Guild Wars 2

Scarlet’s character bothers me as much as Kiel’s does. Both feel like very flat characters (at least that’s how they are presented now). I was hoping they would reveal more, considering that they said that this patch was going to be a “wrap up” of what is going on exactly. I was so creeped out by the vandalism that went on in the patch release website, thinking that we would at least get a little darker with the storyline. And yet, we still get this absurd story about Scarlet being asura-trained and whatnot. I am hoping that the “Battle of Divinity’s Reach” from the asura personal story is connected to what is going on now so we can get a sensible reason for Scarlet’s madness, but I am definitely lowering my expectations for Living Story now.

Ok this is getting ridiculous. Just saw someone use 5 revive orbs to ress themselves instead of just taking an extra 40 seconds to run back. I guess that is good for gem store sales?

Having a zerg below will affect what happens in the dome. Try moving to another overflow/dome. Also its better to watch his animation instead of the laser. If he’s kneeling for more than 2 seconds, it’s definitely a headshot coming your way.

I actually find it more amusing when people fall to their deaths as they attempt to disrupt my farm

500g /15charssssssssss

Okay this is annoying… it appeared when I went to Diessa too :S I wonder if it’s something wrong with my graphics card?

I kept getting that purple thing covering my screen whenever I moved my camera around. This only happened when I went to Frostgorge Sound at the hot air balloon near Skyheight Steading Waypoint. Not sure what’s causing it but that is the only place I encountered this

@skcamow – That’s an interesting build; I like that you managed to fit IP and CI together. I just can’t imagine myself going without Deceptive Evasion or having less crit chance though without those points in Dueling for a shatter build XD

@Scynja – I agree, I wouldn’t run an interrupt-focused build in PVE but it is viable in PVP/WVW imo.

I’m running something like

0/20/30/0/20

Duelist: IV, X
Chaos: III, VIII, IX
Illusions: VI, VII

Gear: Berserker with Runes of Hoelbrak for might stacking and -condition duration.

Weapons: Sword (Sigil of Battle)/Focus (Sigil of Energy), Staff (Sigil of Battle)

I’m sacrificing IP but it’s actually not too bad with the high clone production. I like the delay on interrupts using Diversion as well because it gives me 3 chances to interrupt an enemy just when they think they’re free from it :P If I need instant interrupts, I just use Into the Void and Chaos Storm.

Illusionary Persona definitely has it perks, although if one were to get Chaotic Interruption something would have to be sacrificed. I like Chaotic Interruption for group fights just because it gives everyone some breathing time to get ready for a burst. I guess it’s just different preferences at this point

Xavi.6591:

Bearlin.7238:

Osicat’s Heavy Shatter Build + Chaotic Interruption

0/20/30/0/20

Amazing in group fights

0/20/20/0/30 is the shatter heavy build.

I said 0/20/30/0/20 because I added Chaotic Interruption instead of Illusionary Persona (which Osicat has in his build)

Bearlin.7238:

Using my mesmer:

30/20/0/20/0

Domination: 3, 10, 11
Dueling: 6,7
Inspiration: 5, 10

Weapons: Sword + focus throughout whole fight
Gear: Berserker

Utilities: Mantra of Pain, Signet of Illusions, Illusionary Defender, Time Warp

Strategy:
1. Have Mantra of Pain ready before you go in.
2. Immediately cast iWarden on Subject 7, let it do its whole attack animation then immediately shatter (or shatter if you think there is a possibility that a small ooze might die).
2. Spam Mantra of Pain as you do this.
3. After shattering iWarden, summon iDefender. Keep spamming mantra of pain for damage.
4. While channeling, try to stand next to iDefender to heal it.
5. When there are at least 5-6 smaller oozes around Subject 7, focus pull them away. BE CAREFUL NOT TO PULL SUBJECT 7!
6. If you manage to get Subject 7 clear of other smaller oozes around it, summon another iWarden + Blurred Frenzy. Shatter when you see more ooze.
7. Remember to keep spamming mantra of pain and summoning iDefenders. Time Warp when running out of time.

