i dont understand if the problem is the race, the class or both. asura can be either loved or hated, imo its a nice race but weapons are way too small compared to others.
mesmer is a great class, any legendary will fit.
you must decide if you want an asura or not, if you like it then its worth to equip it with a legendary.
you dont, mind spike is part of sword MH chain attack aka mind stab. i guess they changed the sword name in order to dont have to think about buffs for gs #3.
id also like changes for mind stab, even a minor buff would give more uses for this skill. personally, i would like a good bonus damage if target is crippled. better radius would also be ok (my dream is bigger radius with three blades instead of one!).
“i like to have a dialogue with people, even if im arguing.” That’s nice for you. Now, what about the other person? Are you self-focused on “having a dialogue”..e.g. argument at their expense?
Behavior has consequences.
If you’re trolling, being deliberately inciting, annoying, immature, etcetera, especially in pursuing “dialogue” (and I’m not saying you are but I have experienced this), the correct social response is to be ostracized. Especially if the other person in the dialogue is merely being used and it is not a useful, beneficial, or enjoyable conversation for them. Block provides that. Nicely.
There is a diversity of players within this game, and a diversity of expectations, values, and norms in regards to social interactions.
I have expectations in regards to “dialogue” that excludes braggarts, boors, and trolls (all immature behavior that has consequences.) I use block to deal with such, quite satisfactorily.
PS. I don’t bother swearing. That would reduce me to their level. Or feed them.
argh, i had a bad time to understand all your post. a really good one.
as you see im not so good in english and thats can be the reason of your quote.
“if you’re trolling, being deliberately inciting, annoying, immature…” in the cases im trying to describe, this is the description of the person that blocks you, thats the reason of the topic.
Maybe because people want to actually play the game instead of debate random crap with you?
did you even read my post? if not, at least read what Mirta said.
im speaking about players that insults you and then put you in the blocked list, with no chance to answer them. this is indeed the way to play the game.
your arguments are a bit weak if you need to point this out. think, i can also avoid dots at the end of the sentences if it hurts you.
you already told us that you have a great experience in programming so feel free to explain me how many critical bugs they should have fixed to let this minor bug, as you called, here after 8 months. also, if i know its not an easy task and theres is such a big queue, i would not give positive answers to players. would you?
Im not saying its easy.
Im not into those things.
I dont pretend that they fix it tomorrow.
Im just saying that 8 months of time + positive answers = bug still here is a bit too much. Nothing else. Speaking about this bug may be a way to speed up the process, I dont know.
i like to have a dialogue with people, even if im arguing.
some players are really easy to argue with and the discussion always end in this way: insults from the other part in every known language – blacklist.
yes, the trolls put you in the blacklist. you cant answer him, just report if he’s too aggressive.
i dont use blacklist as i have a sort of “auto ignore” feature after i argue with someone but i find this system a bit childish-friendly. also, i think 90% of the time its used to avoid a direct answer in present instead of avoid the player in the future.
any thoughts about it? perhaps im the only player that meet those cute guys but i find the blacklist thing being more annoying that the guys themselves.
you, advocates, continue to fail.
you actually translated what predator said so ill answer you with the same answer:
there will always be a queue of more important issues as, im sure you know, this is minor bug. minor bug often means minor fix and after 8 months they didnt fixed it yet. im sure you’ll find this normal, i dont.
and by the way, i hope theres not a single programmer at arena net. even if it may be the answer to this problem.
crafted sunrise, best weapon in the game for my tastes.
now im working on gifts in common for every legendary. i may craft twilight, bolt or bifrost, everyone has their advantages and i dont find someone better than the others.
oh i see, im still bad with forums sorry.
i agree with you tho and i would also say that words like tank and healer ( as i read in other posts) are quite odd in this game. the best part of mesmer is that it can wear full berserker and still provide an awesome support for the team.
sorry for the off topic but this is absolutely false. i agree if you say that berserker is not the best set for first runners but this, about that class, no.
i play a shatter spec with staff and sword/torch.
the prestige is amazing, strong damage and huge survivability. iMage is not outstanding but useful before shatter. with cleansing conflagration, it can also remove an annoying stack of bleed or other conditions which is always useful.
what i find stupid is the amount of lodestones you need for recipes like infinite light (and if its not clear, i want infinite light).
you see sunrise and bolt everywhere. better recipe? BiS? medal? achievement? purple? i crafted sunrise, i can be wealthy but not idiot.
direct answer? we have so many of them, this is my favourite part:
“Rest assured that you have a legendary in your hands and you will get the legendary medal.”
end of december.
