I found the celestial build to be a bit lacking in the damage department. I played mine as full celestial for a little bit and it didn’t ever die really but it didn’t put out enough damage to be worth while in my opinion.
Try this: http://asphyxia.tv/wvw-roaming-revenant-build/
Pretty heavy hitting and still survives pretty well for roaming.
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Killshot is a bad idea in zergs. There are so many reflects out on the field these days that you will more likely than not end up causing yourself more harm than anything.Signet of might.
The attack isn’t being blocked, it is being reflected.
Unblockable also goes through reflects
Never tried it, good to know. I’ll give that a shot.
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Killshot is a bad idea in zergs. There are so many reflects out on the field these days that you will more likely than not end up causing yourself more harm than anything.Signet of might.
The attack isn’t being blocked, it is being reflected.
Killshot is a bad idea in zergs. There are so many reflects out on the field these days that you will more likely than not end up causing yourself more harm than anything.
Outside of the Shiro/Glint meta you can also use Unyielding Anguish from Malyx, staff #5 and mace #3 in conjunction with Inspiring Reinforcement to gain a jump+swiftness+stab (x2 if you got herald).
My rev build: http://asphyxia.tv/wvw-roaming-revenant-build/
I swap staff for hammer for group play, but if I ever have to get away, I go to assassin stance and find a further away target and use the Phase Traversal skill. Plus I try to keep up my swiftness in dragon stance.
Why Ferocious Strikes when you got a shield man?
All 3 of the options on that are plenty viable, I just took Ferocious Strikes for the extra staff damage personally. Any of the 3 are good though.
Are you sure you read the trait description? Ferocious strikes won’t affect staff at all.
Vicious lacerations is the better trait in pretty much any situation being a base damage modifier. Also vicious laceration affects any weapon, you just can’t stack without sword.
Ah you’re right, I did misread it lol. I changed it up to Vicious Lacerations since the majority of damage comes from my sword/shield anyway as well. Thanks for pointing that out.
It is a gimmick that relies on players willing to engage. Basically this thing can irritate the hell out of most players that locks horns with it.
^ This lol. It is funny to do with anyone who thinks they can engage without some kind of reveal ability or stealth trap. Even if they do drop a stealth trap, just switch to shortbow and hit 5 to get away lol. The build is pretty tank being full dire so its not super easy to kill even if you do get caught for a second, it isn’t like a zerker thief that just instantly blows up if you throw a rock at it.
So you keep 100% stealth uptime with d/p heartseeker combo, right? So nobody sees you coming and you start casting tripwire, steal in right before it finishes casting, and then you place needle trap and caltrops?
And they just melt?
Pretty much lol. You steal in to the person, drop your traps and caltrops then also dodge roll to drop the caltrops from the traits. Then you just go back to stealthing with your d/p and go back in for the burst when cooldowns are up.
Condi warrior doesn’t seem to be too strong anymore these days in comparison to a warrior running Marauders, cavalier, zerker or a mix of those. It used to be really good, but there is so much condi clear out there now that raw damage seems to be the better way to go for warrior.
Here is my roaming build: http://asphyxia.tv/wvw-roaming-warrior-build/
I run axe/mace and rifle with Cavalier armor and zerker trinkets. If I am feeling like being a little more squishy I will run marauder armor and zerker trinkets. Both are a good combination.
This build is not that great, shield>mace offhand, no condi clears except on weapon swap and no berserker stance. It also doesnt use smash brawler which is a huge loss in dps just to get stab when entering berserker. Very little might generation, it can create a lot of single target vulnerability but other then it seems to be sub par as it wont survive long against any condi class. Might i recommend this if you want a lil better build?
Better condi clears, higher damage output, better might generation, and frontline worthy toughness and vitality
I don’t really care for shield personally and my build is for roaming in small groups where I usually have an ele or guardian constantly clearing conditions with me. I clear 2 conditions every time I go in to berserk mode and clear 1 every time I weapon swap also. I never really cared for berserker stance personally, but that is just a preference thing. You could always drop the signet for “Shake it Off” or Berserker stance if that is what you’d like to do. Mace offhand provides necessary CC to use in smaller fights. The build is meant to be very offensive, not defensive.
