Guild Wars 2

So I seen the passion flowers drop to 6s and I’m wondering if its a good to invest on them or are they destined to become worthless.

So what I’m wondering. How many ways are there to get them? and is there enough demand for them to quantify the investment in the long term. What are they used for?

I already invested about 100g on them just want to know if I should invest the other 200g?

I own a monopoly so I can give you advice me thinks.

First you have to know when the supplies will come up again like from a special event because once supplies get started again your monopoly is over. Your goal is to sell your items at the highest price so that every item you own gets sold before the supplies are available again.

To do this divide the items you have by the days till the items are available again. That is the goal of how many items you should sell per day. Wait till the price rises to where people are buying a amount per day that matches the items you need to sell per day.

I’m interested to know what item you have a monopoly on and how you handle it let me know.

I’m thinking 200g or 300g or more if I can sell some of my inventory I’ve been holding. I’m not going to ask what you are investing in because common that’s the secret to making money.

Arganthium.5638:

Alex Behemoth.4952:

So how many Karka Shells do you have? I have 13k

I quit. I give up.

This.

Just.

I can’t even.

… Geez.

If you think that’s bad then I shouldn’t mention the other items…….

Take this with a grain of salt but I have a feeling that Sigils of Generosity are going to go up from here on out. It looks like the supply has been totally depleted as there is only 60 supply left.

So how many Karka Shells do you have? I have 13k

I bought a lot of karka shells and to be honest I don’t really play anymore I just like to try and control the market. So why do you guys think the karka shells have increased so much in such a short period of time.

When does last stand end????

Dolan.3071:

Alex Behemoth.4952:

A little bit of everything…….

Too late, I saw the original you up-levelled WvW’er :P

Its fun though to see how high your stats can get at low level.

A little bit of everything…….

It just seems to me that regardless of how good your build you can never win 2v1. As soon as you down one opponent the other simply just revives his ally. You can never do enough dps to outmatch the healing of the ally. I know f4 works but its kind of hard with one knockdown from the downed or the ally and they can heal the downed all the way up.

I guess I see why they do that in PvE but in PvP it seems kinda silly if numbers autowin.

I have what I consider and unbeatable Phantom build 30-10-0-30-0. But the problem is with eles. They seem to have an instant escape skill. Health runs low on them they escape heal all the way up and come back for another try. I can’t kill them but I don’t loose to them unless they bring reinforcements. How do you prevent their escape????

Hexgame.4802:

Seems all the skins are raising, though I don’t know how much higher they will get. Wish I invested into slingshots and wands rather than Choir Bells

The skins will only be as expensive as the price of ugly hats, socks and sweaters. Since you can buy those skins with those products and there is still a huge supply of those. So I don’t expect the price of wands to go over 27s any time soon.

So this is with a glass canon phantasm build in PvP.

Decoy the first attack. Then afterwards the phantasm can do all the damage. Just finished doing 1v1 vs nothing but thieves and if I decoyed the first attack the thief would just melt afterwards.

Malzeth.2168:

Reux Valdir.7986:

its mainly for cosmetics… not stats

as is pretty much everything else. considering stats just help you out. they dont determine success

It has the same icon as all the other crafted exotics so odds are its the same skin..

@ OP, think outside of the box, this isn’t a trinity game, I can think of 3 classes off the top of my head that the armor would be useful for….

The problem is that lets say for the set you are giving away about 250 points of stats for 6% boon duration. Triple that boon duration you can get by getting two runes of monk which give you 15%. So why would any sane person sacrifice all those stats for that little increase in boon?

Anet should follow the formula in their trait system. 10 points in stats should equal 1% in duration of anything.

Wittle.5473:

Alex Behemoth.4952:

Expansive.3716:

Wittle.5473:

I just had a thief pop an ability (not sure what it is) that gave him a line of boons and then from stealth proceeded to put no less than 24k damage into me in under 3 seconds. I have 1600 toughness. He was able to do this by pushing a button. Not getting into combat, spawning 3 clones, shattering to get 12 stacks of might and then spawning another 3 clones to shatter. No mesmer can do all of that in 3 seconds or prepare it out of combat.

Say thank you for the buff and stop trying to give back any good thing that Arena Net gives this class.

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Mesmer rightly should have this buff. IMO shatter build wasn’t even that strong before this “buff”

And realistically, you’d only be able to utilize 15 stacks of might. We aren’t able to generate an amount of clones that will take us to 18+ stacks of might AND use it on the opponent.

The OP was generalizing and the fact that other professions can kill rather quickly without the effort that a mesmer has to put in, is a testament to why this isn’t overpowered.

I have never lost to a thief in one on one combat with a build which I will not discuss. Or any melee character for that matter. The problem here is that the community only plays one build and can’t figure out others. Because of that they think that if they die against a certain class with a certain build that class must be OP. Just learn to counter it and use a different build. There should never be a dominant build ever.

