’s how it works!

hammer!!!! hammer!!!

I’d like off hand dagger, because I like iRogue so much and I expect a Phantasm like him and, possibly, another stealth skill.

The new expansion looks like it will be adding new weapons to the classes with the specializations. Are there any weapons that you want on your mesmer? I think that there needs to be a shortbow wielding specialization, because of all the classes, mesmer DESERVES the dreamer the most. Also, with 3 clones, that would produce 4 unicorn spamming mesmers, and I can’t think of anything more beautiful.

The thing to note with GS and sw/t is that you only have one decent power phantasm which on the flipside is not good in a condition build.

So you kind of have to play a power build, and then you have to balance between damage sources (yourself, your illusions and shatters). There’s not much room for variety with that weapon set. Take whatever traits you like, but damage will have to revolve around GS pew pew, the izerker and shatters.

Swapping torch for a different offhand instantly opens up other possibilities (phantasm, interrupt, etc).

This is a fair point, I just started playing and while choosing my home server I think the majority of them said “Very High”. I didn’t notice any full servers, but I’m sure they were there or hidden since I can’t chose them. I had been told server don’t matter much, so I was confused if servers don’t matter, why am I choosing one and why are they “Very High”? I understand that WvW is one of the reasons to choosing a server, but no where on that server list does it tell me anything about WvW or the servers I’m choosing. It seems odd to me to keep information external. It also seems odd to me that they charge for server transfers when the only reason you’d want to change is WvW. I’m sure it’ll make more sense when I become more experienced. I can see people switching teams constantly becoming an issue, but there are other ways around that.

getting kind of sick of the “GET ON TEAMSPEAK” screams in WvW all the time. There are plenty of people who will never be in community voice chat for whatever reason (that they are not required to justify to anyone either) and the game is still perfectly playable and enjoyable for them so don’t treat them like lepers . Discounting those members of your community gets you nothing and completely alienating them might lose you some talented resources. Can’t we just say instead “for another layer of WvW gameplay consider joining your community voice chat”.

Thank You! Menaka. for the lesson video.

I liked those videos. Only the texts should be a longer time there. It is sometimes impossible to read them in real time (at least for me^^).

Well done. Good foundation to help people get started. You should do ones on following the commander, using voice comms, gear/trait selection, etc.

Also I think you’d have a better impact actually speaking about things instead of just putting notes up on the screen.

tldr

he’s having fun ganking pve people trying to get the JP chest, but now nobody goes in there anymore.

Warlord of Chaos.7845:

Honestly, if its anything that can control the battlefield with heavy cc or interrupts ill take it. I love running heavy control specs in almost every game I play, whether it be dominator in rift, dom mes in gw1, or CI mes in gw2. I am hoping for chronomancer though

I’d love that! I always felt like our class’s weaknesses showed as soon as we set foot into a large battle. All those phantasms/clones are easily destroyed and our single-target domination isn’t always as useful to the team as a large AoE.

An emphasis on AoE and group control would be a fantastic way to round out the profession.

Honestly, if its anything that can control the battlefield with heavy cc or interrupts ill take it. I love running heavy control specs in almost every game I play, whether it be dominator in rift, dom mes in gw1, or CI mes in gw2. I am hoping for chronomancer though

Warlord of Chaos.7845:

Another charr Mesmer! .

I also have a charr mesmer and it’s my main.

OP, nice video and great teamwork!

Another charr Mesmer! They do exist! Anyways, I personally think CI mes and shatter mes are better for wvw but if it suits your playstyle then that’s all that really matters.
Nice vid.