Guild Wars 2

Inoence.6907:

I usually only use it in FoTM at Maw :/ (in order to melee the tentacles)
I think it could be pretty nice as a third (instant) invulnerability (Distortion), using the Blurred Inscriptions (Dueling; VIII) trait.
Everyone knows that our passive signet effects are bad anyways

For tentacle melee, just go sword/sword. The sweeping attack you use blurred frenzy or the block, and the other attack you can simply side-step it. If you circle strafe around the tentacle, it won’t hit you with the non-sweeping attack.

As far as signet of midnight, it’s pretty much useless. I wouldn’t use it in any serious build.

I only play Mesmer, and I have no problems winning in solo queue. Unfortunately, winning in solo queue is about 10% skill and 90% ending up on the winning side of the 5v4.

Over 70% of my solo queue games played were 5v4 or worse.

Ansau.7326:

Definitely this is what I call a OMG community xd

Too bad I’m in holidays until 3th Sept. and I cannot read the forum as much as I can.

Another suggestion for the guild name could be:

Oficial Mesmer Forum Guild [OMG], but I think that tag must be taken already xd

How about [OMFG] :p

This sounds like a great idea. When I get home this evening I’ll put something together. I have an na account and an eu account, and can coordinate with Fay for the eu side as well, so I can cover both server sets.

There definitely should be only 1 guild. Most of us are close to that 5 guild limit I’m sure, and 2 guilds would get messy. The same problem exists with threads, more than 1 thread will get messy I feel.

I don’t carry it myself because it’s useless except as a troll tool. That being said, if I want to troll, I take it, due to aforementioned troll tooliness.

Dietzen.6127:

Pyroatheist.9031:

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KEg07K7q7g&feature=youtu.be

Wow, he really took his defeat(s) well. He didn’t complain or kitten about loosing. He even used his own build every time, and didn’t complain about you, having your own build and you, using the skills that belong to said builds. Good going on his behalf!

Btw could you post the build you used in the last of the fights? The one were you used staff.

The traits are those of the blackwater build. I use different utils depending on the fight, and in pvp I use undead runes.

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KEg07K7q7g&feature=youtu.be

The reason why many pros will leave autoattack on is because if you manually press the autoattack button, you are unable to interrupt the attacks to do another action, but if you let it attack by itself, every attack is instantly interruptable. This allows for much greater flexibility with regards to dodging and fast combat changes.

There are a couple exceptions here, like the ranger sword autoattack, which is just abysmal.

Problem here is that savage leap won’t go around corners up around a corner and up a flight of stairs or w/e. As much as the skill is super buggy, it DOES sometimes work, and those things I mentioned it will in fact do, and I would never want to lose that functionality.

themenaceofseventhdimension.2075:

I have battled Pyro today. I lost all of em. I would love to see a video of me losing so I can improve on what I did wrong. Of course there is the fact that Pyro somehow managed to get the best of me according to build choice every time, But he is a good mesmer. He should get the respect he deserves and more. I thank Pyro for making and posting this vid.

So, generally I don’t like to nitpick, but I’m going to do so here because it highlights one of the main problems that I and others have with your attitude. Even in your attempt to be gracious, you fall flat because of that little detail there that I’ve bolded.

You still believe that I was beating you out of build choice and not out of playing skill and/or experience, and that is given away plainly by your choice of words. You need to learn to take your punches, and sometimes understand that people will be better than you, in addition to builds being better. You even switched to using my own ‘Overpowered Phantasm Build’ a couple times, and I still beat you for a couple reasons, even though you claimed that build was monstrously overpowered (which it sorta is, but that’s besides the point).

People give you criticism, and you are unable to take it. At the beginning of this thread, the first few responses were very civil and constructive. Your responses were not. You responded in highly inflammatory tones and manners, insulting and berating. From that point on, the quality of the posts in this thread, predictably, went on somewhat of a decline. However, there were posts (notably from jportell) that were still constructive, and yet you still replied to them in the same inflammatory manner.

People aren’t judging you based on your past threads, and they weren’t even judging you based on this one. They were giving you valid criticisms of a build that has some rather glaring deficiencies, and you refused to listen and respond in a reasonable manner, and THAT is why this thread has ended up the way it has.

Jedge.3619:

dxtory to record then using sony vegas to edit : )

Gotcha, that should do it fine. Try recording in native resolution, see what that gets you.

I dueled menace a good number of times today. I’m uploading the video now, it should be up in a couple hours (hopefully good quality, I’m doing a bit of an experiment with my export settings.)

Yeah, gonna have to agree, I made it through about a minute and a half. I wanted to watch, but the shaking and other post-production drove me off really nastily.

