Guild Wars 2

I didn’t test power, but condi/hybrid Chrono seems much too strong right now. iReversion, Chronophantasma and F5 basically let you roll your face across your shatters to kill everything in melee range, except maybe a necro.

I never played necro before, so i’m obviously bad at it, but i really like Reaper so far and had lots of fun with it. Didn’t use GS and Shouts because they just looks bad, but had lots of fun with Staff + Dagger/X and Signets/Spectrals, both Cele and Zerker.

(Condi) Chrono is absurdly op right now, so i might consider switching to Necro/Reaper once the expansion hits. Still deciding on a build, though, since all traitlines look kinda nice to me.

Yeah, i’d take Dueling for PvP. Inspiration is a meta decision for WvW, since there are a lot of condispam builds running around.

Distortion is not an evade.

I was watching without sound, so i can’t say if this is going to change, but it looks kinda…meh…to me.

This is mine for WvW roaming: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vhQQJARWlknhy0YjawGNwtGLnGk5OGyNOfSUuOZAWQQB-T1CFABVfIAkb/hlUiBwFAoQ1duSJISKPeUlACeAAppLYhjAApAKSrF-w

I like the Disenchanter one, makes it far more reliable.

Or you could just change the pull to displace (similar to Revenant), which does not interrupt yet keeps enemies inside the well.

PvE Karmatrain

You could make it pulse displace towards its center. Displacing merely moves and doesn’t interrupt anything as seen with Revenant.

My main problem with this is how Tempest’s Cyclone still has the potential to pull the same target multiple times (as seen here: https://youtu.be/sIQNnE6LyX4?t=15m45s), while also being unblockable, without a real target limit and on a 25s cd.

Because they are all using the same stats on gear and that’s what got increased.

I doubt OP would be using Runes of the Centaur if he wants to try a different runeset than Traveler ^^

Also, i consider using tonics this way as an exploit and would never recommend it to someone.

No, but once Chronomancer hits you can specialize in it for passive +25% movespeed.

If you are using staff you should also practice Phase Dashing (About Face → Phase Retreat → About Face), which helps you moving faster. After a while it will become natural and you won’t think much about it.

Actually, if your pet is nearby Mirror Blade will bounce to it, effectively reducing the damage you get.

Aiming at the pet is probably the worst thing you can do.

It did exactly the same amount of damage as prepatch when traiting iElasticity (which every shatter mesmer did), except for the overall powercreep.

People should stop making things up.

If you want damage toned down, this has to happen for all classes, not only a select few because you feel like it.

If this is working as intended, this will make Guardian’s Shelter useless once Revenant (and possibly the Warrior specialization, since i expect it to get Taunt) are released.

I don’t think adding more and more unblockable skills is “adding more skill”. It makes blocks and classes that rely on it useless and promotes spamming.

But Blurred Frenzy is also channeled and gets interrupted, so this would be yet another bug.

Lettuce.2945:

Since taunt is now technically a condi. You also don’t need to stun break it if you’re on ele. Just cleanse it.

Are you able to switch to water, though? Taunt prevents weaponswap (probably also a bug), so i’m not sure this would work.

So Temporal Enchanter would give superspeed to everyone affected by MI? :P

Though history shows that they would change Phantasms accordingly and completely forget to buff weapon dmg etc in return.

Also your last sentence doesn’t make sense, since iCelerity already decreases the CD of every phantasm skill, so it would have to be applied twice.

I can already see a chrono fighting against a rifle warr channeling killshot or ele’s churning earth:
“is he slowed or not? how long is this going to channel? when should i dodge?”

Though mantras recharging in background was op, especially with the short cd they have.

I think having ranger pets, thief thieves and engi turrets breaking stealth is only fair, then.

Trama has played killshot since like forever, that’s nothing new.

Reflected projectiles actually are your attacks. You get retaliation damage from them, they use your crit chance/damage and the combat log shows them as yours.

Also, reflecting scepter 1-3 creates a clone from you, not from the mesmer it originated from.

There used to be this, too, but i’m not sure if it has been fixed since it’s already 1 month old: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI5yxAIoDD8

/edit: Probably has been fixed.

This is the PvP forum and WvW damage has always been much higher. You will likely never see Helseth being able to 100-0 a competent bunker guard.

Also, you don’t just stand there and let an engi/ranger/burnguard stack yourself with conditions, too, right?

If this is about pure damage, i’ll like to redirect you to the PvE community. Those would never take a mesmer for its raw damage.

