Guild Wars 2

So I grab one other guy or two to take camps and sentries and to skirmish the enemy squads. I’ve noticed a lot of others doing the same. It’s way more fun. I wish we had more small targets to go after. But we normally end up getting a rotation of camps and sentries going. Mix it up to avoid the enemy zerg. You get more xp and loot per hour that way too. Way faster than pounding a keep door with siege. (All mes can do now besides pull the occasional afk off the side of a wall.) Sometimes their zerg will catch you. Meh, it still beats the heck out of manning seige for an entire fight. Guess Anet has designated us the skirmisher class.

It’s a blast for me, at least. I’m making the best of a bad situation. Hope other mesmers can adapt too. Looks like we don’t have a choice.

Yeah, we should re-evaluate how we play so we can be prepared for the next round of nerfs. They’re coming for your thief next. Don’t worry though, eventually we’ll all roll a warrior so we can get some love.

There are several people making assumptions about me from my OP. I’m speaking from what I’ve seen. Mesmer has been severely weakened by this patch. To the point that I get blinded every fight. Pretty much have to run the condition removal mantra as null field has a very long cool down and everyone knows mes are brought to their knees by blind spamming.

I’m a aware of many clones that can be summoned without a target, but most are situational. Plus, clones aren’t a source of dps unless you run a condition build and are using staff/scepter.

The fact of the matter is that mesmer has to do something no other class does. It has to land half of it’s skills twice. That’s twice the chance to block and dodge. Twice the chance to win. All it all it’s broken.

Half of mesmer dps comes from phantasms. Half of mesmer supporting traits depend on clones/phantasms. Phantasms can be killed and inflicted with conditions. Heck, I wouldn’t be opposed to having phantasms spawn with all the conditions the mes has at the moment of it’s creation. At least then it’d be there to use. Rather than this impulsive bull kitten fix to satisfy the QQ of non-mesmers. LoS issues is one thing. Phantasams not summoning on blind/block/dodge is another. It’s ridiculous and Anet should be ashamed of this half baked move.

You should report it and delete your shells. Clearly it was an error. Then again…. I doubt anyone will make you.

There is no recipe iirc.

Thief stealths.
Mesmer can’t summon phantsam or clones.
Thief blinds.
Mesmer still can’t summon phantasm or clones.
Thief proceeds to kill mesmer by exploiting stealth/culling issue.
Mesmer uses it’s few AoE skills hoping to hit the thief.
Mesmer is downed.
Thief stealths.
Mesmer can’t use his down skill 2 since he can’t target.
Thief pikes.

GG anet.

(Aw, I wanted this in the mesmer forum, but put it in the thief forum by accident. If a mod wants to move it, I’d be quite grateful.)

I guess there’s one upside. Having to land my skills twice and still winning makes me just that much more boss.

Heard in map chat that there’s a queue for getting your stuff from the blt atm. So here’s to my 3g arriving soon. >.<

Got in now to LA. Afraid to move. Tried to remove my buy order from the TP still waiting for my 3g to arrive. I heard in map chat that there’s a queue for item deliveries atm.

We have to land all our attacks with phantasms twice. Once to summon and once to do damage.

Most all of our traits depend on clones/phantasms. Everyone makes sure to blind us now. So we don’t get to summon our clones/phantasms.

We’ve been broken to a shadow of our former selves. We’re on par with necro for any enemy with a brain.

I can log in, but when I select a character it tries to load into LA then kicks with a log in error. 42:5:7:1008:101

If a clone/phantasm is going to be treated like an attack, they better be able to proc them. Can’t have it both ways.

Any health give to a clone should go to the mesmer. Anet seems to think we’re linked since we have to land both of our attacks twice. So might as well embrace it.

fadeaway.2807:

#2:

I know, it’s horrible that you should be expected to land your skills like other players… as in no dodges, blinds, LoS etc. Terrible. How can you possibly play under these conditions?

That’s pretty much how dodging works buddy. I suggest you try counting how many times your opponent uses it before unloading your best moves. Kinda like when you play any other class.

No bro, as it is right now we have to land all our skills twice.

Update on my situation. I can sell from my bank by dragging stuff over to my inventory section on my bank tab. But I cannot sell from my inventory. Very odd.

Suddenly, I’m not able to sell on the TP. I noticed it about four hours ago. I thought it was just a glitch. Logged off. Came back and I still can’t sell anything. Buying seems to work fine.

I have some stuff I’d like to move, please let me know if there is anything I can do on my end. Thanks!

Ulquiorra.6903:

do daily every day for a month + monthly = almost 400k karma. do that for 2 months + dungeons and events hear and there GASP you have 1million karma you need

Why so hostile? It’s not nice. If farming karma wasn’t necessary the orr would be empty.

Even after the nerfs, people still farm there.

Yep. Welcome to the new GW2. Join a guild that will help you get up on your fractal ranks, new 80s.

At least you go to be there. Most of us did not. But yeah, inexcusable.

