Guild Wars 2

i make thieves run from me but of course impossible to catch them.

you have to have fast reactions and some or multiple forms of stealth in your bar, as well as pistol offhand for cc when you can see them.

only time i lose to a thief is when it’s not alone.

i run full berserker 20/30/0/0/20 gs/sword+pistol

changing aoe’s from 5 to 15 targets might help a bit.

tqhx.2190:

GS Power Precision build and dominate. My DPS is fine, in fact ive been in a lot of groups that wonder why the mobs are dropping so fast…and i once was in a double mesmer PVE group where we both ran GS and it was easily the best run ive had to date.

fastest dungeons runs i’ve been in had 2 glass cannon mesmer builds. we really are the one single class that can gear and spec full glass cannon in explorables and not be a hinderance to the group.

Ianervan.3415:

With Mesmer, this is even worse because on Claw Island enemies completely ignore your illusions. Every time they go after you and you alone.

they also ignore ranger pets. that is the nature of the risen.

yet i had no problem completing orr with 100% on all 3 maps on both my ranger and mesmer, with mesmer being the best at it (killed faster, more survivable, easier to run through packs and ignore them)

i don’t know how we can organize sos though. we have a lot of people with commander tags who just like to have them to have them, no to actually help run the game. we even have a few who refuse to work with each other.

moving to tier 3 or tier 2 isn’t going to change this, or the inevitability of people leaving the server in disgust due to this situation.

there is nothing wrong with buying your own commander tag, but if you have no intention of helping the other players in the area attempting to take/hold objectives or are unwilling to work with established commanders that have been on the field for over a month already, turn the tag off please.

Fury.6248:

You act like your transfers to SoS were good, ill post a video.
Your far from tier 1.

what does t1 mean when people change servers more often then they change their underwear?

if people leave because we go to tier 2 preventing an easy win for them, they weren’t going to fit on the server as it was and is just another case for why free transfers need to stop now, not later.

have you looked at the scores? ALL of the matchups are this one sided this week except for one.

Jungle Quack.1368:

I would say that the overall that the Mesmer has considerably less DPS than other classes. Its relatively easy to test in the heart of the mists. Anybody who think’s that the Mesmer has close to the DPS of other classes is fooling themselves.

On the other hand, a Mesmer is MUCH harder to kill than other classes, which allows us to solo champion level monsters.

hi. i have 3 level 80’s in full exotics. mesmer has the best dps of the 3.

you can’t test in the mist because the targets dont have unlimited health. impossible to properly parse something that dies after spatial surge>mirror blade>berserker. that’s how fast heavy golems die for me. no shatter needed.

false. we do excellent dps with the right build and gear. i do more than my ranger in the same exotics, hands down.

Elterzzz.4378:

Brag all you want about capturing most of our points and ‘owning us’. In the end, your only doing us a favour. this is what our organised WvW guilds want. Thank you for helping us lower our point gain. We really appreciate it.
Right at this moment, we’re just relaxing not even trying in WvW. You’re all welcome to take some points away. We just need enough point gain just ensure our win.

enough of this garbage.

only 2 of the server matchups are not as onesided as ours.

there is no guarantee that these fairweather players will still be on SoS after this friday

TIERS MEAN NOTHING WHEN THERE ARE FREE SERVER TRANSFERS

rolling over like this is poor sportsmanship.

redesigning won’t encourage more participation

the problem is the current generation of gamers are inherently anti-social. too many roam wvw alone or in packs of 2-3 and get frustrated/log as soon as they run into the zerg.

if you are alone in wvw, you are doing it wrong. if you are only in a small group you are usually doing it wrong depending on the current battle situations

and lastly, treating it like real battle or trying to institute sun tzu methodology in a game where your enemy just respawns does. not. work.

i’ve been on sea of sorrows since day one of this game. we have a lot of commanders, but only 2-3 that actually command. we have at least three commanders who refuse to actually help, going so far as to tell people to f off my group of buddies will do their own thing while the rest of us would try to take an orb keep. this, again is due to the anti-social and xenophobic-leaning views that are dominating our real lives creeping into social gaming.

wvw is designed very well, even better than vanilla daoc rvr once free transfers are stopped and server communities/pride/ego can be built.

Webley.1295:

Tijo.9857:

Thieves not rendering got my vote… going from 100% to 20% to an invisible foe = broken

Who here knows the mechanics of stealth and thief? Im judging no one above.
The first hit from stealth is pretty much always for free and invisible and usually a backstab or backstab combo.

