Guild Wars 2

Yeah. I am on Underworld too. Glad I managed to do the last map completion 1 day before the weekly matches started because now I would have to wayt 1 week and that for 3 week and try at the start when we are controlling a new third at the beginning.

Are all french servers having french canadians playing at night? Got the outmanned yesterday to today in the night and it is weekend with next day sunday? There should still play a few others and I did not get this earlier when it was not against 2 frenche servers. Then only a few hours later when it was even more later. But it was still early considering next day sunday.

I think they maybe should IP block. Canada and US should play on the american servers. Europe at european servers. Wouldn’t be a problem. They could make one french server at US too.

And I heard they have Australians playing and capping in US at night? Could make australian servers. IP blocking is needed. As long as they bring the guest feature it is okay and you can still play with friends from the other continent if you want… but just not the WvW.

Can you please post your other areas? I think I heard a lot of people being stuck at 175/178 Kryta. I have Orr 60/65. Don’t know about the other 3, have to login and check later and I still need to finish Ascalon. But still missing a few in Shiverpeaks and the Maaguma when I have completed all maps there.

We need somehow to make a thread where someone starts and others post IF they have higher somewhere OR same. Then we can see if someone has higher… or if a lot are stuck at always the same values… then maybe a bug. Can’t believe that no one discovered it completely.

Underwater… maybe. If it really goes down deep and no other stuff nearby that would have made you go there earlier.

I always ran between the different events at the meta event with the centaurs northwest in Gendarran Fields. And I think Bloodtide Coast was it? or Sparkfly Fen? There was some metaevent with hyleks with a main camp to defend and 3 smaller camps around it. Always runnig between the 3 of them possible and a lot of drops and always one attacked.

Also I heard from some guy at one forums where they do research on legendaries and need lots of karma that he is running around in orr and looking at contested waypoints to look for events and only killing one mob and then running to the next event. Seems pretty effective – he said he reaches a max karma bot prevention or something like that. Never heard of it but probably theres is something that then is blocking him from getting more karma because he is too fast which they use against bots.

I think everything is okay since you are still playing and contributing to the event(and thereby helped to make it easier for other players that also try that event).

Only question I had myself was about engineer’s turrets. With a lot of people nearby they can stay alive long and you can go elsewhere. If there is an event pretty often… colud be exploiting. I did it a long time ago but only to try a bit and not anymore and I always had been at the computer not afk but a bit more far away from tower at other event..

As long as you are not afk and trying to abuse something like turrets I think it is okay. And they probably know people are farming like this. There is no way they can’t know. And since they did not do anything I think it is allowed.

Strangely I had no problems with 1 vs. 1 in WvW. And I am using turrets which a lot of people say are bad in fighting against other players. Turrets and rifle with the 20 percent cooldown reduction on rifle skills using knockback stuff and the net shot pretty often.

I like it and you can move a lot because of the open area.

In sPvP it sucked. Small areas. Lots of buildings. Changed completely and I don’t even like to switch kits all the time and trying for rifle + elixirs only there now. Still not good at it but I am trying. A bit fun with all the elixirs giving might and cleaning conditions and stuff and a high crit rate on rifle and the quickness elixir.

One question. How do I remove that moa morph? Do I really need to wait 10 seconds? Seems like a long time. Stun and other stuff always usually is very low timer but moa morph… insane. I know you can move away and other stuff. But you can’t do anything else and if you almost killed that mesmer he now has time to heal again and to other stuff. There should be a way to remove it. Or only 5 seconds against players and 10 seconds in PvE. But then again… compared to other stuff it seems weak if it only would be possible in PvE and with that high cooldown… I don’t know. Maybe not going 1 vs. 1 helps. He can’t moa 2 people.

Engineer is not a problem. I play engineer and afaik the turrets from the elite skill(supply crate) will disappear after 60 seconds automatically. With the skill having a cooldown of 180 seconds. Meaning 120 seconds without it. Only the turrets you place yourself with utility skills(3 slots) remain until killed and they are usually not that strong. A lot of people in engineers forums say we should not use them and they were for noobs – especially in sPvP they recommend other stuff.

More annoying is the PvE content like the real mobs you can kill in the PvP maps.

Maps are boring and the camera is a problem sometimes in buildins or near buildings or with trees around. I want some arena like maps without buildings. Just a few ruin castle walls or something to block line of sight maybe.

