Guild Wars 2

Neko.9021:

VaticanIscariot.1732:

You know what? Whatever happened to Orb of Power? It seemed like a good concept. I remembered the thrill of attacking a keep to take a server’s orb and then escorting the player with the orb back to our territory. Was quite tense. Then you’d have enemy team trying to take it or stop us from taking it back.

Although, it did kinda suck of the enemy had all 3 orbs…

Flyhacking let you simply teleport it away. :/

I wonder if they considered the alternate solution of removing the hacks?

Anet can’t be bothered to address the issue and Far Hackerpeak know who the hackers are but refuse to mention their names.

Andrew Clear.1750:

aren’t conditions already a DoT? And aren’t immobilize, chill, etc, conditions also?

Is your class a condi class?

Condi damage bypasses toughness and while it acts like a DoT it is removed by entire stack and has a cap unlike direct damage. My suggestion is to treat condi damage like all other damage only it applies itself over time and has no cap. I would also change condi removal to remove X amount of conditions stacks but not the entire condition. This means if you have 20 bleeds and 5 confusion then popped an ability that removes 10 stacks, the player would still have 15 condition stacks going. Currently condi is an all or nothing situation. This makes it difficult to manage in small fights since condi application greatly outstrips condi removal. In turn it makes it weak in large fights where condi removal is prolific.

As for my class. I have all of them at 80 and fully geared including a condi-bunker mesmer, necro, engi, ranger and an evasion condi thief. I know how both sides work.

Some balance needs to be brought to conditions.

With the latest changes to sigils and ferocity, they now nearly dominate small scale fights. The biggest problem is that players can stack a tremendous amount of spike condi-damage and maintain a high bunker or evasion capability. There is very little risk for a lot of reward.

Then we have large scale fights, where they are under powered thanks to a bevy of condi stack removing devices.

Personally I think condi damage should route through toughness and have no cap. It should be a DOT (Damage Over Time) with an additional mechanism (immobilize, chill, etc). Condi removal would then remove a fixed amount of condition but not entire stacks. This is just oone suggestion and there are many routes to address these imbalances but something should be done.

Wow. That would be so frustrating! I would probably stop playing if it happened to me. So why does the company NEVER publicly address this isdue? I have seen so many posts about this hack. C’mon ANet. Time for some acknowledgement and tell us what you’re doing to fix it!!!

I’m sorry if your thread gets locked but-

I played for a year and a half on an NA server and didn’t encounter a single invis hacker or any type of hacker in general. Now I run into a hacker on a weekly basis.

Then I guess this person slipped and fell underground then accidentally chased several people (while underground) who accidentally ran into his/her daggers and sadly died. I bet all the while he/she was spamming /stuck to get out of that awful situation and felt horribly chagrined to accidentally kill so many fellow players.

lordkrall.7241:

Why do you think they don’t tell us things anymore?

Because there is nothing to tell.

YEAH! STUPID PU OVERPOWERED TRASH YEAH! NERF SPEC PLZ!!!!!!! Fk me I hate mesmah so much. Wish der was a counta 2 PU Specz, I wish I cood lyke run away and not take damagiz or something wtf wow. Anet why u no balance for 1v1s? How do I win my 1v1 lobby against PU trash so stupid invis nerf, please nerf blinks, wtf how do I see clones from real one? omg.

See how stupid this looks? Stop crying for nerfs for things that can be avoided by simply running away. Stop crying cause some classes are OP 1v1. Stop coming on here demanding nerfs to an already under powered class. GG no re.

Get F-ing RID of the Signet of Inspiration and give Mesmers a signet of running or Illusion of speed, whatever you call it just do it, PLEASE I’m sick and tired of other classes speed buffs expiring when I get to them (which is NEVER unless they cast it right next to me !!) !!! Lets Make this Fair for Mesmers and give them the 25% CONSTANT Bonus that other classes enjoy.

WEXXES.2378:

Apparently its a power based build that just happens to apply a lot of conditions in the process of whatever they are doing. I tried it out just now, could apply bleed, burn, confusion, vulnerability pretty often but they didn’t really do anything. The main source of damage obviously came from shatter/phantasms/weapon.

With the addition of null field, traits, and sigils I can have 8-9 condi clears done in almost 5 seconds, so when someone is applying a lot of condis on me, it looks like constant condi removal but it isn’t.

@Dhampyr
I did. And I really don’t know what I’m talking about, which is why I asked. That is no reason for pyro to be an kitten to someone new to the profession’s workings.

What you listed was ludicrous and impossible. I prefer for people to do one of two things.

a. Recognize that they’re not skilled enough to understand what’s going on and proceed accordingly
b. Understand what’s going on and ask for help correctly.

Notice that neither of those include

c. Proceed to forums and make absurd accusations about how overpowered a class is.

1) Has High burst damage
Dodge
2) Has High condi spam, mainly confusion, bleed, burn
Dodge
3) Has protection/aegis on and generally reduces any non-condi damage by half
Boon strip
4) Constant Stealth
Prediction
5) Constant Healing (while in stealth)
Boon Strip
6) Million of clones no matter how many AoE spam there is
Don’t kill the clones
7) Uses GS
Stay as close as possible
8) Constant Condi Removal
Lol, please tell me how this is done on mesmer
Edit: Eh, is perhaps he’s running mantra heal and mantra cleanse. With condi cleanse on heal. If that’s the case. Condi Pressure would be my tactic. Exhaust his charges and interrupt.

Putting aside how having all these things is impossible on mesmer. That would be my strategy.

Nope, there’s no weakness. You’re referring to the full shatter PU bunker clonespam confusion bomb shatter condie removal build.

Hi mate, have a look at Hidden Cat. Can be found in the shattercat guide. Adding a video aswell. Power PU at its finest.

/Osicat

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HTc-GuHlfKs

I so desperately want to welcome you with open arms, help you pick out the perfect fuchsia outfit and let you see the joy that comes with screwing the minds of your opponents. However, for the first time since this game was available to the public, I have to say, no. Making a mesmer is no longer worth it. Too many skills are broken and have remained so for far too long. The changes to the leveling system will make a class that was already difficult to level a nightmare. The traits commonly enjoyed around 40 can only be taken much later and that’s only after you do the event to acquire them or buy them outright. The switch of mantra traits makes dungeon runs harder. The nerf to Power Block took the shine off of that new trait. The nerf to vigor hurt those whom used deceptive evasion… The list goes on and on.

There are very few good things here and, thankfully, one of which is completely out of Anet’s control: the community. Though there are the usual members prone to exaggeration and the whining that’s become commonplace, this is the only forum that will not only treat newbies like family but will actually and wholeheartedly help all other professions seeking solutions in taking us down. You won’t find that anywhere else, save the players helping players forum.

Interesting argument. So let’s remove range indicators for all skills and enjoy the learning curve.

Raawk.7584:

Ya by all means go ahead. So BD in the grandmaster slot was a way to provide some regen and protection which is why i didn’t want to choose prismatic understanding since its buffs are weak compared to BD.

What?

well, time to learn german now, i guess

i dint see the de before the server name and just pressed transfer without thinking
the last time i played there weren’t any things before the server
name so can you pls take me out off a server i dont understand

JoaoFA.8475:

Well, thank you for answering but I wasn’t asking for an opinion whether condition is good or bad. I was asking for builds

Yeah, that’s not an opinion. If you run a condition necro in PvE, you are a bad player.

If you run a condition mesmer in PvE, you are an even worse player. Yes, you can ‘play how you like’, but that doesn’t change the fact that the way you play is horrible, and you deserve to be kicked from any decent party.