Guild Wars 2

We’re just stylish enough to see ultraviolet.

Keep-jacking depends heavily on the defender’s manpower and timing. The bit I’d like to see changed would be that back door on Garrison. Why that doesn’t upgrade with all of the other Keep entrances is beyond me.

Don’t mind me. But, I’d say this is -overall- what SF has been clamoring for for months. Namely a proper challenge.
Otherwise, you lot enjoy yourselves. (Portals back to Fergworld)

VOLKON.1290:

Portals and waypoints are completely different. Waypoints require some form of mechanical anchoring bwtween the ends of the wormholes. Portals poke holes in reality via chaotic magics. Mesmers understand chaotic magics. Asura understand magitechnical anchoring and tuning. A charr engineer makes things go boom. Asuran mesmers understand everything and are the intellectually dominant forms of life on the planet.

Love the last line. Snaff, who?
But from a game-mechanics point, it could still work. An Engineer “Portal” or “Micro-waypoint” would logically require two devices placed at both ends of the resultant wormhole. This would replicate the mechanics of Portal Entre/Portal Exeunt in a
“technological” fashion.

And let’s be honest here. Mesmers are closer to Psionicists than Magicians, when one
looks at their ability list. The only reason they’re classed as “Magic-users” is due to GW
Lore.

VOLKON.1290:

By that logic portals should be a racial skill then? You’re not making sense. Portals are using chaos magic to go from point “A” to point “B” while skipping the points in between. While in the normal dimensions the shortest distance between two points is a straight line, when a mesmer tweaks reality the shortest distance between two points is nothing.

How do I not make sense, when I come up with an in-game “science” variation of a pre-existing skill? Sure, a lot of Engineer skins borrow their look from Charr aesthetics. But, look at crap like Elixirs – that’s obviously some “Mad Science” business, and -logically- reflects a more Asuran scientific methodology. With that in mind, logically the profession borrows its Science from both races’ setups. As such, it’s not
unreasonable that an Engineer -period- could pull such a thing off. Heck, let’s not discuss what Elixir S does to the idea of Conservation of Mass, for crying out loud.

The Reader’s Digest Version:
From a tech standpoint, Asura Waypoints create a wormhole between points “A” and “B”. Given that, the technology exists. Since the technology exists, it’s only a matter of time before other parties figure(d) it out. Problem solved.

VOLKON.1290:

Sorry, engineers are mechanical types… portals require being able to tap into chaotic magics like only a mesmer can. Mesmers tweak reality. Engineers make things go bang. It makes no sense to nerf mesmers, especially in such a silly way.

Saying that completely ignores one side of Engineering. Namely, the quantum/magitech side utilized by the Asura. An Engineer “Portal” would logically be based in Asuran technical progress. Hell, all they need to do, is shrink down their
Waypoint Generators. Sure, the power requirements would be hellish (i.e. C/D and/or # of targets concerns), but it is definately doable.

This could work. It’d also not be a blanket “Go sod yerselves” to any Mesmer what uses Confusion. Which is the problem with tomorrow’s nerf – it penalizes any Mesmer build what relies on Confusion as a damage addon, or a main damage output.

I went – and then stayed – Condimancer for a bleeding reason. And you lot’ve stated it. Hell, the only “smart” “pets” in this MMO are Mesmer Illusions … and that’s only due to how they’re summoned/targeted. Any “long duration” pet’s got serious issues.

OOTH: pets/minions no longer aggroing every frigging thing under the sun’s a good fix – now to get them to stop diddling themselves in the middle of a fight. Preferably that + finally removing Reanimator (or making it a Major – I took Death Magic for durability, not to have an Undead Ratdog.).

Parktou.4263:

P.S. I’m gonna start calling FC players Ferguson’s Cowards from here on out, sorry Moobs but no matter what toon I’m on 99% of your zerglings refuse to fight me without 3-4 people at their backs and none at my own, even the “roamers” if I can even call those cowards that. At least GoM had small ganksquads I could troll around with T.T look forward to thursday though.

