Guild Wars 2

Play another class. Mesmers are not fast enough to make it to the champions in time before the warriors/etc kill them and don’t have enough AoE to tag the mobs.

If you really want to do this with a mesmer, the build above will do it. It’s the basic shatter build.

A +25% movement signet (probably) wouldn’t change the speed of our illusions so it’s still easy to walk away from them.

Also, warriors,thieves and eles got both high damage and mobility so that is not an argument.

Would need to remove the +100% damage in exchange for being a minor trait. It’s mainly taken for the cd reduce anyway.

What downside should Reanimator have? You don’t rally if you kill the minion so it’s an additional target to TAB through and potential +20 toughnes if you are at least 15 points deep in the traitline.

It may not be a good trait, but it doesn’t hurt the necro in any way.

I kinda like it…the bleed is not important but on-demand poison really helps against high-healing classes/builds.

Well, if you’re never at 25% hp you either fight extremely bad opponents or don’t really pose a threat since you do no damage.

Well, okay, but it should break when:
- the stealth attack gets blocked.
- it misses due to blind.

When a dagger hits my shield this should be a very clear sign that there is a thief nearby. So it should reveal.

Nerf pets damage considerably, phantasms, spirits, minions…summons whatever…

Could as well delete mesmers.

I’m playing thief for ~2 weeks now and i’m already hating this trait…since i’m using offhand dagger for stealth i always end up revealing myself when i try to stealth away to heal -.-

/edit: And yes, mesmer decoy works while revealed. It also doesn’t stack with other stealth sources (weird skill/effect…).

Stealth in general is fine. Only change the following:
- Nerf combo stealth (BP + HS/Clusterbomb).
- Reveal on block/miss.

Not sure if this is widely known, but the Pistol sneak attack gives you 5 100% projectile finishers. Using a water field and deselecting your target, it’s possible to stack quite a good amount of regeneration.

Someone will blow up the whole scene, same as every other living story so far…/yawn.

Unless you are using GS, don’t even try it. Any class can run from a mesmer. Just think of it as a win while the other guy /points and /laughs at you.

Is this actually too secret to answer?…

If you are waiting for an official answer: Won’t happen, trust me. They don’t care.

Maybe it’s not as important in PvP, but in PvE/WvW where you actually have to travel some way, mesmers are BY FAR the slowest class.

Given the amount of buffs other classes received, it’s only fair to change one of our useless signet passives (midnight, inspiration) to +25% movement speed.

But, well, i’m in the wrong forum for this and this has been posted several dozens of times already anyway.

I REALLY hope the don’t remove too much water…that’s basically the only way for a non-kitten mesmer to escape from someone…

Signet of Domination: Additionally increases condition damage by 80.

Pretty basic. Okay, i think.

Signet of Illusions: Illusions additionally share your boons.

I really like this one.

Signet of Inspiration: Now grants two random boon every ten seconds.

I’d rather see it proc every 5s instead, but ok.

Signet of Midnight: Additionally gain 3% reduced damage for boon you have.

This could potentially be very op…a PU stealth build has around ~5 permanent boons (Retaliation, Protection, Regeneration, Might, Fury). That would mean 15% dmg reduction, combined with 33% from protection and possible 9% from Illusionary Defense = 57% reduced damage.

A few good ideas here but what we really need is a passive +25% movement speed so we aren’t forced to take focus, centaur/air runes or staff (spamming #2 to run from a zerg).

Literally, they’re 20% skill and 80% numbers.

I’m hoping we’ll meet some time this week so you can show us your skill

No, it doesn’t. Having the highest passive healing + highest mobility in the game means a lot of sustain. Don’t just stand there, try kiting your opponents.

Don’t know for NA but in EU atleast my server, Dzagonur, has no overflow at 7am. And we aren’t even the least populated server.

Maybe a black laser o.o

So you want even more healing? We don’t need warriors to facetank a zerg…

We once had a perma-stealth thief hidden in our tower and i happened to have a trap with me. The sheer desperation of the thief trying to run was amusing.

It’s not only the frequence in which the #6 bonus can be applied, it’s the duration too. 10s base is way too high compared to any other source of confusion in the game (especially mesmers, which are supposed to be the masters of confusion and are laughable compared to this).

Create a walkway that goes around the stage. Allow players to view the action close up.

Personally, i think this could be very disturbing for the person currently fighting. I know that i wouldn’t want it.

Try guesting on a low population server and play early in the morning when less people are online.

Did the “kill no other oozes”-achievement for Subject 7 on my thief. P/D condi build, dropped Caltrops at the beginning, used poison + torment venom and moved along the wall, CnD’ing on oozes that spawned behind me.

