To preface this, I’ve never had an issue with my GW2’s connectivity issues.
After playing fine at 2EST in the morning I logged out. When trying to log back in at 11ishEST I kept getting errors. Finally I was able to log into my account. Upon getting to the character select I selected my mesmer. The game refused to connect to her and then refused to allow me access to my account. After resetting, I tried the same thing with my thief and elementalist. Both had the same issues. Upon trying this with my guardian however, I could log into her. I tried all the characters again to be sure and the same thing happened.
I’ll attach my netdia/pingpathing to this report as well.
List of “error” codes.
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5:11:3:157:101
I was able to access my guardian again so I’ll be refreshing my topic as well as waiting in game.
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Saving this to List the “error” codes. Also attatching pingpathing
26:11:5:506
5:11:3:157:101
Edit: Was able to relog onto the guardian again. Would appreciate some answers, will be refreshing as well as in game.
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To preface this, I’ve never had an issue with my GW2’s connectivity issues.
After playing fine at 2EST in the morning I logged out. When trying to log back in at 11ishEST I kept getting errors. Finally I was able to log into my account. Upon getting to the character select I selected my mesmer. The game refused to connect to her and then refused to allow me access to my account. After resetting, I tried the same thing with my thief and elementalist. Both had the same issues. Upon trying this with my guardian however, I could log into her. I tried all the characters again to be sure and the same thing happened.
I’ll attach my netdia/pingpathing to this report as well.
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Would you mind explaining?
I like mantra’s but I feel like it’s beyond simply being a niche build. I don’t want this to sound like a complaint thread so I’ll keep it simple. How would the community feel if mantra’s worked like almost like Initiative? I’ll explain it a little without including any traits for it.
Mantra of Recovery has a ten second recharge time and a two charge limit. With this, every ten seconds you would gain one charge of MoR passively. This would stack up to two times, with the normal limit. If you already have two charges it wouldn’t passively recharge till you used one charge.
This would allow you to keep Mantra’s up and not feel like you have to expend them all at once then spend the next 9 seconds stopping all DPS, all healing and the sort to keep up maximum effectiveness.
The only problem I see is
Protected Mantras – Increases armor while casting mantras.
Unless you get a buff to armor for “X” seconds" every time you expend a charge. It’s just a thought but how would the community feel about it?
Mesmers suck. They’re terrible, clunky, slow, underpowered, and boring as sin.
Then you hit level 40/60 and everything in the world is filled with sunshine, butterflies, and happiness. Seriously, mesmer is continually the only class you here people say “just grind it out, I swear it gets better”.
Great explanation, thank you for posting this. Very good summary of how to counter this build. My only criticism is using WvW kills as a benchmark for skill, you can rack up a ton of WvW kills by just zerging around the map, it’s not a good indicator of profession knowledge.
Would it help if I said I belong to Gates of Madness? We’re incapable of zerging but I agree with your statement. The majority of my kills are from my friend and I roaming and taking out 1-4 at a time. I’ve studied this class to the point where I know all my faults and I can judge whether or not I can win a fight within the first 5 seconds of engagement. If someone ASKS for knowledge I’ll help them with everything I know. When someone whines and complains I’ll shove the knowledge down their throat because they don’t deserve civility lol.
This is my elementalist, Pandora Hymn. This is the only character I play even though I have an 80 Ranger, Thief, Mesmer, Guardian, and a PvP necromancer (level doesn’t matter).
With 417 hours, knowledge on most classes, Running double dagger since BW1, and over 2,000 WvW kills I would like to think I’m informed enough about my favorite class to give a properly constructed breakdown of it.
Elementalist, while extremely flexible, is not as “OP” as you make it seem. What people seem to believe is because you can’t win a war of attrition with an elementalist it’s OP when in fact an D/D ele’s strength isn’t damage, or even conditional damage, it’s CONTROL.
This is the main problem I see with people I fight, they’re not informed enough about elementalist to duel them. These are the same people who made an ele then deleted it with disgust because we didn’t do 30k burst dmg in 1.5 seconds. Here we go then, this is how you break down an elementalist D/D.
