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Lyssa’s Grimoire – a guide every Mesmer should read.
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Try running a Berserker build on a condi necro and I’ll laugh at you.
Thats why you don’t run berserker ona condi necro :P.
You use condition damage for condi necro, or berserker on power necro. Yes, power necros exist.
Wow :o
After using Bandicam (free version) for quite a while, I switched to MSI Afterburner (also free) and much prefer Afterburner over Bandicam.
Bandicam won’t lag your system but the recording quality is not nearly as good as MSI Afterburner. As well, the free version of Bandicam will only record 10 minutes maximum and leaves a ‘Bandicam’ watermark at the top of the screen (it covers the PPT time/score box at the top middle of your screen in WvW) and is only removable if you purchase the free version.
MSI Afterburner is also light on your PC so you shouldn’t notice too much of an FPS drop. The picture quality is much better than Bandicam (very close to Fraps quality). Just experiment with the video recording settings (there are only a few) properly. You should also turn off the overclocking feature of MSI Afterburner. The only downside to MSI Afterburner is if I open Afterburner first, GW2 won’t launch and will give an error. Launching GW2 first then MSI Afterburner avoids this problem.
Fraps – The best picture quality but can really slow down your PC. However the picture quality isn’t much better than MSI Afterburner.
Right now, MSI Afterburner is my favourite. I use Windows Movie Maker to do everything else.
Keep in mind that if you have a crap PC, you probably shouldn’t run any recording software. Also, make sure that your recording are being saved to a different hard drive then your OS and GW2 which should help.
Hmm. If I first vlose MSI Afterburner while gw2 is running, it crashes :P
So:
Or:
I just try not to close it, and its fine.
edit: btw, sony vegas 11 has a free trial you can use first :D. Much better than windows movie maker too… It does almost nothing :/.
The only good thing about celestial is the crit damage, which is the same as verserker.
That said… Celestial is a horrible choice for anything.
Wow, this is amazing xD.
This thread reminds me of that conversation with my parents. The conversation I’ve never had :’(
I had to find out the hard way: putting Chaos Storm (because that’s how I roll) over 3 walls of reflection just before someone wanted to blast it for a cleansing burst, while we were on fire and bleeding. It made us all purple, very purple.
I once tried a pay to win mmo… Horrible :/.
I wanted to try pvp in q place that was level capped to 15. Which was very low. I figured there arent that many items yet, and it wouldnt make a huge difference… I was wrong.
A person spent 1000s of dollars on the shop, and basically, when he logged in the opposite was inmediatally like “yup. We’re so dead. Lets go afk till he gets bored.”
The huy did some aoe attack that one shotted everyone, like 5000 damage. We had 300ish hp :/. And we did 1 damage to him >_<.
It wasnt fun.
Also, one of my favourite flash games. I cant remember the name, but you control bacteria and infect cells, which over time give more bacteria C:
In the online version, there was literally an item “increases your strength, reproduction rate, speed and agility by times 100. Never lose again! only 1 euro and 99 cent.”
Yeeaaa… About 75% of the playerbase got that item. It wasnt fun :/.
Did anyone consider that this may just be a placeholder? The armor isnt released yet, things could change. Although I doubt that.
Or maybe each race uses their own cultural armor and adds a fire effect?
I havent seen a picture of a sylvari or norn previewing it. I also wonder what the asura and charr get with that same skin.
Also, restretching it to sylvari and norn would be alot of work, because its only available for humans, I guess.
I have 3 invisible bags… So things I want to keep go there
3 gear sets, fireworks , town clothes, toys. Its amazing, but I only have 20 bag dpace out of 150 at best :P
edit: congratw on your new energiser :P. May your disco ball be extra shiny.
I can not play til tomorrow, so I will appreciate any commentary on warden behavior.
Ty!
It spins.
Im more excited about the sylvari cultural revert C:
They really kittened t up in the last patch… Ruined my whole look :/.
But now they reverted it, so im happy :P
I heard Bandicam is pretty awesome. That’s all I know about it :P.
I use MSI Afterburner, and it can get uber quality, but I prefer normal quality + normal file size + no fps slowing down :P.
I heard you can only use MSI afterburner on MSI computers though… But I’m not sure. If you don’t have the right video card thing, it can melt or something :P.
I use Sony Vegas Pro 11 for editing, and it’s amazing. Takes some time figuring out how to do everything and where everything is, but it should be much easier if you use a video tutorial.
I didn’t use a tutorial, aaaaaaand… That was a mistake :P. When I edit, I spend more time figuring out how to do something than actual editing.
