From your traits this is a shatter build. So basically a standard shatter with a slightly non-traditional weaponset. You call it a hybrid though…so are you intending for it to be using Maim? Lastly, celestial gear is a bad choice regardless of what weapons, traits, or build you are using on mesmer. It’s never a good choice.
Traits would be:
Mental Torment, Cleansing Conflagration
Far-Reaching Manipulations, Deceptive Evasion
Precise Wrack, Master of Misdirection, Illusionary Persona
edit: rereading your post, you wanted both blocks, but I’d argue the stun from pistol is a better ‘block’ since it can be used offensively well. GL on build
But stun is useless against warriors and guardians with stability.
Idea is that with these weapon sets you have 2 blocks, Illusionary Riposte and
Illusionary Counter.
Trait distribution would be 4-4-0-0-6 with celestial stats.
Your ideas?
Renewing Stamina will give 5s of vigor upon a critical hit: more dodge rolls.
Windborne Dagger will give +25% movement speed while in combat: move faster round your enemies.
What do you use and why?
With one of my characters, I have the problem that sorting stuff in bags does not work for her.
I press compact but nothing happens.
What could be the problem?
She does not have fractal boxes.
Is it possible to make a successful hybrid build for tPvP?
I currently play this but I find that I almost never use the shortbow because of the positioning requirement for the bleed.
And when I depend on a sigil for bleed on crit I can stay with the axe which gives me might.
Sword/dagger & axe/? would be an option, but sword does no condition damage with auto-attack, therefore I look for a hybrid build.
I want new female Asura faces, but better ones than the last.
I want faces that you can give an individual touch, were you really see a difference when you move the sliders.
Any Chance we get it back, perhaps in an enhanced version with bigger boards?
I think Asura should have golem chess, it simply belongs to their culture.
Multi boxing is playing more than one account at a time. If you have 5 accounts for example you could have a full party of 5 running together playing the game.
As to your idea, it sounds iffy. If there are times when both skills, F1 and attack 1, go off from using that key press and if ANet is able to "see" such things then your account could be terminated.
But the general idea - clicking/holding a button results in different actions - is allowed?
Thank you for the link.
I’m not sure what exactly multi boxing is.
My idea would be that when I click a certain mouse button it activates F1 but when I hold it longer than X seconds it activates attack 1.
I have a Logitech G600 gaming mouse.
Is I would use the mouse software to make a button behave different depending on me holding the button or just clicking it - would this be a violation of the macro policy?
Is there any reason why 1st lightning flash - 2nd burning speed should be inferior?
I tested both and this combo seems easier than the other one.
Since I try to learn the class mainly for PvP I already think in advance what to do against archers, rangers or longbow warriors.
What is the best combo to get to them fast, forcing them into melee?
How can I travel the furthest distance in the shortest time?
I try to learn d/d ele for pvp.
On Metabattle I have read about a burning speed/lightning flash combo: they say one should use lightning flash “mid-animation on top of one’s opponent”.
Must be because English is not my native language, but I don’t quite understand what they mean.
Should I start with burning speed and activate lightning flash then or other way round?
I like to try and play GW2 with a gamepad and therefore I downloaded XPadder and configured my system and it worked well.
But then I thought that a different configuration would be better, so I when I next time started the game again I begun to configure a new setting with XPadder.
But now nothing works anymore, no button reacts on anything.
What can be wrong?
Which classes have gap closers that can bring them to an enemy that stands above them?
I think Mesmer can do that with Illusionary Leap/Swap and thief with Infiltrator’s Arrow.
Thanks you. :-)
Does anyone here know a video about the bunker breaker shatter?
A friend of mine claims this shatter combo can take down a bunker guard, but he’s new to Mesmer and does not know how to perform it.
Rabid Amulet – Runes of Grenth (or Undead) – Sigils of Doom(2x)/Energy(Scepter)/Hydromancy(Staff)
Decoy – Disenchanter (or Null Field) – Mantra of Distraction
This is a rather aggressive condition build that relies on torment and staff clones for damage. It can apply every condition in the game except for fear and interrupts are meant to add cover conditions in addition to their normal function. While it may seem counterproductive to rely on torment and keep a target immobilized, the immob/chill/movement reduction makes it easier for staff clones to melt enemies. In teamfights you provide AoE Chill in addition to clone deaths and set Disenchanter on boon-reliant targets. Being specced into Illusions allows you to use Diversion much more often than most shatter builds.
What about travveler runes instead Grenth runes?
Otherwise travelling from one Point to another might take so Long that a fight there is actually over before I arrive.
i think shater condi mesmer got one big problem – his condi burst (like shater F2 + 3 with scepter + fire nova from baltazar runes) can be easy dodged,
Do F2 + F3 shatters work different from F1 shatters?
