Guild Wars 2

Hm, in my view – mantras have one big handicap. They are limited and have “long” uploading times. This effect will make them weak against all good players.
Not only the fact, that an enemy can see what u got left on your buffbar is crap – even more it´s quiet hard to recharge all mantras in a fight.

When i see a player charging their mantras i give them hell. because it´s like a cc from your own. he is forced to finish the cast when he needs the effects and dodging is impossible in this action – so he receive a huge amount of dmg.

Without skill changes mantra builds are just ineffective compared to alternative specs.

dani.1956:

How a kodash fight a 1vs1 : They run in first keep and man the AC !
How an AG member fight a 1vs1 : They don’t , they run until they can 2vs1 !

I´ve heared about other universes, too.

Thank´s guys. Yes I am. ^^
I had a jumper duell yesterday. I guess it´s a good class/build to start the next “how to counter” tutorial ^^.

Thank you all.
When u like the video in his mechanics and skill, than maybe u have also fun with a video which shows the role of a mesmer in the group. Acutllay i play warrior in bigger groups but maybe u like it anyway.

It´s a guild video. a well chosen group of high skilled individuals fighting for the same. We play together since more than 5 years.

Especially 7:15 is the mesmers gold skill ^^ in groups
at 17:00 10vs20+
But it´s more based on team play and warrior! Don´t be sad if there are to less Mesmer stuff^^

Hey,

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fgAQRAsa7dlwzKqHTzmGb9IhpHBv3AHlir79SKwduB-jECBYhDimWAkkGm6IQ5QFRjtsuIasqbY6YER1SBAx0I-w

i´ll make u a screen. with the gear

Hey

sry for the German side – but just go for the numbers of the traits.

http://mesmer.guildwarscore.de/#1-06200515500512507514525-00-200204-30050412-00-200510

lot of player use the 20/20/30/0/0
but i like the phantasm based build more -so i can focus on defense.

@ selan
not all only those i play with.

For which specc? the shatter or condition

Mesmer is almost like a Warrior – a strong character for every kind of player – but with a good player these classes become awesome.

I also play warrior and i have to say that it is incredible what u can do with those classes – but i think, each class has their strong sides – so in my lifetime i was at least once beaten by every other class in this game.

perfectly played guard with the right specc can come to a draw
perfectly played nekro is aweful
perfectly played ingi is also hard kitten
perfectly played hunter also kinda nasty
perfectly played thief ….

each class can be dangerous the fact is just, the focus of the worlds players are always goes down to the actually meta of classes and rests there until these classes recieved a nerf. After that new classes become the “obviously strongest” classes, the world yells about nerf again – thats the never ending circulation of MMPORGs.

True colesy – the thing is, condi removal against a condi mesmer is almost useless – mesmer push ther conditions so fast and frequently that there is almost no difference if u clean it or just accept it. And of course some of them were not really good – but i wanted to show the potential of condition.

-all 4s bleed from duellist
-poison on weapon switch i have it on both sets CD < weaponswitch timer infight
-confusion on hit and from phantasms
-when they kill an illusion they recieve also conditions (weakness,vulnerability,bleed)
…

True, they should have cleand themselvs but, maybe they had cooldowns or just were in panic. I played solo Arena and i played Team Arena to make my comments based on facts and there was no difference between a WvW random prey and some rank 50+ players. They suffered and they died after there removes were out. Mesmer has so long and many stealths in a condition specc that it is easy to overbridge the time between new attacks. Especially with the defense possibilities.

-blurred frenzy 2s immun cd:12s
-decoy 3s cd:32s
-prestige 4s cd: 30s
-mass invis 6s cs: 90s
-bullet: stun 2s cd: 25s
-leap: all 9,5 s
-blink: cd 30s
….

Some player should create new defense tactics instead of using those from others or well known sPvP players. I see a lot of unused potential in some classes.
Warrior for example are also one of the strongest characters these times – i was asking for duellings to some rank 1-50 sPvP player and they all sufferd from stuns and died – even thief jumper builds couldn´t stand it. So – there are a lot of points where nerfs or at least diminishing returns should be implented but, sometimes u just have to switch your gameplay to counter the “unbeatable” classes.

so long..

Hey mates,

my new condition roaming video with a little extra. Some of u asked me to do a ant warrior guide. Enjoy have fun and feel free to contact me ingame =).

