Guild Wars 2

Mesmer is the worst dps dealer, there are jokes made about Mesmer’s condi damage, Time Warp only affects 5 people at a time, and now Alacrity is being nerfed.

But wait, the icing on top is that Mesmer’s one of TWO mainhand weapons is getting a rework suddenly makes it all better like a kiss on a boo boo by Anet, while we forget that the reason we use sword mainhand and not scepter is because of slightly better damage.

There is no longer any reason to play Mesmer, unless teleporting people out of the map for laughs. That and turning people into moas twice in a row.

I was doing events in Verdant Brink and all of a sudden another Chronomancer showed up, but with an effect that looked like shatter 1 stuck in a loop. That player said that she didn’t see/know any effect that was going on.

How did this turn into the sex joke thread?

I fail to see how Revenant is superior to Reaper in terms of condition damage.
After all, Revenants can’t even permachill.

I completely gave up on it and then decided to do some fractal content instead. When I was selling off the junk rares the achievement decided to be unbugged again and procced when I was halfway through my inventory at 213 gold.

Thanks for the help, I guess?

The achievement for Gold Hoarder is stuck at the number shown and not 200 gold, which is what I have in my wallet.
Unless the achievement requires two thousand gold and not two hundred, which would be impossible because one of the tiers for Gold Hoarder is one hundred/one thousand gold, and I have never had one thousand gold in my wallet before.

How are they superior when Human Mesmers literally spin them in place? I want to do that with my legendaries!

And I’ve also noticed something else. When any other race uses their GS 1 they make a grimace on their face, like channeling a large and unstable pink laser beam is difficult to do. Asura have no grimace whatsoever on their face, silent and calm like they just woke up from a nap.

This is just straight up lazy.

Loving my Asuran Mesmer, but when I first realized that Human, Slyvari and Char Mesmers have a completely different animation than Asura by levitating and rotating the greatsword with their hands instead of holding it and pointing with it I became so envious and dissapointed that I almost deleted my level 80 Asura.

Please update this skill so Asura could have this unique animation too!

Well of Precognition takes the cake for the non-offensive stunbreaker with the highest cast time. ( Actually that isn’t true, Rev’s Rite of the Great Dwarf has casting time of 1.25 seconds, though it doesn’t count because that is an elite and can be traited as a passive.)

Thank you Anet, you took something perfectly fine that needed a little change to prevent point capture and you made it completely unusable.

About a third of the people in this thread don’t even play mesmer, you can tell from their comments. So ignorant.

Finishing HoT and going back again to see everything that I missed I felt the need to paint my mesmer like he had to struggle with everything that Mordremoth threw at him.

Aomine.5012:

Just faced one.

Even 2 v 1 you can hardly touch him.

Alacrity, in addition to sword 2, shield 4 , f4, well, with f5 double spam makes bunker Chrono nearly untouchable 95% of the time.

There’s next to no counter to it.
The only thing that are close to being the counter is condition Rev, which the only reason it’s able to counter chrono is because Mallyx torment pulse and burn pulse are UNEVADABLE and UNBLOCKABLE.

Basically bunker Chrono is a completely brainless spec that basically just spam their rotation to get their immortality.

Brainless spec? Is that supppsed to be a joke? Chrono is harder to play than any other class because of timing and geometry issues plus the fact that you have to memorize the meta constantly to know how to counter their play style. Have you even tried out the class in the first place?

*Boonstrip
*Attack at a distance, staff doesn’t do much damage and the further you are the longer the bounces have to travel
*Condi pressure from multiple people
*Stop standing in the red circles
*Stop attacking into blocks, they have 2-3 effects that happen when they block
*Stop attacking into blocks
*STOP ATTACKING INTO BLOCKS

You can get the entire elite spec done in 10 minutes by flying around Verdant Brink. Dunno what youre whining about.

Novamatrix.2569:

You people obviously dont know how to play your class correctly

Do you know who you are talking to? THE Fay, literally the first person to introduce the Chronobunker meta to Guild Wars. He obviously knows how to play his class correctly.

Check yourself before you wreck yourself.

