Guild Wars 2

cooking. go back to the kitchen and make me some pie. or sell it

feeding hungry alpha golems

tl;dr
i like mesmer because i need to click a lot more buttons in correct order to be good with it. and in the end of the day i’m the last one standing

Maelduin.5149:

…I notice that my sheer damage with the Staff primary attack is not that large — only 50 or so per strike…yet my opponents, which are in the Swamp — same level as I am, level 15’s normal and veteran – I am seeing their health bars go down quick. I soloed the skill point event (veteran water, level 15) and I am taking down portals with multiple mobs solo and barely breaking a sweat…

Also…is there a combo with chaos storm/feedback field?

staff 1 skill does condition damage too (burn/bleed), did you take that into account too?

you get confusion/chaos armor combos with ethereal fields.

e.g. with staff u can do chaos storm(5) and then use phase retreat(2) to make leap combo which yields chaos armor.
other leap you can have, is on one handed sword (3)

with greatsword’s (2) you can make projectile finisher combo yielding confusion combo

with focus (5) you can make whirlwind combo yielding confusion bolts

and with torch (4) you can make blast combo yielding mass chaos armor

also worth mentioning – your ethereal fields are chaos storm (staff 5, or jump trait), feedback (also from medics feedback trait), null field, timewarp.

and you also got one couple light fields – focus (4) temporal curtain and veil.
with light fields you can produce – cleanse, cleanse bolts, retaliation, area retaliation combos

would have been faster with onehanded sword. also.. why didn’t you use at least feedback for initial stage to clear spiderlings. they shoot themselves soo fast.

performance – below average.

but it is limited. only 5 nearby players get speed buff. with the only exception being mesmer’s temporal curtain (tho it doesnt stack with other speed buffs! so its not that overpowered)
anyone know any other mass speed buffs? (mass like – affecting more then 5 players)

afaik thieves or elementalists have no problem running away from group.
and if you think you are supposed to run away from 5 players with any class.. well then thats too bad. btw, what are you doing in wvw all alone anyway?

P.S. heard anything about centaur runes?

ThCakeIsALie.5306:

… the fee serves no real purpose …

… a bare minimum 10% return investment rate for saving money in the bank …

trade post fee has a purpose. its to prevent changing your sell price. and its also gold sink.

10% interest rate is freakin a lot in real life. its either scam or high risk investment.

talking about investments. you can buy stuff in market and resell them. and if you explore it a bit, you can earn way more then 10% from the money you put in. tho that comes with risk.

and bank investments are bit more complex then you talk about. usually you cannot ‘use’ money you invested for fixed period of time. so uhm.. who in his right mind would invest 100g in bank and wait 1 year to take back 110g (lets assume its that ridiculous 10% rate). when u can invest 100g in market and double it in a week.. ok, maybe in a month if you are slow.

Frosty and Frosty Law Firm.4981:

Another way for the rich to get richer. Lovely.

none of the current ‘rich’ people who became rich by playing market would use that method. because market is way more profitable.

and the poor farmers? well… farmers never been rich in real life either

as far as i know AC breeders have been fixed recently, and reflect projectiles skills no longer ‘steal’ their lings. tho used to be fun, as mesmers got tons of projectiles reflecting skills.

get sword. use blurred frenzy. profit.
if u have problems with clones or phantasms dying too fast. then feed some squishy guardian to monsters, then they will let you summon stuff in peace.

also clones inherit your toughness, so it helps. tho might not work for you if going in as glass cannon.

btw what do you mean by “i cant even use them for what they are suppose to be used for”. i use clones only as fodders to absorb one or two hits, unless i shatter them. as for phantasms, ranged ones don’t have any problems surviving for a while. as for melee ones, depends on monsters. e.g. iWarden does nice vs ranged ones, but i don’t expect it to last long vs group of melee monsters or some boss.

happens when you have one or more active ‘instance hosts’ in party. just tell them to reset their instances and you will be fine. you can reset instance you created by switching to your other character.

its not a bug from the programmers point of view. i mean, its nothing wrong because game allows all 5 players in party have their own instance created (if they create it before joining party).

its design bug – that there is no clear indication about number of instances already created by players.