A fully geared backstab that takes down another glass cannon with no toughness and no orbs and has the HP of a rabbit (or under lvl 80) is perfectly normal.

There are to many glass cannons saying they die to quickly…… thats the issue. Glass cannon is the thiefs favorite prey

the problem is related to thieves (and mesmers to a lesser extent) not rendering until several seconds after that stealth has worn off. in fact oftentimes even with enemy nameplates on you’ll not see their red text pop up for even longer than that.

it’s an issue with the game, not the class itself. however i can see how in small scale pvp thief burst is an issue that anet is going to have to either address or create a counter to if they wish to pursue the esport route.

not sure then, unless there are holes in the terrain that are not plugged and a few people know about them

heh i spent an hour lobbing cows and explosive rocks into redlake tower. maguuma were really dug in.

a memser hid out. he was constantly going on about how nobody saw him or was looking for him. then we portalled in the golems.

protip: when you take a keep, stay long enough to check every nook and cranny for hiding players, don’t just run out as soon as it’s capped.

AinSoph.5063:

Uh, are you implying no one from SoS every flew around and yanked the orbs? Because we’ve got plenty of screenshots and videos of multiple people from multiple guilds.

Don’t fall off your high horse.

but good luck in the future! It was a decently fun matchup.

pretty sure those people are either no longer on the server or banned already.

Rabh.2493:

Oh looks like you were busy while we were all asleep like usual, time to wake up and take most of it back. Thanks for never bothering to upgrade anything, makes our day shift go alot easier. Plus we get keeps full of supply ready for upgrading.

day shift kept it all.
as a NA player who has been on sea of sorrows since head start i’m happy for the help now

you should have arcane thievery, null field and decoy on your bar for this. condition damage is nasty in here, and decoy provided you aren’t using a staff as it’s bounce will immediately cancel , will have you drop all aggro.

i had an easier time on the claw island events wiht my mesmer than my ranger.

gearing does not take gold. outside of my weaopns – which are level 78 exotics because level 80 are not much of an upgrade – i crafted everything myself. my jewelry and my exotic gear. i didn’t spend money until i wanted a second and third set of gear for different situations.

Leon Trotsky.3674:

Back in 2006, I chose to be a Shaman in WoW

Now I went Mesmer.

Call me Mr. Nerf Magnet.

deathknights saw a nerf every patch and sub patch for the entireyl of wotlk. they are without a doubt the most nerfed and redesigned class in that game in the shortest amount of time.

i was a dk dps main for our raid during that expansion, and every. single. patch. i had to learn a new rotation and get different weapons. shelved it for my vanilla/bc shadow priest when cata hit.

Healurownbum.8175:

Dixa, that just sounds like there is only one way to play this game and if you dont u suck. I love being a condition damage dealer. And i know it will hurt my AoE and im fine with that. But remarks like that just are a waste.

no, that’s what you and others like you are saying and now that they added a measly 3-4 seconds to your phantasm you can’t play that ONE WAY anymore

Looks interesting. But why not swap the greatsword for scepter+pistol? GS doesnt offer much…. 2 is okay, 3 is mediocre and 5 is just a push with no other effect to it.

what is this i don’t even….?

greatsword is fantastic. he didn’t even mention how the zerker applies a long lasting cripple.

Mojo.7986:

I had leveled 5 characters to 40 and then went Mesmer. Took it to 80, spent all my resources on Mesmer gear and now it can’t do in PvE what I could do before. I played solo in Orr last night and I was getting killed by stuff that I normally could keep at bay and kill, which is not fun. I have no interest in putting more time into something that ANET will kill the fun of. Guess I’m done. No will to have ANET waste more of my time.

what is wrong with people like this poster?

are you unable to adapt? have none of you ever used a kitten greatsword?

me in orr killing multiple mobs – spatial surge > mirror blade > iberserker > dodge >shatter. everything dies

gear right and learn to play

your best bet at this point is levelling the rest of the way to 80. there are more 80’s than not in wvwvw, this means they have more traits than you and more base stats than you.

Suddenflame.2601:

Killface.1896:

If I had 500g I would not buy on TP and support those resellers just amazing Anet allow people to abuse market like this with out banning them,even in the stock market there are law´s against stuff like this monopoly ….