Loco.4561:

I had the opportunity to duel a very, very good condition transfer Necro last night, one who used his flesh golem to CC then chain fear/burst you with conditions, incredibly difficult to deal with. I countered by using a staff/sceptre/torch condition build + Arcane Thievery, blink, decoy. Each fight was tough, I lost more than I won but I learned a lot. Winning against a really good necro for me meant, staying at max range (the most important point), keeping clones pumping out, abusing stealth and timing my arcane thievery use to “counter burst” him

Contact me ingame and i will solve your problems. It´s funny that i´m in the situation to know who this necro was =D. mfg Buka

Hey Mates,

my goal was to create a video for my german server mates to show them the efficiency of a warrior. After a huge positive response i decide to publish it also here.

Hope u have fun.
so long…

Ok, comin soon.

Hey mates,

i need much more time to finish the video with my new specc. I´ve had a lot of real life stuff to do. But that u have somehting to watch, I´ve made u a new video. =) hope u enjoy it.

A Mesmer´s path (gear/weapons – naked fights):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B0Bc5hoT20

Basic Gameplay (movement):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nADHVzc9y8g

Advanced Gameplay (survival):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AXbfYPRGY8

Solo roaming (offensive):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEbLzhQsjJI

Shatterrupt Build:
coming soon

so long… Vashury

I´m pretty sure it was just a mistake in understanding, what the video is about. No big deal. I get lot of whispers from people who have done the same mistakes ^^ – yelling for DMG und asking what´s special about the video.
But im sure sometime they will see why this advanced gameplay video seems unspecial although it´s hard work. =D

Valantine.5892:

It says more about the stupidity of the people he’s fighting than anything.

That´s the point – the headline of this video don´t tell us that it´s a video about fighting. It´s about fleeing,survival avoid dmg and controle enemies, like u´ve realiced they are forced to stop fighting or to die without chances and without big effort on my side of the game.

If u wanne see fighting scenes watch another video but don´t mix up the ideo of the videos.

@ Loco:
i try to avoid conditions in every way – during my dmg-time i´m immun to everything, after this i mostly disappear for my enemies and just pop up noticeable if my dmg is ready again or with block skills. Sometimes i watch for the special condtions like pin down ready to share them, to get additional offensive possibilitys. Additionaly i have a higher HP pool (gear mix) than a full berserker player this makes my survival against condtions quiet save.

In zergs u just have to react before u get the DMG than it´s no problem with a bersker mesmer to stand it. F4, dodge, blink, blurred frenzy, stnunbreaks, invis. If u die all others will be dead, too.

U JUST HAVE TO READ FASTER ! ^^ – yeah i know, sry for the speed, my problem is i got so many informations that i´ve problems to fit them into the scenes. I could wirte a lot more and maybe the next video will have voice commentary – =) – but my next video will be a guild small scale video after this i will start the new mesmer video.

My gear is full berserker + divinity
Valkyrie accesory 2x
vine of the pale tree, bagh nakh
distinguished circle of logic
prototype fractal capacitor

weapons full berserker – traits are in the video just finish watching ; )
20 points in duelling means -10% krit dmg withut buffood u already have (-20%) krit dmg compared to me..
so long

PS: when my next mesmer video is published i make a thread where all my videos are collected @ skcam

Hey mates,

again a new video.
It is based on advanced tactics – especially survival – advanced because one fail could be your end.

have fun =) its not the usuall BOOOM BAAAAM ALL DOWN stuff u will already know from all possible players around.

so long
Vashury

PS: soon there will be a new video with a new shatter specc – (patch was awesome for shatter mesmers)

drongas.4189:

use moa>free win gc thief

are u serious?..
u Think u got enough time to cast this enldess spell against a GC – as long he isn´t stupid he will cancel it or just kill u before u´ve finsihed it.

Even it works there is no way to symbolise that u are just out of chance, let me say – u already gave up when u use Moa i prefer a death in a good duell insteat of using this fight spoiling skill.

colesy.8490:

So I’ve just been giving my mes a spin in pvp, and while I was doing insanely well yesterday (must have just been bad players I guess), today I faced some glass thief who would just burst me down in practically two seconds if I didn’t use an evade quickly enough. How do you go about killing one?

