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7/26 BG/SoR/TC

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Kids, behave…. And yes asking the bulk of posters on these forums to behave is like asking an 8 year old to not touch the cookie jar.

Ran havoc squad last night in TCBL and had a lot of fun against some familiar faces. Was fun fighting against the likes of DIS, CERN and KH again. Hope to see you guys soon.

Awwww, stupid early work day today – had to leave WvW early last night, must have missed running into you guys. I bet it was a blast though – BT has always been fun to fight against. Hope to catch you guys later this week!

Eve Morrow, Mesmer, Eve Flamescythe, Ele
Tarnished Coast

7/26 BG/SoR/TC

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SOR got more guilds transferred?
Why not play the game instead of recruiting new guilds everyweek?
You guys said last week was trainning week, but it showed you guys
gave up last week’s match to get more guilds hahahaaaaa.

Good tactics SOR.

TIN foil hat off plzzzzz.

BG has been getting xfers also. TKg from jq, Rawnoodles and freinds from DB, plus all the solo guys i been reading who have moved to BG plus Titan and his band of friends.

WE ALL RECRUIT. now that i have put some facts into ur conspiracy theories, can we get back to playing the game ??

Can’t argue with the fact that everyone recruits and welcomes new talent, that’s for sure. However, if you’re going to make a convincing argument, I wouldn’t include the folks that jumped ship off DB as assets to help BG – if anything, they’re just drama magnets. xD

Eve Morrow, Mesmer, Eve Flamescythe, Ele
Tarnished Coast

7/26 JQ/DB/FA

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Woo, looks like a good, fun matchup here too! Should be some fun SEA fights for you guys this week!

Good luck, all!

Eve Morrow, Mesmer, Eve Flamescythe, Ele
Tarnished Coast

7/26 BG/SoR/TC

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Woo, get to see BG again! Used to be on Kaineng when we had the epic matchup thread, really looking forward to catching up with you guys again!

Rehi SoR, good too see you fine folks again too!

Let the festivities commence!

Eve Morrow, Mesmer, Eve Flamescythe, Ele
Tarnished Coast

7/19: JQ/TC/FA

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I think we could have beat JQ this week if FA would have showed any kind of aggression this week towards them, only times I would see FA and JQ fight it out was when JQ would get the in their Towers and Keeps, other than that FA just tried capping our stuff while we were busy with JQ. Well done FA, Well done, I guess.

We noticed the same thing on SoS last week. We would have done much better against TC but FA would not under any circumstance put pressure on you guys, unless TC gave them no choice. FA does not like going after the server in the lead. I don’t know what kind of strategy this is, but whatevs.

LOL, just LOL. Thanks for quoting the original post so I can chuckle at both at the same time. xD

On a separate note, great week, had a bunch of really fun fights. This was a really good matchup, hope we get more of these in the future!

/salute

Eve Morrow, Mesmer, Eve Flamescythe, Ele
Tarnished Coast

Can you?

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I don’t use DE in my Shatter build as it would overwrite my phantasms.

Um, what? I think I’m confused. In a shatter build, aren’t you, uh, shattering? That should get rid of your phantasms quicker than an overwrite, right?

Anyway, I agree that DE is awesome, but mandatory? Nah. Phantasm builds likely would avoid it, and I don’t like it with the WvW roaming build that I use (I don’t want a clone showing where I am if I dodge while stealthed). Still, out of the 20-point Dueling traits, it’s likely going to be taken more often than others.

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Tarnished Coast

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7/19: JQ/TC/FA

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Wow, i just went for a 1.5 hour walk and almost everything’s JQ. Hmmm, very nice JQ. You guys are very good.

Yeah, their SEA is awesome, that’s for sure. Our SEA and Oceanics have done a stellar job this week against crazy odds! All three servers are pretty evenly matched in NA, although I think TC has the numbers edge in that time slot. It’s been a really fun week!

Eve Morrow, Mesmer, Eve Flamescythe, Ele
Tarnished Coast

7/19: JQ/TC/FA

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Awesome fight with JQ in TCBL Garrison a bit ago. We were outmanned for a long time with the map completely silent except for camp flips, figured you had to swarm somewhere sooner or later!

