Guild Wars 2

My fingers are crossed! I love you podcasts and would be amazing to be part of one.

Did anyone nailed your exact build?

So? What happened?

Death From The Deep [WvW version] (aka WvW AquaFly):

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fgUQBVCPrmePNrao1lEmU0bkfqAzRVA7kKo6SKwNvB-jUyAYLEkGGtAjIgk9KiGb1sIasaGMVKRUtHpIa1A-w

This build is thought around survivability and damage output for underwater combat, getting the most of both weapons and creating synergy between the pieces of gear used. This build is specially design to be able to tag many enemies, grating you more Wxp and more loot.

Note: As in the sPvP version this build also has the benefit that you can get shorter cooldowns on Sword and Staff

Traits:
10/20/20/10/10
Domination: III
Dueling: II, IV
Chaos: IV, X
Inspiration: II
Illusions: III

Playstyle:
During underwater combat, you will have 3 illusions up almost all the time, most of them doing damage. This build will grant you: reduced incoming damage, increase outgoing damage, more healing and having FOUR sources of Retaliation to tag many enemies at once.

Note: You can also choose to sustain a bit more damage in order to get shorter cooldown on Arcane Thievery (faster condition removal and boon stripping) and Mimic (Retaliation) by going Chaos: III, X.

In this version, Feedback has its cooldown shortened too.

For long range:
Feedback>Trident 3>Trident 4>Trident 5>Trident auto-attack until cooldowns reset>Rinse and repeat

Close range:
Spear 5>Feedback>Spear 4 (for boucing)>Spear 3>Switch weapons>Trident 2>Trident 3>Trident 5>Trident 4

Consumables:
For Power (Spear):
Superior Sharpening Stone (6% of Toughness and 4% of Vitality)
or for Condition Dmg (Trident):
Master Tuning Crystal (6% of Toughness and 4% of Vitality)
Food:
Bowl of Tropical Mousse (100 Toughness/70 Cond Dmg)

Slot Skills:
Ether Feast: Same as sPvP version, more clones, more heal, simple.
Arcane Thievery: Transfer your conditions and strip your target’s boons.
Mimic: Can you say, Retaliationx4? (3 Phantasms+You)
Feedback: Most of the fight under water will be ranged.

Elite Skill:
Time Warp: The faster you (and your team) hit, the quicker the enemy dies.
Note: Could also be swapped to Mass Invisibility for something more stealthy/dropping on top of an underwater zerg and another Mesmer just goes with TW

Gear:
Soldier Armor with Runes of the Undead
Zerker Spear with Superior Sigil of Accuracy
Rabid Trident with Superior Sigil of Corruption
Rabid Accessories with Exquisite Chrysocola Jewels

Death From The Deep [sPvP version] (aka sPvP AquaFly):

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fgUQBVCPrheSNrao1kEmZ0bkjWAJFqG1lUgbeD-jUyAYLEkGGtAjIgk9KiGb1sIasaGMVKRUtHpIa1A-w

This build is thought around survivability and damage output for underwater combat, getting the most of both weapons and creating synergy between the pieces of gear used. This build also works on Raid on the Capricorn sPvP map very well if you stay bunkering the underwater point. It is mainly for small-sized combat as you won’t have many AoE capabilities.

Edit: This also has the benefit that you can get shorter cooldowns going Sw/Sw+Staff

Traits:
20/20/25/0/5
Domination: III, VIII
Dueling: II, IV
Chaos: IV, X

Playstyle:
During underwater combat, you will have 3 illusions up almost all the time, most of them doing damage. This build will grant you: more damage and more healing.

Feedback can help stack Confusion quite effectively and fast.

