Guild Wars 2

I agree. I’ve been a mesmer since launch so this may sound weird coming from me. But I strongly feel like phantasm builds are very cheesey. There are two traits that buff phantasms damage by 15% each, and another that gives them perma fury. Those traits should instead buff mesmer’s auto attack damage, instead of phantasms damage in my opinion.

I just wanted to add that builds that rely heavily on AI are too rewarding for the amount of skill it takes to pull it off. I think it’s good this game has some easy to use builds for people who are generally not great at mastering classes, but those builds shouldn’t be as strong as they are imo.

Quells.2498:

The short of it is that some aren’t running because they don’t want to duel or any of the reasons you’ve listed but rather because they’re trying to optimize the amount of information they can glean and/or the amount of points they can turn before the tick.

Nah, that’s not true. If more comes, then the whole group of them will stop whatever they were doing to chase you for over 10 minutes sometimes just to fight and kill you… as long as they outnumber you.

I get the feeling the OP is a lot like me. And this problem pours over into my real life. My real issue is I hate people who don’t even try. In a way, it sickens me. To not even want to try. I think that’s what it boils down to. How can someone be so afraid to not even try, especially in a virtual setting? When I find myself getting annoyed in WvW with runners, I just do dungeons. And when i get annoyed by people in dungeons, I just do WvW again.

Ninjapotpie.6973:

WHY? WHY ? it makes my heart so sad when you see someone one on one say leaving a camp and they see you….. and RUN. This is WvW its about fighting other people… are you really only here to PVE camps and pretend you are a big bad WvWer? I can understand running from a group but a one on one fight is just silly. don’t run. you will only die tired…

They run because they’re afraid. I’ve asked this question so many times. They almost always say, “I don’t have time…bla bla bla.” That’s a lie though. Because I’ve seen those same people who don’t have time to stop and 1v1, will stop and chase you for 10 minutes around the map if they outnumber you. Or they’ll try to lead you into npc guards so they can get help, or won’t leave the area in front of their base so they can quickly run back inside. Of course they’re defending the base, but as soon as more people show up they will leave their post to fight you outnumbered.

Yeah, definitely Archage. I’ve been checking it out. The game looks really cool. Everything about it seems interesting, except the combat. The combat ruins it for me.

i don’t play a guardian, but I always find myself in a group with one. My biggest issue with guardians is that they turn everything into a giant ball of light and it becomes impossible to see animations. Please fix.

great post. I’m someone who has never run a meta build and I’ve never gone looking for any builds to copy. I sorta just choose traits that are fun for me and that I like. I choose gear that has just enough defensive stats for me and not anything less because someone else says, “full zerker or get kicked.” I agree with everything you’ve said. At the end of the day i can solo roam effectively and can solo dungeons well enough to make some gold at the end with my “sub-optimal” build.

I wish this game had more players like yourself and less of other players trying to impose their playstyle onto others.

I definitely agree. Duration stacks on immobilize is a bad idea.

It would be awesome only if there were many different looks to choose from. I wouldn’t like it if there was only one version for the set for light armor, medium armor, or heavy armor. There should many versions of the set with each looking distinct from each other, not just reskins with different particle effects. And each version should have a different method for acquiring it.

And epic quest story line for each one would be wonderful.

And it should be about being a very skilled player, and not about being who can farm gold fastest to get it.

Raunchy.6891:

Hot Boy.7138:

And mesmer do have a role. It depends on how you build your character. My mesmer has a tank set and I’m pretty good at tanking. My mesmer also has a heal set and is pretty good at healing. I’m pretty good at spamming conditions if that’s what I want to do because I have a condition set also.

Well that kind of sums it up. We don’t want to just be “pretty good” at everything. Every class can do that. We want to excel at something that not all the other classes can do. What’s so fun about doing something any other class can do arguably better?

Hot Boy.7138:

edit: Well if i really think about it…. I would get rid of those two traits that increase illusions/phantasms damage by 15% each. It does seem a little cheesey since they are AI that attack passively. phantasms hit hard already on their own without those traits if you’re running bezerker gear.

So you’re saying that you want to reduce pve mesmers damage by 15%-30%. I’m not understanding why we need to be less useful in dungeons any more than we already are. We’re mostly just brought along for reflect utility and very little else. Trying to say it’s good for pvp isn’t entirely accurate because phantasms do damage relatively slowly, and they can get taken out pretty quickly once the aoe drops in team fights.

