Guild Wars 2

Pistol whip got buffed accidentally and should get nerfed, months later.

If legendaries were not boe then how would Anet make money?

This game is all about the credit card, and it can’t stay all about the credit card if players are generating too much gold.

Spirit watch and that kittening orb is the worst imo, much worse than skyhammer.

Dav.9152:

My question is whether unidentified dyes will still be available enough to get the Gift of Color for Bifrost after they remove them as loot drops. I don’t know how feasible it will be to farm them from “in-game rewards”.

This is what worries me too, what happens to the gift of color? I’ve seen enough of Anet to know that they are more than capable of overlooking a detail like this just casually letting the cost of 250 unidentified dyes quadruple without batting an eyelash. Just look at how expensive cloth ascended armor is compared to leather, for no apparent reason other than sloppy design.

Asura have a slight advantage being so tiny, noobs will have an even harder time targeting the real you. On the other hand big norn illusions will be bigger and better distractions for noobs.

Vs skilled players race doesn’t matter though, at all :p I do prefer to spvp on asura toons for what it’s worth, every little counts there.

Traveler or speed runes and stealth is more than enough for me in most situations. You can blink and heal while stealthed, you can even portal while stealthed.

Running in one direction while channeling mass invisibility and turning around the moment you stealth will fool pretty much everybody except for skilled players, but even they will have to take a guess which direction you went. If everything is off cooldown you can chain the stealth for 10+ seconds of stealth which should obviously be enough to hide or run from an army.

In short stealth, juke, blink/portal while stealthed if you can’t use terrain to increase distance between you. If you don’t want to chain stealth in a situation, don’t blow everything at once so you can keep juking.

PU is pretty much immortal roaming while minding cooldowns. Personally I don’t even use portal or veil, torch4, decoy and mass invisibility is enough. Only really skilled thieves give me trouble occasionally, probably because they understand blink/stealth more than others and they can definitely keep up with you.

I’ve been wanting a balanced variation of trident auto attack and trident clones on mesmer staff since beta. I love trident so much, I wish I could say the same for staff.

Staff is just too slow in all aspects without a real trade-off, imo.

I went for celestial jewelry and weapons, zerker armor. Attack is a bit low, rest is fine.

You can always roll a big muscly Norn mesmer with a manly but pink beard and pretend you have a sense of humor and open mind.

I hope they will change enough so that I can finally justify making (buying) a Bifrost. I’ve always wanted that weapon but I’ve never been able to convince myself it is worth the cost.

Ugruk.4069:

meichor.7809:

The reward IS the GOLD. Once they merge pvp armor with pve armor, it’s ALL buyable/craftable with relationship to GOLD.

getting the big picture?

Gold is OK…

That thing you can make 10 times faster in pve?

A credit card works even better!

I would put 10 points into arcane so you can grab the larger staff radius trait, then put everything else in fire taking all the simple dps increasing traits (VI, VII, XI or XII) and just kill everything with staff fire 1 and 2.

If you somehow manage to die before killing you can always take the lava tomb trait so you can finish off the mob even if you get downed. Put any surplus points into air for the stats or wherever else you want to. Try to get as much power, crit% and precision on your leveling greens as possible, avoid everything else.

Fast, easy and efficient, no risk. Just don’t pretend you are a warrior and pull 5+ mobs at a time.

ultranawak.7183:

Yes this is our last stand and i hope real players (allies, friends and ennemis on the game) will see and remember how we fought against all.

We will fight with honor. We will fight for our server. We will fight for Vizunah.

Now if only you had that idea come up when you were morning capping unopposed for months. Now that would have been something to remember and honor.

If it is just to help coordinate your guild, of course it is fine. If you plan on commanding a swarm of randoms in EB on a high pop server, it is a horrible idea.

I’m just happy SFR is getting the morning karma instead of VS. Nice to see a dent in VS morale, hopefully enough to drop them to T2 eventually.. even though they would probably be green in T1 the next week because they tripled everybody’s score in T2. Awesome matchup so far.