Actually, we were talking about whether the might stacking on Shattered Strength was overpowered. Nowhere did anyone say that expected that they could counter any class in game with a specific build. A comparison was made to remind people that other classes have the ability to stack might to increase their burst, and frankly, do it much easier than a mesmer can.

Also, I run about 4 different mesmer builds myself with different gear and know of others that do the same. Thinking that the entire mesmer community uses the same build is folly. Also, saying you’ve never been beaten 1v1 by a thief or melee class leads me to believe one of two things. A) You’re lying, or B ) You only fight players who are sub 80 and use bad builds.

I’m saying that I have a build that allows DPS heavy players to be killed easily. As long as I’m not caught off guard with about 2 secs to prepare yea I have not been beaten by a thief, warrior, paladin, ranger. I have had trouble with eles and the build would melt to necros. This is in PvP. WvW is not exactly balanced as confusion does twice as much damage. In WvW there is clipping issues that make the thief and mesmer OP.

sinican.9250:

Mesmers are NOT a pet class… The core of the class centers around shatters… Maybe you should play a ranger, necro, or engineer?

I am not attempting to be a jerk here. Seriously though the F1-F4 skills are your primary abilities of your class, it is the core of the class’s mechanics. All builds should be some kind of shatter build, there are many different shatter builds. It seems silly that you are trying to use the class’s primary skills as passive/secondary skills, that is not how the Mesmer class should work, at least not effectively :/

So to me it makes perfect sense this buff… it is encouraging players to play the class’s core skills.

I don’t think you understand that every other class has pets except the Warrior. So I don’t get your point.
But anyways there are many different builds in this game for every class. That means that every class can be a tank, support, or damage class. There is no wrong way to play it. If shattered strength needed a buff maybe a small buff would have been ok to test it out. But what Anet has done is just give buffs to everyone regardless of balance issues.

I wanna say that I can still make a phantasm build very effective even against other shatter mesmers. However I can’t say I have played good shatter mesmer. However I still believe the buff was way too much. Shatter builds are still very effective at killing mobs of players in tight areas and not having to be in danger.

Giver’s Exalted coat giver you 101 Health, 72 Armor and 1% boon duration…….
The problem is that in the trait system 1% boon duration is equal to 10 points in any stat. But here they are saying 1% boon duration is equal to 70 points of any other stat.

How could someone mess this up seriously????

Expansive.3716:

Wittle.5473:

I just had a thief pop an ability (not sure what it is) that gave him a line of boons and then from stealth proceeded to put no less than 24k damage into me in under 3 seconds. I have 1600 toughness. He was able to do this by pushing a button. Not getting into combat, spawning 3 clones, shattering to get 12 stacks of might and then spawning another 3 clones to shatter. No mesmer can do all of that in 3 seconds or prepare it out of combat.

Say thank you for the buff and stop trying to give back any good thing that Arena Net gives this class.

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Mesmer rightly should have this buff. IMO shatter build wasn’t even that strong before this “buff”

And realistically, you’d only be able to utilize 15 stacks of might. We aren’t able to generate an amount of clones that will take us to 18+ stacks of might AND use it on the opponent.

The OP was generalizing and the fact that other professions can kill rather quickly without the effort that a mesmer has to put in, is a testament to why this isn’t overpowered.

I have never lost to a thief in one on one combat with a build which I will not discuss. Or any melee character for that matter. The problem here is that the community only plays one build and can’t figure out others. Because of that they think that if they die against a certain class with a certain build that class must be OP. Just learn to counter it and use a different build. There should never be a dominant build ever.

I guess that people that run shatter builds are happy. But in reality should be mad. Now everyone will play shatter. Who wants to play against the same builds over and over again. No reason to change builds. This is not about getting buffs its about making different builds viable. Nerf this now!!!!!!

BTW when people are asking for a nerf in their own class you know arena net messed up.

And yes I run shatter builds too from time to time.

I have played with a phantasm build in PvP for a while as an alternative to shatter build with great success specially against shatter builds. However this seems to no longer be viable as the might stacking with the new patch has made any other build that is not shatter underwhelming. I can still hold my own against shatter builds but Phantasm builds have no advantage over a shatter build anymore.

The way I see it. There should be an effective strategy for each build. For shatter it should be area damage and condition. For Phantasm it should be one on one fighting. That is gone as if enough people weren’t playing enough with shatter builds now everyone will. As there is no advantage in playing without it for most situations.

For me its not about getting nerfs or buffs. Its about making different builds viable for different situations and not having a supreme build. I really don’t get what the point of that buff was.

Anyway Arena Net there was good buffs to make other builds viable like mantras. But what is the point if you are basically saying you should only play shatter. So fix this ASAP!

So playing WvW I see that the main problem with the thief is the time it takes for the thief to become visible after stealth is over. Many people have caught on to this is and just abuse it to no end. So is there a way to mitigate this. I mean do we just have to wait for the developers to fix this or is there a setting to make them targetable at least?