Osicat’s Heavy Shatter Build + Chaotic Interruption

0/20/30/0/20

Amazing in group fights

Using my mesmer:

30/20/0/20/0

Domination: 3, 10, 11
Dueling: 6,7
Inspiration: 5, 10

Weapons: Sword + focus throughout whole fight
Gear: Berserker

Utilities: Mantra of Pain, Signet of Illusions, Illusionary Defender, Time Warp

Strategy:
1. Have Mantra of Pain ready before you go in.
2. Immediately cast iWarden on Subject 7, let it do its whole attack animation then immediately shatter (or shatter if you think there is a possibility that a small ooze might die).
2. Spam Mantra of Pain as you do this.
3. After shattering iWarden, summon iDefender. Keep spamming mantra of pain for damage.
4. While channeling, try to stand next to iDefender to heal it.
5. When there are at least 5-6 smaller oozes around Subject 7, focus pull them away. BE CAREFUL NOT TO PULL SUBJECT 7!
6. If you manage to get Subject 7 clear of other smaller oozes around it, summon another iWarden + Blurred Frenzy. Shatter when you see more ooze.
7. Remember to keep spamming mantra of pain and summoning iDefenders. Time Warp when running out of time.

I’ve noticed that the animation for when we loot things and they begin appearing on the right side of the screen changed, making it so that the icons fade slower and smoother. However, the icons can sometimes block the exit arrow (the one that appears right above your map) when you finish a dungeon. This makes it slightly frustrating because I have to way for alllllll the items to fade out so I can get out of the dungeon. I’m not entirely sure if there is something wrong with my settings or if anyone else is having this problem.

oOo.7819:

Can someone please make a score for the sanctum sprint music? https://soundcloud.com/arenanet/sanctumsprint/

Hi there, I tried my best for the Sanctum Sprint music but here you go XD

Sanctum Sprint: (Higher octave in parentheses), Dash refers to fast tapping to stylize the sound

6 (2 2 1-2 2-1) 6

6 (2 2 3-4-2 2)

(1 2 3 4 4 3-4)

(3-2 3 2)

(3-4-2 1) 6

Trumpet sounds better here
(4 5 6 5 4 5 4 3 4 3 2 3)

(1 2 4 5 3 4 3 4 5)

Repeat trumpet part then replace last line with: (1 2 4 5 3 2)

Taken from first minute of https://soundcloud.com/arenanet/sanctumsprint/

You can transmute it to a white… although to get the infused stats again you have to make another :X

Cew.5168:

Bearlin.7238:

That’s what I meant. Even if I were to transpose something, I will most likely encounter an octave problem… (as opposed to having an instrument in a different key where I can perhaps have more room)

Again the key (other than major, minor, dorian, etc.) wouldn’t matter. What would matter is the starting note. Like a violin in C major but the lowest note being a G rather than C.

I know lol. We are basically saying the same thing :/ Yes the key wouldn’t matter, but having another instrument in a different key would be nice as a lot of the sheet music that I have tend to follow C.. I wouldnt really want to transpose everything when we could simply have a different instrument in a different key, or maybe even an extra octave on the flute

Cew.5168:

Bearlin.7238:

If only they’d release an instrument in C Major, I’d be able to do more FF songs XD.

The key doesn’t matter. You can take any piece and transpose it into any key to make it work. Even if they released something in C Major it would start on Do.

Other than accidentals the biggest problem I’ve run into is not fitting into the octave restraint.

That’s what I meant. Even if I were to transpose something, I will most likely encounter an octave problem… (as opposed to having an instrument in a different key where I can perhaps have more room)

Eyes on Me: (Higher octave in parentheses)

5 (1 2 3 5 3)
Whenever sang my songs

(2 3 1) 6 (1 2)
On the stage, on my own

5 (1 2 3 5 7)
Whenever said my words

(7 8 6 5 6 5)
Wishing they would be heard

(5 8 8 7 6 6 5)
I saw you smiling at me

(3 5 6 6 5 4 4 2 3)
Was it real, or just my fantasy?