I want it to be possible to remove yourself from queue if you decide you don’t want to go WvW after some time. Usually you need to wait until it asks you travel, go to end of queue or leave queue. Should be possible by clicking the WvW button and then a leave queue button there. Also I want to see my map completion at the WvW screen or somewhere else from outside WvW. I don’t want to join the wrong map And I think in one of the borderlands I still need a few vistas at castles that usually belong to others(others there as defender and usually holding it all the time until rotation and you are another color and defending there).

They need special buffs and other stuff. With a very very long cooldown… but everyone could buy that book so not overpowered – should work only at the people in their squad and only in WvW. This would be interesting.

I think it would be interesting to have some NPCs or guards in WvW you could feed with stuff… not with the butter but with crafted and cooked food. Then you could use all your butter. Low level items should have lower effect than higher and more expensive to produce items.

Could make the guards stronger. Give some guard thousands of cookies made with butter eggs and other stuff or only 100 of Orrian Truffle stuff…. to turn it into a champion. And upgrade all your towers and castles. Now that they are going to change the 24 matches to 1 week this would be fun. Lol.

Edit: Or make it possible to give it to some priest for longer speed boons like the ones you can use your personality talk options in the cities but only longer and for food cost(only outside of combat and not in WvW).

Exotic crafted stuff should be same or better than dropped. Because it is not that easy to get. At least the same than drops. Because it is same rarity. Otherwise it would not be worth it and you could just wait for drops and trade them and buy at the trading post to get the stats you wanted.

Edit: Let’s say same. Same rarity = same stats. Dropped should not be better. Crafted should not be better. Same rarity = same. That is okay. Isn’t it now like that?

So the rare stuff means the fine materials like totems or other stuff? If it only meant ectolpasm then it would be useless for stuff lower than 70+ yellow. And you can’t use it at white and blue to get totems and stuff like that?

I still got some jute from salvaging with my level 80 char. Sometimes it drops low level stuff in the low level area. Sometimes it drops high level stuff at my level. Seems to be a bit mixed.

Only problem I had so far was leather at tier 4 it is I think. And the linen. But still have enough linen. I think 50-60 zone gave me some salvages and the 40-50 was already too low and gave lower tiered material. Need some centaur area… they often dropped salvageable stuff only used to salvage. But the highest centaur area I remember was the humans 35-45 zone.

It is a problem with the merchant. I think they should tell if someting will be bound after you bought it. Otherwise this should be considered a but and people like chuiu should get their gold back(and the item removed). Or of course you just change the bound type to account bound. But still should be told at the merchant.

Remember: You get an achievement I think. And the account medal. Or only that. And probably a lot of people are only going for the legendaries because of that to fill the space at the char selection screen. Joining all the orders is easy. But the other stuff should be harder and I think it is okay. We will soon see the first people discovering the exact recipes and then surely there will be searched for the most efficent way to get those weapons. Maybe for that mystic clovers things there are other hidden recipes nobody discovered?

Having a problem with eggs and vanilla beans. I only found eggs from drops (1 every few raptors or moas or something like that – only 1 and not every mob… rare as meat). Vanilla beans can only be gathered. And it seems they are really expensive at the trading post like around 50 copper. And they are needed at some basic stuff like bakers wet ingrediens thing I think. This is a bit a problem. They should drop in the same bags as butter because butter is really low now at prices. Started higher and dropped really fast in the last few days. Cheaper than the 10 for 80 copper(8 copper per unit) you have for the other stuff you can buy for copper at the Master Chef.

Chocula.9341:

teemoor.4397:

Gossamer and ori are rares now? O_o How are they different from copper ore and jute?

Gossamer and Orichalcum make level 80 exotics, Silk and Mithril make level 80 rares

I think there is always a chance to drop higher tier materials than you usually need to produce stuff of that level. For example made with jute can be salvaged and give wool as rare chance. At 80 it is just between silk and gossamer. And for the exotic and rare stuffs the ectoplasm you can get. At the moment I am using the yellow kit(I think for about 16 silver per 25 uses) at the rare and exotic stuff level 70+ because of the ectoplasm.

Anyone knows if white, blue, green stuff can be salvaged to gossamer or the highest leather if it is at 80?

And is it true with the black lion kit having a higher rate? I think it says 100 for recovering upgrades stuff and maybe because of this the other rate for rare stuff is lower and it is intended that way?

I had a bit of problem with my first char. Sold nothing so far. Only the sell loot and some dye I already unlocked at trading post. Other stuff I salvaged everything. Now I started 2nd char and let him level 2 of the other professions and I have enough stuff stored up to be a bit faster. Can craft – at least at tier 1 now – stuff that is higher than my level. But still need to farm a bit ingredients especially the stuff like fangs, bones… and some more copper because I try to do weapon and armorsmith with that char and both eat a lot of copper.