You are soooooo running into the wrong Fergs. Hell, I rush small teams on uplevelled alts, on a recurring basis. (Although, those HoD at Temple of Storms in FCBL got me pretty quick last night. Still funny, though.) RE: Thursday; hopefully I can get this Norngineer to 80 before then.

Aokitten.7425:

Its clear there is something going on here… We are so far behind yet FC or HoD refuse to make an aggressive move on each other. Rather, they are just staying neck and neck attacking our(Eradon Terrace) BL and EB territory and pushing us further behind.

The only explanation must either be one of two things:
1. FC and HoD are afraid to anger each other and not want to make a decisive lead
OR
2. ET is far more powerful than either and so they have made a joint venture to suppress ET together.

Roflcopter. Seriously, bro – before I passed out last night, HoD’d been wrecking hell in our southern regions. The scrap for Champ/Greenvale/Greenwater alone raged for some hours. As much as it seems we’re gang-pounding your lot, we got our own issues

Always Night. I like their style.

Benji.9203:

As someone who alts mesmer I honestly think deceptive evasion needs an internal cooldown of 2-3 sec. As it stands now re-cloning after a shatter burst is too easy. Shatters need to come with higher risk. Just my opinion nothing serious.

Depending on how much Health “pets” are being given, something like that could be possible. Not, however, if clones/phants still take hits like wet toilet paper. After all, a lot of Condition specs use that Trait too.

You know what – I can work with something like this.

Heh – as a Condition Mesmer from 1-day headstart:
Go on, give that cursed utility to someone else. All it’s done for us, is be one of the major things that; 1.) Pidgeonhole the class into “Role X,” and 2.) Act as a roadblock to the class’ issues being worked on.
Seriously. How many threads have existed, RE: Mesmer bugs and fixing then, only to be drowned out by “But you have Portal and Time Warp, hurrr duuuur!”? I’m over it.
Especially with the Confusion mod. Cool, I’m still rolling Condi-build. But, there are some problems left to fix. Thank you.

But, back to the original point. You want it, Engis? You want the Curse of Portal? Go for it, bro.

Mif. This doesn’t need to be a Mesmer vs. Engineer bit. Fact is: Mesmer gets nerfed regularily – it’s just that many of those are “sneak” nerfs. As per Confusion, I’ve covered that bit in other posts recently.

Yet again, the game needs less nerfs and more buffs. Buff weaker abilities/class specs to become competitive, add more build variety, etc cetera, et cetera. Unfortunately, ANet (and indeed most MMO Devs) don’t go that route.

And indeed, now that this “OP” power is wrecked, it’ll take 5 freaking seconds – come 4/30/2013 patch – for these same folk to find their next thing to cry about. Meh.
This stupidity needs to cease, before we’re all packing an autoattack/a heal/smattering of crap utils/1 weaksauce Elite.

PVT’s a solid option. Of course, one can also (as with my Thief) work a mix of Knight/Valkyrie/Soldier. Of course, my Mesmer/Necro are condi specs, and thus Rabid (slightly modified with Rampager weapons), which is good against direct damage, but less so versus conditions. Hello, Lemongrass By contrast, my Ele is Cleric Armour/Magi trinkets … more of an “experimental” heal/precision build.

Victoitor: any class is OP, if the player’s got their crap down. Also, as an Engineer, you have a lot more control over which Conditions you can apply, as well as more of them to use.

Confusion ability is woven into Mesmers on a near-base level: Any Mes build with 15+
Illusions does – to a varying extent – rely on Confusion adding to their overall damage. As such: not only do Glamour-bombers get hosed, but also Shatter and Condition take a crack to the head. It’s like if Guards got their Burning proc dropped by a major percentage; even if you’re not a Condition-Guard, you’re going to lose out some.

