Guild Wars 2

Hey guys with this thread I am trying to do my best to support the Guild Wars 2 Community!
There are a lot more videos on my channel but I didn’t want to spam you guys here with stuff that is class specific!
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The Build I am currently using (Stealth Shatter Mesmer):
Link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeS30CWpG6E

A lot more videos to come

Dietzen.6127:

I gotta agree with Windwalker, you really do have great playing skills… I’ve got a lot to learn
Can you try out a signet build perhaps? :P would love to see how you’d play that :P

that’s such an awesome comment
sure send it to me via pm and i will test it and even make a review video of it if you so desire?

are u telling me that it is hard to win vs mesmer with thief?^^

thanks a lot

a 1 vs 1 interrupt build will be added tomorrow

i think necro should be nerfed in damage but should be given a viable disengage
yes warrior….i think i will make a thread about it like another discussion one..i will try to make one for every class

it’s the only class that no matter how you play it i burst it down from 100%- 0% with a dodge mirror images and mw…there has something to be done

Curious, why the torch?

Why not take phantasms have fury? I guess the phantasms in this build are lackluster at best…
Yes exactly (the staff phantasm hits like a truck but u can dodge it easily)

This is just a stealthy shatter build, and I kind of like it. Mass invisibility is a great elite.

This should be called stealth shatter, because you have 3 stealth to use, and I think it really helps the build be less squissy.

I like the stealth theme.

I played blackwater last night, and do not like running around and stealthing all the time letting others kill my clones. This seems to be a a nice middle ground, and I think and have seen in your videos will do just fine in the current environment.

Exactly again haha and i actually renamed it thanks for the tip

You basically are showing people torch is viable It is a shame we need to take so much stealth to be viable right now though

Yes the main problem is that no matter how much you dodge or port a thief can always destroy you so u gotta stealth up and do what the enemy doesnt expact to survive

I believe I am in your army, but will double check

Awesome! glad to have some mesmers in my army!

Windwalker.7421:

I like your tweaks to the standard Torch/Shatter build.

For sPvP I already enjoy the standard Torch/Shatter build (with Cleansing Conflagration for Torch), but I had not thought about using Divinities before to further max out Crit %. Also I usually go with Phant Fury over Blade Training, but last night I swapped them for your choices, and I have to say it rocks!

Especially the Divinities were noticeable. The damage numbers grew considerably, and I had a blast playing it last night! Finished quite few games at the top, usually due to getting Top Kills.

Thanks for sharing!

glad you enjoyed playing it
yes thats all thanks to a guy called van dark who has too much time to do the maths haha

Xavi.6591:

Have any game play video with this build Sensotix?

Sure

Gameplays:

• [Sure] vs [VG] (Visceral Gaming)
  Link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyS_x04e1w8
• [Sure] vs [EA] (Eternal Avengers)
  Link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XNMc5zNSk8
• [Sure] vs [PF] (Plastic Fantastic)
  Link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpFPq_LERyk

happens way too often and can be a huge disadvantage for you team :/

yea i know i usually also can port back out with phase retreat i did get stuck in walls or something realatively often so far but never was i ever able to cap a point haha

Added

The Build I am currently using (Crit Shatter Mesmer):
Link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeS30CWpG6E

i hope this wont happen during a streamed match since it would be kinda emberassing.. :/

haha true that

yes but i really miss the old meta!

try this one

Since a lot of you guys have recently asked me to show it on youtube here it is

The Build I am currently using (Crit Shatter Mesmer):
Link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeS30CWpG6E

Link to the build: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fgAQNAsfWlwzaqHVzoGb9ICqHaH49dkU0asWJF82FC-TsAg0CnIqRVjrGTNyas1M+Y9xMCA

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The Build I am currently using (Crit Shatter Mesmer):
Link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeS30CWpG6E

if here are some thieves as well thief interview will come as well

josh.7390:

Shatter was always viable with some tweaks to the utilities, which means at max. 1 team utility. But if you run 1 or even no team utility there is no reason to bring a mesmer over a thief

for our setup a mesmer is actually better than a thief which is the only reason we are running mesmer

ghaleon.2861:

