Guild Wars 2

But the most important part of the leveling process is learning to play.

I suppose they’d find it funny as long as they still treat it like a game rather than something of dire importance.

Yeah, channeled skills hitting in stealth is annoying. But you can still dodge while stealthed, remember. Just gotta deal with it for now.

For those that don’t know. (I doubt there are many.) If an enemy starts channeling a skill while you’re visible, then you stealth, the channeled skill will still hit you.

As for a stealth nerf that’s coming. I use it on my mes for what it was intended. It’s intended to be an oh crap button. It’s for emergencies.. I tend to only carry decoy anyway so I shouldn’t even notice, myself.

It really does come down to this. There is no correlation with the world rank of a player and it’s ability to actually fight. That’s the issue.

At this point, I’m starting to wonder why this is even under the PvP subforum. It’s not real PvP for most of the guys playing it. It’s faceroll or PvDoor.

nerva.7940:

Wvw isnt endless zerging. There are also many effective ways to crush zergs with a small group of players.

But it sure rewards zergs. Like the new rank system they’re putting in. World experience is equal regardless of how many people tag a dude.

One guy runs into your zerg. 10 people tag. That guy just gave everyone the same XP.
Solo a group of 3 and you get the same reward.
They’ll be tons of high ranked zerglets.
No. Skill. Required.

At least I didn’t get any counter arguments on how skillful a zerg is. Trust me, if they can make SPvP anything more than a boring merry-go-round I’ll be happy to go there. Until then I’ll be terrorizing you when you get left behind from your zergs.

I will say one thing, a zerg is a nice way to level. Just spam buttons get XP/karma. It’s easymode to 80. I do use them for that.

playandchill.3908:

I like playing in zerg.

I like killing people in a skillful way rather than spamming 1. Some times you feel like a nut sometimes you don’t.

Matt Witter.6982:

1. Everyone that helped with the kill will get full credit for the kill.

So the optimal strategy is to zerg. Got it.
-Goes back to PvE-

evolverzilla.2359:

Only AA players use AA. Good players swap to melee in TA bubbles. And then do a lot of damage using other skills and not only ilusion bomb.

You are neglecting the fact that the majority of mesmer dps comes from phantasams or shattering.

swiftpaw.6397:

Doable? sure, I’ll buy that.

In the same time as a bunch of geared lvl 80’s? No.

^Sometimes I don’t want to spend ten minutes explaining a dungeon to a new set of players. Maybe I’m in a hurry. That’s why I posted for experienced only. I wish people would realize that.

I’ve had a heck of a time trying to gear my alt through AC. Every group seems to have so many newbies no matter what I say in my post. It gets very frustrating.

No, ILeap’s issues with moving to the target are far worse than most class’s gap closers. In a class that is so dependent on positioning, it’s silly that one of our key melee skills can be so finicky. Especially when it’s our only bind and we have no movement upgrades.

If they did fix the skill by making it shadow step to target they’d probably pull some stuff like adding a longer CD or giving it a channeled duration or root. Forget that. Just fix the other stuff. I’ll continue to get called OP while struggling to use broken skills.

I wouldn’t think at looking at changing the range until it is in a reliable state. Just wait until it’s always reaching the target before we change anything on Ileap’s range.

I really would like to rename my elem. So I’d be keen to buy. Here’s hoping it’s a reasonable price.

My main is a mesmer, my alt is an elem. It tends to require a lot of activity on the part of the player.

Dual.8953:

See that there is the attitude. …….. They don’t want to improve, they want free kills.

How dare you call us all thief players!!
:)

Master of Timespace.2548:

A fact is that 95% wvw population are trash. All they do is zerg in huge blobs spamming skills. Then when they get owned by a single roamer thief, they come here to cry how OP thief is.

I removed some redundant language from your post. No need to be verbose.

That’s the issue with thief as a whole. Low effort to be effective, free resets, insane regen/condition removal while stealthed, insane speed while stealthed, improved damage while stealthed……..

It’s pathetic how easy it is to play. It allows an average player to take on much more skilled players. That is probably by design. However, this issue is there are no diminishing returns on player ability with this class. There is not class to gradutate to from a thief. A thief set up is the optimal strategy for roaming. So you have a newbie class that is almost unkillable in the hands of a pro.

That’s the issue and the reason for my perspective. (All of this is from the perspective of roaming in WvW as well.)

But AC is still so easy. I don’t get it. It’s not like arah where you really benefit from the potions.

The days of being able to farm the mats you need/want in an mmo are long over.

This game literally punishes you for farming.

OmniPotentes.4817:

Sounds like you just had a streak of bad luck.

Yep, I’ve got quite a few ectos from the many rares.

Kanto.1659:

When you say something like, a warrior is bad if he can’t win against a mesmer, yes, I fear your credibility is shaken.

Say what you want, but I know many great wars that can hold their own against a mesmer. Perhaps you should get a larger sample size? Try looking outside your buddies and randoms in WvW.

I’m sure it will be fixed….

in next month’s patch. They can hotfix the shatter bug and give us a temporary (yet still present) GCD on shatters, but they can’t even give an eta on this and Ileap.

