If you think mesmer’s support buffs are OP go roll a hammer guardian and get back to me – they can easily maintain protection/retaliation/regen on the entire party.
Mesmer highly specced towards it could just about maintain all 3 played right, but mezzies innately have less armour and much MUCH less healing than a warrior or guardian so we’re not talking mesmer-tank here, a mezzie with all those buffs will still die way faster than say, a guardian, they’re just much more capable of weathering the hits that get through.
I’m not unhappy with our buffs to shatter builds lately, but it’d be nice if they stopped trying force us down the shatter path and let us branch into say, phanty or support builds too.
From my blog post:
“The Guild Wars 2 economy (and virtually every other economy in the same vein) is not designed to have any loop that involves creating value for no cost.”
Strictly speaking this crafting loop is not costless or material-less. It has input materials which are consumed and it’s price is ultimately dictated by the supply of those materials which in light of the recipe will rise to equilibrium quite quickly.
It’s not like the pepper popper exploit for example, where people were generating gold almost from thin air (by converting trivial amounts of karma into actual gold)
Say someone is offering to buy 20 ogre toenails at 99c each. Someone has 40 ogre toenails and clicks “sell to highest, sell maximum”.
The first 20 are sold at 99c to the highest bidder; but he’s still trying to sell 20 more; so the game automaticlly lists the remaining at 99c – the next highest buyer is typically only 1c below, so the next highest is 98c, leading to a situation where you have someone offering 98c and someone selling at 99c, your 1c spread
Unlike human ears, they’re fully mobile like cat or dog ears :p (One of their idle animations they sniff the air too between that and their big eyes lead to me to suspect their senses are wayyyy more acute than bookah’s)
I was kinda thinking that the Uncategorized Fractal is Rata Sum somewhere in the past where the Asura made a bad call while building said city. And… the Raving Asura is somehow related to Dessa. I’unno. :S
Dunno why you’d think it was in the past; the city fundamentally looks like it does today, except of course that the entire trade core and council section has been completely destroyed and dynamics has come adrift form the rest of the structure(The uncategorised fractal specifically takes place in the dynamics college and the decks immediately below it)
In his ramblings the survivor says something about a breach – lot of possible meanings though; structurally breached by an attack? An experiment gone awry? Containment failiure of the power systems?
In GW1 mesmer’s did most of their damage through tricking the player into maiming himself, the only difference was that they had complex hexes instead of a simplified condition.
Fundamentally nothing has changed there. Also confusion is absolutely rubbish in PvE, and in sPvp it has reduced effect so it’s only WvW where it’s a genuine threat to you (or perhaps a few rare PvE instances where mobs can cause decent confusion stacks like the reef drakes)
I’d question the statement about “mobility thief enjoys”. Our blink is one of the few that can’t cross gaps. Our leap is one of the few that can’t be used without a target. We’re one of the only classes with no utility swiftness, and for that matter we only have one swiftness spell (The other two forms being very low random chances on a signet passive and chaos storm respectively).
Mesmer is easily the slowest class in terms of getting from A to B.
It’s a bug that’s been around since at least BWE3.
It gets reported frequently, as does many asura visual bugs (Dwayna gauntlets stretch, T3 asura chest hides T3 shoulders etc), but they never get addressed or even commented on by the devs.
It occurs during periods of CPU intense work, generally if the sound is glitching out so will your neck
Are you really so short-sighted? By “helping” someone out right now telling them to invest in this item (by selling it for more later), you are necessarily screwing over someone else, i.e. the person who actually needs the item down the line.
So yeah, if you really want to be altruistic here, kindly stop trying to interfere in the market with your speculation. Thanks!
Someone should take a chill pill and go calm down in the non-trade forum. You’re going to see a lot of trading going on in this forum and it’s clear making money offends you…
I don’t think it was ever a thing; I called it at the time that even if an eggnog recipe were added there’s a huge chance nobody’d have reason to craft it; remember the halloween treats?
The cooldown is too kittening long in PvE; there’s nothing worse than botching some scene, like the laser defences in CoE and everyone has to wait over a minute for the cooldown – in PvE sitting about waiting for the mesmer is not good gameplay
But conversely in WvW and PvP having it too short is too powerful.
@Blundby, I think mesmers are so unused to get buffs they just cant handle it. Like ppl win the lottery and cry tears while they have hard handle the situation.
