Guild Wars 2

They’re both possible without quickness. Additionally, I’ve killed many Mesmers because they don’t time their #2 properly (and many thieves because they don’t aim/time their blink properly).

Pay attention to the de-stealth particles.

Pyroatheist.9031:

Yeah, the main problem I see (and this problem is common to a ton of builds) is that your build is unfocused. You really want to decide to either go shatter or phantasm. Sitting in the middle really doesn’t work, because you will be lacking various traits from both that make the builds successfull.

If you want shatter, you’ll need to go 30 into illusions for illusionary persona, you’ll need to take deceptive evasion in dueling.

If you want phantasm, you’ll need to take the phantasm damage trait in domination, and you’ll probably want to drop at least 20 or 25 points into inspiration for the phantasm bonuses you find there.

He doesn’t NEED iPersona if he’s doing DecEva with the 50% stun on daze in Domination.

But it does help, yes.

As for the Raptor and Egg dilemma, the egg clearly came first as the first “pre-Raptor” laid a mutated “Pre-Raptor Egg” which was not a Pre-Raptor Egg, but in fact a Raptor Egg which hatched a Raptor. If you do not count mutations, then you’re saying "what came first, the tree or the tree?

Leo G.4501:

One simple reason:

Asura have extensive intelligence but lack wisdom.

To accept other races into their institutes would be wise as more minds and ways of thinking will advance knowledge in every aspect as well as learn new and unorthodox methods to approach problems. But if they were wise and intelligent they would be perfect. Their flaw is their inflated egos, their close-mindedness and lack of wisdom.

I’d expect those wishing to learn more of the Asura teachings join the Durmand Priory as they tend to house the wiser of the Asura race and are filled with open-minded scholars willing to learn and teach.

And that’s how our society will fall. We will weaken ourselves to better others? What good will come of that? Tell me, if there were to be a method to incorporate other races in our culture, do you not think it would have been done already?

Virgil.6729:

Of course. I will try out he changes, so far they seem that they would work way better. Should I gear like a shatter build even if I am more close ranged?

I don’t quite understand what you mean. If you’re running a shatterbuild, you should gear appropriately. I, personally, run full Berserker’s and spend all my time in melee range being very susceptible to damage. I can mitigate almost all of that with rolls, Blurred Frenzy[s], more rolls, Staff swaps (I use Staff, but it’s a semantic) and, in the worst case, Distortion.

With Illusionary Persona, Distortion acts as a roll with 0 clones up because it lasts for 1 second. If you have any clones at all, you get plenty of time to set up or prepare to start taking damage.

Learn how to mitigate, your goal is to be able to run no defense at all because you should be able to avoid most damage.

I highly doubt that you were at our college[s]. If anything, you were under the impression of being at one college by visiting a krewe out in Metrica Province or being at Rata Sum, which is NOT a college. Additionally, the problems you helped solve were able to be solved by Peacemakers, WHO WERE ON THE WAY, ANYWAYS, but the majority of our people are solving larger problems, such as Dragons.

Plus, making anti-rust G.O.L.E.M.s are the standard of this day and age. You’re a tree, so act like one and leaf us in peace..

You don’t have to be traited into your pistol to use it.

Oh god, yes, the Phantasm on Staff hits for 3k on full Bers with no crits or conditions on the enemy. With crits, it goes up to 11k or so (the mobs that CAN have max conditions on them typically are durable hence why they have max conditions on them). I’ve had the Phantasm hitting for 8k’s before.

Don’t even get me started on Superheated bossfights, those numbers make me kitten my puppy.

Item nomenclatures are still shorter than naming an item, and even then it’s the same dilemma on forums as people saying “I got this trait, this trait, and this trait” versus just making a link or naming and giving #’s to help people cross-reference.

Well, the thing is… you’re running a condition build and you want your off-weapon set to be power focused.