Darek.1836:

Mesmers have always been one of the most unbalanced and overpowered class. If you dont believe it, go roll one and see how easily you can face roll everyone.

We both know I respect you overall. However, considering you’re running a Guardian, with the kind of heal/defense/utility they can possess … “Hello, Pot! This it Kettle. Guess what I got on wholesale, bro? Black Paint!”

Here’s the rub – a 25-33% drop would’ve “balanced” Confusion for WvW. 50% frigging guts it. And, you also have a Mesmer, correct? How controllable are most Mesmer Conditions, besides Confu? Hell, a Condition Mesmer has half kitten control over Bleed procs, if they’re packing 15+ Dueling. That’s it. Burn’s random, and for some
ungodly reason, ANet has Winds of Chaos random-procing Vuln. Which is crap for a
Condi-spec, IMO.

The other problem, is that PvP and WvW use differing EQ loadouts. Even my Mesmer – with Rabid Armour/Trinkets, and Rampager weapons – is, by PvP standards, a beast of a different colour. This is reflected in the stat differences a char (with the same build) possesses in both game modes.
This doesn’t even account for the difference between the number of combatants in each game mode. A game mode with a couple handsful of people does not = a game mode with hundreds of possible combatants. What works on one, logically cannot
work as well on the other.
Unfortunately, the smallest % population in this game (last I knew, PvP was the smallest #, followed by Wuvwuv, and finally PvE) has an outright drastically inverse influence as compared to their physical numbers. And, there we are. Nerfs which can be argued to have gone a tad too far.

Travlane.5948:

there is only 2 classes that need a nerf…..ELE for mobility / spamming. and mesmer for burst dmg and having no reall need to do anything other than roll around letting phants/clones do dmg/blow up.

Take it from a guy what runs Ele, Mes and Thief. Thief arguably got off easy. Spare 2k (or perhaps more, scaling with Healing Power …) heal in a pinch. Hell, my Thief runs around with 2600+ Armour. That could easily = her surviving a bit longer in a scrap. And between boon-rip from: Flanking Strike/Bountiful Theft/Superior Nullification, I could sodding well shred a Boon-lover down, even with less “burst” damage.

By comparison: Mesmer got jacked on Confusion, the major player-controlled Condition the class possesses. Burn is a random proc from Staff autoattack, Bleed is part random/part from illusions using 15+ Dueling traitline (and only procced from crits.)
Ele’s RTL will have 2x C/D when used to escape a fight. This makes it a bit easier for a Thief to catch ’em. And we all know what happens then…

Ross Biddle.2367:

Gibson.4036:

Can we at least please increase our ability to stack other conditions to compensate for the confusion nerf?

I’m another one who has gone through the trouble and expense of kitting out completely in Rabid gear. It cost a lot more than gearing up a power build. Now I wish I hadn’t spent so much time and gold on it.

4/30 = shelved mesmer and ele

Guess I’m going to finally level a thief.

Lol, you know it’s bad when it drives someone to leveling a thief.

Guess it was bad for me a while ago. Levelled/tricked my (evasion/tank) Thief out a while ago.
I just hope that ANet helps out the Condition Mesmer a bit. Prob with Confu is that it is the main Condition we can reliably toss out. Even knocking Vuln offa WoC would help a good bit. Sharper Images/Superior Earth rocks for Bleeds, but that (and our chance of Burning) relies heavily on Clones living for a bit. Now, look at a Condition Engi…sure, this bones Prybar/Static/Confu-bomb spreads, but the profession can still plant a slew of Conditions on your behind.
Meh. Almost makes me wish I blew those other 2 Ascendeds on my Thief or Necro.
Almost. I’ll see what happens with this whole bit, I may have to experiment a bit more
with Mantras or a Blurred Signets spread.