I can’t think of a suitable title for Light up the Darkness, but Darkness Illuminator could just be…you know…“Darkness Illuminator”.

(If i’m not mistaken, so far all titles come from achievements having the same name)

When my warrior is finally 80, i’m looking forward to play a Sword/Shield + Mace/Sword interrupt condi build.

Whatever you take…take less.

Actually, they spawn directly under whatever damages Subject 7. Good to know for mesmers as they will spawn under the phantasms and thus near to the boss.

Another mesmer. 1 condi and 1 shatter so they have to react to 2 different kinds of damage.

- Reduce the #4 to 1 stack of confusion.
- Reduce the #6 to 3 stacks of confusion, reduce bease duration to 5s and give it 20s internal cd.

The way it is it’s just wildly superior to any confusion a mesmer can do which shouldn’t be the case.

? The oozes spawn as you do damage to Subject 7. I always had more than 7 (way more when i did the Blobs, Schmobs achievement).

/edit: Also, did you have Crowd Favorite Gamibit active during the 3rd screen?

Just pointing out that there was a picture of someone doing Liadri on a lvl 2 necro somewhere in these forums.

The fight is (apart from camera issues) completely skill based.

Yeah, i think the blinding flashs should be removed. Most likely most players are turning off post-processing anyway.

Actually, i don’t think any class should be able to apply permanent poison just by auto-attacking. Maybe necros, because they are meant to be condition masters but the condition should be timed to counter heals and not be spammed.

This does not mean that i’m against giving warriors any way to apply poison. It should be hard to access, however, as condi specs are already in a pretty good shape.

or didn’t save a dodge..

Try staying closer to the center. I barely ever had to dodge and sometimes it’s easier to run back and forth between 2 safe zones (or, better said, it’s always easier but the clones will reach you this way and you’ll have to deal with them).

Don’t know about american servers but try to play during off-times. I did Liadra at 7am on a german server when there was hardly anyone in the area at all.

/edit: Guesting to a low populated server may also help.

//edit: The fight mechanic itself is totally fine. Bugs should be fixed but if you can’t beat Liadra the way she is you are too bad to do so. It’s meant to be a challenge.

All bosses in there are immune to immobilize. However, you can interrupt and slow them.

I’d suggest reverting the ini change and make it so you have to actually hit with Flanking Strike to get the chain skill. Would also kind of resolve the boonsteal-spamming.

The new portal item effectively gives every class (at least in PvE) an exact copy of the mesmer portal skill which is one of the main reason to play mesmer in PvE.

The new runes apparently afflict much more and longer confusion than any of our skills (see https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/necromancer/Superior-Rune-of-Perplexity). 5 stacks confusion for 10s base duration overshadows everything we got ourselves to apply confusion.

Really seems like ArenaNet is trying to remove the mesmer from the game.

/edit: Seeing the current power creep it seems that ArenaNet simply “forgot” to adjust mesmer accordingly to other classes (or better: Adjust other classes to the mesmer. We don’t need power creep).

Got Shield, Gun, Hammer and Whirling one…tried getting the 5th for about an hour now -.-

If you mean you reapply it in the very right moment, then stealth exhaustion will not come into play,

Yes, this is what i meant. Seems like it’s too hard for me to understand your suggestions…

But, after all, my opinion remains: Combo stealth (BP + HS, also engi smoke fields) not being stackable is everything needed.

Warriors don’t have a problem with retaliation since they got no fast-hitting attacks and high hp-pool to offset the damage. No wonder you can’t see just how powerful retal is.

It’s been my experience that most of the GvG-focused groups spent a big part of their time capping and defending structures, reserving 1 time of the week for themselves to do their GvGs.

This “stealth exhaustion” is…not a really good idea. I’m currently playing thief and against a lot of opponents i basically have to chain CnD (which is easy to dodge/anticipate) to survive and wait for my utilities/steal to recharge.

Also, CnD was __hit (filter -.-) hard by the blind buff. You have to get near to the opponent and actually waste an attack on them (potentially getting blinded again) to be able to get your CnD off. I miss 2 CnD and i have to run for my life.

Hey, Daecollo wants another way to get 100% Protection uptime (when boon stacking). Surprise, surprise.

I just didn’t wanted a filthy kitten to win, sorry about the rest

I agree with you, it’s better to just get rid of Chaos Armor as a weapon skill and replace it with something useful at this point.

no stealth stacking
Equal to the many mesmer stealth abilities, the stealth from different sources would not stack (combo finisher counting as the same source).

So, you suggest that BP + HS would still allow easy stacking of 10s stealth? That’s bad. This particular combo is everything that needs to be nerfed, everything else about thieves is quite balanced.