Our auto auto attack and/or another active skill on the weapon set could be buffed to compensate. Which really is way better in my opinion. Clones die pretty quickly, so it’ll be less punishing if they die right away if our auto attack does more damage. Second, skills that you have to actively use should do more damage than passive ones you just use and forget about. It would be a good change for pve and pvp. So yeah, I’m definitely all for removing those traits that buff phantasm damage by 30%.

Besides abilities that are broken like iwarden, i really think mesmer is in a very good place. I have one character, a mesmer, that I’ve been playing since Beta. I honestly feel like mesmer CC does have a lot of synergy. And mesmer do have a role. It depends on how you build your character. My mesmer has a tank set and I’m pretty good at tanking. My mesmer also has a heal set and is pretty good at healing. I’m pretty good at spamming conditions if that’s what I want to do because I have a condition set also.

The only thing I would change is I would take that cooldown off of Triumphant Distortion grandmaster trait, but that’s really it. Mesmer is really in a good spot.

I mostly solo pve, solo roam wvw, spvp, and i solo queue for tpvp here and there.

edit: Well if i really think about it…. I would get rid of those two traits that increase illusions/phantasms damage by 15% each. It does seem a little cheesey since they are AI that attack passively. phantasms hit hard already on their own without those traits if you’re running bezerker gear.

i use an SSD and i have character models on lowest. Loads pretty fast for me. Try lowering character models to the lowest if you haven’t already.

think of it more like you have a 1 in 100 chance to get an item normally. and with 200% magic find then you have a 2 in 100 chance, and 300% magic find is more like a 3 in 100 chance.

That cooldown on the mesmer trait, Triumphant Distortion, needs to go. I thought you said there wouldn’t be a cooldown on it?

StinVec.3621:

For those that are not interested in reading the whole thread (or even the last page or two) to see if the cause/solution was already posted, please see my post on page 10 which also includes a graphic and an explanation for the cause and ways to lessen the occurrence of the issue. May want to also continue reading some of the conversation that followed on that page.

Wow. I didn’t even see your post before. But it’s exactly as you said. If I push the button like you say then I don’t even experience it. It’s awkward to push it this way though. But it will help me a lot until I can put aside the money to buy a new mouse.

Can you tell me your personal opinion of the logitech g600? I was thinking of getting that one next. I must have a mouse with a keypad on the side.

I’m not sure, I’ve never used those runes.

Guys. I was definitely on top of this issue. I posted in this forum a few times and even sent a few emails. I even had a couple sessions with one-on-one support. I played other games and it didn’t make any sense to me that the issue was only in this game. Now, having said that, I have to say, my bad. It’s not the game. It’s my mouse.

My mouse is doing some sort of double/triple clicking so quickly that it wasn’t registering in other games. But that is what is causing my mouse issue. All this time I thought it was gw2 but it is definitely my mouse.

If you’re using a razor naga like me, the issue is probably the result of double/triple clicking, or just the click-thingy inside of the mouse malfunctioning. If you wanna test it like I did, just hold down the right click on your desktop and drag it. If the box it makes keeps folding over and no options pop up until you let go of the mouse then your mouse is okay. But in my case, when I dragged the mouse on the desktop, the options kept flickering in different places the mouse was dragged to without me even having let go of the clicker.

So arenanet, I’m sorry for accusing you. And people, check your mice the same way i did. I hope this helps some of you. Razor nagas are both amazing and terrible at the same time.

This is nothing new. It’s working as intended. It has been in the game since it went live 2 years ago.

I was sooo excited for this trait…. such a HUGE letdown with that internal cooldown. I could have sworn I read that there wouldn’t be a cooldown on it.

well, this is upsetting. I don’t have any weapon tokens and I don’t have any pvp salvage kits to salvage the weps I have for a chance at getting a weapon token. And no glory to buy either >< FML. I really wanted to make dwayna’s bows

thanks sooooooo much for this list! I sure wish I did more spvp now just to get Infinite Light skin.

sirsquishy.8531:

Hot Boy.7138:

sirsquishy.8531:

Hot Boy.7138:

Same thing happened to me today. Was a hard lock up. I couldn’t even go to task manager. This is the first time this has ever happened to me so I can’t say for sure it was this game. I was logged into the gave and afk in Divinity’s Reach with all graphic settings on max, but i was tabbed out watching anime on Fullscreen on Crunchyroll at the time.

