PU is your best bet. You could try shatter condi but personally I find it weaker than PU.
Everyone wants to be the little school girl.
The only world boss that had any semblance of difficulty (before the Teq remake and wurm release) was the Fire Elemental at launch.
Everything else was always a Press 1 to win. Nothing changed.
It would turn balancing into a nightmare. More than it is right now. Also this interferes with the idea that everyone within a class is more or less equal in what they can do.
Won’t happen.
Can’t we just have fun with a video game and not worry about cultural diversity or social equality or whatnot?
Really now.
If I want real swords I will go to a museum. I love how absurdly huge Sunrise is, even on my Asura. And I love how big some of them are and how wildly impossible they seem.
I must agree with Pyro here, the Everything-and-your-Cat mesmer build is too broken.
You have EVERYTHING™.
Well they blatantly lied to us about fixing it. Let’s face it, it won’t happen. They don’t care about mesmers anymore.
Best way to get precursor? Pray.
3 Characters, 1 lvl 80, 2 mules, 1 with 100% and only because the legendary forced me to. It was the last thing I needed too.
The issue is not if it’s a server merger or not. Completely irrelevant.
It just doesn’t work as it should. It splits up the big communities that are keeping the game alive. It hinders group play.
Megaserver is a fantastic idea but steps need to be put in place to ensure the communities that are big enough to make a difference are given the power to actually make that difference.
Thee best solution I can think of is giving guilds the option to create their own instance of a zone. Complete with name/password, just like custom arenas.
That way, the big communities can play with whoever they want to play and not be hindered by low levels capping maps and making bosses impossible due to low numbers/weird scaling.
Have a free bump. Nobody listens/cares but might as well.
Am I the only one that feels like this is just a containment thread to keep the forums clean of all the complaints?
They don’t respond, they don’t care. I doubt they even read these threads.
Most likely the problems are here to stay and the usual answer applies, as always, “Deal with it!”.
Class change tokens. Un-soul(account)binders.
Won’t happen in Carebear Wars. Not that is should happen either, though I could see some nice possibilities with the personal story and choosing your own path.
Staff is very fun to use but use it enough and you start to notice how GS simply is better. Not to say staff doesn’t have uses though. But they mostly end when the SPvP match ends.
They haven’t said absolutely anything about it all this time.
From that I gather that even if they were to add guild halls, it won’t be this year.
No real use talking/crying over it.
Get magic find. Gold income from mobs is terrible and karma is worthless.
At least with magic find you get a few more chances at RNG.
Uhh can’t you just use that guild thingy that allows you to start it whenever you want?
Read the thread. Your question has been answered multiple times.
That system was put in place to solve this problem, of guilds and groups that can’t play at certain hours.
I’m sorry but you are not willing to adapt to the new times nor are you willing to put in the extra effort of 1 hour of running missions each week. You want everything handed to you on a silver platter.
Have each member pitch in 50s. Say half of all your community actually donates that, you have more than enough to pay for a crapton of influence for 2 guilds.
Uhh can’t you just use that guild thingy that allows you to start it whenever you want?
Maybe just introduce Legendary Armor sets unique to each profession. Same stats as ascended, costs a hell lot more and has unique particles and maybe changes some class specific animations.
Go to WvW. Trait a bit of confusion, 20 Dom should do it. Zerg, zerg, zerg, spam null field/feedback and watch the XP roll in.
Simple as that.
I just quit dredge in any situation. I don’t care what happens, I am not wasting my time and sanity on that superb example of bad design.
I can confirm it was not fixed. I just quit a fractal run that I opened and got hate messages back.
It would be a straight out buff, I doubt it will happen. Even though the uses would be quite limited.
Maybe add it to a mantra, Blocks Signet passive and active abilities for X seconds.
New writers. Good villains. Meaningful rewards, or at least SOMETHING. Better world bosses, not the LOL GET 150 ZERKS AND U CAN DO IT TOO!!!XDXD
No more kittened mechanics like the condition reflect on the knights. No more emphasis on pure dps for all LS encounters.
And for the love of all that is holy, no more achievements that need me to rely on 100 other people to do something.
