Guild Wars 2

Oh yes! Huttball, that had be so freaking cool!
ANET PLEASE!

As the system currently is, no it cannot.
It is sad because it penalize any player no matter the reason of that disconnection, and even the team itself whereas it is not inherently their fault if the player disconnected.

We can only hope that Anet will bother to do something about their faulty system they try to shove down our throat, in the meanwhile my only (if rather poor) advice would be to avoid ranked because of the current toxicity. You will not be welcomed with a shabby internet that can cause random disconnect and it may turn you off from a gamemode that do have incredibly high potential.

To add to what Fay said, you should have picked up Shattered Strength if you want to run cele * hoelbrak instead of MtD (which is a shadow of its former self anyway)
I would also see Medic’s Feedback instead PImage and TEnchanter over Mental Defense
Swap AT for Nfield of feedback and MI for Time Warp.
But that’s my own preference for the build…
Beside, Ineptitude is all good and dandy, but what access do you have to that blind beside blocks…that you’re lacking anyway?

If you want to play with a condi build I’d highly recommend scepter/torch – shield over GS anyway.
Would give you that block for ineptitude, a higher condi pressure and a way to mitigate range damage

Static.2853:

“They don’t have resistance, didn’t I make this clear enough? Not if they run with the full alacrity build… "

By strong resistance I mean they resist to most of dammages. I use “resistance” as a word, not as the skill

Then I am sorry, that is not how I understood it at first

Cynz.9437:

Premade farms soloq players and gets punished – i see no problem here.

Right, because teaming up with friends to play on a queue that shares both Squeue and Tqueue automatically means that they want to farm Squeuer
RIGHT!
Why don’t those splayer go back to the Squeue?
Right, because it doesn’t exist…

Static.2853:

“and after that 12 second they have what? "
after 12 sec of full safe while sleeping on the point + strong resistance with low skillplay, they have a teammate comming to help them.
Yes, they can hold a 1v2 for about an eternity, and a 1v5 if needed for 20 sec , that means that if you whole team is beeing whiped out, you can hold your clse against the full ennemmy team while your own team rez, and this without any skillplay.

They don’t have resistance, didn’t I make this clear enough? Not if they run with the full alacrity build…
They can indeed hold a 1v2 for an eternity, certainly not a 1v5, not even for 20 sec.
They can die to a 1v2 especially against condis. and because of the distortion/invulnerability needed to survive those encounters they WILL end up losing the cap…
Look, I understand the build is stupid, I understand it’s braindead and needs toning down, but do bother learning about the class itself before whining about it… Beside, they also won,t kill anything. If you decide to fight against a mesmer that’s sitting on a point being virtually useless to its team, I don’t think the mesmer is the problem…

If he’s on ONE point, there is two others that can be capped and you’ll be outnumbering the other team anyway and guess the pretty thing? You only need two caps to win a game.

@Morwath:
Ah! you’re right, and I also didn’t put in if one had the shattered traited so that the CD was reduced, my mistake :x

@Mcrocha
There is something to learn about every kitten class and builds in this game, whether it,s braindead or not…
Alacrity uptime and protection uptime is stupid. Shield block is not and I fail to see what actually is stupid in it…
beside it is not a build where you try to predict for a burst. It’s a bunker, it is not vulnerable to power burst period. You should not engage a chronobunker in a 1v1 on a point he own period.
You should not engage a chronobunker that sits on a point period.
It can handle 1v1, 1v2 and even 1v3 if the skills are rolled out properly, it is vulnerable to condis (given that he didn’t swapped one of the wells for NField), it is vulnerable to boon strip and corruption…

I kittened and screamed a right fit when I saw the burn power creep (you can even go see my history of posts for that)
Still, I rolled a guardian, built it around burning, and learned every single kitten thing I could about it…
It may be stupid, it doesn’t mean there isn’t anything to learn about it…

Celine.6857:

What an utterly ridiculous thread topic. “GG” is good sportsmanship and shows respect for your team mates and the opponent. If I lose a match, but it was a good fight, I will still say ‘gg wp’. It’s polite and courtious. Why is the gaming community so simple minded over this concept? You don’t see football teams all taking the hump at the end of a game, (not most anyway lol), they shake hands and move on. Please stop with the nonsense threads.

