Guild Wars 2

Hm, I wonder, what if those are the eyes of a space elder dragon, and the tremors were from it awakening! We’re all doomed, doomed I say!

I’ll be honest, I am much more of a Mesmer player and barely looked at Necromancers but I wanted to see what I could do with the changes with necros. I think I found at least a workable synergy that is not entirely useless, so long as internal cooldowns doesn’t bite it in the butt.

Spite III inflicts 3 vulnerability for 8 seconds when chilling the opponent. Spite VI does 10% more damage against vulnerable targets. Blood Magic VIII causes wells to recharge 20% faster, leech health, and create protection for those inside of it. Curses III causes chill for 2 seconds whenever the opponent is blinded.

Which means that if you drop a Well of Darkness followed by a Well of Suffering it will cause quite a bit of blinding, chill, and vulnerability. If you also choose Dagger/Focus and Dagger while choosing Blood is Power, Well of Life, Flesh Golem and choose the traits Close to Death, Vampiric Presence, Blood Bond/Quickening Thirst/Ritual of Life, Master of Corruption and Weakening Shroud, it’s okay support for a necro I guess. But even if everything works out, that support only lasts for about 8 seconds out of 40. But it’s okay guys! Necromancers have Death Shroud! Now excuse me while I go back to building the highly buffed Mesmers and completely forget that Necromancers ever existed again.

Here is the build. http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-30;4IkI0G47I-K0;9;4697;0257256236;4NZG5N;1zxrUzxrUGBGScFo0S;1V3-C6DXB6NZAb63-0N-5V8aNX8a;9;9;9;9;9;4VWF7P

Whenever I try to claim my Hall of Monuments rewards from Kimmes the Historian, I just get an error message saying “That content has been temporarily disabled. Please try again later.” Is the Hall of Monuments down, or am I just doing something wrong?

Warhorn, off-hand dagger, off-hand mace, and off-hand axe.

Darmikau.9413:

She, not he.

And it’s less of a question and more of a demand for playable Tengu. Heartbreak if we have to wait another three years for them.

I’m going to echo this, I heard there was an expansion and rushed here thinking that Tengu would be playable, but nope, more Sylvari stuff. Dang it, I even reserved the name, Tengu thinking they would be playable. T.T

There is a support build that I am trying, to get 25 stacks of might quickly and then pass the boon on with Signet of Inspiration, thus giving the whole team 25 stacks of might for a few seconds. I honestly have no idea if it would work well for anything more than farming though.

EDIT: I’m done, got a good build out of the new changes. Very high offense and defense, with great support.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fgEQJARWl4zaqnUzhGa9IhJFBX4nUQdoj6B4zO3B-jQyAYrARiCUyrIasVugU6iWFMs6aMlLRUtBvIa1CBUfBA-e It hasn’t updated yet, so it still lists some old things. Also this build was only tested in the PvP lobby, how it works in PvE and WvWvW is unknown.

Dub.1273:

Nuka Cola.8520:

Esorono.1039:

Mesmers are terrible relative to other professions in the first half of the game, then they become fairly powerful endgame. But when it comes to DPS output, they aren’t going to be even comparable to the monster truck that is a warrior. Mesmer’s strength in PvE is due to their utility, and that if well played can dodge attacks very well. And mesmers still get a role in dungeon rush teams thanks to time warp, which makes farming gold easier than 6 other professions.

that is soooo untrue. This is where i wish we could see our dps at the end of a dungeon run because i believe a shatter mez with useful utilities such as feedback outdamages most everyone including 100swag spammers. If you’re doing low level fractals or easy dungeons where you can faceroll on melee without ever worrying then a warrior may be better but do 40+ fotm and mez will outdamage any warrior builds.

Mesmers can’t outdamage warriors guardians thieves or elementalists. Never.

I’m pretty sure they can at least out damage guardians if they have three wardens spinning on the mob. It might get close to warriors actually, but then there is the problem of actually pulling that off.

