Guild Wars 2

Kael.4538:

Why can’t we make OMFG pvp matches a regular thing? Sunday afternoons for example(it is theoretically repping day anyway).

Because not everyone reps and when people do rep not very many seem inclined to do things with the guild. I’ve been wanting to do bounties so we can unlock more missions. I even popped the pvp guild booster last weekend and people still didn’t rep (for long).

Huh, I guess I never noticed that since I always play solo with my necro. Thanks for the heads up. =)

That will definitely never happen. Ascended are not very hard to make, but legendaries are legendary because they are supposed to be rare and worthwhile for their effort. It’s bad enough map completion is required, but if you toss in personal story people will quit before they start. I have a lot of friends who only do wvw or pvp. It was only recently that pvp was made more rewarding for players who enjoyed that aspect of the game. Granted, there are some pvp players who have taken the time to step out and make (or buy) a legendary, but I would not say very many.

And you should define “world bosses.” The ones recognized by anet and appear on the dulfy timer are not very many and occur on a set rotation. You mention the temples, but they do not have a set timer. There is also Foulbear in Fields of Ruin.

By your suggestions you have made legendary crafting equally tedious. You want us to do map comp AND personal story AND story mode for dungeons AND world bosses. If such a thing were to be implemented, do you not think that anet would require to run story mode multiple times – fight world bosses multiple times? The “ascension” items would not be a guaranteed drop. They would make it RNG and, with our luck, they would make them rarer than the original precursors. To top it off, they would probably be account bound.

I have friends who have played for the same amount of time, if not longer, that I have and have never seen a precursor. I’ve been here over two years. I’ve seen one precursor come to me naturally and I forged it. One friend got Venom two days in a row, but no one really counts water legends as real legends, except Kotaki. But, I have several other friends who have not seen a single precursor come their way via forging or drops. Half of the grind of the legend is the precursor.

I think it would behoove anet to find some way to make precursors more available, but I don’t think they will change the way they are made and I don’t think they should.

Debatable, this all depends on the build and weapons you are using. As you said the necro auto outpaces the mesmer’s sword auto, I will assume you are talking about axe. Scepter auto with necro does not bite except with bleeds, staff is slow and bit unwieldy like mesmer staff, and the other option is dagger and it may also be the weapon you’re talking about. However, I know a very good power necro who uses axe/wh+staff, so that is why I think your weapon is axe.

A zerker necro will have a higher HP pool than mesmer. So, you will have a slightly higher margin for survival on a necro. With the right build and weapon set necro may well out-play mesmer in pve.

For open world content as a mesmer I have always played shatter (on my main). My preferred weapons are sw/p+gs. Your primary damage does come from the phantasm. Myself, I carry mirror images and shatter frequently, dodging like a maniac.

And I will second Stormbolt here: mesmers are more mobile while necros are tankier. A mesmer has quite a few defensive options and one of the biggest being the staff. I’ve learned to use chaos storm like a shield and phase retreat is nice for putting distance between you and the target. You have scepter and sword blocks, which have helped me out in the past. The focus pull and warden can also be very helpful, with or without traiting.

For necros, you’re very good at taking a beating. The marks on staff are good for a quick pop of damage and conditions, the #4 mark also removes conditions. Axe and dagger have the most damage output, though I think axe more-so than dagger. Scepter is a condi weapon, it is good for bleeds and not so much damage. I don’t see many people use focus off-hand with necro, but dagger off-hand is also good for bleeds and blinds. Warhorn has a daze as well as a damaging speed boost in locust swarm. I like popping locust swarm then hitting my death shroud for life siphon. Death shroud is also your second life bar. It is about all of the defense a necro gets (without considering builds/utilities).

Since you won’t be running dungeons, I won’t go into that. You didn’t mention wvw, so we won’t go there either. I will mention I see more necros and mesmers in zergs, though I see mesmers more in roaming groups than necros. For PvP, eh… I’m biased. My heart belongs to my mesmers, as much as I like my wee necro, I don’t so much like it in pvp. People expect you to run minions or power. If you run power they will focus you first. If you run minions they may not bother with you right away because of your petting zoo.

Many others have said before that mesmer is not wanted in high-end pvp matches simply because anything we can do someone else (thief usually) can do better. Shatter and lockdown builds are seen at the most respectable mesmer builds to run. They are also extremely glassy and you must rely on your team to cover for you. You will get focused and you will die (easily).