At least I laughed when I read it… not like the eternity of whine about the current meta that makes me cringe each time I so much look at them (don’t even start me when I bother sifting through the mess of answers that it can create)
I think it does become a problem when players use GG to rub it in the fact that they facerolled a team.
I agree that in some case, it should be the losing team’s responsability to claim GG, but then again, GW2 is one of the game that has the least norms and values when it comes to sportsmanship

Celine.6857:

What an utterly ridiculous thread topic. “GG” is good sportsmanship and shows respect for your team mates and the opponent. If I lose a match, but it was a good fight, I will still say ‘gg wp’. It’s polite and courtious. Why is the gaming community so simple minded over this concept? You don’t see football teams all taking the hump at the end of a game, (not most anyway lol), they shake hands and move on. Please stop with the nonsense threads.

At least I laughed when I read it… not like the eternity of whine about the current meta that makes me cringe each time I so much look at them (don’t even start me when I bother sifting through the mess of answers that it can create)
I think it does become a problem when players use GG to rub it in the fact that they facerolled a team.
I agree that in some case, it should be the losing team’s responsability to claim GG, but then again, GW2 is one of the game that has the least norms and values when it comes to sportsmanship

I know what they have, thank you…
Current point is, they will still have most of their important skills under CD (namely CS, distortion and WoP) they might even be on staff at that time, reducing greatly their defensive capabilities.
Yes Alacrity uptime is a problem, I never said mesmer was fine
WoP needs to be reworked so that it prevents cap
and IMO Alacrity needs to be a boon that can be ripped or corrupted, just like quickness became a boon…
MOREOVER my point being that the OP wrongfully named skills as invulnerability which they are not,
as I said, again, I have nothing against creating topics about skills that should be tweaked down, I have a problem with people that doesn’t know the class they are whining against, which gives access to a bunch of wrongfully claimed OP traits and skills
Might we remember DH traps and burn that fluttered not too long ago? Or that longbow ranger?
I do remember when people whined about Lich so much that it got nerfed into the ground and became practically useless…. that is something I’d like to avoid on a class that I do like and main.
I am not against needed nerf and tweak, I am against waving the bat nerf as if you were trying to hit a homerun because their own inability to comprehend a class and lazyness preventing them to learn it like they should makes them screams to the god that it is OP and should be nerfed.

Highlie.7641:

I love how everyone forget’s about launch. you know when mesmer’s could kill people by simply watching them dodge roll with confusion stacks.or how about PU spec… no? they don’t count well i guess they never had a power spec with a cheesy name like shatterer… oh wait…

PU has never been viable in PvP… it’s been truly annoying from the pits of hell, but never was viable in a game that requires you to be visible to cap a point…
Might I also had that this “shatterer” build only redeeming point was a quick burst that made them so vulnerable they had absolutely no chance of getting away and had a margin of a few seconds to pull their stunt?
Stunt that could kill someone in a 1v1, but then again 1v1 is the sole key fight in Conquest, but they have, still, never been worth it in the meta compared to thief that could accomplish much more for the same role.
Only good point of bringing a mesmer on the table has always been the portal, otherwise it would drop like a fly against… condis…or power…or a thief… or pretty much anything that saw him first.

Yes we tend to forget about launch, I personally don’t remember much beside the fact that I was ele at the time and I kicked kitten .

and after that 12 second they have what?
a 90 second CD from CS
a 50 second CD from distortion
a 45 cd from WoP
a 30 second CD from shield 4
a 12 second CD from BF
I’ll also tell you one nice thing about the evade… it can be interrupted… Blurred frenzy can be interrupted and it is susceptibles to CC traps
If your mesmer uses all of his blocks one after the other don’t get in his way, let him have the fun

Beside, it has also been recognized that you do not take a Bunker mesmer on a 1v1, it as also been recognized that WoP as it stands is a problem because it gives evade to 5 person while keeping point.
Yes it SHOULD be an invuln, pity we can’t do anything and Anet did say that they wouldn’t do another patch before the next season.

