Ok, so far we’ve got the following availabilities:
After 8 pm PDT
5:30-8:00 pm PDT
Friday 7am PDT to Sunday 3pm PDT
Saturday 0:00 PDT to Monday 0:00 PDT
After 3pm PDT
After 1pm PDT Thursday, all Friday/weekend
So, adding all this up basically gets us the weekends. Currently, I’ve only got confirmation from 11 people for the raid. I know that sticker is forum banned but would like to join, which pushes us to 12. There’s various other folks who haven’t responded yet though, so I think we should be able to hit the raid size of 20 shortly.
It seems reasonable to expect a maximum alacrity uptime similar to quickness uptime.
:channels Pyro:
Wish granted! Alacrity uptime is now harder to maintain than quickness uptime!
That was easy.
Gg, wp.
At least a few pieces to up condition duration would have to be in the PvE meta surely.
Well, condition Mesmer isn’t and won’t be a part of the PvE condition meta for the forseeable future. Our only way of applying solid damage through conditions (auto spam with staff clones) is single target and requires no allies nearby. This has obvious disadvantages. Our other ways (duelists) got nerfed and are single target, and torment/confusion from shatters are bad in PvE.
If permanent alacrity was that strong, then top mesmers would be running it in tournaments. Not only is it not that strong (nor even reasonably possible to do as you suggested), but those top mesmers spent much of their time dead, attesting to the comparative strength of other elite specs.
Go whine somewhere else, or at least put some effort in next time. I need to go take a shower after reading this op.
My bunker build works very well. It’s chaos/insp/chrono. You can do a nasty condie shatter that is very effective with duel/ill/chrono. I haven’t personally tested it, but my gut tells me that Dom/chaos/chrono lockdown with a tanky amulet could work very well too.
I don’t think chrono lacking stability is an issue. Stealth is not a substitute for stability. Stealth is a way to drop pressure. The big thing about the current pvp environment is that there’s a lot of classes that are impossible to normally run from. Thief can chase you easily, DH can hit you painfully from range, revenant has roughly infinite chasing power with shiro, and scrapper moves way faster than us.
If you’re running a squishy build, you have to be able to disengage. Helseth in his infinite wisdom was wrong, as per usual, that the enhanced defenses of chrono (precog, shield block, cc) would allow you to survive even when running squishy. What it actually does is let you survive until the defenses run out…and then you die. Stealth allows you to completely drop target and reposition. If that revenant still really wants you, you’ll have to deal with him, but it allows you to at least drop whatever pressure you had on you before.
The issue isn’t cc, the issue is running a build that dies easily without any solid plan on how to survive with it.
Just an idea but what do you think about using Rune of the Scrapper (+175 Power, + 100 Toughness and “Incoming damage reduced by 7% when within 600 units of an enemy”) as a more direct damage reducing version instead of the Runes of Melandru?
Absolutely a possible choice. I like melandru because the build only has 1 stunbreak on a rather long cooldown, but the 7% damage reduction is really strong too.
Daredevil hardcounters Mesmer now. Besides, mesmers are not nearly as op as things like DH, Revenant, or scrapper. I would go as far to say that mesmer is fairly balanced because all the new stuff we have has decent counterplay to it unlike other specs (Stay out of wells, avoid mirror blade like before, and stall out continuum shift).
what revenant OP than mesmer your kidding me right? mesmer can go stealth and deal damage while revenant needs to be active and in plain sight. i’m not saying Mesmer is OP but your comparison with mesmer and rev is out of place.
This is adorable.
I wonder how many threads about phantasm attack rate i have read on this forum in total xD
Probably one of the most failed traits in the game
The best part is the number of times that patch notes have claimed to have fixed it…but haven’t. Seriously, is it that hard to take 15 seconds to see if your ‘fix’ actually fixed it?
Alrighty. I’ve sent out messages to everyone that I have recorded as being interested in the raids. Everyone, that is, other than Chaos and Ross Biddle, who are dopes as usual.
If you didn’t receive a message and want to participate, toss me a PM here on the forums.
As I get responses, I’ll post updates here about how many people have confirmed, and the list of potential raid times that I’ll be compiling. If you have concerns about things such as getting gear or unlocking chrono in time, just mention those and we’ll work with you to make it happen.
Good to see that thieves are still putting on their best Mesmer impressions to call for nerfs.
But actually, half the complaints you’re making are the obvious complaints of a new or unskilled player. Staff making it hard to figure out where we are? Please, don’t make me laugh.
They finally got around to fixing this issue where you the focus 4 wouldn’t apply swiftness if you already have swiftness.