It was pretty touch and go until we got you sealed in, then it was a war of attrition. Great fight, and had no clue there was so much fun to be had at 5am my time! LOL

Cheers. /salute

Eve Morrow, Mesmer, Eve Flamescythe, Ele
Tarnished Coast

7/19: JQ/TC/FA

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And KH, we’ll definitely admit we had more then you tonight in FABL with all the militia. If it makes you feel better, we weren’t intentionally leading a group that size for our fights with you at the time.

Yeah, we were outmanned the entire time we were in FABL. Sure made for some fun fights – and we got to kamikaze quite a bit due to no repair bills. And to be equally honest, FA wasn’t only running in a crazy zergball (edit – no offense, we knew it was a militia ball, happens to us sometimes as well since people tend to latch on to whoever can get them kills lol) – we ran into quite a few groups running about the same size as us. We just kept trying to get under your skin and do the same stuff to your big groups that you guys do to ours – run ’em ragged, keep ’em guessing, and try to pick the best fights we can. ;-)

Really fun night, that’s for sure.

Eve Morrow, Mesmer, Eve Flamescythe, Ele
Tarnished Coast

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7/19: JQ/TC/FA

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Fun night in TCBL (when we were 5-man roaming) and then later in FABL. It would seem the server zerg strat is starting to go away, saw a bunch more roaming folks tonight.

Of course, we did get hit a few times by zergballs, but hey, at least it wasn’t every single fight.

Eve Morrow, Mesmer, Eve Flamescythe, Ele
Tarnished Coast

7/19: JQ/TC/FA

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For some reason I’d rather see BG/JQ/TC…

That would be a really fun matchup, that’s for sure. However, FA is still one of my favourite servers to be matched against. Great fights always come out of FA quite often, always a ton of fun. Maybe we can petition ANet for a few weeks of a four-way – BG-JQ-TC-FA!

Eve Morrow, Mesmer, Eve Flamescythe, Ele
Tarnished Coast

7/19: JQ/TC/FA

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Bah I wish we had DB vs TC vs JQ instead of FA. FA doesn’t even take camps on JQ BL lol. They just ignore it entirely for the most part.

I disagree completely. FA fights. IMHO, FA is tons more fun than DB to face. They just don’t have the numbers/coverage to compete in PPT.

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Focus skill help

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Just to toss in my .02, iWarden works great most of the time in ZvZ too. Pick a target in the middle of their ball, and you’ll get a bunch of tags for it most likely. Plus, the ranged opponents frequently shoot in the zergball collision, so if it’s traited, your warden will get reflect tags as well.

I think iWarden would have been better if it was a ground target-able skill because as it is, its VERY hard to get any use from it, if it was Ground target-able you would be able to use it more easily both offensively and defensively

+1 to this, sure would be nice.

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7/19: JQ/TC/FA

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What happened to FA? I mean, wasn’t it like the top T2 server few months ago?

FA is still strong – TC and DB both gained some guilds, though. Before that, T2 was usually a close race between FA, TC, and DB.

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7/19: JQ/TC/FA

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TC and FA working together? LOL, I don’t see that ever happening.

It actually happened. DB complained about an imagined 2v1 so much that we actually made it happen – it’s what made most of the bad FA and TC blood go away, and it was huge fun besides!

Eve Morrow, Mesmer, Eve Flamescythe, Ele
Tarnished Coast

7/19: JQ/TC/FA

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Finally someone who is not Sor and BG ! Good luck. I’m just happy to see new opponents vs our JQ skills with kills

/cheer

Welcome aboard, JQ!

Great to see we got paired up with FA again, too – looks like it’ll be a really fun week!

Wish we had the numbers to make this more interesting. Alas we don’t…oh well.

Trust me, on JQ we know how that feels. Had a lot of fun in TC tonight, you guys field massive numbers, great fights. Lotta respect for FA for doing all they could to be infuriating. Reminds me of us. =)

FA always brings great fights. They’re one of my fav servers to be paired with.

Eve Morrow, Mesmer, Eve Flamescythe, Ele
Tarnished Coast

7/12: SoS/TC/FA

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Wow, I leave for a week and come back to this? WTH happened to TC?!

Did all your players take a course in how to be bad 101? a small 5 man group is holding the south of your borderlands and not even 20 of your finest trained monkeys can take our tower. Holy Pickle and his crew are good, but this is embarassing for you guys.

Please keep sending us walking loot bags.

