Guild Wars 2

ShakeyStorm.7180:

Warriors seems OP in terms of damage and defense.

Constructively asking, are there ways us Mesmers can neutralize their overwhelming advantages?

My way of dealing with that:
I go (almost) full Zerker with greatsword (and if you are good at chasing stuff with phase retreat, then get also staff^^). Then I use a high DPS-Phantasm build. There are plenty arround, I made my own. With this setup, you can take them down, even if they are running. But it is hard and you have to bait them to stay longe enough in the fight.

That play sytle is dangerous, but gives a very rewarding feeling, once succeeded. My strategy is the following. I fight the Warrior in a half hearted manner. Meaning that he hits me quite often (be sure to have blink or smth like that rdy to avoid the heavy hitting of 100 Blades or so). I barely shatter, to keep the phantasm allive and I avoid active healing (some healing comes from regeneration). This is the dangerous part. As the warriors live starts to go criticly low, the only reason for him to stay, is my own low life.

Here I set up for the final assault, usind MI as an attempt to set up my attack (and hopeflly apearing to want to flee). It depends on the situation, but Nullfield+F3 offers a good start for the following assault. I then throw everything I have, burn every CC my weapons offer and via weaponswap throw out 2 phantasm + F1 shatter once thea have attacked.

I am honest, I often die myself through that method, but on good days I have beaten 2 GS warriors in their own (not upgraded) camp at it felt awesome

Terrier.8732:

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Yes, the game is beautiful, the design is amazing… and it’s also fun to play, despite the so called “game-wrecking” issues. They don’t wreck the game for me.

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Peace people, just enjoy the game despite what you perceive as flaws! It’s a game!!

Glad the game is working for you and that you enjoy it.

The art in this game is superb! There are a lot of things I really enjoy in this game, there are things that ANet got right.

There are also things the developer has done over the last 18 months that have alienated me (and my guild) with every consecutive patch.

WvW is our last refuge for remaining with this game. And unfortunately WvW needs some attention.

My customer experience in GW2 has been a mixed bag of absolute delight, annoyance, and dissatisfaction.

My perception is that it is often difficult to “just enjoy the game” when those “flaws” directly negate enjoyment.

Perception is reality. Especially when it comes to gaming.

Glad your experience has been different.

Other customers have not been as lucky.

Every WvW Player:

Come on Anet it’s been almost 2 years! We need fixes and better balance!

Terrier.8732:

Doesnt the game look pretty, you should be happy

Who else read the OP like that?

Anet refuses to balance warriors and thieves and lets other classes languish in despair – e.g. rangers. stealth makes this game the laughingstock of mmos, seriously. even anet employees who aren’t developers realize these elements are badly broken.

it’s ok better games are launching.

If you don’t understand the negativity and complaints, maybe you should put some effort into attempting that instead of knee-jerk dismiss them as “QQ”.

I believe Cilag got trolled.

However, if PT plays here I will take the opportunity to work with the other server’s guilds to make sure you get wiped repeatedly every raid until your guild skill-less zerg tears itself apart. If you have any good players our guilds will poach them all.

First time using this, have played for a year. Have ranger necro and 2 mesmers. (Son plays one). I personally find the discussion insulting. A passive play style is materializing. A nerf to confusion in wvw and now let’s nerf another play style. Why attack a mesmer with his hand up? Why kill clones? The taking of camps I say foul. Those guards throw bolas and blind both bad for the mesmer. Just defend with npcs problem solved. If you are upset because you didn’t finish the said mesmer a retreat is a win. Protected camp. Move on. Roam with another. Not like a pu mesmer takes towers alone.

roamzero.9486:

The fact that PU was outright banned in a recent 2v2 tournament should be reason enough for PU Mesmer to be looked at.

Whose tournament? Means nothing its just a player one, if it was an official Anet one then yeah i would agree, otherwise, No.

I’ll agree to a nerf of PU mesmers and other counterplay builds when I go into WvW and don’t see some huge percentage of the players as otherwise-unkillable, and usually uncatchable, stun-spamming warriors.

Straegen.2938:

One of two things is true. Anet sets up a system that makes them money and then the purposefully subject us to said system or they are oblivious to the balance issues between server matches.

I have to say only an idiot creates an unbalanced competition then rewards participants based on said unbalanced competition. So either ANet is completely idiotic in this regard or diabolical. Hate to say it but I am leaning toward the idiotic side. As a developer I have cut them a tremendous amount of slack in the past but the first season of leagues was a horrible implementation and the second looks worse.

I really wish I liked ESO.

I’m leaning the other way. I could buy incompetence for season one, but to repeat the same mistakes again for the spring tournament takes an entirely new degree of incompetence. And this tournament even has new bad ideas on top of the old ones, that make it even worse…yet more profitable.