(3 3 2 3 4 3 2 2 1)
You’d always be there in the corner

(1 2 3— 5 2)
Of this tiny— little bar

5 (1 2 3 5 3)
My last night here for you

(2 3 1) 6 (1 2)
Same old songs, just once more

5 (1 2 3 5 7)
My last night here with you?

(7 8 6— 5 6 5)
Maybe yes— maybe no.

(5 8 8 7 6 6 5)
I kind of liked it your way,

(3 5 6 6 5 4 4 2 3)
How you shyly placed your eyes on me

(1 2 3 4 5)
Did you ever know?

(4 3 1 3 2 1)
That I had mine on you.

Chorus
(1 3 5 7 6 6)
Darling, so there you are

(6 7 8 6 5 5)
With that look on your face

(3 3 4 5 4 4)
As if you’re never hurt

(4 5 6 6 5 5)
As if you’re never down

(1 1 3 5 7 6 6)
Shall I be the one for you?

(6 6 7 8 7 5 7 6)
Who pinches you softly but sure

(4 5 4 8 4)
If frown is shown then

(1 2 3 3 2 1) 7 (2 1)
I will know that you are no dreamer

Repeat for II and chorus

If only they’d release an instrument in C Major, I’d be able to do more FF songs XD.

Doesn’t sound like it’s in C Major…

Kaos.9162:

Bearlin.7238:

Logan.2706:

If anyone is taking requests, I would love to have either of these three. I’m trying to come up with them on my own, but it is very difficult.

Wild Arms – Main Theme

Skyward Sword – Main Theme

Final Fantasy – To Zanarkand

Hi there, I’m currently working on more FF songs… To Zanarkand is one of them but it will be for the choir bell—-needed an instrument in a different key

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1cguq1/unbreakable_bell_medley_the_notes/ Has To Zanarkand for the bell.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Marriner-s-Horn/page/3 has To Zanarkand for the horn.

The horn notes work for the flute.

That thread is awesome, didn’t see that someone had already done it

There really ought to be a unified music thread.. or forum

Logan.2706:

If anyone is taking requests, I would love to have either of these three. I’m trying to come up with them on my own, but it is very difficult.

Wild Arms – Main Theme

Skyward Sword – Main Theme

Final Fantasy – To Zanarkand

Hi there, I’m currently working on more FF songs… To Zanarkand is one of them but it will be for the choir bell—-needed an instrument in a different key

Melodies of Life from FF9 (Higher octave in parentheses):

5 (3 3 2 1 1) 7 6 7 8 (2) 5
I: Alone for a while, I’ve been searching through the dark,
II: Our paths they did cross, though I cannot say just why.
III: So far and away, see the birds as it flies by.

5 6 7 8 6 6 5 8 (3 4 3 1 3 2)
I: For traces of the love you left inside my lonely heart,
II: We met, we laughed, we held on fast, and then we said goodbye.
III: Gliding through the shadows of the clouds up in the sky.

(3 5 5 6 5 4 4 3 3 2 2 3 4)
I: To weave by picking up the pieces that remain,
II: And who’ll hear the echoes of stories never told ?
III: I’ve laid my memories and dreams upon those wings.

(3 2 2 1) 5 6 (1) – (1 2 3 4 2)
I: Melodies of life – love’s lost refrain.

Repeat for II and III then replace last line with: (3 2 2 1) 5 6 (1) – (2 3 2 1)
II: Let them ring out loud till they unfold.
III: Leave them now and see what tomorrow brings.

Instrumental: 4 5 1 1

(4 3 2 1) 7 (1 2)
I: In my dearest memories,
II: In my dearest memories,

(3 5 4 3 2 2 3)
I: I see you reaching out to me
II: Do you remember loving me?

(4 3 2)
I: Though you’re gone,
II: Was it fate,

(3 4 3 2 1) 7 (1 3 5) – (4 2)
I: I still believe that you can call – out my name.
II: That brought us close and now that leave – me behind?

Chorus
( 1 2 3) 7 7 7 8 7 5 6
A voice from the past, joining yours and mine.

