Guild Wars 2

So in that SotG video they mentioned nerfing shatters to counter the buff to GS and scepter.

Since theres no mention, does that mean there is a stealth nerf? Or it has yet to come?

NWalker.3049:

Crater.1625:

A mesmer named “Illusions Michael”. Which is pretty awesome if you catch the reference.

Sorry, this wins.

Lol omg that is gold. “Illusions Michael! Tricks are something a kitten does for money. Or.. candy..”

Best one I’ve seen personally is “My Cunning Linguist”

A majority of people won’t get it.

ColinJohanson.2394:

Another form of this is through special events, things like Halloween, Hunger Games, or Wintersday where content is available for a period of time, is removed from the game when that period is over, and could appear again in the future in some form to help provide unique and fun experiences in the game world.

Hunger Games? Did I miss an event?

Is this a typo, or could someone enlighten me?

The ONLY world boss that isn’t a joke is the Megadestroyer in Mount Maelstrom.

He actually moves around unlike all the rest of them. And he can 1 shot or 2 shot people. And I’ve seen him wipe out dozens of players with his aoe flame attack.

This is how dragons should have been.

Calcifire.1864:

Konig Des Todes.2086:

Dondagora.9645:

Also, I believe they didn’t focus Zhaitan on sylvari but simply Trahaerne

If it weren’t for the Pale Reavers, the Pale Tree, A Light in the Darkness, and the cleansing ritual coming from the Pale Tree’s bark (Caladbolg), I’d probably agree.

But there’s a lot more sylvari elements than human elements in the fight.

Dondagora.9645:

The final boss will either be DSD, the last dragon to wake(or maybe that’s Mordremoth?) which is powerful enough to keep Tyria completely isolated, or Primordus if the Asura don’t get him, since he was the first to awake and possibly the biggest(assuming).

Kralkatorrik was the last known dragon to wake – with Mordremoth possibly either being waking around the time Primordus did, or last if even will ever wake. And Primordus is likely the smallest, all things considered, while Kralk seems to thus far be the biggest.

if the mystic telescope in arah is to be believed, mordremoth is still asleep.

it will wake up when the constellation forms, but looking through the telescope, it’s still forming

The flaw I see in this is, anything we’re looking at through a telescope is obviously far away. As in, light years away. Meaning if we’re seeing a constellation form through a telescope, it’s already formed, because that light took years to reach the planet.

Did anyone notice Final Rest?

Started at 10g, now it’s almost at 40g

Swiftness, caltops, and might on dodge.

Does this mean confusion would hit 3X per dodge?

Plus you got vigor on healing. I’d imagine a condition mesmer would shut this build down fast.

Orr-EE-chal-come

It’s been in several video games over the years.

Zovo.7829:

Ramiah.5648:

Zovo.7829:

I run with a Scepter/Pistol combo almost exclusively. The combination of the Pistol #5 and Scepter #3 is just plain unfair.

In a one-on-one fight (against mobs or players) it’s almost unfair. Open with Pistol #4 to get some quick fast hits, stun ‘em with pistol #5, Scepter #3 to stack confusion before they recover, then shatter all the clones/phantoms to stack even more confusion, by the time they realize what’s happening their toast. If not, a couple dodges can net you another pair of clones (w/ the trait) which you can shatter fast. If that fails to bring ’em down, the confusion and Scepter #2 should keep you safe enough long enough for pistol #5 to cycle back around.

It really only falls flat in group fights, for which I swap over to Staff.

See, I wanna try something exactly like this, but with a Phantasm build, something like 0/20/0/30/20. Ideally, I’d have focus for group fights as well (temporal curtain cripple+iWarden), and it would hopefully perform decently well in dungeons due to all the Phantasm buffs.
Thanks for the everyone’s input on how it’s working for you. Gives me some new ideas.

Works pretty solid with boss and champs and such, or really anything that you can really focus fire on. As long as you can concentrate on a single target you can dish some pain.