Well, obastable: You needed something to replace Zombieland. I hope Mend’s doing the job for you, I always considered them a pretty tight Guild. Not to say ET’s got nothing going for ‘em – that’s patently untrue. With that said, bring on the next weeks, I’ve got alts to level and gear up

NSP, GoM … do us a favour if you please. Send DR down here, we owe those fun folks

Heh, ET – we had to deal with both you and HoD tonight. Trust me, we’re dealing with their incursions as well. Speaking of HoD, welcome to the Nietzsche Tier.

Meh. As I said on a WvW thread about this very subject: They would listen to the QQers. Thanks for reaming a good zerg-counter. Worst part is, if they’d went with a 25-33% drop, instead of half … it’d still punish your target, but not be OMGWTFBBQ powerful.

OTOH, the Signet change at least makes using my Condition Signet workable. Now, if we can get that bloody Vuln off of our Staves…

So far:
1.) Meh.

2.) Bloody hell, you would listen to the stinking QQers. >_< Thanks for shagging one of the better anti-zerger moves (Conf.)let alone a nice defense (Retal.).
(Mind you, that assumes they go for that 50% drop. That’s arguably too far down. 25-33% would make the biz less OMGWTFBBQ, but still punishing.)

3.) That was never the real problem of dealing with Thieves, anyway. All the extra Revealed did was punish Thief players for being a bit more tactical with using Stealth as a defense. Not to mention, it throws off a player’s timing in a fight.
Hell, they’re supposed to be the local “Ninjas” – walk in, cap a high-profile target, then GTFO. It’s why their access to defensive Boons is rather limited, overall.

XelNigma.6315:

If it was a weapon kit that had a very obvious looking tesla rod kind of staff with a electrical generator backpack, then maybe. But i doesn’t work if I equip a wooden staff with a flower on the end and shoot electricity and claim its tech not magic.

Come up with this, please. I’ll be happy to +1 a GW2 Tesla Coil.

Nordic Natedog.4360:

Not always the case. When they have opened up transfers, it was to go to lower populated ones. Some, like GoM, will never be opened to free transfers. Also, when they last did it, GoM had just won the week at T7 and HoD got a huge influx of WvW players. Next week we get stomped by HoD’s new zergs and the following week we ended up in T8.

I am largely an AM player and I can tell you that I see some GoM’s on but often I am defending our BL by myself or with a force of 4-8.

That’s more of the “Exception to Any Rule” than an actual thing. Looking at the recent setup:
We entertained VK for a week. Not a bad thing, by any means. But let us contrast:
ET got (at the very least) Agg and FoE. Agg (IIRC) just left, FoE is still present.

Now, at the time these things happened:
We Fergs were Red, ET was Blue. This would seem to pan out along with my previously mentioned logic to an extent. Namely, that folk are aligning with the “higher” ranks in the Tier. Now, the point where your idea becomes true is that:
To my knowledge, GoM got jack-all outta this last wave, and indeed your new
Guild addition was -what- a day or two ago?

The rest is just timing/coverage issues. You folk have a darned strong presence when our side’s starting to drop off for the night. ET tends to be brutal in the early morning (say 4-9 AM, EST).

Fact is, I’m not -at all- giving you Gomnomberries flack. Hell, I rather enjoy our little house-party. It’d be a right shame, if something were to wreck it.

I’ve done alright with just tossing any Email accts through Thunderbird, with scripts/remote data blocked.
A lot of hacking is pure social engineering. Watch your butt on random links/attachments, it goes a long way. Except for bloody Hotmail – that crap’s sliced through on the regular.
It also helps to use unrelated words/symbols. Some of mine are old pen-and-paper RPG character names. Go ahead, try to dictionary-strike a word that doesn’t naturally exist, plus random numbers/non-numeric characters. It’s doable, but will take far longer than someone with the “classics” (crap like DOB/parent’s name/etc.)