1. Host a world event or start a taxi on a map.
2. Declare that XYZ guild is hosting the event/meta. (Make sure you do this multiple times, not just once.)
3. After your XYZ guild has PROFESSIONALLY and EFFICIENTLY completed the event/meta state in map chat,
“Another well done event/meta by XYZ guild. We are looking for more members to add to our ranks so that we can bring you many more successful zergs in the future.”

No smileys or any kind of emoticons.
Do everything here and consistantly every day and the requests to join will be flooding in.
Source: I do daily Triple Trouble events with my guild, EVOS.

Sounds like you want a Mesmer. Everyone loves Mesmers or hates them, go cry in a corner Warriors, and now they can do the Time Warp twice in a row (one of the strongest elite skills in the game) with Chonomancer they are a staple for raids.

According to the mesmer’s shatter description it should give back charges on mantras. Testing this out today proved otherwise. It was if I didn’t use the shatter at all. Is this intended or is this a bug?

According to the shatter description it should give back charges on mantras. Testing this out today proved otherwise. It was if I didn’t use the shatter at all. Is this intended or is this a bug?

This thread is a great way to figure out who plays Mesmer and who completely gave up on it.

Burning should not happen in water environments, end of story, though Anet hasn’t addressed this inconsistency since game launch. Removing burning while in water would also increase the “enjoyment” of pvp maps as high condition damage (which relies mostly on burning as of right now due to its massive health ticks per second) would be mitigated by going into the mini rivers that are in those pvp maps.

Unless it’s mystic magic fire that comes from Mordor.

A Norn and an Asura are arguing.

You can say they don’t see eye to eye.

There is nothing quite like the feeling of having 3 phantasmal swordsman up with 2 offensive golems as a Chronomancer.

I actually am forced to use the golems in place of Time Warp cause sometimes it’s just god kitten useless. Warp speeds up your wells so they do less damage/cleanse/chill and I need more dps. Anywhere else in dungeons is like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkplPbd2f60

Black Lion chests are the primary way of obtaining Black Lion Tickets.

Shinja.5642:

Knighthonor.4061:

Elite Spec Name: Bard
Weapon: Short Bow
New Skill Type: Coda
Mechanics: F1-F5 skills are changed into what are called “Verses”. Traits that normally work with Shatters also trigger on Verses.

Mesmer Elite Spec becomes Bards.

Bards take their short bow into the field of war to inspire and heal their allies with their soothing voice whiling channeling their music.

Bard is a new Healer/Boon support Elite Spec. Bards sing loud Verses that shatters their illusions into wonderful sounds that apply boons and heals allies.

Codas are ranged channel skills that deal damage from afar to enemies. Codas apply Boons to allies within the Coda’s sound wave, and heals allies near the target’s location, making for great sustain healing verse the burst healing of a Druid.

whats your thoughts on this?

Very nice idea but i would not like it tbh. We already have 2 Long Ranged 2HWeapons.

We need a Main Hand Power based ranged weapon next. (Axe pls?)

So player instruments: the class?

Wouldn’t a Bard have a warhorn? Mostly because Mesmer’s skills sometimes shout out stuff. Shatter 2 is even named Cry of Frustration.

Mogar.9216:

uhh because I’m a mesmer and here is where I post mostly?

So you want to post in a section of the Forums where only an eighth of the players browse instead of the general discussion? 10/10 logic.

Are you using it to boast or something?

Did someone say Mesmer?

1. There are already achievements for doing storylines
2. Main story and Living Story objectives are extremely easy to do, especially with multiple people
3. Why should you get a title for doing something so easy? Why should you get a title for something that everyone will do with no effort?
4. You get ascended items for completing Living Story to the max. What more do you want? Zojia’s Ascended loot boxes?

Myrias.8732:

Ananeos.4587:

Three iAvengers means permanent alacrity for the party (higher dps) and permanent slow on the boss.

I’m confused, are you agreeing with me due to 3 avengers giving a lot of breakbar damage via slow?

Yes?

Fuzzy Butt.6945:

So I’ve noticed that my show mini will uncheck itself from time to time too. Maybe Nightfury and the mini selection are related somehow.

That’s only if you transfer constantly between pve, pvp and wvw.

