Im rambling now sorry for to close this case, no. We arent overpowered, but we are extremely well balanced and one of the few classes that has many different viable weapon sets.
Confusion just needs to be mad ea hard hitting one time proc and wear off. That way you can balance it for pve, so its benefit is always used (make it do like 4-5k on a proc, one time).
In wvw a one time 3k proc would be fair.
And stack duration instead? Imo that would actually be op compared to the current system where it takes 8 stacks of confusion at ~1800 condition damage to deal the same damage considering the 8 stacks wear off rather quickly, but stacking them in duration and being able to reapply it anytime would effectively take you out of combat completely.
They can apply many stacks confusion on a very large number of opponents from long range.
I’m playing a glamour mesmer, how exactly do I do that? Tell me please, because somehow I couldn’t figure that out in the last 100 hours I played that build.
Also see https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/The-inevitable-WvW-Confusion-nerf/page/2#post1774788
Most people commenting here simply make false claims about how confusion works and how to counter it. Coincidentially, many of the same people actually play thieves or eles…
If you’ve played over 100 hrs as Mesmer, we shouldn’t need to tell you how. It’s not false, also note I said 12 avg, and yes, you can get 15 stacks as a Mesmer since I’ve done it
I have played 500 hours as a memer, 100 hours with a glamour build. And you should really work on your reading comprehension. Maybe read what I quoted at all.
They can apply many stacks confusion on a very large number of opponents from long range.
The reason I was asking how to do this obviously wasn’t that I actually expected an answer, but to show that I wouldn’t get one (which you’ve proven by not providing one, thanks) because that statement is simpy false. Exactly the kind of uninformed exaggeration that makes discussions like this so ridiculous. People have no clue how the classes and confusion work and make false claims because they can’t deal with it.
12 stacks of confusion is not hard at all to get… You are just stomping your feet and action like its impossible, I’ll hop on tonight and ss since you simply refuse to believe it
If you aren’t Deniara Devious, I have absolutely no idea what you want from me. I never said you couldn’t apply 12 stacks of confusion to a player. Could you please finally start reading before you reply? I even quoted again what I replied to and you still don’t get it, I’m really at a loss here.
I wonder if all these people who are avidly defending Confusion is fine are also in the sPvP forum demanding Confusion gets buffed there by doubling its damage.
If I cared about PvP, I would. But like most other people, I don’t.
You people are actually threatening to leave the game over such a small insignificant hypothetical nerf? Mesmer? Really?
I’m a Necromancer, you couldn’t even fathom the crap I have to deal with. “Omg I’d quit the game, you people just need to l2p and beat Mesmer”
How about nerfing passive regen and condition removal in stealth for all classes? Imagine if I regenned or condition removed while in Deathshroud. Hell, imagine if I could stomp…
It’s not small and insignificant (not currently using it in my build, but when I do, it’s critical), and just because a class got nerfed, that doesn’t rectifiy any other nerf. What kind of twisted logic is that? And btw., mesmers have been nerfed way harder before.
Even if you are lucky and manage to leave the fight due to excessive amount of confusion stacks, then you get 1 less people in the fight with all his cleansing on CD…
How do you apply an “excessive amount of confusion stacks” with glamour fields? Unless you’re constantly running through these fields (Confusing Enchantments), a mesmer can cast Feedback, Null Field and Veil (which means all utility skills, all on relatively long cooldowns), causing a blind coupled with one (!) stack of confusion (Dazzling Glamours / Blinding Befuddlement).
It takes three mesmers specced for condition damage and a glamour build casting three glamour fields at the same time in the same place to apply nine stacks of confusion, which can easily be cleansed or avoided by backing off. Check the list of ally condition removal skills: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Condition#From_allies
They can apply many stacks confusion on a very large number of opponents from long range.
I’m playing a glamour mesmer, how exactly do I do that? Tell me please, because somehow I couldn’t figure that out in the last 100 hours I played that build.
Also see https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/The-inevitable-WvW-Confusion-nerf/page/2#post1774788
Most people commenting here simply make false claims about how confusion works and how to counter it. Coincidentially, many of the same people actually play thieves or eles…
If you’ve played over 100 hrs as Mesmer, we shouldn’t need to tell you how. It’s not false, also note I said 12 avg, and yes, you can get 15 stacks as a Mesmer since I’ve done it
I have played 500 hours as a memer, 100 hours with a glamour build. And you should really work on your reading comprehension. Maybe read what I quoted at all.