I would like to know as well. It is rather ambiguous now that you mention it.

You’re not getting outpaced by much… yet. Try and hang in there.

Maybe try some other servers? Perhaps the dungeons are more stable there.

You are not NEET enough for this game.

I’m sorry. That sucks. I mean it. No sarcasm.

Yeah, it was removed in that update that did not change content. >.>

I immediately sold all that I had farmed.

I love this. The FotM is really great content. Good job!

DarkSeth.8524:

You need almost 1kk karma for Legendary weapon:)

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mystic_Clover

But doesn’t that karma also come from buying obsidian shards?

Gilosean.3805:

Yes, you can switch to another crafting skill. You need a master crafter to do this.

There’s a cost, and it depends on your character’s skill in the craft you’re switching to. 10c per level in the craft.

EX: Switch to Jewelery Crafting and have 0 in the skill, pay 0. Switch to Armorsmithing and have 100 in the skill, pay 1s. Costs 40s to activate a crafting level if you have max in that skill.

Um… at 100 skill it would be 10s. If it’s 10c per level.

So I thought it would only be fair to tell you all how much I love Fractals of the Mist. This is the most fun I’ve had in a game in a while. I love the work you’ve put into it. It shows. It’s creative, engaging, and interesting. Stuff like this is why I love this game.

Please no that my complaint come from a good place. I want this game to be the best it can be. I believe in it and I believe in it’s devs. I know you won’t let us down.

Thanks so much for FotM. I, and many others, appreciate your work and passion.

Robert Hrouda.1327:

Zenyatoo.4059:

Now, this has no indication of difficulty, but both swamp and aquatic are easy as heck, and the fastest fractals. Whenever I see them Im more than happy.

Eesh, I built both of those… guess I need to toughen them up a bit…

You guys should’ve been quite. >.<

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Obsidian_Shard

Now available in the fractal of the mists dungeon for 15 fractal relics each. Just letting you all know. Hope it makes the legendary journey easier.

Fun(FotM ) >> Fun(Farming Orr)

Wow, I’m surprised so many people haven’t heard about ascended gear and the new “progression initiate” they’ve started. They’ll be adding gear of ascended quality of all equipment slots. So, all in all, you’re looking at a minimum of 50pts better on an exotic user.

It really doesn’t matter. We all know they won’t do anything.
And if they do do something, they’ll only go half way with it.

Yay, good to know. It’s the only bad thing I’ve seen in the dungeons.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploit_%28video_gaming%29

“An exploit, in video games, is the use of a bug or glitches, rates, hit boxes, or speed, etc. by a player to their advantage in a manner not intended by the game’s designers.”

Devs say 1 time event.
Players play multiple times by using the overflow system to gain an advantage.
Players profit.

Exploit

digidomo.1739:

From what I can tell the 20 slot bag is only obtainable from the chest. The accessory with +25 to all stats and 3%mf can be purchased from a merchant in the south west corner of the zone. For 1000 shells.

They took the 1000 shells merchant out in that update that “Didn’t change any content.”

Game economy == gameplay

Hell, if you want a legendary you have to trade on the TP like crazy.

The dissatisfied are far from a small lot.

I wish there was a way to bring a DC’ed player back into your fractal. Seems a bit silly that you can’t. But I think this is to dissuade kicking pugs at the end of a fractal for your guild mates.

I wonder why you couldn’t form your own guild….
Perhaps your personality doesn’t fit in a GL role. Maybe you should look for a guild that focuses on PvE.

Gated content goes against everything that made GW1 good. I don’t care how you try to implement it.

Ugh, you’re exactly right. We’re absolutely useless in a siege and Anet says nothing about this issue.

Instances would have fixed your problem number 1. Would have allowed more than 10% of the game pop to enjoy the event too.

I wish it would launch too. Help with kiting.

Nah, it sounds like an exploit to me.

Provac.3598:

/signed
I thought this was a 3 day event, not 3 2 hour one time events held over three days.

Well said. I feel exactly the same. Whole thing was far from worth it if you missed the ending event. Then you got to enjoy all the post ending event event…. >,>

Of course. Of course they are.

Jiminy.8340:

Parthis.2091:

Hate to be the one to break this to you friendo, but you don’t have hundreds of thousands of friends… and if you did, you’d never manage to pull of your seemingly magnificent feat of organisational prowess you clearly have when organising a trip to the local cinema with the lads.

These aren’t comparable. Anet can’t manipulate time.

No, but they can create instances across the weekend for the various timezones and account lockout those that have participated in the event. Everyone gets an opportunity then, and ‘realism’ is maintained.

Anet managed this for years in GW1 and CoH. No reason they cannot now.

Now, now don’t go applying logic to this discussion. God forbid this game be as great as GW1.

Wow, good job Anet. Good job.

I’m annoyed that the company I backed has trailed so far off of their manifesto.

I agree with OP. You can’t even get the karka shell earring anymore. Sorry I’m not a NEET, Anet. One time events are for the NEET crowd.