Guild Wars 2

Have you ever thought that Anet wants to bring a different challenge to MMOs? A lot like lineage 2 where world bosses are outside instances. Do remember this is new and people are swarming the area as well? Eventually it will be easy to do with a well organized team without newbs running around everywhere. But let me ask, have you tried to organize with the newbs? Maybe Anet wants to break out of the mold of “raids” and bring more life to it. Maybe, just maybe, Anet wants to push your comfort zone and have you communicate outside your group. It sounds hard and a lot work, but it makes it so much more rewarding.

Scepter.

Have our blue balls of death lock on to targets. Homing balls of blue death. This would fix our ball problem from scepter. It would work a lot like Mesmer staff auto. However, it isn’t the biggest problem because it is more likely to hit the closer we are.

dragonkain.3984:

… it’s plethora of bugs with this race was the main thing that made it unpopular? Really, i would’ve definitely made such character if not flying shoulders and a very noticable dual wield weapon size difference that makes you look kittenED… and really, nobody wants to look kittened in a game where you’re supposed to look cool, so everyone just ignores that race… But how to explain that to devs? It’s just logical that if bugs will be fixed number of players using this race will increase…
Same thing with engineer too, so many bugs with that class which leads to only 2 builds being playable…

How are there only two builds on engineer?

Wait, silly me. Isn’t this suppose to be about Charr?

I am sure they will fix it in time. They have so much more on their plate than Charrs clipping problems.

I am just curious how old the OP is…..

Christos de Soufre.3802:

The following fact cannot be un-learned.

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Humans are the Blood Elves of GW2.

/hairflip

Hahahahah

PMilkos.9103:

Vis.8471:

I’m waiting for a magical race.

Sylvari not magical enough for you?

Asura not magical enough for you?

Their main purpose is to study magic for crying out loud…..

I am not surprised by the population differences. The Dev’s shouldn’t be either. When they designed a game around looks, they only support people to play what they think “looks” best. Apparently humans are the most aesthetically pleasing. Personally I completely disagree and play a Charr myself. The clippings are hardly noticeable and the tail doesn’t bother me. The problem here, I think, is that people care to much about how their character looks rather than care about their characters story. This is largely Anets fault for providing such bad story telling. I mean Dialogue cut scenes? For EVERYTHING? Now that’s a problem.

I vote Anet makes a cannon for grenades that we can “shoot”, rather than throwing grenades from our invisible grenade bag in our belly button. It would be like shooting potato guns all over again! But with grenades…. heh

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fcAQJAqalspSXHxSfF17ICoC5loHPGlNZfe8WsFEC-TsAAzCpI+S9l7LzXyvsfNE5EwcBA

Here is my HgH build. Only noticeable difference from other HgH builds is that I use full nightmare set. The 1 sec fear is OP in duels.

Very easy to get the hang of. Start with your duel pistols. Before or during a fight use elixir B. Barrage them with #2 and 4. Use 3 whenever its off CD. After you throw all your conditions, try to hand #5 glue to snare them. Immediately switch to grenades and cast #2 right next to them. If you can land all your shrapnel grenades, you have done your job. All the bleeds will destroy them. They shouldn’t last long. Continue throwing all your grenades or switch to pistols to finish them off. Elixir S, H and supply crate are life savers. Don’t forget to cast your tool kit potions on yourself to remove enemy conditions on yourself.

GOOD LUCK!

Cactus.2710:

timmyf.1490:

Cactus.2710:

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

There are some changes in the upcoming release to mitigate the severity of this problem. We’re also looking at making some long-term improvements to the Twisted Clockwork invasions.

It would be helpful if you indicated what those changes might be so that the player base could give you kind of a reality check beforehand. Please forgive me for assuming you folks don’t always understand the cause-and-effects of your own game, but history is on my side.

1) It’s too late for them to incorporate player feedback

Nonsense. I’m not just talking about this particular change … I’m talking about changes in general, particularly future ones.

2) Players don’t necessarily have a realistic view… or a consistent view… of how things should be “fixed”

In aggregate we most certainly do. It is not difficult at all to follow the forums and discover some pretty consistent themes and common directions from players.

