Guild Wars 2

Don’t play ranked arena if you aren’t trying to get top spot or a decent spot on leader board. That’s why we have unranked. If he is yelling at you in unranked, tell him to kitten and play ranked where he belongs and block him, otherwise don’t play ranked unless you’re really good or a meta player. We care about wins and losses and try to get the best team, of players who play seriously and not for lols.

Shiyo.3578:

It’d be nice if other amulets were actually viable, some are ok like rabid and soldier but some are complete and utter garbage like valk, what exactly were they thinking with this amulet?

We need a proper bruiser amulet for non-sustain classes: POWER VIT TOUGHNESS CRIT CRIT DAMAGE.

Where’s the valk + knight gear combo amulet that I can do in WVW/PVE? Where’s the soldier + zerker or soldier + valk/knight combo I can do in WVW?

Why isn’t there something as simple as power/precision/VIT? Shouldn’t that be valk’s amulet? Since when does valk = toughness and healing power(as well as power/crit damage)? Last I checked it’s power, vit, and crit damage.

The amulet system is utter trash.

If you use your brain, Valkyrie has the same damage as berserker. That’s why we have fury buffs and Intelligence sigil. This amulet rocks on hybrid warriors and rangers. Soldiers is excellent on hybrid warriors.

Now, yes it is true, a lot of amulets suck. Seeing magic amulet for 10 gold made me laugh so hard I nearly cried. It’s the WORST STAT COMBO EVVVVVVER. The 10g part is just, wow.
Rampagers has bad stat numbers, less total stats than zerk, or Valk.
Cavalier is ok, but Valk is more exciting and doesn’t cost 10g.
Zerk beats assassin any old day.
But in general, we should be able to choose our state, enables much more creativity. Also, enable givers, shamans and zealot stats.

If you don’t get some cheese meta, you’ll probably lose. Always get some dd eles and shatter mes

Yes anet are lazy, they spend 95% of their time on PvE garbage. They think it’s cool kitten, but it’s Guild wars; obviously linking to PvP or WvW, not NPC wars.
Capricorn is 1000x better than kittenhammer and spirit watch AND Zergyard. All their new PvP maps are the bottom 3 favourite of 90 percent of pvpers. Yes Capricorn was a bit unbalanced due to immortal rangers and engis, you could just simply nerf them instead of ruining our fun… STILL waiting for ranger downed 3 to be nerfed and just engis in general.

Mesmer sword 3 or staff 2 shouldn’t drop it. Mesmer can do alright if they have traveller runes, and either a staff, gs or focus to disrupt foes and/or shield themself.

Personally, for orb farming, Warrior ranger ele engi is the best. Ranger has rolls and gs 3, as well as an extended endure pain.

Funny how we’ve had 7 engi dailies, 6 thief dailies, and 0 mesmer dailies in the past two weeks. Anet kittening make your system balanced. It should be set to have one of each over the four days.

If it were in illusions, our shatter builds would love it.

kitten anet are dumb. Two main hand weps, and four off hand weps, now they add a fifth? Gg.
Another main hand or two hand we would be nice. Maybe a hammer with a phant that does guardian hammer #2 on foes.
A mace phant that stuns for 1s every 10s.

http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Mesmer_-_Lockdown

Imbued diversion
Make diversion hit 3 targets naturally, make the trait reduce cool down and/or Apply Weakness, or grant Fury.

Vigorous Revelation
It is a good trait, we do want it but it’s in the wrong line, move this to Illusions and replace its slot with Masterful Reflection or Compounding Power maybe.

Mender’s purity
Increase its potential and use by changing it to remove conditions based on number of active illusions (1-3), when using a healing skill.

Shattered Conditions and Restorative Illusions
Good trait, but no way we would take them in a shatter build, it’s just in a bad trait line. Move or replace for sure.

Bountiful Disillusionment
IDK what anet are thinking putting this in chaos. Absolutely useless. Reconfigure it to act like engineers Bountiful turrets if you know what I mean, another trait in the “compounding” category would be nice.

Chaotic Revival and Retaliatory Demise
Both are weak alone, merge them.

Mirror of Anguish
Increase Cc duration or reduce cool down.