It’s alot of fun though.
With an average of 15% pure profit when investing in the trading post, you’d have to invest 666 gold :P.
That could take anywhere from 30 minutes to… untill you can’t go on any longer and fall asleep.
I believe that quote from Mike’O’Brien was from a half year before release :P.
They’re not going to improve the level cap… I hope x.x
You’re 4 months too late, mate.
They’re a necro. I can sense it.
If 1 keystroke = 1 action, its ok. Technically, binding mouse click to the scroll wheel thing is ok, too. Atleast, I never heard otherwise.
pressing a single button and then have it click 9000 times is not ok, obviously :P. Neither is if it clicks 2 times.
Edit: I have a button on my mouse that changes ‘presets’, which is basically a lot of keybinds and stuff. In one of my presets, Ijust set all keyboard buttons to left mouse click, and try to mash as many of them as I possibly can xD. It’s fun :P.
Before I had this mouse… I just grabbed a second mouse and let someone else click it for me. It was kind of weird. And usually, she saw it as a huuuuuuuge favour, so I had to do something huuuuuuuuge in return. Like buy chocolate :P
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Hey Blackhawk,
We agree with your points on rewards, progression, and especially the bit about ‘standing out’ with titles/gear, etc. These are all things we’re working on addressing. Next week we’ll be giving out a ton of information on what we’re going to do in the short-term (think up to the end of the year) and what we’re going to be implementing next year.
That sounds amazing
Just throwing this out there: I expect a new UI, with bars that fill as you do certain things :o.
You said it would blow us away. Bars and new UI blow me away :P. I hope I’m not asking too much :’(
An ele is nice in almost all dungeons if you can use fgs properly and also you can stack might with fire field+blast finisher. Mesmer is good for reflects,tw pulling and intrerupts.
When i do coe i always have an ele and 1 mes rest 3 wa or 2 wa 1 guardian for all paths. AC all paths works kinda the same but better with 1 guardian for the regeneration though i do fine without a guardian.
How exactly… Is. A Mesmer good (relative to others?) at interrupts?
As far as I know, thieves with an off hand pistol are best for interupts.
On a serious note: all professions are welcome in dungeons :P.
Yeah, this game has an extraordinary community
The only slightly irritating problem I’ve had, is that since I’m in the EU, a good 25% of people I get matched with seem to know no english
I have the same issue, except for me 33% dont type/talk at all :P.
I just wish infused back pieces were a kitteneaper!
Dat censor, though.
It’s funny, because most of the time kitten happens, I have to stare at t for like 10 seconds before realizig what t actually was that was censored xD.
I voted for evon, and I think this fractal will be awesome... Unless.
Unless we lose our own char and have to become inquest generic npc things :/.
Just like the vharr fractal. It is one of my favourite, but being random charrs completely ruin the experience :/.
How come whenever I do fractals its not that epic :’(
Because you don’t press the jump button often enough.
Seriously, try it .
It’s true ;D.
It’s even better if you’re a female Sylvari, for additional epicness.
I’d love to see an instability which specifically targets warriors and turns them into quaggans with one skill called splash which does precisely one damage.
I would roll a warrior just to play as a quaggan :P
On a serious note: it would be cool if we had acces to trait resets in case these instanilities are that drastic. Most, if not all professione can adapt to unknown situations (atleast, with a proper player controlling them) very well, compared to holy trinity mmos.
And no, please dont make it a consumablr item for 70 gems per use. Oh wait, we already have that :P.
I heard power necros are viable too, and thyre not locked to playing condition.
Unfortunately the change doesn’t apply to items that have already been acquired. Ultimately that’s what I wanted but there was a pretty severe technical limitation on this, so we thought it would be better to make the newly items work this way rather than postpone the conversion any longer.
Also, at higher Fractal levels the weapon skins become more common, and also start dropping in a container that lets you pick the one you want.
This is amazing c:
After well over 600 fractals done, I have 4 fractal skins, a greatsword, a focus, a focus, and a focus.
For 1v1 in the duelling custom arena I go with shatter… because phantasm, lockdown, and prismatic understanding are banned >__<’
wait… wut?
Just as I said, they’re banned.
- Both phantasm damage traits are banned… You cant make a phantasm build without them.
- Chaotic interruption and comfounding suggestions are banned.
- prismatic undertanding is banned.
- Rabid amulet is banned for Mesmers.
- mass invis is banned.
- torch is banned.
- you cant have both decoy and blink.
- mirror images is banned.
