…Now how about Mursaat wings in the not-too-distant future
THAT MAKE US FLOAT!
I once had the idea that each Scepter clone could have their own group of up to 3 “secondary” scepter clones. Indistinguishable, but they aren’t used for any shattering or trait, and if the master clone is destroyed, all secondary clones go down with them.
Still, that’d be 12 clones among which to hunt the real mesmer.
And then the clones clones would clone and the clone tree would spread indefinitely until the enemy dies from 25 stacks of bleeding and 6 damage auto attack procs.
Please anet, make quip/pred-based back kits
Like a burning backpack for pred, or a purple party streamer thingy balloon randomness for quip.
You mean a “THIS IS THE REAL MESMER” effect?
the phantasm build has a very high skill cap
lol. I look forward to you “ripping me apart”. “Very high skill cap” ahahah oh my. Sorry. But popping an iDefender, couple iDuelists and then not dying is NOT very hard at all
I don’t use iDuelist or iDefender in PvP. I only really use Defender in PvE and the last time I did it was versus Canach so I could beat him without touching any traps (Retaliation and I didn’t want to touch a wrong trap due to my red-green color blindness).
I never run Duelist. Why? Because I have no use for the pistol in PvP. I understand that in PvP a Phantasm Mesmer relies on pumping out Phantasms. Offhand Sword gives me that short Phantasm to get pumped out that can be killed.
I have no problem with Duelist in a Phantasm build, it’s just not for me (until I get my Quip, then I’ll see what I can do). You shouldn’t expect every Phantasm Mesmer to run the same cookie cutter build when every Shatter Mesmer doesn’t run the same cookie cutter build.
Additionally, you talk about Blind as if it’s something you can throw out every 3 seconds. I hope you realize that Sta kitten in addition to -conditionDuration both shut down Blind. Unless you have really high twitch reaction and are able to blink-blind someone right before their cast finishes, you should expect it to succeed. You also talk about your blind to force them to use a utility, but you’re blinking to blind which leaves you open.
the question itself is a bit blurry, as u have to negate evrything else like combat situations, enemy behaviour, debuffs and armor asf.
if u wanna have blank numbers (on the puppets in la for example), than sword/focus does the most damage by far.
my mesmers warden hits puppets in la 12 times in a row evry 8 secs with actual gear the last hit is ending around 3800. the last four to five hits are over 3000.
so counted he is doing more than 20k damage evry 9 seconds (its more 8secs but math is easier with 9secs^^=.
wardens do this on three targets as aoe.
so lets say 3x 3 wardens dealing over 20k damage evry 9 secs in a 3sec span.
if u set them evry 3 secs for consecutive strikes u would have more than 20k dmg evry 3secs instead of evry 9. thats approximately around 10k dps on ONE target only those 3 phantasms! if noone kills em they would do that forever^^.in theory. on stupid la puppets
i couldnt reproduce that blank numbers with any other weaponset, unfotunately the puppets dont show cond dmg numbers or crits
but it shows the biggest disadvantage of wardenmesmers.
9 secs to build up insane stationary burst dps. pretty easy to counter.
That’s not how the Warden damage works…
Take a look, please.
The damage scales up because it’s tallying the total damage.
Assuming the iWarden hits a gate 10 times for 20 damage, the tooltip will show 200 damage at the end. Why? 20 + 20 + 20 +… 10 times is 200. It’ll go 20 —> 40 --> 60 —> 80 --> ~~~ —> 200.
Of course, that’s not the correct hits or damage on a Warden, but I was just elaborating in a way that would let you make sense.
If “combo” damage worked that way then a Warden could effectively 5-7shot an enemy. That way being each hit deals the amount shown in the air, not the amount shown in the air is your total off of the current attack.
The reason why it tallies it together as one damage is because it’s all coming from one damage source/attack and not multiple sources/attacks. I hope that clears it up.
Let’s apply the same math to a Puppet. Assuming you’re dealing 4000 damage over 12 hits to a puppet, then each hit does 4000 / 12 damage or approximately 333 damage.
Hit 1 does 333 damage. Tooltip shows 333.
Hit 2 does 333 damage. Tooltip shows 666.
Hit 3 does 333 damage. Tooltip shows 1000.
Hit 4 does 333 damage. Tooltip shows 1333.
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Hit 12 does 333 damage. Tooltip shows 4000.
Of course, that’s assuming that you got to 4000 damage with no crits. There would also most likely be some bleed ticks popping up next to the damage, but that’s because of the on-crit trait in dueling.
(edited by Esplen.3940)