As for resistance? Where the hell does your mesmer takes his resistance from? None of the aforementionned skills gives it… The only way is through traited glamour build (we’d need to give up a boonshare GM for that one and swap WoG for TW or another utility for Portal (lol at this one) or Null Field (I personally use it instead of a well, but I much prefer the boon sharing ability that gives me TONS of support rather than having 3s resistance on a 32 CD over a skill that cure conditions already. As for TW, it has already been discussed and I really don’t think that a 3s resistance on a 90s CD is worth it, especially compared to the CC offered by WoG

I’m really not against people discussing (or complaining respectfully) about certain class/traits/etc. But bloody know the class you’re speaking against…

Pats your head
Where were you the past three years when it was mesmer who was down the kittenter?
Or ranger?
It’s one of the first time ever since the launch that Mesmer ends up in meta… it doesn’t always gets the buffs… trust me your necro isn’t any worst off than any other classes right now nor has it ever been

2 of sword has been recognied as a blur and it doesn’t prevent cap
should it be considered as a distortion > invuln… well I wouldn’t be against it…

4 of shield is a block… it is not invulnerability it’s a block… do you want me to repeat it?
A block, not invulnerability

WoP is also a blur, which also means it doesn’t prevent cap, but it is vastly recognized, even in the mesmer community, that it would be more fair to actually make it a distortion or an invuln

F5 is a distortion it prevents point cap

CS is the only skill allowing other skills to be spawned twice (I.E the well) and it also prevent capping

as to your question: Because Anet…
beside you can just wait two months, Anet will surely nerf Mesmer down the kittenter again

Asato.5479:

Good idea +1.

I miss the Aion targeting system in games, too.

You basically assign signs or numbers to your targets. By clicking on the assigned keybind, we can select directly the one we desire.

Mesmers will be a problem, your suggestion is good on this, or we could let them without target too.

FFXIV as a system such as that, there’s even round, square and triangle (or a “stop” sign to not get a target)
It had been an incredible way to communicate in lieu et place of the flawed and almost non existent one that we have

I’m seriously totally dumbounded by people here…

Awww, did the premade abusers get rekt?
I am sooooo sad…
Oh wait no I’m not.

Aidenwolf.5964:

Chazua.1934:

This wasn’t an alt account though, Wesley says that he was playing on his main. Is he just not allowed to play with any of his friends since he started Leagues late? Why blame the player when the system is clearly broken?

Because the tool is farming solo Q for kitten points. Seriously gang the system is ill conceived but crying about pips when you’ve been gaming the system is pretty funny. Diamond PvPer ya sure you’re leet.

Seriously get a kittening grip, it’s not their fault if YOU can’t be bothered to play with friends or a group… and groupin with people because it’s FUN is such a far cry from abusing the system…
There’s nothing different than before that league system, the queue didn,t change, they just added pips, tiers and divisions behind it…
But now people grouping up are horrible abusers of a system and should be banned…. they can,t even have the right of insurging themselves against a kittenty system either…
Pitiful
I play GW2 to play with my friends, I won’t start Squeuing with a bunch of random guys with whom I have no synergy…
The problem isn’t those guys but the lack of Squeue, get real people.

OP, I feel you, it’s thoroughly unfair. IMO the dishonor shouldn’t impact the team outside of the timer. You won, even if one of your guy DCed, hell, you won a 4v5, that alone should give you two pips

I haven’t played WoW so excuse me for asking but, does the different keybind targeting have different colors assigned to them?
How does their targeting works? Is it an highlight or, as GW2, a big, bright, target mark on top of their head?