I also like what they did to prevent you from running back and forth through it stacking your swiftness. It just reapplies it to what it gives you initially.
So it will just keep putting you back at 15s swiftness every time you run through it rather than stacking.
This makes perma swiftness much easier to run with centaur runes.
This was fixed several weeks ago.
Hey folks, just got back from a short trip. I’ll be sending out notifications later tonight about the raids.
@Pyro: I used this build for pvp recently but really struggle to hold ground against DH power-based traps (ranger traps are condi and can easily mitigated thru cleansing).
Any tips?
DH traps aren’t too bad, they have pretty short durations. Just use some mitigation to avoid them. You can block them all except the ring-trigger one, so that’s an easy way to avoid them.
As with my old build, this will be great for tagging…and that’s about it. Especially since the nerfs to instant damage of confusion and burning per stack, you’re not doing enough to impact the fight in any significant way. You’re tagging a lot though, and that’s at least good for you xD.
I do love how it’s always ‘fixed a bug that caused this skill to be useful’. They don’t even have the strength of character to come out and say they’re nerfing it.
Given how much they’ve ruined iLeap from its original form (cloneless swap) this was hardly a necessary nerf.
Just another case of ‘unskilled player gets dunked by a mesmer in ways that they don’t understand and comes to the forums to complain instead of getting better’.
Nothing to see here, move along.
I wonder if this means you can change targets mid unrelenting assault
Once activated, UA picks its own targets, you’re not able to actively control it at all.
@pyro (I know you are reading this too)
In fights that require reflection can you switch to eternity, feedback, mimic, recall, time warp.
And I assume this build is not able to replace the stealth class in speed runs, unless mobs are killed so much faster one can wait for mass invisibility to go off cooldown to switch it to time warp.
The way I see it, you’ve got 2 options for reflection. You can take feedback/mimic and drop some wells, relying on iCaptains for alacrity upkeep instead. Alternatively, you can try and stack wardens while maintaining alacrity upkeep with the wells.
Which of those options is better will most likely depend on the particular situation.
With regards to stealth…I don’t think it’s a big deal. I’d be very surprised if newly released content had any significant vulnerabilities to stealth skipping. Momentary stealth needs can be handlers by engie/Mesmer easily. Existing content can be handled with chrono unless it’s a really long skip (basically only arah p2) in which case you’d either want a thief or a scrapper to help out.
The instant you press a shatter, all living illusions cease to be normal illusions and instead become guided missiles with a payload determined by what shatter you used. Once this occurs, you can no longer actively influence the illusions in any way.
Oh man. This looks like a ton of fun. I’ll likely not be able to participate.
RIP Tealot. You were a good dog.
D: Why not?
/15characters.
I hope by “even 5 versus 1 couldn’t kill any of them,” you meant simply, couldn’t kill, as in they escaped. Not, they held a point 1v5, because then it’s a different problem than “these classes are OP!”
no, they literally held the point, 5 v 1
and not necessarily, i don’t know if you have encountered these builds or not, but they are so insanely overpowered that you can’t kill them
Then the problem is not that they’re good. See if you can figure out what the problem really is.
Edit: -Redacted-
Double Edit: Nm, I’m not getting infracted a day before hot.
(edited by Fay.2357)
Thread fixer.
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Now I wonder what happens to player minion AoE vs. player minions. Like, an enemy phant. berzerker mowing through your illusions. Would that count as player damage (no reduction) or NPC damage (95% reduction) ? x_x
I guess we’ll see.
Shows up in a player’s combat log, should be player damage.
I believe the “class is brain dead easy to play” ONLY ever shows its ugly face when people lose to said class and are very bitter about it.
For sure, this goes without saying. I’m sure that close to 99% of all ‘mesmer is op’ complaints happen immediately after said person gets dumpstered by a particularly good mesmer a few times.
I think it’s unlikely that it’s a change that is actually implemented. What it will do, though, is make it a lot easier to accidentally switch targets say, to a mesmer clone, when the mesmer themself stealths.
Well, condie won’t really ever be good in zergs. As an easy example why, imagine trying to condie load the mesmer zerg when every single person’s heal removes 3 conditions in a 5 target aoe. Not gonna happen.
In answer to your question, there’s really just 1 massive thing that changed, and that’s well of precognition. With enough people running that well on a quick rotation in each party, it provides an absolutely insane amount of damage mitigation when needed.
My personal experience with rev is that they’re more dangerous than most other classes, but nothing I should be particularly scared of.
Scrapper, on the other hand, is either great or awful. The great ones are really really nasty, and took me quite a bit of time to figure out how to match. The awful ones you can basically afk.
Hmm I could have sworn it was all summoned minions which include Phantasms and clones
Used to, got nerfed.