3) It’s not Anthony’s job to communicate changes and, were he to hint at them and further refinements happen, you would be all over him for communicating wrong information

Nonsense again. All that would be required is for him, or any other dev, to stay in contact enough to explain potential changes to earlier projections and explain why.

The only logical response is to say nothing until the official patch notes.

There’s nothing logical about that at all. It’s exactly what we’ve been getting all along and exactly why so many players are unhappy with the direction of the game and the ongoing lack of communication from ANet.

That said, I too would love hints. I just don’t think we’ll get them.

At least we can agree on that.

I full heartily agree with Timmy. Even if you consider all his responses personal, which is obvious, I believe he is making a general statement about the community. If the Devs were to provide any information before launch, it will cause confusion the second a update hits. Even if the information provided was exactly as stated, and we all know that rarely happens, the telephone game will provide false information. Aka one person will say something and the next will say something completely different.

TL; DR. Don’t take it personal what Timmy said. He is correct about how Devs and many other Devs handle their information before release.

JayMack.8295:

@Talyn – I think you misunderstood his post. He was saying his Engi and Guardian are built for high crit damage. He typo’d ‘are’ with ‘ate’.

^ this. Tehe

Why ask? Try them out yourself. No one can tell you how YOU feel about a class. I personally loved my mesmer when I first played, but burnt out and took a break from GW2. When I came back I tried Engineer and fell in love. Personal preferences.

Mystic Starfish.2586:

It’s funny, because I would recommend elementalist for you. I think it’s probably the strongest out of them all, and it can go support, or power, or anything really. The conjure weapons add some variety, as do getting to know your attunements for your weapons. Necro imo is more based on lasting long, I personally haven’t found a good way to do lots of damage on it (but I don’t spend too much time trying). Engineer I use as a condition build, but like elementalist, can probably be fun for you because of the different weapon kits

What are you talking about? No class is stronger than the rest. Anyway, engineer can easily… and I mean easily in the easiest sensible way, support. Exlixir gun + turrets + Elixers + Kits + Charr = best support everrrrrrr. SO can necros with their wells and bunch of other things necro do with blood. (I never really played Necro so can’t say much on the class) But I think it’s downright silly to say something like “one class rules them all” in any type of play style.

The first comic with the necro and bunny made me LOL at work. Great work. Keep it up!

+1 I am simply going to support anyone who posts about our awful personal stories after we joined a legion.

I wanted to add only to prove the underwhelming delivery of our personal stories.

Trahearne should be our puppet, our sidekick, our fodder that we can use to save ourselves during our personal story.

Not. Our. Leader.

….

Please have him stand down from the leader role and hand us his sword. I would much rather lead my troop into battle than him.

Here is my question.

Have we heard anything on the forums from devs agreeing that they messed up on our personal stories? Have they ever responded to one of these posts promising they will deliver better PS in the future? Possibly editing our old stories? This is what I care about. If I were to share my own experiences, it would be copy n paste exactly what everyone else has posted.

I understand that devs have a lot on their plates, but this should be part of the main course. It’s amazing that they have such great ideas and amazing lore, but fail miserably at sharing it within the game. I want to feel inspired like everyone else to reach end-game and finally become the hero I was promised.

Why weren’t you hired for their PvE team?

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I don’t see the problem? Maybe a Charr secretly killed Tonn. Then patent all his weapons and merchandise for himself. Make loads of fam and riches through Tonn’s experiences. Smart Charr….

I may be interested.

A quick word of advice, and I don’t mean to sound like a jerk, but you may want to clean up your grammar. I assume English is not your first language. May want a friend to prof read and edit your post. It will stand out better to the community.
It was a little difficult to read your post.

Hey guys, I am a returning player. I used to play mainly a mesmer and thief but i rerolled a engineer. I plan on focusing on sPvP with my new engineer. I am still learning the ropes of the class, but I learn quickly. Already have a tanky/flameflower build I enjoy. If you guys are willing to work with me I will be glad to build bunker or whatever builds you need with him.

Let me know what you think!

Staff/GS is AWESOME together. Try a power/percision phantasm build.

I destroy stuff.

Watch iWarlock crit hard.

Bers is fun to watch spin and cripple everything.

