Guild Wars 2

Do you guys think that we can have 2 elite specializations at the same time? for example being a Chronomancer and AwesomeEliteSpecializationName at the same time?

I tried the Soldier Amulet because i felt so squishy (maybe because i’m noob? d:) and it worked better than i expected.

I posted this in an old thread, hope you like it

Selina the Chaosweaver

Selina, former member of the Shining Blade, were suctioned by an Asuran experiment to the mist. After many efforts to bring her to Tyria, she was back… but she was never the same. Something changed on her, she came back from the mist with only one objective in her mind: Destroy the head of the Shining Blade.

Countess Anise knowing about the thread, decided to gather a group of heroes to face her and know more about what happened to her in The Mist.

Encounter

Selina The Chaosweaver

Weapons:
Fan/Off-hand Fan

Fan

• Ether Shot: Hit her main target with an Ether Shot. Placing 10 stacks of torment for 6 seconds and knocking-back the target 1025 distance. 1 sec cast time.
• Chaos Confluence: Create a ball of chaos with 600 radius. After 3 seconds it will pull all players inside the ball causing 3k damage and 500 each seconds for the duration of the spell. Players absorbed by the ball are unable to cast any spell and can’t leave it. Duration: 20 sec. Cooldown: 15 sec.
• Chaos Leap: Leap to the farthest target in an attempt to do a killing blow. On her way to that target she leave a trail of Chaos Fire that apply Burning(10s), Bleed(10 stack, 10s) or Poison(25s). Leave a clone that use Ether Shot with 10k hp per player on the instance. Cooldown: 8 sec.

Off-Hand Fan

• Phantasmal Mime: Summon a Phantasmal Mime with 5k hp per player on the instance. Cooldown: 10 sec. Phantasmal Mime will do the same action as his target with 800% more effectiveness.
• Unstable Chaos Armor: Gain Unstable Chaos Armor for 6s. Unstable Chaos Armor have the same effect as Chaos Armor, but each time she is hit, the attacker is pulled to her if is farther than 600 of knocked back for 1200 if the attacker is closer than 600.

Fight Mechanics

• Countess Anise will help in the fight, as well as – 5 members of the shining blade.

Countess Anise: She will use Sword/Sword on this fight. She places Time Warp every time Selina lost 25% of her health. Also places Null Fields and summon Phantasmal Defender.
Shining Blade Member: They will use Staff. Also place Null Fields and summon Phantasmal Disenchanter.

At 75% health, Selina summon 1 Phantasm for each player in the raid and dissapear.
Warrior, Guardian: Summon a Phantasmal Defender with 2k HP per player on the instance.
Mage, Mesmer, Elementalist: Summon a Phantasmal Warlock with 2k HP per player on the instance.
Ranger, Engineer, Thief: Summon a Phantasmal Duelist with 2k HP per player on the instance.

After 20 seconds, all the phantasm will shatter and Selina appear.
Causing 500 damage, placing 1 stack of confusion, place distortion on Selina for 1 second and 1 stack of Might for 15 seconds for each successful shatter.

at 50% health Selina will disappear and summon a Phantasmal Destroyer.
Phantasmal Destroyer:Summon a Phantasmal Destroyer with 20k hp per player on the instance and place Chaos Storm in the entire instance with 200% more effectiveness. After the Phantasmal Destroyer is destroyed, it will explode causing 15 stack of bleed for 15 seconds to half of the raid.

At 25% Selina gets angry and gain Quickness. All of her cooldowns are reduced in half.

(sorry for any typo, english is not my first language.)