On another hand, I truly appreciate this idea… it would make the whole targetting system less… unfriendly to Squeuers while promotting a real capacity of teamplay with premade…

… Well sorry to annoy you with my good sportsmanship because you can’t be bothered to catter to the most effective build currently around, right?

By toying sorely with HP’s you’re actually changing very little as to what makes them strong or not… and, in fact, you’re not even taking into account the current skills and traits that makes some classes strong…

As Nomdeplume said, engineers already have a very defensive build… why make it easier to kill? DragonHunters are currently built around a fairly offensive meta build… why make them harder to kill?

To me it just sounds like you took the meta, looked at it, didn’t know what to do on a skill and trait-wise perspective, so you decided by using a fairly linear and simple aspect of their construction: Health Pool

This is why I hate these kind of posts… there doesn’t seem to be any empirical data that proves the usefulness of your “solution” you mashed ideas together, came up with HP because no one ever used it, thought it was original, without adressing the real problem that makes some classes to strong…

Let me queue you in, it has never been a HP problem, or else, we’d have the same classes at the top since release (which is clearly not the case)

because targetting automatically makes your camera following them, right?
Seriously, there are many problems with this game ATM, target on teleport isn’t one of them, I can perfectly time them in order to end up right behind, under, over, my opponent and he ends up kitten confused despite still having that big, bright, target over my head.
And I don’t even have blink…
It’d be like removing mesmer’s target on the real one when he pops a new clone…

And don’t bother engaging a chrono if he’s standing on a point, the fight will go on forever and you won’t even manage to decap (and certainly not cap in your favor), even at 2v1.

Do it the not so obvious way (while still being obvious)
Get 5 venom share thieves with SR and just spike and run
Lols a bit, go back, spike and run, lol again.
Or make a team of 5 moa mesmer and try to see how many time you can moa someone in a row. (or with focus/GS 5 and throw/pull them everywhere on the point)
I don’t feel bad, mmr tanking was the second objective of just having fun after 3 kittening day of stress gaming where I could play for 7 hours and be back to the same kittening starting point…

Ohoni.6057:

That is a repulsive level of entitlement.

Keep it as it is Anet.

Entitlement is not asking for things that you want, it’s assuming that the things you have are deserved.

How would you deserve a pvp legendary if it’s not obtained through the gametype it was designed for?
We finally get an end-game exclusive to pvp… I do want to grind PvP to get it and be rewarded with an exclusive that showed how lifeless I am and how many games I farmed in PVP… I don’t care much that PvE players could have access through it in any other way, when we FINALLY get a Legendary.
Might I remind you that, by sorely doing PvP, none of the other legendaries can be obtain? I really don’t see how you can get your Gift of Exploration simply by doing PvE…
I feel that it,s fair that we get ONE legendary reserved to us after 3 years without end-game content.
But yeah, Lord Ohoni apparently has the right to anything without spending the proper and right amount of effort to it. He must obtain everything immediately, screw the rest of the community, they don’t matter…because you have the so called “right” to it…
well no one banned you from getting that legendary, but it does require a certain amount of effort, this time being PvP…
You don’t want to PvP? too bad I guess… You’ll miss on a legendary.

You hated pvp before
They introduce a legendary item
You now go like it is your duty and Anet is forcing pvp down your throat
so you hate it even more, because you should have this legendary
and your solution would be to give it to you without anything?
They are pvp wings… legendary pvp wings… to show that, yes, we’ve done lots of pvp because legendary requires works… as in doing lots of pvp is inherently a must…
Jesus christ your opinion is so lame and you’re so pathetic in your whining

Their division works way too well to be implemented into GW2, come on now! Don,t be optimistic and hope for a functionning, nice and enjoyable system from Anet!
Didn,t you learn anything since 2012?

Where are your evidence? The maths? The pictures?
That’s no facts, just your own personal opinion.