Sethren.8472:

I use it all the time. My weapon swap is between a Greatsword and a Scepter/Torch. I am a condition-phantasm mesmer, so I really like the confusion stacking quality of the scepter (and the torch’s phantasm). I get my AoE fix from the Greatsword.

The Scepter’s block ability is also very helpful when a person has run out of energy to evade, and it counterattacks for a nice chunk of damage.

Personally, I think it’s one of the best weapons a mesmer has. It’s just misunderstood.

I would love to duel you…. lol

I agree with Koadiak. Scepter is trash. I don’t know why some people find it appealing in its current state. Try testing the mh sword ya’ll. It is WAY better at killing stuff than our scepter. Even with different traits, it’s still bad.

I don’t want to repeat Kodiak. He’s right in all cases. Block is awful on scepter. I wish they would change it to a similar spell like sword #3. Cast a spell and a clone generates. Change scepter 1 to cast confusion stacks. >.>

Rhyno.7084:

The pistol skill cooldown+range trait in the Dueling tree causes the duelist to proc confusion all 8 times.

What!? Really?! Well that’s nifty and a huge buff to the condition build.

Rhyno.7084:

Levelord.5746:

So… how can you stack 3 illusions if they only last 3 seconds?

Really? You can summon like 6 illusions in that time if you chose to do so.

Scepter 1 -> Scepter 3 -> Pistol 4 -> Staff 2 -> Staff 4 -> Roll -> Roll

But wait, there’s more!

iDisenchanter, iDefender and Mirror Images.

Ok so that’s 11.

Uhm… you have to cast scepter 1 three times before generating a clone, which is about 3 seconds to cast. Scepter 3 doesn’t generate one period, 2 does after a block…. The block sucks compared to sword #2 imo. You also have CD on swapping weapons. Yeah maybe you can spawn 4 or 5 clones with the right utility and weapon swap. But you can only do it at the start. You have to wait on CDs afterwards. It’s not as easy as you say. Blah, I don’t waste my utility spots for the phantasms. I think there are better spells…

AWFUL ideas. The whole stealth when generating a clone is OP. If we could be detargetted after every clone generation in PvP is stupid OP.

It’s fine the way it is. FIX the awful torch and scepter pwease!

There is a 20% chance that it will land a confusion stack for each bullet. So on average you should be getting 0-2 confusion stacks. Most skills say the % it will land when cast in a field. I believe all phantasms are 20%.

Lady Mimic.3247:

I wished they allowed Mesmers to use pistols for both hands rather than just off-hand. A clone gets to use two pistols and so I don’t see why a mesmer can’t.

I agree that mesmers should have a pistol MH. :P

Conncept.7638:

I’ve only played six PvP games since the betas ended, but I’ve won and topped the leaderboard on all but one. And I had a much larger win streak during the betas (I was at 25ish games lead/win streak out of only 30 or so games played) Not a huge PvPer, but when I PvP, I do pretty well.

Weapon of choice? Scepter/torch every single game. Best PvP build in my opinion. I rarely even have to switch over to my sword/sword. Last game I won a 1v2 against a guardian and ranger on point from half life and then capped for the win.

The Mesmer needs help, in fact all the scholar classes need help in some way or another. The class all-around needs more confusion, and disrupt builds need to be entirely seperated from confusion builds in the traits since they completely cancel each other out. But gutting the basic premise (and principle strategy) behind the scepter and the torch isn’t the way to fix the mesmers problems.

I agree with you about the traits and builds needing to be separated. It’s odd that they mixed it up. However, I bet you could be a lot more effective if you went with a different off-hand weapon. Torch is awful as it stands. The stealth is the only useful skill it has. You have to admit the iMage is bad compared to the iDuelist and iSwordsman.

Nikijih.1075:

Well for one thing, you are using the wrong weapons. Sword/pistol is a power/precision weapon, staff is a condition weapon. They need different traits and stats to be effective, so they dont mix that well. Dont get me wrong, you can make it work, but its not optimal. With a power build id use GS instead. Also, unless you also specced precision I would consider changing the offhand for a sword (pistol better for precision but sword phantasm does more damage).