6 ( 4 3 3 2 2 1) 6 7 8 (2)
Adding up the layers of harmony.

(1 2 3 5 3) 7 6
And so it goes, on and on

(4 3 3 2 2)
Melodies of Life

(2 5 4 4 3 3 2 3 4 5)
To the sky beyond the flying birds -

(3 4 3 2 1)
Forever and beyond.

Repeat beginning
Replace last line of chorus with (3 4 3) 7 (2 2 1 1) to end

I’m still working on the other Final Fantasy songs

Hey Osi, this may have been mentioned here before, but how would you change your shatter cat heavy build for dungeoning? (e.g. runes, utilities, etc.). I have been wanting to try out a shatter build in PVE (I currently run phantasm)… would you just change everything to berserker?

Get the Boast skill from the sylvari NPC, it should somewhat help when he starts spamming and you’re in a bind

It would be awesome if it comes back as a fractal or something and then you can race with your party haha!

But yea, I’m also having a lot more fun with Sanctum Sprint than Belcher’s Bluff (don’t get me wrong, Belcher’s Bluff is fun too). Kind of reminds me of Crash Team Racing lol

Is the Sanctum Sprint a permanent addition? I’m really hoping it is!

Also, I’m sure that it has been said here somewhere but I wish that we had some sort of system that allowed people to play with their friends for these types of PvP minigames

Saw a sylvari named “Monsanto Patent” or something to that effect.

For those of you who have never heard of the Monsanto company, they are basically infamous for having a monopoly on their patented genetically modified seeds (like soy beans and corn)… I lol’d when I saw that sylvari

Everyone, shush for a moment and watch this hilarious troll portal video taken in the JP (video not owned by me)

Yes, portals do allow players to breeze through some of the content; however, you’re certainly welcome to do it manually without using portals. Even as a mesmer, I tried jumping all the way to the goggles just so I can experience the whole thing. After numerous unsuccessful attempts to get the Dive Master achievement, I went ahead and took the mesmer portals to the blimp and then to the goggles. Mind you, this took me THREE HOURS. If I were to keep trying to get the achievement, I would probably end up being there all day. I honestly think that the portals and the mass ressing is promoting cooperation among people in the server. I mean really, virtually anywhere I fall, there is at least one person there willing to ress me.

And yes, this is one very important advantage to being a mesmer. However, keep in mind that every class has their own perks as well. For instance, warriors with their aoe ress with Warbanner, necros and their double HPs hence their ability to tank and live through fall damage. The portal skill is working as intended and if you think that it is ruining the content for you, it’s very simple to opt not to take them.

XRay.1920:

too bad that the group is taking you for your utility and not for your burst. having 3 reflects instead of 1, all of them having cd reduction, is kinda a huge deal…

^This. I often find the rest of my party running zerker gears in high level fractals, so damage isn’t an issue. Having my reflects available faster as well as having flexibility with my traits depending on the situation (feedback on ress, condition removal on shatter) really helps with keeping my party alive.

I like this image cause it’s pretty close to what I use myself.

In PVE, I like to run that phantasm build (20/20/0/30/0). The only difference is, I like to take the Shattering Conditions trait against condition damage-heavy mobs instead of the extra health on my phantasms.

In WvW, I like to run shatter build (0/20/20/0/30). I find the 20 on toughness instead of vitality much more important, especially as a mesmer because of the -50% fall damage for porting and also the staff cooldown reduction. Putting points in here instead of Domination is also much better when zerging, I find.

May I ask where the quote was posted? :O

Yes, I have Bifrost… but I’ve only seen auras on clones, rainbow trails on blink so far. I was just wondering if more effects could be done with it. I remember reading a dev post about how they are looking into improving current legendaries and I wanted to know whether anything about Bifrost for mesmers will be changed.