I’m running premade, we are having great fun and we are making various strategies to adapt to the team. (Sides, rushing lord at start, grabbing beasts, grabbing ferocity, etc)
Many things that may sounds like terrible ideas, when properly coordinated, gives an incredible edge in the game…
Premade alwasys doing the same thing proves that they are unable to adapt to the situation and the team they are facing against.

Squeuers don’t inherently have fun, either and the “diverse and interesting games” you are talking about may just be a complete lack of coordination and communication.

Get yo’ fact straights please.

Phineas Poe.3018:

Arcade.8901:

Unterkiefer.8372:

No it is made for teams.

So you have simple leagues which are made for teams and guild challenger leagues which are made for teams. Are you sane or Anet employee ? xD

Leagues are made for everyone. But obviously it’ll take most players longer than five days to reach the upper tiers. Some of the more hardcore PvPers I know are still in Amber because they just don’t have time to play right now.

These conclusions are so incredibly premature. Give it until the end of December and then evaluate.

Yeah but you know, I couldn’t have that legendary in a day, and then I’m actually LOSING something when I lose a game. And then, to top it off, it takes higher than a week to reach TOP LEVEL in the new division.
HOW DARE ANET! HOW DARE THEY!
/S

It is flawed, of course. Mmr and Division working against each other is a HUUGE downside. Not having Squeue and Tqueue separated is an incredible problem. The loss of pip upon a loss isn’t.
Can we actually work on real, game-breaking bugs instead of… this…

You lost against 3 DH?
I’m not saying there isn’t a problem, but having 3dh on a team is an impairment rather than a help truly… and if the thief isn’t in the amazing-tier of his class he’s also a liability…
Anyway, I do still feel you OP, had amazing win streak
then got paired against Abjured, Apex, and with pve players
Like that condi necro with greatsword saying he was going south.
SOUTH!
I wanted to die here and there…

Berry Pun Pup.6904:

Anet is well known for speedily and accurately resolving issues. I would expect a solution by 2017 at the latest Earliest.

Here I corrected your statement.

Because it’s an unealthy and disgusting playstyle?
I really don’t care much to be killed by passive dots ignoring my own armor and toughness while the guy is just chuckling along as he brushes and heals my attempts at killing him way too slowly because he’s too tanky to be taken down and can concentrate on healing himself as the DoTs do their own merry job.

And here I thought we would have got something
But it’s from 2k13 LE SIGH

Malediktus.9250:

It feels like the current system was made for an all year season not for 57 days

Well you got to admit that someone actually managing to hit Legendary does deserve to be called “Primordial Legend” as per the title…

Burtnik.5218:

Elia.7193:

I will name this " the balance"

You think its bad? Thats were my matchups so far today. Its just..

Who did you play against to end up with a score of 0 :o
But yeah I get the meaning
I played 9 hours yesterday with friends of mine
started at tier 5 of emerald with 0 pips
9 hours later: I have 2 pips on my emerald. Each time I had one left, I’d lose two-three games in a row and then was back to the beginning.
Frustrating. I just can’t see myself overcomming ruby/diamonds where you can lose tiers
At that point I’m almost willing to go in unranked tanking my mmr. Would get easier match ups, and I’d actually play for the lolz and not the kittening pips

Teutos.8620:

Have you activated “Allow skill retargeting”? Deactivating it fixed the stomp bug for me.

I’ll try that
also noted that it often happened with quickness on (If my quickness stomp fails once, it will fail all game) pity that I have it on 90% of the time

Maybe because your overall division was higher than theirs?
You seem to be Sapphire (halfway through even :o ), whereas most of the people I currently see are still in emerald (halfway or just broke through)

l2p of course!!
/s

first time I’ve heard of a pvp game being more rewarding by losing game than by winning them in the long run
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RedDeadFred.1256:

It is a fail. It’s identical to what we’d been doing before with just some new feature to grind for. They didn’t put effort into designing matchmaking around the new system, they just tried to shove this new system into the old model and called it done.

At this point, I’d love for a really in depth dev post to explain the design decisions behind this system because I really don’t understand how they thought this was a good idea.