Not yet

1. One sentiment I’ve read is that mesmer has gotten a LOT easier to play. Are you enjoying this? I feel like its easier to play
2. For me, the grandmaster mesmer traits have been an absolute candy store. Which GM traits have been your favorite? I’ll go for Mental Anguish
3. Prismatic Understanding (PU) has proven to be a really strong trait for shatter builds (PU shatter). Do you think this needs adjustments? I think its quite strong, specially when 1v1 against other professions.
4. Another build I’ve seen around is a power block/Chaotic Interruption build. Have you tried this out? No
5. Normally, mesmers really only took Dom, Dueling, Illusions in PvP. Are you taking Chaos and Inspiration at all? Not at the same time, but i’m planning on trying a support build using these 2 lines
6. Mesmer got a lot of conditional recharge abilities (reduced recharge on staff when you have chaos shield for example). Are you liking these? I like the concept, hope Anet balance them out and make them viable
7. Mimic got a huge change. Are you using this at all? I’m using it on PvE while running and stuff, just to show people how awesome is to use 2 blinks one after another.
8. Time Warp gained slow and now can be traited for resistance and super speed! Are you using this at all? Would you take this over the other elites? Not yet, but im planning on using it on my support build
9. How have your fights against other mesmers been? Do they feel skillful? Usually if i hit them first, i’m abble to kill them. That is not always the case, i’ve been obliterated by some mesmers even if i attack first (l2p issue? )

Niminion.1982:

Levetty.1279:

JonPeters.5630:

Let’s be clear, this version of condition stacking and condi builds being viable in all games modes is a large part of our goal. We just want to make sure we don’t create imbalances that actually make the game less fun. Don’t expect huge balance swings, but rather our balance goal has always been to make more small adjustments.

Don’t expect huge balance swings except for the fact after a few hours of live you just killed Condi mesmers and stuck us stright back into power shatter only.

We don’t trust you.

Umm yeah wtf, 50% reduction would be classified as “HUGE” this was not a nerf this was outright deleting the condition mesmer for both pvp and pve.

I fully expect mesmers to be nerfed into the dirt before the release of HoT. I thought I was coming back to play a GW2 expansion but maybe not. Glad I haven’t pre-ordered.

I think you are exaggerating a lot here, they removed one stack of torment from MtD. We are still able to pull a decent amount of torment on our opponents. What i hope is that other condition builds (and power builds) get the same treatment and get nerfed/balanced enough.

ScorpioSting.5917:

Wow…

You guys should consider to tatoo on your hearth: “I love ANET”.

(-_-)

It became obvious why gaming industry makes jokes of us (50$ for a little expansion even for players that already have the game) with ppl like you throwing money like that… GG

I can’t do it on my hearth, its dangerous.

Actually i think they should nerf the players a bit

Yalora Istairiea.6287:

We found this on reddit and it fixed my problem
Add this to the end of your GW2 Shortcut Properties target
This is an NA server so will not work for my friends across the water

1. Right click on your shortcut
2. Click on properties
3. paste this at the end of your target line after GW2.exe" -assetsrv 194.25.94.170:80
4. Apply then Ok
5. Run

That worked for me

I love you <3

Dahkeus.8243:

Emtiarbi.3281:

I wanna play! but my client stay at 0 kb/s! I’m getting desperate

Try this:
Put a shortcut to the client on your desktop (if you don’t have one already), then right click and choose properties. In the field called "Target: ", add this to the end of your file path: -assetsrv 93.188.135.37:80

So, it should look something like this: “C:\Program Files\Guild Wars 2\Gw2.exe” -assetsrv 93.188.135.37:80

Not sure if that will fix it, but it fixed that issue for me once in the past.

It doesn’t work, it doesn’t even move lol. Oh well, it seems like i will not play today.

Thanks for helping though!

edit: i foung in another thread that was the IP the issue -assetsrv 194.25.94.170:80

I’m facing the same issue, i came from work and i though it was going to be fast. I was wrong

I wanna play! but my client stay at 0 kb/s! I’m getting desperate

Look! Video included!

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/welcome-to-the-new-lionsarch/

Please, i need screenshot

They can get a refund and buy the normal version later, i don’t see any problem :/

shion.2084:

Lets hope Anet runs an “Agile” methodology of product release and development. I think then they should be able to respond quickly to the defecit their current sprint has unleashed upon them.