I’m sure this has been discussed before somewhere but I couldn’t find it in recent posts. Anyway, title is pretty self explanatory. There seems to be a lack of effects found in mesmer skills using the legendary staff Bifrost. The staff being one of the best weapons for mesmers, I find this somewhat disappointing. I like being able to walk around spawning rainbows in midair but I’d also like to see more effects using staff skills. It doesn’t have to be something elaborate even. It could be something like shooting rainbow projectiles for Staff #1 or a rainbow-colored Chaos Armor.
Compared to the effects seen when using legendary greatswords, the effects we can see while using Bifrost isn’t nearly as “complete” (for lack of a better term).

Thank god I got most of the dust I needed for Bifrost when incandescent dust was like 24c each 0_0

Laughs at all the people who mass bought ectos at 22silver thinking it was gonna keep rising

…Cause I almost did.

You would have thought one would stop after seeing how they haven’t been getting any…

As someone who regularly converts COF tokens to ectos… I did notice this reduced rate too after the patch on the 28th. Normally, 1000 COF tokens yields ~30 ectos. After the patch, I only got ~15. I asked a friend to test this with me and he too got around 15 ectos. We both used Master Salvage kits and tested this with about 4k COF tokens. Neither of us got 0-1 ectos per salvage and seemed to have obtained 50% less ectos pre-patch.

Most GS mesmers would start off by attacking from a distance, which means that they would be off-point.

1. Use this time to get out of their line of sight and prevent them from summoning iBerserker.
2. If you can’t do number 1, summon clones and iWarlock, pop Chaos Armor
3. Proceed to close gap with sword and pressure them… shatter if you must
4. If they use GS 5, close the gap again with blink or sword

Basically, keeping close to them will most likely force them to use sword for melee combat. Once this happens, I normally switch to staff to negate the damage they might do with the sword while at the same time putting conditions faster

iWarden, when allowed to do its full attack animation, can do about 7k damage on average.. at least for my berserker build.

In terms of normal attack (#1), GS seems to do the most.

Did you mean that the MF buff will also be taken out?

get up close and personal

1. Mirror Images, Blink, Feedback for defense
2. Use sword (with sword trait) to immobilize assassins and burst using Mirror Images.
3. After killing an assassin, switch to GS and cripple mobs as you help your team kill them.
4. Dodge roll + blink to get out of knock back
5. Switch back to sword/focus, summon iWarden on assassin, immobilize ASAP when they appear.

At least that’s my main setup for this run. I like to take clone on dodge trait as well for shatters and defense.

1. World events = more rares = more ectos
2. Southsun event = more rares = more ectos
3. COF farming = more rares = more ectos
Upcoming #4: WvW rank chests will have a chance to drop rares = more ectos

Yes IT IS disgusting. I was supposed to have more than 110 pristine tokens but I spent some for an alt. Yet, with all my hardwork, I have only gotten 4 skins. FOUR. Scepter, rifle, warhorn, axe.

Seriously, just four skins total within a span of 4 months.

It doesn’t need a nerf. Swap is quite easy to escape/run away from using stun breaks or by simply dodge rolling away right when you see a clone leaping at you. Against really good players, I feel lucky to even land the full attack chain of Blurred Frenzy.

I agree that having the event span over a course of a few weeks was better than having it all happen in one day; however, by the “epic feel” to the Karka event, I guess I was referring to how the content was actually challenging in the sense that it took some coordination to kill each karka.

Looking at the F&F event, the MF dungeon just feels like a farming job to get substantial rewards (I was only able to run it twice cause I couldn’t imagine doing it 10 more times) while the Karka event was lengthy, yes, but with significant rewards (I’m not talking about precursors— but just the chance of getting an exotic or a 20 slot bag without the RNG).

I know that they have explained that the reason for this horrible matchmaking is because we have too few people playing sPvP. But if you think about it, this is a terrible solution as it only sways MORE people AWAY from sPvP. I can only reminisce about my very first tPvP match as a rank 5 going against a premade of rank 30s. That experience just made me keep my distance from this game mode even more.

I think that instead of implementing e-sportesque features, Anet should first address these problems…

After reading all the complaints about the Karka event last November, it made me think… am I the only one who thoroughly enjoyed that whole 2-hour chaos? I thought Anet did an excellent job making the whole thing feel epic. I’m just hoping that the Living Story finale will also be on the same scale