Guild Wars 2

Pyroatheist.9031:

How about [OMFG] :p

We can try…

Definitely this is what I call a OMG community xd

Too bad I’m in holidays until 3th Sept. and I cannot read the forum as much as I can.

Another suggestion for the guild name could be:

Oficial Mesmer Forum Guild [OMG], but I think that tag must be taken already xd

The key about all this matter is in the mechanic.

When you’re summoning a clone/phantasm, you’re actually summoning an external source that is independent from the mesmer, and much more independent from the enemy.
I say that because skills that are canceled through dodges are skills that affect the enemy directly. In that case, the skill does not trigger cause it needs to reach the enemy.
But phantasms/clones/minions/spirits/pets/spirit weapons/animals from runes/weapons from eles… work differently. You’re summoning a spell that it does nothing to the enemy by itself, but provides an external source that does things by itself.

You want to change a whole mechanic of the game, as to be fair all “pets” skills from all other classes and even also ground-targeted skills should be affected by the same way.

To finally understand what I’m trying to say is to see how Mirror Blade and iZerker works. If you dodge Mirror Blade, the skill won’t create a clone.

Enormous problem that can be simply solved learning how to dodge phantasms attacks. And for the mother of god, kill them if you see the mesmer does not shatter them…

PD: You’re wrong about no other class has quick summon “pets” like mesmer. Necros can have 5 minions every 24 seconds.

skcamow.3527:

Maybe … maybe if fully stacked with might.

Even with 25 stacks of might and vulnerability, iZerker shouldn’t do more than 8-9k of damage…

1. Mesmers are not played as much as before, but we still have a place in WvW. Our mission is mostly support, with glamours and reflections, but you can try a shatter front-line soldier in small fights.

2. You need survivability, but the magic of the mesmer is that we have it from other sources. In zergs I run a reflection/glamour build with 2750 of armor and 18,8k of base health. I have no problems to survive, as I rely on blink, phase retreat and 2 Distortions thanks to the trait.

If you know how to move and to avoid the damage, soldier/sentinel gear becomes useless.

3. There’re only ascended trinkets. And no, ascended gear is not needed in WvW, exotic does the job pretty well.

4. Yes, melee is still the meta. Actually it’s even worse than before. In high tiers is not hard to see 60vs60 men fights. Healing Guards are very demanded, and definitely you feel you’re more useful than playing a mesmer.

The problem I see with iZerker in big fights is that you only do 2k aoe damage every 20s, and that is pretty low even for mesmers. Focus is way more useful and popping a Chaos storm in the middle of the e enemy zerg or even in yours for support purposes is way more useful. Then, Glamour Confusion builds are totally dead, so is not worth to specify on it.

I don’t consider PU a way to improve our elite, just because then we would also need to consider boon duration and condition duration also an improvement for elites, so even it lets us in a much worst situation, since stealth is an effect of the whole game, not an exclusively part of MI.

PD: I forgot that Basilik Venom from thiefs also gets the benefits from venom traits, so it let us, Mesmers, as the only class that cannot improve CD or duration of our elites.

1. This is not a problem of the skill. Is the terrain, all the leap skills suffers from the same, if the terrain is not completely flat, these skills tend to fail.

1. As carighan said, the particularity of this phantasm makes it unique, extremely good for zerg in WvW and multi mobs in PvE, but instead weak in 1vs1 or bosses situations. It can also be played as a protector to anything against projectiles.

1. I think that it could be upgraded if it removed 2 boons instead of one. I find the radius and the damage OK, but it’s useless to waste time with this skill for what I can get from sword autoattack.

1. I think the un-interruptable way is the best. Mantras needs a long cast time, since they provide multiple effects with no CD.

1. Actually, Time Warp is an ethereal field, like glamour skills. I also think it should be considered as a Glamour skill, cause the similarities with Feedback and Null Field are obvious.
   Also, Mesmers and thiefs are the 2 classes that cannot upgrade their elites through anything. The problem is that thief elites have way shorter CD’s and we have to deal with being the second class with longest elites.

For roaming alone all three can be good. Phantasm is the easiest one and the best if you’re starting with mesmers. Shatters requires more ability, but they can bee a good pain in the kitten due to their amazing burst, see Osicat’s video for that xd And Conditions can also be good and you are the maximum trolling, but it’s a slower build and you will miss the shatter burst or the easiness from phantasms.