Iskandor.9415:

I wonder if FC will ever get the mass influx that has screwed us over at least three times now. It happened for Kaineng, it happened for Devona’s Rest, it happened for Sorrow’s Furnace (and yet we were stuck with them for frigging forever…)

Nope, Isquen. And here’s why. Note the placement/colouring of all three servers you just mentioned. Yea, they’re Green. THAT’S why they got more in the way of transfers, particularily DR/Kain. Folk went to those servers specifically because they were winning the Tier.
(Which is just funny. You want to make a true difference, why not go Blue, or even Red? Obviously, those are the guys in a Tier that are really hurting.)

The worst part? We’re still sexy bastids.

Considering your Toughness gain from Traits, versus Vitality? Undead, all the way, especially if you’re planning to WvW using that build. I’d also go for 409, for condition cleansing on Elixir usage. But, YMMV.
Another possible option’d be 5 Lich, 1 (other). Go for a bit more Health, and Condition Duration.

(I’m torn between straight Condi and Tankcat, for when my Norngineer hits 80. /shrug)

+infinite #‘s
Tell me about it. Here I am, Norngineer in T1 Cultural … lookin smexxy as hells. Then, I use a Kit, and our gal’s fashion sense goes down the toilet faster than ticked-off Quaggans foo up a Krait’s day.
While we’re at it, I’d also love (even Gem-bought) skins to differentiate our weapon kits/turrets. I’d go around swiping Asura tech, along with the usual Steampunk look.

I’m never Staff-less. Thus (when I go for a Legendary), it’s all about Bifrost.

Truth is, Rabid spec works pretty much the best. Mainly since most Professions have some Conditions what trigger on-crit. There’re also the C/T/V specced Ascended items, so maybe that combo’ll filter eventually into standard EQ, as a full-defense option for condi builds. Although, I wonder how a Condition (main)/Precision + Vitality (secondary) spec’d pan out …

Frankly, it’s 250 years after the worst parts of Human-Charr conflict. I’m not going to condemn their entire race based on the actions of long-dead idiots on both sides. Hello Adelbern, Grenth would like to talk to you …

Absolutely. There shouldn’t be that amount of guesstimation on any two-parter Skill.

The only thing I would ask about, is why Superior Hoelbrak and not Melandru? I mean, sure Hoelbrak grants a nice chunk of Power, but Melandru’d grant a bit more -cond and some Toughness, which Carrion EQ lacks. Also, IMO, I just can’t get behind those 5% chance of Effect “X” on hit Runes. That percentage’s just abysmally low. Otherwise, I can definately see how this build’d be fun to use.

Meh. We’ve got physical server racks in NA and EU, IIRC. Problem with that spec is that you’re going to have nations – and their players – overlapping. Speaking from a USA mindset, I’ll game with/against anyone, assuming we have some ability to communicate. Of course, my opinion’s probably a bit biased, seeing as my first MMO
(Forsaken World) had, by default, a large Chinese presence.

Effectively: We’re all gamers, why not attempt to coexist, neh?

Obviously, I need to share my recipe for Gomnomberry Cake. All jokes aside, it’s funny how GoM works. Shows up hella strong during the week, even if reset’s completely against ’em. Now, we may wish to keep you lot around. And those wacky ET kids.

As far as a few folks giving someone guff for coming from PvP > WvW and having issues:
Fact is, I understand his problem. I’m ~80% WvW, 15% PvE, 5% PvP. Going from WvW > PvP throws my calculations off, fight/buildwise. I’m sure the reverse is just as much a P.I.T.A. Luckily for him, we’re the WvW addicts. As such, we can supply logistics for this kind of situation. So, why be harsh?

Honestly, the stealth and haste issues didn’t directly effect me. My build’s been high Acro for a good chunk of the time I’ve run the alt. I tend to run SB + P/P or S/P and hit folks from all over the place. Don’t get me wrong, I can see the issue stealth builds are having. If my entire timing chain got thrown off by even a second, it’d definitely mess things up.
As for the PW business: hells YES, revert PW damage. Haste’s half of what it used to be, so I’d like my PW back to spec. Failing that, at least remove the bloody self-root.

