Guild Wars 2

TheNerdlyKnight.7035:

Mesmers are masters of illusion and control, subverting the enemy’s Energy for their own use, and that of their allies. -Guild Wars Wiki

Mesmers are masters of mirage. They weave mental magic that confounds, controls, or evokes emotion in their enemies. With a wave of the hand, they can shatter their own illusions to produce even greater special effects. -Guild Wars 2 Wiki

Lyssa is the dual-faced goddess of beauty, water, and illusion. She is the patron Goddess of Mesmers and Assassins, and is also associated with the Energy Storage techniques of Elementalists. -GW2 and GW Wiki

So to answer your question, Mesmers (mostly Human ones) see Lyssa as the Goddess who has given them their abilities. It’s like a Guardian who specializes in healing praying to Dwayna since she is the Goddess of healing and life, or a Necromancer worshiping Grenth. Feel free to whisper me in game or I’d any of the mesmers on the list, they’re all devotees of Lyssa as you can tell. But read over the wiki, and if you play a Human or not just look at the in game things that talk about Lyssa, etc (the shrine, so on, so forth.) If you have questions, ask as well!

I know all of that. What I meant was, what else can mesmers be expected to generally do from a RP standpoint? Can we conjure other kinds of illusions besides ones of ourselves? Can we read minds or block thoughts? That’s mainly what I meant. A lot of people go about RPing the more general/not in game aspects of a professions lore or attributes their own way. I was wondering if there was a widely accepted guideline to that in terms of mesmers specifically. I just don’t want to assume one thing, then be wrong later at the event itself.

Good fights SoS @ TCBL Vale! We held on to it for a long time until that huge megazerg appeared.

I’m not too familiar with how Mesmers work from an RP standpoint, but I’d love to learn & be a Mesmer Show participant. Is there an accepted area of mesmer lore/in game mechanisms that I could read up on this?

Mirta.5029:

Lupicus is not the hardest boss in the game. Lupicus is quite easy -_-
Ideas given in the video though are pretty not bad. At first I thought that the guy will just ask for trinity back, but he doesn’t and actually does seem to know what he is talking about. I recommend watching it.

Agreed. Pretty sure Legendary Grawl Shaman has that distinction on level 30+.

Gellor.6497:

Arale.4207:

ParaldaWind.4523:

Arale.4207:

Lol @ the people trying to troll Agg in here. I’d love to see you guys actually GvG them. Would be some sweet massacre.

Would the massacre be like this one?

http://youtu.be/jE4TVTQyqoc?t=5m

Maybe. I’m not familiar with SF, only with the experiences I’ve had fighting against Agg. Then again, no one wins forever.

I’ve been told SF are monsters also…

I’m sure it’s like anything else; foreign and weird at first, but once you get into it…

Truth Eretai.3129:

Urrid.4593:

mikal.9502:

Very impressive by TC and FA right now. SOS has 5 people in EB so what do TC and FA do? They each attack SOS and take towers that are undefended rather then fight each other. So much for how these mighty titans like a good fair fight. They avoid each other like the plague beating up on a severly undermanned server. Welcome to the new WVW ghosttown.

Trust me, you do not want to QQ about 2v1.

Crying in a matchup thread only brings more pain. Because tears are delicious.

CERN was not commanding then. Nightlight always goes after the bigger zergs. And considering FA is our nemesis, you can take heart that this was not a planned alliance.

This. Nightlight only goes in when there is a large sized zerg roaming around or attacking one of our holdings. He often leaves things in the hands of others when large groups are not involved on the enemy side.

ParaldaWind.4523:

Arale.4207:

Lol @ the people trying to troll Agg in here. I’d love to see you guys actually GvG them. Would be some sweet massacre.

Would the massacre be like this one?

http://youtu.be/jE4TVTQyqoc?t=5m

Maybe. I’m not familiar with SF, only with the experiences I’ve had fighting against Agg. Then again, no one wins forever.

iCryptik.1496:

phokus.8934:

Being in NA eastern time zone is fighting an uphill battle on SoS. Outmanned is nice and all but it seems as if we only get a handful of people fighting in EB.

Hey, if it makes you feel any better, a lot of people are taking a break, an enjoying the week. Sometimes I RP walk around the map on my charr till someone kills me.

I was talking to my mini ooze once, when a thief came and ganked me. We were in such a discussion too. ;-;

Jayne.9251:

Arale.4207:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sekLEG8xsOs

<3

Omg I love that! <3

XD figured you would.

phokus.8934:

Being in NA eastern time zone is fighting an uphill battle on SoS. Outmanned is nice and all but it seems as if we only get a handful of people fighting in EB.