/Osicat
I concur – I was pondering about this earlier and realised it opens whole new playstyles. My Guardian doesn’t need to wear glass cannon gear because I get so many boons to help with damage.
Now mesmer have good access to boons, I can mix more condition damage into my shatter build since it gets buffed by might, that in turn led me to realise that if I went all-out boon duration buffs on my runes and took some ranks in chaos I can become a buff-bot for my team, and still do decent damage all round with shatters, staff and sword.
Such a small change opened up so many possibilities, there’s now multiple ways to spec shatter
They changed it because of sPvP where a mesmer could essentially cover 2 points since the entre portal was the same as the cooldown.
Then the correct answer is to remove sPvP.
It’s just causing issues with skill viability and class balance, should be separated into a standalone game.
Give me an actually fun ability to use! Oh no wait, can’t have that, sPvP! :S
This… some of the best MMO’s I’ve played forsook PvP entirely and isntead focused on making the PvE component as fun as possible; not nessecarily balanced, but fun… you know… that word, fun?
Guardian – none, but multiple reliable long duration hastes on common weapons.
Guardian also has a couple of shouts which grant swiftness, one of which provides a very long duration speed buff on a reasonable cooldown (20 sec uptime, 60 sec CD base. 30 sec uptime, 45 second CD traited), which also provides the buff to the entire party, and it also grants partywide aegis.
I guess it depends on what “damage now matches the tooltip” pans out to be in real numbers.
Funny that’s exactly what I thought.
Last time I bothered to look at the tooltips for skills like iDuellist they said silly things like 150 damage that is vastly less than their actual damage… hoping that’s a typo on their part and/or they stealth fixed the tooltips while I wasn’t looking.
While they may be clueless about balance I think we can safely say it takes a special grade of dunce to reduce all phantasm damage by a factor of 10
They are doing it with slave labor in some Pacific Rim country and people that spend this real money support and encourage this slavery.
Cute image, but incorrect.
Theres multiple ways botters use to level bots – thats why you frequently see very low level players in the ranger swarms or mole miners; they get xp’d up on the job that way, the swarms are clearly AI driven they all follow the same routine
I’ve seen two videos on youtube of a botter recording his antics. One was using a macro package and a teleport hack to teleport between nodes and automaticlly mine them. Another had a more sophisticated package that allowed more complex AI-like routines.
Neither had any human interaction beyond general oversight, a single person could probably manage a whole swarm of bots relatively easily that way, that’s probably how the gold farmers work, not a lone guy manually playing the game but someone in charge of a bot swarm – that’s what makes the bots all the more pernicious, just a single botter could potentially have dozens of bots set up at once
I honestly don’t see the “drop rate nerf”. What I see is a nerf to events that were dropping shedloads like plinx; plinx isn’t so frequent so he’s not so busy and that means less mobs, less mobs means less loot per run.
Thank you for taking that small part of what I said completely out of context.
Oh and btw, lol.
You’re basically accusing him of intellectual dishonesty by stating a case that makes out that traders are honest and the economic situation can be properly explained (Which is clearly a position you don’t agree with given your retort).
I don’t see what else that post contains I have “misunderstood”. I only called out the latter part because it is kind’ve disturbing seeing “othering” going on, the first part didn’t really need comment.
I think having the gem tab right there in the trading screen gives people the wrong impression.
In most CS heavy games like Allods online, when you want a cash shop item it’s a luxury; either you buy with money, or you save up, take that gold and find a player willing to part with their cash and trade them gold and they buy you the item you wanted, or in some games, a transferable cash shop currency like gems.
GW2 is essentially the same system, the difference is that rather than everyone selling gems individually, they all go into a central pool and the price is dictated from that, nobody can monopolise the market.
The problem is that this system is faceless. People don’t think of buying a bigger chest or a sweet outfit as buying from the cash shop, they think of it as an extension of normal gameplay, and when they can’t afford to buy something with gold it’s omgarenanetistryingtoscrewmeover – when you buy an item from the cash shop for gold; you are spending money someone else put into the system.
Also, if these botters are using teleport hacks, what makes you think they wont sell these hacks to players to use in WvWvW ?
People are already frequently caught teleporting in, even more frequently people arn’t caught due to misunderstandings of class mechanics
I’ve had a few people ask me to teleport into a place and set a portal for them and I’ve had to explain that yes, mesmer’s have teleport skills and portal but that’s not how these skills work; to which they respond “But some other mesmer did it the other day!”