They can apply many stacks confusion on a very large number of opponents from long range.
The reason I was asking how to do this obviously wasn’t that I actually expected an answer, but to show that I wouldn’t get one (which you’ve proven by not providing one, thanks) because that statement is simpy false. Exactly the kind of uninformed exaggeration that makes discussions like this so ridiculous. People have no clue how the classes and confusion work and make false claims because they can’t deal with it.
Depends on if your class is able to stack up conditions well. Considering all the limitations that exist, like the stack limit or ineffectiveness against fortifications, it’s often not as efficient as a power build. I’d never go that way in PvE, and in WvW actually only when aiming for high survivability.
We’re meant to spam clones, our traits and shatters reflect that, as well as the fact that clones pretty much die instantly, so why should they nerf it.
Thanks, we’ve already been there. I won’t even ask for a reason, since you probably can’t name a single one that wouldn’t be laughable anyway. Mesmer’s actually a class that needs skill to master and skill to counter, which overstrains a lot of people as it seems.
Some bottleneck on the way, not much you could do about. Maybe try a high bandwidth VPN to somewhere else, ANet’s probably using CloudFront CDN so you could be lucky and bypass the bottleneck or land on a different S3 cluster.
To me, this only shows how absurd confusion damage is in WvW.
To me, this only shows that confusion engis may need some balancing when it comes to confusion uptime. If confusion damage would simply be reduced to PvP levels, it wouldn’t be a viable option compared to a power shatter build, except for glamour AE for lazy loot tagging. If anything, it has to be buffed in PvE.
Plus you have to grind fractals. Doing dailies/monthlies may take longer, but you actually don’t have to play much, just login and complete that stuff which doesn’t take long.
Clock speed is not important on game systems. They have light operating systems and don’t have the same overhead—trust me that won’t need to do a rewrite. In fact, for the xbox they will only need to recompile.
…which is plain wrong. People are constantly overestimating what consoles can do, they aren’t magic sauce devices, all the laws of computing apply to them too. A thread requiring a clock of >4GHZ won’t automagically be twice as efficient on a console so it completes in time at a clock of 2GHz, especially considering the consoles are using rather weak (compared to Intel’s architecture) Jaguar cores. They’d probably have to rewrite larger parts of the engine to make use of the consoles’ advantages.
They can apply many stacks confusion on a very large number of opponents from long range.
I’m playing a glamour mesmer, how exactly do I do that? Tell me please, because somehow I couldn’t figure that out in the last 100 hours I played that build.
Also see https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/The-inevitable-WvW-Confusion-nerf/page/2#post1774788
Most people commenting here simply make false claims about how confusion works and how to counter it. Coincidentially, many of the same people actually play thieves or eles…
Learn what applies confusion, counter it and time your attacks. Confusing Images for example can easily be identified and avoided. Disable auto attack and consume a Bowl of Lemongrass Poultry Soup.
The Fire Elemental used to be a pretty epic fight. Then they made it easy. And then made it a pinata for free loot.
You used to have to actually have to pay attention to the battle. Raining meteors that may or may not one shot you/knock you down. Embers dropping 3 mini volcanoes each unless you killed them off quick. Slow moving fire trails that did a ton of damage if you did not dodge.
I remember all the dead bodies from people at the entrance because they didn’t realize you needed to spread out, kill the adds, and watch for the boss attacks all at the same time.
It was one of my guilds favorite events. Well I loved it, they all hated me for making them come and work together to show it could be killed somewhat easily with the right skill haha. At first they all thought it was impossible, but over time we would often get through it with few to no deaths. We recruited lots of people at our little boss events.
That’s pretty much a starting area, they should put such events in later areas. Unfortunately, it’s hard to balance dynamic events so they’re hard but doable without being a stupid zergfest. Grenth for example, people just don’t get it and don’t listen if you try to explain, sole reason it fails. And that’s pretty much the final zone, everybody should know how to play by then.
I remember reading somewhere that Anet has confirmed and said they had a small team working on a console version. That was last year though and whether or not they are still working on it is anyone’s guess really. Lets not forget Sony’s big purchase of Gaikai. Having Guild wars up in the clouds could mean no long downloads, the possibility of no downtime for patches and having the servers take the majority of the processing which could mean 60fps no lag huge WvW battles. (Not too certain on how Anet servers would work with a cloud gaming service, thinking outside the box here lol. Who knows that could just be how MMo’s of the future will be played)
IMO: As long as they focus on improving the game, I’m fine with having a team in the background doing this. Just means more people will be able to enjoy gw2. Like people have said, if anyone could pull off a console MMo is would be anet.