I’m gonna start bringing garbage bags to your BL to clean up all the trash.

You must have run into our lowbie raid. We have to do something to keep things challenging during this complete blowout.

Welcome back!

Eve Morrow, Mesmer, Eve Flamescythe, Ele
Tarnished Coast

Mesmer - Wvw build

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/notroll

Build videos are a waste of my time. I check out every single topic for builds that gets posted (that’s why I’m looking at this post right now). With a link, I can scan the build in about 5-10 seconds and see if it’s going to work for my playstyle, and if so, I can spend more time pulling the build apart to figure out what makes it tick.

With a video, I’m constrained to spending whatever time you think appropriate, when I’m not even sure if I’m interested in the build or not.

So, for me, videos aren’t worth it and I don’t waste my time watching them – and I would assume that your intent is for me (and everyone else) to check out your build. If that’s the case, yeah, you should probably build a link.

However, if your intent is just to make videos (you mentioned you like making them), make some of you fighting in WvW and post those. I’ll probably watch those.

I won’t watch build vids, and I’d bet that I’m not the only one.

Eve Morrow, Mesmer, Eve Flamescythe, Ele
Tarnished Coast

7/12: SoS/TC/FA

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I’m gonna be honest and say TC is very good at supply management and defending with skeleton crews (A T1 level in this regard), but there are a lot of other area’s were TC is still playing like a sub T6 server.

As a whole your server has specs and gear more suited for cof, you guys are so squishy and thats one of the reasons equal numbered fights dont go your way. You guys need to learn how to use havoc squads and multiple commanders instead of trying to accomplish everything with one large zerg. You don’t need an 80 man to take a camp or to stop 4 people with 1 ram banging on a tower.

Other than that do some open field training, get your militia involved and practice, send 15 against 30 just to see how you do and how to improve. If you keep running back to those arrow carts you will never learn what you need to learn to hold your own in T1

Generalizations are silly, but thanks for the suggestions anyway.

Bottom line, in individual fights, SoS and FA are both fun servers to be up against, and some groups are pretty skilled. As far as bringing motivation for TC as a server to “get better”, though… well, the challenge just isn’t there. With the random matchups, we may get a T1 server for a week or two, but most likely not for enough time for us to adapt and knock the rust off.

So, again, thanks for the suggestions… I just think they’re a bit pointless.

Eve Morrow, Mesmer, Eve Flamescythe, Ele
Tarnished Coast

7/12: SoS/TC/FA

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I think this is something the EU servers got right a long time ago. They seem to care less overall for the PPT and just play for the fights in order to get better.

EU is definately the place to be. Trust me on this.

Darn EU folks recruiting from our matchup thread!

;-)

Heya Jayne, we miss you!

Hi love

I’ll just leave these cookies here.

*whistles

/dreamysighs

Cookies… nomnomnom

Eve Morrow, Mesmer, Eve Flamescythe, Ele
Tarnished Coast

7/12: SoS/TC/FA

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I think this is something the EU servers got right a long time ago. They seem to care less overall for the PPT and just play for the fights in order to get better.

EU is definately the place to be. Trust me on this.

Darn EU folks recruiting from our matchup thread!

;-)

Heya Jayne, we miss you!

Eve Morrow, Mesmer, Eve Flamescythe, Ele
Tarnished Coast

7/12: SoS/TC/FA

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A question to some Tc’ers, you guys obviously outnumber all of us right. So why do you insist on recruiting new guilds constantly?

I’m not sure of the real reason, but it may very well be because the forum tears taste pretty sweet, almost as nice as the “the meanies attacked me in the JP!” posts.

Eve Morrow, Mesmer, Eve Flamescythe, Ele
Tarnished Coast

7/12: SoS/TC/FA

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Contrary to the tone of the last few posts, last night in EB was pretty fun. Got to have a pretty good three-way brawl in front of SMC, with all three servers slugging it out in open field fighting. Really fun stuff, and I really appreciate the SoS and FA folks who were there. No siege, no hiding behind walls, just a great force on force on force slugfest!

LOL makes me laugh TC keeps saying they enjoy open field fight, but ONLY when they have superior numbers. Otherwise they will sit in towers and use seige, I didnt see TC do many reg open field fights vs SoR for that reason. You keep claiming u want them yet you continue to only do them when you have the numbers to win the fight with ease. Also double teaming the weaker server every day now shows us you like to contradict what you say.