Looks like we are back to 3 servers fighting for only 2 T1 spots while obliterating T2. SFR came back strong though.

Confusion is fine in WvW and not nearly as valuable as it was in sPvP. I mean honestly I can’t remember the last time I actually died to confusion in WvW.

40vs40sv40 crammed in sm lord room are the worst.

Flumek.9043:

immobilize+ INVULNARBLE kitten+ illusion buddies…..u cant stun break this!!!! Oh and u cant be stopped either since ur (look above)
1sec immo like thief sword nr2 should be fair

Try standing on uneven ground or a slope, and /laugh in their face trying to immobilize you or get in melee range.

There should definitely be some sort of reward from WvW. Titles in their current state are just insulting considering you can faceroll “champion (class)” titles and whatnot.

As long as you get exp you also get some bags. You are probably not doing enough damage to tag people.

Absolutely worse. I don’t think nagging anet about it will help much though, the problem seems to be very deep and expensive.

Both ele and mesmer have a lot of tools to survive and contribute. If you are a decent player both classes have an easy time surviving and doing damage in zergs. Eles survive better but less damage, mesmers more damage but less survivability. Just don’t pick necro, they don’t bring much to the table.

Yes shout out to moorta doing a great job with the pugs in EB.

Tanky anything. The tankier the better.

This is for high pop high tier though. Low pop low tier anything goes and anything can work well with a small scale zerg.

suprNovae.5410:

I don’t think Vizunah has a much better coverage than other servers.

Then you must not have seen their very early morning 20-40man golem zergs cleaning up 2/3 of all maps, effortlessly outmanning the other 2 top EU servers whoever they are that week.

I don’t think merging NA and EU servers would solve any problems either, other than giving vizunah actual competition while bumping all other EU servers even further down the tiers. Of course I would support anything that keeps vizunah out of my matchups.

Very sad

Vizunah for another week and blue again. I wish we had more people on in the early mornings, at least then it would be a (fun?) competition.

Mogar.9216:

Alex.9268:

LordByron.8369:

that is imho an urban legend.

I have permaswiftness on my mesmer like on my ele >.> (lot of profession have permaswiftness)

Stop spreading lies. The only way a mesmer can achieve perma swiftness is sacrificing all of their rune slots for centaur runes AND use a focus offhand or suboptimal mirror/mantra heal combined with signet of inspiration.

Mesmers being the slowest out of combat profession is not an opinion, but a heavily discussed issue ever since the game launched.

If you think that mesmers have anywhere near the mobility X/d elementalists have, now that is an opinion.

Dude you need to learn the game man. Centaur runes + 20 pts into the trait that increase boon duration you get 15 second swiftness on every heal. The heal the reflect ranged damage is on 15 second cool down. I would call that perma swiftness . This is not even using focus.

Dude, the only mesmer builds that put any points in chaos are condition builds, and centaur runes don’t have synergy with condition builds to begin with. Also, not many mesmers and pick mirror heal because ether feast is much more viable.

There are no mesmers running around with 20 points in chaos, centaur runes and mirror heal on their bars, because they would be gimping themselves.

Point is the only way mesmers can get perma swiftness is through gear. No cheesy 25% signet either.

Just noticed that this thread is in the elementalist forum, explains a lot. >_<

Don’t ask me! go over to any mesmer forum and read all about what exactly is the problem with mesmers and swiftness. Plenty for you to learn

Just stop spreading lies. There might be people wondering whether to roll an ele or mesmer reading these forums, and it is people like you that might ruin the game for them.

LordByron.8369:

that is imho an urban legend.

I have permaswiftness on my mesmer like on my ele >.> (lot of profession have permaswiftness)

Stop spreading lies. The only way a mesmer can achieve perma swiftness is sacrificing all of their rune slots for centaur runes AND use a focus offhand or suboptimal mirror/mantra heal combined with signet of inspiration.