For long range:
Feedback>Trident 3>Trident 4>Trident 5>Trident auto-attack until cooldowns reset>Rinse and repeat

Close range:
Spear 5>Feedback>Spear 4 (for boucing)>Spear 3>Switch weapons>Trident 2>Trident 3>Trident 5>Trident 4

Consumables:
For Power (Spear):
Superior Sharpening Stone (6% of Toughness and 4% of Vitality)
or for Condition Dmg (Trident):
Master Tuning Crystal (6% of Toughness and 4% of Vitality)
Food:
Bowl of Tropical Mousse (100 Toughness/70 Cond Dmg)

Slot Skills:
Ether Feast: As you will be having illusions up almost all the time
Signet of Illusions: Pretty straightforward, illusions last longer, they deal more dmg.
Phantasmal Defender: along with Signet of Illusion it will soak up a big amount of dmg.
Note: If you sacrifice Confusion of Glamour skills you could go 10/20/25/5/10 and give you more dmg for each phantasm (Illusions II) and give them Retaliation for even more raw dmg (5 points in Inspiration).
Feedback: Most of the fight under water will be ranged.

Elite Skill:
Time Warp: The faster you (and your team) hit, the quicker the enemy dies.

Gear:
Soldier Armor with Runes of the Undead
Zerker Spear with Superior Sigil of Accuracy
Rabid Trident with Superior Sigil of Corruption
Rabid Accessories with Exquisite Chrysocola Jewels

Edit: Have other variations too, that rely less on condition dmg and more in direct dmg. Will post them later on.

I feel confident on being your next interviewee…

I think I can make the AquaFly build. The problem is that my computer is too lame to record.

Now, the build should be made AROUND aquatic fight or DEDICATED to it?

Teleport should be fixed so it does not move you to an even WORSE spot.

If there is an AoE, teleport should not send you right INTO it.

Hickeroar.9734:

Devilsmack.5736:

It’s not that we’ve got a new buddy… it’s just the long rivalry between TC and FA makes your lootbags tastier than DB’s. This does not mean we don’t want to eat DB’s, it’s just we like yours more!

Same cookies, different flavors.

Let us unite under the banner of Arrow Cart hatred! Too bad ACs don’t drop bags…

Thanks, but I rather carry my own banner. No offense.

It’s not that we’ve got a new buddy… it’s just the long rivalry between TC and FA makes your lootbags tastier than DB’s. This does not mean we don’t want to eat DB’s, it’s just we like yours more!

Same cookies, different flavors.

It’d be cool that us mesmers get in touch with each other to start practicing and sharing builds?

Add me as friend if you guys want.

I will try to run this sucker about as much as possible. I want 1 of each and then a couple to sell.

I’ve ran this dungeon around 6 times (mostly with 2 stable ppl and 2 pugs) and to eb honest, it was not difficult at all if you know what to do… and I’m a confusion mes!

Yes, some of us are still around.

I’ll just keep it for collection-wise.

4 runs so far and just got insignias and mostly blues and greens with a couple yellows.

Missed the other one, sign me up for this one:

IGN: Alanna Grisel
Day Available: Both
Record Capability: Not yet (crappy computer)
NA or EU: NA

Luckily, most of my gear was bought with either Karma, Laurels or dungeon tokens.

But if you went full Khilbron, well… my deepest condolences.

You are complaining as a Necro? Go make a Confusion Mesmer. THEN we will talk.

Thief: “Holy s***! I have 5 stacks of Confusion on me!”
Mesmer: “Hope he does not realize I suck now”
Thief: “Take that Heartseeker! Holy Moly! I was just hit by 1k! But wait a sec, I hit the Mesmer for 7k!”
Mesmer: “Oh crap! He found out”

End of story: Thief is alive, Mesmer is a loot bag.

Archer.1658:

Staff is primarily defensive. Chaos storm is great overall, gives you boons + gives enemies conditions + you can get chaos armor off it. Theres chaos armor in general. The “general” stun break on 2 on a short cooldown and then there’s iWarlock which hits pretty hard. In PvE/WvW as a lowbie I’d suggest greatsword. Staff becomes a lot more useful when you hit 80 and PvP a lot.

The boons that CS gives you now will actually help Warriors that trait into +3% dmg for every boon on you…

Not only we got nerfed, the more we try to boost our attack (as every other class too) will make us get more dmg against them.

Deniara Devious.3948:

Agreed. Ridiculous.