Cleansing configuration
Nothing wrong with the trait, but it makes it painful for the adept slots; torch abolishes II and III use for its lack of phantasm dps and Cc.

Blurred Inscription
Merge Signet mastery with this.

Desperate decoy
Reduce cool down.

Persisting images
Increase effect.

Deceptive Evasion
Ok, a nerf to stop scrubbiness would be nice. ICD of 5-10s would be fine.

Phantasmal Haste
Fix your facts anet, everyone go on wiki this trait. It should have a tool tip: reduced by 10% not 20.

The thing i’ve wanted anet to do is swap the bonuses from BLBL and Outnumbered, MF and GF and XP is useless when you get zergstomped, BLBL is same for the other way. Having attribute bonus (maybe spice it up a bit for outnumbered) will make it harder for the zerg to take on the small numbers, and extra kitten from BLBL will give no actual advantages except more pleasant rewards.

Double ranged shatter mesmer with 1200 blink and decoy + mass invis for escapes. Case closed.
You can drop any longbow ranger meta scrub in seconds, one full mind wrack will drop a thief, and you’ll tear up the condi trash builds if you stay at 1200 range.
Warriors will tear you up if you do not have kiting skills to slowly burst them down, and that’ll take a while because they’re incredibly hybrid with their -65% condition duration and immunity to cripple chill and immobilize.

NA is worse. Bottum ranked server costs 20 dollars and 30 gold, and it takes lots of waiting for top ranked ones.

I used to D/D ele alot but its zz and too op, S/F ele is more fun and just as powerful.
I played alot of lockdown mes over the years but got bored, learning double ranged shatter now.

It’s the thief, engineer and warrior daily coming almost every day. Most of them suck.
Thief daily = 50% of the thieves logged on will be playing P/P or D/D or both.
Mesmer daily isn’t so bad because people stay away from that class if they’re bad, Elementalist means all hail d/d cele, still ok to be on your team even if they suck, cos its ez to play with face on keyboard and its party support.
Engineer either means AIDS AIDS AIDS or nubs who can’t toss nades for kitten.
Others are meh, but thief daily means gg whos got the least thieves wins.

Oh please, zerker already is meta.

• Double Ranged Shatter Mesmer and Traditional Shatter
• Cheesebow Ranger
• Meditation Guardian new & old
• Meditation Hammer Guardian
• All thief builds
• DPS Necro

This is becoming an issue, after 3 or 5 minutes of queue time, the search expands and eventually matches full 5-man premades against 5 solos, making it an extremely horrible game for the soloQ’ers who had to wait that long. IMO, I don’t care how long a premade of 5 has to wait, they should never fight five SoloQ’ers, it needs to be balanced.

Dire and perplex… GO AWAY. PLEASE NO.
We don’t need to see things like they are in wvw, perplex SA thieves 1v5’ing.

ouch. that’s just a really bad draw out of the hat.

Asuran so you can be zojja

Eleneer
fifteencharacters

There’s only one thing I can say as a mesmer.

I don’t want d/d to be nerfed so bad people don’t play it, it’s good fun having eles on our frontlines.
Simple solution: Make blasts in fire fields grant two stacks of might per blast, reduce might duration a tad on strength and hoelbrak runes.

All of you saying its fine, kitten. how is 1800 range, 2-3k auto attack, with rapid fire channel through stealth fair????!?!?!?!?!?
Pfft people make me sick.
And yes it is 1800, even 2100 if used on upper ground

All of you telling people to L2P, that’s too far. Shut the kitten up. If you’re saying that trying to fight a turret engi 1v1 is a L2P issue, then you’re saying 75% of us need to L2P. Yes, they’re not unbeatable, but far more perfect than all the other classes.
I still think the Overcharged Shot is the most overpowered issue on it. The fact a 3-4s CC on a 15s cooldown (12 if traited) is rediculous. It should be increased to 25 seconds at least.
Its not only that, it’s that they can chain CC so easily.
Their CC sources are:
Thumper Turret – Thump (30s cd)
Rocket Turret – Explosive Rockets (30s cd)
Net Turret – Electrified Net (30s cd)
Supply Crate (180s cd)
Overcharged Shot (15s cd)

At least half of the PvPers won’t last after the second CC chain. The cooldowns on the turrets are much shorter than everyone’s Stability source, or if the Stability is a short duration (Guardian Stand your Ground), they can just wait for it to end.
By default, turret engineers will just get lucky with their CC spams as they can keep you disabled for at least a third of the fight. If you’re stunbreakers or Stability sources are on CD, that’s a 8s CC your facing + 2s immobilize.