Point is TC has bigger numbers so you enjoy open fighting without seige bacause u know u will win and have a nice bag farm, no skill (from most of the pugs) just numbers.

I made a prediction to myself on how many forum warriors would respond like this to my post saying thanks for the fun fight. Obviously, you weren’t there for that really fun fight, but thanks for the input.

The tally stands at one silly forum warrior post. Any more coming? xD

Eve Morrow, Mesmer, Eve Flamescythe, Ele
Tarnished Coast

7/12: SoS/TC/FA

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Contrary to the tone of the last few posts, last night in EB was pretty fun. Got to have a pretty good three-way brawl in front of SMC, with all three servers slugging it out in open field fighting. Really fun stuff, and I really appreciate the SoS and FA folks who were there. No siege, no hiding behind walls, just a great force on force on force slugfest!

Eve Morrow, Mesmer, Eve Flamescythe, Ele
Tarnished Coast

7/12: SoS/TC/FA

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Oh please, the amount of times my 5 man groups have had to deal with this same issue from TC and FA is unreal.

Yeah, I was actually laughing when TC sent 30+ people to take out 5 of your guys with a cata outside Klovan. They zerg so hard that I wonder if they ever can click anything other than the #1 skill all week long.

I was laughing the whole time I ran away then got ran over by one of the few FA zergs who dared take a TC camp.

HEY! We don’t just use the ‘1’ key, thank you very much. We have to use the ‘F’ key as well, so we can pick up the loot bags. ;-)

Eve Morrow, Mesmer, Eve Flamescythe, Ele
Tarnished Coast

7/12: SoS/TC/FA

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I’m not actually sure you can fix this matchup. FA has the numbers and coverage of a mega t2 server, yet lacks the skill to stay there (it gets stomped into the ground.) But since they have such swamping numbers, ever other server below suffers.

Funny how I can change two words in your post and probably offend a ton of completely new people. Using your logic, FA must lack the skill to compete in T2, much like TC lacks the skill to compete in T1, right?

You must be new to GW2. It’s coverage that sorts tiers, not skill. There’s a bit of a coverage gap between T2 and T1 that you may be unaware of.

Edit – just to be clear, the point of my post here is to say that, 99% of the time, coverage is what wins the points game for the week (and that’s exactly what is happening in our matchup this week). My experience in Dub v Dub this week is that FA and SoS are bringing fun, competitive fights, just like always.

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7/12: SoS/TC/FA

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A 10 golem rush on garri with a paper gate? Were you late for dinner, TC? It flipped before we could even run there from citadel. Our 25 player zerg must be very fearsome indeed to inspire that. :P

Someone mentioned cookies in there, wanted to get them before they got cold.

Eve Morrow, Mesmer, Eve Flamescythe, Ele
Tarnished Coast

7/5: DB/TC/EB

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we’re winners, winners to do what they want!

Funny thing is according to glicko you got 2nd

Funny thing is… Oops, nevermind, was going to say something witty until I saw who posted this… And I realized I just don’t care.

But I’ll still post a paragraph because I really do care

You’re right, I do care. Great job this week, EBay!

Eve Morrow, Mesmer, Eve Flamescythe, Ele
Tarnished Coast

7/5: DB/TC/EB

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we’re winners, winners to do what they want!

Funny thing is according to glicko you got 2nd

Funny thing is… Oops, nevermind, was going to say something witty until I saw who posted this… And I realized I just don’t care.

Eve Morrow, Mesmer, Eve Flamescythe, Ele
Tarnished Coast

7/5: DB/TC/EB

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Big wheel of garbage if you ask me but whatever

Truth. Everyone on the wheel needs to get the heck off. Garbage stinks.

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Tarnished Coast

7/5: DB/TC/EB

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Really had a good time at the GvG with GH tonight. You guys are studs, awesome fights. I don’t think a single fight lasted less than 10 min of pure craziness.

The cage match at the end was awesome too. You guys are great sports, fantastic players, and it was fun as all get-out!

Cheers!

Eve Morrow, Mesmer, Eve Flamescythe, Ele
Tarnished Coast

7/5: DB/TC/EB

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What Irony?!? TC is a sad bandwagon server… I didn’t expect Ebay to win. I did expect TC to chest thump… It’s ok for you to be mad, I just don’t get your point…

Ha, we sucked you in. We only roleplay sad, mad, chest thumping bandwagon’ers. We’re really cheerful, happy, courteous, respectful people.