Remember kids, if you see a mesmer teleport into your keep and open a portal; he’s hacking
ANet is in charge of the game surviving long term — if the game is “good” (with all the depth and detail that “good” infers), then the game will survive.
Yes, to an extent. But most game economies have a finite lifespan, either due to inflation or unused stockpiles of items and materials depressing the price irreversibly (without major intervention) rendering new players unable to get a useful amount of gold.
Bots flood the market with gold and/or supply, speeding up this process – and this is the death of the game I’m talking about.
Funny thing is lower prices also make the gold farmers less profitable because Players need less gold — it’s a self defeating endevor.
Not really… any (Non newbie) trader knows the more you milk a good source of cash the faster it dries up. By that logic no investment is a good one because by investing you hasten the loss of the source of income.
But if you never invest at all you make no profit. The botters might be self defeatting in the long run, but they are only here for short term gain; once their fount of cash dries up they’ll move onto the next thing
Let me get this straight. There are actually people who want to keep the bots in this game? Now, I’ve heard everything.
Even still, I’m going to continue reporting them every time I see them. I hope others will do the same.
And the problem is rising, I had a heated argument the other day about botting with my guild and quite a few were against reporting them. You know what they say, either you’re part of the solution or you’re a part of the problem…
Apathy isn’t an acceptable position on botting if people want the game to survive the long term.
Are you currently resident in your country of origin?
I have that problem a lot with US companies, ESPECIALLY NCSoft, who can’t seem to grasp that not everyone is born lives and dies in their country of birth.
They see a Spanish IP and a British citizen and BAM, fraud alert!
I’ll play mez even if they make it so you are only armed with a spork, can summon 1 illusion at a time, and they make all damage illusory (so it dissapears after 10 seconds)
My (fairly safe) predictions are:
- Bug fixes, especially to zerker
- Twice as many new bugs (Mesmer bug fixes are like whackamole)
- Nerf shatter, portal (Since thats what the PvP forums are whining about)
- Moar speed buffs (All the other classes are getting it)
They keep the price of T5 craft materials down. When T5 materials are released, they are a great source of income for farmers and casual players. When they are depressed by bots, they’re a great source of income for power traders (And obviously… botters), but worthless to Joe Average.
These bots are not helping you – sure, you can craft cheaper rares; but the price gap between exotic and rare widens making the climb all the harder for the average player.
Skimpier? – Some of the outfits already border on nudity. It looks silly in a warzone to see people dressed like this
I’m glad that asura and charr females wear their male counterparts clothing. Tends to come with better protection against stabbing, burning, corrosives, shooting explosions…
There seems to be a number of factors and different mobs have different aggro behaviours.
For example the champion abomination at the end of the plinx run appears to lock onto the target that does the most damage and then sticks with them unless someone else grossly exceeds that. While the champion abomination in CoE p2 appears to randomly switch targets every so often.
In most encounters you can usually grab a mobs attention by being the first to strike them and staying near to them. Range seems to be a big factor it’s very rare you see mobs peel off and chase ranged attackers if they already engaged in melee for example.
Then you have invisibility which is an instant aggro drop… and these are just what I’ve observed there’s got to be more going on too. I like that we don’t know all the details; games with precise aggro mechanics are too predictable, it turns into a game of “don’t exceed the aggro meter”
Update includes fixes.
I can’t wait to see the much needed Pistol Thief buffs.
Need a non-trenchcoat armor buff too though.
Thieves and mesmers suffer the same problem as rogues in WoW; they are already so deadly in PvP with a couple of specific builds, arenanet doesn’t dare cut them a break and buff any of their other skills.
Alas, for us the only changes we’ll be seeing is nerfs or fixes
i don’t like bots but i don’t like a bad economy even more. now if Anet could keep the ban wave and somehow manage to keep the economy stable then id be all for it… but atm RnG is Rng, you are removing a supply without fixing demand.
The only item to which this applies is T6 materials
Lodestones (and precursors) are the two most kittened about things, and neither are bot farmable; these drop in instances and special chests (Well that and the mystic forge), the removing the bots won’t do squat to alleviate the lack of supply to most the supply bottlenecked items.