Probably taking ages considering that there are lots of weapon types in the game and you need to get enough of normal exotic weapons of one type(or buy them or craft them which seems expensive).

I have four 15 slot bags now. Probably next I will unlock another bag slot. Trading gold into gems and unlocking another bag slot and then using another 15 slot bag seems better(and I’m leveling a 2nd char that is leveling 2 other crafting professions – don’t want to switch everytime and have them all on 1 char… getting that other special bag then and need a new slot).

But I think the prices are okay. Next then probably I will go for bank slot. Maybe a few 18 bags. If you really want the top stuff you have to pay a lot more. It is not like you really needed it. So we don’t need to complain. Its just to be cool and show you have alot of money to afford it.

And it is possible to make that money. But will take time. And they probably want some people to buy gems and trade them into gold. Lol.

How do you get the base exotic wepons? I saw some at the trading post for lots of gold that say in their description that they can be used to craft legendaries. In wiki it only mentions some “mystic weapons” which can be crafted by usind an eldritch scroll. Are they useless then because it does not say that they can be used for legendaries and I always thought since eldritch scroll costs a lot of skill points it could be used to craft exotics that can be upgraded into legendaries. But now according to wiki this seems useles. And in trading post never seen stuff like mystic … where it says in description it can be upgraded. So better saving the skill points and not buying eldricht scroll? Or are there other recipes. I am mainly interested in that “of rage” stuff. A lot of it seems to be upgradeable into legendaries but never seen any repice for them?

Is he really that good? Just started one as my 2nd character and I already liked in PvE that skill where you can port to your enemy(if it is in the range of the skill of course). I think it was one of the tier 2 skills for 3 skill points. Seems interesting to play and I’ll try it a bit longer until completely joined one of the other orders to unlock the banner at char selection screen. Then trying a bit WvW and going for 3rd char after that.

I always thought the heavy armored and melee guys were slow and would have problems but after seeing a few of these skills you have…

Only for traits I still need to decicde. Lol. But only at level 11 now and unlocked the tree and lot of different stuff and everything seems same useful to me. Much harder to decide than with my engineer where I already knew which stuff to try from the beginning.

Edit: And I’m probably going for greatsword. I saw one grandmaster trait which says the attacks give you heal. Is it worth it? Buffing allies stuff is what I don’t want, want to give myself the most benefits. And I like the sword and the skills so far. Have not unlocked shield and scepter and 1 handed sword yet. But greatsword better than hammer. At least PvE for now, will try the WvW when I have unlocked the first elite at level 30.

Working perfectly fine for sPvP. You can join the mists and then just click to leave them and are at at the same area you were before on the normal PvE maps. Also Keg Brawl is only possible to start at Hoelbrak and after leaving you are there, right?

But what about WvW? Did not find an option. Is this hidden somewhere? I only see the portal to the other battlegrounds in your main camp and one portal to Lion’s Arch. I mean this is costing me money if I am at some other map far away waiting for WvW and farming some stuff there. Then going to WvW and using the portal back to Lion’s Arch then using waypoint which is costing money to get to the other zone where I have been farming before starting WvW.

So help please? Or is this not yet implemented in the game? If we can go to WvW from anywhere on the worldmap and don’t need to travel to the portals in Lion’s Arch then it should be possible after leaving WvW to automaticalla be ported back to the location you were before and not going to Lion’s Arch first.

Then other guys should come to help kill the 2nd enemy. And maybe a reward from defending the point. Some reward from getting an enemy downed nearby to a point. The game should recognize that you are nearby to a point and defending. Like in WvW the escorting stuff where you have mini events.

I agree. This should be removed. This is not some idiotic game like DotA or stuff. I hate this mechanics where it depends on the kill. Doing the most damage is what should count. Otherwise it is too much based on luck if 2 people are shooting at the same time and one is just hitting in the right moment.

Maybe just let them all get to that mob and do nothing by yourself and try to steal yourself. If you are not able to steal then at least it is not the other way around and you did not the most damage and gave them a chance. Or try killing them while they are busy at the mob. Then the mob after them. Don’t know if this is possible, have not played that much but such thinks like this mechanics does not really make you wanna play that game mode.