The question is not what we do the question is what were u tryin? with some Builds and Gearmixes there is simply no chance against a good GC thief. With others i would say it is almost a freewin.

pvp means 20/20/0/0/30? or what do u play

My love goes hand in hand with Shatter. With shatter u got good chances against them. Try not open with the casual immobalize mind wrack combination. Find yourself near the walls or a corner wait for him and when he comes open with immobalize dace .. now he have to use cc breaks or get massive auto hit dmg. if he get´s low enough just dodge in his direction (can´t move 360° because walls and corner leading him the escpape path) and shatter even he use stealth u will hit him (no escape).. if he survie and comes back to you. just give him the real dmg with mind wrack shatter .. maybe he´s still alive .. kinda boring but then use sealth wait short for coodlwons and repeat he will give up or die. JUST DONT RUN into the open field.

0:48 and 3:15

i know its not tpvp and no wall use but it´s about the mechanic. The Dmg is not that high at pvp but still enough for this mechanic use. Maybe u need one auto hit more but no matter what he will think about attacking u after u land this combinations.

Hey, sry that u´ve waited so long for an answer Yuchen!. Xavi answerd nearly perfect but if u got some experience it´s almost imbossible to miss the nuke, even he use protection arrangements u don´´t have to initiate the nuke. Just wait, u can use the pistol stun to make him stand or the immobalize. in the advanced gameplay video i´ll show u how u can land the nuke without immobalize or stuns, it´s important to know against good player because they all know what´s coming if u open with the casual rotation.

I would be so happy if some more player will use their whole potential of weapon combinations. It´s hard to discuss some ideas when nobody plays it. But i´m one of the player who cheers up every patch because “useless” weapons like torch get better and better ^^, so maybe u should stay on your GS and have fun XD.

If i have chance or not against other builds and other mesmers doesn´t only depends on speccs. It´s about the area, the reaction, the gear, the combination of skills they use to engage or counter some opponent attacks and lot of more important influences – sometimes it´s just luck or the willingness to risk something. I would count myself to those mesmer who risk a lot to suprise my enemies, sometimes it goes horribly wrong those scenes wont be in my videos, but they happen, i don´t play always the “save way” i wanne have fun. Sure there are situations i walk out of 5 downed player and i think: “wtf i did, and how can i do it again” but that´s not the point. It´s not about beeing better than someone else, it´s about having fun. I don´t have that much fun in one on ones than in one on tow or more, because u can play more creativ and that´s what mesmer was build for. Hiding in a bush is only one of this things. U can do incredible moves to shake off followers as long u are cold as ice. Against good players just stop running and stand still, they think u are a decoy and gets confused where u are until they realice u are kidding them. I often died against stupids while i was testing this trick because they hit everything red in area like maniacs but there were also players who thought they were smart saving cooldowns and not finishing the “decoy” and this has made them stupid^^. I already have some beautiful scenes for the “advanced gameplay video” trying to top the “basic gameplay video”. And i hope u will have fun. For those wo haven´t seen my other videos. Take focus on the “berserker solo romaing video”. There are one on X fights and punked people with some other “tricks”.

There is a point, players almost reach the same skill level and the luck decides who´s going to win the fight, or the ping. Those of u who have played WoW in arena 2600+ will know what i´m talking about. 30 minutes fights 5on5 and the disconect makes the winner^^.

Personally i don´t like phatnasm builds because illusions can´t think and react. If someone plays smart and walks line of isght behind a corner or somehting, they all run close to him recieve area DMG and they are gone.
With shatter i´m my own master. Sure i need illusions but only to sacrafice.

PS: XAVI- against shatter mesmer u should never run out of endurance!. Dodge ones and only if there is no other way to survive twice in a row. if the first nuke fails u could recieve a conusion shatter or a dace shatter. both is not healthy when u wont be able to dodge again.

Allright.

Anyway in my view the pistol is a little more usefull as second weapon than the focus. But the fokus is also great. I switch it frequently can´t desicde what´s really better. depends on the situation.

Ah thanks that´s what i had thought before the confusing has started =). So it´s still the law – Pistol brings out more DMG on shatter than focus.

Esplen.3940:

Uhh, it’s just saying that the Weapon Damage doesn’t affect it. The stats on your off-hand will affect your stats, which will, in turn, affect your damage outputs.

It´s confusing but the off-hand stats doens´t affect the DMG i was testing it for an hour. At least at the Golems.