I want this as an elite phantasm, and replace it with Moa since it’s arguably one of mesmer’s most useless elites barring duel fighting and countering other elites/summons.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/images/1/12/Mesmer_01_concept_art.jpg

Zelulose.8695:

So I tested max toughness mesmer with heals and an idefender and he kills me before I really see him. Ask anet what to say to this video XD. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k99BKVpBxXQ

This is why people complain. Imagine what he does to GC thief or any other non tank.

That was awful. You have no stunbreakers, all your mantras aren’t even charged, you’re using a scepter and a torch, you click skills, and honestly it didn’t even look like you were trying at all.

Mesmers are terrible relative to other professions in the first half of the game, then they become fairly powerful endgame. But when it comes to DPS output, they aren’t going to be even comparable to the monster truck that is a warrior. Mesmer’s strength in PvE is due to their utility, and that if well played can dodge attacks very well. And mesmers still get a role in dungeon rush teams thanks to time warp, which makes farming gold easier than 6 other professions.

Greetings, I have a few questions about gear. Is there any exotic magi’s gear or only rares? Also where can I get superior runes of the monk and runes of the sanctuary? I can’t find those on the trading post either.

Tengu Gallery updated, there are now about 20 new images involving tengu.

Beetle.2476:

Problem with Largos and tengu though: Breathing masks will be pointless for largos, and how would you fit one on a beak?

Largos always wear breathing masks even in water, and by making the breathing mask shaped like a plague mask.

Yep, I got the same thing, I’m glad I wasn’t the only one.

Usually I hate profession suggestions, but I actually like this one quite a bit. Not to mention it has the potential to look amazing.

They can’t catch up to me even without swiftness. Could you please increase their run speed to to the same as other pets, or at least clone/phantasm speed please?

Hiki.9310:

Esorono.1039:

Embolism.8106:

Phira.3970:

Kanto.1659:

Doing that will simply make one Mesmer able to upkeep 20 bleeds on a target. FINALLY decent Condition damage on par with direct damage. But useless if they do so without upping the bleed cap.

Actually, mesmers can maintain 20+ bleed currently with enough precision. But more would be better.

If you’re very lucky with WoC, maintain loads of Duelists, and/or sacrifice CondDmg for Precision perhaps. Exceptional/sub-optimal builds aside you won’t be able to maintain that many Bleeding stacks.

3 greatsword clones with high precision and franken rune-ing bleed duration can maintain between 18-21 bleeds until they break, adding duelist can make it burst up to 25 if you time it right.

I never played pve but in spvp/tpvp there is no franken runes or buffs that can make this bug feel insignificant at the moment.

That is true, it’s one of the main reasons why I never take that trait. It’s just so ‘meh’ compared to other traits I could use since it doesn’t affect clones.

Embolism.8106:

Phira.3970:

Kanto.1659:

Doing that will simply make one Mesmer able to upkeep 20 bleeds on a target. FINALLY decent Condition damage on par with direct damage. But useless if they do so without upping the bleed cap.

Actually, mesmers can maintain 20+ bleed currently with enough precision. But more would be better.

If you’re very lucky with WoC, maintain loads of Duelists, and/or sacrifice CondDmg for Precision perhaps. Exceptional/sub-optimal builds aside you won’t be able to maintain that many Bleeding stacks.

3 greatsword clones with high precision and franken rune-ing bleed duration can maintain between 18-21 bleeds until they break, adding duelist can make it burst up to 25 if you time it right.

Tengu were likely around last time the dragons were around.

http://i.imgur.com/q8Unfh.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/YHnGch.jpg

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fgAQRAsa79EJ1DqRWXSYqwvPp45JHtASFAQZG2e2A-jQzAIsAh0CNFIQUkQnBFiyjasFsgU+iW9NsqbMFcS1xCyG8ioVDA-e

Here is an unorthodox condition build I made for mesmers. It focuses on bleeds, with some other side effects like confusion and cripple, it can reach the bleed cap of 25, and maintain 15 stacks. Unlike most builds, you don’t want to shatter for damage, you instead overwrite the clones which activates their on death traits. It has a strong offense and defense, so it’s well balanced. The build is also flexible, but it requires the traits listed, high crit rate (nothing lower than 45% with sigil of perception), mirror images, and sword/focus. Anything else is interchangeable, but the build I listed is what I had the most luck with.

