Guild Wars 2

Got Zap from another player in wvw ( + Dawn and an abyss dye from the mystic toilet). Over 3k hours.

The Art Book reprint pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaase <3

I think ele will be your best choice is you want to focus on pvp and wvw. I don’t play ele personnaly but I know some really good ones, and they have insane survivability in wvw.
If you want to try guardian tho, try a mediguard build. It’s a lot of fun but lack a bit of mobility at first.
Engie, I couldn’t say since mine is only lvl 25.

I got Dawn out of the 4 last exo I bought with 300ish gold. It’s doable. Good luck !

Winning 1v5 in wvw with my mesmer without the cheesy blackwater build ( it was a long time ago)
My Immobulus
Light of Dwayna
And recently Sunrise.

I’m glad I made Immobulus when Giant Eyes were 70s each. 2k gold now, it’s just insane.
I understand why I never see people using it. Lucky charms have a price !

I really like Infinite Light design, but I think it lacks something for the price and rarity. Something special like Immobulus with the lucky charms particules. I don’t know what though. Not even sure that a glow would add this + value.

I think it’s just too soon to judge the new guardian spec. But in the other hand, the video introducing the dragonhunter was horribly boring. Such a disappointment !

I remember a guy in one of my old guilds who got 13 percursors from the MF just by throwing the random rares he looted from mobs/chests. I remember a particular evening when he got a pre, abyss and celestial dyes in like 15 minutes. It was just crazy.

Same with my current guild leader. He has almost all the legendaries, got precursors regulary from the MF, got the beta portal after 15 minutes in SW ( I was with him), and if an ascended chest has to drop, guess who got it? It’s depressing.

I wish I had half his luck.

I personaly don’t find GW2 very grindy. Exotic are really easy to get and you don’t need more to be able to complete any aspect of the game.
Runes and sigils can be a little longer to get, but there are a lot of ways to make gold now.

In fact, my only regret about GW2 is that you can’t really farm mats for rare exotics or legendaries. I mean, yes you can farm mats, but farming gold is a lot faster. For example, when I made my Immobulus, I had to buy 248 out of 250 giant eyes to make it because of their horrible drop rate.
I really enjoy collecting mats, opening bags and chests and get here and there a T6 mat or a lodestone. Buying it on TP is just meh. I’m still working on my first legendary, mostly because I don’t feel any accomplishement doing it. Just an endless gold farming.

I made Immobulus a year and half ago (maybe 2), when giant eyes were 70s. Back to this time, there was a constant 300-400ish supply on TP. Yesterday, there were 151 giant eyes for the ridiculous price of 990 gold.
For me, Immobulus has always been my “legendary”. I’ve only seen 1 ele in 3 years using it, and it was a couple of months after launch when eyes were 2s each.

For the record, I got 2 giant eyes when I was farming gold for Immobulus. All from heavy moldy bags.

Thank you for this amazing guide Vash !!

Joe and you are a real inspiration for the mesmer community.

Keep them coming

A shatter build with GS is devastating.

Zepidel.5349:

Xavi.6591:

I wasn’t referring to using PU in Tourney/tpvp. It’s even more useless from a team perspective there.

So all this QQ is based on people who have no idea what they are doing*

/fixed

Jasper.9341:

. Without PU, mesmers would be rallybotting all over the place.

PU carries rally bots. I like it. It’s pretty accurate.

Condi is a more passive gameplay than power. Dodge, spam clones, watch people killing them and loading themselves with conditions, bury a scepter #2 they can’t cleanse, win. At the same time, you can just phase retreat, blink, decoy, prestige, MI and abuse PU boons with a super tanky build to survive. It’s so easy, it’s just boring.

Jurica.1742:

You whine about PU being OP, but you didn’t whine about shatter which could get you downed in a second,

Nice comparison lol.

I tried it out of curiosity and it works very well in 1vx, but it’s soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo slow, it just ruined all the fun for me ( same as blackwater).

nemka.1803:

mesmer:
i have never played it, but the mesmer has the same armor and hp as the ele yet it also has stealth and various other ways that dont require skill rather just fast clicking on all the skills.

I like this part.
We have moa too !

I think that thief and (pre-patch) warrior hate > mesmer hate.
Thief is probably the most hated class in this game.

