Guild Wars 2

Sounds like a great idea, id definitely be up for this!

The same guild could also be used as a mesmer in-game “forum” : D. People with mesmer related questions can simply whisper “teacher” ranks and get a quick answer ^__^.

I remember signing up for some mesmer school months ago, but the thread and idea was abandoned :/.

It will also be nice to have my kitten handed to me by better players every once in a while :P

Dastion.3106:

Pretty sure tags aren’t unique.

Quoted for truth. Every time i see yet another [fun] tag, I quickly press G to check if i wasnt kicked by accident… Really, that kick from guild button is way too close to kick from party D;

Im on EU btw, and not sure if guilds can contain both EU and US.

edit:
Oficial mesmer forum guide [Omfg] sounds pretty good : D!

I think the OP was trying to make a joke, but no one commented on it :/.

Wasnt Scarlet some mastermind all along?

Im not sure actually, but if she was this would be her introduction, and i hope we get to see more of her in the next stories :P

I dont actually see a problem here…

You’re basically saying that the woman has to be the over-emotional one in any relationship, and because its the opposite in some cases you feel the need to make a thread about it. Atleast thats how i read it.

I still like Logan’s voice actor though :P.

edit: but i do agree that lolrd faren is an idiot… the way he talks aswell, especially in the closing ceremony cutscene >_<. I still think hes funny at times though.

I just tested the build, but i really changed so much it just wasnt the same concept anymore :/.

I changed the mantra for nullfield, but thats jsut personal preference.

I tried rampager, celestial and rabid, but i had the msot succes with rabid.
With rabid the sword really does “no” damage though >_<.

I would say this trait setup is better for going full condi instead of half condi half direct, but i haveonly tested it in pvp so im not sure how it will fare in wvw.

That said, this build is fine, but far from optimal.

I would recommend taking the 5 out of dueling and putting it somewhere else. 3 seconds confusion just isnt enough to be worth it :/.

llusionary persona is good for more than jsut damage, you know. Diversion and Distortion are great defensive moves, and also helps for reviving allies and getting a save stomp if you dont have clones.
It will also apply confusion with the minor trait if you shatter while youre close to people.

I cant comment on the gear tough, as i dont ahve the money to buy yet another set >_<.

http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fgAQNAsdWlwzyqHTzoGb9IiJF9mvh6B4ldfXJF82FC-jkDBYLCikIBiIAM5BI9RjNBKRVQFRjVVDQbDT7CVDDRFLymxp2UeIayAwsAA-w Just wanted to link this again. This build has full direct damage and retains shatter bursts, but still has 12 perma might and often 25 to get 70+ bleeding ticks. It’s both direct and condition damage, maybe youl’ll like it :o. its only good for wvw though.

Well..

I guess il try the build out in pvp. Cant do it with the whole gear set though because i dont have any money >_<. Ill edit the post in a bit.

One of us one of us one of us one of us

And yes, theres alot of fun things to do in high level pve and pvp too ^__^.

LunaticRhythm.6794:

give clone jobs

;D

Carighan.6758:

Eh… maybe I’m in the minority, but I always understood summed-up damage works this way. That’s how summed-up damage works, after all.

I knew this since beta.

It’s quite simple to understand, really. I remember summoning a Phantasmal Duelist, and noticed ever bullet did the same damage… If it really added damage 8 times it would simply 1-shot everything >_>.

Also, Confusing Images is really weird, it’s the only exception in multi hit skills that doesn’t sum up the damage >_<

If scarlet appears again, i would capture her and put her in my home instance.

Then we would play aalllll day :3.

I heard the invasions are permanent…

Early i saw a champion twisted spider stand next to a heart npc, and they didnt even fight >_<.

It would be cool if there were siege weapons that fired on nearby cities, and break objects and stuff that can trigger “repair events” after the invasion ends.

Or maybe just a portal spawning mobs in a city.

It would be cool if the circle of the rynamic event became bigger over time, which would spawn mobs and stuff in a bigger radius. Maybe if it reaches a city they would kill all friendly npcs.

Killing the mobs would shrink the circle back to it’s source, something like that :0.

I can’t wait to see more of scarlet, wink wink

No, but really, im about to start a scarlet fan club : D

I love it, but with 2 changes it would be much better:

1. Use our pvp finishers. People who only do pve would actually have a reason to buy gem store finishers
2. give the things downed health, so you can kill them by attacking or let them bleed out etc.

I think bosses could have a downed state too, but they only rally with 25% health or something and they accumulate downed penalty.