Good luck getting a grab on a dev who’d bother answering… as far as I’m concerned, the worst the game became, the less dev we saw

Zdenny.2704:

Pepsi.8907:

Zdenny.2704:

Pepsi.8907:

Zdenny.2704:

capslock rage. If you can¨t adapt to what the game gives you, you must have a sad life.
Eventually, if you are considering to stop playing….uhm… Can I have your stuff?

How about 50-50? I’d be interested too…

60-40 and I am good. I was first, tho

Seen like that…Alright, granted, I can take 60% of the stuff

:(

that sad face makes me feel bad Alright I’ll take 40%
I’m wondering something tho
Where is OP after his rage?

Kydar Schattendolch.6879:

butch.8136:

The game doesn’t look at how close your game was

IMHO it should during the pvp season….

why should it? A loss is a loss… You didn’t have 90% of a loss and 10% of a win, you had a 100% loss no matter how close it was.
You were slightly even in term of skills, but they ouplayed your team and it showed in the points.
On another note:

I was the only division 2 on my team both times. I find that Division 1 people tend to quit or go afk or “are just here for fun” quite a bit, thus penalizing those of us who HAVE SOMETHING TO LOSE.

Calm down in generalizing the people from each divisions… it hasn’t even been a week since it’s out.
They may be as frustrated as you because they were one pip away from getting into another division, and must feel like it “doesn,t matter for those at the start or in the middle of their own division because they don’t have as much to lose”

Zdenny.2704:

Pepsi.8907:

Zdenny.2704:

capslock rage. If you can¨t adapt to what the game gives you, you must have a sad life.
Eventually, if you are considering to stop playing….uhm… Can I have your stuff?

How about 50-50? I’d be interested too…

60-40 and I am good. I was first, tho

Seen like that…Alright, granted, I can take 60% of the stuff

Zdenny.2704:

capslock rage. If you can¨t adapt to what the game gives you, you must have a sad life.
Eventually, if you are considering to stop playing….uhm… Can I have your stuff?

How about 50-50? I’d be interested too…

you’re in the afternoon of a week day, it,s a dead time for Anet.
Maybe that some took days off for the first time because they wanted to test it properly and be the first to hit emerald but had to go back to work afterwards.
On another note, maybe they did tightened up matchmaking, or you’re simply in a higher ladder?
Did you hit Sapphire or had a couple of consecutive win streak that elevated your mmr?

kdaddy.5431:

HipposWild.7185:

Cynz.9437:

i would rather have them fix/balance things than wasting time spamming forums

What about the situation where they just don’t do either? I have seen no indication of an upcoming balance patch. They announced they would be regular before seasons and didn’t even fix dragon hunters before this one.

There is nothing wrong with DH

Leaderboards, The PvP league system, some small bugs here and there. If you dont like DH just run staff ele, bam problem fixed.

Or just equip yourself with a stab/invuln… still surprised to see people running without it when they think they can go cleave in the center with the sort of meta running around. It’s a CC/Condi war, don’t be daft and get a stab and some condi clear…

boycotting something is useful when the company you boycott get penalized by it… as it is, Anet already has your money, they couldn’t care less about the boycott if it were to happen.
Moreover, there are people actually enjoying the ladder (yes yes there is, I am one of them) I won’t say it is balanced or any of the likes (I don’t even want to venture toward ranked if one of my team isn’t on to form at least a 3-man party), but actually seeing a progression after hitting rank 80? Yes that is something that I welcome whole heartedly.

What…
/15char

Look, you,re obviously raging, and that makes you absolutely not receptive to constructive feedback. I’ll keep my saliva and tell you one thing:
You knew there was a DH on the other side (which you can assume, or at least prepare in case he has traps) and to be aware that he may lay them wherever he wishes it (which are no bigger than wells, might I add…
to top it off, you ate a full GS2… but it,s the game’s fault. Sure, why not.

Are you using the Bunker Alacrity one?
I assume you’re pvp?

