Guild Wars 2

Make the aura around the player model & blade for Twilight match Sunrise.. One can dream.

14/14/14/14/14 balanced build best build

Advent.6193:

So Elite Focus doesn’t extend the duration of at least one Guardian Elite Skill? Unless that Trait got changed, it darned well does. /shrug

It still affects all 3.

Interrupting only takes the initiative cost of the skill, no 5sec cooldown.

Pyroatheist.9031:

Ansau.7326:

The problem with TW being a Glamour skill is it’d be upgradeable too much.

Yeah, upgradeable far too much.

It’s not like other classes have an elite on a 45 second base cooldown that can be traited to give 2 stacks of 20second might when used and traited to reduce the cooldown and traited to last longer and traited to lifesteal when activated and traited to be aoe shared to allies.

Yeah, time warp being a glamour would definitely make it op.

Edit: Or how about an elite on a 60 second cooldown that can be traited to increase damage and traited to give you extra toughness and traited to have a lower cooldown and traited to have more health and traited to cause a death nova when it dies and traited to strip boons on attacks and traited to drain health to you and traited to draw conditions from you.

Yeah.

All of this. Infact, looking at Elite skills shows that every class but Mesmer is able to trait to affect at least one of their elites. Fun times.

Most inappropriate stomp ever.

30/30/0/0/10 with 3-4 mantras iirc.

Most pvp builds usually use one to supplement the playstyle, such as distraction for interrupt builds and cleanse for shatter. Otherwise, the only other meta* build that uses multiple is for pve dps.

Jambas.6204:

Mesmer mobility is not on level with Nike Warrior, FGS eles,etc… but in your case you have 0 chasing ability.(No swiftness,Focus,Greatsword,Travel Runes,etc.. )

You invested all in a build to stay and fight.
When fighting this should give you an edge over builds that are more flexible,(Builds that are good at fighting but also good at disengaging ), but other builds edge is that they have a better chance of not to die or reset the fight.

You wouldn’t outrun most classes even if you were spec’d for running. Best chance mesmer has is invis for jukes and hope to god you aren’t poisoned for 30 seconds so you can break combat and waypoint. Same goes for catching people.

Just did some quick tests with iDuelist, seemed like it would spawn randomly around my position at the end of the channel with a direct LoS on the target. If I was standing on a location that did not have a path to walk to the target, it would spawn right on my position.

Also: if the channel ended in the air, the phantasm ends up flying.

This thread. Oh my god this thread.
+1000008566754

Kaschuba.3915:

Skill 3 should simply be a regular target skill not ground-targeted

Pls no. Mesmers are already useless fighting stealth.

calavel.6249:

Really depends on the target. Unless I throw everything I can at + condi duration, any cripple you toss at a warrior slides right off because warriors looove dogged march+ 40% less condi duration food + melandru runes = never worry about cripple again.

Then use it for dealing ranged damage. A chasing build doesn’t chase well when it’s only got 130 range.

calavel.6249:

But yeah, the GS has potential. I just think too many skills are defensive in nature and it is completely useless for dealing damage up close.

Idk what you’re talking about greatsword being defensive and useless in melee. The only skill affected by range is the auto attack. Mirror Blade is BETTER in melee because it’ll bounce 2 more times, dealing unblockable damage and give you 6 might. Mind Stab is a targeted damage+boon strip. iZerker will more reliably hit a target if they’re staying in melee and iWave is a melee range knockback. Where’s the defense? It’s a kittening awesome weapon.

Current maps, but walls/doors don’t exist. Suddenly defending your objectives becomes way more important and now small groups are a lot more viable!

Focus is a waste imo, you’re not gonna catch kitten without a greatsword. iZerker cripple is invaluable for slowing down an runner. With focus gone, can you move those 10 points from Insp to Chaos and reduce manip cd.

If you want perma-swiftness, switch to Centaur runes (+power, yay glass) and use an infinite tonic like the new quaggan tonics which can be used underwater. If you want to make the crit. damage back, just switch the soldier’s ring for a cavalier or zerk/valk stats one.

+1000. Necros think they have it bad with bugs, pfft! While we’re at it can we also demand for iWave to be fixed? I hate not being able to interrupt people because they’re standing 2cm above/below me. T_T

Turn animations up to medium and it gets a nice shine.

fedecane.6259:

Is it worth noting that if you’re blinded and you try casting a phantasm skill not only you fail the cast but you’re still blinded after that!
Tell me that it’s still perfectly ok now please. every skill that was supposed to hit your target, if you’re blinded will remove blind from you. These skills I’m talking about just don’t!

Nope. When you miss the summon it removes the blind.

Thieves, besides being virtually 100-0 by a phantasm-spec mesmer, only really have Black Powder as a ranged blind. It costs 6 initiative, so it’s hardly ‘spammable’. It just sounds like the people complaining need to get better.