Eve Morrow, Mesmer, Eve Flamescythe, Ele
Tarnished Coast

Scepter #2 Range...

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even if it does, 3sec casting time is a joke. leave it at 900 range but decrease casting time to 1.1/2sec casting time

Are you thinking of Scepter #3? For the Scepter #2 block, the longer the cast, the better IMO (so the block lasts longer). ;-)

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Tarnished Coast

WvW Glamour

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Long story short, glamour isn’t the way to go.

Issue is, for zerging there isn’t much outside that.

Huh, I have the exact opposite opinion. For example, I run a 0/20/30/20/0 interrupt build for zerging, works really well for me.

My point is that if you’re in a zerg, you should NEVER drop Feedback and Veil (swap to Portal for golem rushes). This means that 2 utilities out of 3 are locked, and in glamour.

(and if you’re not carring at very least Veil, you’re zerging wrong.)

Not trying to get in your face (okay, maybe a little, you’re coming across as a bit pretentious), but if you’re thinking that there’s only one way to play a mesmer in a zerg, you may want to surf these forums for some extra ideas, my friend. There are quite a few ways for a mesmer to be successful and useful to the group that don’t require a glamour setup (not to mention that glamour setups don’t do damage for squat anymore).

I run veil, but not feedback most of the time (veil, blink, and signet of inspiration are my normal choices), and I seem to do pretty well for myself in my guild group. Feedback doesn’t fit my style of play, and veil doesn’t get thrown in the enemy group – therefore, the glamour traits are useless to me. Add on the fact that confusion doesn’t hurt much anymore, and we can see why there are very few glamour mesmers, at least among my server and the ones I’ve faced.

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WvW Glamour

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Long story short, glamour isn’t the way to go.

Issue is, for zerging there isn’t much outside that.

Huh, I have the exact opposite opinion. For example, I run a 0/20/30/20/0 interrupt build for zerging, works really well for me.

There are quite a few options for zerging that can work well if they suit your playstyle.

Still, back on the original topic, I know that better mesmers than me have made glamour builds since the confusion nerf – however, I’m still of the opinion that they’re pretty weak.

Eve Morrow, Mesmer, Eve Flamescythe, Ele
Tarnished Coast

WvW Glamour

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IMO, getting a rabid set is worthwhile – condi mesmers are fun to play, and the high toughness is nice. From what I’ve seen, though, glamour mesmers are going extinct. Confusion is nice as extra dmg, but glamour mesmers used to rely on it as a main source of dmg and pressure. That’s definitely not the case now.

Long story short, glamour isn’t the way to go.

Eve Morrow, Mesmer, Eve Flamescythe, Ele
Tarnished Coast

Stealth buff to Sigil of Accuracy?

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I’ve been following this thread diligently for the updates – just wanted to say thanks for all the testing and effort you’ve been putting into this, Duck (or do you go by Boom?).

Seriously, though, appreciate the work.

Eve Morrow, Mesmer, Eve Flamescythe, Ele
Tarnished Coast

7/5: DB/TC/EB

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It’s only 2 days into the match up and already learned that ebay are some pretty sore losers….already have like 5 people guesting to talk kitten in our lions arch, classy work fellas.

Would you do us the courtesy of assuming they do not speak on behalf of the server as a whole. I suspect I know the names several of the people who do this, most of which are professional trolls. AR would do this to us for weeks, it gets the non WvW population and PvC people all riled up, which is actually kind of amusing for the hardcore WvW people and trolls.

I’m not saying it as a whole server, but in the 10 months playing I’ve not seen any other server do this to that extent, and the ones that did, it was usually only 1 person, not an entire group of people.

When you fight Ebay you fight on all fronts.

Not our fault you aren’t mentally prepared to fight on all fronts

Huh. I didn’t realize I was in combat when I was laughing at them in LA. Interesting.

Eve Morrow, Mesmer, Eve Flamescythe, Ele
Tarnished Coast

[Build] The Blackwater Mesmer (Condition/WvW)

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This is a good roaming build imho. If running with any sort of group larger than, say, five or so, I would feel the low health pool though (and would worry about dying and potentially rallying opponents). Also, having run a similar build in the past, condition classes tend to be problematic (again, just talking from my experience here). I’ve never taken the torch trait before – does The Prestige act as a condition clear altogether, or does it only remove a set number of conditions?