I’ve played 14 matches of solo queue in total, just started doing this recently. Of those 14 matches, 10 had a 5v4 or worse. In only 1 case did the team with the less number of people win.

The dishonored buff is a good first step, but it needs to be much more harsh. My proposal would be each stack would last 3 days, and at 3 stacks the player receives an automatic 24 hour ban, with the ban time increasing based on how many times you’ve been banned within the past 2 weeks or something.

For those of you who would say ‘but what about people with bad internet,’ people with bad internet don’t deserve to play tournaments. Joining a tournament is a commitment for your team, and if you leave for ANY reason, whether it be bad internet or bad attitude, you have let down your team, and deserve punishment.

Jedge.3619:

@Inoence
Thank-you!
Unfortunately I play on a 1680×1050 monitor and the video is recorded in 720p
I’m guessing that is what is causing the cropping

Recording in 720p shouldn’t make a difference, but the best recordings are done in your native resolution, and then brought down in your video editor if you need to lower the file size. What program are you using to record?

Nice playing, and good music. You do need to fix the record window size though.

Just a couple things I noticed. Be really careful when using a stealth skill if chaos storm is still active. You got lucky the times you did it, but it will often reveal you. The other is that you can actually walk through aoe to proc the block on the scepter if you don’t get hit. This is especially good against eles and guardians.

colesy.8490:

I already told you, you drop the phantasm, they blank its burst and then kill it. If you’re a phantasm build then at that point you’re just wasting time until your two phantasms go off cooldown.

People need to get this “phantasm is ez mode” thing out of their heads, if players would stop being bad and use their dodge key they would understand how easy it is to deal with their burst.

Nah, not even. Any build a warrior can run is incredibly easy to kill as a phantasm spec.

As you start the fight, you drop 2 phantasms. You have an average phantasm production rate of 1 every 8 seconds past this point. The warrior can choose to pop endure pain or shield stance at the very start of the fight to nullify their burst, but now they’ve wasted their defensive cooldowns. Then the warrior can try to kill a phantasm. By the time the warrior kills 1 phantasm, the other is already attacking again, and does a lot of damage to them. Remember that the swordsman attacks every 3.6 seconds. That is an incredible rate.

Remember that if the warrior is focusing purely on your phantasms, you get to do w/e you want to them. Leap/swaps to keep him from moving properly, magic bullet, confusing images, if he wants to kill those phantasms, he has absolutely no choice but to ignore you.

Ultimately, he will fall behind the pace of damage. He will either stop attacking the phantasms and start chasing you, at which point you just go into full on evasion mode, or he will simply be killing the phantasms too slow and they will build up and kill him. There is simply no way for them to win.

@menace: I’m glad you’re willing to duel me. However, note that I’ll judge whether or not your build is good when you duel me. Also, I don’t want any of the BS you gave me last night. Either your build and play style is good or it isn’t, there’s no ‘oh my build is good but don’t use these particular builds because my build is really bad against them’. That doesn’t work.

spoj.9672:

If you get poisoned by malrona or the champ orrian spiders in arah you do like 6x the damage to them. Also effects projectile reflect damage. You can pretty much instagib malrona with a decent group. This is why I always tell pugs not to cleanse the poison, but they never listen.

Huh, that’s good to know.

colesy.8490:

Reflected projectiles?

Also, I want your sword.

Normal reflects there are like 16k each. The 66k was….surprising to say the least.

And the spider boss just died. Instantly. From about 25% hp. I check my combat log, and this is what I see…

(and yes, that is a party with myself, fay, and chaos)

It’s very fun to do.

It also prevents a slippery thief/ele/warrior from pulling a full blown gtfo.

You dodge the stuns. It’s very simple. A stun warrior works on hammer and/or mace. The hammer stun is ranged, but has a massive animation and is very very easy to dodge or block. The mace stun has no animation to speak of, but requires very close range.

Keep the warrior at range unless you fully intend to close distance and are ready with blurred frenzy or something. If you happen to get hit with one of the stuns, pop a stun breaker and make distance until you are ready to re-engage.

The lDisenchanter is the most potent condition removal we have. Unforunately, you won’t get full use out of it in a shatter build, so I’d recommend the mantra instead.

Even disregarding the fact that MF will soon no longer exist, an exotic mf set has always been a bad idea. Mf has the same stat from green gear up to exotic, so there’s no reason to go higher than greens for a set of mf gear.

Overlord.7394:

Not impress. Used your build for a bit. I am doing awful. It’s sad.