However, yes as everyone says, there are counters.
Medi Guard – Destroy turrets with symbol cleaves, scepter smite
Staff Ele – This can be easily done but also interrupted. Cast Meteor Shower then immediately swap to Earth and use Magnetic Aura while casting. Believe it or not, 80% of Engineers are kittened and will Overcharged shot themselves, trying to interrupt you.
Power Ranger – Keep out of the turret’s range, maybe shoot down the rocket turret first, then focus down the Engineer.
D/F Ele – Takes time but you’re Swirling Winds and Magnetic Wave as much as possible, Magnetic Wave when they begin the CC chain so you can reflect most of it. Obsidian Focus is also a nice way to break the CC chain. It’s also super easy to stomp them, you can block, reflect, stabilize or invul when stomping them..
Shatter Mes with Feedback and Distortion Reflection – Your burst will tear them apart, and you’re reflections will out last his lifespan if you do it right. You can also take out the sniping turrets and then just chill with your GS and wear him down.

Aside from all that, turret engineers can be used strategically to take points off super bunkers; Banner Warrior Bunker or Altruistic Healing Guardian, or at mid field support.

Generally, it’s not a L2P issue if you try to decap far and bump into them, but it’s ok to disengage, and run back to mid, yes time is lost but that’s ok. Report to your team that there’s a turret engi there, and not to go near them. Think of it as its better wasting 30 seconds rather than wasting 2 minutes, entertaining the engineer, and giving him a free kill. They dominate 1v1, but not Conquest.
Any decent engineer will run Fortified Turrets, and Flame and Thumper turrets for mid fight support, and resistance vs rangers, rather than bunking home for days doing nothing.

No. Who wouldn’t swap and re-config the comp when facing multiple engineers?
Gets out the staff ele.

PvE: Second to Warrior.
PvP: Equal to shatter portal mesmer, number one.
ZergvZerg: Use a staff and Arcana V trait, with whatever gear. Number one.
Roaming: If we’re talkin’ 1v1, second to warrior, unless if you’re one of those dire +kit engis, then go shoot yourself and I’ll spit on the corpse.
For <5v5, yes number 1. The heals, resses, AoE regeneration and protection on 10s cd, will change kitten up.

Elementallist is now my number one class, before, in 2013 and early 2014 Mesmer was until it got minor nerfs that looked ok but damaged its backbone for certain builds, including the flaw you can’t run perplex in wvw unless you wannabe a snail. Back on topic, you can do it all as an ele. It’s a brilliant class for PvE, and roaming especially. PvP Play d/d meta, and you’ll get a 60% win ratio. If you’re a non meta guy like me, run d/f, has its ups and downs compare to d/d. better for stomps and vs pew pews. S/F fresh air is funfunfun, but hard stuff to learn.

Nah, not a blast on that sort of CD. maybe air 3 as a blast was a good suggestion.
Ice Spike could be improved by a small damage increasement, and a delay reduce so you could chain it with air 5, and in exchange increasing cd to ~10s.

Knight, Cavalier and Cleric. You want power always, and moderate healing, toughness and critical chance/dmg.

I generally go half cele, a quarter knights and the rest cleric. Try to not go beyond 17k hp (20k with food + fortitude), keep toughness above 1500, and at least 30 critical chance, and 170 critical dmg. Of course, we all have our individual preference, mine is the cleric gear thrown in for dem heals. I main elementalist dd and have played it for ages in wvw and PvP, so please ask away in gw2 or here.
Also, use hoelbrak runes, not strength. It’s worth blowing a Lil might for the – condi duration.
Don’t use bloodlust sigils. Doom and battle ftw

For you, here’s the best gear setup:
Armor: knights with hoelbrak rune. (tp and tp)
Weapons: cele incinerator and a zerker dagger (anywhere).
Trinkets: cele rings, cleric accessories (tp), soldier or cavalier back piece (karma merchants in orr) and amulet. Cele would be good, its only 20 laurels and 250 badges, or just use soldier’s, knights, cavaliers or clerics.