Yes indeedy. I’m actually gonna be sending out messages to everyone that expressed interest in it earlier, I just haven’t gotten around to it yet.
Yeah yeah, just needed to get home and do some stuff. Take a trip down this thread OP: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/PvE-The-New-Chronomancer-Dungeon-Rotation/first#post5517768
There’s a lot of discussion about the exact particulars of the build, but the general concept is that you can provide a solid 40s block of both quickness and alacrity for your entire party, on a forty-five second cooldown, so 5 seconds of downtime.
As can be seen in this thread already, anyone that is going to cry about mesmers being op won’t also have the intellectual capacity to read and understand a post like this.
It’s a nice write up, but you’re preaching to the choir here.
My idea..
- 60s Recharge
- Reveals stealthed enemies that pass through.
Chaos you dope!
I’m sure you can guess what I’m gonna tell you.
Mes is a utility bot, no point in ranking dps. DPS varies from solo to group comp too much so there’s another reason to not rank. Furthermore, DPS does not decide how useful a class is in raids.
If your focus is still DPS then you can forget playing as mesmer.
There’s no way to know that for sure. With the changes to minion damage incoming and our phantasms actually staying alive now, there’s no reason we won’t see a huge dps increase.
We will see a dps increase…but even 100% best case scenario dps for Mesmer pales in comparison to ele or engie.
It’s because they use a regular expression filter.
Its the combination of “4” “5” and “S” in succession that trigger this. Apparently their world filter is set to ignore the status of 0×00(null) and 0×20(space).
The ‘why’ isn’t in question, because ultimately it’s not super important. It’s the fact that the implementation of the filter is shoddy at best, and careless and embarrassing at worst. I know I wouldn’t want to be associated with this train-wreck of a censor, that’s for sure.
The implementation is fine, as explained why earlier. The filter is working as it is supposed to.
Does that mean you have some inconveniences, sure. That is ultimately the price to pay for using a public forum. You have no rights to free speech here, so you either agree to the moderation and censorship within, find loop holes, or find another outlet.
The filter obviously isn’t working as it should. If it impedes usage of normal, non-offensive terms, then it’s faulty. It’s obviously faulty.
To all the players attacking the origional poster and defending Mesmer. Yes Mesmer is broken and insanely OP right now. Yes I play Mesmer, and yes I am admiting a class I play is unfair at the moment because it is. The class almost takes no skill to pull off ludicrous amounts of damage while having some of the best active defenses in guild wars two. Don’t kid yourselves trying to suger coat and pretend the Mesmer is fine… Lol it is far from it. Best Mesmer player in the world even stated they are broken as hell.
Oooh ooh, I can do it too!
Nope, mesmer is perfectly balanced. In fact, it’s never been more balanced, it’s probably the most balanced class in the history of gw2 atm. Don’t kid yourselves and pretend mesmer is op, it’s just a l2p issue.
See what I did there?
Yeah, I saw another person that is happy with playing a class that takes close to no skill to play while dominating others. Good job man, You look awesome!
To all the players attacking the origional poster and defending Mesmer. Yes Mesmer is broken and insanely OP right now. Yes I play Mesmer, and yes I am admiting a class I play is unfair at the moment because it is. The class almost takes no skill to pull off ludicrous amounts of damage while having some of the best active defenses in guild wars two. Don’t kid yourselves trying to suger coat and pretend the Mesmer is fine… Lol it is far from it. Best Mesmer player in the world even stated they are broken as hell.
Oooh ooh, I can do it too!
Nope, mesmer is perfectly balanced. In fact, it’s never been more balanced, it’s probably the most balanced class in the history of gw2 atm. Don’t kid yourselves and pretend mesmer is op, it’s just a l2p issue.
See what I did there?
Also, you obviously play thief, don’t try and lie to us. A quick search of your posting history shows almost 100% posts in the thief forum.
Chrono is a different story though, thats just straight up broken.
Ahh, the wonders of unfounded accusations. Remember, you’ve got to recalibrate with the rest of the new classes too. Scrapper is far stronger than normal engie has been. Tempest has some incredibly strong things it can do, very painful. Revenant as a whole is really strong. Druid has crazy healing and control. Reaper in a lot of ways fixes some stuff that typically makes necros vulnerable and is very strong. Dh is meh, to be fair, along with daredevil and berserker…but seriously. Saying chrono is straight up broken is just embarrassing yourself Rylock.
Chrono is straight up broken, but most of the elite specs are also broken. I wasnt really embarrassing myself, its kinda true :P
Everything is relative. If everyone is broken, noone is broken.