I want some really open map without annoying trees and stuff(camera sometimes annoying and you want to zoom out more but you can’t). Then deathmatch and duels would be interesting. These would not need a nice looking map like the other game mode where you need to capture stuff. Only some arena like think where you just attack each other until one team completely died.

Mescaline.2743:

2 vs 1 situation .
You kill one ,and you think that this should reward your skill … Wrong!
Instead here comes the guardian ccing you , shield blocking everything and rez the guys you downed .
When this happens i’m such a sad panda .
I’m for completely removing it from PvP but this , unfortunately , is not going to happen.

Then you should not go 2 vs 1. No class should be able to kill 2 others by themselves without help. Yeah. It is annoying if you got him downed and can’t kill him because some other guy is around. But that’s how it works.

Of course, if it is even working for the elementalist then it is a bug. Because he is no different from engineer. Both have only 1 weapon set and he just switches through is attunements while we switch from a kit to the weapon and back to the kit.

Technically elementalist even stays in the same weapon, right? So if it is working for him then of course it should work for engineer too.

I think the engineer should get a Dolyak to carry his turrets as pet. Lol. Or maybe some upgraded Dolyak that acts as slow moving turret with automatically shooting guns tied to his back.

Another thing…
when I go underwater and some mob is near the surface and I fight and I move accidentaly a bit ouf ot the water then I have to re-equip the kit first. Sure… no big deal. It is only about pressing one key. (And probably the same if you fight above at land and accidentely get into water and get ouf of water and need to re-equip).
But still a bit annoying. Other classes that can switch between 2 weapon sets can switch their underwater weapon to the other set then go out of the water, right? If they go back into water it will still stay at the other set? Then they have a bit advantage. Even if it is only a nanosecond.

Rank 1. Lol. But I only played 2 matches and got like 160 glory from the first and 20 glory from the 2nd(lots more people on enemy team and we did not even get more than 50 points I think lol because of people joining and leaving all the time). For some buggy reason it is showing me 7 or 10 matches somewhere in the stats and/ or at PvP section at heroes window. Showed this from the beginning when I didn’t even visit the mist for the first time. Lol.

Seems like a good way to make money. From what I have googled they are only used for focus weapons? But I need a rifle and this seems bugged according to wiki. Selling them on trading post then. For a bit more than 1 silver. I already got a 2nd one. Seems not that rare if you farm in this area but never seen any in any other area. Probably only there.

For me it was opened. Strange. Only having a bit of trouble in the ruins(where you go with your storyline). There is a heart quest and you should defend golems but because of a bugged event (defending against 3/4 waves stuck and no more incoming enemies) no golems there and you need to wait for artifacts(since killing mobs not possible to increase the bar) to spawn which takes some time with a lot of playes running around there and long spawn time.

On the minimap there are 2 different icons. 1 for only downed and 1 for defeated. In 2 different colours. 1 colour for allied npcs. And 1 for real players. But on the game main screen it is showing the 2 different colours correctly but always only 1 icon type.

Since there are 2 different icons already in the game they should probably used on the main screen too and not only at the minimap. So this seems bugged. Making it a bit harder to identify only downed people and you really need to look at them to see if they are still alive doing something(in a big battle a bit inconvenient).

That was the only thing I thought of trying it. Any other uses besides the forge? And probably not that useful in the forge right and can be replaced with other?

Anyone else got one of these sell loot items with yellow name. Seems rare because it is yellow and I have not seen any up until now. There was a heart nearby but usually the items you need to collect for hearts are bound and can’t be sold.

This think had a yellow name and was named “Large Skull”. Dropped for me by some grawl in Timberline Falls near Guilty Tears.

No other description nothing. Did not even say “junk” in the name. Only the name in yellow colour. And be able to sell it for 32 copper. Best sell loot I saw so far was 16 copper in the high level areas. So this was probably really some rare sell loot and should move automatically in the junk bag.

Really? Okay. Then I’ll leave the supply crate. Used this always in PvE because the elixir seems even more useless to me there. And mortar only at castle wall in WvW but still feels weak.

I thought the stability(I saw each of the 2 transformation comes with stability 15 or 20 seconds) was a nice thing. But maybe I will just try both – supply crate a few matches and then the elixir to see myself. Usually the people just go out of range of the turrets or there are too many and just aoe spam everywhere and no turret is standing more than a few seconds. But have not played many matches and the ones I playede seemed to be a bit imbalanced and lots of people leaving and joining during the match at our teams with enemy often having more people.