- all elites with higher cd than 90. So basically, Mesmer cant use elites at all.
- and more stuff I cant remember.
The owner just hates Mesmers, and he wants to have an easy win vs them, so he bans everything except the ‘easiest to kill’ build, which apparrently is shatter.
The sad thing is, that out of all custom arenas, that one is the most popular because people hate Mesmers :/. The other arenas have maybe 5 people in them… If youre lucky x.x
I’ve never encountered this. Could you perhaps clarify where you’ve had this happen?
Some popular 1v1 ‘king of the hill’ custom arena. Not sure what its called, becuase I never go there :/
Amusing that gw2 pvp 1v1 has been reduced to one maybe two populated servers. Shows how many people care nowadays.
Funny that all those mes traits are banned. Owner must have had a horrible mes bully him!
Yea… Then again, most people dont care about pvp in general. They care about getting pixel rewards and whatnot.
And IMO, 1v1 is the most fun :/. Atleast funner than hitting a brick wall in a circle, which are bunkers.
For 1v1 in the duelling custom arena I go with shatter… because phantasm, lockdown, and prismatic understanding are banned >__<’
wait… wut?
Just as I said, they’re banned.
The owner just hates Mesmers, and he wants to have an easy win vs them, so he bans everything except the ‘easiest to kill’ build, which apparrently is shatter.
The sad thing is, that out of all custom arenas, that one is the most popular because people hate Mesmers :/. The other arenas have maybe 5 people in them… If youre lucky x.x
20/20/0/0/30 shatter mesmer? Really? I can’t recall the last time I saw one in spvp or tpvp. I see a lot of GS phantasm builds. I still lean towards conditions though.
You don’t see them muh because it’s difficult to play… But it’s still our best bet for teamfighting.
And shatter is still the most fun for me ;D
Open your hero panel.
All main stats listed there go to your illusions… Except vitality, I think.
Might seems to have no effect when its on an illusion, but when it’s on you, it affectw both of you O.o. All other boons just work when they’re on the illusion itself.
Bloodlust stacks directly add power to your own stats, so illusions are affected by it.
Conditions on yourself have no effct on your illusions, unless the condition is on the actual illusion :
Hope that wasnt too confusing x.x
nerf BF(blurred frenzy) is op nerf it from evade to non.. is not enough evade
nerf glamours all over instead while way necros better give glamours to add HP to enemy
nerf tw to 5sec pls
nerf dying phantasms without hitting 1 time at least let them visual butterflies
nerf ourself survivability.. omg we are cleanser such a boss when use signet cleanse
nerf mantras it gives such a fine challenge while i am chanting as a bard with non reward..sorry just remind us this game is pvp structered mechanic.. instead delete wvw better not say wvw is competitive area as Tpvp..
respect there should be a marketing strategies.. / customer satisfaction..
wat
wat.
I actually spend 3 minutes staring at this to finally decide to ignore the troll :/. Well, I guess I still fell for it by typing this >__<
Always. The swordsman does more dps than the duelist.
There’s nothing preventing you from taking both, though.
whats is easy mode mean? Risk/Reward?
or easy mode vs quality of gaming in gw2 in competitive as how many has already left.. :P from earlier (books of..) now.. insistens from my minor drunken butterflier purple/pink glasses
That’s exactly waht easymode means. You don’t have to do much, can make alot ofmistakes, and still play at maximum effectivity.
As a shatter Mesmer, you have to play nearly flawlessly VS a meta warrior… one mistake and you take 5k hits, while they can just make mistakes over and over again and tank you :/.
Edit: It’s not that I can’t win or don’t enjoy fighting vs meta warriors, I actually do enjoy it… Atleast if I’m in super try hard mode and manage to dodge everything :P. I’m just frustrated that they have it so easy :/
- PvE(Fractals/Dungeons/Map Completion)
Traits
Gear
Runes/Sigils
Playstyle
Weapons
- WvW Zerg(Various Close combat/Ranged/Support)
Traits
Gear
Runes/Sigils
Playstyle
Weapons
Close combat:
Support:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/Guide-The-Chaos-Maestro-Support-Builds/first
- WvW Roaming(Close Combat/Ranged)
Traits
Gear
Runes/Sigils
Playstyle
Weapons
Any of the 4 offensive playstyles:
Same as roaming, basically.
That was alot of typing, hope you’re super happy now :P.
You kind of asked for information about… everything. Maybe it’d be better if you met someone in game?
