Guild Wars 2

Temariah.9372:

I suppose I can see how having the icons would help with the relative learning curve of Mesmer.

Stop thinking every critique/suggestion is a l2p issue. I’m talking combat readability, which is pretty important in this game where every fight looks like a firework.
And combats don’t always go as planned; when two of my phantasm die, I like to see asap which one I have left to rebuild/adapt my setup.

Yes, thank you. I removed the gameplay changing part, still keeping the main idea of having small icons.

I made a topic on the suggestion board about adding Illusion icons to ease combat readability, like in the attachement below.

Please post in the topic linked below to show you support the idea so Anet can see it because it’s a little something that I think would really help.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Mesmer-Illusions-interface/first#post109888

Since I started playing Mesmer, I always wished for a way to tell which Illusions I had up at any time.

In big fights and fights or when you move a lot, use your skills and when illusions get killed and replaced, it can pretty hard to tell which Illusions are still alive.
And since one of the major gameplay point of the Mesmer is having the best Illusion setup at any moment, I want to know If I have to pop a clone as a placeholder or a Phantasm and which one.

So, my suggestion is putting small symbols, each one representing a specific illusion (at least for phantasms) on the pink circles and different colors between clones and phantasms like in the attachement below.

The title says it all.
The Karma vendor for Sorrow’s embrace sells the whole Furnace Reward Light set except for the pauldrons which are named “Furnace Reward Pauldrons” (“Light” is missing) and they’re are tagged as Medium armor.

Mesmer has a long setup time but formidable utilities for you and your group, incredible survivability and in the end, can deal a crapload of damages once the ball is rolling.

This is what it does on a fight that doesn’t pose any threat to your illusions:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9gFSOuD6V8

And even if you can’t keep all of them alive, they’re pretty easy to replace.
I just wish we had another ranged main hand like the scepter but without the clone generation.

Zenyatoo.4059:

Also I felt worse for my warrior friend who couldnt even engage him with his primary weapon. Anytime he got close, WHOOSH FIRE RING. and suddenly there was nothing that could be done.

Some of the bosses aren’t made for melees but hey, that’s why we can swap weapons and be almost as effective with one or the other set.

It’s also a pretty good tactic to have one melee guys to force the boss to use his spinning attack instead of fireballs on players, he just have to go melee then roll back when the spinning attack starts.

Bregah.7365:

My own, very limited, experience with dungeons – which consists of one run of AC story mode at 35ish, is that dungeons aren’t “fun”. A lot of people I talk to tend to agree.

Now that being said, my story AC run was with a full PUG, none of us had been there before, and one guy DC’d/left after the first boss was down (and we had no idea if we could recruit a replacement for him without losing our progress, so we four-manned the rest of the dungeon).

But that noob experience was, in no way, “fun”.

I had to do AC (which was my first dungeon) twice before starting to enjoy it and dungeons in general.
They are very different from the leveling experience (which you most likely did solo) and require different thinking and gamestyle.

Some of them are broken as hell though.

For your sanity, I’d suggest you to avoid these dungeons:

Sorrow’ Embrace Story mode
One of the bosses is actually 4 bosses and he’s is pretty hard. You and your teammates will need a specific skillset for this boss only, something people tend to not understand (I’m looking at you, 5 signet warriors), switching tactics on the fly . and some others are too lazy to run back when they die.

Caudecus Manor Explorable mode
At least to of the paths (haven’t done seraph yet) are full of traps and small rooms/corridors with lot of elite mobs. Such a pain to go through this.

Ascalon Catacombs Explorable mode
At least two of the paths have an event where you must destroy burrows while defending a npc, this is pretty hard and impossible withkitten teammates. Add to that that burrows don’t take conditions and from time to time can’t be hit in melee and you’ve got a very frustrating experience. Don’t do this in pug.

Now for the interesting and working ones:

Ascalon Catacombs Story mode
Hard but interesting encounters, The Lovers are definitely the hardest bosses of the dungeon and require some thinking.

Citadel of Flame Story Mode
Fun dungeon with cool bossfights, the hardest boss would be that guy with the spinning blades, final boss is fun as hell.

Crucible of Eternity Story Mode
Another fun dungeon very story/event driven, my only gripe is that the bosse have WAY too much hp.

Honor of the waves Story Mode
This dungeon is gorgeous and all the bosses in it are very doable by almost any group.

The Ruins of Arah Story mode
Very story driven, first part is very balanced from a difficulty point and fun to do while the second part, while very entertaining can be frustrating depending on how well you do. You can’t loose in the second part, just die a lot.

Here’s mine.
I really like this outfit.