Where did I said i can 100-0 all the time? It is situational but I have seen carrion gourdian get insta gib by mesmer…
No you haven’t. Carrion guardian has health that puts it cleanly outside the instagib range of mesmer.
For the more stealth than thief… the stealth uptime of thief in a fight isnt that big.
Lol.
For ranged dps, ranger got his dps down by quite a bit since they removed alot of major +% dmg. Mesmer with the GS GM trait that stack might can easily achieve such dps.
2 things. First, you’re still wrong. Second, if you take that trait you don’t get half the other stuff you were spewing about, so you’re doubly wrong.
Chrono is a different story though, thats just straight up broken.
Ahh, the wonders of unfounded accusations. Remember, you’ve got to recalibrate with the rest of the new classes too. Scrapper is far stronger than normal engie has been. Tempest has some incredibly strong things it can do, very painful. Revenant as a whole is really strong. Druid has crazy healing and control. Reaper in a lot of ways fixes some stuff that typically makes necros vulnerable and is very strong. Dh is meh, to be fair, along with daredevil and berserker…but seriously. Saying chrono is straight up broken is just embarrassing yourself Rylock.
Once again you answer trough hate… Sigh… I just came here asking only to be convince that im wrong and all I get is a bunch of haters. Thats a lovely mesmer community you got there.
You’re coming in making wild accusations and expecting us to believe you and like you? Please, regain touch with reality. If you want anyone to take you as something other than a troll, you need to provide solid proof that you’re not lying.
100-0 people all the time? Great, take a video and prove it.
More stealth than a thief? Great, take a video and prove it.
Ranged dps rivaling ranger? Great, take a video and prove it.
Since these are all lies, you won’t be able to, but at least trying to do so will maybe get the point across to you.
In a discussion, the burden is on both party. I gived my insight. You need to give back.
Lol, you call that insight? I call it blatant misrepresentations of reality. We’ve all done the math, seen the math, played the class, done the bursts, experienced the reality. We know you’re full of it. We don’t have to provide proof, we just have to sit here laughing at you.
Since you like analogies, here’s one. This would be as if you went to a cosmetic surgery conference, say on hair transplant surgery. You somehow snuck in the back door and made it on stage. Then you gave a 20 minute presentation about how everyone has been doing it wrong, and the proper tools of hair transplant surgery are a rusty nail to create sites, and a steak knife to harvest the donor grafts. Then when all the other doctors called you on your bull, you cried “THE BURDEN OF PROOF IS ON YOU TO PROVE THAT I’M WRONG!!!!1111”.
Ridiculous.
You once again didnt read my post. I mentionned how priviligied the class feels like from a stranger to the class.
And I mentioned how incredibly divorced from reality all your posts are.
You all claim to know your class. You experimented all of their strenght or weakness. Sure. You havent experimented the enemy POV. And that’s the point.
Its like the king looking at his treasure and saying im poor I only have a few thousand gold pieces! While the peasant or artisan might be happy with what they have. But when they change place with the king, they don’t want to go back to the peasant/artisan life.
And that’s precisely what I lived with my mesmer experience this past few months.
No, it’s like a guy coming up with a tricycle and claiming that it can compete against a porsche in a race. The similarity between this post and that example is that both are astonishingly lacking in intellect.
Most important question: Do you have HoT? Any advice we give may change drastically in a couple days.
Ok, how about a granular breakdown?
atm with only a classic shatter build in spvp I can 100-0 people,
This is a lie. You can’t 100-0 anyone that isn’t afk, zero defenses or hp, and lowest hp tier.
stun 3 time in 15 sec,
Congratulations for learning to mash MoD off of cooldown I guess? That’s not going to do anything against even a bad opponent though.
being as stealthy as a thief,
This is a lie.
ranged dps rivalizing ranger,
This is a lie.
reflect for days, stack might, have decent +% dmg modifier, lots of blinds, etc.
Ah yes, the fabled build taking shattered strength, blinding dissipation, evasive mirror, harmonious mantras, deceptive evasion, mental torment, PU, and CI all in one.
Aka, this is a lie.
I could keep going, but I don’t really see the point in it. Basically your entire post is wrong. You’re lying. Everything you’ve said is a misrepresentation of reality and that drivel doesn’t deserve a real response.
Yeah, they’re still close enough that my recommendation is to do whichever is cheaper/more convenient.
That’s kinda disturbing and very rude if Pyro isn’t male lol.
No worries, I think my podcasts are pretty unambiguous in that regard.
You have a podcast? Is it GW2 related?
Links or it didnt happen!
I think a good chunk can be seen here: https://m.youtube.com/results?q=mesmerized%20podcast