And I will agree with Jurica: Play what you think you will enjoy. Mesmer and necro were my fourth and fifth characters to reach 80. After which I got the other three classes to 80 then made a second mesmer.

Warshade.2984:

1. Range indicator on [Mesmer] Portal.

I’ll second that vote.

Mostly, I’d really like to wield pistol main hand.
After considerable roaming in WvW recently, I’d also like mesmer to have a skill similar to the Ranger’s “Sic ’Em.” I think that would help us level the field against thieves and other mesmers.

The one with the lowest HP and if it’s the first clash, refer to Pyro’s comments.

lol Very funny Ross. Seems like you guys had fun. =)

Thanks Swish, I totally know what you mean ha ha.

I will be available to lend a hand with this and don’t mind doing multiple runs or starting from the top. =) At the present, my schedule is completely open, but I will edit my post if I end up having to work on either Saturday or Sunday.

Warshade.2984:

StickerHappy.8052:

jsen.1862:

Shoutouts to all Charrs on Mag!

Ohh one question tho, how does he wear the goggles and mask at the same time :o

You don’t, rather you combine them (a la Tailoring), as you can see:

Thanks for answering, glad to see someone noticed. xD Stickers asked me about it later (due to a lack of response I think). For anyone else wondering, the goggles and bandana are acquired in Dry Top when you open chests. You need both pieces of the same armor type, take it to the respective crafter (tailor in the case of lights), craft the two pieces for a L400 headpiece, and then combine all four pieces at the same station.

That’s a steep price for a commission. Do they come colored or stay black and white?

Transfers are permanent*, but because of the megaserver we all end up together anyway. Guesting is still available, but is only necessary when doing guild missions.

Glad to see they made transfers between NA and EU possible.

*In so much that you will have to pay to move again.

Can we get back to the topic at hand? The OP wants to know if his build will work and what may need to be changed.

I know what my guild lead would tell you. Buy a full set of soldier gear, insert melandru runes, and get knight trinkets. Some things to keep in mind, I never worry about swiftness. I end up with 2-3min worth of swiftness. My group keeps up my speed. Melandru runes are there to help mitigate the conditions and soldier gear to increase survival. Then you offset the lack of stats you want (ie precision, power, whatever) in your trinkets and weapons.

When I solo roam as a mesmer I still go full glass and either roll Shatter or CI Lockdown. I am more likely to die as a shatter mesmer. I am on a low end gold tier server. I cannot cross the map without meeting one other player. I like CI because I have slightly more survivability even with a full zerk set of gear. (Due to my weapon choices + skill. I use staff + sw/f or pistol. I try to keep one push or pull if I run CI.)

Good luck!

Invites up to date.

I’m not very good with theory crafting and I am more about practical application, so I do have some questions.

If you’re going to use this in wvw, you still look pretty glass. In a bronze tier server, you can get away with glass more often than not. If memory serves, most phantasm builds run with two damaging phantoms and then pick up the Defender in utilities. Why did you decide against that?

Shatter is predictable, but phantasm requires that you keep them alive as long as possible. Are you intending to shatter as soon as their skill rotation is up?

Going back to you being glass, my next question is on your choice for Valkyrie; why? Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s pretty nice, in my early days as a mesmer (when I was ignorant and naïve) I used a Valkyrie set. But why? Yes, you get a nice boost to your health pool, but that means nothing when your armor attribute is low. People will still chew through you.

Is this meant to be a solo build or a group build? Again, in a bronze tier, it’s easier to get away with a solo build, but much harder the higher your server is ranked.

Assuming you’ve been running this for a while and not just a few days, how does the build handle? What are things you’ve noticed about it?

Keep in mind, with the new system you must either find or buy your traits.

When I made my first mesmer I leveled her up with greatsword + sw/pistol up until level forty and then was told I was doing it wrong and needed a focus. After promptly being handed a focus I reworked my entire playstyle to adapt to the new weapon (which was broken as …. at the time). Then, some time later, the perplexity runes were released and I desperately wanted a build that could utilize them effectively because we all know confusion is a mesmer thing (or at least it should be). But my entire playstyle revolved around gs+sw/x and I could not bring myself to use staff.