It would be really cool if mobs with CC tried using it when youre trying to finish a downed/broken mob, but only in dungeons because it’d be overpowered in open world ;D

I loved it too, did it 4 times today

Its a shame the reward for repeating t is so bad though :’(

And i also think they shouldve made an explorable version thats harder/repeatable for better rewards :o.

Other people keep telling me phantasm summons are dodgable… But because i test it daily ankitten ot insane, ican tell thatthey arent :/.

Maybe it would be something if the target is evading, the cast simply gets interupted, put on a 3 second cooldown.

Having a whole skill on cooldown because someone randomly evaded or evaded it would be really annoying/overpowered, especially if its your main source of damage :o

edit @Pyro: the whine threads come from the spvp forum. Seems like alot of mods are moving “pvp related question to profession X” to their profession forums :/. Not sure i its a good or bad thing, seeing as those threads are based on pvp.

I bough one for 80 silver.

Got knocked down for 6 seconds :’(

My terrible internet comnection makes me wait alloooot of time between buy orders… Usually i mash the order button if i want to place 1000+ orders :P if im a. Bit lucky it will place multiple orders _

+1 on fhis suggestion

Just because you keep getting outbid on some mystery item, doenst mean its by a script.

Atleast provide more information on what item it is…

Yea i have the same issue… Bought 5 explosive finishers and have 3 left.

Back rhen i could have 3 hours of fun of it, now all 3 might aswell be over in 5 minutes.

:’(

Other than not giving swiftness if you alreay have it, i love the focus and its by far my favourite off hand in most builds.

If laurels were tradable i guess theyd be linked to the price of 2 unidentified dyes…

But who would buy a laurel for 35silver? I wouldnt.

A better and more fun question would be:

How much is a laurel worth if everything you can buy with it, is account bound?

My guess is that theyd be 10-15 silver at one point, but raise to up to 50 silver after that

Well i have 3 mesmers…

My sylvari which ive had since launch, i use her for pretty much everything.

My asura, i really like the animations but after a while ts just not enough to keep my attention.

My human, which is a pvp only character. I use her dor condition builds, and try to keep the same runes so its easier to switch build. I dont think condition is viable for tourney, so i keep them seperated from my normal builds.

A new race? When O.o?

Necromancer

• high aoe condition pressure
• largest hp, low healing but also has deathshroud as additional hp.
• alot of mechanics are simple to get a grasp on, making it easy to start out with, also doesnt require alot of improvisation for simple play.
• doesnt have a lot of build diversity (as fr as i know)
• has really scary minions (con)

Elementalist

• has a very active playstyle with 20 weapon skills at one time.
• very frantic, if you’re trying hard you will never be doing nothing.
• naturally supports the party in their own rotation with combo fields and finishers.
• long combo chains that you have to use for support
• once you learn the profession it gets more organized, but it will always require alot of button presses to be very effective.
• low health pool,

Mesmer

• relies alot on active defense, favors evasion instead of healing/tanking.
• at first you’ll feel like you randomly use skills, but once you learn a bit combat will be very organized, and you can control fights (especially in pvp)
• lots of build diversity for everytjig except tournament pvp
• can spec for massive boon support. Ele’s always have it, but less effective, but with mesmer ou have to specialize for it
• even in high damage builds you have high defense and support through projectile reflection
• short lasting combo chains, but usually its better and more effective to not rely on combos, but on inprovisation.
• has puruple butterflies
• medium health pool

Well i dont use adobe after effects, but i still recommend MP4

My editig software cant render Mp4 for some reason, so i use WMV. It works too, but i heard MP4 is better :’(

Ignore the QQ on forums. No profession will ever be useless, theyre all balanced and arenanrt doesnt intend on changing that.

If you find QQ in the mesmer forums, you havent been looking right :/. Really, the community there is amazing, maybe you just went in on a bad time or something :o.

Im going to be honest here… If all you want is big damage numbers in pve, mesmer may not be for you.

However, mesmers are still amazing roamers with high damage spikes, mobility, escapability and versatality all while in full berserker’s for high damage output. I believe a perfeft burst can down an enemy in under a second. Thieves can pull of very high spikes too ofcourse. Engineers are also very viable for roaming.

In pve if all you do as a mesmer is damage all the time, then you have much to learn, simple as that.

The best damage oriented mesmer builds always have support (in pve), without losing out on damage.

Projectile reflection is just one ofthe ways you can provide support while still doing damage at the same time.

One of the most important damage trait is also deep in the support tree, so they naturally mix together.

In pvp mesmer has a huge skill cap, due to using so much mobility and timed evades/invilnerabilities.

Some people say mesmers arent viable in tourneys because of the condition spam, but the truth is… They just dont know how to survive :P

That said, dont listen to the QQ of others and you should be fine!