Nobody was asking for so mega mighty buff.

Anet: please communicate with your players before doing such drastic changes. It looks more and more like you really don’t play nor understand your own game.

Talk to us!

They do listen to players. Where do you think they got the idea of this LUDACRIS nerf to Mesmers from? From all the QQing from lame players (cuz that’s what you are if you can’t deal with confusion). But hey! If you are a Thief you can still hit for 7k in quick succession without the risk of killing yourself!

I see many Thieves putting Heartseeker on autoattack from today on…

Asudementio.8526:

Devilsmack.5736:

Furiousbeard.7602:

I’m not sure why some TC posters think they are in a position to push FA to tier 3.

That was already tried for 2 months straight without success and now with another strong contender here, you’ve got to watch your other flank.

Feel free to try, but you’re just hurting youself.

We’ve already proven that T2 is a good place for us. If you want a week without us, feel free to drop to tier 3 or jump to tier 1.

And man did they try! They even went as far as using their best-friends-forever server (KN) to try and steamroll us while being on an evident truce between them and what did they get with that? Well, KN is now in T3 and they were also gutted by their so-called ‘friends’ in order to boast their numbers.

TC should know better that for every action, there is a reaction.

That being said… AMAZING fights all over this weekend. Grats DB on your current #1.

It wouldn’t be a matchup without FA claiming 2v1. It’s no wonder some people want FA out of the tier….

Oh, if your forums would say the same…

Anyway, even when we were being blatantly 2v1éd guess who stayed in the tier and who is not…

Guess you guys shoulda try harder

Furiousbeard.7602:

I’m not sure why some TC posters think they are in a position to push FA to tier 3.

That was already tried for 2 months straight without success and now with another strong contender here, you’ve got to watch your other flank.

Feel free to try, but you’re just hurting youself.

We’ve already proven that T2 is a good place for us. If you want a week without us, feel free to drop to tier 3 or jump to tier 1.

And man did they try! They even went as far as using their best-friends-forever server (KN) to try and steamroll us while being on an evident truce between them and what did they get with that? Well, KN is now in T3 and they were also gutted by their so-called ‘friends’ in order to boast their numbers.

TC should know better that for every action, there is a reaction.

That being said… AMAZING fights all over this weekend. Grats DB on your current #1.

If you are looking for a great community, join FA… and if you are in SEA time and want to be part of some incredibly talented group of ppl, then DPS is the right choice, hands down.

Curo.2483:

Devilsmack.5736:

What tactic do you guys suggest? The W1-M2 digging speedrun?

I did the math, and for me, the most profitable run is all 3 zones, and hitting the most convenient dig spots in zone 2. I usually end with about 275 baubles. A few tips:

1) Watch a video. You’d be surprised how many jumps and shortcuts you don’t know about.
2) Use the slingshot to take down King Toad. You can do it in 2 jewel shards solo, and only costs you about 30 baubles.

Most people don’t like to run zone 3 because they don’t know the fast way to get through the zone, and kill King Toad. It’s just as fast as zone 2 though. If you want more detail, feel free to PM me in game. Takes me about an hour and a half for all 5 characters, including all loading times, use of storage, etc.

I’ll PM you tonight when I log in, hope you’re online.

Teamkiller.4315:

You can’t spell fail without [FA]

On FA lol

Thumping Chests [TC]

So…

Focus: The Anomaly / Spirit Links
Scepter: Abyssal Scepter
GS: Vision of the Mists
Spear: Ignis Fatuus
Sword: Whisperblade

Am I missing something?

Lost the chance to be there… kitten obligations!

I only crafted a couple of lvs on all my 80s (3 in total so far) cuz what was said above. If you craft too many lvls you will lose some of this “getting the grip” of the class.

Yeah, it does take longer times, but with DE chained events that should not be too much of a problem anyways (Bloodtide Coast FTW!).

Just keep the Ranger and roll a new char. Glamour build is amazingly fun in WvW.

More ppl joined! Yay!