Edit: settings:
i5 2500k (not overclocked)
radeon 6879
16gb ram
windows 7, 64 bit

So you had GW2 minimized with a char logged in to a zone while you were watching Flash Video? When did your system crash, when you left the Flash video and went back to GW2 or during CR playback?

Also, what show are you watching? :-)

It locked up while I was still in full screen mode at Crunchyroll. The video just froze and I assumed it was buffering, but it was making a weird sorta static noise through my headset. So I figured I’d tab back to guild wars 2 so it can buffer, but when I tried, nothing happened. So I tried pressing the windows key, escape, and then even cntrl+alt+del to get to task manager, and nothing happened. It just locked up.

The show I was watching is The Irregular at Magic High School. It just premiered this weekend. I like it so far. It has old school art style with new school animations. And the characters are choreographed fluidly. I like it so far and I have a feeling it’s gonna be a great show. But that’s just one of many animes I’m watching currently.

Ill look into that show, gotta love new releases.

as for the way you describe the lockups. I want you to update your Video Drivers, Adobe Flash, and your browser (I hope you use Firefox and not Internet Explorer) and see if that helps with the hard lock.

Applications alone do not have the ability to hard lock your Operating system. It’s caused by either a hardware issue (rather rare and shows other symptoms) or an underlying API/DLL issue between the application and your Operating system. I believe its the video driver since even your video in the browser was hard locked with the rest of the OS.

Edit Forgot to ask, does your system hard lock while ONLY watching Flash video or sitting Idle? Or does it only do this when GW2 is running?

Edit Your HD6879 seems to be mislabeled? So maybe you have a HD6870? If so that card has 1GB of ram, if you are maxing out the in game settings at 1080P you can easily exceed the vRAM on that card. Epically if you are playing Video in the background. You can check this with a program called GPU-Z, by looking at the sensors Tab.

Yeah, it’s the 6870. I mistyped. I don’t think it was the GPU because I watch anime all the time while being tabbed out of gw2. And this is the only time I have ever experienced my computer locking up. And all my drivers are up to date currently.

sirsquishy.8531:

Hot Boy.7138:

Same thing happened to me today. Was a hard lock up. I couldn’t even go to task manager. This is the first time this has ever happened to me so I can’t say for sure it was this game. I was logged into the gave and afk in Divinity’s Reach with all graphic settings on max, but i was tabbed out watching anime on Fullscreen on Crunchyroll at the time.

Edit: settings:
i5 2500k (not overclocked)
radeon 6879
16gb ram
windows 7, 64 bit

So you had GW2 minimized with a char logged in to a zone while you were watching Flash Video? When did your system crash, when you left the Flash video and went back to GW2 or during CR playback?

Also, what show are you watching? :-)

It locked up while I was still in full screen mode at Crunchyroll. The video just froze and I assumed it was buffering, but it was making a weird sorta static noise through my headset. So I figured I’d tab back to guild wars 2 so it can buffer, but when I tried, nothing happened. So I tried pressing the windows key, escape, and then even cntrl+alt+del to get to task manager, and nothing happened. It just locked up.

The show I was watching is The Irregular at Magic High School. It just premiered this weekend. I like it so far. It has old school art style with new school animations. And the characters are choreographed fluidly. I like it so far and I have a feeling it’s gonna be a great show. But that’s just one of many animes I’m watching currently.

Same thing happened to me today. Was a hard lock up. I couldn’t even go to task manager. This is the first time this has ever happened to me so I can’t say for sure it was this game. I was logged into the gave and afk in Divinity’s Reach with all graphic settings on max, but i was tabbed out watching anime on Fullscreen on Crunchyroll at the time.

Edit: settings:
i5 2500k (not overclocked)
radeon 6879
16gb ram
windows 7, 64 bit

Am I the only person who feels like items just disappear in the bank sometimes. This is the second time. At the moment I can’t find my cultural armor tier 2 boots in my bank and I have no idea where they, because they’re not in my bags. This isn’t the first time something like this has happened. I don’t know if I’m losing my mind or what.

have anyone else just had an item they were looking for be totally gone from their inventory?

Edit: i meant to post this in player helping player forum section

Edit: nevermind, I found it. My bank looks like a giant pile of chaos and randomness and I’m tired from midterms-week.

I always use a free camera and I’m constantly keeping the camera on my opponent, no matter which direction i’m facing or running, by using the left click button, and to change directions of my character i use the right click. I started doing this in WoW when I decided to be more competitive in pvp. It was hard for me to get used to. I honestly had to level a character from scratch with all the changes just to get used to it.

