Guild Wars 2

People who alt-f4 all the time should be banned from playing Wv3 if they constantly do it. Seriously, its not like its too hard to make the cash back that you spend on repairs!

I was on my lvl 14 Ele the other day and some thief and guardian jumped me as I was walking around for the map completion, I could have alt-f4 but it was pointless just for the sake of saving a few Silver, would have had to re-open the client and log back in and re-join the que etc!
Although they proceeded to stomp my corpse and dance on me and stuff… as if 2 OP classes killing a lvl 14 Ele in noob gear is really an accomplishment! Went back with my Mesmer and they ran off. Im sure they would have alt-f4’d if Id have taken them down though… some people are just like that!

Just did the Shatterer event, got stuck in a crystal, all my skills EXCEPT blink we’re unusable (blacked out)… but when I tried to blink out of the crystal it wouldn’t do anything, just kept saying no line of sight. Before you could just blink out of crystals, not sure if its the same for the COE bosses and if Phase retreat still lets you jump out of being stuck or if that is going to suffer from LOS too.

Also while I was there I noticed that the changes in elevation on the terrain seriously affected my ability to summon Phants! Even when there was only small changes in terrain they wouldn’t spawn, it makes it really difficult to get any damage going when you’re having to walk around trying to find a stable place to cast from.

Yep, kind of disappointed, Mesmer is now one of the only classes without a decent AOE attack. Lets face it, Chaos storm doesn’t inflict anywhere near the amount of damage that other classes can cast up on walls, iBerserker was the only thing that came close to it for us
Now we can cast Chaos Storm on the front of a wall and just hope that people will stand there long enough for it to do something…
Anet seems to have listened to all the complaints from people who don’t even play the class as usual!

I hope this is made right by giving us a decent AOE skill, regardless of what weapon it is attached to!

Moddo.7105:

They might not even be passing threw anything. With simple editing of memory you can change value of gravity and jump over tower wall no problem. do it using invis and no one would know.

This one sounds about right. I have witnessed a Mesmer do this multiple times, she left her party underneath the cliffs at Sunnyhill keep, ran up to the north wall, literally leaped onto the wall and dropped the portal for her party and then they all casually walked into the Lords room and took the tower.

When we took it back I hid on the roof where the vista is and bombed them with Izerkers when they did it the second time, they then moved onto other targets once they realised we were watching Sunnyhill!

Its more casually known as “fly hacking”.

Make sure you screenshot and report anyone doing it.

Great work! Just registered as we totally need a Server only place to chat, its annoying having to search for threads on this forum that only relate to AG!

Not really a “game” suggestions but there isn’t a place for general suggestions; but can we get a sub category section for each of the servers?
So players from a server will be able to post things relevant only to them and not have to go hunting through places such as “wvwvw” etc to find stuff.

It would be nice if we could have it only viewable by players on said server too, so we can organise stuff for WvW in private or organise server wide events

Inside dungeons :
“Lets do this the easy way for a change and use some of those amazing Mesmer utility’s”

Seriously, no one ever listens when I tell them I can make things easier for them -_-;

Tried making an Ele and Warrior… have yet to find the desire to continue either of them past level 10 lol
Sounds stupid but I’m sure other Mesmer’s feel the same way… but I’m thinking of playing a Mesmer as my alt lmao!
(Never even found any difficulty in levelling in PvE either, find it hard to understand why people complain so much about it!)

iZerker doesn’t need touching, at all! It works how I imagine it was designed to work.
Its an illusion created in the mind of the user, why would it need a LOS? You’re not spawning a clone that has to run anywhere, you’re creating an illusion… at a set point that your thinking of … regardless of where that point may be. (Just like portals, why would you need LOS on tele’ing through portals)

No other class gets complained at that their AOE skills can hit tops of keeps etc, people just accept that Rangers can rain down arrows on you, Eles can drop storms on you etc, why ruin the iZerker when other classes essentially aren’t targeting any specific players. If they want to change it they should just make it a ground targeted AOE like other classes so we can drop it into a crowd like others do and let it spin in circles in a set radius (Which would probably make it more powerful and useful for us anyway).
Right now it relies on having an actual player targeted just to be able to use the skill, rangers/ele’s etc don’t have that same issue. (I use those two as main examples of a “caster” class even though others do have rangers AOEs)

I find it highly amusing when I throw a Zerker at someone and it smashes half of their life away in a crit and they just stand there and let it keep doing it lol. My first reaction when I get one summoned on me is to kill it, whether I’m on top of a keep or at the door trying to get in, I know what its capable of, why let it do any more than 1 attack when its so easy to kill! (again, you can kill it, where as you can’t really stop arrows pounding you in anyway other than moving away from the red circle of doom that’s raining arrows down on you!)