Have you tried rallying militia or PvE’rs? On down times in TC, we ask for assistance in LA or DR, and people show up to help us out. It can do some amazing things.

Jayne.9251:

EdotMP.1835:

Jayne.9251:

WyldKat.4712:

Jayne.9251:

Huygens.4075:

I’m sorry but that stuff is vile. Their (KFC) poutine is an abomination.

Gasp! I didn’t know you were Canadian!

I’m in Florida, the anti-Canada. There is no KFC poutine here. You’ve been tainted by your spiffified fries.

Meh, Yankee. You don’t know heaven till you taste real poutine :p (actually take a few letters out of poutine and you get something entirely different in French, lol … No, I’m not French, but I can speek eet zut alors!)

’Scuse me? This thread is now 200% more ’Merican.

Oh yeah? I’ll see your eagle and raise you our national animal (lol, don’t laugh, it’s actually true):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-aoWSpFor0

<3

Tamaki Revolution.3548:

Zelyhn.8069:

2. There are pay to win items.
Yes this is minor, but their presence is a serious pain. I count rez orbs, repair toolkits and upgrades, I might be missing some. Repair tools are essential in high level fractals as they allow you to avoid the one thing (theoretically) that can prevent you from completing a fractal level: armor breaking. Rez orbs feel awkward, but upgrades are a straight pay to win incentive! The fact that they are minor do not take away anything.

What the hell are you talking about? :P

This. These items are not pay to win. They’re, if anything, purely for convenience. Pay to win would be offering ascended weapons in the gem store only, for 2000 gems each. If you have a good group, and can dodge, you won’t need to repair a whole lot in fractals. Even in the off chance you get something like Dredge Fractal, you shouldn’t be dying that much or something is wrong. Furthermore, you can always log off,. log on, and end up in LA, go repair, then rejoin your party in FotM. So that’s a moot point.

Eviator.9746:

Sharpoon.8197:

Moral of the story: Make sure you know EVERYTHING about a server before transferring to it.

That’s silly, then nobody would ever transfer. Drama is unavoidable, even on TC.

TC has very little drama though. I’ve never seen guilds headbutt eachother or people jump ship in masse. Our community really is rock solid. Most people are into a lot of different game modes, so if WvW burns them out, they go RP, or PvP, or PvE. We also don’t have many of the problems that a transfer server would commonly have, since a lot of people who go to TC are for non WvW reasons but get into WvW later as time goes on. This is just my experience from being a PvE baddie when I did transfer 5 months ago, to watching all of my friends who did come with me find their niche while still partaking in other things. I myself RP, WvW and PvE now as a result of that kind of growth.

Whether the rumors are true or not, DB seemed to slip off after our win that friday morning, then what followed was week after week of WP’d Garrison and rather large leads in first for us, while you guys finished in third. This leads me to believe that there may be something going on internally in DB. Whatever it is, I hope you guys get it sorted out. A lot of TCers were disappointed at some periods in the final few weeks we were tiered together, simply because it felt like you guys either gave up, didn’t show up or just tried to wig it. When that happens, it isn’t fun for anyone honestly. Based on the new scores, you will likely move back up & I hope you guys get it settled before then.

I believe if anything, this shows that with a little more coverage/participation, SoS could easily be a T2 Competitive Server. Before, it was hard to gauge where everyone was in their respective tiers since they dominated so badly (and not being on that server to observe too) but with the new matchup system, we can see how those other servers that won a lot (Like SoS, or EB for example) do when they’re placed in a higher tier, and get an idea of where they are at!

Great fights today with [LeeT]. ^-~

loweyz.6875:

Arale.4207:

Since I couldn’t party, can someone from [LeeT] tell that human male thief that I’d like to try 1v1ing again?

thx mate, ill tell Divine Visionz your looking for him, im usually with him but if I see you ill hold back

Liquid Myzt, (Leet) thief

Thank you. I will try to shoot him a mail.

Were you the human female thief with the face mask that I seen today?

Lol @ the people trying to troll Agg in here. I’d love to see you guys actually GvG them. Would be some sweet massacre.

Since I couldn’t party, can someone from [LeeT] tell that human male thief that I’d like to try 1v1ing again?

To the [NR] Warrior Major, good duel. Your combo really hurts. :x

-[CERN] Mesmer Scout

Cmon ANet, read thisssss!

Nuka Cola.8520:

Arale.4207:

Lol, I love you guys who mentioned this issue @ SOTG. Hope this gives us some justice here.