So, I made a second mesmer and leveled him up using only staff + sc/torch. There was only one time I swapped one of my weapon sets for gs because I wasn’t killing mobs fast enough in my personal story to keep them from swarming me. All of this was done before the changes to leveling, traits, and personal story, so, keeping those changes in mind. I would honestly say anet has really hobbled the mesmer class here. Mesmer is heavily reliant on the traits it utilizes and without those traits it makes leveling that much harder.

Yes, you can level up purely as a condi, I did it. It was slow and painful, but I managed it. I did not go into EotM, I did a little crafting, and I only used one birthday scroll to get myself to level twenty instantly. I may have used a few tomes, but I don’t remember. In the early days of my second mesmer I was talking to Aeoldyn (Chaos Archangel) and he did say to me, “Why are you doing that? Leveling would be easier with greatsword or sword.” The whole point of my second mesmer was to develop a playstyle for staff, which I detested using.

As to traits, per your weapon choices, I would suggest looking in the Chaos or Inspiration trait lines. However, my first love is and will always be sword on mesmer, so even my second mesmer runs around as staff + sw/x. My best advice is don’t limit yourself on your weapons; yes, find a set you like best, but keep your options open.

I have found the best way to get a “tag” on event mobs is to stand with the melee people. I run main hand sword with pistol or focus usually, but you don’t have time to get a phantasm off unless you’re fighting a champ. I was always pretty successful at tagging when doing the temple events in Orr.

I also run shatter in pve, but never took mantra of pain. I probably should have. I use mirror images though and shatter them as often as I can.

What level events are you talking about?

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Personally, I would pick Dwayna. I have a fascination/obsession with wings and angels. Also, if you go Dwayna’s route there’s a back piece you can get to work in with a theme for your character.

As a writer I feel your confusion here. Sometimes when my characters are very far from a wp I have them use a spell that they have to prime before they can teleport. Other times my characters reach into their pockets and pull out a “crystal” attuned to the waypoints. According to Taimi in the recent Living Story chapters all of the wps vibrate at a certain magical frequency, so, it would make sense that a player could attune to that frequency for transport.

For my Asura, she also carries a crystal that can project a map. I have a couple of these stories posted in Fan Content.

Kormir was originally Human and ascended to godhood to take Abbadon’s place during Nightfall. According to the wiki, Kormir was a Paragon in GW1, which is a Guardian in GW2 (or rather, if a monk and paragon had a baby, that is a guardian). But, also according to the wiki, Paragons had armor with “angelic” motifs. So, Dwayna is described as most angelic. Dwayna is also considered nurturing and a healer.

Dwayna is the Goddess of Life and Air. She is the patron Goddess of Wind Prayers Dervishes, Air Elementalists, Healing Prayers Monks, and Leadership and Motivation Paragons…

Dwayna is usually depicted as young, tall and slender, rising above the ground on feathered wings.

In essence, Kormir was more than likely a follower of Dwayna before ascending. At which point Kormir sort of becomes the patron of paragons.

Cho’s outfit on a female.

Upon joining you should note the Message of the Day. We try to put up the important changes to our class, upcoming events, and information about our arena.

Sunday is repping day. OMFG does not require members to rep the guild all the time. We respectfully ask you to join the in game community if only for a little bit on Sunday. Yes, I understand you have other guilds and perhaps they are doing missions and whatnot, but missions do not last all day and if they do maybe you need a more efficient pvx guild. Surely, an hour or two to say hello in guild chat for OMFG is not too difficult.

We are trying to organize guild events. After much begging, pleading, wheedling, and whining, I finally got the Event Coordinator rank established. That means, there are people other than the leaders with the ability to do guild missions and will attempt to organize other fun guild things. However, it is very difficult to achieve any goals for the guild without participation. Please, please, I can only do so much, but I need your help if we really are going to attempt at being more.

Our arena is for guild members only. In the past we have had issues with guild members sharing the password for our guild arena. Fine, if you want to bring someone into the arena to practice with them, but do keep in mind that you cannot leave them there to bring their friends in to practice. We have a note on this in the guild which I will repeat here. If you are going to bring a guest to our arena you must stay with them, if they wish to come back and use our arena, you must stay with them, and if you leave then they must also leave.

The arena is not free. It requires a community effort to stay open. We rely on donations for this, mainly yours, either via gold or tokens. Just this past week I learned the EU arena was in danger of disappearing altogether. We raised 200g to get it open for the EU players while the owner was single-handedly maintaining it. That is not fair. There is a reward track that offers tokens. Even if you do not play that reward track a single token only costs 2 gold. Please, be generous to the arena.