I have yet to try this build in WvWvW, so I’m not sure if it will be effective there, but it can work in theory.

Story mode quests in a nutshell:

>Falls on his butt, calling for help.
Riltmos: “I need help over here, Trahearne!”
Trahearne: “One moment! I just need to kill this mob.”
>3 damage, 3 damage, 2 damage, 3 damage…
Riltmos: “ kitten it Trahearne!”
>Riltmos passes out.
_

>Trahearn gets a legendary sword.
Riltmos: “Finally! You can be useful in batt-”
>1 damage, 1 damage, 0 damage…
Riltmos: “…”
_

Trahearn: “I did a great job during that mission.”
Riltmos: “You? You were dead weight at best, I did all the work while you were using a melee weapon as a ranged weapon, barely hurting the fly flying around the undead!”
Everyone else: “Yay! Trahearne did it! He is the greatest person ever! Who is that charr next to you?”
Riltmos: “…”
______

Trahearne: “Riltmos! I have no idea what to do! Should we destroy the one of the boats carrying the undead, or should we destroy them at the source?”
Riltmos: “What kind of stupid, idiotic question is that? We should obviously kill them at the source, this shouldn’t even be a question.”
>Trahearne turns to the pact group and shouts out; “Alright, I have decided that we are going to stop the undead at the source, it was all my idea!”
>Everyone cheers.
Riltmos: “Why are you leader again and not me?”

So he is basically Kormir reincarnated as a salad.

The third picture reminds me of this. http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll34/RemiCorps/HL6wb.jpg

I want it to be like the Eye of Zhaitan’s. I’m kind of jealous of it.

Weindrasi.3805:

Gallifreyan.1467:

you know what, it is the female tail I am looking at. Some of the male charr npcs have it.

I wish you could have the option to switch tails

No they don’t. ALL male charr have lion tails, and ALL female charr have fluffy tails. If you’re looking at a charr with a fluffy tail, it is a female charr.

Except if you wear CoF light armor pants, then it’s always a lion tail regardless of their gender.

Looks like New Krytan. http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/New_Krytan

Daishi.6027:

In beta… Only 3 mesmers alone can crash a server xD

I crashed a server all by myself. http://i.imgur.com/X9hBs.jpg

kerona.3465:

I would be OK if Engis had it. Or even Rangers, though it doesn’t make sense thematically. Any other class would just be absurd.

I hope those two professions don’t get portal, otherwise their whole viability will be based on Portal and get nerfed every update and get their already short stick even shorter. After every update of being nerfed to the ground and if they complain, all they will get is a “But you have portal!” response. No one will care about the glaring problems with the class because they have one or two strong abilities. Sure people right now are thrilled that other classes will get portal, but I wouldn’t wish my worst enemy with it because of A-Net’s habit of balancing through unbalanced skillsets.

Unbalanced skillset: If a character has a move set with a few overly powerful moves, the counterbalance to this may be to have several moves be near-useless. But the existence of bad moves does nothing to reduce the effectiveness of the good ones. A skilled player is likely to exploit the good moves while ignoring the useless ones, often taking away from the variety of the game.

- http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FakeBalance

Me: Mesmer/Guardian, I’ll play with others as well, but it’s mostly these two.

Most feared: 1 vs. 2+, Zerg trains are the death of me.

Least feared: People who play a profession they have no clue how to play because they lost to it and call it op. Sometimes it seems people don’t even read the skills and they wind up wasting a cooldown or a whole rotation to do absolutely nothing. Like being mugged/c&d/back stabbed in my chest, a shatter mesmer panicking after failing to kill with a mind wrack and now is just hitting random buttons, warriors having no other trick up their sleeve other than the 100b combo.

Thank you Konig! I found the tengu in the Vigil keep and added him to the gallery.

Iruwen.3164:

Does time warp have a five player limit? If so, is it activated randomly for people within the field with each one second pulse or do you reliably get a full ten second increase?

