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[WvWvW] Retaliation build

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What you’re trying to put together looks a lot like what my Immortal build used to be. You can take a look at the link in my signature to see what that was. Unfortunately, Anet ruined the traits that the build depended on, and so it is no longer possible to use it. I’d recommend not trying to go for a retal build, as it simply doesn’t do much without the amp provided by the iDefender.

God Mode Thieves

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I like how ESO has handled stealth. Everyone can use some version of it, but you are knocked out of stealth with damage, you must use the terrain to make it work, and added hidden last only a second or two to allow pure stealth class to get to a terrain to hide. When you attack you are immediately popped out of stealth and there are strict limitations to re entering stealth. There is no perma stealth nonsense like there is here and it isn’t god mode. Secondly, you cannot easily exit a fight via stealth. I really enjoy it.

You obviously didn’t play a nightblade with spammable stealth skills and stuns out of stealth that allow you to chain stun anyone to death without any possibility of a counter.

Suppressed messaging...

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I’ve been getting the “suppressed due to excessive messaging” for 30 minutes now, it started after I said “do u wanna build a snowman”
What’s up with this? I can’t type anything now.

Here’s how it works:

Once you trip the ‘suppressed message’ point, each additional message you attempt to send that gets suppressed doubles the duration of your suppression. I don’t know how long the base duration is, and this isn’t communicated at all in any way, which makes this whole system abominable.

Same lopsided matchup 3 weeks in a row...

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Nobody is trashing DB. We’re simply pointing out the fact that DB’s currently very high glicko2 rating is a result of SoR freefalling and not a good representation of server strength. It is a fact that if DB gets into T2, they will get absolutely facerolled by the other 2 servers there because you simply don’t have the coverage to compete at that level. That’s not an insult, that’s just how it is right now.

If DB moves into gold league for the seasons, nobody will have a good time. Silver will get violated by FA in all sorts of bad ways, and that will be fun for neither FA nor the rest of Silver. DB will get thrashed so hard by gold league it’ll make FA beating up silver league look like a friendly caress.

DB moving up is bad for everyone involved.

My body is ready

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My finger hurts just looking at that xD

My brain would hurt even less if Guild Wars 2 actually had a system set up to where you didn’t spend a third of your time opening “rewards”.

Countless

cough autoclicker cough

No love for Chaos?

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I noticed that hardly any of the popular Mesmer builds posted on these forums assign any trait points to Chaos. Why is that? Some of those traits look pretty nice to me. What am I missing?

…you must have missed every PU build ever.

Which date for assignment to springleagues?

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I’d love to know this too.

@OP: You can edit your post and choose the ‘Question and answer mode’ to allow you to choose the answer if and when it appears.

Grumpy's Phantasm Build

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I mean, this is pretty much just a standard flex phantasm build. 10/20/0/25/15 is the general form for a phantasm build that’s pretty decent in dungeons, open world, some wvw zerging, w/e you want, it’s decent at it. Nothing new or interesting though, to be blunt.

Mesmer all-around build (stats)

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Ok, so given that you want optimal play, it leaves you with only one choice: Zerker gear. Zerker gear is the only optimal choice for pve. This does leave you a bit limited in wvw though.

You’ll have a hard time in zergs when using zerker gear. There’s a lot of damage flying around, and it’s tough (although definitely possible) to stay alive in that environment. You’ll be pretty strong as a roamer with the right build and enough practice.

dealing with condis in wvwvw

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Generally if I need condition removal in shatter, I’ll take the mantra. It’s good to recharge when you’re on cooldown from mind wrack, and is high output and instant to use.

Same lopsided matchup 3 weeks in a row...

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Before we wanted even matches so ANet decided to match the servers strictly in triplets, and strangely enough this matchup is 7-9. Now that being said this is because SoR’s rating needs time to adjust, it will drop out of T3 next week or the week after. Now this is the part that creates controversy: should ANet do things like make a judgment call and put SoR in a T4 match this week in anticipation of them losing rating? Seems reasonable but I’m not certain.

A lot of people like that hater from Mag don’t like DB because it has SEA guilds. We also have only 2 EU guilds on weekends and 1 on weekdays. Don’t be kitten just because you don’t outcoverage us in all time zones.

We don’t want DB in T2 for reasons that have nothing to do with your SEA coverage. We all know that DB is nowhere near capable of competing in T2. They’ll be absolutely destroyed. Likewise, if FA gets shoved down to silver for the league because of DB consuming score from SOR, every silver league server is going to wish DB was back, because FA will absolutely dominate, and it won’t be fun for anyone involved.

Functionality of Illusion of Life

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Using the warrior downed skill is the worst argument you could have made. The Warrior utility res is an AOE ressurection but other benefits as well, such as aoe buffs

Except it’s not a utility. It’s an elite, with an extremely long cooldown.

Help with Support Build

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You may be interested in my glamour support build concept, found here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/Guide-Supporting-Glamour-WvW-Build

Functionality of Illusion of Life

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I consider it a better version of the warrior’s downed skill Vengeance. Here’s why:

1.) Affects multiple allies
2.) 100% chance to remove the buff (and therefore fully revive the player) without needing to trait for it
3.) Returns allies to the downed state rather than kill them if they are unable to kill something themselves

Admittedly, it’s been a long, long time since I’ve used the skill (over a year!) so I might be wrong about that last point.

Yeah, that’s accurate. It’s also got a nice long 900 base range, traitable to 1200, and you can trait it for 20% cooldowns too.

PH getting fixed ... but still unreachable?

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I feel like 0/20/0/30/20 and just go all in on glamors.

For what exactly?