I noticed pretty fast that turrets in PvP are useless. Used them in PvE and still like them. WvW also was okay. With 1 vs. 1 or a few small groups of 2 or 3 people against each other I never had a problem. Never had to change the build. But then again never tried dungeons. Probably different there because of towers shooting random.

Now I played 2 matches sPvP and I already now towers would suck there bit still wanted to try mainly because the bug with the deployable turrets is fixed there. So… useless. 2 matches were enough for me to not use them again. Always been like 4-8 people in one spot attacking each other and the whole area constantly attacked with aoe and other stuff.

But I don’t want grenades now. Seems hard for me to aim with the ground targeting and stuff.

Is flamethrower possible?

Or should I just go elixirs and gadgets + rifle(I really want to use the rifle never used anything else up til now in PvE and used to it and the knockback stuff seems useful to me and I heard a lot of PvP guys recommending it too).

The elite elxir always seemed useless to me in PvE because of its short duration but in PvE probably the only possible choice and 20 seconds are a lot, righ? I means supply crate and mortar obiously seem pretty useless. For healing probably the elixir.

So If I don’t want to use grenades – flamethrower possible. Then what elixirs and gadgets would you recommend? There are a lot of stuff like boots that make you jump back or battering ram that pushes the enemy away but I cant use everyone… hard to decide if you rarely used that stuff and it is like starting to play completely new class now for PvP.

Using them underwater with autoattack. Over water not much fun because you want to move and not always use the finger you have at your movement key to constantly press 1 – or is there an auto attack for this? I think because it is ground target you always have to press 1 and without cooldown since it is skill one I would have to press 1 all the time not being able to use the a kay to move left. And I don’t want to remap keys(I don’t think it is saving this only for one class and one setup would always have to switch then when I want to play other classes).

Edit: And I have to say: With rifle and pistol for land combat we have 2 nice weapons even if a lot of people seem to complain(whining about rifle because you need to be close to do dmage). But that underwater weapon that gun or whatever it is called… I don’t know. Pretty useless. You want to get away from the enemy but one skill pulling the enemy a bit to you – yes you move backwards but the enemy is still being moved more to your direction. Mines and other stuff… useless. And too slow even the skill 1.

Grenades are fast. Lots more damage. I have problems against even 2 enemies with the default underwater weapon. Lol.

Really only a priest? That is pretty useless lol. The other races have the same then? Only person changing based on the 3rd question? And probably only tto talk? Or is he selling something – then probably only useless stuff?

I just noticed that it seems the locations change. Everytime a new round starts and you are fighting against other servers you have a chance to start in another area. Noticed this in borderlands where usually each server is “defender” in one of the borderlands and where I had been missing the stuff north because nobody was able to take these castle and the 2 towers west and east of there(sneaking to skill points is pretty easy).

Then one day later I joined for fun(the other day was because of the kills for monthly achievement) and saw that we were green instead of red and starting in another area.

Makes sense. There are more than 3 servers so more than 2 servers are for example red this match and not everyon can be red the next match. Its like rotating the positions. Should be possible to get everything in 3 tries.

Reported ingame with “blocking progress”. The spirit is with green name and not possible to talk to him to initiate combat.

Is it already known which legendary weapons use that stuff from world completion? I read at the wiki that each needs 2 gifts but every legendary weapon needs 2 different ones. So you could get useless stuff from world completion you don’t even need for the weapon type you want?

I really think this thread is trolling. What other MMORPGs are there with story where you can level only with the story? I have never seen any other MMORPG with story like Guild Wars 2. Only other MMORPGs with quests. Maybe some main quests and quest chains that lead you from the starter area to the other areas. But this is no story. Only meant to lead you to other aeras. And in the beginning it is very easy to level and later you need to grind and kill hundres of mobs and it is taking ages. That’s why I stopped every other MMORPG I tried after reaching two third of the max level and never played longer than 6 months. It got boring for example in WoW to kill a mob. Sit down or drink a potion and wait for health to regen. Then kill the next mob. And only a few percent of the xp bar increasing.

Guild Wars 2 compared to other MMORPGs is very fast to level. A few events and you have 1 more level. XP from events is insanely high and with the event chains in certain areas where you don’t have to walk away to search for other events you can just do 3 events. Event XP and XP from killing the mobs while doing the event is getting you 1 level and you are getting lots of drops.

If this is not fast enough then play single player rpgs maybe?

I have like 10 or 20+ chests and 7 keys from story or map completion. Not opened them. Because I opened 2 others early in the game and the tonics are annoying. You got them from a chest and don’t want to drop them away because technically they were for free(as I got all the stuff from rewards or drops and did not need to buy keys) and don’t like to throw away free stuff you usually can get nowhere else for free.