Gear:
Armor: Full berserker
Weapon: Full berserker , flame burst sigil and perception sigil
Back: Cavalier´s Spineguard of the Valkyrie (Karma item)
Amulet: Ascended berserker
Rings: Ascended berserker
Accessory: Beryl Orichalcum Earring of the Valkyrie

@ Baa:

yes u´re completly right! – i was testing it for one hour and there is no difference!. makes me wonder!. But good to know – I guess the best thing is to switch weapons frequently not only play one fix setup to manage each situation. But i´m happy with my setup i won´t switch it even with this information. It just works perfect =)

Yeah maybe., i just dont know what is the important fact if it dont work, the Block Pop up but the Illusion dont appears – Kinda strange. i solved it with faceing – this Works to me.

Pyroatheist.9031:

Something to mention. You can clear blindness by autoattacking with your sword. You also don’t need to be facing your target to hit them with the counter-hit from your sword/scepter blocks.

I don´t say face because of the blind it have a big miss chance, thorugh bugging or whatever if u don´t face – sometimes it works even if i run away and sometimes it doesn´t. With facing i have less problems.

Ok good to know – i ´ve never used this trait – was just theoretic. Anyway torch <3 ^^

Hey mates,

for u, i made an extra video to show u the torch power with berserker mix up.
This video can only be seen by you, because the full scene will be in my next video so i don´t want it into the open youtube browser. If u want to show it someone he have to take the link he can´t browse it!.

my setup:
http://ninjalooter.de/gw2/charakter-planer.html#mesmer-A-cgdh617a7675030000000000-101003049a00000000003013b

For u pyroatheist ^^ i guess grimms would be happy if u watch this ^^ and start believin into the torch ^^.

Thank you – traits and Other stuff will come Tonight

Solo and small groups I Play sword/pistol and scepter/torch
In larger groups or when i See that no Good enemies are arround i Play GS and sword/torch

Reason: Option 1 is simple my favour and matches Perfect to my Game play – Option b is for Fun dealing Extreme Range dmg without Warning (there is also a shatter combo on Range GS) and beeing in a Auto Hit Modus or if i Play near a Tower to nuke Player on the Walls

Freakfire: Yeah i use food – sharpening Stones and Curry Butter soup – 67% krit are enough – trait +10% on shatter and arcan thievery to warrior Rage Signet makes it up to 100%

Atourist: mobility infight is with the swap and blink absolutely Perfect – swiftness infight doesn^t make you that much fastet because the Speed generally Drops when u get infight. I escape always with stealth and insane moves against expectations. in the my bookah Video (the First i have ever published) u can See One Long escape scene

Sry i have written this by my Handy and the German Programm spoil the english Language ^^

I would link all u are intrested in, have the traits and the gear doesn´t mean that i´ll be copied ^^.

But tomorrow i have to do some real life stuff now. If u can´t wait watch my other video, it´s linked above, the second. There you´ll find the traits and the gear. It´s all natural only legal tricks traits gearcombinations skillcombinations and quickness.

The trick is the high crit DMG and the high crit chance.

My dmg rota includes up to 15 single hits (blurred frenzy 8times ….) it´s not like a warrior with one big killshot dealing dmg its about have a lot of small numbers which have to come at the same time and stack up unbeliveable with a high critdmg enhance.
every single hit is pushed, as long it crits, with 119% critdmg boost from gear + 50% from the game mechanics. so almost 170% critdmg on a crit. This combined to 15 single attacks creates a BOOM effect. U can´t see it in the videos because there are too many numbers but i´ll search a combat chat screenshot.

Bring them up are possible with block phatasms mirrors decoy casuals like berserker duellant etc. BlockPhantasms have no cast time and deal high dmg too maybe u saw them.
The perma speed is possible with the correct rune and boonduration – everytime he heals he recieve a swiftness buff.

Strange combination but it´s all possible.

i use Divinity: u get additional 12% crit DMG and all stats are pushed by 60. So why a berserker mesmer push all of his stats as long there are ruby orbs and other runes? – because of the buffood and some other effects depending on toughnes and because of the endgame gear i wanne play with no compromises. You have fun while playing earn money is to increase the fun and this works with the best gear available. Its expensive but that is the endgame and maybe the little difference which let u dominate opponents.

Scepter and torch are mostly played by condition mesmer, i have to go through this many times in germany but i think there is no better combination available for 2cond set.