I have a different build that I play for front line warrior that is more defensive. This is what I use for front line: http://asphyxia.tv/wvw-front-line-warrior/
But he wanted a roaming set up, not a front line set up.
Outside of the Shiro/Glint meta you can also use Unyielding Anguish from Malyx, staff #5 and mace #3 in conjunction with Inspiring Reinforcement to gain a jump+swiftness+stab (x2 if you got herald).
My rev build: http://asphyxia.tv/wvw-roaming-revenant-build/
I swap staff for hammer for group play, but if I ever have to get away, I go to assassin stance and find a further away target and use the Phase Traversal skill. Plus I try to keep up my swiftness in dragon stance.
Why Ferocious Strikes when you got a shield man?
All 3 of the options on that are plenty viable, I just took Ferocious Strikes for the extra staff damage personally. Any of the 3 are good though.
I was speaking in terms of WvW, I apologize if the question was more directed at PvE.
hey, thanks for posting these. I just started playing my ele again and am trying to get used to the tempest playstyle.
do you have any videos of the roaming build in action? i tried it for a bit over the weekend and was struggling not having access to lightning flash/armor of earth. do you rely solely on FGS to disengage or escape from zergs?
Yeah I just use FGS to disengage if I need to, I don’t use lightning flash or armor of earth because FGS is usually good enough. I have a lot of my roaming footage on my stream at http://twitch.tv/asphyxiaxt – that should show you a bit of the game play. I main my ele so most of those videos will be my ele roaming.
There should be guild pride in first place then server pride, but guild are just chat rooms with grind capabilities -_-#
Still by the other hand, why have guild pride if gw2 is not ment to be played by guild concept, just a gorup of players that can cnage chat room?
SO server pride is much of the same…another gw2 placebo like guilds.
RIP server pride lol….
Lets say you’re in a big building with a group of friends, the “guild” is your group of friends, the big building is the server. Why would you care about that big building? It has 500+ people that you may or may not know or like. You know you like your group of friends, but you’d like your group of friends if they decided to go to a different big building, but you’d probably still not know or like anyone else in that other building lol.
First problem I see is that you think server pride is a real thing. Anet reserves the right to shut down any server they want at any time – you better get used to having more of a guild pride or something like that because the server system as we knew has changed and will continue to change. I’ve transferred servers more times that I can even remember at this point, its been at least 16 times between my 2 accounts, I have no “server pride” because it is hard to be “proud” of a server who lost all of its people and dropped to being one of the lowest ranked servers lol.
Like someone else above said, it sounds like you just enjoyed the PvDoor and now you can’t do that – sorry for your loss.
So you bandwagoned to Blackgate, the largest blob server in game.
I would guess Pride is not an issue to you, and why it is you don’t understand it at all.
Not sure I would call it “bandwagoned”, when I transferred to Blackgate, we were bottom of T1. We transferred there for the fights because roaming was completely dead in every tier except T1. I have guild pride – but servers can go away any time, really no point in “server pride” when that is the case. How prideful do you think the linked servers can be when their name isn’t even displayed anywhere? lol.
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The server population lock is to prevent servers from being overstacked for WvW, leading to massive queues and whatnot. If you really want your friend to be on the same server as you for WvW, right now the best course of action is to have him to go the server that is ‘linked’ with your world, although this is just a short-term thing, since the linkings will more than likely change.
A queue system works… if it was designed for the entire game, not just for WvW. The way GW2 works is not designed in a way that a queue system would work for the entire population. We already get queues if the borderlands in wvw are full, no need to have one just to log into the gameSorry if my thoughts seem scattered, but hopefully you got the jist of what I was trying to say
What I mean is not for log in. It’s more like, you get into que and then keep playing the game on your original server untill you get through the que.
The problem is that those servers that are full are full “indefinitely” or until ANet chooses to unlock them. None of them should be unlocked, they’re all over full if they’re marked as full right now.