For small groups, shatters shines the most, since you have a lot of AoE damage, and your enemies are not too much to kill your clones/phantasms. A phantasm build can also be good if you go more support (See Pyro or Chaos Maestro guides).

Nice build, I’m also working on a support build, and we have some similar things, here’re some tips:

Try to use Magi gear instead of cleric. You will have precision instead of power, so you will be able to dodge a lot more. Also, since this is not an offensive build, it doesn’t matter if you lose power to get more critical crits for defensive purposes.

For utilities, use Null field, Veil and Signet of Inspiration. You will bring much more support and all boons gained from PU, will be available for other allies. In case you face enemies with lots of projectiles, Feedback will do an insane work. Think about you can combine ethereal fields with Prestige, so you will give AoE Chaos armor, another way to bring more support.

Now that you don’t have blink, you can change duel trait for a more useful one. I think the sword one is the better in these type of cases, cause you have a faster frenzy, which also helps to compensate the lost of blink.

1- If you are planning to run a long distance, take a focus on your inventory and put both sigils of Inspiration and Midnight. Whenever you’re going to fight just put the utilities you use and change focus for your OH weapon, in case you need it.
Otherwise, out of combat speed is one of mesmer’s weakness. We have to learn dealing with it.

2- Condition cleanses is definitely our weakness point, that’s why nowadays you cannot see any mesmer in High level sPvP. But there’re some options: Null Field with glamour trait, Arcane Thievery (a more PvP skill), use sigil of generosity or sigil of purity, Menders of Purity… But start thinking you will not be able to clean conditions as an ele or guardian.

3- For tagging, I recommend you to pop up first the phantasms, and then use the other skills. It only takes like 2 seconds to phantasms to attack since you start summoning them. But again, this is one of the small weaknesses we have: We cannot have a huge burst in a short time. We focus more on wearing the enemy.

selan.8354:

erm this is all 1v1 based. a mesmers interrupts are more 1v1 based. inn wvw imaginge a hammerwarrior train with those runes…perma 25 confusion stacks . with one hit if traited they get 9 kitten stacks of confusion and 5 of the last for 10 seconds. this is not a rune made fore confusion mesmers this rune takes our core condition and gieves it to every class that now can viably stack it. we got a kitten bb nerf so we couldnt stack it that well any more and now all a warrior has to to is to hit u and while dealing massive dps he will now alls give kitten 9 stacks and if u get hit again 18 stacks and then we are very kitten close to 25 stacks!

so whats next? are they taking our cloens and give it to all the other classes too? and then a rune that gives u perma acces to timewarp with a 20 seconds cooldown? seriously is anet tryig to destroy the mesmers?

You consider confusion as a boon. Even if a warrior is in a zerg, he won’t be able to put perma 25 stacks, just because it doesn’t stack on one foe.

At much, he will be able to put 3 stacks in a radius of 240 with earthshaker, but with a ridiculous condition damage, I don’t see this as a threat.

And everybody is talking about 1vs1, since it has no value in big scale fights due to the CD in effect 4 and the small access to AoE CC for any class who is running a condition build.

I don’t feel mesmers need another MH weapon. It would all be solved if they’d improve both scepter and sword autoattack, and make Confusing Images with 2s cast time.

Scepter is a meh choice just because is the slowest weapon of all game for what you get, not because is not a weak weapon.

This is the build I run nowadays:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fgAQNAsdGlwzipHVzqeE50Dmb5aOSKKNUrkCe7CB-jEzAYMBRyREpIAJwioxWKHiW1NsqaAtNm+N1q4EZzZ0qt6ACBweBA-w

I focus on reflections, as I discovered you can only upgrade their damage through critical hits, that’s why I run rage runes, knight weapons and armor and a mix of knight and cavalier in trinkets. Also glamours are upgraded as much as they can.

The problem with mesmers is due to all that nerfs we got in the past, now we’re reduced only to utilities in zergs, cause other professions can do a lot of things much better (DPS, conditions, aoe healing, buffs…) than us.

juno.1840:

^^ Exactly ^^

And condition removal ruins all the benefits of condition duration.