You might already do this, but to make this even more deadly: drop an ethereal field on them (chaos storm, null field, feedback, etc.) then the iDuelist will stack confusion on the target with projectile + ethereal = confusion combo field.

wizzard.1295:

And now Wings of Dwayna has appeared in tp … and wiki updated too … http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Wings_of_dwayna
Gift of light? how awesome

Oh how nice. ANOTHER weapon that requires charged lodestones.

Anet really needs to get it together with this lodestone issue.

Interior large high-powered gyroscope. Probably in the base of the craft. Spinning in the opposite direction of the blades. The speed of rotation is synched up with the blades for perfect balance.

Obviously.

Support yer mesmers! Anet is takin er skerls

Confirming skill 3 of 1h sword is bugged on mesmer. All mentioned in OP.

We got a response!

“As I mentioned in this thread, we are aware of and tracking this issue. We did not make any intentional changes to this skill and are investigating what could have caused this.”

But not before a few infractions were handed out, including me.

Here’s hoping for a speedy fix.

Thank you for the response!

I’m sorry your necromancer has the largest array of good looking light armor.

Sooooo many armor sets looking freaking sick for necro.

Mesmer? not so much.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Mesmer-illusionary-zerker-Bug-Report/first#post1569039

Please make yourself heard in this thread. I’m thinking Anet might want us to just “forget” about this change as long as they keep ignoring us.

SUPPORT YOUR FELLOW MESMERS

Confirming this.

We need an official response.

Do you know of anything that most people don’t know about?

Or how about anything that NObody knows about?

I’m dying for a mystery to solve. After the Final Rest fiasco, I have a hole that needs to be filled.

Shimond.2478:

Darx.9842:

Think so? Whenever I use my hammer I just feel so weak, I mainly only use it for group support in dungeons when we need the full time protection. I just see huge numbers from whirlwind, GS auto attack, symbol, and a ticking binding blade. It may be because hammer 3 and 5 effectively do no damage.

Someone posted the numbers in another thread showing the hammer was higher than greatsword with identical traits. I’ll admit I haven’t done the testing myself in the mists to be sure but if you factor in how often those symbols are down and do damage for hammer vs greatsword there’s a lot of damage there taken for granted.

Yes, but there are many guardians out there who don’t realize you can let binding blade tick, which ticks harder than burning. Plus the higher rate of attacks on the GS plus empowering might will keep anywhere from 3-9ish stacks of might. Also using 2H mastery, which would be missed with this “symbol” build.

Shimond.2478:

Darx.9842:

This seems viable, but are you sure about the end result? Symbolic power is only a 10% increase in symbol damage. And missing out on the valor line is missing out on 30% critical damage. Which is effectively +30% damage, 50% of the time. Plus no altruistic healing, or beefy Resolve. Healing from symbols isnt that great if I can remember.

Sounds correct from my experience, the thread is about max DPS not healing or support roles. Hammer with no traits does more damage than greatsword with no traits so it’s not a stretch to imagine it’s higher when you buff the symbol too.

Think so? Whenever I use my hammer I just feel so weak, I mainly only use it for group support in dungeons when we need the full time protection. I just see huge numbers from whirlwind, GS auto attack, symbol, and a ticking binding blade. It may be because hammer 3 and 5 effectively do no damage.

I’ve been running this exact build for about 4 months. Gear ratios are nearly identical too.

Only difference is I’m using soldier runes to replace Pure of Voice and instead I’m using 2H mastery. I feel it’s much more effective. Shorter cooldowns on binding blade and leap of faith are invaluable in wvw where movement and gap closing is so important.

I’ve also started playing with bigger symbols, but, giving up one of the other traits is really tough.

Naekuh.7925:

Hammer with symbole spec’d is the highest DPS.

Symboles do 600dmg when traited + healing + Protection + vulnerability + the hammer hits twice on the main target.
Hammer lays down symbol at third atk… hence u have a perma symbol on the target if traited for symboles to last longer.