Tip: Bind stow weapon to something easily accessible if you need to cancel your phantasm because of blind or learn how to clear it before you faceroll your other skills.

Nope. Phantasm builds are already ridiculously powerful, I’d rather not have one of the more skillful counterplays removed.

DREDGE!

It’s like everyone forgot what “temporary” meant all of a sudden. These forums will complain about everything farout.

Carighan.6758:

But why is it more pricey? Aren’t they equivalent materials?

Damask is used across all 3 armor crafts, which raises demand (thus price), whereas Elonian Leather and Deldrimor Steel are primarily for Leatherworking and Armorsmithing respectively (less demand = less price). This along with the fact that Tailoring requires the most damask of any other profession makes it the most expensive armor craft.

This was the greatest thing ever.

Zietlogik.6208:

this encourages players to simply group up into blobs since they have quick and easy access to wherever they need to go without consequence.

Lost me here. Having access to a waypoint hardly encourages blobbing. It’s the other silly mechanics like the AoE cap and ridiculous amount of HP walls/gates have that cause people to stick together. Don’t get me wrong, I completely agree that being able to harass a structure with little downtime is detrimental to the flow of a battle, but then again so is sneezing on a gate to contest a waypoint.

Gotta get hype for long term bro.

Ozoug.4158:

I said less WPs encourages small scale fights. Is that wrong? What point are you trying to make other than trying to strawman me?

I just fail to understand the logic behind “WPs = zergs”. You die, you run back. It’s the same for people running in groups of 5 as it for people running in groups of 30+.

TexZero.7910:

The second issue with EoTM is that it is an attempt not to further the world but to push players who otherwise would not touch a mode into doing so. You cannot please everyone and to that end you really shouldn’t force or coerce people into an experience that they have no desire to play. Some people do not like PvP/WvW and while these modes respectively are fun and need attention living story is not the proper tool to address it. Do it with Feature Patches.

Disagree with this point. You’re only forced to be in EoTM for 2 minutes while you run to the middle to get a golem part and waypoint back. That’s it. There wasn’t anything tied to killing other players or sieging an objective to fulfil a requirement of the meta achievement.

And yes, while I agree this release was lacking in actual content for players who rarely WvW, there was still a significant amount of character development and important plot points being revealed/recapped through the dialogue and instances.

I guess if that isn’t enough though, you could always say this was a desperately needed WvW release and there will be more free fortnightly PvE content…

Ozoug.4158:

I really REALLY hope they don’t add WPs. There needs to be more consequences to dieing. With WPs you can make it back to a fight before it’s even over lol. Furthermore having to run back encourages small scale action.

WPs = Zergs

I didn’t realise small scale action meant you’re exempt from having to running back..

KeeZee.7312:

Yesterday BG was going on about them being the under dogs again……….

A little piece of advice…..stop stacking more guilds every time you all lose one fight.

BGs been the only full server for a while now. Not sure how you think guilds are transferring.

FateOmega.9601:

But drilling LA wouldn’t make sense. The hole will just get flooded with water.

http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/energy/offshore-drilling3.htm

Rank 1-5: Kill Yaks for 2? minutes.
Rank 5-30: Zerg daily for 10 minutes, acquire +1 rank, WvW dailies & +0.5 rank from laurels.

10 minutes a day while you farm the rest of your junk for your legendary. It’s not hard.

Overgrowth server is stacked!

For just 500 gems you can have Scarlet text you when your queue pops.

Skyhammer tho……

Just buy whatever you want. Glory isn’t going for at least another 2-3 months. Who knows if it’ll even be removed in the next feature patch.

Dire P/D thieves and Terrormancers. 2skilld4me

Severe lack of power Necro in “S Tier” makes me think some people haven’t played tpvp since release.

Burning should tick for 4k base and increase all durations so that it never expires. And also when I target someone they should be burned.

Nope. Torment is meant to be weaker than bleed if the target isn’t moving (lol good thing this game isn’t action combat) and 5 stacks every 12 seconds with a block is op.

I deleted my post; Redball’s is much better.

RIP matchup threads. You had the spirit of a young, playful dachshund pup.

p/d dire thief

Missed you Osi. <3

I mean, I guess the whole not having weapon skill cooldowns doesn’t count as a unique class mechanic. ._.

Atherakhia.4086:

Several classes don’t have their own form of stability while several others only have it in their elite or on a long cooldown.

…

This is a group game, another class can provide it.

/thread

Make a boon that prevents you from being stunned. It’s just so simple!

ITT: bad players. Diamond Skin rocks and I don’t even play ele.

We didn’t even give Guru a chance!

Wtf how did a discussion about “thief cant’t catch warrior” turn into a huge circlejerk about every other aspect of warrior?