After playing with Canines a lot recently I wouldn’t mind one in the Canine family with a burst F2 similar to Birds/Felines, I know its not really their point but I would like one. Maybe a Chiuaua or Poodle.
No. Low mobility is supposed to be a mesmer weakness.
It is more of a cripple than a weakness, how can we do anything if we can’t even keep up.
I’d argue having almost no condition removal (i.e. warrior) is a much more crippling weakness. When it comes to weaknesses mesmers have it best (just like with pretty much everything else). And you don’t even need mobility to get away because you have stealth. Plus blink.
Oh look a primarily PvP player who thinks his closed off mode is the only one who matters and doesn’t understand how the rest of the game works.
Then again Warriors having no condition removal is a pretty funny thought so he probably doesn’t know how that mode works either.
Last time I went back their was a group of Hyleks sat in the middle of it. I lauded my Champion of the Sun status over them a bit then went about my business.
People playing mesmers complained about having to play by the rules with LoS, dodge, miss, block, and ‘out of range’ … and now they’re complaining about an improper change being put back the way it was supposed to be. Wow… The mesmer is the class that makes all the thief jukes look like they belong in the game.
So when are Guardians, Engineers, Elementalists and Necros going to ‘play by the rules’ and have LoS, dodge and blind stop their summons?
The only thing that worries me about a MH pistol, is it still does nothing to supplement our lack of AoE. I’d like a weapon that will give us more AoE.
A hammer that can drop hammers at 1200 range.
Or how about a rifle that shoots butterflies? We could have them rain from the sky in our own version of Barrage and the butterfly auto attack could fly around to different targets butterflying them.
Nice but judging about how everybody cried about iBerserkers (read Elementalists and Engineers who can freely spam aoes on top of walls and through doors) I can’t imagine us having this for long.
Expect an ‘animation glitch’ being fixed for guard soon.
Good thing I have a level 80 Warrior that is also my favorite class to play in sPvP, will just keep getting stronger while the biased devs nerf everything else.
Shame I wasted time leveling my Mesmer to 80 in PvE though as the PvPs communities refusal to l2p just means the weakest PvE class just keeps getting weaker and all I can do in WvWvW now is portal bomb, shame I hate portal bomb.
Yeah in terms of DPS I am pretty sure it goes 1h Sword then shortbow. Pairing sword with warhorn would probably be better then dagger if you just want to go all out damage. Off hand axe is fairly underrated as well, especially if we are just talking about open world PvE.
I have no problems with the repeating NPCs but seriously what on Tyria is that woman in Divinity’s Reach doing? Has she always been like that? It was the only town I went into in Beta and I leveled two humans so I have been there a lot in live but I don’t remember hearing it till I went there the other day for Wintersday.
I play a Warrior in PvP and I have never had a problem against Mesmers or even Thiefs (although yeah if the thief decides to run off I can’t catch him at all but with the only mode in PvP at the moment being capture points is that really a massive problem?) sometimes they beat me sure but if that is the case I have normally been out played or made a mistake (or jumped on with low health and skills on cooldown) and I recognize that instead of just jumping on forums to cry.
Personally I think the best thing they could do for this game is remove the PvP, just shift that whole community off into a seperate game because it is one of the worst I have seen in gaming.
They think their own little world is the most important thing and should dictate how the rest of the game is and start raging every time there is an update for the PvE side they also have no idea how the game works or what dodges are. It is just a constant cry of nerfs for any class that can do a bit of damage. They think Mesmer and Ranger are OP while Warrior needs buffs, tell that to anybody who plays PvE and they would laugh in your face about how out of touch you are. PvE shouldn’t have to suffer because of how bad the PvP players are at the game.
I keep reading the phrase ’shady drug dealer style scam ’ but I still have no idea what it means, or how it can apply to acquiring toys for a digital characters.
On the plus side another person who says they are excited for Elder Scrolls Online is always funny.
I don’t get why he complains about not being to level up through DEs alone but in the next point complains that there is too much stuff to do in zones and you will end up out leveling them before you have finished.
I also don’t know why he is complaining that if you do all 5 starter zones you end up at level 30. Well obviously. If you want to be level 10 when you do the next zone don’t do all 5 starter zones before hand. It is like complaining that if you make a new character then level 2 crafts up to 400 then you won’t be level 1 when you finally do some PvE.