Great write up, thanks for sharing!

Yeh, I find that I’m mostly roaming around by myself, and I believe the torch trait removes 1 condition each time, but I’ll have to test this when I get home

Boo. The torch trait would be much more appealing to me if it was a condition clear rather than just a single condition removal.

I don’t have a link to my build atm (posting from my phone), but I run a 0/20/30/20/0 build with a few pieces of PVT armor to boost my health a bit. That build seems to work well for both roaming (has enough condi dmg to hurt, and can trait prismatic understanding and the scepter trait for more condi dmg) and for ZvZ for when I’m with my guild group (I swap out Prismatic Understanding for Bountiful Interruptions as might is easy to come by in a ZvZ, swap the torch for focus, and trait the focus for reflects). The only sad part is that I can’t trait the torch with that build.

Eve Morrow, Mesmer, Eve Flamescythe, Ele
Tarnished Coast

[Build] The Blackwater Mesmer (Condition/WvW)

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This is a good roaming build imho. If running with any sort of group larger than, say, five or so, I would feel the low health pool though (and would worry about dying and potentially rallying opponents). Also, having run a similar build in the past, condition classes tend to be problematic (again, just talking from my experience here). I’ve never taken the torch trait before – does The Prestige act as a condition clear altogether, or does it only remove a set number of conditions?

Great write up, thanks for sharing!

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Tarnished Coast

6/28 Maguuma/Tarnished Coast/Sea of Sorrows

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I think ME hadn’t done any groups since Rekka was on vacation, or you would probably like them too. Dunno how much you’ve seen of RP (smaller group) or VR but they’re also both good. In fact some TC were more impressed by VR than us, sooo. We have a lot of good, organized groups (some of which may not have been mentioned), but they don’t/can’t come out in force every day.

Thanks. The only ME that I’ve seen in numbers this week have been part of a massive blob with tons of other guilds, which would indicate a non-guild group for sure. Haven’t seen VR (although I’ve seen numerous posts this week saying they’re good) or RP, hopefully we’ll have the chance to see them this week.

Cheers.

Eve Morrow, Mesmer, Eve Flamescythe, Ele
Tarnished Coast

6/28 Maguuma/Tarnished Coast/Sea of Sorrows

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i’ve been gone on vacation, and after an extremely stressful trip home i managed to get a good raid going last night. had a lot of fun on SoS BL with TC+SoS. your NA could use some work

/notroll

This is an interesting viewpoint, imho. Out of the guild groups that I’ve seen this week, only D!ERP and PYRO stick out in my mind as really challenging from Mags. I’m sure a large part of the “we own most of everything” during NA prime could be explained by a discussion on server population, but outside of the two guilds I’ve mentioned, haven’t seen much from Mags during NA that was particularly noteworthy.

It would appear that our experiences this week have been very different, as I don’t think the current matchup has exposed any flaws in our NA at all.

Eve Morrow, Mesmer, Eve Flamescythe, Ele
Tarnished Coast

PSA...A Scepter's Message to Mesmers

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Moderators this post never was edifying to the Mesmer community. You may delete if necessary. Thank you.

Fixt. And +1 to the delete request.

Eve Morrow, Mesmer, Eve Flamescythe, Ele
Tarnished Coast

[Mighty Mesmer][WvW]

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“Bountiful Interruption: Gain might for 5 seconds when you interrupt a foe, then gain another boon randomly.”

5 seconds, not 5 stacks…

You are wrong, it works as the OP stated.

Really??! Here is my reference . If I’m wrong then I apologize. The spell description wording is very poor.

If it actually adds 5 stack per intterupt then that’s incredible. I’m definitely traiting it for WvW. I’m thinking of going perhaps with a GS/Staff, 20(II,X)/20(II,X)/30(IV,VIII,X or XI)/0/0, hybrid build. I’ll prolly stick with Runes of the Centaur and perhaps some boon duration food.

As ANet tends to do with tooltips, the wording is really vague for BI. They don’t specify the number of stacks of might (which, through testing, is five), so technically, the tooltip is correct. Poorly worded, but correct.