Wait, did I just saw you click your skills….. lol..

maybe in the first two videos since i didnt have my mouse available
check out the video vs plastic fantastic then you can see how i play when my mouse got repaired

The last thing i want to add here
That is what Lord Nag Nag Nag the guardian from the pax winning team has written in the thief discussion in the german forum (so you guys dont say I invent it when i say I talk to him)

Einen guten S/D kannst du nicht Kontern. Die Lösung der meisten guten Teams im Teamfight ist auch kein gezielter cc, sonder stattdessen einfach den S/D zu ignorieren und sich auf andere Ziele zu konzentrieren. Die einzig wirkliche schwäche vom S/D ist der verhältnismäßig geringe dmg gegen Spieler im down state. Der S/D gilt ja grundsätzlich als einfach zu Spielen der skill-cap ist aber sehr hoch, es gibt aktuell vermutlich kein anderes build, dass einem Spieler ermöglicht so “beast” zu werden wie es auf einem S/D möglich ist.

Translation:
You cannot counter a god S/D Thief. The Solution from most of the top teams in teamfights is not to cc the thief but to ignore the s/d thief and focus on other targets.
The only real disadvantage of this thief is that he doesnt really have this huge pressure on downed enemies. The s/d thief is said to be easy to play but actually the skill-cap is quite huge and there is probably no other build that allows a very skilled player to be a “beast”

the 2 vs 1 from teldo at waterfall…i spoke to ben (lord nag nag nag) and he said both didnt want to waste their cooldowns since they thought it would be an easy matchup

well i thought i had to bring it up because i saw a s/d thief winning a 1 vs 1 vs warri..vs spirit ranger…vs necro..vs the other thief without loosing even 50% of his hp

BUT

Resume: I was really happy to have this discussion here and I am glad that I did post this thread here and not in the structured pvp section because there I wouldnt have gotten many impressions from thieves.
I am happy that most of you tried to stay obejctive and tell me exactly how they feel about it and actually came up with some interesting ideas that I really appreciate

And I also have to admit that I have tried to be a little bit provocative so I can see who of you guys really stays objective and calm because I was searching for an experienced thief to interview about changes he wants to see in the game/his class

Thanks for everything guys it was a pleasure to discuss with u!

Thief interview will hopefully follow soon

Bump for the sake of the mesmer community! keep this game alive and I ask you to also start doing videos ..make this game come back to life because i really love playing it! <3

hope anet won’t ban me for this as i said in the video it happened by accident and i will not try to abuse it

~sensotix

Kwll.1468:

Not really. How many mesmers were in the Pax tournament with the last few teams? A good player can always beat less skilled players even with a weaker class. Mesmers are a very good 1 v1 class still and that’s about it.

yea but since then a lot of things have changed! and I have been playing shatter mesmer with my team over the last two weeks and we managed to get from rank 150ish to the top 50

no the real reason for mesmer to be viable again is because the heavy condition meta has changed you dont find a lot of necros out there anymore….even not every team has a spirit ranger
you see a huge amount of warris and mesmer is the counter to it

~Sensotix

yep its kinda funny at times

bump ……

hm yes i also think the port through walls shouldnt work anywhere not only clocktower
apart from that i think it should be alright

kaikalii.4198:

I get why people get worked up by iLeap, but 99% failure? That’s a little high. Mine fails about 1/4-1/3 of the time, and when it does, i just stay out of the way of damage while my clone runs up to the enemy at a normal pace.

okay i have to admit thats an exaggeration^^

actually my build will be uploaded tomorrow

ah okay so its not a bug? didnt know that
thanks! well then kaamau no worries they wont change it (but it’s pretty broken you must admit that haha)

dont forget mesmer also has the trait for 5 secs of vigor on crit hit

Hey guys I just wanted you guys to know that from today on I am the best bunker mesmer ingame
- No one can ever decap my point

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thank you for your points and i can actually see what you mean and agree on most of them

but actually that’s how the thieves port works atm and anet still keeps that in the game

sorry but i can’t stop here
learn- i have dueled a lot of good s/d thieves and i sometimes win with my shatter mesmer
adapt-i have already adapted to the thief but then again i can’t adapt to condi spam (decision problem)
improve- i did

yes something like that would be awesome!