If you only “hotjoin”, juste have fun

For solo Q, you can use Pyro’s guide : https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/Guide-A-Mesmer-Guide-to-Solo-Queue/first#post3542118

Daniel Handler.4816:

We are going by different concepts of useless. You have casual players and you have hardcore players. In areas of the game where players seek to maximize efficiency the mesmer is next to useless. In dungeons without a high reflect component, hardcore players are highly unlikely to bring a Mesmer, especially on speed runs. In pvp the top tier teams don’t use Mesmer they use thieves. In wvw mesmers are constrained to our utilities, the benefit we have to the raising our servers level is nothing beyond veil, timewarp, portal, null field, feedback. And even in those instances 1 or 2 mesmers is all that is necessary. You can have fun with Mesmer. But you can’t excel with mesmer

I’ll keep watching Vashury, Wing, Alissah and Osicat exceling at mesmer if you don’t mind.
You should reroll warrior btw.

Power shatter here. 2/4/2/0/6 with a mix of soldier and berserker, trav runes, sigil of bloodlust, double energy and fire. With 25 stacks, I still hit like a truck. I have great mobility, which compensate for my low armor.
It’s really good in small group roaming.

selan.8354:

i reacted to your post because u overlook all this u overlooked the wvw raid mesmers problems because u can only see your own experiance, but u dont wanna understand our standpoint. it sounded like: there is nothing wrong with mesmer i was able to kill like 3 people and i can do this and that…

You don’t want to understand our point of view either. You only see the raid mesmer. But mesmer class is amazing in small group wvw. Not only yolo 1v1. If Anet had to fix and improve the class, mesmer would become insanely strong in good players hands. I think they really don’t know how to handle us actualy.

Now, I recognise that mesmer could use some AoEs in zerging, but please, stop saying we are useless in every other aspect in this game. This is not true.

They were pretty fast on this one, gg Anet /sarcasm. My dailies ( and everything based on daily activities such as world boss chests, temples, spvp track etc…) are broken for 5 days now but still no hot fix. I’m perplexed…

I really enjoyed this matchup IoJ and YB ! Best we had in weeks/months.
Thank you all !

ITheNormalPerson.9275:

Nausicca.6038:

Well, you’re all lucky. I’m stucked at 30% progression and can’t get any reward anymore. I tried to take a new track and still the same problem. I just sent a ticket to Anet, hopefuly, they will be able to help me.

I’ve heard if you use hotjoin it will lock your progress out around 25%. try doing solo/team queue

Yes my bad. I just tried soloQ and got my rewards. I feel better now

Same problem here. Timer has reset but I’m still at 5/5 :/

Well, you’re all lucky. I’m stucked at 30% progression and can’t get any reward anymore. I tried to take a new track and still the same problem. I just sent a ticket to Anet, hopefuly, they will be able to help me.

Jackums.3496:

Shatter is “viable” in tPvP. With a good team, twice the effort and half the reward.
Shatter is “viable” in WvW. With a good group, and very low solo roaming survivability.

I know there are plenty of people that want to look at the brighter side of things (ignorance is bliss, and all), but acknowledging the issue is more likely to get something done about it, and there is an issue. Shatter is mediocre in tPvP, and the Mesmer overall is easily one of the bottom two professions in this meta. Shatter is also terrible for WvW roaming without a good group. It’s in a relatively bad place right now.

While I agree with your tPvP opinion, I highly disagree with the WvW one. I solo roam and small group with a power shatter build and have no problem at all. Watching Vashury, Wing and Alissah’s videos comfort me in my opinion. Btw take a look at last Vash video on his channel. He’s dueling a condi PU build… naked. Shatter is definitly “terrible”.

I tried a 0/6/0/2/6 torment build ( and 0/4/4/0/6) with rabbid gear and staff/scepter-torch or sw-focus/scepter-torch but I really didn’t like it. I’m back to my power shatter build ( I’ll try again the torment build but with GS instead of sw/focus)

CrazyDuck.4610:

It’s very viable in WvW, boon strip shatter mesmer is amazing for any guild group and should be a staple in any group comp. Zip in and out stripping massive boons better than any other class and delivering decent burst damage, dazes etc. I would say shatter is still the most viable build for guild groups, for roaming/pugs maybe not. For those who say otherwise need to learn how to play mesmer.

This x1000. I don’t understand people saying that power shatter isn’t viable in wvw. For me, it’s our most effective group build. And despite the recent vigor/crit dmg nerf, I’m still bursting squishies really fast.

I tried a 0/6/0/2/6 build with rabbid and staff/sc-torch or sw/focus – sce/torch last evening and it was ok in 1v1. Agains’t any decent group, it becomes totaly useless. I couldn’t really stack torment or whatever. Power shatter is still better, by far imo.

Arcane thievery is my best friend now <3

Excellent video Wing ! Very inspiring.

The last fight is probably the best duel I’ve ever seen ! That was so crazy ! You have all my admiration <3

Pwent.2639:

don’t think andro did, but I’m pretty sure he taught Seven how to mesmer.