I always thought that one of the advances of a condition shatter build would be that with the right trait you can apply confusion with any of the Fs while in a traditional shatter build you have to wait for F1 coming off cooldown.
Located between the real world and the mists there is the otherworld, a place where mighty beasts roam.
Each week a different giant appears, in connection with the star signs.
Of course, in the real world star signs do not change every week but in this place time works different.
Upon entering the portal you should join a commander squad, 1 squad can have up to 200 players thus making a raid.
The raid then fights the giant and if successful, grants bones to players in the fractals of the mists (like +5 more agony resistance).
The bonus is active as long as the giant is defended at least once a day.
Fights should be more strategic than fighting simple champions in the open world.
One drawback of GW2 not being a holy trinity game is that players have less dependency on each other.
There is no need for example for guardian and elementalists to work together in a certain way in order to protect the elementalists and making it possible for them to mass-heal.
But perhaps a strategic element could be brought into the fights by some other means.
Players should have a chance the get mists essences for rewards, as well as fractal relics.
thief-basic trait that possibly give the best condi removal in game?(shadow embrace)
Removing 1 condition every 3 seconds while in stealth? Don’t get me wrong, the trait is quite decent, but calling it the best condie removal in the game is just extraordinarily false. 1 removal every 3 seconds will remove conditions steadily if they are applied steadily, and will fail tremendously if they’re applied as burst, which is how you kill thieves. Additionally, it’s in the shadow arts traitline, which forces the thief to sacrifice offense. Other than that trait, thief has incredibly limited access to condition removal.
Thief has IV Shadow’s Embrace which will instantly remove 1 condition upon entering stealth (which as a thief you do quite often, via cloak and dagger or black powder followed by a heartseeker).
Thief can also use sword and dagger, than 2nd attack is Infiltrator’s Strike - Infiltrator’s Return which will remove 1 condition.
As heals we have Hide in Shadows which cures burning, poison and bleeding (or other conditions if used under Shadows Embrace and Withdraw which will cure immobilized, chilled and crippled.
As utilities we have Shadowstep which cures 3 conditions.
Lack of condition removal together with dependency on certain runes for +25% movement speed (or focus as off-hand) is what keeps me from playing a Mesmer.
I often thought that this is a great class and tried to create a build that would satisfy me, but I just cannot find a shatter build with condition removal. Shattered Conditions would be perfect for a shatter Mesmer, but you sacrifice too much damage to get it.
Would be great if A-Net would make Cleansing Conflagration work like Shadows Embrace.
There should be a map where you have an option to play 1 vs 1 against a class of your choice or a random class.
For instance you are an engineer and want to fight 1vs 1 against a warrior, than you select warrior from the list and get paired with a warrior who is interested to test himself against an engineer.
Or you want to do 1vs 1 pvp but don’t care about the other class, than you choose class: random.
Ranger is a class that’s a part of speed dungs, if you know what are you doing. \we are even better than before the update, with spoter and frost spirit, plus a 15% damage buff only from a passive trait. We can outdps many classes at the moment.
With Sword/x and LB on 6/5/0/3 traits, rangers are top PvE class.
Do you mean 6/5/0/0/3?
What do you use for condition removal in your build?
When I checked my weapon-smith today, she had some recipes for new inscriptions such as ineffable, protean, saturated, shifting and resonating.
What stuff is this?
I play some tPvP with my ranger now with this build but I just cannot decide which melee weapon I should use.
I love the greatsword and don’t like the sword, but when I take sword I can equip a warhorn which gives me haste and helps me to get from one point to another fast.
With greatsword I could fight much better but it makes me slow.
What to do?
I’m not in an organized group with someone who would give me speed buff regularly.
I want to make a new character for PvE as well as for tPvP.
Problem is, I cannot decide whether it should be a ranger or a Mesmer.
Ranger seems very strong in tPvP at the moment, but will this remain so?
And then I already have 2 ranged classes, 1 thief with a shortbow and 1 grenadier engineer.
Mesmer seems a very interesting class, but can I play it?
When I look in the class forums no other class has so many build possibilities.
And then I have two problems with Mesmer as a class:
1. It is a slow class unless you equip a focus - but then you cannot take another off-hand weapon.
2. It seems difficult to get rid of conditions unless you take some traits (mantras), but then you sacrifice a lot of (shatter) damage.
Not long. Got killed by more than a few Rapid Fire + Quickening Zephyr Rangers already.
I wished they would separate PvP from PvE completely.
If the ranger is nerved because of PvP it will affect PvE too, which is unnecessary.
PvP and PvE are total different setups, so abilities should work different.
the only reason to take MtD is if you can reliably nail 3 people with your shatters in a group fight. Other than that I’d say ya this trait is just turning out to be pretty lame.
I don’t understand why this should be so.
Imagine a warrior with some stacks of torment and confusion, he should die fast.
Torment is a very powerful condition.
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