GS? – yeah sure good dmg but 9 sec on weapon switch and almost no defense makes me feel bad. Further more its so quiet easy to spot u with a GS, the animations are huge.

Staff?- yeah i know all shatter mesmer talking about this awesome shatter weapon i don´t think so. sure u have 2 stunbreaks and a chaos storm but watch closely. The autohit is on berserker gear alsmost useless. The 2 stunbreaks are stunbreaks but what u do after? and the phantasm has a slowmotion animation and is quiet easy to dodge. what else? the storm: truely powerful but long cooldown. With a berserker mission u don´t have 40 seconds to wait after the first one was dodged instant. Ok there is an additional protection buff but what´s the difference? – a good opponent hits me with 2-4k auto hits so if i have protection i recieve 1,4-3 upscaled it brings me a survivability of 2-3 Autohits more – in practice u are dead anyway with or without protection excpet your heal comes up again in this one second u would live longer. And u can´t trate the staff with my specc.

Focus?. i love it and i switch it in if i guess it might be useful. Always if i fight at the near of a cliff or in open fields (runspeed). The handicap is the less dmg compared to the pistol =/883 to 1029 makes almost 150 attack difference!

Offhand Sword: u saw it´s awesome too but only for one on one or one on two all above it´s not that good compared to a pistol with range stun and dmg with bleedings (phantasm cirts)

THE SCEPTER: i love it because:
- u have one block which creats u a counter illusion with insane dmg up to 6k
- your auto hits have progress wihtout target so u can use it before the fight begins and create, with the first hit, an illusion (progress effect 3)
- the confusing images deals more dmg than blurred frenzy with only 0,5sec more time and it´s ranged! + confusion. Don´t let the mind trick on you the dmg numbers aren´t combinated like blurred frenzy numbers! – but watch the tool tip dmg information or just summ it up if u don´t believe. With my specc u have passive 300 condition dmg skilled + divinity it´s up to almost 400 condition dmg on a direct dmg berserker build. This brings the confusions up to 1k dmg – and it´s passive dmg u don´t need it. In addition since the patch came up it pierce targets! ^^

The torch:
in my gameplay i often meet larger groups or enemys like u can see in video 2 where a 2vs7 is shown – this is only possible with a good defense! – and the best defense isn´t represented by a chaos armor from a staff it´s quiet easy a stealth – if u can´t be seen u can´t recieve dmg (except aoe move clever)- 0 DMg is better then -33% dmg from protection. in Addition u can do stealth stomps it lasts exactly 3 seconds. Toe torch 4 blinds and deals on berserker gear up to 2.5k splash dmg + burning (360 condi dmg remember not the world but it´s free). If u act correctly (this will be in advanced gameplay videos) u can use the stealth switch weapon sets prepare your shatter and if u are quick enough u deal the burst dmg u have seen in my videos + the 2,5k aoe splash with burning so u have dmg from two weaponsets on one engage.
It´s an other thinking to use condition weapons for berserker gear but it wirks pretty well the basic dmg of this weapons are compareable with usuall weapons + special effects.

The 5 phantasm hit´s with a bouncing attack if u trait it, which is possible, it hit twice with one attack. retalitation and confusion are bonus but it´s better u don´t recieve hits ^^.

That´s my opinion.. all waepons have there powerful sides! use what u want but with scepter torch u have defense (stelath block) and offensive in one. Exactly like with sword pistol. So you can react with both set´s on every situations without beeing handicaped.

Hey,
thanks.

this one?

Hey mates,

a lot of peoply asked me for an video which describes the basic gameplay and maybe offer some advice. English isn´t my native language so maybe it´s a bit confusing if u watch the notes in the video. Anyway maybe some of u could be inspired by it. Have fun and contact me for questions.

It´s especially for freshman mesmer who get in touch first time with this class. But also some little advanced tricks. The next video will be completly about advanced mesmer gameplay.

If u like it i can offer u another video without description. Its a bit more for advanced player.

have fun
mesmer <3

Your welcome Wothan =D, this kind of honor is the best as long it goes hand in hand with a smile.

greetings the Mesmer

dear communtiy,

lot of players who had seen my video wrote me and told me i should post it into the official GuildWars2 Forum. Like u realice my english isn´t the finest but maybe my gameplay inspirate you in a way which can excuse this.

Have fun with it – i hope as much like i had while playing.

greetings from germany