This was an excellent post. I agree with it completely.

Wolf.4739:

Having same problem. I’ve tested out of game and there is no problem with the right button.

Now that I realise what is happening I think it has been going on a long time but seems to be worse now than ever.

Wondering if it is to do with the dual monitor setup. Occasionally it randomly throws me out of game to the other monitor.

I actually contacted support about this again last week. I asked them if there was any news of a fix for this. This is the exact response I was given:

“This isn’t something Technical Support can offer assistance with. The issue has been reported and only development can address the core cause at this point. Please continue to monitor that thread for any updates.”

The last time a tech support has posted in this thread was over a year ago. And I don’t believe that a developer has ever responded to any of the issues in this thread that is over a year old and 11 pages long.

I don’t play warrior, but I distinctly remember a time warriors used to be free kills for just about everyone in pvp. It’s their time to shine. Let them shine.

I’d def love to have Nikki Minaj’s body for my sylvari.

I like the armor the way it is. Good job on this one.

And there’s no such thing of a woman having too much “backside”. More is always better.

I would love dual daggers, a longbow, a melee greatsword, dual axes, and a hammer.

So this weekend I worked kitten trying to find another fix for this just to be completely sure the problem isn’t on my end. I did a total reformat of my computer. The problem still persists even after I updated every driver to the most recent one after a fresh windows install and fresh install of the game. I’m not using any razer drivers or software also.

And I’ve pretty much figured out that the problem arises when trying to attack while holding down the right mouse button at the same time while you’re strafe-turning your character and/or turning the camera. If you don’t attack, while using the mouse right click for turning character/camera it works fine. But if you try to attack while using it, the right click doesn’t register.

I am 110% sure now the problem isn’t on my end.

I actually really like illusionary leap as it is. I don’t like that it fails on uneven terrain, but besides that, which is just a pathing issue, illusionary leap is a phenomenal skill.

I spent a lot of time with tech support trying to figure this out since my initial post. The issue is definitely not on the player’s end. It’s the game. I use razor naga. The closest I got to a fix was totally uninstalling all razor programs and drivers, but the issue came back within a week and has gotten progressively worse since. Currently, any type of pvp and pve is extremely frustrating. It makes the game totally unplayable in regards to anything that requires any type of combat.

Please fix this problem. The issue is with the game, not with any individual player’s hardware or installed software. I’m just waiting for any new game to come out at this point because trying to play like this is kittened.

maybe midnight fire

Maybe this. That’s a mesmer I ran into a while ago. I thought he looked really cool so I took some screens.

http://dulfy.net/2013/12/12/gw2-ascended-armor-crafting-guide/#t0

Well, I guess I can forgive that 6 out of 10 for a nice sketch :-))!!

Zhaitan.2578:

I am an Arah dungeon seller.

As of right now, arah dungeon selling is in a horrible state, not only for the consumer, but also for the seller.

Arah is full of exploits. Obvious exploits. Skipping lupicus, skipping directly to light orb, killing bosses while phase-shifted, and more. It is ridiculous.

The worst part? Arenanet hasn’t done ANYTHING about it. Skipping content isn’t only in the dungeon selling community. Skipping lupicus has become the new norm for pugs. Popular guilds are posting videos of these skips and exploits since “every trick is the industry standard.” Arenanet made an official statement that dungeon selling is allowed as long as the content wasn’t exploited, yet people do it every day.

So how is this harmful?

This has stirred rebellion in the people. People are sick of Arenanet not doing anything about people cheating, so they destroy the instances. People join parties and kick the host. People abuse the merge party bug in order to instantly destroy instances.

Buyers are often out money since dungeon runners aren’t very sympathetic after being kicked. Kickers can face account suspensions. And sellers face the frustration of all of their work for nothing.

This is especially bad in the few cases where dungeon sellers are legitimate, meaning they don’t exploit the run. When I solo arah, I don’t skip or trivialize content. I play by the rules, but since some people assume I am an exploiter, many of my dungeons runs end with nothing.

Arenanet needs to do something. It is ridiculous that these exploits have been in the dungeon for so long and are so widely known, but no action has been taken to fix them or to ban the exploiters.

Moreover, Arenanet needs to hold a firm stance. If they advocate dungeon selling, they need to put something in place that protects the seller and the buyer. I am willing to pay some gold in order to open up some kind of special instance. Maybe 1g to open up an instance where I am the only one allowed, but after the game engine recognizes me at a certain spot in the dungeon, I can post in lfg where people are notified that I am at the final boss and will be deducted a specified amount of gold upon entering my party. Anything.