Here you can find the Official Mesmer Forum Guild, it has plenty of experienced Mesmers in it who would love to help you out in real-time.
Or you can jsut whisper/PM me :P
Firstly, that’s not the pve meta build as it does not optimize fully for damage.
Secondly, included in the list is Colesy’s pve dungeon guide which happens to include multiple effective dungeon builds.
Well, of course it doesn’t optimize damage – anything in inspiration kills your damage, and it puts 20 there for focus reflects and shortened Feedback CD (assumed necessary. if you haven’t got them, why the **** are you bringing a mesmer?). But that doesn’t mean it’s not the meta. 10/30/0/20/10’s been the meta for ages now.
Actually, empowered phantasms is one of our most important damage traits in pvp :P.
It also automatically gets you the other inspiration traits, so thats not a problem
Edit: oops, realised I just bumped an ancient thread :/. Well, it’s nto technically a bump… because it didn’t bump anywhere.
it would be better watch top mesmer"s builds ofc with their setup with team orientations so meta.. most efficient one is shatter mesmer.. for tpvp.. however dunno why there is a lack of mesmers in tpvps nowadays.. probably could be the another question
Because most Mesmers got killed by easymode meta builds :/.
quoting myself from another thread:
When 2 maxed out Mesmer and Warrior duel, the Mesmer will undoubtly win.
When 2 average players duel, the warrior will roflstomp the mesmer
When 2 horrible players duel, the warrior will stomp the Mesmer into the ground, and this will remain: Mesmer remains
Thats the problem :p
“Yeah right, lets totally buff the most unfun and OP 1on1 spec there is to play against.”
And it will affect what? a 1v1 servers? Coz if u play seriously soloQ/tpvp u wouldn’t run PU mesmer. What for? running around (slowly) and 1v1ing? U can’t hold/contest point properly with this. And the most unfun and no-skiller 1v1 spec is ofc s/d thief.If ANet wants to introduce some sort of Deathmatch, they can’t afford OP 1v1 builds.
Engineers crap on PU mesmers all day. So do necros for that matter.
PU mesmer will NEVER kill a warrior played decently in this current game state.
It compeltely depends on who that Mesmer is.
I, for one have no problem with anything except necro minion master in 1v1.
Others may have trouble winning any 1v1 at all :/
Scepter chain. 1 stack of bleed (4 secs), 1 stack of torment 2nd, 1 stack of confusion (3rd chain).
That’s… Not going to solve any problems, and just promotes spamming 1 for damage/letting clones out for them to spam 1 for damage.
Reduce windup time of scepter skill 3, and put a cripple on it when channeling.
The cripple would be way too OP. We would have like 200% cripple uptime xD. Just make the confusing images cast twice as fast.
For staff, buff wind of chaos bleed application to 2 stacks instead of one, just for the mesmer. Take out the useless vulnerability and put 1-2 stacks of torment instead. Chaos Storm’s periodic damage could use a damage increase.
OP. Just removing the vulnerability should be enough, making bleeds 2 stacks is just too much.
For torch offhand, reduce The Prestige to a 20 sec cd. Reduce Backfire phantasm to a 15 sec cd, buff confusion stack to 6 (even at 6 stackjs of confusion the phantasm on average will do way less damage than an izerker or duelist; it’s just a really bad phantasm).
We have enough stealth. making it a 20 sec CD would be waaaaay too OP :/.
Make torch trait remove 2 condis per skill use instead of 1.
That seems like a reasonable suggestion.
Make both Crippling Dissipation and Debilitating dissipation apply their respective conditions on SHATTER as well as their current function.
Simply said, OP.
as they currently rarely want to shatter as staff clones are their only source of reasonable condi application.
Are you sure you’re playing the right game/profession?
For the Cry of Frustration trait on illusions, make it apply 2 secs of weakness per illusion shattered as well as the retal.
Change Arcane Thievery to a 25 sec cd.
That’s just… too much.
Thank you for the suggestions :P
TL;DR: Condition Mesmers are in a very good position right now, and don’t need buffs at all. It’s by far the most survivable offensive build we have, giving it even more defense is overkill and blatantly overpowered.
Best livestream so far, good job C:
I’m still waiting for the Mesmer guide, though :P
For 1v1 in the duelling custom arena I go with shatter… because phantasm, lockdown, and prismatic understanding are banned >__<’
If your custom arena/whatever you’re doing isn’t lame like that, just run any of the 4 offensive styles, and it’ll work for 1v1
Shatter: 0/20/0/0/30
I usually run 10/20/10/0/30, because blink is my favourite utility :P
condition: 20/20/30 AKA Blackwater Mesmer, with scepter/torch, staff
Lockdown: 30/20/20 with sword sword/staff. Berserker amulet
Phantasm: 10/10/0/25/0
They’re all a very different style, and if you find the one that fits you the most, you can pretty much do anything in pvp with it :P.
