Guild Wars 2

@Godmoney, did they nerf mantra healing? Because you could heal for 2ks if you have the healing stat raised.

Imo Vision of the Mists looks better than the legendaries for mesmer.

I did 87k crit with my sword one, but it was on a critter. :P

aycheff.1740:

Nothing in Phantasmal Strength? lol joke build

I’m hoping you’re trying to be a bad troll, because if you think Phantasmal Strength is the only trait you can use, you’re not very experienced with the Mesmer. 0.o

Focus in my primary, Pistol in secondary. Focus is too good to pass on.

Our play style is highly affected by our traits, in the beginning it’s a bit more challenging but as you level up it gets much easier.

Good players PvE. xP

I see, I just now noticed the range testing on LA’s practice dummies haha.

Is this new? I never noticed they could be summoned from that far away, being a sword user and all.

I believe I tried using geomancy in such a way and it didn’t seem to work, would be worth a try in the mists for energy tho.

I guess I should renew my post, since I keep hearing mesmer is weak… 0.o

Well somehow the forum won’t link the website anymore, copy it in a new tab or something:
http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fgQQNAs9alwzqqHVzhG19IxJFMf5oUgdvX6BuzNvB;TQAg1GEs9Y6B

Not everyone has to build for shatters. Phantasms are more fun too. I don’t have an issue with the changes tho, only gained 3s on Duelist, I’m surprised it happened tho.

Asylum.3259:

No, the Weapon recharge doesnt stack with illusion recharge. They never were 40%.

They do and always did, it’s just the tooltip that isn’t updated.

Moa isn’t op… It has a huge 3m cd.

Somehow I see it as an overlook on their part in the first place, such as the new 20% recharge on weapons, phantasms now gains 40% reduction instead of 20%. so 15 used to drop to 12s. Now 20 – 40% = 12s.

I don’t mind it too much, there isn’t a wide area of choices a mesmer has regarding runes practicality, so I run with MF runes.

The primary source of aggro is proximity, then other sources comes into account. I “tank” the effigy fairly often when doing 1 of the CoF bosses.

The change actually improves the GS imo.

For a healing focused mesmer you’ll definitely want a healing mantra build.

Brings you down to 12 seconds instead of 9s on phantasms. It’s not a big issue really. In PvE I usually use 1 phantasm per mob, in dungeons/on boss I usually always have 3 phantasms up and they don’t die right away, the skills themselves have time to recharge.

@Obsidian It’s not exactly that our GS is weak, it’s Warrior’s hundred blades that’s broken.

But that aside, this patch wasn’t a nerf. Sure we won’t have as many fields provided for our hammer but now we have easier-to-access finishers with this setup.

Eh? Mesmer is very good in PvE. 0.o

Well I’m surprised mesmer received a bunch of nerfs. 0.o

The only thing affecting me is the duelist which gained 3s cooldown, but it’s not a huge issue as a sword user. Sucks to be a staff user tho, they practically wants everyone to use GS in 1 of their set now, which I won’t do.

Well I fixed it on my part, seemed to have been one of the many useless firewalls my dad installed, disabling it made the game work again. (the AVG one)

I’m getting this bug today myself…

^ Eh? I’m a melee mesmer and I can do just fine in melee range. o.o

For jumping puzzles and to port groups behind traps/stuff in dungeons.

If you want a healing build, go with the mantras, you’ll have a much better healing output in mantra builds.

I’m a Sword/Focus + Pistol mesmer, and my stats choice is half rampager & half knight.

The main issue with scepter is the generation of clones that kills phantasms. Mesmers all around Tyria are waiting for the day they learn to use pistol in their main hands.

A possible fix to scepter would be to make clones not destroy phantasms when you have 3 of them.

What mesmer is missing is a melon hat.

For mantras one of the best builds rely on Berserker, and Divinity runes are expensive, so people stay away from it.

It’s the medium armor of Citadel of Flame.

I love my ears going up in combat, makes your character listen carefully from threats around him as well.

If I recall that part was only a survival round, so just have your team survive long enough by kiting and killing what they can.

A plausible alternative would be to make the dungeon armors be a bit like how the HoM armors are, which is just a skin you apply on something else.

He’s hard, but can be easily doable, just that you’re forced to have a poison dealer + dps to kill him.

Imo, the reduction system shouldn’t involve the speed you clear them at, only the number of times you’ve done X path during that day.

Somethings like 60 > 30 > 15 > 15… (Since less than 15 is pretty ridiculous on most paths)

A party search system would be pretty good to do dungeons.

Well I’m really confused on how the new system works, so far it only been burdening me. For example, I haven’t played the day before and yesturdays instead of getting 120 tokens I got:
30 tokens for clearing Magg’s Path instead of 60.
Then ONLY 15 tokens for beating that dreadful Effigy in 1st path instead of my hard earned 60…

They’re working on making this feature available.

Defensive Golem is the best elite for mesmer imo.

I’m using a Sword/Focus + Pistol build. I even posted it as a guide in this section.

Using phantasms doesn’t make you lazy, I find shatter impractical and ineffective compared to phantasms.

There edited it a bit taking into account True seeker’s input.

There removed the bleed on auto attack and added cooldowns. Also made the #3 skill remove it instead with a chance to steal. As for the clone, do take into account that they don’t do damage. The staff’s clone does condition damage, the pistol version would be warping around, while still doing next to no damage.

PvE > PvP. Things shouldn’t just be changed for 1 of them, they should be worthwhile for both.

Since many of us agree we’re lacking a main hand that does range damage, main hand pistol seems like the most logical choice, as we can already use it in offhand.

• Auto-Attack: Similar to the thief’s pistol attack rate. Causes Bleeding. Projectile Finisher: 20% chance.

• Aimed Shot: Shortly charge a magic bullet at the target. Causes either Burning or Poison for 1s on every shot. 50%/50% chance. 5s Cooldown.

• Illusionary Thief: Shoot a bullet and remove a boon (With 10% chance to steal it), while summoning a clone at the same time. 15s Cooldown.

• OR

• Illusionary Cripple: Shoot a bullet that cripples while summoning a clone at the same time. 10s Cooldown. (If this one, remove the cripple caused by clones)

• Main Hand Pistol Clones: Attacks like your Auto-Attack except it cripples.

The general idea would be to have the kit create mechanical toys oriented towards your race, but they all do the same things, just their appearance that changes, such as:
Asura: Golems.
Norn: Mechanical animals based on the 4 spirits.
Charr: Siege-weapons oriented toys.
Sylvari: Nature-related designs, such as oakhearts.

Now for the skills: X being the race-related design

• #1: Auto-attack: X Grenade: Throw a toy at the enemy which explodes on contact.
• #2: Mini X: Drop a small toy on the ground with wheels that rolls towards the target and explodes on contact and cause a small AoE around it. Can’t be targeted. Cause 1s cripple. Blast Finisher.
• #3: X: Drop a character-sized toy on the ground with wheels that rolls towards the target and explodes on contact and cause a larger AoE around it. Can be targeted, explodes where it dies if killed. Blast Finisher.
• #4: Decoy: Drop a mechanical toy statue representing your race that can be attacked and stays alive for 10s and shares your armor/toughness. Go in stealth for 3 seconds, gain vigor boon for 5 seconds. 25s cooldown.
• #5: Last Resort: Send out #1, #2 and #3 at once.

• #Toolbelt: Red Button: Get knocked back by an explosion (Similar to Elixir Gun’s 4’s effect) while sending out 3 #3 skill at the target.

Eh? If anything a mesmer makes dungeons much easier… Your friend is clueless or only played with bad mesmers.