Love the agile part

Also the Devs are not the ones who make the decision on this big issue, we might probably get a letter or something from someone ‘important’. I think its better that the devs stay focused on their work.

Lumpy.8760:

loud minority

playing since beta, and i’m happy

Well, people in my guild don’t like the price, and all the people crying on the chat the day of the announcement also doesn’t like the price.

Regina Buenaobra.6193:

To clarify: $50 is the price of the expansion. We included the core game as a free bonus to make it easier for new players to get into it.

ouch :/

I already have the core game, why are they forcing me to buy it again?

I’ve always played support in the past, i look forward on switching from condi mesmer to support/bunker on SPvP (hope its viable!)

I’m so happy with these changes, can’t wait to try out.

The traits seems so interesting, here is a support build i made

http://dulfy.net/gw2traits#build=AgMCrAP4BJw~

Pros
- Boon Sharing
- Healing on Mantras
- Lots of Reflections
- Confusion Presure with clones
- I think is easy to scape if the enemy try to focus you, using stealth and blink out of combat.
- I could change evasive mirror on dueling with blinding dissipation so i can shatter a lot and blind enemies arround me if they try to focus me, as now we will have IP baseline.

I’m not good at pointing at cons, this is mostly for SPvP Mesmer Support using Celestial Amulet maybe?
I would use Staff and Scepter/Focus (or maybe Sword/Focus?). Also Mantra of Recovery, Decoy, Blink and Mantra of Pain or Null Field. Elite would be Moa or Mass Invi.

Thoughs?

Sadrien.3470:

Emtiarbi.3281:

Do you guys think that with the upcoming changes, there might be a viable (maybe descent?) Mesmer support build?

Maybe with the Chronomancer, being support might be viable

The inspiration line could be very strong on a shatter spec, I will add my version of a support shatter build.

Did they revealed the inspiration changes? i don’t recall seeing them

All the friends i’ve invited to this game recently have found the leveling so boring and unchallenging, one of them even returned the game because he was so bored while leveling.

Imho they changed the leveling experience for the worst, I liked the way you had to use your weapon to unlock skills, instead of being level locked like is now. Same with the crafting, it should notify you later in game, but there are people who like crafting.

Do you guys think that with the upcoming changes, there might be a viable (maybe descent?) Mesmer support build?

Maybe with the Chronomancer, being support might be viable

In WoW the previous expansions are free because that content is completely useless, that might not the case with Guild Wars 2 as you get everything but the new map, masteries and the new class/specializations

Mowa.1064:

As a thief, i just want to cry.

Gua gets:
another 1.2k range weapon (while gua has the most defensive skills + heavy armor…)
mobility
new blocks
traps (wtf?)
anti-stealth skill, all hail the thief/ranger hunter
trick shot with 1.2k range and auto knockback (for a heavy armor class?!).

RIP thief

And Mesmer hunter too

Hello!

I wanna drop this suggestion, please allow us to play the activities with guildies, maybe as guild events or something.

Here is the list of activities:

- Crab Toss
- Keg Brawl
- Sanctum Sprint
- Southsun Survival

I can see a lot of uses if you allow us to do that Anet.

Hello Raiaknl.6348, right now the access to the closed beta is through portals dropped on Silverwaste and Dry Top.

I think necros will cry a lot if their elite class is Summoner lol

Teufel.9864:

Male Char Mesmer – Makes hiding a challenge! :P

Your Charr looks amazing :O !

It looks good * – *

Or maybe make it drop from different resources? like other maps, PvP, WvW, Dungeons so more people have a chance to get the beta key while playing what they want.

I myself will not get a beta key because i don’t like to endlessly farm that map (also i don’t have luck).

Here is my Male Mesmer Anredhal Amethyst, its pleasure

Thypari.9043:

“This skill essentially gives the chronomancer a reset button and allows for tricks such as casting any skill twice, avoiding a killing blow, or simply tactically repositioning yourself.”