Korusef owns the EU arena and while skcamow is taking a leave of absence I will accept gold donations for the NA arena. If you buy the tokens yourself and wish to apply them, all the better. (Go into the arena and double click them. When the dialogue pops up tell it how many tokens you wish to apply to the arena.) All donations are greatly appreciated. Thank you.

I look forward to seeing you all in game!

~ Vinesta

=) Good luck on your paper.

Chybo.9028:

Thanks for the replies, im glad im rolling decent/good weapons. As for crafting I havent even began to look into it, anyone know of some good guides?

I never used guides for crafting, so I can’t really tell you what is good or not.

These are a few I found in a quick search.

*GW2 Crafts
Guild Wars 2 Hub
Pwniversity Crafting

*This one references a couple of other sites that may also be helpful.

Good luck. =)

This class typically gets better by L40. That’s when I really noticed the difference the first time playing mine. An important thing to remember is to upgrade your gear/weapons. You can slide with some lame trinkets until about L60, but your gear definitely needs to be “current.” I would also hazard to suggest at least wear green armor if you can’t get rares, but try to start getting rare armor by L60. At L80 you will want exotics. If memory serves, you have your off-hand weapon set unlocked, so try to get your hands on a staff or gs. Staff is really good for defensive play and gs tends to better for burst. I leveled up with sword/pistol + gs on my first mesmer then stubbornly leveled a second one with scepter/torch + staff. I ended up carrying a gs in my inventory when I knew I would need more damage.

Something that will really help you in this game is learning the dodge mechanic. =) It was the hardest for me to understand and utilize effectively when I first started. So, try not to face tank anything if you can help it.

Dixo.3876:

Does this count?

You mean you did not try to disguise yourself in with the other presents?

Cameile.2807:

I am also very interested in the ‘essentials’ and hope that the mesmer community can help. I have a zerker set with scholars runes for dungeons. I have almost completed an assasins set as well. What would this be best used for? Open world? Curious as to what you all use for world bosses and wvwvw (total noob). I enjoy~ shatter in open world, but tend to run a more pu build in high damage situations. How many different weapon sets do you have? Thank you so much for letting me jump into this thread. I’ve searched through older posts, but I am not sure how relevant they still are. Thanks again!

To be completely honest, I have a main set of weapons that I pretty much use across all of my builds on both of my mesmers. I’ve been meaning to replace (some of) them with a more uniform set. Some of the weapons I picked up just because, in the days before the wallet system, I had tokens for dungeons I had to get rid of.

I use shatter for open world content; personal story, world bosses, living story, map completion. If you’re planning on a major event where you need to tag for loot (like a temple event) mesmer may not be your best option. However, if mesmer is the class you want to use, I suggest a main hand sword. I had the best luck tagging when I was in with the melee players.

I have three greatswords (the original exotic when I hit 80, the first ascended I made, and my legendary), three swords, and all the rest, but only one of them. I will need to replace some with a better stat combination, for the reason mentioned above. I would say if you wanted to, you could probably get away with one or two main weapons you use being a different stat combination, but keep the others all one way (zerk, knight, soldier, whatever you want to use). Primarily, I think, you will really want different armors.

I am, but I forgot you are using one mantra for the heal cleanse. I think that’s wasted trait points. The argument is on the gear. Nomad is a bad idea.

Yes, base the Nomad has more, but is not conducive to mesmer, which is why I augmented with Melandru because you are also running without any condi-clears. Running a mesmer without a cleanse is asking to be mocked while melted with conditions. Even with my group, I make sure I have at least one cleanse, be it traits, mantra, or nullfield. My set up of your build has a higher survival rating than yours.

They have the builds they used listed below the video.

Teutos.8620:

Or I’m just not always running around in a big group… kitten , that option also exists

Still fail to see the need for a bad rune set lol. I don’t worry about getting anywhere in a hurry in wvw. I’d rather not get run over by a zerg and I’m confident in my own fighting skills that I can take out 1-2 players relatively easy.

And to mirror for a heal, there’s only ONE boss I can think of… Arah 1 Jotun boss at the end of the path. Bleeeeeh! Otherwise, I never use it either.

adelaide.6213:

The build you linked swapped Adventurer runes for Melandru. When you account for this, it actually has less armor than the Nomad set. If you’re uncomfortable with Adventurer runes why not just use Melandru and keep the Nomad armor? Power does not contribute to survivability at all.