Have you ever considered porting Guild Wars 2 or making a console MMO, ever?
We had a small team that was investigating it at one time, and who knows what might happen someday. But right now our focus is on making the Guild Wars 2 PC experience the greatest MMO we possibly can, and that’s pretty much what all of our research and all of our company time is going into.
Until I saw this thread, I had never even SEEN the word unique in game or was aware of what it was or what it might result in. I’ve also never seen any mention of the wiki thing either. I guess that’s what happens when your game is poorly documented and players are forced to produce their own documentation in the form of a wiki. It is laziness and cheapness to force that onto the playerbase.
Or it is an incentive and encourages people to experiment, explore, think and communicate instead of being lazy. The item has “unique” in its description. Others don’t. If you don’t know what that means, ask in chat. Doesn’t require any external source of information.
Confusion punishes lazy and unaware players. I usually don’t use that phrase, but it’s a l2p thing. It’s that easy. Die from confusion: well deserved.
The more I think about it though, if they nerf confusion, I’m actually fine with that – because then there’s finally absolutely no reason to invest anything in condition damage/duration any more for me. Power all the way, just like ANet wants it to be. Then I also don’t have to transmute my legendary and I’m totally fine in PvE too, which currently is quite painful.
Combining it with a torch and the prestige makes confusing images quite funny. Scepter’s also a source of clones for me as I don’t have deceptive evasion traited and don’t use mirror images most of the time. It really needs some work though, auto attack is completely broken in that it doesn’t hit moving targets and doesn’t apply confusion as the tooltip still states.
Yeah, I’m also constantly behind, mainly because of swiftness running out shortly after placing a curtain, although I’m specced for focus skills and some boon duration. I’m just too social, I can keep it up almost permanently (~4 second gap) just for me. The effort is ridiculous though, I’d never use the focus trait if it wasn’t for swiftness.
There would surely be ways to solve this, like http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Symbol_of_Swiftness
I’d also be happy if what you proposed was true at least though, it sucks to run over a curtain with 1s oft swiftness left or to run over somebody else’s curtain who doesn’t have any boon duration.
Didn’t check the links, but
a) you don’t want an AMD CPU (for GW2).
b) if you don’t want to overclock manually, you don’t need a K model.
c) if b) is true and it’s available, you can also get a Xeon E3-1230V2 or E3-1240V2, which works in any normal socket 1155 board and is cheaper than an i7 and doesn’t come with an IGP you don’t need.
Email servers can send emails from any address they want without verification.
At least guildwars2.com and ncsoft.com are using SPF records though, so while a server can still try to send mails under their name, any decent spamfilter should sort it out unless any of these entries accidentially contain a spam relay, which I doubt.
guildwars2.com text = “v=spf1 include:mailgun.org ~all”
ncsoft.com text = “v=spf1 include:_netblock_rnw.ncsoft.com include:_netblock_global.ncsoft.com include:_netblock_global01.ncsoft.com include:sgizmo.com ip4:211.189.163.230 ip4:211.189.163.231 -all”
The arena.net domain lacks an SPF record btw.
You do know that GW2 runs on totally different servers for EU and NA, right?? The two server groups don’t talk to each other at all … ANet has said they are totally independent.
So, they are totally independent, but yet it is still impossible to reset them at different times? Seems legit.
If they are so independent, why can you transfer or guest from one to the other?
You can’t guest on servers in a different region… because the character data doesn’t exist in the other data center. It’s relocated completely on transfer.
This doesn’t have anything to do with laziness or incompetence. In a zerg on zerg siege attack situation, there’s so much effects and general action going on that it’s simply impossible to see all AE indicators. Also there’s a lot of CC plus you can just place AE in a way that makes it impossible to escape, like the overlapping AE in the Temple of Grenth has been pre nerf.
The problem, as already mentioned countless times, is that uncapped AE with no DR is absolutely unbalanced compared to direct damage. Again, WoW is a good example before they introduced a cap and then a DR system later. Who would want to play a class with limited to no AE capabilities when you can just jump in and nuke everything (WoW frost mage anyone?).
They said they’ll expand it in the future, they’re rolling it out bit by bit so problems can be corrected early. I prefer it that way instead of pushing everything to live in a rush with a ton of bugs or performance issues. They’re probably more concerned about what happens in the backend instead of some simple frontend presentation atm.