Plague + Chilling Darkness can wreck a Thief pretty decent, if you’re a Condimancer spec. But, yes, the amount of possible stealth on a D/P set is pretty harsh.
Keep in mind, however, that Thieves also have a bad relationship with Stability. Fear-bouncing the lil bastids is a viable strategy, if you’re traited for it. (Fear the silly stealther off a cliff, even). Honestly, I’d have to say the overall best option is to check and then interrupt their timing. Your conditions will keep ticking on ‘em, unless they’re specced for condition drop in Stealth. Invert any of their conditions back on ’em. Make ’em waste their Initiative.

Fact is, Thieves rely on position and timing, over anything else. Fighting them’s a bloody chess match. And if you toss their timing off, they’re screwed. For example, the one who nailed you with 5 Backstabs, is obviously not a higher damage spec. Use that against the guy, you’re packing goodly Health and DS.

Now, as far as nerfing on-stealth traits: Why bother, since that’s 10+ Traits said Thief doesn’t pack in -say- Deadly Arts. Less burst is good for whoever’s stuck fighting the guy. Stealth-ressing is a tricky one to argue. It’s one of those things that’s great to have, but sucks to fight against. I’d probably just Reaper’s Mark the Thief, then Mark/Well-bomb him for trying that wackiness.

Raven. My Norn’s an Engineer, so it made sense she’d be one of Raven’s crew. After all, Raven represents wisdom/trickery. Made sense to me, at least.

Galen Wrathpyre, Iron Legion Guardian.

EDIT: I should have done this earlier – Thoran Godslayer’s a pretty stylish name. Hell, it could work for a Charr or a Norn.

Sororita.3465:

geekanerd.4123:

GoM.

Your zergs are uncoordinated and full of zerkers. I watched 10 of your zerg earlier today chase one Ferg, allowing us to wipe the rest outside of Anz. Whilst I appreciate the loot bags, I know you can do better than this.

Hugs and kisses.

Its called EB, i could say the same for any ET or FC in EB also. Numerous times 5-10 GoM have held back 30+, probably same for others too.

There’s just … something about EB what removes tactics and common sense. Or we could blame reset night. Either way, do bring us more of your GoMnomberries, please

Galrond.5972:

Yes you are, mainly because confusion is op.

This. Teamfights vs a team with condition mesmer? Already lost if you don’t have like 5 elementalists who constantly spam condition removal.

The rest is fine, but confusion needs to be hit by the nerftruck.

Please. I think there’ve been enough nerfs, based out of PvP-logic. Goodness, the smallest % population in-game truly wields an inordinate amount of nerf-ology. All confusion needs – as I’ve stated before – is to no longer trigger on crap like:
-Non-attack Ele Swaps
-Non-attack Dodge-traits.

The rest’s a simple matter of watching your tail..

I personally went Thief. Hello, corporate espionage! Although, an Asura with pets bigger than they are could be rather entertaining …

Tell me about it. For that matter – while I get that ANet wants to sell T Crystals – the droprate on those in the wild is abysmal. As regards the cutoff point, they honestly should’ve went with 70-80, since 70’s when you start really seeing Exotics, and can break
EQ down for Ectos.

That’s a darn good question. We know that they do eat and breathe, thus the need for elimination would be logical. Unless their “intestines” are more like the business end of a pitcher plant, and all their food intake is broken down completely, I’d argue they need to vent waste somehow.

Heh. I look at Alchemy/Elixirs as being more like the Mutagens from the Witcher series.
I could definately see some Asura or Lecter-esque Charr going for that route.
It could also be derived from Sylvari and their plant-parts, tbh.

Sororita.3465:

GoM fears the GoM night crew. Even I, the great Honeybuns, who fears nothing, fears them.

I just have to say … that is one of the funniest names ever put on a frigging Necromancer.

I’ve got Warden/Glyphic. (Saving for dual Warden, or Warden + Nightmare.)