Guild Wars 2

As always, the mesmer in PvE is forgotten.

They are taking the whole pvp esports thing too far.

I’ve been playing a condition mesmer since launch.

Today I got full zerker. ANet convinced me that they want us ALL to play exclusively zerker.

Seras.5702:

Could we please at least get a red post saying IF anything is going to be done or if my farmed heirlooms are just wasted on a potentially fantastic item with horrible clipping/sizing/position issues?

I have a day and a half to make a decision on which potion to get and so far, neither of them look good on my asura main.

I’ve given up on hoping that one day, maybe someone from Anet will respond to real issues.

Topics like this or the Watchwork pick debacle go on forever without even one reply. Same goes for class bugs that have been going on for ages.

But have an off topic discussion? Suddenly they pop in and it’s END OF RINE DING DONG BANNU!

Oh and unless your Asura is bald, you’ll barely see the halo or horns. Sucks for us that have hair.

Kasmeer’s pimp staff.

Proposal Overview

Selectable number of fractals to run before getting the final boss fractal.

Goal of Proposal

Making rewards rise exponentially with the amount of time spent running fractals. Because, let’s face it, current rewards are a bad joke.

Proposal Functionality

You select the number of fractals you want to run. Let’s say 6. The system divides the number to the three tiers of fractals. You get 1 tier 1, 3 tier 2 and 2 tier 3. After which you get the boss fractal as always. Each fractal beyond the 3’rd increases rewards given at the end of the run. Increased ascended armor/weapon drop rate, increased tonic drop rate, more relics, more gold etc.

Difficulty should scale too on runs with more than 3 fractals. If you want to run 20 fractals to seriously increase those ascended chest chances, you should work for it.

Associated Risks

Might make 1 fractal runs easy to abuse though you could easily set the minimum number to 3.

Gear Score was a cancer in WoW. Guess what role AP’s fill.

I have 280 total fractals completed. Got a torch skin before Fractured and a trident skin and a weapon chest after Fractured.

The uninfused ring drop rate is stupid though. I get so many of the kitten things and they’re utterly useless.

The best way to make Ascended cooking is don’t. Simple as that. It would be beyond kittened.

What would we even craft? Wupwup’s Lunch? Grizzlemouth’s Soup? Yeah, stupid.

Flissy.4093:

Miguel V.5203:

Flissy.4093:

You can always buy the Desert Rose. It’s just a recolour….

I know but I REALLY want Fervid Censer !

Well sucks that you didn’t play then. It’s a giant middle finger to everybody who did and earned their skin if it was tradable.

I wouldn’t mind selling mine for a few hundred gold. I don’t use it anyway. Same goes for most back skins.

Eternity has its own trail. Really, you’ve never seen a guy with Sunrise leave behind black/blue trails?

People are not adverse to following orders. In fact, people love to follow orders.

The REAL problem, at least in the case of the Marionette event, is that the majority of characters are controlled by either kittened baboons or lobotomized chimps.

I stood there on the platform and I watched 2 people stand in the bomb and auto attack. They died instantly, I revived them and within 5 seconds they were down again.

It’s not a case of not wanting to, it’s a bad case of not being physically apt for activities that require a modicum of thinking.

Have it apply random boons to nearby allies each second and random conditions to nearby enemies each second. 5 second duration with 1 second pulses.

This would turn it into a very useful ability for both PvE, PvP and most certainly WvW.

Ah but who am I kidding, ANet hates fun.

1.Mesmer bugs bugs and more bugs
2.Ranger, make us want them around
3.Necro

You could always go full Condition Damage and disregard the meta. If that’s what you like playing.

Staff is decent in a 0/20/30/0/20 build. You won’t be dishing out mad dps but you’re usually useful in most situations, as long as you can actually play.

As for reflects, I find Feedback to be enough in most situations, rotated with a guardian’s wall.

This is why I buy my games from Amazon or other sources instead of Steam.

Valve is doing the same thing. And yes, it’s because they can. Do your part and don’t support such business practices.

They didn’t care a year ago and they sure as hell don’t care now. We’ve had these bugs for a long time. Not even a reply to the TC swiftness stacking, no fix to the blink into terrain issue.

I’ve stopped being mad a while ago. This is just how it’s going to be.

If they fix the exploits, I’ll simply rage quit on ALL dredge fractals, not just the ones when I’m too annoyed to do them.

I honestly can’t be bothered doing that horrible example of dungeon design. Not worth the trouble and time spent.

For simplicity? GS, spam.
For meta kitten, the above suggestions.