You’re job is basically three things:

• Give your teammates that alacrity/quickness
• Survive.
• stall enemies

A good bunker mesmer build can win 1v1 and even 1v2 and it can even stall 3 people for a while.
Your staff is a CC weapons generating Chaos shield.
You can either use the skill Chaos shield (last resort) or phase retreat in:

• Chaos Storm
• NullField
• Wells

• Your AAttack is a nice range one, that applies boons and conditions with rebound (make it rebound)
• Phase retreat is a short range blink (instant but not stun break) that will ALWAYS go in the opposite direction of your target and/or backward.
  There are nifty tricks with that skill to get on ledge, bridges or rooftop, etc. LEARN THEM. (Youtube is your friend for that) They ARE mandatory and will really help your kiting.
• Phantasmal Warlock is nice… when it hits. The damage can get really high if they are a good number of conditions on your enemy (yes, the damage of that phantasm scales with unique conditions on enemy) You also want to use it for boon share
• Chaos Armor To use in between your phase retreat and Field CD: You want chaos armor up as often as possible because it reduces your staff’s CD
• Chaos Storm: Interrupts and daze people once per pulse (it pulses 5 times, so it can interrupt up to five times), grants boons and conditions. Incredible one.

There isn’t a mandatory rotation, just keep in mind to use phase retreat in an ethereal field and keep your chaos shield up as often as possible when you’re on your staff.
Practice your phase retreats

If you’re bunker alacrity, I’ll give you other tips too with the wells and such.

I’ll stick to the pvp side… and I’ll be honest and say that the build is not viable.
I’ll assume you go for a power build and go on that:
Utilities are wrong: Most of them are subpar, Well is good, Mass Invis is controversial since the appearance of Gravity Well (but it is still used and viable)

Traits are wrong: You went nowhere. This is the harsh truth, but it’s still there, you don’t have a build holding on with these traits.

Weapons are so so. Sword/Shield is good. Scepter/Focus not so much

Runes/Sigil/Amulet: No. Just no

So let’s start in order

WEAPONS
Scepter is a condi weapon, period. You want a power build and scepter is not the weapon to go.

Focus is good for CC, but again, it fell on the side with the arrival of Shield.

Keep the sword. On a power build, sword is mandatory

Shield is also good for additional defense, it could also be replaced by torch for the stealth if you’re going for a all-in build.

TLDR: Dis Scepter/Focus, swap it for a greatsword or a staff (I’d recommend greatsword for purely power build, but that’s my own preference)
Sword/Shield is good, you may want to look into Torch instead of shield, but both are viable.

UTILITIES
Mirror: Subpar. Especially since you don’t have the trait reducing it’s CD. You’d be better off with Ether Feast or even the Well or signet with proper synergy.

Mimic: Again, subpar. Especially with Alacrity on shatters and Wells. You need better utilities. Either pick Blink/Decoy/Portal < They are mandatory (not all three, have at least on of them on your bar (except for specific builds))

IDefender: Subpar, I used it once, on a boonshare/bunker build before HoT, and I can tell you it’s not as pretty as the description makes it to be. You need to be real close, it only takes it for the first 5 seconds and the life is close to your own > squishy…
Again, put in Blink/Decoy/Portal

Well of Perception: That one is good, however if you do make the switch to Blink/Decoy, you may either put in Nullfield (condi removel boon rip) or an offensive utility (Mantra of Distraction, Mantra of Pain, Well of Action, etc) Or just put Portal.
I usually leave my third utility slot as a circumstancial that will be switched depending on my team and the enemy’s.

Mass Invisibility: It’s a good one, but it fell a bit on the side with the apparition of Gravity Well. Moa is still superior to Mass Invis though.

TLDR: Equip Blink/Decoy keep your third depending on the situation (Portal, Null Field, Mantra, Wells)

TRAITS
DUELING:
Desperate Decoy: I see that one a lot. Personally. I hate it. It’s unreliable, most of the time I get revealed because the treshold happened mid-skill.