Yeah Bay is bugged like that for all of the servers. They’re taking their time fixing it because PPT doesn’t actually matter.
Josh XT.6053, 5k damage per clones on a mesmer zerker build? First off, it’s not 5k but more like 3.5k to 4.5 max if your lucky. Second of all, this relates to your other questions, What build are we playing? Well it’s sure aint full zerker. That’s for noobs. & nobody that descent anoth plays full zerker anymore. Witch brings up the next point. Even if the mesmer zerker build was still viable & does it’s 15k damage after set up & F1. Now what? Well, It’s over unless nobody smart anoth to target the mesmer. A good quick cleave or AoE or condi bomb & it’s over. You know what’s funny, does build exist all across. There’s one ranger zerker build still working that one shots every one for 30k damage with that Bear attack. funny as hell. But once he’s done that, Ranger is good as dead. He get cleaved so fast by the other players makes it in the end not viable build. I don’t know who you trying to convince that power build mesmers still viable, but it’s not. & ther is no other builds that works except the condi build that’s in the meta. It’s obvious you havent played mesmer in a while.
Except no ranger has ever one shot me, so I am not really sure what you’re on about there. I haven’t played my mesmer in about a month, Elementalist is too fun recently, but I will gladly log it, brush off my rust and 1v1 you with it to prove my point.
No problem, and making the full celestial for ele isn’t hard – it is just a long process since Charged Quartz Crystals are so time gated. You can essentially make one piece every 5 days if you stay on top of it. If you had the money to just blow on making it quickly, you can get the “Trick or Treat” packs and just spam open those for more charged quartz crystals. I usually get 1 every 100 packs I open. Not great, but it works if you’re impatient like me lol.
For larger group play – I wouldn’t play a classic non-chronomancer mesmer unless you really only like to veil or portal. They don’t work well for larger groups unless they’re Chronomancer. Like Fay said above me, you’re best going with Ele, necro, warrior or Guardian for larger group play. I have builds for all of those in my forum signature ( http://asphyxia.tv/builds )
You’ve responded to all my threads today XD. I’m gonna bookmark your site. Also, do you have a warrior build for zergs that doesn’t use berserker elite spec or marauders gear? And is there a frontline ele build that doesn’t require celestial?
Haha, I have just been browsing the professions area today a bit.
I could make a warrior build that doesn’t use berserker, it would basically be everything the same as it is except instead of berserker line, I’d take “Strength” line and take “Restorative Strength”, “Great Fortitude”, “Berserker’s Power” in that line.
And as far as the front line ele build goes – you CAN make it work without Celestial, but every variation I’ve ever tried has not been close to the same results. The closest I came had no condition damage and dealt less over all damage and it was a mixture of Marauders and Nomads. It didn’t work nearly as well as the Celestial, but it was the only thing that could survive enough.
I’d suggest you and your friends pick a different server to go to. All of the “full” servers are locked as full so that they don’t take in any more people because their WvW population is too high.
Like “Random Weirdness.6750” said – they could transfer to whatever server is linked to yours. But that also runs a risk of that linking being gone in a matter of days, you’ll never know when that link could change.
Go for Marauder, not commander. Commander gear isn’t very good comparatively.
My mesmer build: http://asphyxia.tv/wvw-roaming-mesmer-build/
I run a mix of Marauder and Zerker on mine. It works out very well for pretty much every game mode.
For larger group play – I wouldn’t play a classic non-chronomancer mesmer unless you really only like to veil or portal. They don’t work well for larger groups unless they’re Chronomancer. Like Fay said above me, you’re best going with Ele, necro, warrior or Guardian for larger group play. I have builds for all of those in my forum signature ( http://asphyxia.tv/builds )
The Resurrection rules have been changed for WvW awhile back. If you are fully dead, anyone who is in combat can not rez you anymore. They might not just be being mean.
One thing I would recommend if a good enough build to survive. I don’t know what class you’re playing or what server you’re on – but having a good build on a good “zerging” class is going to help you out a lot.