It’s a pulse, looks like 0.5 seconds between each one as it goes away instantly if you leave the time warp.

JaironKalach.4938:

I think there will be more, but since you’re asking for realistic, we only have sources for those four things, as far as I know.

And for anyone who missed it in the other thread, here’s what’s been said so far:

ColinJohanson.2394:

Hey guys,

Just to help provide some clarity on this, we’ll be releasing within the next couple of weeks a high level summary of our big plans for the first half of 2013 to help provide more transparency into our plans with the game going forward. This will include providing more details about our goals for the game, information about the stories and features that you’ll see in the Jan/Feb/March releases.

To set expectations accordingly, the January release will be a relatively small release that sets the table for the stories and features we plan to roll out with the Feb/March releases and beyond. Also, there will be no new race, profession, or new region with these larger Feb/March releases. One of our major goals with these releases is making our existing world as strong as possible, ensuring there are reasons to go to all the locations in the world we’ve already built, and strengthening the core game we’ve provided. In saying this will be an expansions worth of stuff in these releases, we’re talking about the number of new features that will be rolled out across PvE, WvW, and PvP in early 2013, which usually you’d only find in an expansion for a traditional MMORPG.

More details and specifics to come in the next couple of weeks, but I hope that helps provide some more insight into what to expect at a very high level.

So no playable tengu until at least April? I feel sad now, excuse me while I go eat icecream in pajamas while crying and watching soap operas.

Two more pictures added to the album!

http://i.imgur.com/vXjDBh.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/y5FTGh.jpg

Tengu, really, is there any other real good choices?

Lordryux.9785:

its pretty much the whole point of a shatter build its basically glass cannon like any other class except we have the escape techniques of a thief so its less of a risk. if they would nerf it then why not nerf every other glass cannon build that gives insane damage.. come on now x.x obviously they gave shattered Strength a buff for a reason. if thier is no reasoning behind that buff then why do it in the first place would be nice to get a DEV feedback on this but we all know that probably wont happen.

Players that QQ about this skill being OP now how come you guys was still dieying regardless from this same build even before shattered strength got buffed hmm>? explain that people.

A dev has responded about this build in the PvP forums. https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/Mesmer-Shatter-Exploit/first

I just tried out a shatter build in a pug match in PvP, and it certainly was fun (and destructive). I do agree it needs to be turned down a bit, but other builds desperately need buffs. The difference between the viability of a shatter build and anything I can come up with are immense. Also, PvE and PvP splits please!

Hevosin.9187:

derevan.8751:

For my part i have an lvl 80 : thief, warrior, guardian, necro, mesmer and engi with minimum 250 hours of play on each of them at lvl 80.

I’m not attacking you, however, I feel like you are mistaken about your hours played.

6 toons x 250hours = Minimum of 1500 hours = 62.5 days.

GW2 came out 115 days ago from this post ( 12-21-12 ) that means everyday you play 54.3% of the day away, or 13 hours a day Since the game came out.

I find this highly unlikely.

It’s not really impossible though. I’ve played for 992 hours, and I would play more if I didn’t have to juggle a job and another MMO.

xerca.6135:

1 Frame
50 glue
50 wad
1 glittering dust

You will get the frame back until you get the endless tonic, then it is consumed.

Thank you.

So far the only thing I’m sure of is that it takes a frame, could someone tell me how to make the rest of it please?

Navi.7142:

Yeah? Then we should post/ link these same 4 responses into that thread if it isn’t already fixed how they told us. -.-

Managed to find one, the other two are on Guild Wars 2 Guru and I’m not going to wade through that, and I don’t remember where I saw the fourth.

Jason King.2647:

Thanks for the feedback! Clones not having the explorer stars is definitely a bug, and we’ve noted it in our database. As the rest of these ideas are more along of suggestions and feedback, however, I’ll be moving it to the Mesmer profession forum.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/Mesmer-Clones-not-proper-copies/first#post476285

Oops, I missread what he said. Glad they fixed it.

Navi.7142:

It should be fixed. https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Mesmers-still-nerfed-for-world-completion/first#post1034601

Except they did the same type of response at least 4 times.