I understand seeing Scepter as being weak, and I agree, it is weak in PvE (Confusion doesn’t hit a lot in PvE as opposed to WvW), but all I’m saying is that running Sword/Focus in PvE with a condition damage build is like running Power/Toughness/Vitality (Soldier’s) and staying at 1200 range in every fight. The stats from your weapons if you do something like that really don’t make a difference since you’re using your stats wrong to try and do that in the first place.

I can’t stop you from running a contradictory weapon set.

I have enough damage with my Staff, I run Berserker’s (yeah, with a Staff, hurrrhurrr) and what I’ll do is I’ll start by casting 3 while running face first into the enemy. Just before 3 finishes, I’ll press 2, then roll forward giving me 3 illusions. I’ll let them all attack while I auto attack and run forward. After one or two attacks, I’ll press F2 or F1, press 2, roll forward twice and press F1 or F2.

Most mobs don’t last that long. If it’s a mob that WILL last that long, I’ll sit back and do the illusion dance (spawn illusions, let them tank one hit and continue keeping 3 illusions up at all times while staying as far away from the mob as possible). Slow tactic, but it works.

If you’re wondering based on the skins, you shouldn’t really come to the forums, as that’s a dilemma of your own personal tastes. If you’re wondering based off the stats, again, don’t even list Named Exotics as reference, there are item nomenclatures for that reason. The stats you will want/need are based on your build, not based on your other hands’ weapon.

In regards to your condition damage build and what stats an offhand will give you to benefit, in conjunction with a Sword they will give you no bonus to condition damage unless you have the trait that gives you bleeding when your illusions crit, but even that is so minor that it’s not really beneficial to use this item combination with a condition damage build. You can use Scepter/Focus, Scepter/Sword, Scepter/Pistol, but Sword/X is somewhat weak for a Condition Damage build, unless of course you expect Vulnerability to benefit from Condition Damage in which case you shouldn’t really be making your own builds.

List your numbers of the traits, not just the names (or link a build) because it’s a pain in the butt for people trying to cross-reference. Regardless your traits are:
1,4,12 (I, IV, XII)
4, 9 (IV, IX)
1, 10 (I, X)

The problem I see with your build is that it’s not really specific as to whether you want to shatter often or just get out phantasms and sit with them. All your traits lean towards shattering, and then you have Phantasmal Haste.

It could just be that you’re misunderstanding the trait, it reduces the cooldowns of your Phantasms attacks, not your Phantasm attacks. (That extra s makes a difference… a very, very large difference.)

So, I would probably suggest taking those 10 point and plopping them into, say, Inspiration 3, or into Dueling so you can also get Deceptive Evasion (Dueling 10).

Dueling 10 (Deceptive Evasion) is a MUST (opinionated must) for a shatter build. It lets you create clones on the fly.

Personally, I would actually just swap Duelist’s Discipline for Deceptive Evasion and Phantasmal Haste for Illusionary Invigoration. But those are a few options.

Don’t pick your stats based on skins… If you want X stats, get X stats. If you want Y looks, get Y looks. Transmutation stones are your friend.

Now, as for your dilemma, Condition Damage would probably be better unless you’re running Scepter Mainhand since the Confusion will benefit from fractions of seconds whereas other conditions do not (so the Condition Duration will have to be very finely created and balanced out).

20% better stats doesn’t equate to 20% more damage.

If I have 20% more power than you, then yes, I will do 20% more damage. Now add 20% more precision and critical damage.

They tack on and increase your damage by large amounts. Also using damage runes/sigils helps enormously. (Ghastly Weapons with Sigils of Night are VERY strong.)

Depends on the attack, if they’re already mid-attack, it’ll continue (e.g. Deadeye’s in Arah).

If you were to cast 5, it would crit. If you were to cast 1 or 2, it would crit. (Since you’re using Sword/Pistol).

If you have a level 80 Mesmer, I doubt you’d be this confused…

Statistically speaking, this is rather rare.