If you are looking for cool looks: Abyssal Scepter and The Anomaly… there should be a purple misty-looking staff just like Vision of the Mists (GS).

Honor Badge Dispenser [ATM]

“Hold On Guys I Got This” [Nope]

OMG! So many guilds should merge under these tags!!

/signed

Intro cinematic turns tedious after a couple runs…

LFG for bauble farming

What tactic do you guys suggest? The W1-M2 digging speedrun?

Ethics.4519:

Mystic.5934:

I’m a mesmer who usually does pve. I did some wvw last night and ran into this enemy ranger. I rocked him hard, but he was able to run away. I need practice immobilizing them. anyways, he couldn’t get me below half health and I repeatedly would get him to 15%, he’d run, heal, I’d catch up, get him to 15% again, he’d run, etc. eventually I just gave up :P I didn’t see that being a problem when I went in there, but I’ll probably equip blink from now on.

Blink, invis, focus (temp curtain swiftness + pull), runes of centaur. That should do =)

Depending on build, Centaur would mean having to drop better runes and their stats… only to run faster/for longer periods of time… not my cup of tea, if you ask me.

Runes of the Undead FTW!

Hell, no! C’mon peeps! Let’s make sure we fill our enemies’ screens with clones! 5 mesmers = 15 characters on screen.

In Game Name: Alanna Grisel
Time Available: 10 PM EST (aprox.)
Recording Capabilities: Sorry, but no.

It all depends on how you use it. It’s all fair in love and wvw, except cheating/hacking/exploiting… that is for jerks.

It is very simple… get their HP to zero.

Why would you like to go solo? Isn’t it better to form at least a small 2/5 ppl group and do things better/faster?

I have 3 80s, only my Mesmer is fully geared (except for 5/6 accessories), my Necro is zerker geared for Dungeons/FotM. Eventually I will gear my Warr to try Hammer-spec. I then have 1 Lv2 Thief and a Lv1 Ele.

I created 1 of each race, will eventually create more if more races become available with other classes.

Syfer.6875:

@Devilsmack.5736, Oh?

I’m at work, I’ll post it once I get home…

I have some sort of a similar build to yours with also GS/Staff. The synergy between both is great!

It’s a Shatter build with some tweaks in gear and the weapons you mentioned.

JPs should be fun, if you choose to use portals, fine. If you wanna go and do it the hard/challenging way, fine too.

It’s all about choices here. Noone is forcing you to take one.

Achievements are like bragging over kittens.

WyldKat.4712:

Devilsmack.5736:

One of my posts was flagged too cuz i mentioned weapons of mass destruction… go figure.

Justin Bieber?

Nope, Nukes.

One of my posts was flagged too cuz i mentioned weapons of mass destruction… go figure.

TheKimuki.6493:

Ok, so Anet should nerf portal because it allows players to get jp achievements without doing the jp…

Isn’t it easier to change the way those achievements are granted? Maybe they could place some location marks on the jp route that you must visit in order to unlock the achievement, instead of it being tied to the chest placement.

Or maybe, just MAYBE get a mesmer friend to portal you and anyone around that also needs a lift and quit all of this senseless banter.

Xavi.6591:

Also don’t allow stealth in JP’s (especially EBG) because thieves have an advantage. Also, make 25% movement signets not work because it gives an advantage to jumping. Also, remove guardian leap in EBG JP because it allows them to make certain jumps rather easily. Actually, just make everyone that enters the EBG JP a non-textured pixelated cube with no skills or abilities so there is no advantage or disadvantage to anyone. Maybe we should also do this to everyone in wvw….

See what I did there?

Also, do you really want more people spending time in the EBG JP rather than fighting in WvW? People would spend hours in the darkroom failing miserably.

Portals are fine.

PS: I made 6g the other day portaling people up in EBG. Shame on me!

6g? I gotta start doing it myself! How much did you charge for each portal?

Is this QQ-ing cuz noone in your server was portalling so you could bypass the hard parts?

I can bet 10g you used these portals at least once in EB JP.

Roll a mesmer and have fun. Tho mesmers are also VERY hard to master.