Myrias.8732:

So the stun every 5 seconds is the only real benefit of this trait? Seems meh considering most all breakbars melt to Shield 5, F3, etc. as is.

Three iAvengers means permanent alacrity for the party (higher dps) and permanent slow on the boss.

Agemnon.4608:

I’ll start by my vision of how GW2 ends: the final elder dragon is on the moon. He is silver and rainbowy, but a corruption of those colors so not bright and beautiful. He is psychic with powerful mind control. He is so powerful that the pale tree and entire sylvari race need to make a heroic sacrifice similar to the dwarves to defeat him. He’d be defeated in a PvP/Raid hybrid gameplay wise with lots of platforming. He is defeated and peace reigns for 1,000 years. Destiny’s Edge is nowhere to be found, but they were send in a time portal. The final elder dragon’s spell was meant to be fatal, but a new spell from Zojja saved their lives and sent them forward in time. Rytlock is known as the greatest Ascalonian king who ever lived, but there are rumors that he didn’t quite die, so for the past 1,000 years you have Rytlock imitators claiming to be the real Rytlock. When the real Rytlock does find his descendant the king (reasonably so) assumes he’s yet another imitator, but the player character helps him with a quest proving in fact he’s the real Rytlock. Taimi also gets sent forward in time as she played the biggest role in defeating the final elder dragon, but she goes forward in time too in order to justify her being in an expansion 1,000 years in the future without making a new character who’d be criticized as a Taimi knockoff. Eir’s place in Destiny’s Edge was taken over by Braham. Only Caithe remains of the Sylvari, and the Crysquest, who are like the Inquest but 1,000 years more advanced (logically) and stole all the Priory’s knowledge kidnapped Caithe. Since she’s the last surviving Sylvari and Ogden the last surviving dwarf they perform inhumane experiments on them, but are rescued by the player character, Taimi, and Rytlock.

Logan is now an Asura because he was changed with Asuran magitech in order to have children with Zojja. How their relationship started was as follows:

Zojja: “You do realize the Queen is with another man and you’ll just have to accept that right?”

Logan: “I won’t! I can’t! I have given up so much for her!”

Zojja: “What do you even see in her anyway? She wasn’t there risking her life with you, she didn’t go through what WE went through together. Besides, am I not smart and beautiful?”

Logan (smirks in a way suggesting he’s giggling inside): Well, you are cute and beautiful.

Zojja: “Have you ever thought about…well…us?”

Logan: “Enough of the uncomfortable questions. Even if I had, the risk of offending you would be too great. Afraid you would no longer see me a brother in arms, but a weirdo who…wants to date another species”

Zojja (places hand on Logan’s hand): It’s okay. You don’t have to hide anything from me. (They make out)

Logan: Looks like we have a chance to bust out of here, save Rytlock, and show these inquest monsters not to mess with Destiny’s Edge! An understanding of revenant magic would be far too dangerous in their hands!

(A couple arcs later, after Zojja and Logan’s marriage)

Zojja: Humans and Asura cannot bear children, but I have found a way to solve that problem! With the latest advancements in magitech you can become an Asura!

Logan: For you my love, anything.

So what does everyone think? If your opinion is negative that’s okay I’m open to constructive criticism and admit I’m not a lore expert so contradictions with it are inevitable.

I think you should stop posting.

“feel” stiff? teach me your ways.

Does this mean I can’t bring my own rocks that I bought with my precious silver to throw at the raid boss?
Aww.

LRN2 ChronoBunker.

http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Chronomancer_-_Bunker

Shinghan.9265:

Hey people! A topic popped up while I was doing Teq so I thought I would bring it up here. There’s a lot of commotion going around about whether Sylvari have kittenes or not. Some people mentioned the lore saying yes and some mentioned no. There have also been some people saying that Anet did talk about this but I couldn’t find much. Let’s discuss!

EDIT: I meant the P-word for genitalia! NOT KITTENS!

They do not have genitalia. If you paid attention in the Caithe’s memories in the living story instead of rushing through it like a headless chicken you would know. The Inquest captured a group of secondborn Sylvari wandering outside of the Pale Tree for the first time and immediately dissected them without painkillers. During the stealth moments where you infiltrate the base one of the Inquest mentioned that they had no reproductive organs. (pee pee and vagoo).