Mesmer is not about dealing damage as much as it is about surviving. Let your phantasms take care of the damage part, what you want to focus on is avoiding damage. Phantasmal Defender is a must.

If you want to tell us more details on what class/situations you are having trouble with I would be able to give you actual advice instead of this generic stuff hehe.

You couldn’t be more wrong about staffs. Staff is a hybrid weapon. It can fit the power, condition, and tanky builds very well. I run a power/percision/toughness build and use a staff. It hits like a truck. A lot harder than off-hand sword or pistol. I recommend the staff/GS. The GS has a push back that can save countless stomps on friends and the iBerserker can be cast behind walls. It’s a very useful weapon. Sword/pistol or Sword/sword can be used effectively as well. I just hate how the iLeap works right now. It’s not worth using in PvP if it’s still wonky.

EasymodeX.4062:

Prestige blind and burn should be reversed. Common suggestion.

I like the idea O.o Didn’t think of it.

Since most people in suggestion forums don’t care about my problem, I felt that this post would be more beneficial here.

Hey Arenanet and fellow GW2 fanatics! Hope you all are enjoying this game as much as I am… obviously, duh. Why wouldn’t you be?!

Anyway, I wanted to discuss the scepter and torch weapon options for the mesmers. Why in the world would you EVER want to pick those two weapons as a mesmer? I have been constantly battling myself over the scepter. I want to believe it’s a good weapon, but overall I find it awful compared to our other mh weapon, the sword. I personally would love a better #1 attack. Change it, please! I really want to use it in dungeons where it is difficult to use my sword.

The torch is at a whole different level. It is absolutely awful. Its stealth is the only reason it should be considered a part of existence. The iMage is where the true problem resides. I would suggest changing the iMage. A personal favorite and a great idea would be to change the iMages attack to the guardian equivalent torch attack, cleansing flames. Not exactly like cleansing flames, but a similar animation that burns foes. It doesn’t have to cleanse conditions.

Here are my suggestions:

Scepter #1 attacks and projectiles are faster. They apply confusion on 2nd and 3rd hit. Remove clone generation on third attack.

Torch iMage uses a “cleansing flame” equivalent. Doesn’t remove conditions. Apply fire debuff and deals damage over a short time.

I wouldn’t mind other suggestions and opinions. I also don’t care if the changes are not what I offered, but I would still like to see a change regardless.

robinsiebler.3801:

I was in the Busted Flagon, singing a song. There were a group of people, enjoying the song. Two idiots entered the bar and started fighting. Everyone was unhappy, but there was nothing that could be done, they would not stop when asked to do so and I fled the bar in disgust.

This is your first problem.

You should probably explore the world outside GW2 and realize it’s normal to deal with problems like this.

I disagree with your proposal. Even though I think it is hilarious what happened to you, you should either /ignore them or at least move to a new location.

Idea +1. The idea alone to offer dance options in gem store is a great!

Hey Arenanet and fellow GW2 fanatics! Hope you all are enjoying this game as much as I am. Obviously, duh. Why wouldn’t you be?!

Anyway, I wanted to discuss the scepter and torch weapon options for the mesmers. Why in the world would you EVER want to pick those two weapons as a mesmer? I have been constantly battling myself over the scepter. I want to believe it’s a good weapon, but overall I find it awful compared to our other mh weapon, the sword. I personally would love a better #1 attack. Change it, please! I really want to use it in dungeons where it is difficult to use my sword.

The torch is at a whole different level. It is absolutely awful. Its stealth is the only reason it should be considered a part of existence. The iMage is where the true problem resides. I would suggest changing the iMage. A personal favorite and a great idea would be to change the iMages attack to the guardian equivalent torch attack, cleansing flames. Not exactly like cleansing flames, but a similar animation that burns foes. It doesn’t have to cleanse conditions.

Here are my suggestions:

Scepter #1 attacks and projectiles are faster. They apply confusion on 2nd and 3rd hit. Remove clone generation on third attack.

Torch iMage uses a “cleansing flame” equivalent. Doesn’t remove conditions. Apply fire debuff and deals damage over a short time.

I wouldn’t mind other suggestions and opinions. I also don’t care if the changes are not what I offered, but I would still like to see a changes regardless.