Yeah he will look into it ~~~~~~~4 months later its finally fixed. I don’t want to wait MONTHS because i already waited months…

True, but on the flipside, It’s Sharp, not Peters who acknowledged it in the video. So now more then 1 Dev knows its borked. This gives me faint hope.

Andy.9137:

I hope FA loses a lot of rating

Why?

Doesn’t the PvE population make up the bulk of several servers WvW count anyways? If anything, PvE players do enough for WvW players already IMO.

Jayne.9251:

Be humble in your victories TC.

Humble towards most DB yes, the rest do not deserve anything less then that’s in this thread in my opinion. I miss Agg, NNK, FIRE, most of EA, and a few other guilds I forgot.

Sorry, but if you challenge someone like that and are proven wrong, it’s gonna happen no matter what. xD

Fuzzion.2504:

Poor rawnoodles and his predictions.

LOL.

Gellor.6497:

jaycatano.6738:

We could. Decide on a number and we can go from there. We are a newly founded wvw guild most of us coming from another guild here on mag that you may have heard of and are currently in the process of building our guild up. We currently have about 20-30 members.

You don’t want to GvG [Agg] until you have your group synergy down.

This. Out of all the guilds that DB got, Agg was the best hands down. My guild sparked to action and we played our best when the Agg zerg was coming. To top it off, they never came on the forums and talked crap or did any chest thumping. If you are going to fight Agg, you will need to be at your best for sure.

ReapersSolitude.1940:

The way I see it our commanders need to come together we are all splitting zergs and not listening to each other. We all have egos and we need to listen to each other and team up, throw the egos to the side . we do have numbers but being spread out and demanding a zerg do something is going to make us fail and not work 4 commanders running around is not tactical. Just my two sense.. when the enemy sees a weakness they capitalize on it

You may have the green syndrome. Being green for so long, sometimes things get screwy. I know TC got like that a few times.

RoninDB.9540:

I don’t think anyone from TC has ever posted on a forum daring two servers to get them below 200 PPT. I personally enjoyed that – nothing like seeing EP and Odinzu have a goal!

Lol. The result:

The Beginning of the End.

lani.7431:

We’re bored. Can we come back to TC and FA?

Nah. We got a new buddy now. :O

But what if you simply pass us and go straight to T1?

EdotMP.1835:

LilMcGinley.3890:

Andy.9137:

word of advice SoS, don’t complain about a 2v1…it will make worse.

It’s not a 2v1. FA/TC are smart servers, they know we don’t have the all around numbers and whatnot to defend all of our maps (being a server with smaller population), it’s the same issue ET has. Pushing us is “easier points”. Would I like to see the 2 T2 servers pick on someone their own size? Of course, but this is a good wake-up call for SoS and I’m excited to be here.

We did, they whined about it for 3 weeks.

LMAO. Good game.

Still no fix for this? <.<

Iruwen.3164:

loseridoit.2756:

Mesmer elites are arguably the strongest but they require coordination

Time warp was nerfed, Moa will be nerfed/broken, mass visibility is cool.

Time Warp is still the best DPS steroid in the game though. Group Quickness has no equal there, even if it’s not what it used to be.

Moa is useful for solo fighting, though I still use Time Warp for solo fights in PvE so I can melt targets down faster.

Sunflowers.1729:

I cheated by using both Vigil and Priory armor…

But it looks nice!

Looks really good & unique.

Lol, I love you guys who mentioned this issue @ SOTG. Hope this gives us some justice here.

Mayoken.9851:

So Dragonbrand was overall victorious?

I count 3 total wins vs 2, with the first win comprising of a 560 PPT on Friday morning during SEA time with DB having somewhere around 40 or less, and having a way pointed DB garrison for two weeks in a row. Pretty sure we won if there is such a thing. I believe the overall point of this thread was, when you guys did try, the tier was unbelievably close, and arguably the closest tier ever.

I hope that DB gets out of whatever is causing their lack of precipitation. Ark said it best in my opinion. I honestly feel that when you guys do come out in full fore, rallied behind your commanders, you can definitely snag a win from TC. It’d be a close fight, and anyones game but it would be either or. You guys always talk about community and what not. I hope whatever it is you are doing strengthens that to where people show up and defend your world, so that you may meet your next opponents on the battlefield like you met us a few weeks ago.

I keep holding on hope, but those summer MMO betas looking good. :X

I hope she has a new model. This recycling of veteran karka models kinda sucks. :x

Lol @ floater issue.

Anyways, this will be fixed next year guys. Though in all seriousness, I did read that they comb the bug report forums but dont have time to reply to every single person. Then again, during several SOTG’s., they were like ‘’wait…that’s a bug?’’ even though, ya know, its been reported and discussed in MEGA threads on their very forums. Hopefully they fix things before the summer MMO betas kick in, otherwise…tbhe reputation of the game could shift as more people feel neglected and leave due to broken class issues.

