Guild Wars 2

What helps for me is stop moving and wait for the white triangle indicating my field of view to appear on the mini map. But when i’m running from a zerg barely coming out of combat there’s not really much time for me to stand still…

/edit: This has been posted here before: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Mini-Map-Rubberbanding/3431077

The best solution would be to just ignore the points. For the first 6 months playing this game i was part of a havok/small zerg group and playing for points. I invested quite a lot of time in the game and stressed myself in ways i shouldn’t do.

Afterwards i joined my current guild and started taking it easy, playing for the fights rather than points and the game is just a lot more fun and relaxing this way.

If there would be any game modes beside conquest, maybe…but running to and standing in points is not really what i want to do…Obsidian Sanctum arena is about everything i need right now.

/edit: Also i’d like to have more build options in sPvP.

Looks fine but from my experience critchance is more important than critdmg until you have ~60%. Because of this i would consider dropping up to 10% critdmg and go for more precision instead.

Just gonna leave this here: Masterful reflection only works for the skill Distortion (F4), not for the Distortion effect in general.

42% critchance and 70% critdmg both seem way too low for a shatter build, also.

Yeah, that’s why i’m for keeping the downed state as is and remove hardressing in combat. My post kinda looks different i realize now.

But good to hear that we have fans now, Jathres will be pleased, i guess ^^

/edit: Also removing downed state would make WvW duelling quite a pain ^^ Since the warrior numbers have risen (and there’s no point even starting a fight with them as they will flee and are uncatchable for me anyway) it’s basically the only thing i’m doing.

No matter if OP is skilled or not, he/she speaks truly.

However, while removing the downed mechanic would most likely demand more balancing as the game is designed around having it, i suggest that players are only able to ress their fully dead (aka hardress) while out of combat.

Being able to hardress in combat is what really favors the zerg as it can always dispatch people to ress while the same is not true for the smaller group.

If i want good fights against skilled opponents, i enter the Obsidian Sanctum arena ^^

Regarding PU, personally i think the trait got op after the buff and letting phantasms do the work while hiding in stealth is not really what “fighting” means to me. But everyone has their own way ^^

I still enjoy good old 20/20/0/0/30 power shatter. It is in disadvantage against most other roaming build after a ArenaNet basically buffed everything else, but i enjoy it and it’s still capable of oneshotting some people ^^

Regarding traveler runes, i personally see them as a must have for every mesmer roamer (and lots of other class builds, too).

Bumpidi-bump…

MrFluffy.9307:

UrMom.4205:

Wait….who’s Red Guard?

they are gods to the WvW community…

Speak for yourself only, please.

I hope we face SWAT and TaG today.

RoF people might know better but afaik TaG left the server.

At least that’s what i heard and i haven’t met one of them so far.

Well, actually it makes no sense at all.

Well, the roamers i know (including myself) are primarily looking for outnumbered fights and zerglings to troll. We are dying a lot so it’s always good to being outnumbered.

Camps are capped and defended whenever possible but the main point is looking for good fights.

I will craft celestial helm, coat and leggins and keep my exotic berserker stuff for the rest. Those pieces got higher critdmg than the berserker ones and allow me to go with full berserker trinkets while still regaining a decent amount of toughness/vit.

That’s for WvW roaming on a shatter mesmer.

/edit: I would even craft the exotic celestial stuff but since the recipes itself cost a fortune, i’ll go directly for ascended.

Rhaz is in the matchup, so everything will be fine :P

Who cares?

/15 char

Bumping this again, hopefully it will be fixed soon

Your fastest burst will most likely be GS #2 → (Dodge) → F1 or scepter/sword block → F1 since both are near instant and way less telegraphed than Sword #3 → #3 → #2 → F1.

Don’t know how good that works in zergs though, i usually avoid those.

Just remove hardressing while in combat as suggested countless times before. You can still hardress your buddies after you won but you will have more to do than just throwing more and more people against the smaller group.

It’s just another layer where skilled players can easily outplay unskilled players

If by “skilled players” you mean a blob big enough to ress anyone in seconds, then yes. But usually the skilled players play in smaller groups (to avoid skill lag etc) and usually don’t have much time to ress their fallen.

Most of the time precision gives more damage than critical damage and also allows for more stable damage output. For my shatter build i aim for ~70% critchance (+10% for mind wrack, 100% if i can get fury somehow). This is with assassin armor, precision food and at least 20 in duelling obviously.

Regarding runes i’m currently using Traveler. I used to go with Air runes but it somehow felt wrong to use my heal when i didn’t need it and i like the (small) vit and toughness bonus Traveler runes provide.

Believe it or not, ANet, but core WvWers, be they roamers or zergers, DO care about points

Well…no. Points are meaningless, especially while there is no season running (and even then i couldn’t give a kitten about them).

The main focus of WvW (for roamer) is open world PvP, running around looking for fights, trolling zergs in the central ruins and just having fun while hopefully being outnumbered so armor doesn’t get damaged ^^

Greetings to all those people on the screen. I was told you raged pretty hard about me ^^

For an interrupt build i’d prefer the sword, otherwise i’m a pretty big fan of the (traited) torch for increased survivability and ambush attacks.

By the way you are very strong to kill … like all mesmer that able to play.

You were engi if i remember correctly, right? Thanks for the compliments, mobility and juking has highest priority for me when roaming, especially since i’m running solo most of the time.