This build is extremely powerful. Its 1v1 fighting capabilities are only eclipsed by a few very specific phantasm builds, and only by a little. It also is much stronger in 1vX than those said phantasm builds.

leng jai.2961:

What, you don’t think that’s worth fixing?

No, I don’t. The devs have much better things to spend time doing than fixing a bug that has 0 impact on gameplay.

Requiem.8769:

Wow, that was fast. We have very good mods.

Ikr? Very good response.

Zindrix.1750:

Ross Biddle.2367:

More toughness will ensure they make it to their target. No point being full glass cannon if your burst is mitigated by clones dying.

Do clones share you attributes at all besides pwr/prec for damage? I thought they all had low HP and toughness on purpose. Either way, most of the reason they aren’t making it to their target in time is from CC and I feel like they’re just too slow for WvW sometimes.

All illusions share:

1. Toughness
2. Precision
3. Crit Power
4. Condition Damage
5. Condition Duration
6. Boon Duration
7. Power

Dhampyr.2104:

Huh, blink breaks stealth? I didn’t think it did – matter of fact, I tend to blink in stealth for just that reason. Really helps juke folks in WvW.

If you look closely, you’ll still have the boon associated with stealth, just not the texture on your character.

Exasol.2765:

Illusionary leap has another bug in which the leaping clone occurs instantly after casting the spell, rather then after the 3/4 second cast time. By sheathing you can bypass this cast time. Not sure if intended. See my thread for details.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/Illusionary-Leap-Simple-Casting-Fix/first#post2690788

Don’t believe that’s exactly a bug.

leng jai.2961:

Pyroatheist.9031:

We are still doing the podcast, albeit not weekly. I’ve been away recently, and Kylia has been having one beast of a time professionally, so we’ve been hard pressed to get them done. We did record a podcast with Supcutie, and you can expect to see that very soon.

That’s cool. Just noticed you guys haven’t been doing it lately. The link in your signature also doesn’t work anymore.

Ooh, good catch. Yes, the runes work.

Devilsmack.5736:

Pyroatheist.9031:

Prior to the nerf, I was actually farming deadeye with 5 gambits. It was very easy.

20/20/0/30/0. Sword/focus+greatsword. Use daze mantra, feedback, and signet of illusions. Spawn zerker and immediately warden at the start. Walk up to him carefully, avoiding mines. Sometimes he will aim very soon, be ready to hit blurred frenzy quickly. Use blurred frenzy to block his first aim attack. Use temporal curtain to reflect his normal attacks when your warden is not spinning. You can also use LoS with your warden to block his normal attacks. Once he goes to range, swap to greatsword and use zerker, and use daze mantra to stop the next attack. After that attack, swap back to sword even if he is still at long range and use blurred frenzy to dodge the next one. At this point, your phantasms should kill him, but you still have another daze ready if you need it.

Zerker Gear? Are you still able to kill him this way?

Full zerker gear. He should never hit you once if you follow my instructions.

Purple.

TA top, acolytes pants, T1 shoes, The Anomaly, Lord Taere’s Shadow

…you’re both bad players running stupid builds, especially yours. Why is this news?

Prior to the nerf, I was actually farming deadeye with 5 gambits. It was very easy.

20/20/0/30/0. Sword/focus+greatsword. Use daze mantra, feedback, and signet of illusions. Spawn zerker and immediately warden at the start. Walk up to him carefully, avoiding mines. Sometimes he will aim very soon, be ready to hit blurred frenzy quickly. Use blurred frenzy to block his first aim attack. Use temporal curtain to reflect his normal attacks when your warden is not spinning. You can also use LoS with your warden to block his normal attacks. Once he goes to range, swap to greatsword and use zerker, and use daze mantra to stop the next attack. After that attack, swap back to sword even if he is still at long range and use blurred frenzy to dodge the next one. At this point, your phantasms should kill him, but you still have another daze ready if you need it.

Asuka Shikinami.5462:

Strangely enough multiple patches have passed and they haven’t altered the runes for wvw yet… the torment ones were nerfed quickly…

Torment runes were gamebreaking, these are ‘merely’ severely unbalanced. They will get nerfed, but it will take a bit longer.

Arganthium.5638:

Coloxeus.3480:

Crovax.7854:

katniss.6735:

The regen is OP in WvW.

And nobody cares about wvw because it’s not pvp, it’s wvw

Coloxeus.3480:

look how OP their heal/condition with 3.4k Armor . almost can heal 1.2k HP/ sec with inspiring banner trait

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q58u1ygJU3Q

What a shame. From the thief community side i was under the impression you were supposed to be somewhat decent but all i can see is 3 spam and dodging nothing.
Well, it seems the skill requirements for thieves this days isn’t exactly that high…

i need to dodge before entering a battle bro. and i should NOT or must NOT make my endurance Full. have u ever seen or heard skill trait “Fluid Strikes”
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Fluid_Strikes

Woah woah woah. Stop. Just stop. This is pure comedy gold.

