Guild Wars 2

I am not a complete noob in GW2. From 2 years ago I even have lev 80 war&mesmer and I am enjoying both now for few weeks after my comeback to GW2.
But I have problem with necro. As I am slowly closing to 80 I started to look around what kind of equip I should get him… and that is where I got stucked. It seems to me that current “meta” (which I hate anyway) berserker is complete bull-excrement for necro. On the other side rabid (which seems best to me) means I will get severally crippled in any group activity thanx to the condition stacking ceiling.
I have checked some power builds – but all seems to me to be severally lacking compared to other classes – necro weapon & trait selection seems to be specialized in conditions. And I am really not willing to use power build “because all cool kids use it” and also I do not like dagger primary weapon (staff + scepter/x is sooo much better IMHO).

Am I missing something or if I will build necro the “way it’s meant to be played” I will severally cripple it for any group activity /really (not)funny in MMORPG/? And if so – is this really intended by AN?

Beldin.5498:

Weapons have maybe 0.5% increase in stats and a full set of armor has 1%.

http://dulfy.net/2013/12/12/gw2-ascended-armor-stats/

5% to all according to dulfy

TY.
I am quite aware difference exotic – ascended is 5% only.
It is more about feeling- to have the best

As for now I tend to go for zerker heavy for following reasons:
- it is meta for both war and guard in pretty much every game mode
- on contrary cloth classes – while in PvE zerker is mandatory – can use conditions builds to high extent. So for both mesmer and necro zerker armor may not be BIS.
- will be able to craft it 11 days earlier
- due the high defense nature of heavy armor +5% is much more beneficial then on light in absolute numbers
- ascended heavy looks quite good in opposite to light which looks like …… (personal opinion)
- I am enjoying war more then mesmer in high aggro/higg mob concentration zones (Silverwastes)
- seems to me war can do more dps with lower effort while being less squishy

Thanx
I should wrote I have already crafted GS which I use both on war and mesmer
As for now I have ascended – 23 cloths 15 ingots etc
So in 2 days I can craft heavy or medium or in 11 days light.
It does not metter which one price wise for now – but it has to be last armor set I will craft for a loooong time

Problem really is I enjoy both war & mesmer… but also necro and guard… have not played thief that much yet… probably do not want to create new toon because these are all 2 years old – ie even if low levels they have all traits ; )

I struggle with decision what ascended armor to craft.
Returned to GW2 after 2 years month+ ago and spent lot of time farming soin few days I will be able to craft whatever full ascended set I want.
Problem is I am not able to decide which one…
As for now I have 2× lev 80 – war and mesmer. But also have (various levels) necro thief and guard.
I would like to get armor set which is bis for PvE&WvW for as many classes as possible because I will have no willpower to farm another anytime soon.

What would be your suggestions?
TY

Thank you
You are right – mesmer would need 2 sets to have optimal possibilities so war it is!

I have 2 lev 80 toons. Asura mesmer and Charr warrior.
I do enjoy playing both of them, but each of them in different (although in some parts similar) way.

War GS melee machine… secondary rifle/bow depends on situation. Love aesthetics – T3 cultural helm makes me drool
Mesmer ranged GS killer (see similarity? ) with secondary sword/x. Hate to melee as Mesmer – too squishy. Love asura GS&dodge animations.

I enjoy boyh WvW and PvE aspects of game. Also will want to start doing dungeon runs at some point. For now Silverwastes are my favorite place….

So – I am slowly calculating Laurels, Damascus, bricks etc and in week or two I will be able to craft full set of ascended armor for one of my toons…. but which one? I am quite sure I will not be willing to go through THE farm another time – difference is not that huge.

And that is my question – which of my toons should I pimp-up?

ty

I would like to see some official word about this too – is this intended or not?

I really like (in preview window) look of Light Firewalker set on my asura.
Not willing to pay 800 gems though … yet

I would like to see GS as weapon completely changing Necro set:
- each hit with GS consumes lifeforce
- each hit with GS heals necromancer
- add additional text for traits concerning Death Shroud with GS bonuses (lower the lifeforce consumption, increase healing, add LF regen while GS equipped etc etc)

Overall theme would be tanky melee….

Well who says I cannot dream?

I am looking to what sigils I should put into my fresh Zojja’s claymore
I am looking for some universal solution, because I am dead broke now but I am mostly enjoying WvW and daily fractals.
I kinda like Force/Fire/Air – but I am really not sure which if these are really best for GS?

ty

TY guys

I did some research, and because I have 2 lev 80 chars (from 2 years ago when I have played for while after GW2 started) I have concentrated on these 2 – war and mesmer.

As for the most obvious option – ranger – I do not like this class for some reason (probably dumb AI pet).
Guard was eliminated because of what RoseofGilead wrote – do not take scepter as real ranged weapon.

So after trying both war and mesmer it showed up I am enjoying mesmer playstyle a LOT more then war… two main negatives being lack of self speed buff (Rune of Centaur + Mantra Heal and/or Sigil of Speed seems to be solving this) and relative low durability of mesmer (which I hope will be able to live with).

Really like GS+Sw/torch power shatter build
Hope I will not regret this choice – as for discussion here on forums it seems mesmer is middle of the field class for now – which is fine with me, no pain of being UP and no fear of nerf hammer

I am looking for allrounder type character:

- will solo open world
- enjoy frequent WvW mainly with zerg (EoM) and sometimes solo or 2-3man roaming team (EB).
- run through daily fractals
- occasionally go through dungeons

What I would like to have:
- at least one good ranged weapon
- love GS skins – would really like to have it as primary weapon
- some level of resilience – do not like to be completely squishy (which is probably not possible with “zerker meta”?)
- self movement speed buff

ty

…. and now do not know if I should use it.