Mesmers being the slowest out of combat profession is not an opinion, but a heavily discussed issue ever since the game launched.

If you think that mesmers have anywhere near the mobility X/d elementalists have, now that is an opinion.

Fire staff2 scales very very nicely with P/Pr/% and can have very high uptime and radius with the right traits. Try it out on mists dummies and you’ll be surprised.

Generally though glass cannon eles are not that great, other professions like mesmer do that much better.

Also people, DPS>“damage” in almost all MMO scenarios bar pvp.

Hiding in durios for a while, 20man zerg gathers and waits in the water and then I jump forgetting to first put down the portal. Happens to me more often than I care to admit :p

I’m just happy not to have to deal with vizunah for at least a week!

I think it is a range issue too, because the projectile moves so incredibly slowly it gets outranged very easily. The actual bounce range isn’t 1200 either but you probably know that already.

DuckieGirlie.8972:

I’m not sure where this would be correctly posted but I was told here, so here’s my question, why give us mystic fountains when we can’t pick up a torch with it on? ~ 3 people in my party doing jump puzzle, 10 invaders, all camping at the start of it. I finally did the puzzle in the dark, (after dying 2 times because of people camping) and the stealth runs off as I’m in the round room, make it up to the top, on my way to the next fountain and guess what, invaders camping the door way with aoe so I can’t leave the room so I died. I’m not a “bad” player, but strength in numbers, why make fighting in the jump puzzle? there are GUILDS that camp the puzzle so only those invaders can get it, and that’s not fair. you can’t expect 20 people from a single guild to go do a puzzle just so one member can get the chest. ~Why do I want the chest? because I need badges of honor and I don’t really like doing WvW/killing people, I’m a PvE person, not PvP, why not make it fair for us PvE’ers to get jumping puzzles?

While I agree that it is not very honorable camping the arena with your guild while porting your whole server up, if you are a pve player GTFO of WvW and stop clogging up the queues.

The JP in EB was specifically designed so that people could prevent other servers from getting any further. If you do not like that or PvP in general I repeat gtfo of WvW and stop clogging up the queues.

I am sorry if your english is not good enough for you to comprehend me, but let me just tell you then that I am not complaining, but merely pointing out a mesmer weakness.

I have both a warrior and ele in full MF gear I grind events with, much more efficiently than my mesmer in full zerker gear might I add one last time

Because other professions have specs that can actually farm really well while still competing with others, all decked out in MF gear. Get the point?

I did not say mesmers are useless at tagging, I said they are one of the worst. And they most certainly can not tag all mobs in Orr events, because no profession can tag all mobs that spawn in different places at the same time, let alone mesmers.

You do have excellent communication and organisation. You play to win and you are the best at it hands down, no arguing that. There is also no arguing that you turtle, backdoor and don’t pose much of a threat caught out in the open.

I would like to see all 3 of you people tag all of the last 2 plinx events mobs on a high pop server where all the mobs die within 2 seconds. Please go ahead and prove your delusional points. Even the best tagging specs can’t tag all mobs, let alone mesmers.

Kaiyanwan.8521:

Mesmers can tag all mobs, even if there are multiple groups at a time.

That is BS. Unless you are on a low pop server there is absolutely no way

Don’t worry, once you get all the right traits veterans and even most champions will be easy for you to solo. Farming Orr events for gold and karma is not great, other professions can do that much better. Mesmers are definitely wanted for dungeons (wvw too).

My problem is I can’t type “np” or a variation thereof after portaling people. Very annoying.

Deso, SFR and elona would make a fine t1. The whole reason t1 sucks is vizunah. They play to win and they are the best at it hands down, but they are very disheartening and boring to be matched with.

It is completely ridiculous now. Lineage2 5 years ago was crisper than this mess.

Good night for deso!

Lol. I hope deso drops a few tiers too. Hopefully we won’t see vizu again for a few weeks!

It is not a bad idea no, as long as you stay more in GS than in staff.