Have you guys ever heard the word “prioritization”?
Game development isn’t easy thing. Sure it’s minor bug and it could be fixed easealy.
But there is a queue of more important issues devs are working on.
there will always be a queue of more important issues as, im sure you know, this is minor bug. minor bug often means minor fix and after 8 months they didnt fixed it yet. im sure you’ll find this normal, i dont.
Lol then why do you care about the MF or precursors or even made this post? I smell troll!!!
precursor prices.
i crafted my legendary thanks to the forge, after i found dawn i sold it and found dusk with 80g. lucks like that makes legendary recipe a joke.
i found the first dawn one attempt before being naked. after i crafted my weapon i tried forge for 60-80g, nothing. i realised i already used my luck for the next 10 years, and stopped.
its a silly system but its also silly that you are here to complain about it, you could not stop. this is the problem.
i would suggest to check videos again and see if there are vulnerability/might stacks involved, they really help your damage.
you may want to try dazzling if you dont have it, its really useful and also provides some stacks of might, together with a mirror blade (traited with illusionary elasticity) and a sigil of battle on sword you can gain some decent stacks.
3%dmg/clone and traits like that also work, check them. oh and also the mantra damage trait… well there are a lot of reasons that can explain it.
@wads: damage of mind wrack is way higher, even against a lvl 80.
a bug that has more months of my dog.
it should not be so hard to fix, i dont know why its still here honestly. also, its a minor bug if you dont own that weapons. if you do it, it hurts a bit.
And GL with high lvl Fractals or Arah EXP in beserker Gear lol.
if you say so.
I do, have fun in your downed state.
first rule, dont say a word if you dont know what you are speaking about.
i play a mesmer and with mesmer, you have a lot of ways to avoid damage that you can go full berserker smoothly, even in your terrible arah and fractal runs. accept that there are players that run dungeons in berserker gear without dying more often than you, one day you may be one of them.
good luck with your lvl 38 fractal, really impressive.
i crafted sunrise, lot of colors and fits with lot of dye combos. i tried abyss, dust, black, silver, gold, blue ice and so on, at the moment im using a mix of earthen/gold that i really enjoy (on t3, human mesmer). i love to change colors to fit the sword, which means its a good investment.
i will probably go for twilight in the future, both are amazing swords and its only a matter of personal taste, you’ll find something special about one of them, for me it was the sky as you see it in the wiki page.
i dont have a huge experience about mmorpgs but mesmer is the funniest class ive player so far. as a shatter spec, i would go for phantasm. if they nerf phantasms, i would go for mantra and so on.
@khailen, hopefully anet will refund you? you must live in a really cool world.
may i add that the part telling you the story of the earring is EASIER to see than unique? seems a bit intentionally to me.
also, its quite sad the op must run fractal in order to equip them while he spent 70 laurels for rings to avoid it.
theres absolutely something wrong and teutos can be right.
@moonrabbit: mesmer’s damage is amazing, everywhere. its one of the best class you can find for a dungeon run, capable of big bursts and at the same time good survivability and group utilities. support or not, damage is still better than many classes.
few words: pay attention to rings/earrings. if you want the same stats for both the items, you must buy the one with offensive infusion slot and the one with defensive infusion slot. if you buy two times the same item, you cant equip it.
i start to say that all you need is practice so run it again and again.
for the acolytes room distortion also helps to reach safe zones, i dont know your traits but you can take illusionary invigoration. traited blink also helps as bearlin said as well as blurred frenzy and even leap in some situations. you carry focus so use your #4.
for the cage room, with a shatter spec they usually die with mind wrack and blurred frenzy. as you play a different spec you may try to start with iberserker and iwave, this should give you some seconds. then, you swap and go with blurred frenzy+mind wrack or curtain to keep then away from you.
i also add that i like to use sword off hand after the pull job is done, it fits more with my game and its also cool to time it well when the last boss does the big burn aoe attack.
oh and you can always replace gs for staff at the controller room if you feel safer.
mirta, it seems you and your boyfriend play a different game.
op: gs is a strong direct damage weapon, mirror blade+illusionary elasticity give amazing might and vulnerability stacking with a really low cd. however, sword main hand combined with focus/pistol/sword off hand provides almost the same output with way more utilities and a lot of active defense. i would not use gs in situations when i can use staff+sword/sword, but when i cant go melee i take my gs with pleasure. staff has an amazing skillset and the phantasm does huge damage even in a shatter spec. great pressure and defense at the same time. when you use gs, the skillset only gives you a cripple and a kb as defensive tools.