F2 followed by an F1 (save Endurance for 2x clone + 1 clone from skills).

I have no idea what your problem with this is…

When you’re transmuting, click on the Fanatic Mantle, then click on the blue item’s stats, then click on the blue item’s upgrade (if inserted). If there is no upgrade inserted, the empty slot will transfer right on over (it’s directly tied to the stats).

I spent about 3 hours doing this on my Thief. All my armor broke until I was wearing my hat and some blue shoes I picked up while doing it. I very, VERY, VERY slowly ressed all the NPC’s to 99% (with Shadow Refuge) and then quickly got them all up to distract for a little bit. I then proceeded to, for an hour, kill one of the two Risen that were spawning more by kiting with a Shortbow and running around in circles. It took me 8 tries (I stopped getting the NPC’s because they did nothing but die instantly) and I managed to, very slowly, kill them off. The last mob was easy with the allied NPC’s up.

Deceptive Evasion. If you like Staff, go for Staff Mastery as well (this would be 0/20/20/0/0). Sadly, you’re 10 points short, so do 0/20/10/0/0 for now.

^ Sums it up nicely. My problem when I’m against another Mesmer is me being like “ATTACK THAT ONE” oh.. I was auto-selecting a clone… it didn’t hit the actual Mesmer…

Aka, I know which one is real, I just can’t keep clicking them after going in/out of stealth.

Conditions, Boons, Awareness.

I believe you have to buy the recipe for the jewel from your trainer. It should be in the last tab and is bought with karma. It should be 175/275/375 recipe.

kiwiburner.2186:

Vol.5241:

Ectos are going to go up. I envision Arenanet is going to fix guesting a bit – perhaps limit chest farming to account

Unless I’m wrong, the chest opening is per character per day, and is not linked to server, so there is no advantage in guesting to chest farm (although admittedly I haven’t tried it).

My jaw would hit the floor if I were wrong about this, so let me know if I am.

You’re absolutely right. People simply use guesting to skip the wait time in between events. Say you just did Jormag, now you have to wait a few hours to do it again on another character. Oh what’s this? It’s open on XXX server? Let’s guest there on an alt and get it done now!

The main reason why guesting was a problem was that they also did a stealth server side edit that decreased the amount of people needed in a map for an overflow shard to be created. There was a 1-2 day period where people would be VERY lucky to be in their home world in any of the world event maps, regardless of a world event being active. How do I know this? It was on the German forums and some kind soul brought the information to a thread here. Why did they do this? Because people were complaining about lag.

Morale of the story: Be careful what you wish for, and PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE stop throwing misinformation everywhere.

Do at your own risk.

I know that’s not what you want to hear, nor does it have Arenanet next to my name, but that’s as much as you’re going to get.

Additionally, this thread is against the Forum Code of Conduct, as you not only posted about a topic that has been approached multiple times, but you’re also…

Do not post petitions, “I demand an answer” threads, conspiracy threads, or comments about circumventing the rules.

The reason why I say this is because you explicitly state that you want “some solid confirmation” which can be interpreted as having someone with the knowhow (Arenanet Staff) to answer.

Tested and it works, but it makes fighting painful. Also, if they target a clone, it ruins the intended exploit effect.

jportell.2197:

Please tell me what gear were you running to get your warden to spike for 11k damage… That is crazy lol and in PvP people just move out of the way of the warden and oh their fine now… and unless you are traited all you are doing is mitigating damage if you stand in the bubble.

20+ stacks of swiftness, most likely eatting curry butternut squash soup and possibly traited into illusion/phantasm damage.

Osi, on your confusion build, you might want to run 5x TA runes and 1x any conDmg rune. The 10% condition duration increases your dps by more than the bonus from toughness —> conDmg (unless we’re talking about bleed damage)

Honestly, I wouldn’t mind if it was a silly weapon with silly skills (that matched the Quip) because that’d be fun. Oh wells, April is coming around, let’s see what’s gonna happen.