Every single player who tries to defend this buff is either a weak shatter mesmer(the only mesmer build tha tmatters in tpvp) or dishonest.
Or they want PvP to be filled with powerful and interesting builds instead of just everybody going around auto attacking like the majority of the PvP players who post here seem to want.
The only ones I have trouble with are the Dolls, generally with them I either grab the present and run or see if I can get a 3 way fight going.
Only fought Golems once and it ended with my death so still not to sure about them but they do seem to have been taught how to fight by Risen from Cursed Shore.
I’m going to have to agree that this buff was a negative change for the metagame, since the Shatter spec was already the dominant Mesmer spec in tournament play, and one considered almost as mandatory for teams as bunker Guardians. Now the same spec that was already considered top-tier for tourney play is running around with 9+ stacks of Might, so there’s no room for other Mesmer specs in competitive play. I’d love to run a Legion build or something, but if I do, I’m handicapping myself and my team right off the bat, because there’s such a massive difference in power between the specs.
If anything, Shatters needed to be toned down a bit last patch. Not by much, but enough to allow other styles of Mesmer to appear in the metagame (many other Mesmer builds are already strong, and just can’t quite compare to the Shatter spec). Now, even when I’ve gone into Hotjoin recently, I’ve only seen one type of Mesmer build, and that’s the Shatter build. That, in my opinion, indicates that something’s off with balance.
It is pretty obvious that every patch since launch for Mesmer has been to stop Legion builds. They don’t really want that as a style of play for Mesmers (even though they have several traits which encourage it).
Then again it was the first Mesmer build that the PvP players whined about.
Levetty, do you play tpvp? What prof and spec? What would you recommend to some of the top tpvpers to deal with shatter mesmers? Khamal clearly explained why it’s not really possible to avoid or mitigate most of the shatterer’s burst.
Warrior mostly.
You want me to give you a way to avoid that specific burst set up? Ever notice how it sounds a lot like HB builds?
Must I teach you how to mesmer? If you think instantly getting 25 stacks of might for a 10 second duration is an exaggeration, you need to log into GW2 and try the above. ^
Skill, dodge, dodge, F1. Skill, Mirror Images, F2. Isn’t instant, it is 5 skills and 2 dodges. Must I teach you how to tell the time?
The moment all of the illusions shatter, you get 25 stacks of might. If done correctly, they shatter all at the same time, instantly. How is that not the very definition of instantly getting 25 stacks of might?
Do you understand what “skill” means? It means a skill that does something. Use your brain and you will understand that something like Mirror Blades is what you use first to initiate the combo, which grants might.
Some people are beyond reason.
You just completely ignored all of my post. I am not surprised considering how utterly wrong it showed you were but I would have thought you would have at least left the thread and not come back instead of just continuing to embarrass yourself further.
Must I teach you how to mesmer? If you think instantly getting 25 stacks of might for a 10 second duration is an exaggeration, you need to log into GW2 and try the above. ^
Skill, dodge, dodge, F1. Skill, Mirror Images, F2. Isn’t instant, it is 5 skills and 2 dodges. Must I teach you how to tell the time?
Shattered Strength gives 3 might for each illusion that successfully shatters so for one full shatter that is 9 might. 2 full shatters is 9 × 2 = 18. Must I teach you how to do math?
That isn’t even going into the fact that you have just put a Mesmers 2 biggest damaging skills on cooldown to get that stack (and their stun break and all their endurance) and by the time Mind Wrack comes off cooldown then that stack has gone back down to 9. Must I teach you how rotations work?
You know why? It’s because ArenaNet does not play their own game. Instead, they communicate with specific groups of people who offer suggestions, and it is these suggestions that shape the overall balance of the game.
This is the dilemma with developing games. When developers choose to make games, they have no time to do anything else. They either play games, or make games. Because developers are so busy developing the game, they rely on other people’s opinions for balance. If a “trustworthy” player whispers to a developer over Skype, “Hey, Mesmers are so puny and weak. Give them a way to instantly (INSTANTLY, not an exaggeration) gain 25 stacks of might with a 10 second duration,” there’s a chance that the developer will take that suggestion into consideration. Any sane player with first-hand experience of the game would say “ABSO-F’’’INGLUTELY NOT” but for developers, there’s a slight chance, even if it’s 10% or so, of them saying yes.