My builds are listed here: http://asphyxia.tv/builds/
I do a lot more roaming than zerging, but there are group play builds there that may help you out.
Are people really transferring to ET? If that’s the case then nothing Anet will ever do will matter. Because people truly are stupid.
Yes people are really transferring to ET which is stacking Blackgate even more. They shouldn’t have linked any of the T1 servers with other servers.
Josh XT.6053 Your missing the point & i’m not surprised coming from a Necro player. I’m voicing up my opinion on this continuances nerfing of the mesmer to the point that we only have one playable build. In the past nerfs, we had at least 3 to 4 viable builds to work with. So……..Why dont you wait till your main gets nerfed to the ground before posting idiocies on this thread.
PS: Chrono is top meta. Your point is irrelevant.
Let me be clear with you here – I play every class, but main Dagger/Warhorn Elementalist. I don’t know where you would be coming from thinking I only play necro and its the only reason I would think mesmer is strong still. Maybe you just aren’t very good at mesmer? I’m pretty decent at mesmer and I’ve won plenty of PvP fights, WvW fights and duels on my mesmer.
Mesmer has been way too strong for way too long, it can almost infinitely be in stealth and apply a lot of conditions or burst VERY hard with shatters. Now with chrono, it has a long block, access to aegis and still invuln from sword 2 lol.
And if what you’re trying to say is that mesmer isn’t strong without Chrono, that is also wrong because the old shatter meta is very strong to this day. It really sounds like a L2P issue that you’re having.
I call this a liar, at least show some hard fact not some thing you feel like it and make it into a fact.
here is one:https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/pvp/EU-Pro-League-Meta/first
Was mesmer the worst and no one pick the class? No, but compare to the rest of them you might call it the second worst, not counting that no one pick thief and warrior
And this was before the nerf so there is no excuse for that mesmer was “always strong”.
Our “long” block is 1.5 sec and if we get to block we get another 1.5 sec block which add up to 3 sec block, same as every other shield blocking skill except we require a block to make it to full duration
Finally, Mind Wrack, are you one of those people that said Mind Wrack hit you for 5k per clone? Because that is bullkitten.
No, but I have played my shatter mesmer quite a bit and have seen my mind wrack shatter on people for 5k per clone before. Granted, it is on things like full zerk thieves or rangers when I ran full zerk on my mesmer.
I really wonder what kind of builds you people are playing making you think like this lol.. A lot of L2Play and L2Build issues.
Edit: Let me help you out here: http://asphyxia.tv/wvw-roaming-mesmer-build/
Josh XT.6053 Your missing the point & i’m not surprised coming from a Necro player. I’m voicing up my opinion on this continuances nerfing of the mesmer to the point that we only have one playable build. In the past nerfs, we had at least 3 to 4 viable builds to work with. So……..Why dont you wait till your main gets nerfed to the ground before posting idiocies on this thread.
PS: Chrono is top meta. Your point is irrelevant.
Let me be clear with you here – I play every class, but main Dagger/Warhorn Elementalist. I don’t know where you would be coming from thinking I only play necro and its the only reason I would think mesmer is strong still. Maybe you just aren’t very good at mesmer? I’m pretty decent at mesmer and I’ve won plenty of PvP fights, WvW fights and duels on my mesmer.
Mesmer has been way too strong for way too long, it can almost infinitely be in stealth and apply a lot of conditions or burst VERY hard with shatters. Now with chrono, it has a long block, access to aegis and still invuln from sword 2 lol.
And if what you’re trying to say is that mesmer isn’t strong without Chrono, that is also wrong because the old shatter meta is very strong to this day. It really sounds like a L2P issue that you’re having.
Can remain almost infinitely in stealth, access to aegis from chrono and invuln from blurred frenzy? I’m not sure what game you’re playing, but it’s not guild wars 2.
Additionally, if the old meta shatter build was so strong, one might think that you’d see it more often. That’s not to say that you can’t succeed with it, but simply that it’s not nearly as good as the other options around. I’ll make an analogy since simple logic usually misses the mark here on the forums.