Incompetence just doesn’t explain it at this point. I see malice. They’ve acknowledged the balance/population/coverage issues, and claim to want to fix them. But their actions are doing the opposite.

keadlaw.6350:

Do the people making these decisions even play wvw?!

Should know by now this was a move to keep the PvE players preoccupied for the duration of season 2, while Anet somehow scraps up “content” for “the next big thing.” Now we have a lot of PvE-only players invading WvW chasing a carrot on a stick that aren’t even the least bit concerned about WvW at all.

Deniara Devious.3948:

Amazing that you get so much queues. Good luck in the Silver. I think Gandara will be fighting for 3rd spot in silver.

In the meanwhile on Desolation: No queues. Outnumbered usually on all maps, except on own borderland. And still ticking more points than the other two servers. :-)

just LOL… why have you covered the time on the mini map? me think’s because its 4 am, and out numbered buff only there from ur blob moveing to clear GH or AG’s border

Deniara Devious.3948:

Amazing that you get so much queues. Good luck in the Silver. I think Gandara will be fighting for 3rd spot in silver.

In the meanwhile on Desolation: No queues. Outnumbered usually on all maps, except on own borderland. And still ticking more points than the other two servers. :-)

WE all know that the points fromm deso are from night capping and not from your skills during prime ^^

Thanks for your sympathy Gandarans, Gandara will always have a special place in my heart too <3

Next time we face eachother me might not be on equal strength, but at least we can have the amazing fights we usually have when fighting eachother!

kaltastic.3146:

Kenadas.9680:

Why u removed them?

They gave a reason why they did it

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/wuv/Upcoming-Forum-Changes-to-WvW-Match-ups-Sub-forum/first#post3393146

Too much overhead to moderate toxic and abusive posters. Looking at the new w2www forums that replaced it I kind of see ANET’s position. Many of those match-up threads are just 20 pages of nerd rage and hate.

If they took the time to balance their gamemode, people wouldn’t be so hateful and full of rage. But that is too much work, so screw it.

Well from the far lands of EU, we’re losing 6 of our main WvW guilds whilst not gaining any as it seems, so it’ll be a very fun season, I’m sure!

Darek.1836:

thief is pretty good too for skilled players too

There is no such thing as skilled when playing a thief.

Funny, but I have a similar problem. I can’t seem to get my legendary because of all the gold it takes and the only way to make gold fast is in pve.

I have everything done since december and guess what still no lengendary.

Its ok for you guys anet is going to have server rotations in wvw to make it easier for pvers to get legendaries. Next up they will just give you carebears free gift of mastery and won’t even need a mesmer in jp to teleport you for badges because everything for a pver suppose to be on easy mode.

This way all carebears can spam there gear in lions arch and think they are almighty and then die almost instantly if they fight against a hardcore wvwer if they dared to step foot in wvw or spvp.

To the AG member that helped me (the necro character) get the Skill point in the south of the Riverside BL map, thank you. I also believe you were the same one that shared the capping of the vista to the left of it a few minutes later with me. As you were honourable, I let you be. I salute you, an enemy.

medohgeuh.4650:

I can’t even imagine that weapon combo being viable in any game mode.

Mightstacking boon share build, It is known.

Why not just remove Moa Morph in favour of a cool Elite? All 4 Shatter skills at once, 12 Clones instantly, 15s of Clones having 100% HP / 100% damage, stuff like that. Mesmery stuff.

Zogyark.4597:

Creslin.1758:

I think it’s hilarious that on the front page of this forum you can find like 3 posts complaining about how mesmers are ridiculously OP, and 3 complaining about how they are absolutely broken and useless.

Also, how is that good mesmer going to make sure that you don’t dodge his moa form? I’m not sure, but I think that the cast time probably exceeds the time that you are stunned from magic bullet.

What if I told you that you don’t have infinite dodges? The people that say they are broken and useless just haven’t l2p yet, we all know mesmers are great at plenty of roles and a must in tournaments, trust me I play one if we’re missing one in my team, moa, portals, mesmers on trebs, can hold points like a boss and 2vs1 easy tx to moa bird. MOA needs a nerf for an already strong class either increase toughness for a person in moa or increase health pool.

So you used all your dodges, and all your escape skills and then someone nailed you with a powerful skill before they recharged.

What is the problem here? If that is the case, then a warrior could have just bull’s rush + frenzy + one hundred blades and melted your face without all the need for bird theatrics. At least with moa you had a chance to survive lol, and those warrior skills aren’t even elite.

My main problem with this elite is that there’s no easy way to practice playing in Moa form… so every time I get transformed, it’s a few seconds of panic as I try to read a tooltip or remember what Moa4 is supposed to do.. and by then I’m long dead anyway.