Small grocery stores do the same. They go to walmart buy the items and resell the items at double the cost. Its not illegal in the real world so why would they ban people for it?

edit: also to your comment about stock market it depends on which country your in. USA has a law against monoploys but not all countries

walmart and costco provide goods to the handful of independent grocery stores still in operation, however these independents don’t buy at retail – they get discounts and pay no sales tax.

i have no problem with people making pre-cursers for profit or controllingthe market on them

my question is – how did t hey get the 200-300 gold in the first place? i don’t care how you do it, but gold does not come in that fast in this game. the legitimate players i know who are unemployed and play day in, day out are at most around 100 gold now.

how have they made this kind of money so soon? 500g? who’s going to have 500g by now? and how? i smell hidden exploits and with so many goon squad in this game i really should not be surprised.

do note that this is not eve, that anet has never once said they want a free market economy and they have also said that the rising price of dawn/dusk/etc. has them concerned. i expect some form of change on the horizon regardless of your opinion on the matter.

everyone knows zojja is the strongest.

@Dixa.6017
so, u actually enjoy FA take all point during US primetime and SoS conquer the whole world during Oceanic primetime, and they cant find any enemies on the map?

u think its fun?

u know how i feel in SoS primetime? boring! in tier 4, during oceanic time, we just zerg around, take empty towers and keeps, 10 rams can conquer the entire BL. and during US times I logged in, just be the only one playing WvWvW, its one vs world vs world! u really think its fun?

if u think the transfer is not a solution, then give one

took me a minute to understand what you were saying here.

i live in california. i play during PST times, not aussie times and i’m on sea of sorrows. i STILL think that server transferring for free needs to stop now. it’s a global epidemic affecting wvwvw on all servers.

ecto’s are going to be under 14s each after tonight. they were 15s last night.

they are dropping 1s a day since the dr farming code was releaxed. now that you can get ori with multiple chars that, too is starting to drop.

precursors are up to 400g now, from 180 last night.

this isn’t due to not enough or high demand, this is one or two individuals who made a lot of money – most likely through an exploit – buying them up and then doubling their resell value for profit

there are only three ways to fix this:

1) make pre-cursers really easy to get, lowering their value

2) put a cap on how much you can sell them for on the tp. 100g is reasonable

3) remove the ability to sell precursors at all

crap like this is why they need to disable the free world transfers now. it’s been up long enough. turn it off, turn on guesting. wvw needs to settle down

turn it back on only after you are seeing huge disparities.

those weapons were 185g last night

what you have is people playing the tp – they are buying them then relisting them

the only way anet will fix this is to put a cap on how much you can sell any item on the tp for, or remove the ability to list pre-cursers entirely.

Swordbreaker.2581:

Was reading the release notes. Looks like they finally added Guild Wars 2 Sli profile. Maybe this driver will help a bunch of people that have multiple nvidia cards now.

i don’t see gw mentioned at all in the release notes
edit: nm

rangers are in the same boat, fyi.

it’s shortbow then…well whatever. everything else falls flat compared to the shortbow for rangers.

only warriors and mesmers have multiple viable weapon sets regardless of trait or gear loadout.

did the op really compare it to guardian whirlwind?

Sabbathius.1465:

After playing my Engineer, I can no longer play my Mesmer. Just too darn slow.

On Engineer, every time you toggle a kit (or refresh a kit), you get 5 seconds of swiftness. It has an internal 5 sec CD. But Medkit #5 gives 10 seconds of swiftness on 20 sec CD, and stacks with this 5 second swiftness.

Meaning,
Swap to Medkit -> +5 second swiftness -> 5 seconds remaining
Medkit #5 -> +10 second swiftness -> 15 seconds remaining
-5 seconds later-
Refresh Medkit (just tap Medkit hotkey) -> +5 seconds -> 15 seconds remaining
-5 seconds later-
Medkit #5 -> +10 second swiftness -> 20 seconds remaining
Refresh Medkit -> +5 second swiftness -> 25 seconds remaining

In other words, every 20 seconds you gain 10 seconds to your swiftness, which stacks.

Really quite awesome. And this is not counting traits that give 5 seconds of swiftness on crit, or +10% speed whenever you run with a grenade/mine/mekittenit (though sadly this doesn’t stack with swiftness).

Throw in Super Speed on Slick Shoes -> 100% speed increase for 5 seconds, and it’s bye-bye birdie.

