Guild Wars 2

I must admit I have decided not to main my Mesmer any more due to the fact their spec is getting shields.

Shields.
How lame is that?

I am playing my thief mostly right now I’d dump it too if they were to get something lame like a sceptre or focus.

Broken bullkitten and its annoying as hell to fight aka.
Not fun.

For me to sum it up.
You use blinding powder straight after being pushed out of refuge.

I’m sorry but even a newbie should know that puts revealed on you without looking.

I use d/d and SB and I like my SB.

It’s nothing compared to a rangers 10k +/- 10sec cd mega spam but it can be handy in certain situations.
It has a nice evade to kite people with and avoid damage, similar to S/Ds no3 skill except d/d doesn’t offer such a decent evade for me so if I want something similar I can use bow.

If you can land a cluster bomb on some one it hurts.
In wvw mine crits 4k-5k atm however as others said its painfully easy to avoid when you are shooting it to its max range.
Opening up with the SB might be silly unless its a ranged team fight however I think they are great for finishing off when staying in close quarters with your primary weapon might have been too dangerous.

For me they are much more than a simple way of spamming skill 5 to move around.

scarletrose.1790:

So there is no stealth “button”, just skills that allow you to go into stealth for a short period while you set up an attack? I always enjoyed being able to sneak around a room full of high level mobs and not be seen.

None.
I assume wow was one of the only mmo’s you really played??
Well first you must accept that gw2 is a different game the combat is quite different from wow.
The way gear and level works also. Gear differences at endgame are not so large.

Thief can stay in stealth permanently/almost depending on your skill choice and weapon set by chaining stealth skills and field combos.

Love my mesmer, she looks nice while keeping that aura of power about her.

Heh so let me ask you a question, what sort of badges were you farming again? Oh the PVP ones.
I see.
So right you want PVP badges without doing any pvp? Right?
Uh huh… I see…
Right… so you are a carebear who wants an easy legendary. Ok.. hmm well sorry buddy but the legendary is a status of dedication to all parts of the game. PVP is the largest part of it. Just because you are happy killing NPCs all day long does not entitle you to an easy high quality rare item.
In fact I love the idea that you need to do everything to get them.

As for whinging about the puzzle I started bringing carts there on day one.
Its quickly become a recurring theme thanks to people like me and I am very glad it has, you can get some of the best and most fun pvp in the game doing that thing.
It has a sense of risk not apparent else where as you DO have to start again if you and your team are wiped.

So why should we destroy one of the fine locations for pvp that many people enjoy just so you can get your easy legendary and never return there again?
Selfish? I can think of worse ways to describe you.

Incorrect- it has much less sense of community than any other mmo ive been on.
Hell even TERA which was a travesty of a game had a much better community feel than this, I can still remember some names of the people from my server there and I played for about 2 weeks.

I’d simply accept that the game is poorly designed for the things I have brought up.
However its due to the fact that they have such simple solutions that really bothers me.

PVP-lite?

I understand people saying casual from a PVE standpoint, as there is no HC pve content what so ever~
How ever from a PVP standpoint in both wvw and st/pvp you get the impression they want nothing short of hardcore while people wishing to opt in can do so freely.

Community restrictions will for sure drag this along on its backside when it could easily soar.

The game- Excellent, the PVP rewarding both types.
Lore/Style awesome.
Server vs Server idea- amazing.

How it all means nothing because most people are faceless zerg- An utter crime.

1. Server Forum.
Why the frak is there not one? Really? This shoots you in the foot more than anything else due to denying simple measures that strengthen community for the long term.
I hardly know anyone from my server or heck let me rephrase- I know nobody from my server that I did not take there my self with my own guild.
It is an utter crime to stop us communicating by not providing the tools to do so. You say use IG means? Sorry but IG most people by and large are too bothered with their own guild/group of friends to bother with the larger group of people in the general channels.