Also ruins the confusion duration, so it does not put down my argument…

The same happens when mesmers want more protection duration from PUand they put runes with +20% protection duration rather than +15% boon duration.

Godmoney.2048:

Ansau.7326:

Lool a rune that puts you confusion hahahahaha

What I said about confusion not being worth it was not because is does no damage, the problem with it is that sucks a little bit when you want to be it as your main source of damage. With the non-sense confusion nerf, they killed a whole way to go for mesmers. In the other hand, it’s a very good second damage option, as people tent to forget about it.

The main problem with this rune is that there’re other options to reach +100% full condition duration, so you’ll have the same effect as this one, plus having double torment, bleeds from sharper images and fire from staff and torch.

The only thing that saves this rune is the interrupt fact. But in a game where skills have very low/non cast time, interrupt scene is very little.

If you’re getting 100% condi duration you’re doing it wrong.

You’re giving up tons and i mean tons of condi to get 100% duration. Unless you’re fighting the biggest idiots ever you’re better off having more condi power.

No idea why you would try to get 100% duration except for PVE in which case why are you running condi at all for PVE?

I’m just sitting here laughing at people giving up 179 condi for 10% duration. Not to mention the almost 200 condi you get from a 5/6 rune set.

http://tinyurl.com/myokqlm
100% duration and 1228 condition damage: Torment – 6234, Burning – 3810, 6s confusion with iMage and F2,10s confusion with Confusing Images and 10s bleeds with Sharper Images.

http://tinyurl.com/k8nhwv5
60% duration and 1875 condition damage: Torment – 6131, Burning – 3187, 4,75s confusion with iMage and F2, 8s confusion with Confusing Images, and no bleeds from Sharper Images to reach that amount of condition damage and equal the numbers.

http://tinyurl.com/m4c2t7s
60% condition duration and 1753 condition damage with points in duel for sharper images: Torment – 5857, Burning – 3065, 4,75s confusion with iMage and F2, 8s confusion with Confusing Images, and 8s of bleeds from sharper images.

First, I don’t see that super OMFG lost of condition damage.
Second, no thanks for that facepalm…

Lool a rune that puts you confusion hahahahaha

What I said about confusion not being worth it was not because is does no damage, the problem with it is that sucks a little bit when you want to be it as your main source of damage. With the non-sense confusion nerf, they killed a whole way to go for mesmers. In the other hand, it’s a very good second damage option, as people tent to forget about it.

The main problem with this rune is that there’re other options to reach +100% full condition duration, so you’ll have the same effect as this one, plus having double torment, bleeds from sharper images and fire from staff and torch.

The only thing that saves this rune is the interrupt fact. But in a game where skills have very low/non cast time, interrupt scene is very little.

You made 2 little mistake:

You didn’t thought that putting 30 points in Domination you’re also upgrading 30% condition duration.
And you didn’t realized that condition damage in the skill description is done during all the condition duration, not every second (confusion apart), so there are no multipliers.

Correct numbers are:

Base:
1- 117/117/259
2- 345 + 1275(torment) + 34
3- 860 + 325(confusion)
4- 331 + 984(fire)
5- 446 + 195(confusion)
TOTAL = 5288

Power stats:
1- 223/223/334
2- 446 + 1275(torment) +45
3- 1115 +325(confusion)
4- 401 + 984(fire)
5- 446 + 195(confusion)
TOTAL= 6012

Condition damage stats:
1- 117/117/259
2- 345 + 1725(torment) + 34
3- 860 + 438(confusion)
4- 331 + 1209(fire)
5- 446 + 263(confusion)
TOTAL= 6144

THIS IS THE BEST SCENARIO FOR POWER STATS, for 2 reasons:
First, I count the enemy will only activate 1 skill in every confusion duration, and I count as if the enemy don’t move during all torment.
And second, there’s no condition duration fact in this maths. This will make the differences much bigger.

If confusion was worth…

It’s not a problem if you want to go 4×1h weapons. The thing is that both scepter and torch are condition weapons, so they are better if you upgrade your condition damage instead of power, as most of their skills provides you conditions. So I’d would definitely focus scepter/torch in a defensive set.