Seriously guys if you want people to believe your false arguments you need to stop including blatantly false stuff like this.
Actually I am starting to see why Mesmers do so well in tPvP and why numbers are dropping.
Nobody wants to gain any skill in the game, they just want Anet to hold their hand and let them mash buttons to win. People like you might be better suited to CoD.
How is any might stacking not broken then? Funny how nobody complained about Might stacking builds till Mesmer could get one.
Mesmers didn’t get a new might-stacking build. They got a might-stacking trait that made their previously strongest build (shattering) even stronger.
It is lucky that the stack is actually 9-18 and you can kill his resources before he turns them into might. Time it right and you can kill his illusions after he has used his shatters for extra annoyance to the mesmer.
Now let’s make a comparison with the recently buffed might grandmaster trait for the elementalist!
It is lucky that the stack from that trait goes anything beyond 5. And because fire-traited eles attuned to fire are as frail as assassins without stealth or mesmers without stealth and without illusions, you can simply, you know, hit the elementalist, and they’ll be forced to get out of fire attunement, for extra annoyance of the elementalist.
(It also happens that eles can’t burst without might, and have been sucking all this time when they’re not bunker eles.)
Guess which trait completely trumps over the other.
If only their were more then 2 classes in this game.
Irrelevant. Illusions are more or less fine as they currently are, and they only had a bad moment due to recent bugs.
Yes they are fine because they can be killed and stopped from summoning. Try it. they gave you the tools to fight shatter mesmers but you just won’t use them.
Seriously its amazing how PvE mobs AI is better at the game then the average PvP player.
Warrior might be good, lot of blast finishers and if she uses torch or flame trap you could get a lot of might out. And Rangers kind of get double benefits from your shouts/banners.
Also while not in your list Guardian is great at keeping other melee alive which could help keep her pet alive.
build was already strong, if not too strong. no one wanted or asked for 20 might stacks. no thank you sirs.
It is lucky that the stack is actually 9-18 and you can kill his resources before he turns them into might. Time it right and you can kill his illusions after he has used his shatters for extra annoyance to the mesmer.
If you want build diversity, how about using the new shattered Strength for support or confusion builds? Nobody is telling you where to spend that other 45 points.
I’m still waiting to be told why every class in the game can stack might but when the Mesmer can by jumping through hoops and spending its clones and big cooldown attacks it is suddenly OP.
Hey if you actually played the game instead of sitting on the forums crying you would probably already know that this change is helping condition and support mesmers more then the bursts.
Why do people think that Phantasms and shatters are unavoidable? You know this game is based around movement and dodging right? Funnily enough two things that illusions don’t do so why don’t you try aoeing and cleaving through them?
Seriously Anet added ways for you to block the Mesmer from summoning (something which Necros, Guardians, Engies or Eles don’t have to deal with) and have a feature built into the UI specifically designed so you can always tell which the real Mesmer is (not to mention stuff like AI and no offhands), how much hand holding do you want?
If a Mesmer is using Scepter/OH Sword then he isn’t running a shatter build.
Or he is running a very bad one.
How does this affect what i’m saying ?
I said SPECIFICALLY OH sword and scepter to avoid talking about how ridicolously Phase Retreat is on staff.
And anyway, shatterbuilds are based on shatters, not phantasms: you can pick any weapon you want and be effective as long as you know how to shatter them, the only thing you need is a MH sword in order to do the combo.
I play the mesmer myself, and i know perfectly how RIDICOLOUS this class is right now, and it was already very, VERY powerful before ( on the edge of OP, but still counterable by some very few classes that needed to play A LOT BETTER than the mesmer one) and didn’t need any buff, if not huge nerfs to phantasm damage and big boosts to mesmer damage itself, maybe becoming less easymode than it is actually.
in tPvP the mesmer is the most powerful and gamebreaking class, any team without a mesmer is severely hampering its viability: a single timewarp can totally change the outcome of a fight, especially on Khylo.
Learn to play before complaining about stuff.
Well thanks for writing my response to you for me. So erm yeah, do that.