GS cant beat Hammer /w symboles…
Hammer / symbole build allows u to also spec into spirit weapons… so thats an additional 500-600 from the spirit sword.

Symbol trait is so overlooked cuz it makes your allies rooted over the symbol to get its bonuses..

But look at the traits.

Symbol of Protection - Hammer Create a symbol that gives protection to you and your allies.
Symbolic Exposure – Symbols apply vulnerability to foes.
Symbolic Power – Increases damage of symbols.
Writ of Exaltation – Symbols are larger.
Writ of Persistence – Symbols last longer.
Writ of the Merciful – All symbols heal allies.

And these all apply on the auto atk from hammer on the third hit.

This seems viable, but are you sure about the end result? Symbolic power is only a 10% increase in symbol damage. And missing out on the valor line is missing out on 30% critical damage. Which is effectively +30% damage, 50% of the time. Plus no altruistic healing, or beefy Resolve. Healing from symbols isnt that great if I can remember.

Brutaly.6257:

There is no versus.

If you have both soldiers and PoV then PoV kicks in first and remove one condition and convert it to corresponding boon.

Each boon triggers AH.

After that Rune of the soldier kicks in and remove an other condition.

So basically two conditions on you and the team are removed and replaced with a boon that heal you..

Ok, thats what I was hoping would happen. But what I mean’t by versus, was whether using runes and opening up a different trait would be more useful than spending 30 points for PoV.

I suppose I’ll have to do some testing. My guardian is most for dungeons, so I’ll check out the healing with PoV.

I’m running an AH build and currently use soldier runes. But, does anyone know if there is a significant difference when switching to Pure of Voice?

Does converting a condition to boon give a AH heal?

What happens when both, runes and PoV are used at the same time? Does a single shout remove 2 conditions?

Well I believe they adjusted events so that difficulty scales with the players present.

Also, Final Rest drops from shadow behemoth. They’re dropping like candy after the patch.

lukemorley.8602:

Just a quick regroup of all the messages received from Jeffrey, so they are all in one place, i have stitched them all together on photoshop to make it easier to read as its a long conversation.

Excuse the QQ in some of the messages lol, trying to get us clues! lol

Thanks, that pic is very useful.

“From following the big post on the subject, I’ve seen some posts that have correctly identified the specific event/boss, but as I said, I don’t believe that it has been completed enough times to expect it to have produced Final Rest.”

This post jumped out to me. It may be the most useful post we have. It tells us that we are on the right track.

Would anyone like to compile a list of the events in this thread that have been mentioned more than once, and posted before Jeffrey made this post?

Zomorros hates everyone equally.

Oranisagu.3706:

Darx.9842:

This is the dumbest thing I’ve ever read on these forums.

If you don’t want to level the class, don’t play the class.

So what you’d like to do is, example: Mesmer is too hard to level pve so you just level warrior to 80, then use a kit to switch it to mesmer? Thats the biggest boo-hoo-crybaby-I-suck-at-this-game-make-it-easier suggestion ever.

wow, you must’ve only read 1 or 2 threads then? and never proof-read anything you wrote yourself?
I don’t think class change is the way to go, but leveling IS incredibly tedious, and there’s no reason for it to be tedious. it’s not like it’s hard or anything, it just takes time.
It is better to level a class than to change to it on lvl 80 in regards of experience how the class and its skills work, but I see no reason not to shorten the time for the n-th alt. like the 20% more exp infusions. cool idea if it would work for alts.
but please, when you’ve leveled chars of all classes to 80, please come back here and tell us again how stupid we are for wanting a break in the tedium called leveling.