My Mesmer by comparison feels like a crawling brick. Sad, really.

you’ll feel even faster as a thief or ele with less effort.

eh..each battleground is about half the size of any of the frontiers in the original daoc, and base run speed is quite a bit faster than that game had

you can do fine without focus or blink – i generally run gs/sword/pistol for wvw unless it’s a siege, then temporal curtain ripping people off walls/carts becomes too important.

i’m all for as many of you leaving the class as is possible. you should all roll thieves.

i mean if a change to the cooldown of the two least used illusions in pvp makes you think the class is broken then the class was not for you in the first place

i’m almost always gs/staff and the warlock recharge chagne did not affect my gameplay in the slightest. i did not lean heavily on the broken warden as so many did nor did i ever think the swordsman would be viable coming off an 80 ranger as i know full well how terrible melee ai is in this game.

we are still nasty in wvwvw. we can still drop izerkers out of los on people inside keeps and half kill anyone kitted/geared glass cannon. we can still rip people off their siege equipment and off walls. we can still shut down ranged attackers and break up a zerg single handedly.

this class is one of only two with multiple viable weapon choices and multiple viable builds and multiple viable gear loadouts in any and all aspects of the game – IF played well. it is not a faceroll class and after playing it with any skill and for any length of time at 80 you will find it difficult to play any other class because they will bore you to tears.

unless you were never meant to play this type of class in the first place.

bottom line: too much QQ, needs more Pew Pew

this means the iwarlock and iduelist have the same recharge at izerker with and without traits.

yes it’s a nerf, but it’s not huge.

mmm..no.

i like it the way it is. when i’m on someone an di hit it, it’s an easy 6k+ damage every 4.5 seconds.

are you levelling an asura?

metrica and brisban are horribly overtuned and it’s readily evident the second you play a class that is not easy mode pve out of the gate. inquest are nasty grenade and condition spammers. they chill you then lob nades that do 1/3 your health each. the bandits in brisban do 1k hits regularly when you have maybe 1.5k health.

this is something you don’t run into in queensdale. so if this is the case, take your newbie mesmer to queensdale and kessex (like i did) and get to 15-20, then come back and work on the asura story.

honestly all classes except the ranger feel weak to me before level 20.

Sabbathius.1465:

So in world events I tend to sit back and fight the lesser mobs/objectives while others bum rush the dragon. Doing this I get gold without ever even attacking the dragon.

You have to understand that getting a gold medal is just the tip of the iceberg. Classes with high mob tap percentage get, on average, as much XP from kills as they get from the gold medal award. And way more than the award in loot.

I kid you not. Make an Engineer, carry both grenades, bombs and at least one AoE turret. Do events with tons and tons of mobs. And just watch your XP bar leap forward. Do NOT loot until event is over. Just stand there and look at piles and piles and piles of sparkling corpses as far as the eye can see. For me, it’s not uncommon to start an event with totally empty bags (currently 12-slots, I think) and by the end of the event there’s not enough room for all the loot. And this is after I deposit collectibles, it still isn’t enough room. That’s how much loot and cash I get. This is really not an exaggeration.

People who say “I got gold medal” and call it a day are really missing out on a ton more XP, loot, money, etc., compared to other classes.

all true, and when mobs aren’t stopping all drops after less than 100 kills it will matter.

sadly, today, it really does not.

no the cooldown on izerker is ELEVEN seconds (already said this) with gs trait and 5 in illusions. the tooltip does not change when you equip the 20% weaopn cd traits while also having 5 in illusions. this is common knowledge

and once you’ve done those two shatter combos you are stuck with staff auto attack until you can a) swap back to gs or b) iwarlock is up. your dps plummets during this time. if you actually did mirror blade-phaste retreat-warlock-shatter you’re looking at a long time wehre all you’ll have is staff auto attack and dodge clone damage IF the mob is still alive.

you may burst more, but my dps is higher. as soon as phantasm/condition damage is reflecteld in the combat log so proper parsing can be done i’m pretty sure it will show this empirically as well

and lastly – if your iwarlock is a 10s cooldown you are NOT using my trait setup. i said i’m using 20/30/0/0/20. if you have 10s iwarlock you have 20s staff trait which is minimum 0/0/20/0/0. we aren’t even using the same build, so stop making assumptions when you’re sporting 200 less power, 15% less phantasm damage and 15s cooldown izerkers – none of which applies to me

bull. their attack cd’s are not 11s. that’s the cooldown with both 5 in illusions and the gs trait for berserker. don’t be disingenuous with your assertations. you may have 3 clones by mirror blading/2x dodge or mirror blade/secondary weaopn clone/dodge and then blow those up, but this seems an infernal waste to me in any long fight.