People are always asking to nerf anything that makes a Mesmer, well, a Mesmer!
Lets face it, phantasms are our only real source of high sustained damage (which can be stopped easily enough with an attack or two on the phant), if it wasn’t for clones TAKING most of our damage and Phant’s DOING most of our damage, we’d be pretty screwed!

The hackers from AM are from the guild [War] just fyi.

Just seen a few Abaddons Mouth players fly hack into Long View Tower on the Aurora Glade Borderlands and then Mesmer port in a team of players, luckily there weren’t many of them so a few of us plus the vets killed them!
Seriously, why cheat when you’re ahead :S

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AkiraZero.8514:

Xanti.8672:

actually im just waiting for some flyhackers… would fit your playstyle so far. i really hope i’m wrong with that.

Don’t throw stuff like that around as if you can judge a whole server by the actions of a single person please.

quoting just a part of a post aint always good ma friend ^^
in case you havent read my whole posts….

My post was entirely relevant. Regardless of what excuses you tried to post after what you said, you still came in here trying to throw accusations at a whole server instead of addressing the message to the person who was glitching. you could have titled it to the guild of the person who did it instead.
1 person bugged, the other “35” as you claim that he ported in could have been told anything, he could have said he was in there from a previous battle or anything, even if it is highly unlikely he was.

We take WvW seriously and don’t like the idea of VS cheaters let alone having cheaters so if we can get rid of those cheaters we will, but tarnishing the whole server over a few people’s actions (and yes, even 35 people is a few when we are talking about thousands of people per server) is undignified.
When it comes down to it, you have the numbers to defend regardless, so just report the people bugging and do what you do best, hold those keeps!

Forgive me for being defensive, but when I come on the forums and see someone addressing our entire server I can only imagine what people from other servers will start to think of us just because you decided to bring your worries here. We don’t want to be known by our opponents as cheaters before we’ve even had chance to fight them.

It is a real shame, we were going strong right up until the blacktide match-up, we’d pretty much decimated the French servers right before that but then it just went downhill from there.
Me and a few guildies were talking about switching servers but realised that wouldn’t really help the problem, it would just mean Aurora would be losing yet more people.

Then we were talking about how other servers have lots of great guilds running in their matches and we could do with some, the only time we seem to get major guilds running for us is when we’re winning and they come in and spam chat with “X guild is doing this… X guild is doing that” as if they want the glory for everything but then suddenly vanish when we’re losing!
There’s only been a few constant guilds helping out in WvW for us, so thanks guys for not jumping ship too when things go bad!

As soon as free transfers stop and the tiers even out, I.E, servers such as Millers that have far greater numbers will go up and be matched against other high pop/high skilled servers and we’ll be matched up against other under-dogs that are smaller but have a lot of fight in them! Lets just hope its sooner rather than later before all of our players get sick of the scores and leave us!

I must say though, the other day when RoF we’re just portaling us to death every time we tried to move was rather amusing, never seen such organisation from any of our other matches so we might learn some tactics from these better servers!

Xanti.8672:

actually im just waiting for some flyhackers… would fit your playstyle so far. i really hope i’m wrong with that.

Don’t throw stuff like that around as if you can judge a whole server by the actions of a single person please.
I’ve been on AG since beta and this is the first time I’ve heard of any of us using any sort of a Glitch. As you’ll notice in our own battleground, we are severely outnumbered by both RoF and MS but we are still trying our hardest to fight back despite the recent scores driving most people to switch to different servers.
We are a proud server and wont let the actions of the few taint the reputation of the rest of us, if any glitching occurs just report it instead of coming on the forums trying to give us a bad name please.

Keep up the good work in WvW, you guys are really making us work to take even the smallest of points Hopefully it won’t cause too many more of our players to ditch us and run away to severs that winning like the last fight did.

Hard to defeat a “perma-stealth-thief” if you don’t see them coming but if you manage to see one coming there are a bunch of skills that will help you out

!!MOA!! – If I see the Thief coming and I have time to react I stop moving, switch my elite to Moa, wait until he’s in range (usually keep my back to them to pretend I haven’t seen them coming) then Moa them! It’ll throw them off guard as they aren’t used to getting in close without being able to stealth! Then I drop a berserker on them, mirror blade then either start blasting auto attacks or switch to Staff and drop a Chaos Storm/Warlock on them as they try to flee. Mostly this should do the trick. Keep blink handy for when they try to run and decoy in case they don’t die and then come after you.
Whenever they go invisible just keep moving, roll when possible, decoy/viel to stop them having an easy target on you.