If we got Mainhand Pistol, I’d probably run Pistol/Sword Sword/Pistol. Just saying.

Additionally, the Pistol Phantasm gets overlooked a lot. Although it doesn’t hit as hard as a lot of other Phantasms (overall DPS) it does have a Projectile Finisher, which means you can self-combo to stack a lot of other Confusion and/or other debuffs.

However, the main reason why I personally find it unappealing is that I’ve currently fallen into the need for speed train. When I’m not hoarding all my speed, I tend to use a Sword offhand for a quick damage bonus. I’ve actually thought of using Pistol more often, but the main thing putting me off is the fact that my current Pistol has the wrong stats for any of my builds and I’m currently trying to get Rabid gear, but I’m getting it extremely slow because I have very little motivation and I’ve been acting a bit mean in dungeons recently (too much solo play, I think).

I haven’t dabbled too much in MH Scepter (gathering Rabid gear… very slowly…), but from what I’ve read, Offhand Sword with Scepter is nice blocking in PvP if done properly.

In general, offhand Sword is nice, but I tend to be bipolar about it. One day I’ll be using Focus offhand, the next I’ll be using Sword. It depends on whether I want to be fast, or if I want to do high single-target damage. Most of the time, your Warden won’t get all of its damage off. Your swordsman will most likely get one auto attack before dying. This is assuming they’re both going to die relatively fast.

As for Focus offhand… in WvW, I tend to only really use the skills when trying to pull someone off a keep (doesn’t happen often) or when breaking gates because it also hits old siege weapons (free exp yayyy). In Zergs, the phantasm will die before striking. The swordsman will usually get a strike off with the relatively fast leap, but I’m talking about Focus. In PvE, I use it a lot because Phantasms don’t really die and I can keep a high stack of Retaliation on myself. Oh yeah, in WvW small battles that retaliation is great, but since you use a Scepter mainhand, it’s only a speed boost/pull.

In PvP, I’d probably go with Sword offhand for the (I might be wrong, but it FEELS to be) lower cooldowns. In between battles, use Focus for swiftness.

In PvE, I’d probably go with Focus unless you want to RP/look cool/don’t need to go fast.

green plum.7514:

TheGuy.3568:

Perma swiftness on guardian is nigh impossible without using a staff so forget boons galore there slow as molasses.

Perma (or semi-perma) switfness on guardian is easily obtainable with a shout/boon duration build (and yes, this is without staff).

And…

Perma (or semi-perma) switfness on mesmer is easily obtainable with a centaur runes and a heal skill or a boon duration runeset in conjunction with sigil of speed or focus (and yes, this is without any utilities).

I used Diablo as an example because the projectile system there is RIDICULOUSLY similar to [some skills] here. You can’t quite dodge projectiles, but there are some line-projectiles which you will dodge just by walking sideways in regards to the caster (Guardian with Hammer skill 3, Sword/Scepter blockskills-2ndcast).

PvE, sword is generally better. PvP, scepter has more potential.

Regardless, you’d want Toughness moreso than Vitality as the amount you’ll get from heals (regeneration and 6 skill) will be more if you have Toughness versus Vitality (assuming we calculate both of them to be effective healths and not just health vs armor).

The problem lies in Condition Damage that you take, which can be negated by running null field/iDisenchanter whatnots. But that’s a risk you’ll have to run.

Regardless, I feel like my post is somehow going to not pertain to your subject, as is the case most of the time due to some unforeseen question being asked without actually being written down in words…

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/New-Ascended-Gear-for-glamour-mesmer/

Would help you understand the stats you’re benefiting from more, whereas for the weapons…

They are also somewhat answered inside that threat, but I will re-iterate and dumb it down:

Scepter is not so good for PvE because Confusion will hit most mobs ~1-2 times due to their slow attacks (and even the “fast” attacks aren’t that fast… like Son of Svanir Fractal boss using Ice Breath, it will only trigger Confusion once for that entire skill, right at the beginning, if I’m thinking about this right).