@vol: yeah, dabbling a bit might give you an idea of how it works, but without having some experience it’s very hard to accurately predict the time it takes to do something… I’m not saying this WILL be an easy change, but claiming it’s complicated without further knowledge is very uninformed, especially if you deliver it as fact in your post (there was no ‘I think’ or anything, you stated your opinion as if it were pure fact). it could be either, and from personal experience changing a simple value usually only has a manageable list of side-effects (like you said skills, equip etc), the question is mostly, how long the trail of side-effects gets.

Leveling is NOT tedious if you enjoy the class and the game.

Like I said. If you don’t like the class, don’t play it.

This is the dumbest thing I’ve ever read on these forums.

If you don’t want to level the class, don’t play the class.

So what you’d like to do is, example: Mesmer is too hard to level pve so you just level warrior to 80, then use a kit to switch it to mesmer? Thats the biggest boo-hoo-crybaby-I-suck-at-this-game-make-it-easier suggestion ever.

kokiman.2364:

F. U. N

There is a song about it.

F is for friends who do stuff together.
U is for you and me.
N is for anywhere and anytime at all.
DOWN HERE IN THE DEEP BLUE SEA

yes that’s from memory

Panda.1967:

Darx.9842:

Wait a second.. Rangers can’t use rifles?

No they unfortunately cannot.

Rangers get:
Dual Axe
Off-hand Dagger
Main-hand Sword
Torch
Warhown
Greatsword
Longbow
Shortbow

Greatsword.. but no Rifle. I’ve heard some dumb things in this game, but this has to be the worst. Rangers should be the king of rifle users.

Wait a second.. Rangers can’t use rifles?

AcidicVision.5498:

Deified.7520:

So please Anet give us some more info.

No no no. This is the stuff guilds, and communities build themselves on. Secrets, discovery, experimentation. You young’ins may not recall, but the popularity of Mortal Kombat was largely built on top of kids trading info on the latest Fatalities, or hidden fighters. Earlier Final Fantasy games had a special mystique because there were hidden weapons, summons, or party members that could be completely missed and word of mouth or vague hints in magazines were your only real clues.

It already sort of sucks that we can just preview any armor or weapon in the game for any class at any level. There is no “wow” factor when finding a new skin because they are all available to window shop from level 2.

Game needs more things like this and more mystery. Get the players thinking and working together instead of following a list of instructions to get the thing they want. If you want specific, explicit instructions to duplicate in order to get a prize, then bake a cake.

I like your thinking. I agree.

I used to play FFXI and it was full of this stuff. Square enix told the players NOTHING. Literally nothing, not even what the stats on armor and weapons did. The population had to figure out everything for themselves.

People are seriously complaining about this?

lol you guys must suck at this game

@You people complaining about no Knight’s ascended or other combos.

Do you think investing all your gear into 3 stats is wise? It’s not. Try to think outside the box.

With the use of ascended gear you can balance out your build in areas where you could be lacking, or potentially strengthen your build.

For example. Someone using all Knight’s gear may want Knight’s ascended, BUT, using the ascended rings combo power/toughness/critdamage (Cavalier’s) you can substantially boost your critdamage without needing to resort to using berserkers or valkyrie gear. It’s a huge increase in damage (8% crit dmg per ring) and defense (103 toughness per ring), these blow Knight’s out of the water for a majority of builds. Most likely a person with Knight’s will be lacking crit damage, so these rings are incredible.

You guys just need to think outside the box.

lol’d……….

Robert Hrouda.1327:

Awesome.6120:

If only there was some guaranteed reward when finishing an event or dungeon!

Our token system for dungeons allows you to exchange and get things, and tokens are guaranteed at the end of each dungeon path. Events give out karma and currency, which can be used to buy things as well. Or are you implying a guaranteed item reward system, instead of a currency/token exchange reward system?

I would love to see specific drops implemented! In addition to our already great token reward system.

For example;
-Hammer from cliffside fractal, chance to drop from the final boss at the top

This is something I really miss from other games. Obtaining the same weapon that a boss was using against you. As if, you killed him, he’s dead, his weapon lays there for the taking.. makes sense to me.

Theres a theory floating around about permanent DR.

