Guild Wars 2

Power PU sorts it out. Use lemongrass poultry soup too. I have no condition removal, I just rely on the -40% duration and usually survive, even against heavy conditioners. If they apply confusion, stealth and run away for the time being. If they apply torment, Stealth and sit on your kitten . It doesn’t actually hurt too bad if you don’t move believe it or not.
My build: Zerker with some cavalier’s. Full stack applied fortitude, Potent SSS, Lemongrass poultry soup, Greatsword + Sword Pistol traveler rune. All ascended with infusions that provide toughness.

Scepter auto attack is garbage without the torment, it does a couple hundred damage and is slower than sword. May I remind you the torment is REALLY short on the scepter, so stop QQing.
Mesmer have absolutely FAIL ranged aoe dps, so this mantra aoe business is really great.

It’s clearly noticable when comparing stealth skills on mesmer to stealth skills on thief, that thieves have a huge advantage on cooldown, and effect.
Veil (90s), Mass invisability (90s) —> Shadow Refuge (60s, can be traited to 48s)
Desperate Decoy (90s) --> Last Refuge (60s blinds, aoe stealth, blast finisher)
Decoy (35s) —> Blinding Powder (40s blinds, aoe stealth, blast finisher)

Maybe rounding up Veil, Mass Invis, and Desperate Decoy to 60s would help?
Or give mesmers a trait to blind foes on stealth entering? Which would go good with a confusion build (Cause confusion when blinding foes)
Just a suggestion, what are your thoughts, my fellow mesmers?

I’m on blackgate and we are second place, and there is no queues except maybe 5-10 per bl for the first hour of reset, so therefor people can access their bank via crafting stations, Trading Post on any BL, and Guild Merchants too. HotM bank and tp and MF etc. would be really useful for those who pvp then get a full inventory of all the junk off the reward track lil boxes.

If you’re thinking of x-fering to T1, i suggest you pick TC or BG, not that I have anything against JQ, but so it keeps the matchup EVEN. if JQ kepts gaining and gaining more bandwaggonners, no one would have any fun. They would be sick of being green, and we would all be sick of losing. T1 servers are locked in now because the rating difference between 3rd place and 4th place is 200,000 even though SoS dominates.

I’d also like to add to this for some of the non engi players with text since i can’t find non-laggy record software.

Mesmer: Use a Greatsword with PU, and have pretty high damage. Take them out with long range, remember spatial surge has 1500 range, and their pistols are 900. Use blink and keep high mobility up.

Ranger: Keep up the same as the mesmer, use a long bow and keep away from them. Set up traps all around you and burst them hard, but make sure your mobility is also very high. SB would work too if played correctly.

Warrior: Use that berserker’s stance keep up the eviscerate and hammer 4-5-F1. Thieves only would have one stun breaker (shadowstep or roll for initiative), and no stability pops.

Elementallist: Just play some sort of build with six in water and keep removing the conditions, he’s nothing without them. Don’t afraid to go melee in fire, especially D/D.

yeah run rabid scepter torch staff great fun

I love burns on my mes, 800dmg per tick

Any ideas how to beat a thief 1v1 in wvw as an ele? or is it impossible

Still no changes to heartseeker spammers? Sigh…

Amonatory.2453:

Well Anet congratulations you are trying to nerf a spec that doesnt need nerfed. Many people do not realize how this will actually effect playing s/d. Think about it, good s/d thieves combo a lot of things off of larcenous and flanking strike is easy as hell to dodge which if you dont land the flanking strike then you just wasted 4 initiative and if you want to try again and you miss boom another 4 initiative, it’s almost like missing CnD’s. S/D will be absolutely pointless if this goes through, with missing flanking strikes you will always be on low initiative which is awful for a thief… Sure you can flanking strike steal but it glitches out a lot now since the steal patch, so it’s basically worthless to do. I agree 100% S/D acro was over the top and almost OP but S/D was never the problem, it was only the acrobatics trait line and to nerf S/D AGAIN because people think it’s OP is insane. If this patch legit goes through S/D will basically be done and worthless, sure it can work in some scenarios but most of the time wont at all. Rant over, Anet l2Balance…. GG

You are very stupid, S/D was improved with that buff of costing 2 less initiative for your favourite combo. Keep crying.

Diamond skin is fine as is, FYI, i think that it should be 80% or 85% since ele has such low HP.

Hello, my builds all fail me in wvw roaming so i was wondering if you guys would know any good elementallist moderate dps-good survivability builds which I can use to roam with.

An ideal idea could be that it teleports you to your foe, stabs them immobilizing them, and leaves a clone at the point where you left.

my advice pu builds work good on thieves, have your phants hurting him up while he cant find you as you are constantly stealthing. a good 4/4/6 or 2/2/6/4 would work fine

good luck crystal desert ily guys <3 hope you guys can beat tier 3 and keep climbing the rankings.
ATTENTION PEOPLE LOOKING FOR SERVER: This is a great server, and needs more determined WvW players, they are great fun I used to be on them, no regrets about joining CD.

if this is the case then at least include this in the skill’s tooltip, interval: 1 second.
the duration of boons should be increased.

Nothing left to do except wait and predict when itll come. This is rediculous, they punish and delay us for THEIR issue…. ah well. I look forward to seeing my reward sometime in July or August.

Ankushp.7245:

Its amazing, the speed at which they resolve bugs relating to “Purchase of Gems” . So there must be a 100 devs allocated to the Gem Store and one slow poke dev for solving the WvW Reward Bug who will be done by the next season…..