^this

Advent.6193:

1. Andromeda (forum name: Themanbat) – Formerly from our server, and one of the downright sickest 1vMany Phant-mesmers I’ve ever encountered.

I’ve been in Andro guild ( XOXO) for a long time. Him and Obsession were crazy mesmers.

Actualy, my two favorite mesmers are Vashury and Wing. But Osicat, Flimpy and Seven Mirror still hold a special place in my mesmer heart

azizul.8469:

smack.9651:

Genuinely just a curious question here. I see a lot of these predictions having CD beating NSP in later rounds: (CD v NSP v SoR). Being on NSP, I’ve noticed us coming out ahead of CD in these last 2 match ups and feel that we could beat them without the massive force of HoD skewing both of our tactics.

Is there something I don’t know about CD or my server?

we are under the impression that NSP beating CD now only because HoD allow them to, and most ex-CD guild focusing on CD at the moment. that’s all….

HoD has queue in both our bl. They are just destroying anything and without any kind of subtility.
I don’t think they “allow” us to win anything. We can barely walk without bumping into their gigantic zergs. They have the numbers, yes, but I highly doubt they are organised enough to decide who is winning and who is losing. They are just braindead zerging everything that is not green. Not sure if this strategy will work agains’t bigger servers though.

Carighan.6758:

Nausicca.6038:

With vigor and crit dmg nerf, removing or nerfing DE would be the idea of the century !
If you think DE is a crutch, don’t use it. But removing it… lol. Seriously?

Why do you assume though that it’d be a nerf?
No one is talking about nerfing Mesmers, I think? It’s about removing or trivializing DE, because in its current incarnation it’s Bad Design.

I think it works pretty well for a “bad design”. Removing or adding an ICD ( seen this on balance sub forum) or whatever you want to do to DE would be a nerf.
Sorry if I don’t have the “elitist attitude” requiered to be a mesmer. I just don’t understand the “nerf everything good in mesmer” attitude that seems to be common nowadays in our forums. PU, now DE. What’s next? IP ?

Mesmers are already uncommon in wvw, and from what I’ve read, almost inexistant in competitive pvp. Why wanting to make us even weaker is beyond me…

With vigor and crit dmg nerf, removing or nerfing DE would be the idea of the century !
If you think DE is a crutch, don’t use it. But removing it… lol. Seriously?

Stack, pew-pew, stack, pew-pew… still the same old boring pve. Welcome back !

I’m really curious about Maim trait. I wish ANet could tell us how many stacks of torment and for how long a shatter will apply. Let’s be crazy for a moment: 1 stack/active illusion. Coupled with scepter #2, it could become so devastating.

I’m really disapointed. With the vigor and crit dmg nerf, there’s nothing left for power shatter mesmers. Depressing.

I’ve seen a lot of new faces in wvw lately and I think it’s <3 AWESOME <3

Xyonon.3987:

He said builds in general. So there are 2 options:

• he is new to the game and does not know wvw / pvp builds wich deserves a normal, informativ answer
• he is not new to the game and know about wvw / pvp so he obviously talks about pve thinking that you will figure that out by yourself

I guess it was the 2nd one.

Hmmm, OP was talking about “popular builds”. Last time I checked, popular builds in this forum were mostly wvw builds ( Osicat’s, Blackwater etc…) with 30 in chaos.

I’d suggest Tera for people who want a GW2 similar combat system + holy trinity.
This game has the best healing system I’ve ever seen. No tab targeting, no bar to feel. Every heal/buff/debuff is based on direct targeting. You can’t select an allie with its icon on the group tab.
You can’t tank and spank in this game either, which make tank/dps roles a lot more active than in any traditionnal MMO.
GW2 with this system would be amazing.

oZii.2864:

Where has it been stated that it’s suppose to be their weakness? I know I have seen a dev state that conditions are a intended part of mesmers weakness and that necromancers not having mobility is also intended. Never seen the one about warriors and cripple, chill, immobilize.

What’s warrior weakness then? Oh I know, they don’t have stealth. Got it, ty.

Emiko.3217:

Just a note here.. in real life, the only symbols of butterflies I’ve seen were on the packaging of feminine products and feminine clothes. Never seen it used for boys or men.

Annnnd? Should I understand that a woman “supposedly” symbol is something bad or inferior?

Flytrap.8075:

Nausicca.6038:

I think it’s 9/ league

9×3 = 24 servers.

9×3 is 27.

Whoops that’s embarassing for sure haha.

I suppose we will only have 8 places for NA then.