People who play alot hit this cap, to keep them at the same pace (financially) as someone who plays casually. The dude who plays 12 hours a day will get the same amount of exotics a person who plays 1-2 hours a day or less.

It’s to keep everyone equal and prevent the casual players from complaining that hardcore players are ahead. Which happens in every game in existence. I too see very few rare+ drops on my main character (650 hours) but on my alts see a crazy amount of rares out of dungeons.

The part that worries me is the fact that so many players come up with this theory on their own. It’s not people preaching this theory, many people feel it and think it’s happening without being told about it from others.

Avster.1935:

Why are you complaining? Once you hit lvl80 each time you level you get skill points which you need for various Mystic Forge uses. Also lv80 is where most of the good looking armors are found…

For some people it’s not about the destination. It’s about the journey.

I’d have to agree with OP.

It feels like my character’s don’t have souls. Except my Guardian who has 600+ hours. But my other characters are 80 and I feel like I hardly know them.

Use power/critdmg/toughness ascended trinkets.

It’s perfect actually. I have both the power/critdmg/tough rings, they’re great, over 100 toughness each and 8 crit damage each. My gear is 4/6 Knights, 2/6 soldiers.

I think the stats of the ascended items are meant to mesh with your builds and give us more options at the same time. The amount of toughness and critdamage I have would not be possible without the ascended rings I have. I plan on getting the amulet too.

It’s perfect. Maybe too easy. But it was cake with a guild group, should be easy enough for the average PUG.

The assassins were a nice little touch, better than just a straight zerg.

Bravo devs

For people that want time consuming fishing and gathering, I suggest waiting for FFXIV: A Realm Reborn.

And I don’t mean time consuming in a bad way. But, it will require effort, skill, and research to do.

Wouldn’t work, the coast lines are lousy with skelks, drakes, or undead. We’d get aggroed 10 times before we could get a cast off.

Anet would have to change A LOT of spawns and aggro ranges.

Is anyone 100% positive this food actually steals life? I had heard that it’s only a heal, NOT life steal.

djtool.8372:

The proper choice comes from your preferred method of doing damage IMO.

If you are looking to keep clones up then you should take rabid so they proc more bleeds.

If you are looking to shatter infrequently then take whichever you prefer

If you are looking to shatter like a wildman then take carrion.

In that case why not go for power/prec/condition (rampager) armor? Best of both worlds?

Many people already run in full berzerkers without any vit or toughness, so I don’t understand why nobody likes Rampagers.

Could someone provide a reason? Do condition mesmers need more toughness or vit because they kill slower and are prone to take a few more hits?

ComeAndSee.1356:

Aza.2105:

I feel that many players tend to think about how old style mmos work, i.e soak up damage with mitigation. Its true to a extent in gw2 but toughness, armor and vitality should be considered more of a buffer that is used when you make a error. Dodge is the real mitigation in game, along with block and blind.

That is the case in sPvP, but not for WvW.

Toughness, Vitality, and Armor generally works fine on every class, but Thiefs and Warriors basically ignore your armor with certain abilities.

My Thief -> Stonetouch Venom -> Shadowstep -> Haste -> Cloak n Dagger -> Backstab -> Heartseeker = you’re dead.

I keep seeing these claims in the forums. I have yet to be killed by this combo. Typically the thief tries, then fails, then runs away.

But if Smite was a symbol, it would be affected by the symbol traits.

Increased symbol size, increased symbol duration, and symbols heal allies.

A huge, long-lasting, healing, ground target-able Smite, might be a bit OP. Plus adding a defensive boon to it? Sure I’d love it, but don’t see it happening.

Malice.8439:

I’m doing Staff/ S+P with a 10/30/0/0/30 build. Somebody did link me to your guides, which is where I learned the optimal zerker to king/valkyrie ratio for these kind of builds. x)

Optimal zerker to knights/valkyrie ratio?

Could someone elaborate?