“B-but muh leaf coverings!”
Blame the Pale Tree for making you with unremovable clothes. Embrace Simplicity.

Paralux.6714:

My mesmer, Enxari. I want her looks to be unique. Not to be typical “mesmer like”

shows character in all black
yes, very unique indeed…

Here is a solution:
Mentors that have their tag activated will be in an invulnerable mist form that can’t attack and only loot bodies and chests. Instead of doing the damage threshold they will only get rewards when their party members actually participate in the event. That way you can walk around unimpeded without mobs going for you and actually direct an event, show where to go and if you actually direct well you will be rewarded for it.

Also there needs to be a “Commander” title in the chat as well. I’ve lost count of how many times I lost track of who the commander was just because dead people with ADHD at the starting waypoint in WvW couldn’t stop typing in the map chat.

Commanders were meant to command events and mentors are experienced players meant to guide new players through events that the vets have already done.
This is not hard.

PyrateSilly.4710:

Tom Gore.4035:

Clovers are by far your least problem when crafting a legendary. Trust me. Money you will need on the other hand. Lots. Of. Money.

What money are you talking about? I am almost done with getting Bolt (had Zap drop) and paid no money/gold for anything. Just waiting on more clovers actually and since I don’t like “playing” the Mystic Toilet I am just waiting on one more monthly chest.
As for the “new” ones with the expansion, I am already collecting things just by playing the game. No rushing, grinding or buying off the TP needed as I don’t need any legendary to play. For me they are just cosmetic.

Do your PvP tracks, they offer clovers.

It’s Superior Rune of the Earth. It’s been bugged for over a month. Don’t worry about it too much, the over inflated price is because of the novelty of having no text on your rune.

Playing around with Chrono for a while with Fractals and the like for weeks now and I just realized this quirk. When using the shield 5 on anything (ANYTHING, including inanimate objects) the target becomes stunned. When using the 5 on a boss with a full stability bar the skill goes ahead and stuns the boss anyway without reducing the bar at all. Twice, one for when it goes out and one for when it comes back. The dazed debuff appears on the object I’m hitting but it does NOT interrupt the npc when in the middle of a skill, only when they aren’t doing anything. The purple highlight also appears around the npc as well, indicating they are “trapped in time”.

This has gotten to the point where fractal groups depend on me to stop the boss from doing anything at any time so they can get a little more damage in. Is this a bug? Hopefully this won’t be nerfed anytime soon, enjoying it a lot.

AlphatheWhite.9351:

Ananeos.4587:

The last ability on the rune is terrible in my opinion when you could be using max dps with strength. But if you want to make everyone slightly faster for two seconds by giving up a lot of damage be my guest. Still surprised the rune is hovering around 4g 50s. You would have thought people would have unlocked it by now.

The quickness does not apply to everyone, just you.

Huh. That makes it even worse.

The last ability on the rune is terrible in my opinion when you could be using max dps with strength. But if you want to make everyone slightly faster for two seconds by giving up a lot of damage be my guest. Still surprised the rune is hovering around 4g 50s. You would have thought people would have unlocked it by now.

Now that Heart of Thorns is done and people have already unlocked their Elite Specialization runes and are selling them on the Trading Post, it’s time for that discussion again.

What is the best rune for Mesmer? Post results and your tests!

For me I personally found Rune of the Chronomancer to be pretty underwhelming when I could be using Scholar or Strength. The last ability you get from the rune is pretty useless as there are only two wells that are useful/worth playing at all.

I also tested the Berserker rune in a PU condi build and I was impressed though if I wanted full condi I would just use Travelers, Perplexity or maybe Antitoxin.

Ever since the patch this morning I have been getting random frame drops that I should not be getting with a high end custom build PC.

Average on all settings on max with supersample on: 80-120 fps.

At random intervals my fps will dip to 20-40 for a couple seconds and then hover around the 60 mark.

CPU: Intel i5-4690k
GPU: AMD R9 390 with 8gb vram manufactured by XFX

I would like to enjoy the Halloween content in this patch but the Clockwork Tower puzzle is just unplayable and combat as a Thief is frustrating. Please help!