As far as i know phantasm damage wasnt changed.

And spatial surge hitting for over 10k… Wtf?!

What about spreading stats out over 1 ring, 1 assesory and 1 amulet (but still with the same stats in total)? It would give more customisaion and make 50/50 builds possible.

They could be tied to glory rank :o at rank 0 you have an amulet with 100%, at rank 5 an amulet and ring with 50% and at rank 10 an amulet, ring and assesory with 33%.

I also think the total stats from items should be 75% in tournaments. It would make the difference between bunker and glass cannon much smaller. Maybe even 50% :o. But keep it as it is now for hotjoin.

The moving in-game cutscenes always make me dizzy. The way they sqay is just so… Dizzy-ing >_<

kishter.

Let’s take a moment

to appreciate this blend’s fiiiine undertones.

Lol sorry xD I like this patch.

woooooooooooooow :o

They just leave the best things out of the patch notes xD

cesmode.4257:

Sylvari Female

Oh, then the choice if obvious

i cant really find basic mesmer pvp guides :/ (keyword: basic)

that said, first you need a build. there are 3 very viable damage types to choose from:

1. Shatter
2. Phantasm
3. Condition

• Shatter requires the most mobility to be highly effective, but it will be nice for beginners too, as far as ive seen. Shatter relies alot on combos and keeping control of the fight, jumping in and out while delivering quick burst damage and evading everything. builds are 0/20/0/0/30
• Phantasm lets you use phantasms as damage, while you mainly focus on doing other things, such as surviving/kiting. 10/10/0/25/0, although 10 dueling isnt needed, it has a very big impact on your main source of damage.
• most, if not all condition builds use clone-on-death traits, located in 10/25/10 (25 is underwhelming though). In my oppinion condition is really fun and viable to play, but i don’t have enough experience to compare them to the others :P.

I’m actually going to recommend a condition build to you :o, but if you want to make your own build, feel free to skip the following paragraph:

The traits are 20/20/30, taking

• crippling dissipation and cleansing conflageration,
• reliatory shield, far-reaching manipulations and deceptive evasion (DE is required)
• debiliating dissipation, chaotic dampening, prismatic understanding
  For weapons you’ll want scepter/torch, staff
  use a rabid amulet with undead runes or 4 lyssa/2 lich (the one with condition damage and duration)
  decoy, blink, veil, mass invis as utilities

In this build you’ll have very long lasting stealth with Prismatic Understanding, high defense with the staff and high condition damage output with staff clones/clone deaths/illusionary counter.

I think its a very noob friendly build, with all teh stealths you’ll have a lot of room mistakes, but it still teaches you how to get the most out of your stealth and other cooldowns : D.

Here are some important rules to remember:

• when stealthing, try to do a 90 degree turn or run behind our enemy, instead of going a straight line to where you were going.
• you can do alot of things even in stealth! Dodge to create staff clones (they do conditions) or summon a phantasm. summoning a phantasm triggers your autoattacks though, so be carefull not to get revealed.
• if you have a choice, use the prestige (torch 4) before decoy, before veil/mass invis. (lowest to highest cooldown)
• you can jump up and down in veil to trigger the stealth a second time.

• The staff is your best defensive weapon, try not to spam phase retreat for clones, but use it for when you feel like it will prevent damage. This feeling will develop as you play.
• Make sure you always stand in your own Chaos Storm (staff #5), it’s a great defensive skill, offensive… not so much.
• Make sure you use phase retreat through your Chaos Storm, it will trigger a leap finisher which gives you Chaos Armor. That armor gives random conditions to attackers and random boons to you, making it very difficult for them to damage you. Don’t try to be a tank though, stay mobile!

• The scepter autoattack is somehwat worthless, avoid using it unless you have to. (weaponswap on CD etc)
• Illusionary counter (scepter #2) is an offensive skill! It will do about 8k torment damage on moving targets if they dont cleanse it. landing it on teh right target can be hard, but it will get better with practice, trust me.
• confusing images has a long cast time and leaves you vulnerable without having a lot fo impact. Use only if you’re not in danger/burst range.

• the prestige has a burn at the end, and you can try to end it near foes to do some extra damage! Although teh main functionailty of this skill is defense (stealth), and you should focus on learning that first.

• make sure you don’t Blink away from soemone in a straight line! Try to blink to their sides or back. You can also use Blink to get up some terrain , more blink locations can be found on the same channel!

• don’t dodge with deceptive evasion for the sake of creating clones too often, only do it when you have full energy, or are sure youre not in danger/are in staff etc.

• never stand still, WASD are your friends.