Let’s say you’re trying to build a cabinet. Unfortunately, you’ve misplaced your hammer and you only have a wrench and a bunch of nails. You could probably hammer the nails in with the wrench, but the amount of effort you’d spend trying to do such a silly thing would be massively larger, and you’d still do a worse job than if you just asked your neighbor to borrow a hammer. This is the relationship between the meta condie shatter and other workable Mesmer builds.
PU condi mesmer has a lot of stealth still if you play that way. It depends on build but it seems some of you are stubborn about changing your build to fight the new meta and think that you can just keep everything the same forever. L2P issues everywhere lol.
Access to Aegis from well of precognition also. Looks like you’re playing blade and soul according to your forum signature – so apparently you forgot about GW2.
You can access guild halls without HoT.
You sure about that? For some reason I recall being able to do that on my alt account before I got HoT on it. I could be mistaken.
True if you’re in a guild that has a hall but most that use the stations are cheap PvE’ers that don’t want to pay to wp and leave a zone then go back..
That is such a sad thing, PvE players are just awful.
As for all the skill and blob talk in here. It’s all subjective. I’ve seen black gate going on that they are winning out manned fights when its 35 black gate group vs 15 or so TC and I’ve seen it the other way around too. So I don’t believe either side.
Feel free to watch some of my stream from time to time. I have recorded several times of our 5-7 man group wiping groups of 15+ in towers. Sure it doesn’t happen all the time, but it does happen enough. I can’t speak for the rest of BG but I know I’ve won a bit of out manned fights with my group.
Were all tier one. We all blob, we all run havok, we all put up siege and hide behind it. We all have good and bad players. We all have players that act like they are twelve years old. Get over your selves. Coverage wins WvW. Not blobs, not 4 arrow carts per person, not disruptive or skilled havok. Until they fix that the server with the most consistent coverage wins the match up.
It is a mix of all of those things that win the long match – that is correct. That said, even when they make the coverage not matter as much, Blackgate will still be winning because we still generally have the stronger NA in T1.
Ele really covers most of the bases just for sheer adaptability. Rev as well. Warrior kind of.
Ele is prob the closest to tops at switching between roles. You can be near immortal command, roaming, frontline support or backline insane dps with meteor shower dishing sick amounts of damage.
Other classes can cover the bases as well but lackluster in some roles.
What build makes you “immortal” in the frontline?
My build does: http://asphyxia.tv/elementalist/ – and he did say “near immortal”, which is what my build will do.
Josh XT.6053 Your missing the point & i’m not surprised coming from a Necro player. I’m voicing up my opinion on this continuances nerfing of the mesmer to the point that we only have one playable build. In the past nerfs, we had at least 3 to 4 viable builds to work with. So……..Why dont you wait till your main gets nerfed to the ground before posting idiocies on this thread.
PS: Chrono is top meta. Your point is irrelevant.
Let me be clear with you here – I play every class, but main Dagger/Warhorn Elementalist. I don’t know where you would be coming from thinking I only play necro and its the only reason I would think mesmer is strong still. Maybe you just aren’t very good at mesmer? I’m pretty decent at mesmer and I’ve won plenty of PvP fights, WvW fights and duels on my mesmer.
Mesmer has been way too strong for way too long, it can almost infinitely be in stealth and apply a lot of conditions or burst VERY hard with shatters. Now with chrono, it has a long block, access to aegis and still invuln from sword 2 lol.
And if what you’re trying to say is that mesmer isn’t strong without Chrono, that is also wrong because the old shatter meta is very strong to this day. It really sounds like a L2P issue that you’re having.
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You play on a zerg server and pretend that BlobGate’s wins are about skill.
Where exactly did you get this idea? You’re full of assumptions. I think Blackgate has some of the worst players I’ve ever been on the same server with lol.. I said we have a lot of smaller groups that take objectives, I never said that our blobs were good or that any of those smaller groups besides my own are good. I honestly don’t know who has skill on that server. No offense to any of the larger groups there, but I haven’t seen anything that impressed me.