You can’t sell them. They are bound.

My suggestion: Instead of tonics give something that can be traded for tonics at a tonics NPC. This would take only 1 slot and you can open more chets without having 10 slots used by tonics. And you could chose to buy the tonic you wanted(maybe some rare ones more expensive at the NPC).

At the gem store sell packs ot these item you can trade for tonic(tonic tokens – tonic token pack for example).

…

Or just let us sell them at the trading post and don’t make them bound. But this will ruin the money making strategy because with every different tonic taking 1 slot inventory the market will be flooded and they got at 1 copper and nobody will buy them from gem store.

So my first suggestion is better I think. Good for users. Good for ArenaNet. If they bring some nice and rare tonics that are expensive.

I had the same problem a few times. Can confirm this.

Mounts = faster movement.
Faster movement = no waypoint teleporting needed.
No waypoint teleporting needed = less cost of ingame money.
Less cost of ingame money = less gems needed to buy and trade them into ingame money.
=> Less profit for ArenaNet.
=> No mounts.

Skreez.2306:

The Turrets are not made for tanking, and you can make them do so if you trait for it.

I am tanking. And my turrets are doing the damage. If 2 or more mobs and 1 is attacking the turret then I use the skills of the rifle to get him away and the overload of the rocket turret to knock down. Only a bit of a problem if 2 or more mobs decide to attack the turret. But with the traits they still stay alive it if is not a champion lol. But champions you usually only do in groups. Veterans are usually easy to solo if not more than 2 smaller enemies are nearby and they are killed fast. Kill the fastest to kill stuff first = less enemies to deal with and easier to control. If it is only 1 he can’t do nothing unless he is immune against knockdown or knockback or what it is called(from the rifle 4 skill and overloading rocket turret and maybe the 2 skill of rifle which immobilizes a bit).

But turret getting attacked by enemy and engineer attacking somewhere else and doing something else than getting the enemy/ mob away from the turret -> then turret = useless.

Amra.6028:

I got around pretty well, soloed things others claimed not soloable, had more problems with playing warrior or mesmer, let alone necro. Only the ranger was easier imo.

Probably because the ranger has his movable turret – the pet? Necre minions that weak? Never tried one. I am trying a guardian now. And I already feel that I am taking more damage and more often. But then again it is because you have to meele and getting hit more. And you have a better armor and I think guardian really needs to rely on his melee defensive skills and the passive health regeneration while in combat(that one thingy on one of the F1-F4 keys that only seems to help a really small amount but surely will get better later, have not looked at the traits yet and still at very beginning of playing with that char).

Picking up the turret should reduece the cd much more – feels just worthless to me as it is now and I always wondered why it was possible to pick up in the first place. I just checked on some necromander minion skills at wiki… because it can be compared a bit – we have turrets and they have minions. But minions can move. Turrets can’t move. So the turrets should have a lower cooldown that we can place them somewhere else faster. But seems minions on necromancer have lower cooldown.

But then again the turrets might do more damage. I like it to place them in crowded area and have all important traits for them. Rocked tower really does a good amount of damage and knocking down when overloaded. And in combination with rifle and the rifle knockdown and net shot skill very nice.

And it you destroy it early you can safe some time. Not when the last mob is death. A bit ealier and kill his remaining hp with the rifle or other kits you are using. Then going to next area and fight a few mobs without turret while waiting. And I combine it with supply crate and wait a bit always. Not using everything at the same time. And rarely use the rocket turret if only against 1 or 2 mobs.

Can they control that illusions? Like in an rts? Probably not. They probably are just running at you like an stupid npc mob? Never fought against Mesmer 1 vs1 and can’t pay that much attention but should it now be like that?

Then if he really got stealth and you said it was short then just look around if you feel like only an illusion is attacking you. They probably have no special skills and it it should be possible to notice illusions. Or is this not possible that easy? If stealth was really that short and he is nearby you should attack him. If not then attack the illusion and search for him later. Or how does this work? … Maybe I need to play one myself to understand this. Hard to understand if you don’t play the class yourself. That’s why probably everyone is having problems with such an unusual class you probably never had in that many other MMORPGs.

Edit: Also I saw someone in the castle looking like a player. But they should not be able to get in right? While the others are outside still attacking the gate which is not broken. Was this Mesmer illusion then? I know for example I can throw turrets as engineer at the wall where the enemies are standing to they Mesmer probably did something similar.