2. No avatars on forum.
How good are you with names? Can you remember that OP’s name from that forum post 2 days ago that you were part of discussion of? No. You can’t.
However, Avatars are personal its due to the way the Human brain works that it is easier to remember ’’’’’faces’’’’ than lettered name plates.

3. Wvw – Endless zerg of same colored same named nothings.
I find it highly highly amusing that I’ve had more ’’rivalry’’ off of the xxx number of Spvp matches going on than the week long at a time wvw.
Why is it there? to prevent metagaming? ha sorry your own stupid system of free transfers already fixed that by and large.
To prevent trolling after ganking? Really then what about Spvp?
This has a thousand down sides and hardly any ups.
I am from Ring of Fire and to me, I think over the course of the wvw I’ve bothered with Piken Square have been the ‘’evil enemy’’ this was fun for a while but now they are just another server name to me with lots of faceless enemys. Its exactly the same as going through a single player game, like say the new dishoured, its a fun game but every single thing in that game is a faceless copy. Wvw is exactly the same and thats rather pathetic for a so called ‘’Massively MULTIPLAYER online game’’

4: I’ve probably missed some stuff out but if any of the points everyone agrees with even if you have different experiences to me with this…..
That in every MMO you have spent any large amount of time on its the community that keeps you there the longest.. Not the game its self.
If the community of each server is not given more tools to knit together, get closer – with friends and with the enemy you are fighting. This game will be much smaller than it could have been.
Which would be sad as to me.. this is the best mmo that’s surfaced in a very VERY long time and lacking such simple things even the worst of the more recent mmos had, is the height of stupidity.

Thanks for reading if you bothered.

Most mesmers I see are runing some stupid utility build.
Ok sure if you like them utilities stick to them but do not complain when you hit like a wet cloth.

I run a power/crit build with mantras. For other classes this is considered glass cannon but due to the way mesmer traits work it can last alot longer than say a thief with a similar set up.
I often crit for 2.5k-3k with the GS auto attack, blurred frenzy goes for about 6-7k normaly. You combine this with shatter and Mantra of pain (both can be used while you use other ’’global’’ skills) and the burst damage is quite amazing to say the least.
I save one of my slots for utility, I lose 4% damage because of it but in pvp you need your blink/portal/feedback depending on the situation but I have not run across many situations where I need all 3.

When you combine this sort of damage with Time warp you can turret people down at 1200 range to 0 hp in a matter of secconds regardless of whether they are a tank spec or glass cannon.
Be aware however to survive as this sort of mesmer you do need to know what you are doing and be very quick with the reactions. Weapon swaping is a must to maintain your own survivability and cause the most damage possible to your targets.
At most so far- I am always learning.. I have killed people in 4v1. They were 80 but I had orbs on my side increasing all my stats even further.

Mesmer takes some thought to play compared to most other classes but when you manage to confuse people like that and destroy them while making them look like idiots who have played past level 2 its quite amusing.

Solution- Make servers country spacific to timezone.
After 1am each keep/Stonemist gets a 10x hp buff on gates and walls and is guarded by champions instead of veterans.

Night cappers can still get all the towers etc but won’t affect the outcome as much as it does now.

Why should they? if they have their own dream of how their product should be, why should a mob change it?
Money? give me a break. If they did break into the esport market money would come even more than now.
I love wvw more than spvp but be realistic.

Still broke, seriously they are breaking everything tonight.

Question, how much ping diference will and EU player get in USA?

I agree, there should be server forums and you should know who you are killing.
They should make each name the color that you are, blue/red/green. Easy enough to distinguish servers then.

What ever you may think the lack of rivalry will hurt gw2 alot. Some of the best pvp experiences I have had in the past were based on such things.

I get gold.
People are playing around with lots of these utility builds that do little or no dps.
They are also specced deep into toughness/vit.

Clue- High power, High crit and High crit damage = dps
So what if you get a shiny perk deep in the healing tree. That will only hinder dps.

The amount of rubbish you see on these forums is amazing sometimes.
Mantras are fine, go away.