False. My set with more toughness has more armor than yours. I also swapped the armor for Soldiers. As a mesmer you need to be able to kill and Nomads won’t allow for that. You can run in a circle and maybe whittle your opponent down, but by then either someone else has shown up to finish you off or they just laugh in your face as they heal up. So, the power is vital if you plan on killing someone with the kind of traits you’re using. Otherwise, reroll for a condi build and overpower them that way. And yes, the melandru runes are there to help keep up the toughness as well as keep down the conditions applied.

Must have a really lame group to not help you with swiftness in WvW. My driver told me not to worry about it, there were enough guards and wars to make sure I had 2+ min of swiftness, always. I never needed to worry about keeping up.

Miku.6297:

Kraitkin: also underwater, and for some reason clones are unable to hold it (you create them but they don’t have a weapon equipped)

Also lacking in the WOW factor. The skin itself is nice, but other than that there is no real noticeable effect. =( I loved it up until that point. My mesmers use Mirage and Ignus Fatuus underwater, but I am planning to make Kotaki for my guard. =3

Teutos.8620:

I’d also recommend you to pick some sort of +Movementspeed. F.e. rune of the centaur or traveler.

I disagree with that. I think it’s a huge waste. In dungeons others will more than likely give you swiftness. In WvW, if you have a group or run with the zerg, they will give you swiftness. In open world content, it’s highly unnecessary. If you have a focus in your bag it’s more than enough to get you around Tyria.

Soldier? Sentinel? They have the same stats except that the primary is different. You still get some toughness and you keep some power. You’ve offset the lack of precision with trinkets and weapons.

Here, I changed the armor and the runes. You walk away with higher power, toughness, and vitality, but also have lower healing power and condition damage.

Why did you pick Nomad armor? That’s Tough/vit/healing and I doubt it’s very beneficial to a mesmer. We’re only going to be healing ourselves nine times out of ten; it’s not like you traited to heal others and regen works off the healing power of the player it is applied to.

In PvE I run blink, feedback, mirror images, and time warp. Everyone one wants TW in a dungeon, which is usually why I have it. However, if you’re running around doing map completion (or Arah/TA) you might want to swap in Mass Invis. It’s a nice little stealth for skipping a horde of nasty mobs (especially useful in Orr). Blink because it’s a teleport, also useful for running away or repositioning if you’re soloing something. Feedback is an optional skill and a bit more situational. I typically have it on hand for dungeons or if I know I’ll be facing mobs with ranged attacks. Decoy, Mantra of Resolve, Nullfield, Mantra of Pain, and Mantra of Distraction are also other utilities I use. As for Mirror Images, my main mesmer is usually running around with a shatter build, so it’s nice for a quick pop and burst, but sometimes serves as a good distraction if I’m trying to run away from something.

Most importantly, for PvE/WvW, have multiple sets of armor and weapons. I have two greatswords, three swords, and four sets of armor (plus one of each other weapon). I think a single set of weapons of one stat type will compliment almost any build you want to run, but I do really recommend more than one set of armor because it allows you versatility. Most often I swap my gears around in WvW than I do in PvE as a mesmer. My two main sets are zerker with mesmer runes, which I wear when I run CI Lockdown, and assassin with precision runes, which is mostly for PvE shatter.

In PvP there is a certain lack of versatility, at least in the way of runes. I’d like to be able to pick how many of each run I want rather than have a whole set applied under the false assumption that I want six runes applied to my armor.

And… every mesmer should take time to learn to fight underwater. Think of how terribly devastating you could be to the hapless passerby in WvW? Not very often, but enough worth mentioning, I have ended up fighting in the old lake. I have a friend who likes to head hunt near the Garrisons. He waits in the water and then ambushes them.

To clarify, this is for PvP? WvW? PvE?

Storm, I will get yours when I wake up. As for the rest, invites are up to date.

Thanks Ross, I might try that if I feel like tagging up. =)

I have Twilight on my first mesmer and Bolt on my second mesmer. Pyro has the Bard to make the Minstrel, or he did anyway. Some people have made a case for the gun, it gives you a purple aura when you are wielding it. I see plenty of mesmers with the Bifrost as well.

Yes, it is the person who opened the instance who speaks during the cutscene.

Anyway, Merry Christmas.

I don’t think so.

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This thread is closed. =/ Maybe next time.