If skill mattered then all the other servers that do exactly what you “claim” to do would have a chance at T1. That can’t happen as long as stacking is the most important element of match play.
If your “skill” mattered you could go to any server and move them up to T1. But even you know that’s not possible.
That isn’t true because skill is not the only factor, its honestly such a silly statement for you to even try to make. Coverage is also a factor, it doesn’t mean Blackgates blobs are any bigger than TC’s blobs during prime time, it just means that Blackgate has more coverage in other time zones as well.
As far as servers with skilled players goes, no server has any kind of monopoly on skilled players. Every server I’ve been to has been infested with no-talent players running with blobs – but they’re necessary to have. The only two servers I’ve ever seen with skilled pugs ever have been Maguuma and Fort Aspenwood, both of which are now over run with pretty bad players/guilds these days.
This picture should clear things up.
If you enjoy skill less zerg play then WvW is your game. Glad you like it.
But for most RvR players Guild Wars 2’s version is seriously lacking. So much so that they left years ago and never came back.
Anet had a chance to make something great and there were a ton of people that came to this game at launch hoping that their promises of something like DAoC were real. It was very apparent very early on though that WvW was a a lame zergling PvD game. So most real RvR players left.
It could still be fixable, and many of those players would return if ANET made the attempt. But they refuse to listen. Instead they promote the zerg and every zergling who loves that sort of skill less play. Zerg on.
I lead a roaming guild that runs 3-8 people. I almost never zerg around with tags, not sure where you got the idea that I did.
PvE and PvP, sure. WvW, maybe but not well. The big blob fights end up causing even some of the best setups some grief in frame drops.
Mine isn’t probably one of the “best” but it does well on max settings everywhere but WvW, I turn everything down to medium and low for WvW for best performance. I need to be able to fight more than I need to be able to see sparkly things on peoples armor and weapons then lol.
Here is my pc setup: http://asphyxia.tv/computer-setup/
One thing that I’d highly recommend for this game is a solid state drive. It made a world of a difference for me.
Spacing out the marks sounds like a good idea in general.
Hmm, that does bring up a good question. How is Reaper vs Base Necros when it comes to blobs anyways?
Matter of opinion generally. I personally prefer necros to run the classic necro build ( http://asphyxia.tv/wvw-back-line-necromancer-build/ ) over reaper because the classic build has more damage modifiers and over all higher damage. Granted, less cleave – but Reaper has to be played as more of a “mid line” which gives them an increased risk of death being closer in the action. Classic necro can stand back and burst as they please without taking much if any damage. I also think that the classic build feels more reliable than Reaper.
It is a lot of opinion based stuff there, but I think if we’re talking numbers, the classic necro build beats out the reaper.
I run axe/dagger and staff on my necro. I drop my marks more scattered in the enemy clump so that I get maximum tags and drop my wells on the main clump.
When its clean up time for the downs, I use my axe 3, dagger 4 and 5, shroud 4 and 5 as well. I don’t run reaper though personally, I think reaper might get more tags in shroud due to the cleave.
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I run axe/dagger and staff on my necro. I drop my marks more scattered in the enemy clump so that I get maximum tags and drop my wells on the main clump.
When its clean up time for the downs, I use my axe 3, dagger 4 and 5, shroud 4 and 5 as well. I don’t run reaper though personally, I think reaper might get more tags in shroud due to the cleave.
15 second loading screen doesn’t sound so good for SSD. I have regular HDD and my loading screen times were 20 seconds (loading character on map) and 17 seconds (moving to WvW borderland).
I said at most. As in loading in to like a full Lions Arch instance lol. Most of the time its about 5 seconds or less.
Why would they care how much gold someone has and what their buying power is? That is seriously like saying its not okay for Realtors to buy houses for cheap then flip them for profit because they had money to start out with to buy them. That is business, that is life. You’re going to have to get used to the rich buying from the poor then marking up for a profit lol.
The biggest zerg always wins in WvW. That’s the way it is designed.