If they’re in a group then you’re boned anyway if you’re alone lol! Non stealthy thief’s are rarely a problem since you can just throw clones out to distract them while your at distance!

Mesmer’s aren’t the fastest leveller’s regardless of what your going to be using, you should go with whatever seems to work best for you. I personally found Greatsword and Staff to work best for me but if you’re happy to get in close to mobs you can always go Sword/pistol for some good damage and maybe switch out pistol to focus for the speed skill.

I never really bothered with what gear I used until I hit 80, once I could buy Light Armor for karma after finishing the heart quests I just used those until 80.
I run full berserker gear now with ruby gear for Power/Precision/Crit rate to boost my damage out put and I’ve never really felt “squishy” but when it comes down to it you should play whatever feels best to you.

I would suggest going into The Mists and trying out PvP, all the gear and stuff is free so you can try as many build/weps/stats/traits as you want until you find something that fits your play style.

You’ll want to get the Ether Feast heal skill asap as its the best heal skill we have.
The first tier of unlocks, the best ones to go for are blink/decoy/null field. Blink is great for getting out of a sticky situation when you need to by yourself some more time. Decoy is much the same excepts summons an illusion. Null field will cure you of conditions but is also a combo field so you can drop it on a mob and then fire off say GS skill 2 (mirrorblade) and get the physical projectile finisher combo.

Also you could look up the The Comprehensive Mesmer Guide videos on YouTube, a guy has done like 4 videos which I found really helpful!

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Agreed, the amount of people able to use it could do with adjusting, although it wouldn’t really change anything. If it was limited to 5 players, you could port 5 more Mesmer’s in who could then port 5 more people in each, it would require more planning and better execution on a teams part, but the results would still be the same. (Although making a team work better together in these ways is probably a much better way to make players use better tactics and planning!)

I’m sure the portal at the moment “can” be devastating against a server not willing to look for Mesmers (through fault of their own), but at the same time, I haven’t managed to use it effectively yet as most people ignore me yelling “COME HERE, I CAN PORTAL YOU IN”, most people just idiotically ignore you and do what everyone else is doing and attack the walls with no real effect lol
When it comes down to it, its all about tactics, if your just going to zerg from one place to another gaining points without worrying about defending then you’ll probably lose the keep you just took anyway. It takes real coordination to get a full team to portal properly and efficiently, where as it only takes 1 or 2 people to stay behind while your zerg runs off to check the keep for players hiding. But like I say, changing the amount of people that can use a portal wouldn’t change anything, only nerfing the portal completely so it cant go through walls would stop it.

Although the people saying the portal shouldn’t be able to pass the wall anyway obviously don’t understand what a portal is, it’s a gateway taking you from one place to another, not via a straight line or path or projection using LOS, just instantaneously from one location to another! Why would it ever be blocked by walls? Captain Kirk didn’t worry about using a transporter because there were walls in the way of his destination :P
If they nerfed the way the portal works it would make it pretty useless (if it was made a skill that used LOS). it’d only be able to be used to switch between two close destinations to keep yourself out of melee range of something, but an enemy would know exactly where you were going to appear so it’d be pretty useless in that way too in pvp/wvw . They can do what they want with the number of people that can use it, but I hope they don’t change the ability to go through walls.

Again this leads into the Commander thing, a good commander who’s earned his title and knows how things work should be making sure Mesmer’s ALWAYS at least try to stay inside a lost keep to get them back in and should be ready to organise and rally the troops back through the portal to take it back.
On the flip side, a good commander should also be telling a team not to leave until a keep is completely checked for Mesmer’s, this rarely happens when someone has paid for something they haven’t earned.

There should be a ranking system based on how much a player has contributed in various ways in WvW, voting would just make large guilds vote themselves as commanders which isn’t really earning it either.

I very rarely see Necro’s in WvW tbh, not to say there aren’t any, just not enough to have put me through my paces like other classes, poison builds can screw me over since I rarely use remove spells on my mes as I find other utility’s more useful to me in the long run.

A good player, regardless of class, who knows exactly how is character works best will put up a great fight, but if you know how your own character performs best you should always know the best way to fight/defend against specific classes.