So, you place energy sigils on both of your weapons, and then you complain when you have too much endurance that you’re having to waste it.

Then, apparently, in order to fix this issue, you have to evade 30 feet away from your opponent, when you could’ve combo’d your evade with Slice and done more damage overall while still fulfilling your trait requirements.

LOL

Oh, and btw, we weren’t talking about your evading before the fight started.

Going to have to agree, this guy is astonishingly deficient in playing capacity.

For anyone unclear on what the evade thief playstyle looks like, please watch about 30-40 seconds of this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q58u1ygJU3Q

I guarantee you will come out of it wondering why this exists in the game.

This video literally made me cringe to watch it. You do nothing but spam 3 and dodge the entire time. It’s the most mind-numbingly idiotic play-style that has ever graced this game, and the day it is removed will be a good day for everyone, INCLUDING thieves.

atheria.2837:

Helios.3598:

It comes down to what you want to play. Why not try out some of those “sub par” builds rather than assume the worst?

I appreciated the question – if you didn’t have a thing to add, why did you bother to answer the post???

One could most certainly ask the same of you…and be a bit more topical to boot.

keenlam.4753:

skilled evade thief

Since when has this been a thing?

Press 3. Press 3. Press evade. Press 3. Press 3. Swap weapons. Start from the top.

Gonna stop you right now. Signet builds are really not viable. The signet traits are too spread out and varied, and they don’t do nearly enough to take them. Signets themselves are fine to take here and there in a build if it fits, but never try to make a build around signets. It doesn’t work.

lujate.5432:

In my experience, stealthing and moving laterally (while still stealthed), the enemy still targets and hits me with ranged attacks (not AOE) as if I was not stealthed at all.

This will occur if they are using one long channeled attack, such as confusing images on the scepter. The channel will still hit the target and finish channeling fully if the target stealths during the channel.

lujate.5432:

Helios.3598:

lujate.5432:

I’ve tried but never really liked stealth.

use the stealth luke…

Stealth = Lock break = win

Is that a recent fix? Every time I’ve tried running stealth, i was still focus-fired while invisible.

Stealth doesn’t mean invulnerable. If you walk in the way of attacks while stealthed, you’re still going to get hit.

We are still doing the podcast, albeit not weekly. I’ve been away recently, and Kylia has been having one beast of a time professionally, so we’ve been hard pressed to get them done. We did record a podcast with Supcutie, and you can expect to see that very soon.

@Helios: Generally that will only happen if that original target actually stealths before leaving the leash range of the phantasms, otherwise they will chase the target, then eventually dissipate from range.

colesy.8490:

Again, PvE, I don’t argue about PvP because it’s not my strong point and I’d rather not have my posts smeared all over the wall by pyroatheist for being giant heaps of wrong.

I’m not that bad…..usually >_<.

Honestly, I think that your posts are regularly the most abrasive posts on these forums, and that doesn’t really make me tend to be happy. However, you’re also almost always correct. In the current state of PvE, there are extremely few situations in which the best choice of gear is not pure berserker for the skilled player. For less skilled players, more survivability can be nice.

Mesmers have strong PvP condition builds. However, mesmer condition builds are weak in PvE, and PvE conditions are bad anyway for multiple reasons.

Mesmers have very strong tanking/healing/supporting builds. However, this is unnecessary in almost all PvE content. Tanking and healing is unnecessary, and mesmer builds have enough built in support (boon share/projectile reflects/condition+boon removal can all be used without any modifications to dps) that building specifically for them is simply unnecessary.

This is not a reflection on mesmer builds, but a reflection on the PvE in this game. It is not a good situation, but it is the current reality.

PvP is an entirely different beast though, and WvW is even more different and varied as you can have solo roaming, kill groups, zerg combat, or anything else. While mesmers can most definitely still be used in PvP, the condition meta is currently very strong and difficult (though not impossible) to counter. In WvW, many builds are viable for doing different things, and all sorts of gear then become available for use.

All on crit sigils and all weapon swap sigils have internal cooldowns AND share internal cooldowns. Weapon swap cooldowns are 9 or 10 seconds, most on crits are about 3. If you proc a crit and then swap, you will not get the on swap bonus, and if you swap to an on crit, your on crit will not proc for 9 or 10 seconds.

My advice is to start here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/Lazy-Kai-s-Guide-to-PvE-Leveling-Guide-Update/first