Untrue. Smaller groups are just as much to blame as the zergs. Last night on YB BL, we had 2 smaller groups and 1 blob on the map and we managed to take almost the whole map over because the 2 smaller groups would go taking towers and camps while the blob would attack keeps to draw the enemies. Most of our PPT was from that map in particular lol.
Hilarious. BlobGate has the most players in all time zones, that is why you are winning. Period.
TC moved up to T1 because they stacked up with old JQ and YB players.
If skill mattered in this game then non stacked servers would regularly move up to T1.
Arguing otherwise is the height of idiocy.
Oh I am not disagreeing that the coverage is strong, but I am saying that in NA prime, we do have a lot of smaller groups roaming around taking objectives which does help our PPT. Those days you see us ticking 400ppt in NA prime, that isn’t just because we have out numbered you, I have friends in both servers who say all their maps are queued then too.
Edit: To clarify, I am disagreeing that the biggest zerg wins, and now you’re bringing coverage in to it. The biggest zerg does not win, that is not a true statement.
This hole Mesmer Nerf is Stupid!
Whole. You just made yourself look real smart there.
Not even gonna describe & say why, but this has become ridiculous. None mesmer crying all over & getting what they want is pitiful. Balance needs to be balance all across, not just mesmers. Second of all, this game needs 3 mod balance. NOT just 1 size fits all balance. It don’t work.
Anet Dev needs to get there poopy together & stop the madness. You have run mesmer down to the ground. Almost time for some Overwatch…
Are you crying about mesmer not being over powered anymore? I don’t really understand what you’re doing there besides just crying. Condi PU mesmer is still strong, shatter mesmer is still strong.
The only things that ever gave me near the loot my necro gets is my Guardian and Elementalist. Necro gets the most loot, you are just having a “learn to play” issue. You should be using those skills to get tags BEFORE the players are down.
Upgrade your computer lol. Not sure what specs you’re running, but we’re on the same server and the most my loading times are ever is about 15 seconds tops.
I have an SSD and it GREATLY reduced the amount of time for loading screens.
Yes please, move to EOTM or Guild Hall. Somewhere that isn’t WvW.
So I guess we’re getting a new post every time you make another youtube video lol..
http://asphyxia.tv/wvw-roaming-ranger-build/
^ That is what I run for WvW. It isn’t perfect by any means but it survives very well and has a decent bit of condition spike while maintaining some raw damage. I’ve been considering switching to just straight dire armor and trinkets for it though. The healing power is the only thing that would be painful to lose.
My rev build: http://asphyxia.tv/wvw-roaming-revenant-build/
I swap staff for hammer for group play, but if I ever have to get away, I go to assassin stance and find a further away target and use the Phase Traversal skill. Plus I try to keep up my swiftness in dragon stance.
http://asphyxia.tv/wvw-roaming-revenant-build/
The answer to your prayers is above. That build is pretty godly, only thing it really lacks is the same thing rev lacks in general, which is access to more condi cleanse. If you’re running with a smaller group and you have a guardian or ele around you, this build is nearly unstoppable and the damage is off the wall.
Mine is kind of similar. Here is my power shatter mesmer: http://asphyxia.tv/wvw-roaming-mesmer-build/
I have a few differences though (plus mine is set up more for WvW than PvP.) I opted to take Gravity Well and dueling line over inspiration. Plenty viable still, I just prefer dueling for the extra clones for a shatter build primarily.
If you want to play extra scummy, you can run my condi build: http://asphyxia.tv/wvw-roaming-thief-condition-build/
Condi warrior doesn’t seem to be too strong anymore these days in comparison to a warrior running Marauders, cavalier, zerker or a mix of those. It used to be really good, but there is so much condi clear out there now that raw damage seems to be the better way to go for warrior.
Here is my roaming build: http://asphyxia.tv/wvw-roaming-warrior-build/
I run axe/mace and rifle with Cavalier armor and zerker trinkets. If I am feeling like being a little more squishy I will run marauder armor and zerker trinkets. Both are a good combination.