I guess they didn’t playtest this at all. Together with Signets of Illusions and Mirror Images or dodge roll creates clones. It can be used infinitely."

• Dodge Roll (can be replaced with decoy) + Mirror Images > 3 clones
• Signet Of Illusions
• F5 Shatter
• Repeat and put spells in between you want to use infinitely

Can you provide the cool downs on all those skills? specially the shatter one.
Thank you!

My life is not the same after this revelation

Rin.1046:

I really like the sounds of this specialization, but it does raise one question in my mind. With the benefits of the elite spec being so strong, will anyone ever create a build without it? Of course when other elite specs come along that might change, but it seems too strong to only use core specs. But maybe that’s the plan?

I remember that in an interview Anet said that they will look into the old traits and skills to make them good enough, lets hope for the best.

tramwajarz.2369:

#yawn

seriously it looks as boring as normal mesmer
I am almost certain this professions finally reaches necro tier of being useless as other professions will get much more important specs

It sounds awesome for me and i’m hyped :P

You can see the WvW rankings here:
https://leaderboards.guildwars2.com/en/na/wvw

Jerus.4350:

Emtiarbi.3281:

Do not forget that engis are getting aoe Moas or something like that.

“Elixir X now transform enemies in an area to Moas.”
http://dulfy.net/2015/04/24/gw2-specializations-ama-livestream-notes/

In the video it’s a 2-3s moa, big difference, though still surely subject to change (was like 25s recharge too iirc, pretty sure that will change).

I don’t like that engis were studying us and now they can create Mesmer Moa Elixirs, soon they will start selling potions and Moa stuff. :super sad face:

Do not forget that engis are getting aoe Moas or something like that.

“Elixir X now transform enemies in an area to Moas.”
http://dulfy.net/2015/04/24/gw2-specializations-ama-livestream-notes/

Look at the art that was recently posted on facebook!

You can always heal/support on a PvP environment, i’ve seen a couple of guardians doing amazing job on keeping their allies alive on group fights

For what i understood, the specializations are like a new trait line. Hopefully they make the necessary changes so that when we select a trait line we really feel like using that spec, the water spec example sounds like right for me.

Can’t wait to try it out

Pyriel.4370:

Seems like the revenant and the new boon, resistance, is the hard counter to rangers and condi builds in pvp.

I’m doomed :P

I loved the preview of the Revenant, can’t wait to try it out. I have the feeling that the Mesmer will get a Time Warp like elite skill but with slow.

Gaile Gray.6029:

Made me smile. We’re eager for you to play, too!

I think they should have announced a date or something! now i’m on the Hype train and i don’t know when it will stop.

As someone who works with websites, i LOVE the website design
Please, Lore Journal is a must ANET!

PvP
Capture the flag: Please, make this happen! with 2 teams of 8v8 or something.
Guild vs Guild: Competitive Guild vs Guild Tournaments on a big map with some game modes:
* Capture the flag.
* Deathmatch.
* Capture the Points (Like an small version of WvW?).

Activities: I WANT to play activities with my friends and guildmates, make them to be some kind of Guild Activities if you want.

More Coordinated Dungeons
More Guild Events
More Zones to Explore (Yes please, beautiful zones!)
Other dragons activities: I want to see the other dragons making a move or something, even if its to cripple our pact or even other dragons!

Those are some of my wishlist. Thank you.

maddoctor.2738:

I can give some examples:

Destroyers in GW1 had some very unique appearances:
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Destroyer
How they turned so “generic” in GW2 is a mystery

Mandragors are another creature type in GW1 with some unique appearance:
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Mandragor

There were a few different kinds of Dinosaurs in the game but it appears only Raptors survived after 250 years:
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Dinosaur

Even the Afflicted which were zombie-like creatures had some unique designs, unlike the Risen which are generic zombies:
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Afflicted

OMG that is so epic!