Eve Morrow, Mesmer, Eve Flamescythe, Ele
Tarnished Coast

Anyone trying an interrupt build?

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Thanks for the feedback. It really helps to hear what others are doing and how it’s working out.

Just a couple quick notes on specifically how I’m playing this so that others can compare.

I have four main ways to interrupt:
– Greatsword 5 (wave)
– Pistol 5 (magic bullet)
– Shatter F3
– Mantra of distraction

I’m quite sure that Into the Void can proc interrupts.

I’m pretty sure he’s just talking about his particular build, which doesn’t use the focus. However, it’d probably be worthwhile (to me at least!) to discuss what skills we have that can provide interrupts – like chaos storm, for example, which seems to work pretty well in a ZvZ situation. Any other skills we haven’t mentioned?

Eve Morrow, Mesmer, Eve Flamescythe, Ele
Tarnished Coast

6/21 TC/FA/KN

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TC smacked DB. For that, they get a hug from fuzzy

Here we thought you let that go. Christ

Stop stalking me. Christ

Not entirely sure why we have a DB person and a JQ person bickering in our matchup thread. Both of you shoosh please – or go to your respective matchup threads and stalk each other. xD

Cause Fuzzion and I are loved by TC

I must have missed that memo.

Eve Morrow, Mesmer, Eve Flamescythe, Ele
Tarnished Coast

6/21 TC/FA/KN

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TC smacked DB. For that, they get a hug from fuzzy

Here we thought you let that go. Christ

Stop stalking me. Christ

Not entirely sure why we have a DB person and a JQ person bickering in our matchup thread. Both of you shoosh please – or go to your respective matchup threads and stalk each other. xD

Eve Morrow, Mesmer, Eve Flamescythe, Ele
Tarnished Coast

6/21 TC/FA/KN

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This is true. All servers here have gone through, but i feel it is fair to say that TC has had to deal with it less then all and will continue to win. The way it is set up now, BG/JQ/SoR will have a 50/50 chance of getting each other, with TC stacking itself more and more, i feel it is safe to say that we will never have balanced “tier 2” matchup again.

This saddens me for two reasons. 1) New guilds will change the way the community is, 2) when TC wins, their forum trolls come out in force

The OG of TC i have much respect for but unfortunately, there are no OG’s left of any server. Old guilds die and new ones are born so they people that stood with TC during those times, i doubt they are the majority anymore.

Most guilds that transfer to TC are looking for an easy win 3 out of 4 match ups imo
I hate to say it but TC is slowly going the way of the bandwagon server.

These are of my own opinion and not of my guild or server

Meh, I think it’s about community. TC has a really good one, and it’s attractive. I moved here at the height of KN’s rise, and I didn’t move to win – I moved because I wanted to be part of what TC had.

I’d bet that any transfers are moving for the same reason, more often than not.

Eve Morrow, Mesmer, Eve Flamescythe, Ele
Tarnished Coast

6/21 TC/FA/KN

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How is the match going over all? Kind of interested in this one.

Waves at Shaka Zulu, Dhampyr, and JudgeD

Dude! Long time no see. Glad to see you’re still around! /cheer

Haven’t had much of a chance to hit up Dub v Dub yet, it’s been a hectic weekend so far. Looking forward to jumping in some today though!

Eve Morrow, Mesmer, Eve Flamescythe, Ele
Tarnished Coast

6/21 TC/FA/KN

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Not only is RE spying, but FA and TC have entered into a super-secret alliance to 2v1 Kaineng.

(I figured if folks were going to continue to toss out lame conspiracy theories, I would jump on board as well)

Lol? It’s not conspiracy at all man. Coz I actually saw [RE] on KN WvWvW during reset.

it’s all conspiracy if someone thinks that the [Myth] or [KA] guy is actually [RE] guy and tipping of [RE] about a [Myth] and [KA] commanders movement.

Glad you can read the letters “R” and “E” in a guild tag. Just because they are there doesn’t mean anything about spying. Besides, it doesn’t matter either way – not like it’s going to affect the match outcome. Hard to believe this has to be spelled out to you.

And, since your own words are most fitting…

Obvious things are obvious.

Edit: And I’m done feeding the troll.

Eve Morrow, Mesmer, Eve Flamescythe, Ele
Tarnished Coast

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