Here’s the link of the build with all changes, so you can see and compare better:
http://tinyurl.com/ppn5nzh

For roaming, you need to balance the toughness and health, cause you don’t have all that condition cleanings from zergs. I would focus more on precision rather than power, cause a lot of your skills are multi-hit and they benefit more of critical hits. Also I would choose Maintenance Oil.
I’d change some gear, like weapons. Use more defensive stats for scepter/torch (Magi or Shaman are the best) and use both zerker sword/pistol.
And take Plate of Lemongrass Poultry. With all that stealth skills and cc, you can manage to be with less than 50% of health with no problems. You also will cover that lost of power to have more precision.

And finally, no you cannot have 2 stacking sigils at the same time. If you run with 2 of them, the first to stack will be the only one activated and it will be permanent until you die or you change map.
The only stacking thing that happens is if you run the same stacking sigil in both weapons. In this case, you will gain 2 stack with every kill. But this is rather useless, since reaching 25 kills is not that difficult.
I’ve also changed weapons sigils.

PD: If you have enough laurels take the Celestial Amulet, it gives you a lot more stats than any other amulet.

PD2: I forgot to say that Signet of Domination is not worth in your build, since you don’t focus on conditions and that 3s stun is in a very long CD for what you get. The best alternatives are Signet of Inspiration, Phantasmal Disenchanter, Null Field, Signet of Midnight or Arcane Thievery.

First of all, I think you need to decide if you want to play with a condition build or a power one. I say this cause your “defensive” set is has little part of defensive and is quite useless without condition damage.

- If you want to maintain the defensive set, I’d change scepter/torch for staff. You will see a lot of boons on you, plus chaos armor does a pretty job, even after remake.

- If you want to go more with direct damage, then I suggest to change scepter/torch for greatsword.

- And if you want to go with condition damage, then you need to change all your gear. Preferences are Rabid, Carrion, Apothecary, Settler… Weapons are fine, as iDuelist does quite a lot of condition damage combined with Sharper Images.

Talking about sigils:

Sigil of impact really does nothing to your build. Its benefits are worthless, since you have only 2 ways of stun and mesmers don’t have knockdown skills. Also remember that phantasms aren’t affected by this sigil.

Then, sigil of energy is also worthless in a mesmer with perma vigor, it’s more suitable in builds without points in Duels.

I would think of taking one of the stacks sigils (Bloodlust, Perception or Corruption). In PvE and also in WvW you can have the 25 stacks easily, and they provide good amount of stats.

And finally the food. This depends all in the build you’re running. But normally, people take food or to boost one of the mainstay of the build, or to balance the weaknesses.
For example, a condition build will go with Veggie Pizza and Tunning Crystal, to boost their condition damage. But a zerker mesmer would go with Lemongrass (-40% condition duration), as their have enough damage.

Here’s my purpose xd

I have a 3 buttons mouse (Razer Deathadder) and I don’t feel I need more buttons. I also sweat as hell and mouse is working the same as the first day. Having it for 1,5 years using it nearly everyday in all situations.

http://www.razerzone.com/gaming-mice/razer-deathadder

This is how I play:

I have healing and blink in lateral buttons and elite skill in roll. the other 2 utilities are in !z" and “x”.

The key for me is to move using qwe instead of traditional wasd. This gives me more acces to F1-F4 and 1-5 buttons, so I don’t suffer when fighting.
With thumbs I control heal and utilities without the need of moving other fingers.
With index fingers I control the skills with longest CD (Distortion, Diversion, Elite and 4, 5 weapon skills).
And with middle finger I manage shatters and the rest of weapons skills.

The best part is that you can use these kind of mice in more “serious” situations, cause taking your mmo mouse it can be awkward and freak at work xd Also there’s no need of having 2 mice…

For the runes, I’d for Melandru or Hoelbrak. This second gives you more power and might while getting the benefits of condition reduction.

Talking about the build, I see 2 main problems.