I doubt maimed will have enough impact for people to actually care about it.
One stack/clone with 4 second duration is laughable dmg. Seems much more suited to a Master level trait, if even that. Confusion on shatter is a minor trait and probably does more than this torment. And the PvE uses are questionable at best.
I hope I’m wrong on this one though. Condi shatter is an interesting prospect.
The only problem I see is if 6 mesmers drop a curtain your whole zerg gets 60s+ of swiftness! Actually that might not be to bad since then we’ll no longer will be just the Veil bots. Veil and Curtain bots!
And if 4 guardians drop a symbol before moving out, the whole zerg has 1+ minutes of swiftness.
I fail to see the problem.
I’d pay money to sit at a table for a few hours with the people that thought up the mesmer and to hear their initial vision for it.
Because I feel like what we got now is so far detached from that initial vision, that they just have no idea what to do with us.
So no, I don’t think the mesmer is as it should be. But I’ve learned to deal with the fact that a full remake will never happen.
I actually got a (worthless) Chest of Healer’s Ascended Gloves after the patch.
But yeah, my blood starts boiling the moment I see an uninfused ring from a >30 run. And the general rewards are just garbage.
Working as intended. Now ask me if it’s a kittened design decision and double standards with regards to the guardian’s symbol.
Went to WvW for 10 minutes, tagged a random guy and Dawn dropped.
Rng gonna rng.
I can’t understand why some people, and some cultures in particular refuse to learn proper english and would rather play/read/watch everything in their native language than actually put in the effort to learn one of the most used languages in the world.
It truly baffles me.
I recommend Thief.
Turn 180, blink, pray.
I run a 20/25/10/0/15 clone death build with GS. Perplex runes, full rabid and sigil of earth.
Basically the amount of bleeds and conditions you put out with clone spam is great.
I used to love staff but, frankly, I find GS better overall for anything requiring more aggression. Staff is fine if you need defences but that’s about it. The extra burn doesn’t compensate the fact that you can still apply vuln randomly and the general slow nature of the staff.
All in all, I find GS to be more reliable at applying conditions than staff. Ironic, I know.
Probably server restrictions or something along those lines. Or dungeon restrictions.
Don’t expect major gameplay additions like new weapons and stuff like that.
I’m still very proud of my Sunrise. Worked my butt off for it for over a year, left me with 10g and it was totally worth it.
So wait, this is basically a “Look at me the great wallet warrior” thread? Am I missing something here?
They should allow picking new stats, even if the change is not that radical. It would be the fair thing to do, with no real impact to them or the economy.
I have the feeling that it’s only the christians and muslims that actually get mad.
If I were to name my character Buddha I doubt many would care.
It’s just a sensible topic and I have the feeling this thread won’t see the light of tomorrow.
At least when the clone death builds get killed, I can move 5 from Dueling and 10 from Chaos to get the new Illusions trait.
At least we got SOMETHING.
Meh. I expected something interesting. Torment on shatters sounds nice but I can’t really justify going full illusions on a cond dmg spec.
5% more dmg when you have no illusions up.
I run a standard 20/0/10/10/30 glamour build with a little clone death conditions here and there.
Get a GS, stand at max range, pop your feedbacks and null fields where they have the most effect. Spam clones like mad, they instantly die in a zerg and 5 people are guaranteed some conditions.
Get perplexity runes and you’re set.
Sure, it’s not a LOL10KBURST build but it does the job, provides some utility, some dmg and, most importantly, tags EVERYTHING. Really gets the loot bags flowing.
It would be cool but we all know ANet are anti-fun. Won’t happen.
It’s a pure PvP trait and, so far, Thieves still seem the better option regardless of situation.
So yeah, it’s a poor band aid to the larger problem that ANet refuses to address, the fact that they have no clue what to do with the mesmer class and they deviated so much from their original vision that it became unfixable.
Friendly play? That means buffing support roles. That’s what it has always meant.
I could see interrupt + chill builds being awesome. Imagine putting oponents’ skills on 20 sec cooldowns!
And then a thief just autoattacks you to death because all you can do is put some skills on cd every several seconds or so.