Btw thanks for all Raniks that showed up in Obsidian Sanctum arena today (or rather yesterday, as it’s 0:14 right now). And i’m hoping for Rhaz to be able to take down Dilpi in the end ^^

Sorry, TaG, but your server seems to have gotten pretty cowardly…calling 5 guildmates (HxH) to be able to fight a single opponent is pretty poor in my opinion.

I could have probably kited those Raniks a few minutes more around your bay, but i wanted to kill those 2 thieves so badly

Aww, TaG are back :>

Looking forward to this week, also for more [Haaa] action, i promise to keep improving ^^

Well, i should probably clarify my statement a bit: Ranik players, in my opinion, are generally better than UW but are extremely cowardly and would never fight a fair fight if they can have it the easy way.

Merry Christmas together.

Tbh i found FR players to be generally better than UW. Both servers are quite zerg heavy, it’s only more obvious for Ranik because of their numbers.

95% of duel in OS / WvW i have faced are either Mesmer condi or thieve condi.

Interesting, i’m meeting nothing but condi warriors and condi necros. We conclude, both our experiences aren’t representive at all ^^

As a shatter mesmer, i can still fight and sometimes win vs PU despite my lack of condition removal. Their main damage comes from clones dying so try to avoid that. Clone AI is generally very dumb, so use LoS to get them to stay away from the mesmer and you.

Also, in over 1 year of GW2 i have never, not even once, died to Moa in a 1v1. I’d suggest you to play mesmer for a while so you experience their strengths and weaknesses.

PU could still need a bit of tweaking, after all. It was a good trait even before the buff (it was triggering every 3s back then instead of every second).

I’d rather see it replaced with something else, something that was less about cheesing 1v1 and more about…well something else.

Actually, at least in my experience, Moa is pretty bad in 1v1 since skill #5 and #2 bring you far enough away to make the elite a total waste. It gets better in small scale fights (3v3 etc) since it disables one of the combatants so you effectively outnumber them for these 10 seconds.

Another bump.

/edit: And merry christmas (15 chars)

Yes, please remove Moa and replace it with something useful.

Pistol Whip CAN be useful if it procs either Sigil of Rage or the thief trait that grants quickness (whatever it is called…). Otherwise the hits are slow enough so you can react accordingly.

Posting here as a mesmer using both mainhand Sword and GS in the same build. Against a perma-retaliation guard (and everyone near him) both GS auto attack and Blurred Frenzy are entirely useless since i’m hurting myself more than the other guy.

/edit: Also nothing more hillarious than setting Feedback in a zerg and instantly killing (not downing) myself with it…

//edit: I’m actually quite okay with the last one since it obviously counts as AoE, which is exactly what should be countered by retaliation. But having 2 attacks (GS #1 and Sword #2) being useless in a 1v1 against a guardian is pretty frustrating.

Bumping this again, still happening.

Also see here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Mini-map-1

Don’t know if this already has been reported but pre-patch i could move my minimap while running and it stayed for a few seconds before being centered around me again.

Postpatch it constantly snaps back to me while i try to move it around. I have to stand still (and even then it not always works) to move it around which is kinda uncomfortable when i just want to look after a certain camp or tower in WvW while moving around.

When using GS i’m quite successful to go for max range as long as possible, grinding down their DS and only going in when a fast disengage (F4, Blink, …) is available.

There is a Vabbi border? I’ve never been there…

Masterful Reflection only affects the F4 shatter. The description isn’t quite clear about that, however.

Do you really want that reflect on Axe #5 if that also would mean:
- Guardians get a 4s Daze
- Mesmer get all Boons
- Rangers get another healing spring
- Necros get even longer fears
- Eles get longer chills
- Engis get…well, scratch that (however, that skill is quite useful for P/x condi thieves as the pistol sneak attack provides 5 100% projectile finishers which will all inflict confusion if fired through the field)

Already had some nice duels so far. I’ll visit Obsidian Sanctum whenever i’m bored and will be happy about everyone i’ll meet there.

I’ve been put into combat by white mobs also. Happens both when they cross over Temporal Curtain or i hit them with Sword AA (GS works fine, however).

Always good to see that there are still some shatter mesmers roaming around. I’m running a similar build at the moment although slightly more defensive with traited torch for additional condi cleanse.

Sadly it seems like the devs don’t like shatter builds and thus are buffing the already superior (at least in terms of forgiving mistakes and skill floor) PU and phantasm builds.

However, the build is still viable and always good for fast and tense fights, so as long as there aren’t any nasty nerfs incoming, i think we’ll be fine

Was funny, yeah. You should roll zerker necro more often, i’ve never seen so many Halting Strikes and Mind Wracks critting for 4-5k before

Mr Jd necro got his fair deal of sparring today so i expect some facerolling at the event!

Well, regarding special treatment, i usually don’t attack upscaled players, unless they are attacking me/something in my color or are companied by one or more 80s.

In a former matchup (months ago) i once got portalbombed by ~10 people. Getting chased 4v1 by Jd is nothing against that :P

Since mesmers got a good amount of active defense, it is even possible to go full Berserker and still regain a decent amount of survivability.

Since i’m using both Sword and Torch for defense (although i’m using GS in the other set which lacks defense) i tend to aim for ~2400 armor and 17k hp and do quite good. As a shatter, my best defense consists in applying a lot of pressure so there is little space for my opponent to actually go for me.

I kinda like fighting warriors…stealing their Signet of Rage buff feels like hitting a jackpot every time. Only thing better is stealing Rampage as One from a Ranger ^^