No response. I fail to be surprised. Fixing anything that would help a mesmer seems to always be low priority for Anet.

The stealth mesmer has access to is what thief should have. Short bursts used to escape danger. Not easily abused combo fields.

Kanto.1659:

SteepledHat.1345:

All this tells me is that your friend is bad at playing a War. They need to fix our skills and stop breaking the ones that were working to start with.

That being said, it’s like a almost 10AM Anet’s time. So give them a break.

Heh, you should not offer advice without experience. I’ve fought all classes with my mesmer and always there is one person who is good enough to make me bite the dust. Never a warrior though, they just don’t cut it on 1 VS 1 sPvP.

Not talking of WvW or PvE.

Lol, someone telling me to become experienced with mesmer.

Please fix this soon. And take a look at Izerker as well.

ScrakeMode.2348:

Hey guys i know that you think that the removal of the combo finisher is a massive nerf but (coming from a main necro player and mesmer player) necro’s have almost no finishers or fields worth using at all staff 4/3 combo. Honestly if this is true i know you guys don’t want to here it but it was needed. Mesmers are really good. I remember making my alt mesmer and at lvl 5 i went to 1v1 my friend who has played over 1000 hours on his warrior and i consistently destroyed him in fights pretty much i was just doing a phantasm pistol zerker combo with air sigils doing about 15 k damage to him without him being able to get in range or even retaliate, mesmer damage is already crazy(by the way this was saturday. Compared to my other classes mesmers are by far my favorite class and the possibilities are endless with what else you can do even without the combo damage.

All this tells me is that your friend is bad at playing a War. They need to fix our skills and stop breaking the ones that were working to start with.

That being said, it’s like a almost 10AM Anet’s time. So give them a break.

The main way I can think to improve mesmer downed state atm is to have the two skill pull the map up for you.

No hotfix for this. The only hotfixes mesmer gets are gcds to our shatters. A temporary fix that has no sign of going away….

Since the new patch, I’ve had many instances in which my weapon swapping seemed to fail. I’d press the key multiple times before it would swap. Obviously, I thought the keyboard might be the cluprit. So first I cleaned it thoroughly. It didn’t seem to help the issue. So I swapped it out with a new one. Still the issue persists. It happens maybe once or twice each fight. It is a sever hindrance to combat. Also, before it’s mentioned, at nearing 1500 hrs I don’t think it’s user error. I considered latency, but I don’t see any delay on my skill uses, just weapon swap. So I’m at a bit of a loss.

Anyway, has anyone else had this issue or is it isolated to myself? I was reluctant to post this as it very well might be an issue on my end, but if it were not I’d like to know so I don’t bother trying more fixes.

No wonder. That explains the trouble I was having in the underwater fractal yesterday.

Hm, I could have sworn it didn’t stack either way. But to be honest, I’ve only really been using the focus intently for about 3 weeks. So I might be mistaken.

Lmao, it was way easier for someone to get a legendary closer to launch. Way easier. No overworld DR, crazy variation in mat prices, dungeon runs with no DR, and 10g precursors.

1 dungeon run has always net you two rares on top of the monetary rewards. It’s still way more efficient especially with dungeons like CoF that you can farm all day. Even with DR you can still buy a ton of rares for ectos.

At least it seems that way. I use runes of air. Prepatch, if I used my heal while under temp. curtain’s speed effect the speed boon wouldn’t apply. Post patch, it stacks.

So yay!

Can anyone confirm it working with other skills?

Ryan.8367:

actually torch is bugged right now as you can use it on a 3sec cd without breaking stealth , please hotfix asap because mesmers are abusing it like kittening crazy right now.

What are you talking about exactly? Lol, thief has needed a hot fix for a few months.

Ah, they’ll update the patch notes soon.

Mesmer clones brought into a more balanced state for WvW play.

In CoF there is one mob that likes to use a channeled flamethrower skill. Because it’s channeled it’ll follow you through stealth.

I check all my greens. TP the ones that net a profit after taxes vendor the rest.

Did it yesterday at lv 38. Group wiped first time because I couldn’t convince them to just clear it. Second time they listened and it went off without an issue.

Realm Avenger has no prestige either. Most just spam 1 in WvW. So skillful. >.<

Judging from the general scrubiness of most DMs it never had much prestige to start with. You want prestige? Play well. That title never meant anything.

This wouldn’t have been an issue if we had been able to assign guild nicknames and if guild creators had special permissions for override.

I saw this kitten little asuran chick out in frostgorge sound. Is she associated with a guild mission?

Oh god, please put it back to the way it was. Did it ruin the anomaly too?

Lmao, that’s pretty much true. I can’t even give it to my guildies.

After you have all your ascended stuff there isn’t any point in running fractals besides praying for a fractal skin drop.

Can someone explain in detail what TC is talking about?

I’m sure this is a bug. It needs to be reverted.

Earrings are only for guild zerglets. It makes no sense to put ascended gear somewhere that actually uses it’s specially designed slots.

I predict an increase in LFXM FotM 30+ daily HEAVIES ONLY