so if you ask me if gs is a good weapon for wvw, capable to kill things fast i would say yes. however, i still prefer staff with sword/sword, or focus, or pistol.
i dont dislike dailies. however, i hate that you get laurels from them.
i agree its the point in common for pvp/pve/wvw players but they are really, really boring.
both are legendary weapons, period. if you search on the forums you can read many posts of devs saying “if you have a legendary → you’ll have the medal”.
however, im still without it : )
i may be the only one that think the logic behind versatile infusions is weird but in order to have two different rings/earrings you must buy two rings: one with offensive and one with defensive slot.
if you want two rings with the same stats, with two infusions containing the same stats, there is the almighty versatile infusion.
suggestion: let us buy and equip two rings/earrings with the same infusion slot and at the same time give versatile infusions a reasonable boost. average players will be able to have the same stats on the infusion without the need of a versatile one and above average players will craft versatile infusions with more pleasure and can fill both the slots with them.
give any feedback and dont hesitate to find whats wrong with this feeling.
skill 2 sucks when you need to move out from an aoe, especially in pve. other than that its really strong both defensively and offensively as the clone will cast mind blast as well. our downed state is overall nice, i particularly like the rogue because it can really deal a lot of damage and mesmer is amazing in downed vs downed.
also, i dont think if it would be too powerful for skill 2 being gt.
i would really trade the aura of sunrise for something special on my set, smoke is a good idea! even more models would be cool, there are a lot of pieces but honestly i only like few of them.
a bird… a bird that moves… i can be the only one in the world but i hate that model.
i really need to start working on bifrost as staves in general suck a bit for my taste.
however, im not sure they’ll add something new for it, they should work on some legendaries first.
on topic: its something i would really like as a 1vs1 lover. perhaps they could add a special map for those duels, once you accept to fight against someone both can click on “go now” and join that map. with no obstacles or structures, just a simple square.
no mobs, no other players, only the two opponents.
off topic: i find a bit weird that shoebox and kaimick shares the same idea in every thread where shoebox posted. kaimick you also bumped a discussion started by him, are you friends or what? arguing 2vs1 is not fair : P
i didnt run arah for a while so things can be different.
if its still the same, its like:
1) the best dd interacts with the machine, mesmer casts time warp to help and the other guy burst down the boss. mesmer can also be the dd.
2) team join the fight and kill the asura.
perhaps with the quickness nerf its not possible to “solo” the first phase and even a low dps player must enter?
on zerker mesmer sword main hand is the best for this fight and does good damage regardless of the traits.
@timecookie, my english skills dont help me but if you speak about the crystal monsters, mesmer is really strong for that fight. again you should use sword and melee them, i used imbued diversion, together with dazzling it was more helpful than iPersona.
i choose strenght because together with traited mirror blade and shattered strenght it makes might stacking a joke, which is really nice for my direct damage build but also helps with bleeding/confusion output.
see that might also comes with big stacks of vulnerability (mirror blade, diversion and other shatters) and its also useful in those situations when you spam spatial surge for a good amount of time (i think at the dredge fractal boss for example).
i think this sigil fits really well with my idea of the greatsword as long as you have an high crit chance.
note that i play a direct damage build and mostly pve while you asked for a condition-wvw point of view… hope it can be helpful.
i only cleared it one time for title, 2 days ago.
torches are way better than the swamp fractal, window is like 7 seconds so its pretty easy for every average team.
the part when you defend the camp can be tough with a squishy comp but still possible if you know how to handle those events.
the “orbs” part can be tough too at the first time but mesmers can use portal. dodge and skills like blink helps, not sure about distortion. the party leader, a guardian, wrote a rotation for the other guard but i cant remember and he had to use my portal anyway.
last boss is stupid, not hard at all but its really a long fight… i see the duration from the time warp uses and i think i popped it 3 times (one after few seconds of fight).
i would say i see them as arah p3 and p4.
the worst thing is that they dont put effort to give us good looking staves.
i was really disappointed when i looked at the fused weapons vendor, checked how awesome longbow and other skins are and then tried the staff. they killed every single chance to receive euros from me.
as a mesmer i also cant understand why iWarlock wears a scepter, god id pay a lot for a mist staff… for the moment i only like the bifrost.
the answer to your question is yes, just did it 30 minutes ago.
im wondering why you didnt try it tho, you could always create again a lvl 1 char to reserve the name until available. or not?
well i just wanted to say im a bit disappointed about the medal issue on the login screen.
its not a game changer but if you work hard on a weapon and the game trolls… a lot of time, answers and patches and i still have that white chest when i log in.
(not sure if its the correct forum but heck, more game bug than this one…)