• remember the functionality of your weapons when you weapon swap: scepter is for the high damage block and stealth, staff is for autoattack conditions and defense.

Hope this helps! If you’re interested I can also give a quick guide for Shatter, which is my personal favourite.

edit: Oh, don’t forget to have fun!

In currently on mobile with limited internet, but in about 10 hours ill be back home and able to open toutube pages :D.

I know some pvp videos with commentary, some what to do in X situation, and some general strategy ones.

Hope i dont forget :o

I think theres a graphical bug if you have the particle effect limit option on (cant remeber them name) where it leaves the purple glow on phantasma out. Maybe its intended, its really annoying though >_<.

On several occasions i was in group fights and noticed clones with a vision of the mists, figured the player just had the weapon… woosh woosh, you can probably tell what happened then

Maybe you dodge rolled and interupted your warlock cast? Deceptive evasion?

I like having the 3 dots the same color… I feel like puting weapon symbols or coloring hem different is unnescesary clutter :/.

Im all in for the option to turn it on and off though!

Thats true. You can also portal back even without line of sight, which blink cant.

Depends. Sometimes i like goin full berserker and try to instagib people, but thats besides the point.

I use knight helm shoulder coat gloves, Berserker skirt and boots. This gives me 2050 armor and i use it in pve with berserker trinkets.

If i solo roam with that same set, i use 20 chaos and cavalier rings, which gives me 2400ish armor. For ZvZ ill take cavalier trinkets aswell for 2550-2600 armor.

I see 2400-2600 as pretty tanky (for a shatter atleast). I assume your conditioon Build will also be quite evasive, so id recommend 2600ish. But going with rabid will probably give you more.

Btw, im talking about armor not toughness.

Pyroatheist.9031:

Solstice.1097:

i must admit i am newb to mesmer and i dont know hte difference between phantasms/clones/illusions I am not after a lot of dPS but I would like to have a good AoE damage burst available. I will check out the links you guys posted thank you so much so for the input so far!

If you’re that new to Mesmer, then you need to play a bit before starting to worry about builds and strategies. Play the class, level up a bit, figure out the basic mechanics, and then you can start figuring out your build.

True, the forums will always be here to help :P.

If youre leveling, i recommend trying each weapon (they all have a phantasm!) and see which one fits your style the most.

Also, at level 40 take dueling 20 “Deceptive Evasion”, which spits out a clone every time you dodge, making your life much easier!

ArmageddonAsh.6430:

I think the fact its personal i think it should have further distance then Blink, having it capped at 3 uses as well would lead to the benefit of it being a longer distance then Blink as well.

With the debuff, it would stop you using them going from portal to portal in and out spamming attacks before jumping again

If the debuff was 2 seconds id like it… But i think you already have to wait 2 seconds before using it again :o.

If t had a longer range than blink no one would use blink anymore, if they had to choose.

The last thing need is another utility thats overused and makes others redundant.

Also, even if its capped at 2 or 4 uses, its still more than blink. Blink is a single use before it goes on cooldown :o.

A 5second debuff really is too long, i want to portal stomp :D

ArmageddonAsh.6430:

theCOREYCOLAK.5698:

ArmageddonAsh.6430:

Once activated it stays for 15seconds (Activated as in 2nd portal dropped)

With such a low cooldown, I find this to be the issue. Couple that with zerker stats, and a GS, you’ll have so much QQ.

I think 45 second cool down would be fine, They could make it so that it starts after the the portal has disappeared.

So you use Portal .1 and then Portal .2, the portal lasts for 15seconds, once its closed down then the cool down starts. Or they could add like a 5second debuff stopping you from spamming them, so at best you would have access to them 3 times.

This could work, except i dont agree on th debuff part. Maybe a range of 900 would be fun, and inatead of a 5 second debuff, make it have uses like the real portal. Maybe 2 uses (so you can go back and forth), or 4 uses with temporal enchanter! Maybe then temporal enhanter would finally be worth it :o

Or a range of 600 to balance it out (compared to blink).

Note: the personal portal wouldnt replace the real portal. Wed have a 5th glamour skill
: D

ArmageddonAsh.6430:

Durzlla.6295:

ArmageddonAsh.6430:

wads.5730:

ArmageddonAsh.6430:

Really? they must apply them VERY fast then as i instantly get them back, personally i dont think condition damage should stop the self heal and that goes for every class.

condition damage does not stop the self heal, only direct damage stops it.

From my experience and my death just now, that is incorrect. I have many times had the heal stop thanks to the conditions that i have on myself. Though i wouldn’t be to shocked if it was bugged.

No, conditions don’t interrupt your heal, but even 1 point of damage will stop the heal which is why if a mesmer puts a clone on a downed person they can’t heal themself.