Agreed, but there’s also the high chance there is only one or two devs looking after the WHOLE WvW area of the game. Think of it this way, all they have done in wvw since release is add wvw ranks and change the middle. That being said, we were promised June the 3rd to claim our awards, then they did a patch today that should have let us, now they say ‘temporarily disabled’ to delay more people because of THEIR own bug, not letting others get the chest. Now we have to wait, more.

Yes its stupid this bug. great. no karma vendo for us

Yeah, they are souldbound on pickup, and no the runes aren’t all trash. I use superior runes of the golemancer, and then I get a superior rune drop of the same on my other other character….. -.-

Best dungeon ~ me and my buddies

Hello, I just had a suggestion here for the drops of sigils and runs in dungeons, those ones that say soulbound should say account bound, because we might not need or want it on that character but want it on another, and we never know when we will get it. It’s not a huge difference, but I don’t see any problems if runes and sigils of the dungeon theme were account bound when looted in chests, because they are quite expensive with tokens.

Tommykiller is a great bg commander

yeah you should be able to craft ascended trinkets in jeweling., would be much helpful, and craft better foods too like
plate of inferno stake
100 power
100 cond damage
25% cond duration
lol.

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Henrik.7560:

Everyone should have a utility that reveals nearby foes.

And everyone should have easy access to stability. That are basic mechanics, core mechanics. Like run/mobility OUT OF COMBAT, break stuns, possibility to leave a combat, etc.

In all others games i played all classes had easy access to CORE/BASIC counter mechanics. The teamwork mechanics like healings, supports/boons, cleansing, mobility IN COMBAT, etc, is another story.

Arenanet removed the trinity in exchange to something worst by far, unbalanced as hell. No clue about what they did.

Yes. Stabillity for everyone is also a great idea. Another thing is the unbalanced base healths, those like warriors who can do incredible damage have heavy armor and huge health, while some like elementallists and guardians don’t do as much, and have half the health.

loving my new armor

Everyone should have a utility that reveals nearby foes.

Blackgate vs JQ, i’d like to see this WITHOUT TC there.

here’s my mesmer

- When you have a ruler or something around 30cm long in your hand, you start doing sword #1 animations xD
- you look at several positions to be at once
- you’re desktop wallpaper is a mesmer
- you bought a command tag on your mesmer <— me
- you use mind stab for damage not for boon ripping
- you constantly search wiki and forums for ways to go faster

-bump-
Yeah. They should expand on the pets more, for example with wolves include coyotes and foxes etc, birds in clude hawkeye griffon, owl griffon etc.
The idea of us chosing abilities is also really good, and if these things would happen i’d play my ranger more.

Indeed, the north cliffs are so climbable though, I found three different ways with just simple jumping to get to there.

Lol, was climbing cliffs cos I was bored, and one led to this, lol.

I have to say, it’s pretty funny the rivalry SoS and BG have with JQ
Sorry JQ, but this happened with you and TC last week, we are just evening the scales

BG and SoS aren’t a formally agreed alliance for eternity, we are still fighting each other a bit. Anyway have fun this week people

CD and FA about 15 months ago, the times when IoJ vs’d us.
BG and JQ ~ Been like this for a while, gotten worse lately, now it basically TC & JQ vs BG and SoS, I don’t think JQ is ever going to like SoS because of this, even though they hit us more than JQ…. More importantly, we prefer SoS to be second this week so they can rematch TC.

Mesmers. They have a great team effect with mass invis, veil and portal entre. Very useful for different reasons.

Use it for Ascendeds and Liquid WXP.

Anet should do a server rating reset. It’ll bring the fun back just as it was at release.

only a WvW player prefers liquid WXP over blues,greens,rares.

Good luck SoS. hope you get more people so you’ll be able to take down JQ yourself! this week we’re letting you have that bay in our borderlands as a point boost to stay over JQ 90% of our firepower is concentrated on JQ, and we have no desire for making you guys come last.

Good luck on players, CD. I got two college buddies who play guild wars and i told em to pick crystal desert when they’re 80s, I might join, and we will join you in wvw.

Good luck on finding people, yaks. you guys are a great server! I remember battling with you guys when I was on CD. Would be awesome if you got to tier 2. I highly recommend this server it has active wvw players and strong oceanic coverage.

Yes. It is well worth it. It was my second character out of my six, and its my favorite. they are the most unique class, and can be an invincible bunker, stealth master, confuser, or a thief.

I agree with phantom’s points, the towers should protect the keeps, not sitting behind doing nothing. having keeps next to each other doesnt make sense either, a zerg can just rush in and take all 3 in 30 minutes.
See attatchments for a rough sketch of a borderlands idea that would make more sense.
grey is cliffs,
squares are towers,
stars are camps,
pentagons are keeps.

So I went to look in the wvw merchant to buy some armor cos its too expensive on the trading post, but, they don’t have the Sentinel or Assassin gear for sale with badges… Will this be added in the future?

Just wondering, how does it react when you have multiple of them open, does it do one of these reactions?
- keeps at 50% redirected
- 50% for one, 25% for another, 12.5% for the third?
- 50% and 50% for another = 100% (doubt it)

yeah i thought so, just checking because they’re quite expensive

for the 2nd, 4th and 6th piece bonuses, does it deduct vitality and change it into those stats, or does it keep your vitality and and add those extra stats? just wondering before i replace all my runes i currently use.

Youch, lots of horrible mistakes made here! I feel your pain guys, I’ve done VERY stupid things too, other than my two ring of red deaths….