Keep in mind that most people don’t actually care what weapons you run with. I’ve been playing a condi mesmer forever and I haven’t had even one remark on that fact.

Use what you prefer, with the build that you like using. Unless you want to get bored pretty quickly.

Minos.5168:

I’m sure we’ll then get new Exotics, Ascendeds, and Legendaries. (What’d an expansion be without new gear to strive towards?)

Imagine if they made the current Legendaries not the best in slot anymore. They’d get crucified.

You’re the first, and most likely the last, to care about such things.

So can we expect a refund of the items that are now missing?

Or is the issue just lag and the TP recorded every transaction?

Just 30 gold myself trying to sell a recipe that vanished from the face of the earth.

Justice.3608:

Meh its the same as Ascended/Legendaries.

You will all learn to deal with it.

Dealing with it won’t fix the problem.

Stop blindly accepting everything you’re given and take a stand.

Anyone tried squeezing an answer from them on Twitter?

Name in use already.7294:

The amount of money to buy the pick is more than you will ever generate by using it. Thus making it “pay to lose” no?

And if it had, say, 10% chance to give you an ecto/strike? Would you hate it then?

It doesn’t matter WHAT it gives, all that matters is they’re opened the gates to introduce these kinds of things.

What about an armor set that gives 50% Magic Find while worn? How about a harvesting sickle that gives spore samples. See my point?

stale.9785:

Think of all the poor melee characters!

Oh man those poor hammer warriors or walking wave of wrath dispensers, I feel so bad for them.

Will PvP and PvE traits EVER be separated, so that whey they balance the PvP meta, they don’t utterly kill out PvE specs?

BrunoBRS.5178:

• Mesmer: correct me if i’m wrong, but doesn’t overwriting a clone count as it “dying” for clone death builds? that still doesn’t sound right. the nerf was a bit extreme, but ignoring the problem isn’t a solution.
  Suggestion: instead of outright killing the trait, an alternative that would be that clones overwritten by skills and traits don’t count as “dying”. they shatter, but don’t trigger the clone death traits. that way the trait’s defensive option is still there, and clone death builds have to play by, you know, actually making people kill their clones, instead of doing the job themselves.

The problem is, it would kill the build in PvE. And yes, there are some of us that use a clone death build in PvE, to great effect I might add.

The only solution is to split PvP and PvE traits. Not to balance the game based on what meta is dominant in PvP each month.

So sad to see people defending ANet when what they basically did was give the middle finger to early adopters and say “You paid for it. Here’s the same thing but better. You want it again? Sucks to be you for buying it early, fork over the sheckels again.”

If it wasn’t sprockets but something more valuable, the entire forum would be in uproar. Failing to realize that it doesn’t matter what it gives extra, it’s the fact that it’s flat out a better version of what we already bought, arguably at the same price.

Honestly, I’d rather have any other class on any other spec instead of ranger in ANY situation.

There are so many bad rangers that it gives you all a bad name. Sorry but it’s the truth. Just yell at ANet to give you the option to disable your pet. That should fix everything.

I don’t know why they just flat out refuse to address the issue. They’re hope it will die off in time, and the sad part is, it may very well do that.

We need to keep these threads bumped. Maybe it’ll actually trigger a response.

Conski Deshan.2057:

A good example of a cash shop Warframe

I don’t know what you’re smoking but I sure want some.

I somehow doubt we’ll even see a response on this.

Beldin.5498:

So .. if they sell you something like the following :

Yo pay 80 gold, and if you play at least 1000 hours for the next year then you
will get 81 gold, would you call that P2W ?

Because that is more or less what you have if you buy such a pick just for “winning”.

Or you can pay 10 bucks and buy 80 gold for the gems, or you can buy a pick, work 1000 hours with that pick just to have maybe made 81 gold after all that time.

And if the pick had, say, 20% chance to recover extra Orichalcum ore every time you mine any node, would you still retain your opinion on it?

The thing it, it doesn’t matter if it’s extra Sprockets/Ori/Precursors or whatever. They just gave the finger to everyone that bought the now inferior version and are basically saying “You want the better one? Fork over the sheckels again.”

They started the P2W trend with the ore pack for the personal instance, though most would disagree with me on that.

And yes, this is just blatant P2W and seriously unfair to those of us that bought the unlimited gathering tools before this was introduced.

Frankly I’m surprised we haven’t seen an infinite harvesting sickle that has a chance at gathering toxic spore samples.

Bumbler.7581:

Most groups who understand the mesmer will expect this to be traited and used when necessary.