Darksteel.8412:

Velimere.7685:

Mesmer is fine.

Mesmer – it’s OP and you can one-shot everything from stealth while portalling your team across the map once per minute. This an answer from someone else in another topic…tho he is speaking the truth entirely right here. Mesmer is fine, nah it needs some heavy nerfs very heavy nerfs on the damage output

1) You only ever one-shot glass thieves and other mesmers, especially after the MB and Fire/Air nerfs. And those can do the same to you. Aside from bursts our damage is actually pretty low, because we are balanced with Clones and Phantasms in mind which you can kill without consequences.

2) Portal is on a 72s cd, which starts after you placed the 2nd portal, so it’s real cd is actually somehwere between 90-120s.

It’s not mine, but i found this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apOXAWbOC0c

Oh noes, mesmer is actually viable the first time in 3 years, better get those nerfs rolling.

Carighan.6758:

I see this as part of the balance? For an adept trait, the talent would be very strong. But this somewhat balances it, it makes the skills slightly more restrictive to use.

Being adept tier doesn’t mean anything in the current system, though.

I’m always raging when the trait reveals me, too, but most of the time i’m happy to have the reduced cd and reflect on blink to help me get away from those pew pew rangers.

Since there is no trinity, there are no healers.

Seems like Lost Time has been nerfed to every 5th crit instead of every 3rd, too.

/edit: Actually, you need 6 attacks, 5 crits and 1 hit. I don’t know if the 1 hit can be the 1st new charge, though.

How would i be able to shatter more often if i effectively have less illusions?

You can go full troll mode Inspiration/Illusions/Chrono with Mental Defense, Persistence of Memory and Chronophantasma and see if you manage to have 100% uptime on iDefender ^^

Like i wrote, that’s more of a general issue with rangers having 2 ways to prevent stomps, while everyone else has only 1 (that is instantly available after getting downed).

But yes, let’s not derail the thread here, this is about taunt.

So, you just declared the meta to be “2 eles, thief, guard, warr” and yet claim mesmer, which doesn’t even fit in your meta, to be op?

Balancing has to be made for the highest skill level, since that’s where tournaments are fought for real prices and balance actually matters.

Mirror of Anguish currently only reflects the Pet’s taunt back to it. Since pets never dodge or block, there is currently no way to tell if it works the same way.

The upcoming BWE will bring the chance to play Revenants again, so there is some time to test if it’s taunt in general or only Beastly Warden. In both cases i don’t think it’s ok for a 15s cd skill to work through both evades and blocks, preventing weapon swap and even work while the ranger is downed (though this is more a general issue with F2 skills working while downed).

The only weapon skill that breaks stun is Swap and we need to have a living iLeap clone not older than a few seconds around for it to work.

So, you are complaining about 2 skills + random procs doing barely the damage a thief does with its auto attack?

Velimere.7685:

I’d trade both Prismatic Understanding and Confounding Suggestions for my old Mirror Blade back any day of the kitten week.

This. (+ Chaotic Dampening, but that might just be me)

Obviously they were ^^ I was kinda worried about attacking them, since without PU i basically have no chance against 2 possible PU mesmers. But after the first one died almost instantly everything was fine

So far necro has been an integral part of GWEN, and since Reaper actually gets more mobility on its shroud combined with generally more melee-centric abilities, i wouldn’t think so.

Personally, i love playing CI but find myself switching to PU every now and then because of too many other PU mesmers around. It’s kinda like -condi duration food that you only use because condi builds run with +duration food.

That said, if they were to nerf PU (and CS, but that is a different story), they need to compensate by undoing some nerfs to:
- Mirror Blade
- Chaotic Dampening
- MtD (i hate condi, but it seems just fair to me)

Well, at least your autoattack only hits once. Not counting on hit/crit sigils, mesmer GS auto on a target with retal deals actually more damage to the mesmer than to the enemy. Blurred Frenzy comes close, too.

Since i can now use anti-condi runes, i might drop Inspiration and try Dom/Chaos/Chrono CI Lockdown. Also might try Dom/Dueling/Chrono or Dueling/Chaos/Chrono for that 100% Critchance (50% from gear, 20% from perma-Fury, 30% from perma-Slow).

But i think i’ll mainly try Chrono (and Reaper) in our PvP arena to see how it works.

I got 2 full sets with Traveler runes…i don’t care about whatever else i might got from salvaging those, i only want my runes back.

Your mesmer will likely lose the point, though.

Well, at least this time the video actually fits your thread title :P