typical scenario: 5 player party goes to dungeon, that means 1 of them becomes dungeon instance host. lets take unfortunate event when that said dungeon fails, bugs or for some other reason players decide to leave it. pay attention here – because dungeon was not cleared, its still open to any party that said ‘dungeon host’ joins later.

lets say other party with 4 players hosted other dungeon instance. they invite 1 more player, and that 1 more player happen to be that ‘dungeon host’ from other party where dungeon wasn’t finished. in this case those 4 first players will go to their instance, and that 5th player will return to his ‘own’ instance.

the only way for them to get to same instance, is to ‘destroy’ one of those intances. e.g. 1 of hosts changes character and resets his instance.

P.S. most players are aware of this design flaw, and don’t have a problem with it, as relogging twice is not big deal. on the other hand.. new players who don’t know about this suffer and get frustrated.

santa’s big fat helper

fat norn mesmer

have received it 4 times since gw2 start. last time i had it was worth 8g

yeah got ac p2 bugged too yesterday, detha at cannon repair part. ran in the room with gravelings on his butt, and ghost never popped up to talk to detha.

well i guess.. back to the usual method of deagroing detha before aproaching cannons to prevent bugging.

you are doing it wrong. play and enjoy the game. do only activities you like. you don’t need gold anyway.

i’d say its balance… we (mesmers) are nearly impossible to kill. now imagine other classes couldn’t even run away from us… it would be too easy and boring.

melee attacks do more damage in general. not sure why some people stick to ranged ones… lack of experience i guess.

Yggdrasil.7940:

This is not a bug, it’s the last mesmer skill in downed state : “Phantasmal Rogue” which does double damage from behind. The problem is that the phantasm pop in your back and skill immediately, so it almost always does double damage.

Being hit for 8k by someone “already dead” is plain stupid, and this should be tuned down quickly.

downed is nowhere close to dead. there are foods and gear sets to have bonuses while downed.
as for that mesmers attack – you can dodge or block it. also it need los like all other clones. fail on blind, as clones/phantasms now work like ‘normal’ attacks.

and 8k demage from one glass cannon to other glass cannon isn’t much. and it has long cooldown too.

Medic’s Feedback

Mesmer
- Style 10 (butterflies & bubbles everywhere, profanity level over 9000)
- Strength 10 (Highest survival, moderate damage, best frontline reviver award in wvw and dungeons alike)
- Variability 10 (dungeon beasts, wvw trolls, puzzle ruiners, 1v1 gods – tie or die style)
- Feel (good overall, if you are ok with spending a lot of time underground and stuck inside textures. also some abilities and traits are bugged – therefore useless, limiting possible builds)

get 3 more, dump in mystic forge for chance of precursor. profit.

don’t see anything wrong with skipping bonus content. tho nowadays kohler gives way too much silvers to skip it

yeah was disappointment for me too. kinda expected it to be bigger on my norn. now going for anomaly ;>

is your mailbox full? you can have only 10 mails from players at a time, others get queued.

you can just carry backup armor…

i see you rarely run into tanky mesmers what if i told you, that blind makes only 1st attack miss?

if you type exactly same message 3 times in a row, then chat gets blocked for you (applies to each chat seperately /m /s /p …). reloging character removes it.
atleast that’s what i’ve noticed.

yeah, would be nice to have pick blades with different colors, or something like that

Hastur.6231:

Those are all the skills…no mesmer has them all available at all times.

TL;DR. No mesmer can simultaneously make use of all the above skills in a efficient manner without serious sacrifice in burst damage.

agree with you. i have no burst. as i’m tank. not condition based player.

but i have them all available in my bar when in spvp (chaos storm+ feedback/null field + timewarp)
projectile combo gets triggered by my staff and ranged clone autoattacks (well 20% of them duh)
the only trait i use, is confusion when clone gets killed, well + other random condition when clone killed. (tho works only vs dumb or aoe opponents)

its defensive build that does more damage the harder opponent tries to kill you.
and to sum it up. its tie or die build. for the opponents that is.