If I put a complaint about stealth in this forums it will get flamed by an army of thieves so lets turn the table around. Assume that you are fighting a thief with any other character.

The thief inflicts a lot of damage due probably because of his gear and is invisible 80% of the time. How do you kill him?

Braxxus.2904:

Leriff.8362:

That’s not stealth making the thief OP, that’s culling, and it happens to everyone, stealth or not.

Hmm, sorry but my warrior, guardian, ranger, necro can’t become invisible at an incredibly high rate to basically USE culling to keep me invisble 90+% of the time.

My thief can.
To a lesser extent so can my mesmer.

Yup, culling affects fast moving zergs here and there for sure.
Thieves use culling at will.

Not sure if its culling because I was fighting one on one as a mesmer. I think I’m a pretty skilled player have not lost one on one to anyone else except tie against condition heavy build which is what my build is bad against. However I had 3 phantasm and a npc flag against one thief. Problem is he did not stay visible for enough time for even my phantasms to attack. I would say he was invisible for 90% of the time. Nothing I can do. If he is invisible I can’t attack him.

Make it so that a thief cannot be invisible the whole time and issue is balanced.

Can I join the fight club? I’m in Crystal Dessert

The rune of santuary’s second effect is 20% increased frozen duration while the major’s second effect is 10% boon duration. Was this intended??

Bvhjdbvkjf.1987:

I suggest to do a hardcore mode at player creation which would put the player in a hardcore server where the new hardcore rules and higher stats enemies would appear

Servers are account bound by nature for the WvW content, and I doubt they’d make a server that wasn’t intended to participate in WvW since that’s a third of the game they’re trying to market.

So if you’re asking for hardcore servers it’d prolly be an account move you’d have to make not a character creation selection choice. That being said I am appreciative that for once someone isn’t asking for PvP in PvE content on current servers… thanks =)

Edit – also should this hardcore server(s) have access to rarer drops – it would likely crash the market value of things as is… so I would think they would have to code a seperate hardcore TP as well.

Thanks for the reply.

I actually worded the rarer part wrong. What I meant is that Items are harder to come by. But yea I agree items would still have to be in a different TP.

I consider my self a hardcore gamer in that I need a challenge to enjoy any game. I love the dungeons except for the skippable parts because they increase the challenge. However I don’t think the regular world exploration part of the game is challenging enough. You can easily bypass enemies. You are never feeling any threat from any enemies. And it feels more like a grind to do PvE world than a challenge since you don’t need much skill to kill the enemy.

I do realize however that this game is designed for the casuals too. So that is why I suggest to do a hardcore mode at player creation which would put the player in a hardcore server where the new hardcore rules and higher stats enemies would appear. In even mentioning this there is a lot of changes that would have to be implemented in order for this mode not to affect in any way the regular mode. So here are some suggestions of what it would offer and what changes I believe should be made.

-There should be friendly fire for both ranged attacks and meele attacks. This would force people to think about position even more, force people to think more when using certain kinds of skills for fear of hurting allies, and possibly force the use of teamspeak or some other chat software. (Possibly make an exemption for combo fields.)

-Enemies stats should be much higher quite possibly like the stats of enemies in a dungeon. Makes the world harder.

-Make sure that there is a system in place to make sure you cannot just run through enemies to get from one place to the other.

-Players should be able to target others in the world and attack them if they want. Not only will you have to worry about enemies but also about bands of villainous players and maybe even force communication between players to gauge intentions.

-Items and gold should be rarer(harder to get). There reason for this is that farming should be harder to make the acquisition of items more rewarding. However this would mean that the trading post would have to be separate and there should be no transfers between regular and hardcore accounts. (or possibly just have a hardcore label on items on which regular items cannot be used in the hardcore world)

The benefits are that hardcore players that have gathered all the best armor completed the world or achieved the legendary weapons would have something more to achieve that cannot be done by themselves. If enough people would want this it would create more revenue for Anet as the players in the new mode might want to purchase more gems to make their experience in the new unforgiving mode more forgivable.

There will be some problems in the implementation of the WvWvW aspect in respect for this mode as I believe it would also have to be separate from a non hardcore mode.

I ask the community to share their views or maybe even different implementations.

Every attack has its uses you just have to know how to use it. The scepter one attack’s main purpose is to create clone. It creates clones faster than any other skills. It creates a new clone in 2 seconds. No other weapon skills can do that. So the advantage is in a shatter build. I think is fine. Not my build right now but I did try it. Scepter/Torch and Staff for shatter build.

This thief kills me in two hits multiple times. My armor has toughness as its attribute. Running shatter build. How to deal with him. Killed him once out of 5 times. Only because I was down and confusion was 7 stack.

Okay cause one of my teamates was telling me that the enemy could hear me

Does using /say let the enemy hear you in WvW?

When ever I get into a one on one situation in WvW I usually do pretty good against my opponents except for the thief. I can never beat the thief in one on one. Is there a build that a mesmer can do to defeat a thief?