Pyroatheist.9031:

Yeah, gonna have to agree, I made it through about a minute and a half. I wanted to watch, but the shaking and other post-production drove me off really nastily.

same here also it got me facepalm when he showed how he bursted down a guardian who had only half hp and nothing up anymore and tried to hype this scene

if we want it to be fixed i guess we need a number of views and comments so please try to bump this topic as often as possible to make the devs see it
for the sake of our mesmer community <3

the best example imo for a risk and reward fail is the s/d thief

okay i am actually pretty chilled again and i have a lot of time for a response so i will try to make it as clear as possible

when the necro buff hit everyone felt that mesmer wasnt viable anymore so i started playing the s/d thief since it fit perfectly in our team and it was kinda easy to play comparing it to shatter mesmer on high lvl tpvp

after some time i have tested a few things and discovered a viable mesmer build..now i am playing mesmer again
this is only possible because:
1. s/d thief is not that often played anymore
2. necros are not often played anymore

so why are these thieves not played anymore?
1. i have talked to some of the other top teams like shad or curse and both said they feel lame when playing a meta build like that (f.e. shad’S thief switched to pistolwhip) (xeph stopped playing the game)
2. the current meta is kinda tanky so it’s hard for the thief to keep up enough sustained dmg while surviving (i totally see the point why you would let the thief have so many evades) BUT the port to some highgrounds on several maps are just not justified because as i said it punishes good positioning

So and i love that you propose me to go to the place where he has his original circle because that’s exactly the problem…let’s take for example foefire…the thief is on their side of the graveyard attacking with shortbow..he then switches to s/d once he sees the mesmer engaging into the mid..when i for example try to do dmg to the thief he can port back so highground easily…and if you now propose me to kinda wait there for him it’s absolutely braindead because if i would do this i would have to overextend a lot and run through his whole team positioning themselves on highground till i get to him…and guess what he does then? he burst me down easily after his team has dealt quite some damage to me..
but on the opposite if he manages to bring me to 20% hp and i blink back to highground where the necro of my team is the thief just uses one port to get to me not having to run through my whole team waiting for someone to overextend and hits me 3 times before the necro stacks him enough conditions so he has to disengage (with just pressing one button also removing a condition or two)

that’s what i was saying
he has good sustained dmg
he has a huge amount of evades
he has a port (also port back which u can also use when stunned)
he has not only boon remove but even boon steal
he has condi remove on his weaponset
his main dmg attack is unblockable

thats what i mean…i am not here to nerf your loved thief to death i am just trying to get discussion rolling to get other ideas on how to change it in a way thieves players and non-thieves players are happy with

i am really not here to nerf it to death because that’s what most shatter mesmer felt like happened to them.

nah blackwater is not viable in tournament play
i am playing a shatter specc which i will do a video about the next days

okay if you move this way i will stop talking in this forum and let people who u apparently trust talk in the next state of the game and then you will see what they say
if you think I don’t know enough about the game after one year of playing in pvp and being in the top 100 leaderboard quite some time now I don’t know who you think has..

well good stunlock warris have a chance but yes mesmer should win it

yes i dont think its too strong in tournys
i just think its quite annoying on duel servers and people complain about mesmer being op because of that

i actually just wanted illusionary leap to be fixed thats my main point haha

i am not american lol…
and no a thief can always win vs necros no matter how good they are..
engineers could actually be a problem i agree on that
and lol of course other thieves can win … that’s pretty obvious
and sry i have never seen a good s/d thief loosing to a good phantasm mesmer..
and lady nag nag killed several spirit rangers in the pax tournys (oh but wait if they have a 50/50 chance against another faceroll class (spirit ranger)) doesnt that prove that the spec is strong..?
and i dont know a thief should loose to a stunwarrior…have never seen that actually..

okay guys …i just talked to shh sh shad the thief of team shad who is currently leading the leaderboard team q….he also agreed on the things i mentioned being op…

i am not talking about winning vs na…i am talking about winning vs car crash for example without a thief..