1 point of damage, so a condition then?

Condition danage doesnt interupt the heal.

Keep in mind that most condition applications also do some direct damage.

Mhmm…

Id rather have a trait that does something. The only time its hard to see what an enemy is doing is when they use an instant skill like blink, wish we could interupt that :o

djtool.8372:

my personal opinion scribbles but I think you’ve reached the point with your build where you should just play and start establishing your own identity.

good luck sir.

Quoted for truth.

Also, decoy and blink are amazing for personal survival in pvp for all builds :P

ArmageddonAsh.6430:

Alissah.9281:

Theres not really a point in taking the sceptet cooldown trait, you generally want to avoid auto attacking with a scepter at all costs (…unless the alternative is doing nothing).

Disagree, other then the fact its mind numbingly slow the On death traits can be quite useful. Cripple, Confusion and a random condition is quite nice.

On death traits are really awesome, no argument there.

Deceptive evasion+on death traits… /drool

Bunkers are there to stay inside the circle at all costs. Usually guardian bunkers use CC aswell to keep dps enemies out and revive downed allies.

Imagine a bunker and 4 grenade engineers bombarding a point. If there were 5 engineers, one of them would have to go down in the circle and get bombarded by the other team. Thats prefty much what bunkers are for :P

If you run 5 bunkers you get into a stalemate where its a battle of who can get to the middle point and capture it before the other does, then nothing sill happen throughout the battle.

In a 5bunkers vs 5 dps/roameds the 5 dps will win, simply because the 5dps arent getting pressure back and can focus on doing damage. Also, once the dps captures a point theres no way of the bunkers taking it back because they dont have damage.

In big circles like the graveyard bunkers arent needed as much if you ask me, because theres plenty room for mobility so you dont suffer from aoes as much.

Guardians have alot of healing and some aoe boon support, while rangers use evades from sword/dagger and dont have much boon support/CC.

Usually the ranger goes to the close point, they can revive themselves without help from Allies aswell. They also still dish out damage due to their pet and are practically invincible (warning: over-dramatization) in a 1vs1 fight.

Im not sure about engineer bunkers, but my team usually has a conditiony/healy engineer on the close point instead of ranger. They can also revive themselves and have alot of condition aoes that fir nicely in the circle to force people out :P.

I think the meta shifted from beastmaster ranger to spirit ranger… Still no idea what they do though, apart from being really pretty and making me burn stuff.

Theres not really a point in taking the sceptet cooldown trait, you generally want to avoid auto attacking with a scepter at all costs (…unless the alternative is doing nothing).

I would ditch the healing power gear, healing power is really only for mesmer if you want to actively spec for healing people, in my oppinion.

If you want to stay as close to your current traits and gear (direct danage, without healing power) you can try traiting shatter! 0/20/20/0/30 has high survivability with staff cooldowns and high burst with shatters. A condition build would be 0/20/20/0/0, you can use 30 chaos for survivability through stealth or 25 illusions for celerity.

1): youre probably dead, unless the person chasing you is silly and chases a clone instead of you.
2): you can still blink in another direction (other than moving forward in a straight line) to surprise them. Combined with stealths, phase retreats temporal curtains and stuff.
3): i cant actually think of a profession that has more than 2 1200range stuns. Except maybe signet of domination and traited pistol? I think the signet is 900 actually.
Luckily blink isnt your only stunbreaker :P.

A control effect on a #1 wouldnt only be Op, it would also be very impractical. Control effects are supposed to be safed and used when you most need them, not used randomly :P

I need a power that hurts the opponent by shooting mystical butterflies out of my butt.

Clearly this one doesnt know the Mesmer inside out yet.

ArmageddonAsh.6430:

Alissah.9281:

ArmageddonAsh.6430:

Ross Biddle.2367:

ArmageddonAsh.6430:

Well the cool down wouldnt start until the activated portals have closed and Blink NEEDS to be longer range, 900 is pathetic.

Trait for 1200.

900 gets you out of hot water, either way.

It should be 1200 standard and no it doesnt always you can still get charged, stunned and such at 900

Luckily blink is a stunbreaker.

Or if you get massacred after you used blink, then you probably didnt use blink properly :P.

I love blink ._. the butterflies, the sound effect, everything. Maybe even the teleport
: D

No i mean, you use Blink you are now 900Range away, bang the other person uses a skill that stuns you that has a 1200range….

1. blink out of his line of sight
2. blink to get the junp on him (or her… It)
3. dodge the 1200 range stun, or something :P

Besides, what is he going to do to you when youre stunned 1200 units away :o?