T5 materials are returning to saturation point again; like they were before an saturated T5 markets hurt everyone (well, everyone accept power traders)
I find a general problem with the way damage is calculated as well. Due to the way toughness, defense, and damage are calculated… The discrepency between damage to a warrior and a mesmer of similar stat combinations is hardly any different; yet the mesmer has a lot more ways to evade attacks than a warrior.
You sure about that? – Warriors have more armour, more passive damage reduction traits and more hitpoints than a mesmer, warriors also have far more ways to heal damage – mesmer’s schtick is having tricks to evade attacks up the wazoo. Warriors also hit much harder.
That’s not to say this represents fair counterplay – mesmer’s sheer arsenal of ways to totally negate incoming damage might well exceed the warriors ability to survive, but let’s be clear that a mesmer and a warrior are not remotely similar at the level of basic tankability – a single good killshot or well timed hundred blades will kill a mesmer in a single hit. Mesmers have no single attack that’ll come close to killing a warrior
It’s happened a few times to me on EU servers too, usually it’s because one of their guildies came on and wants in so they boot the PUG members.
I’m not sure it actually WORKS anymore though; we’ve had people legitimately leave parties and for some reason been unable to bring new players into the instance – and I came back into the instance one time and even though I wasn’t partied anymore I was in the same instance as the one I got kicked from.
It’s a complex issue, removing the ability to kick causes harm too (Say a guy signs up but then decides to AFK and make you carry him through the instance) and the vote-like nature of kicking generally reduces kitten kicks to those where a single guild has a majority presence
it appears you’ve managed to walk outside the intended play area hence it looks weird, you’re seeing backface surfaces of the caves and stuff. I’ve found similar areas in Cursed Shore and Sparkly Swamp
Grenades are a ground targetted AoE. Pointing at the enemies health bar is pointing behind them.
You need to aim where the enemy will be in a couple seconds time, rather than where they are right now.
Grenades are amazingly powerful and you don’t meet any specific criteria to make them kick kitten Their trade-off to balance them up is their slow flight time and un-guided nature mean you must learn to aim them.
After years in Guild Wars 1, I never dreamed that ArenaNet would so callously destroy my favorite profession, and their most iconic creation.
In fairness, the GW2 mesmer is an Allods online psionic on steroids, not that I’m complaining I loved psionics, one of my favourite MMO classes ever and mesmer take that playstyle to a new level.
But, the class isn’t actually original, it’s just not as common to see as warriors and mages
Sure we got new halloween recipes for food, but hardly anyone crafted them because they dropped by the bucketload from the trick or treat bags. I’m expecting the same thing, we’ll no doubt have recipes for stuff like eggnog but we’ll just as likely have it dropping from mobs or in wintersday presents
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The bots reached critical mass again a week ago and the T5 markets are hobbled. You should’ve intervened already, it’ll take weeks for the damage to repair itself again.
I’m pretty sure it was Richard Dawkins who once said (paraphrased)
“The problem with democracy is that it teaches all views are equally valid. One persons ignorance is as valuable as another person’s knowledge”
Unfortunately the unwashed masses have already decided “they know what’s going on with the economy” so no matter what the economists tell them they arn’t going to believe it. They “know” the market is being manipulated, and they “know” bots are their real friend because it reduces T5 prices, and they “know” arenanet is controlling the gem market to make life suck no matter how much evidence to the contrary is presented.
How fitting that you have chosen to quote someone like Richard Dawkins in support of your elitist diatribe.
I am not even going to bother picking apart your random jumble of glib summations, horribly superior affectations and generalisations, suffice to say the arrogance in your assumptions that anyone who protests at the glaring change in the market affecting the quality of their game play is not inherently a fool because they fail to subscribe to your opinions of the situation.
Ignorance is most evident in the entire spectrum of trader arguments currently ignoring the fundamental problem to banter endlessly about whether or not their methods are helpful or harmful, to allay whatever personal doubts they may harbor, or reinforce personal viewpoints and justify their activities.
None of it matters a tinker’s cuss in light of the simple, well evidenced fact that since November the availability of materials and items, the cornerstone of the market itself, has been altered. Hence, the market has been altered.
Squabble on, as I’m sure you all will, fingers firmly in ears, counting your coins and reveling in your cleverness, never a thought to the source or the reason for the obvious. You are servants to your own demise.
Asides from containing half a thesaurus of adjectives and some vapourous commentary on how evil money lenders in the house of god traders on TP are was there anything of substance in that post?
– they can easily maintain protection/retaliation/regen on the entire party.