I’m not too disappointed we can only get 2. Usually these types of things are CS bound only, and the only one even worth getting is the stuffed griffon. <3

Donut.6914:

Just popping in to say there is a Tengu taking part in the Wintersday snowball fights. That makes me so happy.

I squealed with glee when I saw that and took multiple pictures of it, speaking of which, I should update the gallery.

Dexxer.3174:

Jon ? pls helpppppp…. hotfix needed !
or do i really have to swap to an other class untill next patch in january ?

They’ll fix it once they fix the exploration star.

Deathspike.1870:

Speaking from encountering mesmers in player-versus-player; The patch before the 14th the Mesmer became much less of a threat, which just broke the class mechanics, causing the initial fear for mesmers I had for the class to be less severe. With solid tactics against a good mesmer, you had a decent enough chance. But, now? At the slightest hint of encountering a mesmer, I turn around and run away as fast as I can. The damage became phenomenal, phantasm actually deal damage before properly appearing (no dodge possibilities) and the clones/hiding/teleportation is as annoying as ever. Usually having relied on dodging to counter the massive, massive (!) berserker damage, I now have no idea what to do anymore.

Would an experienced mesmer player please elaborate possible tactics against you tanky GS mesmers with berserkers?

Dodge while they are casting phantasms, they won’t summon at all.

Disastro.4086:

Esorono.1039:

Found a stealth nerf. Illusionary Membrane only works every 15 seconds now, and even says so in the tooltip. Well, there goes my build.

Yeah was great for a spvp bunker build combined with phantasm regen, tanking pve and farming but they destroyed it completely 15 second cooldown for the 3 second protection. I could understand a 5-10 second internal CD but 15 is really pushing it.

It was my favorite pvp build, and only one, and they killed it. It wasn’t even all that deadly since it could be countered by killing the duelist. >_<

Found a stealth nerf. Illusionary Membrane only works every 15 seconds now, and even says so in the tooltip. Well, there goes my build.

Robin Hood.8123:

Aberrant.6749:

Phantasm delay will be reduced to .25s in the next patch according to the dev. I would like the cast times to be reduced by .25s to make up for the delay. The dev’s said that instant attacks from the phantasms weren’t OP but were causing some other non-specified issues (and the instantly attacking phantasms were caused by a bug in the first place).

That´s not the point. If that story about instant attacking is causing some conflicts, then why does the mariner skill still works properly without delay? It works right now, without causing any troubles.

The point is: competence or incompetence. Has a-net the ability, the programmer on their side who can handle this or will they fail to fix it?

And: Are they really eager to fix it or are they not? Because a-net could also try to sell us some kind of stories about why it was impossible to fix this problem at all. You would never know the truth behind this all.

At the end you will have to trust them or you don´t. You´ll have to take the result or you don´t want to. You have to go on playing this game or you don´t like it anymore and you stop, that´s the point. We have no democracy in this issue. You can whine but you don´t know if a-net cares about it. We will see the result soon and i say very honest: When the result isn´t acceptable, i´m done with it then. I don´t like to roll other classes. I don´t like the other classes at all and i think i´m not the only one with this opinion.

They did the same to rangers with short bow. They said it was because of animation bugs before, but later stated it was because of balance reasons. I believe it’s the same for phantasms, I’ve never seen any problems when the phantasms had a 0 second delay.

Drew.1865:

Yeah this class is so broken I solo’d a champion on it today. I love my Mesmer :-)

I solo’d a champion with a ranger, they must be fine too.

Ryuujin.8236:

Esorono.1039:

Arena-Net said they were looking into it a few months ago. So it should be ready soon enough.

You have more faith than I do – after a few months I’m of the opinion the post-it note fell off the monitor

Not really, any time mesmers bring the star problem up, Arena-Net said they didn’t know about it before. So I really don’t have much faith in them either.

Arena-Net said they were looking into it a few months ago. So it should be ready soon enough.

I’d say run engineer until the nerf storms stop, otherwise you may wind up with the same problems as people who mained paragons in GW1.