So I dropped Angchu armor chest (Cavalier) and can choose any ascended armor piece.
Question is should I use it for my Mesmer?
have returned to GW2 after almost 2 years – played at start, got War and Mes to 80, equipped them with exotics and left. Now I am back for 2 weeks, tested most of the classes and enjoy Mesmer by far the most – love need to use positioning for shatter, love laser GS… So it is quite sure I will not play other class “soon”. Also it will take me looong time to get ascended equip.

So should I use Angchu chest to get toughness up? Or is it completely bad choice for Mesmer? Or should I save it for some potential more tanky char I may play?

Thanx

http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Mesmer_-_S/S_/F_/P

- swap Deceptive Evasion with Critical Infusion – this way core skill will be available for 1 point and skill which is improving it considerably for 4 points – this makes more sense IMHO

- change animation of mesmer dodging from jump & summon clone into teleport – ie. mesmer is replaced with clone while he is teleported to the doge endpoint so it is actually usable as deception against players

oxtred.7658:

Well, it can work in open world pve, but yep, you won’t do big damage, you won’t have aoes for tagging, you won’t have permanent swiftness.. It comes down to a matter of personal preference. Some people I know really love their mesmer and even with these obvious disadvantages they enjoy playing it more than say, a thief or an ele. If you like cc, eles have good area controls+ everything the mesmer lacks in open world pve ( swiftness/movement skills, damage, offensive support and self buffing, cleaving/aoes).

I have returned to GW after almost 2 years less then a week ago, but my 80 mesmer have to disagree with most of the stuff you wrote:

- I had the same problem with lack of speed buffs for mesmer, because I like openPvP most – but friendly people here on the forum showed me the way: perma swiftness is quite easy to obtain for Mesmer – Centaur runes + Mirror is 13sec uptime swiftness with 15sec recast… if you have few points in Chaos you can easily get 15 sec uptime. Add IV from Inspiration and every 15 sec you have heal+15sec swiftness+2 sec reflect +2conditions self removal…

- with GS 3 you have nice aoe for tagging, Staff 1 with extra bounce trait can tag also nicely

- I am quite happy with dps – using mainly GS with mostly Berserker exotic equip – nothing to brag about – but works quite nicely – and works from range, while you have utilities to stay at range

…. tbh every time I tried another class I have returned to Mesmer:
- War 80 – too straightforward “jump them and bash them” to my taste
- Necro 40somethin – hate Staff skills (only really ranged weapon), hate Death Shroud mechanic
- Guard 35+ probably only other class I somehow liked, but do not want to level now new char and enjoying Mesmer too much… also it has no ranged weapon (scepter is really bad IMHO) and I prefer to have good ranged weapon
- Thief, Engineer tried, deleted… one of them acts as mule
- never tried Ranger nor Ele ….

PS: caster with GS!!!!

Thank you all guys – Runes of Centaur are amazing – combined with Mirror for heal I have nearly 100% swiftness uptime by myself
Also I have spent most of karma I had from 2 years ago and got full set of Berzerker Temple armor + GS for Badges of Honor
Have to say this works quite good.
Started to play with builds and now trying something like this http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fhAQJARWlsnpRtdqxMNcrRSqxYybS5UPRyBCokf0NA-T1QLAAv6PgOAb/BA-w

Hi, I have played GW2 when it started for some time and fiend convinced me to try to come back now. From the last time I do have lev 80 War and Mesmer.
During the last days I have tried both of my lev80 toons and also Necro and Guard. Result is quite easy for me – same as 2 years ago Mesmer gameplay is for me hundred times better fun then any other class. So decision is quite easy – will continue with my Mesmer
Now for the questions:

1) Which equip prefix is best/most universal for Mesmer? I am probably going to play with GS/Staff – as I like these most and now running 44006 builld. As for now I have full set of lev 80 exotic Rampager’s equip (which according to few googled results is not optimal).

2) I have found out I kinda enjoy farming in WvW, but have nasty issues with Mesmer’s run speed (or lack of to be specific). What do you do to do not lag behind the zerg? Only real speed buff I am aware off is from Temporal Curtain but I do not like to loose Staff and also uptime is not great….

3) How is Mesmer doing on OP’s scale? (Not really that important – I like HOW it plays and will play it anyway – but would like to know if people will kick me from group “because your class is bad”).

4) When leveling alts I have noticed Skill point rewards for levels – this was IMHO not present 2 years ago – and because I had some SP on both my lev 80 chars I do not know if this change was compensated for lev 80 chars or not? (ie. does “new” lev 80 have advantage of 70 or so SP?)

TY

Probably because it is soooo easy and cheap to level jewelery 1-375 these last 25 levels are as small compensation. Leveling any other craft which needs Fine crafting materials is several times more expensive then jewelery anyway…

Khalous.7430:

Any good recommendations for a sword skin? I dislike the crafted exotic look, and accidentally sold my centaur’s sword. Hopefully the nude bot farmer will leave the event location so it can progress to the vendor. Until then, I am looking for something good.

I like “Glyphic Edge” type of sword skin. It also costs just few coppers for low level model

Yojack.7082:

I can say that it does not show up in the character screen and i don’t see the increase from 5% sigil on my warhorn…..but based on the fact that every time I swing its a crit….i think its working

Well – my base crit with sword is 54% and because fury uptime is really high it is 74% most of the time (which shows on char screen)…. tbh I am not able to recognize difference between 74% and 84% crit chance while playing without parser…
Anyway – bugged this ingame so hopefully it will get fixed.

Arms VIII trait – Blademaster should give 10% crit chance with sword equipped – does nothing for me

Nice build.
Have you expirienced bug in Blademaster trait? (Arms VIII) it does nothing for me – no incerase in crit chance when equiping sword with this trait