Agree. Change them, Now.

Quaggans come for yooooOOooOOooooo

Then it would just work in borderlands which aint so good.
Something needs to be changed about them as atm they are too strong.

Agree, change them.

Yes. That’s why the Orbs should be changed.

They could also add on a multiplyier to the amount of points a team gets.
i.e 1.2x more points per orb etc.

Yes I agree, something should be changed.

After all altering such stats just unbalances the basic PVP.
Something to do with the defenses/offensive capability of capture points.
Or a very large increase in siege effectiveness.

Anything else that will in effect cover that ground and make them usefull.
Right now who ever owns more than one is going to dominate without much opposition. Those who manage to get 3 will be sitting camping mostly occupied maps for the entire week and I already see another complaint thread saying how boring that is.
It’s boring for the winners and the losers, if a side can take all three orbs and keep them in all likelyhood they were set to win anyway however the orbs atm destroy the fight all together.

If you are unlucky enough to be on a lower population server such as me then your server won’t be able to maintain those precious orbs for any amount of time compared to the other servers.

This was not an issue in previous 1 day matches as it would quickly reset and lo behold you get restarted game with new teams.

Now it is not the same. People are on low moral, they go into wvw against superior numbers and with superior stats, more hp and more damage.

This is a backwords way of getting people to bother going into the wvw.
This is obviously due to the late night zerg at the start of the match but now that server has managed to mostly keep all the orbs.
Meaning the rest of us can’t really do much about it due to the lack of people bothering.

If orbs managed to impact the wvw map in another way instead of directly changing a players stats and their ability to fight, things might be different.
Instead atm it looks like wvw is going to be mostly unplayable for me this week apart from attacking supply camps with my small guild.

If you spec into them- Hell yes.

Slightly organised or no, you are still just zerging with randoms against randoms.

This is what the commander book is for if you never realised that before buying it this is your own fault.
The information was there.
Enjoy your zerg.

It’s true.
Although I was kind of forced into this class by my friends (lest we all be playing warriors/theifs) it has grown on me. It has had its ups and downs since the begining but as I slowly reach level 80 (73 now) I am more and more coming into my own with it.

Due to this reason I can not believe the amount of complaints on this forum? Ha!
Without doubt this is one of the strongest classes currently in the game in the right hands.
Yes I am mainly talking PVP here but in PVE I have had little to no problems either.
It’s not an easy class, sure. I meet many a mesmer in PVP and they are well, pathetic most of the time. I do love meeting good ones however, the epic fights to be had then is amazing.
Most people at the moment don’t call out target, confusing them with clones practicaly means you can not lose 1v1 against them regardless of gear.

The portal is one of the most overpowered things in the game currently.
In wvw I can transport entire raids to safety or into flanking positions, I have saved my team-mates who get caught by the zerg by runing to them in invisibility and portaling them out of harms way. I can solo Zraiths Beacon then portal anyone from my server to the last part of it, saving them lots of time or brining them to the final fight.
No other class in the game can do this.

Yes I do enjoy playing support now and then and the Mesmer has great tools for the job.
Specificly I am a Mantra Warrior. I don’t see many around as most people here think Mantras suck.
I see most people using staffs and I laugh at them. I use sw/sw(or focus) and GS, It can switch from ranged kiting to melee burst with ease.
Berzerker is one of the most OP wvw Phantasams due to the fact you can use it through walls. It spawns directly on top of any player within 1200 range regardless of walls of obstacles.

Into the Void- the Focus’s pull is the best in the game, I have pulled 5 people down to their deaths many times.
Time Warp- Is the best Aoe group DPS buff.
Mass Invisibility- Is the best group stealth by having the largest range.
MoA is the best CC spell in the game.
Null Field- makes any group focusing on conditions, useless.
Feedback bubble is simply amazing.
I could go on but I will leave others to.

TLDR; Don’t let the negativity on this forum get you down, Mesmer is amazing.