It’s true that certain professions have an easier time simply dealing with soaking up damage with larger HP pools, but it’s arguable that this is clearly better than the damage avoidance or support mechanics of others. Regardless, adding enemies with endlessly increasing damage output and health isn’t really a very interesting way to add difficulty. That’s why we reduced the HP/Damage scaling in Fractals somewhat and started replacing it with the Mistlock Instabilities that you’ll find starting at level 31.
OMG.
I’m so excited :D
Bringing the game closer together is something we’re actively working on accomplishing. We’ll be able to spill the beans on everything early next month. (I feel like a broken record at this point.)
But seriously. Beginning of December. All shall be revealed. ;)
Oh I cant wait :D.
Maybe if I’m lucky, it gets revealed on 14 december… Mesmer was revealed on 14 December too, and that’s my birthday :D
Well, this seems like a great place to ask!
- What runes/sigils would you like to see added to PvP?
- And for any adventurous readers, what different stat combinations on amulets?
I may be asking for alot here… But I’d like it if the stats from an amulet were spread out over 3 items. An amulet, trinket, and ring.
Currently the amulet gives 1000 or so stats, so just give each item 333 total (numbers arent accurate, but you get the idea).
It gives the kind of build diversity we have in WvW, customizing our stats etc.
Maybe it’d be nice if it was glory unlockable too :o.
Also give each item an insertable upgrade like the amulet jewel, and we get alot of customisation C:
Actually it’s not that. It’s under the heading feedback and it’s called Glamour.
Wat
I’d settle for a rabbit walking through my curtain not putting me in combat.
Last time I checked, rabbits are immune to conditions and don’t put you in combat :o.
Unless its the champion rabbit in fractals :P
for SPvP shatter is probably the most viable build atm, but you need to play EXCEPTIONALLY well to make it viable.
the traits are 20/20/0/0/30 (make sure you’re taking shattered concentration), zerker trinket, lyssa or ogre runes, and blink/portal/x utilities
Yea, thats the thing ghat annoys me :/
You have to play nearly perfectly with shatter vs warriors and those thigs, and they can pretty much tank you and still deal massive damage x.x
That said, Shatter is still your best bet. You can really turn team fights around with burst damage and boon stripping.
On khylo and skyhammer I always go on the treb/skyhammer, because people usually only go alone to try and kill you :p. Skyhammer is actually my favourite map, its so easy to ein a 1vs2 ehen youre campijg skyhammer :P. When you see them coming: decoy and place temporal currtain on the glass, run over it, when they come you pull them and position yourself for an illusionary wave if needed. People get so mad xD. But I guess its their own fault for charging in blindly :P
I go with runes of speed, sword focus greatsword with 2x fire and bloodlust. (Still not sure if bloodlust or accuracy is better :/), and decoy blink manta of resolve.
In the very extremely rare occasion there are no condition enemies on the other team, ill go with mirror images.
It makes your skills faster, it just doesn’t seem very usefull O.o. Whereas mass invis is always usefull. For offense, defense, support… everything :o.
For offence? In dungeons?
I meant pvp situations :/.
I don’t really go solo in dungeons, anyway.
You can only teleport if you could otherwise run to the location.
Sometimes it bugs… And you get stuck in the ground :’(
Like in the clocktower, or the waterfall and graveyard in legacy of the foefire :/.
Yes, that is the problem. The majority of the playerbase, which are pve only players, care only about rewards.
There are no real rewards for them, so its impossible for them to get into it.
Imo, it would be nice (but nonesense) to give experience scrolls, like insta level or insta lvl20, but I’d have no idea for what they should be rewarded.
I’m still praying for a simple 1vs1 mode, where the reward would be some silver on a seperate leaderboard… Being higher on the leaderboard gives more silver to reward skilled players :P.
I assume making a duellig mode is simple, even though I know that assumption is wrong.
That, and they’re already working on a rewar system. I wonder if those rewards are usable in pve… It could very well attract some attention.
If you mean the Medic’s Feedback trait, it only procs when you revive. Read the tooltip :P
There’s nothing cooler than norn ballerina. Male.
I can think of quite alot of things, actually.
Like a male norn ballerina in a purple butterfly print dress.
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