Mesmer, its the only character I play but I doubt I’d enjoy anything more.
I play a glass cannon build but since I’m full exotics I can still withstand some punishment too.
Chasing down cowards that try to run from me and slamming a berserker on them and crippling them and then just pouncing on them until they die! Especially those guardians with major high health, always good to see a tank trying to flee when you know they’d be better to stand and fight since you have no real HP yourself xD
Plus its great fun when storming a keep and all those people standing on the walls thinking they’re invincible get hit by a berserker and don’t know what’s happening to them!
I think just the berserker aspect in general wins it for me, when we’re being chased away by a mega zerg I tend to stop and wait for our members that are falling behind and throw a berserker into the enemy crowd to slow them down and then drop the invisibility skills to help my team members get away enough to regroup.

Most classes stick with one weapon combo and rarely change in WvW, I tend to switch up weapons for there various skills and effects and combo fields, my build doesn’t really effect my weapon choice, I just go with whatever I think is going to be most effective in certain situations which I doubt any other classes do, they just go for highest damage output.

Thief’s aren’t a real class, they’re just a bunch of people who don’t want to use any skill so they go for dagger builds with the stealth that’s currently bugged and makes them invisible for longer than it should! I’ll be glad to see the culling fixed so they become visible when they should, it will soon stop them thinking they are indestructible!

As a Mesmer I always find my skills to be more useful in or against a zerg, rarely do I laugh as hard as when I throw a berserker into the middle of an oncoming zerg and watch them all lose a bunch of health and start panicking, I’m a glass cannon Mesmer with all power/prec/crit/ruby gear and I will happilly stand and fight a larger crowd over 1v1’ing.
It’d be easy for me to solo, I don’t tend to have much trouble against even tanky guardians if I can keep myself moving enough, but its WvW and if I wanted that kind of battle I’d go to PvP.

If Thief’s were more risk vs reward like other classes they wouldn’t solo as much, right now its not really a risk in a 1v1 situation for them if they can maintain stealth for the majority of a battle! Or just disengage and run away when they know they aren’t going to win.

I know my Mes can cause major harm to any class but I also know if I’m not focusing on what I’m doing and slip up with the timing of a skill I’m going down hard lol

Yeah, I noticed this in WvWvW yesterday. I took a guy down and proceeded to “finish him” only for nothing to happen, tried again and same thing he just carried on healing, so I had to finish him off with attacking instead which was slow since he was still healing rather fast even when I was attacking him!

Thief’s suck at pretty much everything else when it comes to WvW, that’s why they go looking for solo challenges.
Why fight in a zerg where you can’t contribute on a larger scale when you can just run around invisible picking off people who don’t even see you coming!
If the rendering issue is fixed and they don’t stay invisible even when they drop out of stealth they’ll soon run into trouble!! Right now even when they drop out of stealth they aren’t becoming visible straight away and they can blast off 2-3 attacks before visibility properly kicks in, by which time they can re-stealth anyway.
It’s sad to see everyone rolling thief’s and just using daggers because of the invisibility bugs, it shows no real skill and no willingness to enjoy a class for all its worth!
I’m sure they have lots of great abilities but they will never be used when you can just run around mashing the same few buttons for easy kills or even worse just running away when its not working out for them because no other class can really catch them.

Lot of good points here, hopefully some of which will be looked at by ANet to make WvW more enjoyable.
The one I really disagree with is Mesmer portals, people are just whining about it due to getting stomped without realising it, simply because they we’re too busy zerging off to their next destination before fully sweeping the place they just took over.
My server is also guilty of this, doesn’t matter how often I tell them to check every corner I still see them all run off and I end up having to check a whole keep by myself!
If you cant have 2-3 people just spend an extra minute or 2 to check around then the only real blame should be placed on yourself.

Also as a Mesmer I can tell you the portal isnt all that great, even when I manage to stay behind in a keep thats just been zerged to death, its very rare people pay enough attention to me to take advantage of it, they usually ignore me shouting in map chat where to come to in order to be ported back in and just go swing wildly at the gates until they die! >.<

Another addition to the list would be the commander title, it should be earned and not bought, I’ve seen it brought up in many, many threads. People generally blindly follow commanders into whatever situation is going on just because of the icon, even if its an obviously bad plan!
There should be a system to earn ranks instead!

As a Mesmer the only class that gives me any real trouble is Thief, simply because it takes a while to really cast any clones/phantasms that give me my damage and Thief’s just go in and out of invisibility far quicker than it takes to cast my spells.
I imagine once the the graphic rendering gets fixed it should make them a little easier to deal with since most of them are taking advantage of the rendering issues and just walking around invisible the majority of the time!
Other Mesmer’s sometimes get the better of me too either by MOA’ing me or just spamming clones and running like hell, I tend to be an all or nothing kind of Mes and don’t run until either their dead or I am!