That all being said, it really comes down to your personal preference, whether it be rubberbanding hp, hybrid, or dps but glassy.

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Yeah, the problem is mesmer can’t sustain for kitten. Yeah, we do have PU and distortion, what use are they when holding a point against a warrior who can use his stances without losing point capture contribution. We do not have any decent healing abilities such as elementalist signet, or warrior SUPER OP heal signet, or thief dodge roll and cure condi every 15s. If we wanna remove conditions while healing, we have to waste our precious points, not to mention Ether Signet is complete garbage healing, even with 3 clones up and cleric amulet, a zerker warrior still heals more with his stupid signet. Ether feast is the only viable heal we got.
That’s just the PvP side of it. The only viable PvP Build is shatter, since it does nice ranged aoe dps. For wvw, mesmer is very unpopular. There are several reasons.
Zergs: Confusion and other nerfs ruined our glamour builds. we can’t do kitten nor get bagz.
Roaming: A billion flaws.
- Shatter Mesmer: you’ll get your kitten kicked by anyone who plays condi and can dodge roll.
- Power PU phant mesmer: you’ll kick any noobs kitten , and you can use traveller runes too. But even with full zerk, you won’t scratch DPS Greatsword warriors because they’re so overpoweredly hybrid in 1v1 regardless of stats. Thieve’s are a 50/50, and if you’re somewhere enclosed a D/D ele will own you hard.
- Condition Scepter Confusion stacker: Yep, it has nice confusion and all and with Perplexity runes? Hey, you’ll rek kitten up so hard with all that confusion. Perfect. Oh wait, I’m as slow as a snail. No jumps besides kittenty 900 range blink on 30s cd, and no swiftness. Warrior pulls out his GS, he’s gone. Ele FGS’s, gone. the thief stealths, gone.

Don’t listen to those kittenty websites, there are no builds that’ll 1v1 anything. You’ll either lose to warriors or eles, or the enemy will have no problem escaping. good Mesmer roaming builds will exist when they give us a trait we can run faster with out of combat, or some actual sustain other than stealth. The only sustain I know of is Staff/GS 2/4/4/0/4.

I’ll be enjoying myself on D/D Elementallist in PvP, PvE and roaming until the 2018 changes when arena net realises how bad mesmers are.

PS. Don’t judge my stupid typos in there, my auto correct is literally kittened.

TBH theres more,

- Overcharged shot; 3s CC on a very short cooldown,
- Magnet; the fact it functions at a 1500 range is bullkitten, even 1200 pull on a short cd is still too powerful,
- Gear Shield; CD can be reduced to 20 seconds, that’s rediculous, should be 30s like warriors get.
- Thumper Turret; way too much HP considering it also can launch twice every 30s,
- Invigorating speed, yep this is for sure rediculous, they can perma vigor quite easily.

As a fresh air ele, I’d say it’s much better to roam wit S/D for mobility and more easier might stack. If you want to run D/F probably all glass zerk/assassin would be the way to go. If you don’t have applied fortitude, chuck in some valkyrie.

Title says it all, when you click leave, it loads HoTM, then when its about to finish it sends you back into the PvP game. It’s just an unnecessary waste of my lifespan :p

Anyone else getting this?

Rapid fire shouldnt hit through stealth. its a load of bull. Also, no you can’t always dodge it. A smart ranger will always use rapid fire after a dodge roll so you can’t dodge the whole thing. Signet of stone is just kittened.

BUMP waiting for action from anet, nothing was shown in the January patch.

IMO, main reasons are:

1. - Siege became tradable. Players who needed siege prints could just spend a couple silver instead of go to the JP. the prints on the TP are 1/10 of the price of them from merchants.
2. - Badges of honour come so easily now, you can get 60 from 30 minutes of WvW, and all the achievement chests.
3. - Disconnecting it from EB disabled communication to say that there were portals going to and from the chest.

This all resulted in it becoming ice frozen dead.