First, pure bunker builds don’t tent to excel as well as other defensive builds for Mesmers. And that is because we have a lot of ways to avoid damage, so we don’t need to put all the efforts on upgrading defensive stats.
I first tried a pure bunker build, with sentinel gear, so I had like 2900 of armor and near 29k of health. But I realized that it had no-sense, cause in WvW, if they focus you, no matter what you’ll die. After that I started changing my gear to have more precision and critical damage, but keeping a lot of toughness and some vitality (Knight, Cavalier and Valkyrie). The result is that I’m still able to survive a lot in WvW, but also I do quite a lot of damage. My stats are ~3050 of armor and 18k of health. With Magi armor I have +2700 of armor and 20,3k of health and 300 more healing power.

And then, I think you’d do better with Imbued Diversion instead of Illusionary Persona. The thing is that you’re not running a melee weapon, you tent to play more ranged, as greatsword gets better as more ranged you’re.
Also, since your Diversion will be AoE, you’ll spread like 10 stacks of vulnerability up to 5 enemies, much better for me than 5 stacks more to only 1 enemy.

PD: This are my 2 variations:

http://tinyurl.com/msqfkan
- Same traits as you just with Imbued Diversion.
- Changed sigil of Peril for Bloodlust, to have more power. That +10% vulnerability duration does very little job, as it only gives you 0.8 seconds. Vulnerability does nothing every second, so is not important to reach the upper second.

More power and a bit more critical hits, with still good survivability, you lose 6k of health, but even this stats are quite deffensive.

http://tinyurl.com/kgauycn
- Spending just 5 points in Duel to get Critical Infusion, you gain a lot more survivability, as you can dodge much more. I take them from Inspirations, cause the 2 seconds to Glamour are not so good, cause in small scale fights people move a lot.
- I also changed Sigil of Peril, for Perception, so you’ll have more critical hits.

With these changes you’ll have nearly perma vigor, and the lost of power is covered with critical hits. The survivability comes more from active play, as you are able to dodge much more.

I managed to do Caudecus story by myself. It took me a lot, like 2,5 hours, but it’s possible.
I’ve tried other runs, like Crucible of Eternity or Twilight Arbor, but most of them need more than one player to do them or bosses are simply too strong for 1.

This is the build. There are some changes depend on the boos I was fighting.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fgAQNAW8dlwzip3QzqGa9IiJF9Gyd6BztcNXJF82FC-jwxAYMB5EYR0YLlDRr8GWtNm+NxqYBVhAGtAA-e

And a pic of it:

This is what he’s explaining:

- Signet of domination. I like the changes, except the time cast. Even 1/4 s is pretty short and only mantras should have no cast time.

- Null Field. How a aoe ground-targeted support skill has to be stun breaker? Don’t you realize that blink, decoy, Mirror Images, Signet of Midnight and Mantra of Concentration, grants us tons of Stun Break?.

- Arcane Thievery, all those changes weren’t enough to make it OP. Sarcasm OFF (in case people needed).

- Mimic. The purpose of this skill is to make you tanky. And why do you want to be able to block half just for 2 miserable seconds of protection?

- Echo, which skill is that?

- Counter blade. I suppose it’s Mirror blade. Yeah, make a 5 target daze skill with a 8 s cooldown. Seems legit to me…

- Counter spell. It’s a skill after a block, so it cannot be a long casting skill. And it’s ok as it is now.

- Halting strike. The damage is fine, even more in PvE, where some people managed to deal +5000 with it.

So in general, you want to make some skills OP just cause they’re more focused on PvP and you want to make it OK for what you play.

I don’t like Moa Morph. It’s by far, the elite I use the least. Only good for 1vs1, 2vs2 or similars, it makes it very situational and only good for shatter build, which are the only ones that have a good burst damage.

I don’t like how iLeap works sometimes. As people said, it’s quite unpredictable when being in a non flap terrain.

I don’t like scepter. Slow autoattack and skill 3. You waste a lot of time to cast those skills. Also it’s a weapon only for duels, so it’s quite useless in PvE and WvW if you’re not roaming.

I don’t like torch. Mesmers don’t rely on stealth, and I have enough with Mass invisibility and Decoy. Things like iBullet, Temporal Curtain or sword block are better for me than The Prestige. Also, iMage is the useless crap that mesmers have access.

I don’t like the lack of OOC swiftness. Mesmer is the only class that has not an utility that brings for sure swiftness or simply more speed movement. We are the only ones who need a lot of boon duration, air/centaur runes or other external ways to be fast.