Rarararara…

Sword, on the other hand, will allow you to mitigate damage in both PvE and PvP with Blurred Frenzy, regardless of being Melee. It also gives you combo leaps which are nice.

In WvW, Scepter is better because most people don’t pay attention to confusion. I’ve won many down-battles due to the enemy spamming 1 with confusion (not that they have much choice). There is general agreement that Confusion shines the most in WvW as opposed to sPvP and PvE, which allows the Scepter to be used well in this situation.

Also, blocking/blind is fun.

But not with a single skill that was on a potential 4 second cooldown.

Dokk.5620:

Getting really tired of Mesmer getting broken every second patch due to poor testing.

Considering how fast they’re patching, you’re in no position to complain. It’s better than WoW’s “we’ll get to that in the next patch” (3 months later).

Sicktanick.4369:

Ahh ok well thank you guys very much, my friend runs a full nuke build for Ele wanted to throw something back at him see if he one shots himself xD

Remember, it has to be a projectile (think Diablo-esque games. Fireballs are projectiles, Fire Storms are not).

samski.5194:

I’m actually working on a guide for this type of build right now. Weapon swaps arnt necessary IMO to keep chaos armour up. With just staff I am able to keep chaos armour up for 1:30-1:40.

My build is slightly different to yours but it owns in WvW! I will try get the guide online over the weekend and link you it.

Yeah, staff can also keep up Chaos Armor as long as you have fields as well.

You can almost keep 100% uptime with just Mainhand Sword as long as you have a field constantly up.

Try Blink + Illusionary Leap. Easier combo, and it lets you use Swiftness on yourself!

Kusa.6438:

Cursed Shore. Full exotic//ascended. Its been broken since the 26th. Have yall not noticed?

In… Magic Find…? Because my zerkers hit for more than that in magic find without traiting for GS, power, pre, critdmg, or illusions/phantasms.

I agree with Star Ace, I have gotten used to not having superb movespeed, and then I use a Focus when I can’t handle it. It’s quite simple once you accept it.

Master of Timespace.2548:

Anet wants you to play only 1 weapon set. The kittenness of this game is just getting worse and worse.. Scepter was already a quite bad weapon.

But double blasts could give you 100% uptime on 2 AoE Might/Retaliation if blasted on Fire/Light fields.

Sword was hitting in a 360 arc, including Blurred Frenzy. Not sure if that was fixed.

ODB.6891:

Esplen.3940:

Kaleban.9834:

I really wish they’d take Swiftness off of Signet of Inspiration’s proc table, and simply make it a 25% speed boost passive along with the extra boon every 10 seconds.

That would be ridiculous, I don’t mind it being 10% with the boon, but I derno.

How would being equivalent with the same thing every other cloth class gets be ridiculous?

Not every other class has 25% movespeed boosts. Ranger has 10%, Guardian and Warrior have none without traits.

nastyjman.8207:

Syeria.4812:

As Charismatic Harm points out, such a system could work based on reputation, but there’s always the risk that such a reputation was simply gained for the purpose of making “the big haul” on a high value item. A free dusk would certainly be compelling enough for someone to put the effort into building the reputation required. With how slowly and unevenly information transfers, it’s plausible they could get away with it multiple times before people believed the people who were scammed.

Since we have gw2lfg.com, dragon-timer website and spidy.com, why not have a website that rates accounts/players for their reliability and trustworthiness with off-TP trades? Something like Yelp.

Although this could be manipulated with ghost accounts by rating a scammer in the website, unless a captcha is integrated in the rating system.

You could have a verification system which requires a mail and response.

You realize that a rare heavy armor will give you mithril and orichalcum which I stated in my post.

recipes are not bound to anything (until used, of course)

I would suggest making a tray of omnoms for friends/guild… that’s… about it.