And I expect a harem of 200 virgins to fall out of the sky and land on my staff every day. Doesn’t mean it’s gonna happen anytime soon.

It’s beyond unreasonable to expect someone to play their class the way you want them to.

Well, seeing as we have a million threads about this, I figured I’d make another one. Maybe, just maybe someone actually listens.

Ah but who am I kidding, fat chance of that happening.

I have been playing a condition mesmer since launch. It’s the only thing I like honestly.

And when I finally found myself a nice 20/25/10/0/15 build with GS/S+F, they’re going to kill it. Being able to override clones to proc DD is a staple of the build. It’s why I use the GS, since all clones spawn on the enemy, you get guaranteed conditions applied to them on every clone death.

What exactly will I have left? Going back to staff and doing kittenall dmg?

Speccing to phantasm because that’s the way I’m meant to play the game?

God kitten it I even wanted to get Sunrise because I’m having such a fun time with the build.

Please, just separate PvE and PvP traits. It shouldn’t be hard to do.

That is the simplest and best solution to your problems. If you want to neuter PvP builds, don’t do it at the expense of PvE builds.

If this goes through then I’ll most likely abandon the mesmer. No real reason to play it over a necro. Even as we stand, there’s little reason to bring a mesmer along that doesn’t have to do with portals.

And yes, I know it’s not set in stone, it may not happen. But from my experience, ANet tends to take the easy way out, which is to do the first thing they think of.

/rant over, yes it did deserve a separate thread

glenndevis.8327:

I haven’t read the whole topic so maybe someone asked this already but is this build good in zergs v zerg as well? I have most trouble being really useful in zergs dps wise and sometimes hard to get tags as well.

In WvW just switch to a 20/0/0/20/30 glamour build for maximum tagging potential.

Elite. Raises the max illusion count temporarily to 10 and randomly summons 10 clones spread out in the area. Press again to switch positions with a random clone.

Might have problems with Winds of Chaos but I’d just love to have something like this.

Oh and 25% MS signet.

Nuka Cola.8520:

Don’t bother with scepter suggestions, its been one year, dozens of people gave great suggestions and what did we get? yeaaaaaah, anet doesn’t give a crap.

This.

They just don’t care, and if they don’t care after 1 year, why should I?

Wait a minute, people don’t already expect to see nerfs in every patch? I go in with the assumption that we got nerfed into the ground, and every patch without nerfs is reason to celebrate.

The Focus is the best off hand weapon we have, hate it or love it, it’s either use it or your performance is sub par. I agree though, the switftness stacking is an issue that should be addressed.

At this rate, we’ll have our bugs fixed by the launch of Guild Wars 2.

Elite skill that temporarily increases the clone count to 8 and summons max clones. Activate the skill again to take the place of a random clone and cause a random condition at the departure and arrival point. Oh and the clones are summoned in the area, spread out.

Ultimate mindkitten.

Fenrir.5493:

This guy will not answer again, he made a polemic topic so the devs see it and nerf mesmers more, so YOU BETTER LET THIS TOPIC DIE.

I will not going to reply again, just saying stop replying to this already.

You really think ANet needs more incentive to nerf mesmers? They already hate us with a passion and more nerfs are inevitable anyway.

I play 20/20/0/0/30 with full rabid gear and undead runes. And I run sigil of earth on the GS. With 3 clones up the bleed stacking is pretty kitten good.

The build is not optimal but I use it because it doubles up as a semi confusion build at the switch of some traits and the cond dmg helps a lot. Mostly for WvW but surprisingly effective in dungeons too, though I’d switch to a staff there.

I use it for most things like farming and aoe tagging in WvW and for that purpose, it’s great. But staff is still closer to my heart and will be forever. I’m just sad ANet hates staff mesmers.

Deal
With
It

This is as constructive as I’m going to be on the subject.

I am now sure that ANet does not know what they want the Mesmer to be.

They had a vision in the beginning, tried to make it true to that vision, then started to change different things as response to different problems. Somewhere along the line, they lost track of what the Mesmer was supposed to be and now they just go with the flow, nerfing and buffing things according to the meta flow.

They also seem to have adopted a pet, in the form of the shatter spec. Every good thing that they did so far has revolved around a shatter spec.

This makes me quite sad. I love the class and it has so much potential, but for all the potential and possibilities, there’s an equal number of bugs and problems.

I won’t abandon the Mesmer, it’s basically the only class that doesn’t bore me to tears but the future is grim. Nothing good will come of it.