And finally, and the most important, I HATE all the people who cries about mesmers nerfs and want to make it immortal, cause they don’t know how to be awesome with what we have now. It is true that it needs some adjustments, but it is more true that is one of the best professions out there.

PD: For those who want more reflection possibilities, just to say we actually have enough. Reflecting is not the main purpose of mesmers, and we can survive much better in some situations than others with what we already have.
For example, I managed to do the Caudecus story only by myself, and it was possible thanks to feedback, focus and mirror. I’m not sure, but I think it’s quite unpredictable for other professions to do what I did.

Sadly that new build has stopped all that fun in Jade Borderland. It has been a while since baruchians hadn’t seen such a good fighters as Pikens. Normally we beat other server blobs, but night we got owned a good amount of times. Hope during the week it gets less and less blob.

Welcome back Piken!!! Hope to remember all those weeks

Direwind.8409:

So, just interested to see what people would chose to buff.

This would be my change.

I would change
Temporal Curtain > players attacked by ranged weapons while behind the wall will have the attacks transformed into boons. detonating the wall gives you 5 sec of swiftness.

Phantasmal Warden > no longer aborbs ranged attacks.
Phantasmal Warden > deals 10% more damage, will pull targets towards the warden 2 second pulse 5 sec internal cooldown.

You say buffs, but you’re proposing to kill Temporal Curtain and make iWarden a super-OP phantasm…

I’d change iMage: putting burning instead of confusion and giving aoe retaliation with a pulse instead of the actual bounce.

And then upgrade a lot of useless traits, like Confounding Suggestions, Wastrel Punishment, Blurred Inscriptions, Furious Interruption, Confusing Combatant, Chaotic revival, Retaliatory Remise, Cleanising Inscriptions, Chaotic Interruption, Restorative Illusions, Shattered Conditions, Precise Wrack, Blinding Beffudlement, and fix Phantasmal Haste

Ross Biddle.2367:

There’s also the iDefender who, while not reflecting attacks, will absorb all projectiles (amazing against pistol thieves, rangers, engies in particular). Like with all changes made in any build, it always comes down to damage vs survivability.

Here’s what I’d offer your build. Forgo the 20% might duration, keep the 2x Lyssa, and add 2x Mad King.

So yeah, plenty more that can be gone into but there’s a lot of fine tuning that can be done depending on what you want.

I didn’t realized you used idefender in videos. I only saw the build xd

The pistol change is a personal opinion. I have both, focus for fig scale fights and pistol for more 1vs1.

And finally, the mad king runes are the best change, even +45% of boon duration is good enough.

Nice build, but I’ve got some changes that, at least for me, will bump this build to an upper level xd

Here is my version:
http://tinyurl.com/qz2q67r

1- I’ve put all inspiration points into duel. That’s cause only with critical infusion and sharper images you will have a much better performance. First will provide you nearly perma vigor, so you’ll be able to roll much more than you do now. The second will give you a lot more bleeding stacks, and with that cond. damage, it will be a good dps boost.
For inspiration line, Vengaful images was nerfed, so now phantasms don’t have perma retaliation. Persisting images does only a good job in PvE, where phantasms have a very high based hp, but for WvW/PvP, phantasms have around 3000 of health, so just a +20% of it won’t do a big job. Phantasmal healing is the only one that is worth. And finally, scepter trait is good, but with trait changes, you can have, sword or/and pistol traits.

2- Changed all defensive rabid trinkets for a variation of a rabid, which gives less precision, but also vitality. With thos change you’ll have all ofensive infusions, so a little bit more cond damage, plus you recover nearly all of that vitality lost with traits.

3- Pistol instead of focus. Focus is only good for 2 reasons: Its trait, which not only makes this weapon faster, but also you can reflect projectiles. And it gives you all his powerwhen you’re in big fights. But as this build is meant for small scale fights, pistol will make a better job. iDuelist does a lot of damage and puts like 4-5 stacks of bleeding. Then there’s ibullet, one of the best ways of cc for mesmers.

4- Drop signet of domination for blink. That’s a personal change, since I can live without it xd. Also, with ibullet, you don’t need the signet for the stun. With pistol’s trait you can have 2 stuns every single signet stun.