Evasive Mirror: Blinding Dissipation is just that much better, truly.

Deceptive Evasion: That one is Okay, however, I’ll say it here, the whole Dueling Line got tossed on the side with the Chronomancer one.
We don,t really need DE because of Chronophantasma and Ireversion I’d pick Domination over it anytime for a power build.

TLDR: Dueling is a good line, but it fell on the side with Chronomancer line and the traits Chronophantasma and Ireversion… You,d be better off with a line that ups your power a bit (Domination, Illusion)

INSPIRATION:
Yes, but not for power builds.
Again you should go for either Domination/Illusion.
Still:

Persisting Image: My own opinion on shatters is: don’t waste your time. They are going to be shattered anyway. You’d be better off with Medic’s feedback for teamplay

Protected Phantasma: You have the most useful trait for mesmer just over that one. Don,t pick something that favors your clone over one that cleans condis and heals you on shatters (that can be resetted with Continuum Shift)

Mental Defense: The three are good depending on your build, but I still prefer Iinspiration because of the team support it provides (a bunker/support build can bring in a lot of boons that, once shared, really benefits your team, especially quickness).

Chronomancer: Why go for a trait that gives alacrity on wells if you only have one well? You should have picked Time Catches up, to secure your shatters instead.
Improved Alacrity: That one is good, all three of them are depending on the build.
Chronophantasma: Good one, you could also have gone for Seize the Moment, but it’s really personal on that point.

TLDR: Power build? Don,t go into Inspiration, you’re stretching your game.
Dueling fell on the side (not useless, but not as good) as Illusion or Domination for Power Shatter
Chronomancer is basically mandatory for mesmer these days

ARMOR
For mesmer keep in mind three things.
One: You’re HELLA SQUISHY
Two: You can burst INSANELY FAST AND STRONG
Three: You don’t have clear condis available as much as you’d want.

SIGILS:
Renewal: first, why twice? useless. Beside, you’re healing is abysmal, your teammates won,t even see a difference.
Agility: well I can see why you chose it (I’ll keep reserved on that one, I’ll need to test it)
Hobbling: No. Not useful, don’t.

Mesmer need Energy sigils. For the dodges, for DE, for whatever. They need the additional dodge for their own survival.
Generosity is usually pretty kitten nice too, can be a life saver and shouldn’t be underestimated.
Blood, Air, Fire, Battle, Doom, all of them are valid depending on your build.

RUNES:
Why Warrior?
With Alacrity and Mesmer usually short CD, you shouldn’t struggle with swap if you managed your CD properly
Go for
Traveler
Ranger
Chronomaner (for well builds)
Even Strength if you take the proper traits or Hoelbrak.

AMULET:
In Pvp you either go Marauder or Berserker, I don’t see the point of going barbarian on a class where its main strength is quick and efficient bursts.
The mesmer’s strength is his high kiting capabilities. When you go power builds, you go at it all the way. Forgo Barbarian and go either Marauder (preferred) or Berserker for even more OOMPH.

Overall, I’ll still say nice try, but the way you made that build shows that you do not understand the class and its intricacies.
Familiarize yourself with mesmer beforehand, you just ended up everywhere and nowhere at the same time.
Don’t take my harshness wrong, I just went right to the point. The build, as it currently is, is not viable. You’ll get chewed on instantly because you have no means of kiting the damage, and no where near enough the survivability to survive without either blink or decoy.

Take a look at these:
http://metabattle.com/wiki/Special:Rating?name=Build:Chronomancer_-_Alacrity_Bunker
http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Chronomancer_-_Power_Shatter
http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Mesmer_-_Condition_Shatter

They all are very different build, and all went into a specific path. Don’t mix things, don’t try to do everything at once, that’s the Ele’s job, not mesmer.

Arshay Duskbrow.1306:

Pepsi.8907:

Yeah… I know, I hope too much

Was speaking to the OP, not you.

Oopsie sorry XD