So Arenanet, please help the dungeon selling community. The current market is in ruins. Sellers exploiting dungeons, griefers kicking legitimate sellers, buyers getting ripped off. all is vain.

I couldn’t agree with this more. Also, this is very well stated. Every part of this is true. I’m also a dungeon seller. I solo without any exploits and it really does a lot of concentration and effort. My policy is that I let the buyers pay at the end when they get their reward. I’ve been lucky to have never been ripped off. I also worry about griefers kicking me out of the dungeon for whatever reason they have. It hasn’t happened to me so far, but the risk is always there. I definitely support your ideas.

I haven’t seen anyone speak directly about this. Most of the focus has been on the upcoming change to Deceptive Evasion. Critical Infusion having a 10 sec cooldown attached to it is by far a bigger problem in my opinion. Critical Infusion gives 5 seconds of vigor each time you perform a critical attack.

I play as a pure melee, berserker mesmer. If the change goes into effect, I will have half as much uptime on vigor which means I can dodge only half as many times as I normally do. That’s a HUGE nerf to the survivability of every mesmer who relies on active defense, instead of passive defense by stacking armor and vitality.

I sacrifice all of my passive defense to stack precision, instead of toughness/vitality, so i can crit more and proc more vigor from Critical Infusion. I’m confident I have the skills to dodge big attacks that will one shot me if I try to soak it.

Relying on active defense such as dodging and well timed blocks takes a lot more concentration and skill than just stacking passive defense stats and soaking those big attacks. It’s a very rewarding playstyle.

If this change goes into effect, not only do already sacrifice passive defensive stats like toughness and vitality, but I will have to sacrifice some damage to stack boon duration to compensate for 50% reduction on vigor uptime. I feel as though I’m being punished for relying on a core feature of combat, dodging.

I want very much for this change to not go into effect. I like my melee zerker playstyle because it’s fun and exciting, and i don’t want to be forced to fall back to range because I can’t fill my endurance bar fast enough to stay in melee.

I would give you a 10/10. Your character fits the sylvari theme perfectly, especially with that weapon.

This my sylvari, Luna Danu of Dreams. I’m going for more of a fairy look.

Doggie.3184:

Sylvari are the master race, and part of the reason they are is because they’re beautiful.

Trees are awesome.

Hot Boy.7138:

You’re smoking crack. Sylvari is the most attractive race in the game.

Your Sylvari is peeing lightning? :O

My sword gives me a lightning aura. The aura doesn’t comes out so well in pictures, it looks better in motion.

You’re smoking crack. Sylvari is the most attractive race in the game.

yes please! The things I do in game doesn’t give me any dragonite ore whatsoever. Zerging temples in Orr and towers in WvW is not fun for me. I have thousands of bloodstone dust ad empyreal fragments and only about 29 dragonite ore. I was saving dragonite ore for last to craft my armor cause I dread having to join a zerg train going to temple to temple. I have so much of the other mats that it’s overtaking all of my storage! please let me convert them into dragonite ore.

9/10
I really like your name. I love the first name. But because you’re a necromancer, I took off a point because I feel like your last name should have been Dreamsnatcher. That sounds so evil like something I think a necromancer should have.

My sylvari mesmer’s name is Luna Danu of Dreams.

I made my sylvari red-skinned for a few weeks to match that flamekissed set. I think red skinned sylvaris look really good. But you’re definitely right about them being rare. I never thought of it before but I almost never see any. This is a vid of my sylvari in that armor while red-skinned.

That’s really good news. Good find Dustfinger. Ohh the possibilities. I’m excited thinking about having access to all weps on my mesmer.

I love melee in this game. On my mesmer, I use sword/x and sword/x. Sword is always in the main hand and I change the offhand depending on the situation. Sword is wonderful on mesmers and I love it, but mesmers need more melee weapon options.

It would be nice if you included the option through traits, or a ult skill, or just an option when having a greatsword equipped, to change the auto attack from a ranged laser, to melee swings. I’m not asking for all new unique melee skills on the greatsword. Just the basic attack to be ranged or melee.

I couldn’t agree with the OP more. I love this game and I would like to see it grow. To see this game grow you have to be welcoming to new players so they continue to play and hopefully they’ll introduce their friends to the game.