5- Some trait changes that takes advantatges of previous remakes. Empowered illusions (With Phantasmal fury, phantasms will have 60% critical chance and 20% critical damage). And master of manipulation, since I have blink and arcane thievery, I get more benefits that a ~7% reduced damage (Note that will only reduce direct damage, not condition damage, and with a lot of toughness it’ll be less).

6- Changed Rune of Lyssa for any rune that gives +20% might. That extra 10% of condition duration is not worth, as condition only struck every second.

7- Sigils changed. I think that not having condition damage stacking sigil is an error. 25 stacks brings more than scepter trait or signet. Also, condition sigils don’t do a good job as they only buff one condition in particullary, and inyour build, those conditions are only put not very often.

All the respect to that mesmer of WAR tonight at Riverside Borderland. Despite all the unrespectful people of our servers, that were massive fights

loseros.5912:

Having fun playing against huge blobs from Baruch (60 to full map capactity blobs) during most of the day?

Blobuch Bay is in tha house!

Next time warn me, I need some minutes to make the popcorns for your comedy!!!

Too much squishy for a commander. With the tag, you have to be the last guy who dies, cause you’re leading all the rest of people.

I wouldn’t carry any berserker gear and as much of soldier and sentinel as you can. Also, having focus without its trait is a bit fail.

As a mesmer and being a commander, I would focus more on team support and glamour than rather a shatter zerker.

I find it’d be better a 0/20/0/20/30 or a 20/30/0/20/0. With new changes, having illusion celerity but not illusionary persona is quite rare. Also, as best illusions traits are +20, having less is not worth, so or you go for 30 or you better forget about illusions line.

I’ve never like torch, less if there’s no torch trait neither prismatic understanding. Without this traits, torch has no chance competing against other OH weapons.

Also, I’d go for Rabid instead of carrion. Having some precision can make a difference with perma vigor and lots of bleedings.

Then, mesmer has better utilities than signet of domination. Go for decoy, signet of inspiration, arcane thievery… kitten for a 2s of stun, when having diversion and sword #4, is quite useless.

And finally, sigils share internal cooldown, so if one is activated, neither of both will activate until cooldown is finished.

Finally against Vizunah, and nice to fight Deso again.

Wish good fights to everyone!!!

Temporal Curtain nerf is due to all the criers in this forum…

Anyway, the notes are unofficial, so don’t take strictly serious.

Worse?? Now I don’t know if you’re trolling or is just you cannot do better…

In WvW is where shatters comes crucial. The key is to create clones and instantly shatter them.

With that new gear, you have medium critical damage, but low critical hit. You only need to focus on critical damage when you’re sure some of your hits will be critical. I have for you 3 options:
- Put sigil of perception. With 25 stacks you’ll have 12% more of critical chance.
- Use precision food. Just with Master Maintenance Oil you would gain 8% crit chance.
- Change 3 trinkets for Kinght with Emerald jewels.

I would personally go for the first, since is the option that affects less on your build, and also with dueling first trait and some precision, you do the same or better job that sigil of energy.

You may get bored easily running a pure tank build, as I did.
First of all, your damage is ridiculous, not enough even to get some of the kills. So after a while using it, you get quite kitten ed, since everybody gains loot and you don’t.
And then, cause if you learn to use your profession, you can avoid a lot of damage, thanks to mobility and skills. This tends to be more noticeable with mesmers, as they have tons of ways to avoid damage.

I feel like you put the traits just to upgrade the skills, but not to provide possibilities to the build.
Mantra of recovering is not needed if you already run mantra of pain. Go for Ether feast, which has a lot more instant healing.
Then, I’d put all domination points into duel and go for Evasive deception. GS has good CD’s and its trait it does not such a work as focus or staff ones.
And finally, I would put 5 points of chaos into illusions to get Illusionary invigoration. Having Distortion twice is like being in heaven xd.

A lot of people in Baruch hopes to fight against Vizunah next week, the other would be Jade Sea. Both are the last upper-servers to fight with.

If not, then0 Vizunah – Elona – Baruch, the european matchup with more coverage nowadays.

jihm.2315:

i dont think PS is overrated

He was talking about rating, not skill xd

Anyway, you’re simply unlucky. This new matchup system is totally random, so sometimes there are matchups very unbalanced.