The old variation was much better, I haven’t seen anyone using the new variation, it’s not bad but there’s just much better skills to take.

for meditation builds, i recommend take knights and play 0/0/6/4/4 and use all 5 meditation.

sig of ether should be reduced to ticking every second, and its’ effect should be halved.

sig of midnight should give 25% boon duration, more useful and tempting that way, and active effect should convert conditions into boons.

signet of domination can be good with para sigils for 4s stun, but srsly, 45 second cooldown is nasty… should be 30 or 35. I personally think it should provide power as passive, since power is in the domination trait tree and you get the idea.

sig of illusions the passive and active effect relate in no way, and this is utterly useless because its a mix for two different sorts of specs.

signet of inspiration is good idea, but other skills more convincing take the slot. Here’s some interesting ideas for it:
1) P: Double the duration of a random boon every 10 seconds A: (default)
2) P: +25% movement speed A: gain quickness for 5 seconds but unable to summon clones.
3) P: Convert a condition into a boon every 10 seconds. The duration is reset when converted. A: Cure all conditions.
4) P: Copies a random boon from your target every 10 seconds. A: Destroy all your foes boons and prevent them from gaining any for 5 seconds.
5) P: Transfer a random condition to your target every 10 seconds. Resets the duration. A: Convert 3-5 condis into boons.

Biggest thing I hate seeing other mesmers do is:
2 PU mesmers fighting me 2vs1, and I kill them both.
Srsly, some ppl, l2p.

water fire and arcana are your elements for cele. occassionally air too.

IMO, pack runes are just as strong as strength, and much cheaper, use them

Well well…….
Read this.

Seriously, Im a massive mesmer player and I play lots of condi pu builds, and here’s my thoughts:

Couldn’t give a kitten , I am very slow as condi pu, and need the addition swiftness boost. the might will also grant additional condi dmg, so that is also helpful. Seriously, stop QQing, we are getting a massive scepter buff, now scepter clone auto spam will be lethal.

dandamanno.4136:

I guess power PU options don’t get much attention ‘cause they simply don’t have the same ability to hide in stealth like the condition variation. Condition PU can allow their clones to do condition damage while they stay hidden, but the power version simply can’t do this and has to actively apply damage, which means stealthing is a net loss damage wise.

Maybe a phantasm version but then you won’t get all the good phantasm traits, and damage takes a nerf that way.

I played a power PU version for a few weeks a few months ago, and while the play style is more fun, it is far less effective. That is probably why you don’t hear too much about it, it is simply far less popular.

Anyhow, I see the power version as getting a bit more offense, a bit less defense and the bleed nerf on DD to be irrelevant.

Um, wrong. Try a 4/4/6/0/0 zerker or soldier pu build. Bring out your phants when you are in stealth, they will be doing masses amounts of damage while the enemy can not hit you.

Furthermore, this change isn’t really that big, so its nothing for pu condi/power to yay or nay about.

S/P GS 6/6/0/0/2 Mantra of DPS + Distraction + Decoy = great build.

Come to me. I’m the right person. I am training at least 3 other mesmers. If you want to be a pro who destroys all, PM me.

1v1 me brah (+15 characters)

Torment isn’t that great. If I see 5 or more stacks, I will just stealth and sit still. with the -40% condition duration food, I can afford to take a couple second immobilize. There’s no actual benefit moving around unless you dodging to summon clones.

Yes, Traveler runes are important. Especially for roaming. You need good escape and chasing abilities.

Mckeone.9804:

Here’s what I do as a GS/Staff shatter mesmer: count to three.

From what I can tell, no good thief opens with steal because they want to save the daze/initiative gain/boon strip to counter your response to their opening burst. So, if you see a thief coming for you and pop into stealth, they are going to be on your back within three seconds.

Depending on your cooldowns and energy, there’s a lot you can do. Chaos storm around you, dodge roll, diversion, distortion… if it’s a 1v1, one of my favorite things to do now is mass invis immediately after they stealth. I’ll typically see them drop out of stealth first, and then I can get the jump on them. If they try to escape via shadow refuge, you know where they are so just blow every PBAOE you have in the area and look around for the body.

NB – I just started esporting and am coming up with most of my strategies on the fly, so you may want to take this with a grain of salt.

You gotta love those Shadow Refuge thieves. Especially when you wield a greatsword yourself. Walk up next to it, and push #5 ;D