Take
Away
It’s
Mobility
That’s it, and I’m dead serious about it. DDE’s biggest strength is their ability to control a fight by weaving in and out of combat. They need to pick and choose their timing due to cooldowns and relative squishiness. An ele will usually try to engage using
RLT, updraft then split into either
1) Burning Speed, RoF, Drake’s Breath, Firegrab
2) Earthquake, Churning Earth, Lightning Flash (if you try to get away)
Path 1 is the most used because there’s a fire field on the ground for might stacking when you attune to earth. If an ele engages with RTL you have 15 seconds in which their main mobility and escape tool are down. Pop a stun break right after updraft and notice if they’ve changes attunement to fire or earth.
If fire, back away about 400 range and they’ll have to use burning speed to get close to you or miss their entire combo. With this, you’ve already negated their escape, main DMG spell without burning on, and have severely hindered their damage.
If they’ve swapped instantly to earth and I cannot stress this enough, DO NOT TRY TO RUN. We’re elementalists, we WILL catch you, we WILL punish you and you’ll have wasted your dodges trying to get out of the churning earth circle. Instead, pop stability if you have access to it and DPS the kitten out of us during the Churning Earth channel, or cancel the channel. Using stability yourself is in case the ele is smart and has Stability/Shocking Aura during his channel, you will NOT stop him from using that skill. At the moment of cast, dodge.
At this point you’re passed the worst of it. The ele will have 2 options, lightning again or water.
Lightning→ They’re still playing aggressive but fear not, only the direct AA does any real damage. Even then it’s pretty negligible and a good ele should be trying to buy time for his DoT’s and Cooldowns to take effect.
Water→ They’re going defensive. Pending on how they built, this is when they’ll try to recover all the HP they lost on the burst/dmg attunements. DO NOT LET THEM. They’ll use Cleansing Wave followed by possibly Cone of Cold. They have a small radius AoE chilled as well. This will usually be the 4th attunement as a lot of elementalists are stupid and will reset to lightning and use Ride the Lightning to try and keep the offensive going instead of keeping RTL for an escape.
There’s your basic combo breakdown and everyway to stop it. You want to know how you can prevent all that damage instead of actually OUTPLAYING the ele? Stun, Immobilize, Daze, even Cripple. As I said all our power comes from mobility and being able to control the pace of a fight.
Also, any way to corrupt, remove, or otherwise prevent them buffing themselves helps immensely. Oh boo hoo they have damn near perma fury/regen/vigor? Buy a Superior Sigil of Nullification, 10 Second cooldown buff removal on crit.
God forbid people learn a class before they start complaining about it being OP. D/D ele’s are squishy at heart. Stop your complaints, learn the in and outs of the class, and enjoy stomping an ele’s face in.
Also this is for you guys complaining
“Nerf Rock, Paper is fine – sincerely Scissors”
I didn’t mind Traderp for the beginning of it. Seeing him in the Pale Tree vision I was glad to see some character growth even if his speech was monotone and written by a middle school DM. What broke it for me were a few things:
Sieran and Tybalt for starters
Both of them had better voice acting that actually sold their personalities. They both had quirks and they both had better character arcs. Comparing Traderp to those to make his seem like a lesser “citizen” standing in the background muttering prerendered dialogue.
Another portion was the idea that he stood there taking a lot of credit for things he didn’t do. While I do agree, we shouldn’t have been “Leader” of the pact, he stole the spotlight and almost made it seem like our contributions were nigh important.
The last one was one phrase he uttered in a storyline mission. I can’t recall the exact mission or the exact words but it pretty much amounted to: “Thank goodness you’re ok Commander. While the monsters attacked you I can tell their REAL target was me!”
That was the most self-indulgent BS I’ve heard in a while from a storyline and it really just made me want to chop him into planks so at least when we used him to build barricades he’d at least be useful.
It’s a shame too, I WANTED to like Traderp, but his voice acting, dialogue, forced character arc, and comparing him to others I met in the story just made it impossible for me.