The only thing you can do for good is to learn. PS is one of the most skilled servers out there.

PD: If you think you’re unlucky to face them repeatedly, Baruch, Piken and Augury were stuck in T3 for 6 weeks nearly consecutively, playing against the same people. And it could be more if the new system wouldn’t came…

Still dreaming a nonsense nerf??

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Knox.3748:

Actually what he said is true. Yesterday i did a 2vs1 with engi and elem from BB. They engi got down, the ele came with 7 more friends. GG BB, nice playstyle.

I was doing a duel against a Kodash thief, and when I killed him, 6 other Kodash’s instantly killed me.

Please, when we will realize that individual bad behaviors don’t make a whole server bad?

We are doors brothers, germans are AC cousins… We all have relatives in WvW xd

We’re not expecting respect.

We just want good fights, something more than blobs or bunkers, and we don’t care what you think. If you can provide us, perfect, you will gain our respect. If not, it’s also fine, we’ll face you anyway, as we did with all other servers, and we’ll wait for other matches that bring us more fun

Aioros.4862:

http://mos.millenium.org/servers/view/9/

The income evolution graphic seems to indicate that your server has very good 24h coverage (much better coverage than SFR or Kodash, in fact), so what’s the problem?

Brakheart is complaining about a possible alliance between SR and Kodash against Baruch. Not that Baruch is doing an alliance…

Even though, Baruch has never been interested in alliances, since it would only be with another Spanish server in response to a server who had done an alliance against us previously. But this is impossible, cause there’s no other spanish server than baruch, neither any server has done a clear alliance during all week in WvW, thanks to a good competition spirit between all servers.

PD: I would recommend to look to this link at the end of the match and see the score during the weekend compared to the score of the rest of the week. If you don’t want to wait, just look our last match against Elona and Deso.

I personally have never believed in alliances. That would only take advantage if both servers had 24h coverage, like VS. But in our case, where servers have capping in different moments, the alliances aren’t worth.
Anyway, now the map doesn’t show any alliance. Baruch is strong in his map, also attacking SR one. SR focus on Kodash map and EB is equilibrated.

I’m not very experimented in engineer, but I see some things that can be improved:
Huntsman:
1- You have soldier gear cause you’ll not be doing any damage, but the main purpose is to hit hard with rifle attacks?
2- I don’t understand why you use rifle if you don’t have “Go for the eyes” with a lot of critical chance. Rifle only outperform pistol/shield CC when running this trait and having a lot of precision. Otherwise, pistol/shield cc possibilities will shine more.
3- 30 points in Tools just to reduce the cd of 1 skill doesn’t seem worth to me. And those 10 points in alchemy are wasted to get a trait that won’t do much job in this build.

Regengineer:
1- As lupanic said, why having a critical-hit sigil with no precision? Also having 2 sigils with cooldowns in not recomended, as they share the cd.
2- Also rune of dolyak is quite bad, since the healing is just ridiculous. Take a healing or toughness rune instead.
3- No reason to have shield trait when you’ll use 3 kits most of the time and you’ve put traits that benefits when having kits…
4- Adept explosives traits (Evasive Powder Keg and Forceful Explosives) are indispensable in a bomb healing build.

Ninestrings.2815:

Funniest thing: BB accusing us of blobbing ( not that I deny, we do blob sometimes ) , and in this morning they force 40+ garrison.

also, BB you got a bunch of cheaters in your server. they took one of our spawn towers, no mesmer was in the tower and nor in that group, gate was full. we took screenshots and we are reporting.

For the fifth or six time, the problem is not to blob (sometimes you need it to take anything), is ONLY blobbing.
It gets a little boring when you only face big blobs cause enemies don’t know other strategies and we are forced to blob just to counter you.

And for the cheating, every server has cheaters, it’s a global problem, not only for Baruch. Moreover, since when a single mesmer is a bunch of cheaters??
BTW, if you refer to Dawn’s Eyrie yesterday, actually it was a well hided mesmer, cause he told us you didn’t discovered him quite before we retook it. He put a portal and some mesmers went inside, so we could put inside a lot more people.