Arkanfel.8403:

Coinin.2590:

Dear Dragonbrand,
I regretfully inform you that you have incurred a massive infestation of Tarnished Coast. The buggers seem to have wormed their way inside all of your keeps and made it their homes. The best action is to be patient, wait it out, and after enough bag’s and time I’m sure they’ll migrate away.
Sincerely,
The Guild Wars Exterminator

Sounds like someone’s a little full of themselves.

Full of bags yeah.

You’re comparing a single player rpg to an MMO. That being said…

Zones not having specific themes or variations does hurt this games immersion in my opinion. In World of WarCraft for example, literally every zone had its own unique set theme, and 3-4 variants of it for daytime AND nighttime. Dungeons also had theme variations set within a main theme that really made them stand out. I do love this game, but it’s weakest department is definitely it’s musical presentation.

I wish he handled class bug fixes. That kind of prompt, hot fix next day action is what is sorely missing from this games other areas in my opinion. :/

Pichu.5348:

TC and FA really need to end their truce already, it’s getting very old.

Things look bad when no one comes out to play. All you see is green and red. Blue Team, stop farming coins or whatever and come out.

eithinan.9841:

Recruitment thread progression:
DB: Come join our community. we’re pretty cool.
Other servers esp. TC and FA: Db sucks they are full of jerks.
DB: no we’re pretty cool and proud of it.
Other servers: Wagon Brand, Wagon Brand!!!
DB: Come on, we made it to T2 without transfers.
Other servers: cricket, cricket…You got transfers we Hate you!!!
DB: but thats because we’re a pretty cool community.

and on, and on, and on…

You may be missing the underhanded reason why a lot of the recruiting happened in the first place: a certain few people had dreams of reaching T1 with a new server, so they focused on recruiting with that goal in mind. That’s the reason people label DB as a bandwagon server. Ironically, even with the thousand or so transfers that did happen, it doesn’t appear to have made any difference in that goal.

Wanting to recruit is fine, but I can’t really respect ripping guilds from a T1 Server to get the T2 server that said person is on to T1 for some weird fantasy. Hilariously enough, even if you guys had stomped all over T2 as planned, ANet would have swooped in with the new rating change.

Just my opinion though.

Furthermore, to the DB people still trying to get transfers: your server is full. Let some other servers have the guilds please. Despite your awesome community, you can’t stuff anyone else in there reliably anyhoo.

Looks good. I’m trying to bring the attention to the dev team by reporting bug posts and hoping the moderators will forward them. Hell, if ewe bug them enough, maybe they will stop ignoring us.

While I want all these fixes, I really want 1,2 and 8 the most.

lordcaedus.8493:

Imo, this is not really THAT bad, i mean bounces usually have about ~700 range on bounce, no? So what i find happening to me a lot of time is i will stand at 1200 range and completely WASTE any bounces ( no bounces at all would happen ) if i’m only fighting a single target. At least this way when i use mirror blade from 1200 range it will give might to clones (useless) but will bounce back on the target and do the damage that i would have otherwise wasted… Same goes for staff #1 with the elasticity trait. Correct me if i’m wrong, but it really isn’t the end of the world.

This is bad. Not getting might from GS2 is losing out on a lot of damage, while it goes to a useless target such as a clone. The bouncing from Staff also sucks because Staff builds really need those buffs, but they’re useless when going to a clone or phantasm since most of the buffs you get transfer over to your phantasms/clones anyways.

Rawr.5930:

It’s gotten wierd again….

Time to go hang out with Busey.

You sure?

Go to FA or JQ. DB/TC are full and strong in their respective timezones. They don’t need anymore transfers to imbalance that in my opinion. JQ could use NA though, and so could FA.

The funny thing is, this affects all bouncing abilities, it would seem. This should be fixed since it affects a number of classes and not just mesmer/engineer. :|

Maybe they don’t care about us. As far as I’m concerned, this, and PZerker could have been fixed and put in this recent small update where other classes got attention they needed.

This, coupled with the bouncing bug, have effectively killed Greatsword use for me. :/

I like to use emotes, a lot. Now, after the recent patch, my human female only used the same audio for wave and for cheer, when before I remember there were 3 or 4 that could play. Furthermore, the new one for wave is completely different from the previous ones.

Is this a bug? I always enjoyed the variation of hearing the different sounds for 1 emote, especially cheer (YEAHHH, woohooo!) it would be a bit of a step backwards if this was intentional.

Still no response on this?