Hastur.6231:

Your only issue here appears that you hate it when someone stacks 8 confusion on you and your attacking with a short bow while using quickness inside a feedback bubble.

that made me laugh love to see them killing themselves on feedback bubbles(notice the plural, <3 revive bubbles), temporal curtain and iWarden

getting hit by full thief combo, and then seeing him run away…
being FAT tanky is awesome.

sometimes i wanna shout, wait dude.. scratch my other side too!

Infinitus.3712:

Really when it comes to guardians especially mesmer’s not so much cause mesmers only retalliation is on the phantasm’s.

if you think mesmers get retaliation only from phantasm, you are gonna have a bad time.

light field+leap => retaliation

often used with sword+focus, temporal curtain for light field, and then leap twice with (3) sword skill.

EDIT: ow that kind of reminded me that light field+whirlwind => cleaning bolts combo, kind of tricky to pull off, but its temporal curtain on iWarden (mesmers will know)

confusion i use as a mesmer:
etherial combo field(4x of those) + projectile finisher => confusion
F2 => confusion
some traits=>confusion

run and hide. run and hide

and about counter. for me its enough to have null field+ cleanse on heal trait. also if i wanted to be team player, i could get condition removing mantra (removes 2 conditions for all allies, 10s cooldown)

did he check if his mail box is full? you can have only 10 mails from players at a time, others get qeued.

no, they are not hard to kill… its just not worth the time. and yeah, if you are firsttimer and get into dungeons explorible speedrun.. you gonna have a bad time

Punny.9210:

I think they only need to add a option
" to turn off the blue mark on commander that u dont want to see on your monitor"
and that’s it

when you join some commander’s squad, you stop seeing other commanders.

as for OPs idea. i don’t like it. this is not a beuty contest or politics, where ‘votes’ matters.

P.S. i solo farmed my commander badge in dungeons, and i’m proud of it.

don’t play any alts. have some lowbie ele for cooking (convenient movespeed)

3 ac exp runs with experienced friends 35-45min
cof p1/p2 runs with experienced friends ~30-40min (more if u need to do quests when contested)

u mad?

yup… forging those piles of tokens into something sellable

P.S. don’t have any problems with repeating them over and over again. i ENJOY doing dungeons. farmed my commander badge @ ac, and yet to get bored of it.

Brazensage.1328:

1) I’m convinced the back to back insta-death tackle is a bug. Stun-locking is not an fun way to win/lose a fight. I have farmed AC enough times to buy every piece of exotic but one and can finish a run in a little less then an hour. Don’t dismiss a “broken” part of the game on the premise that there is a work around. What about people who have never done AC before?

2) If you are going to complain about someone complaining…then why would you comment this thread that you “don’t need”. Blows my mind with the amount of ignorance in that statement.

1) single scavengers doesn’t kill you even when he downs you, because that skill got time limit. owkey, doesn’t kill me. not sure about glass cannons. also because its “channeling” skill, any of your party members can interupt him (i use pull to save downed ppl). if you run alone into 2 scavengers and get downed.. well then if you dont have stun breakers, or they are on cd, then you had it comming.
also i have huge respect for those brave guys who run into gold circle scavenger @ ac exp p2 w/o evade or stun breaking skills. you got balls. and may your soul rest in peace

2) well i thought, that guy clearly got a problem. and as an engineer in rl, i couldn’t help myself but to give an advice. and i made it offencive on purpose, so that he could go fork himself, if he is too ignorant to care. (ow wait, he dont need to fork himself, svavengers will fork him)

Kashien.6278:

BabelFish.7234:

I don’t entirely agree but I do notice that your pug should consist of mostly lvl 80s and at least 1 guardian otherwise you’re asking for a auto-disaster.

I’m a guardian, and i approve of this statement

i’m tanky mesmer and i disapprove. nobody needs guardians when i’m in party.

well you have 2 options to prevent him from bugging
a) kill oozes before entering the room (yup they are the main reason he gets bugged there)
b) when entering room, turn left to prevent oozes from spawning (no oozes, no problem)

ever heard of stun breaking abilities? useful, in case you are bad luck brian, who gets pinned down a lot. or you could just interrupt them with cc (yes… before they leap)

P.S. if you meant just to whine, then i don’t need your thread. it doesn’t make any sense to me to read some player complaining about mob, which 99% experienced ac farmers have no problem evading.

i think it’s great idea