Guild Wars 2

Hello Advent, I agree with your points, though I can give you the example of the conditionmancer that can stack a lot of bleeds, can poison and apply weakness, can deal aoe condition extremely well. The condition mesmer cannot stack with the same efficiency, nor apply aoe conditions in an effective way.
Then you have the stack cap, among other things. But in this case I am talking about the mesmer in particular. Of course the mesmer brings more utility, but the trade-off for damage compared to a condition necromancer seems pretty big.

Dear ANet, I have been playing GW2 since it’s release and so far it has been an enjoyable ride. Yet a problem, for me and many other people, that has not been sufficiently addressed so far, is becoming too big/annoying and it is endangering the game.

Any mesmer that is not a berzerker feels very very weak in terms of damage output compared to that spec and gear. That alone would not be a problem, because what matters in a game, at least to me, is to have fun – after playing for more than 1 year as a zerker mesmer I must say, I can only have fun with any spec other than zerker.

The problem is that conditions/support builds are so weak in pve that in terms of efficiency the loss of damage does not compensate the gain in life and toughness. Bleed stacking, confusion mechanics, torment mechanics, burning duration and raw condition damage has already been discussed over and over in this forum, so I will not address that. Toughness, Healing Power, Boon variety and stack are in my opinion lacking and need to be discussed and addressed by the developers, and if not that then fight mechanics, for example so you don’t get one shot or two shot by regular mobs while having max toughness.

Now thanks to this, what happens when I press Y and try to do a dungeon? Well, most, if not all of the LFG tags ask specifically for a select group of classes and for zerkers, or they say for example “Fast Run” which is the same as asking for zerkers. Many people have been debating about this, with some calling others elitists for example, but truth is that the so called elitists are right, if you want efficiency when running dungeons, killing champions in open world, among other things, is plain stupid if you are not zerking.

This has to change, you need to urgently address this, not by nerfing zerking like you did last time, but by changing the other mechanics so that they are viable in an efficiency logic. For example, I am running a condition mesmer in pve but its very very hard for me to stack conditions with my condition sets scepter/torch-staff, even though I can apply easily fire, bleed, confusion, torment, poison (through weapon swapping). I do have fun with it, but the damage/surv is so low that any time I want to do a dungeon I feel the need to ask people if they don’t mind that I join.

Bear in mind I am giving a very specific example, there are many others but this is the one I chose to speak of. The scepter attack 1 does not making any sense for a weapon that is supposed to deal condition damage, two attacks that do exactly the same damage + a clone summon? Why can’t that skill cast confusion in the second attack? Why can’t the clone have a higher chance to crit so it bleeds enemies? I won’t speak about the second kill of scepter, but the third one could stack more confusion? What is the purpose of that, to deal damage of stack confusion, or do mediocre of both? Regarding the staff, the 1st skill damage is ridiculously low, and it only has one bounce, for condition to shine I need to do aoe damage, and so far for mesmers only the phantasm manages to deal condition (bleed through crit) in a consistent way to various mobs at the same time. The staff second skill is ok, the 3rd and 4th have huge cooldowns vs benefits they produce. Chaos shield has been discussed here a lot, so I will speak about the 4th skill. Chaos storm makes a lot more sense as a support skill than as a damage one, since the conditions it applies do not stack a lot, nor have synergy with confusion, fire and bleed. What is the purpose of the staff? Is it supposed to be a mediocre support weapon, or a very mediocre condition/power weapon?

I usually use either sword/sword+ sword/focus or sword/sword+gs, what is the point of the other weapons for pve? They all seem extremely lacklustre.

I am sorry if my post is confusing. You have proven that you can make the same skills behave differently in pve and pvp. My point is, please take a deep look at the mesmer and make it so that condition/support is as efficient in that role as berzerker is in it’s own role. Make weapon skills that have a decent synergy with your spec, and so on, listen to the community and react! Bear in mind that I didn’t even speak about the traits…

Thank you very much for your time.

What about support builds? Are there any mesmer support builds more or as effective as a guardian support build?

I see, what you say makes perfect sense.
Are there any alternatives, useful to the party, other than zerker/condition, as a mesmer?

Thank you all for taking your time to answer my question. I asked this because I have one conditionmancer and I have lots fun with him and the associated playstyle, my teams don’t complain (I never join speedruns/lfzerker).
I was looking for a mesmer build based on conditions as effective as the necromancer, since I have tried a few and they were always far behind the condition necromancer, in mass/single dps, survivability and practicality. My mesmer used to be sword/sword+gs, beserker mantra build, but honestely I find it boring as hell, and I have been looking for builds with staffs, scepters, torches, focus.
From what I read here, basically there is no decent alternative to shatter/mantra/phantom (zerker) I’m almost feeling depressed now… thank you all again.

Well, thank you for answering but I wasn’t asking for an opinion whether condition is good or bad. I was asking for builds

Hey guys, I’m looking for a mesmer condition build as effective as the conditionmancer, for pve. Can anyone suggest a build?

This is a very interesting video from a guy who’s been helping the community, and that has been discussing the current issues with the game. I hope someone from anet sees this video

http://youtu.be/DdTsFYA3Kwo

Nerf to berserker’s is not the solution. It is lazy and it won’t solve the current problems in an effective way. They need to change how toughness works, so all gears/specs don’t need to have the same behaviour (ex: one shot bosses), they need to change how regen works (stackable), they need to change buff and cond removal ranges (increase them so you don’t need to stack), they need to change enemy AI (to avoid corner stacking). They need to fix skipable content, so you might be able to skip some mobs, but not all (example some mobs have a high agro range and don’t disengage in dungeons, others can be avoided if you play smart). They need to fix things like fiery sword doing a TON of damage, much much more than any other skill. They should also address how conditions work.

It’s really frustrating. I’ve been trying to do honor of the waves all afternoon, have tried doing CoF and the game simply crashes if I try entering with a team.

Game Crashes when entering explore mode in dungeons.
I don’t know why but my character can’t enter dungeons in explore mode for the last hour. I’ve tried to repair the game, change character, but nothing seems to fix this. Also I’ve sent a ticket I believe 2 to 3 weeks ago regarding a mail I received and still nothing from suport.

I have tried that Jayne, the thing is you can only do it with the character that owns the soulbound

kitten I will start thinking twice before spending my money to buy gem – items so easily lost forever.

Hi, so I deleted a character of mine to get some space for another but before doing that I put all the gear that character had (which was the Braham’s set that I bought a while ago) in the bank. Now after deleting the character and trying to transmute it again to gear for another character of mine it wouldn’t let me. Is there a way to sort this out without having to destroy equipment whose looks I love and which are not obtainable any more?

My mesmer! Enjoy

Also, when I use Illusionary Leap, and Swap, many times I dont appear near the enemy.

I have a human mesmer, and I have Ghastly Sword equipped. It clips the floor when sheathed. The sword’s pommel is on my hip, that’s why it clips, either its too big or its position is incorrect. This must be a known problem, is there an estimated time for when this will be fixed?
Thank you.

Oh sorry, usually its during peak time. It starts around 6:30pm and only stops around midnight.

I am in Sheffield, GMT.

Dear GW2,

I love this game, its the only one I have been playing for months, but recently after the new content, during evenings I get so much latency that the game becomes unplayable. I have checked my connection and pings and I get an average of 35ms, while in the game this goes to… quite a few seconds. It seems to me this is a server problem due to many people being logged at the same time. Could you please try to sort out the server problems? In case the problem is on my end could you please point out solutions?
Thank you