normal mobs for me in orr die in spatial surge>mirror blade>izerker>shatter. dead. no exceptions. on longer fights i want phantasms up longer and if i’m alone i want gs clones stacking more bleeds even though i’m full berserker. if one of them starts to take damage i shatter them all and go again.

there are many ways to play this class, and i’m not going to shatter on cooldown without both mind wrack talents.

sometimes creating a clone with staff 2 on an incline does not work. that’s the only thing i’ve been able to reliably recreate.

i’d rather have 3 phantasms up with their ‘crappy’ cooldowns than have onlyh a single clone out because i shattered on cooldown and could only dodge once or had no endurance and could only use a single clone generating ability.

iwarlock and iberzerker make up for their long cooldowns with the damage they do, not to mention the cripple.

i do not take mind wrack damage increase or crit traits, instead going for 3% more damage per illusion out and 15% more damage on phantasms. i prefer constant high damage than inconsistent burst that can go pear-shaped quickly if you are distracted by anything.

i use a 20/30/0/0/20 build for pve. i swap between greatsword/staff, gs/sword+focus or gs/sword+pistol depending on my mood, if there is to be travel or a dungeon.

you can be as glassy as you want for pve, and you should only shatter to kill the mob/end the fight, not necessarily on cooldown unless you are trying to tag in DE’s.

Levetty.1279:

EasymodeX.4062:

Mesmers do well in WvW, dungeons, sPvP, tPvP, solo PvE, PS, DEs.

Mesmers are underpar at Orr DEs, 100% map exploration.

I guess I’m just glad the Mesmer strengths match my playstyle 100%.

Btw, Rangers are weak in WvW. Last I checked they were weak in sPvP too. They need some buffs for several aspects of the class.

Edit: The #1 contribution of Rangers in WvW is their heal with provides a water field. I feel bad for them.

BUT THEY CAN RUN AROUND THE MAP FOR 100% COMPLETE REALLY FAST!

7/10

I like how your subtle mix of small amounts of truth into your blatant lies meaning you have to spend a lot of time to really pick it apart and show everybody why you are wrong.

Much better then your usual Troll attempts.

Try playing a Ranger though because it falls apart with that bit.

i haven a 80 ranger and 80 mesmer. both in full 80 exotics (except weapons, 78 exotics there)

rangers lack in WvW, sPVP, tPVP and dungeons. barrage is their only respectable, targetable aoe. in order to make traps placeable (and the range is obscenely short..like 250) you have to give up either double trap duration or 20% cd on bow skills. rangers lack utility outside of healing spring

if you say ‘well they have spirits’, you have ZERO idea of wth you are talking about and need to play a ranger to 80 and take it into explorables with the same kind of glass cannon build you can with a mesmer.

tripling the radius of mind stab, increasing it’s damage by 20%, halving it’s cooldown and taking off the boon removal would on it’s own give us viable aoe tagging.

no it’s not guardian staff 1 or pistol engineer 1, but not all classes should have such a thing.

moa morph can be countered – dodge when you see a cast (cant move while casting this bad boy if i recall correctly), run away when morphed.

basilisk venom on the other hand can’t be removed with any condition remover, nor can you avoid the nearly instant pain that always follows it.

IF moa morph was like a true polymorph and you had zero control over your character you could have a case. but you can still move.

if you are being coordinated against – morphed, rooted, 3 people pile on you – you would die regardless of them using moa or not, regardless of their classes and regardless of your class.

tomlinas.4395:

I love my mesmer too, but like you, I’ve given up on pve. Some dragon fights I can spend the entire fight nuking the dragon in level 80 endgame gear with green gems, and I’ll get bronze and no chest. That’s extremely disheartening.

I’m glad we’re good in pvp — that’s what I enjoy anyway — but it’s too bad that our DPS is so bad against large “boss” mobs in both DEs and in dungeons. I feel kind of bad letting my team carry me in dungeons when I could be a second elementalist or something more useful.

i see a lot of mesmers with this problem. hint: they are all wearing rampager/carrion gear

you can neither crit nor get more than a stack of a bleed on claw of jormag. just not gonna happen. if there is trash around you, drop an aoe’ng phantasm like izerker on it. those hits/kills count towards the event.

stop using the staff in these two events. use a greatsword. both iwarlock and iduelist work at around range 600 and are very vulnerable in these events so you need a powerful auto attack between clones and phantasms and shatters.