Guild Wars 2

Neko.9021:

Not all Teleport skills break stun.

I guess it’s a good thing I specifically noted teleporting UTILITY-skills, then, right?

Allelya.6830:

Wait until the official patch notes before you float down the river.

Read the initial clause of my first sentence. My query for feedback acknowledges the state of assumption.

Assuming such is true, how does that even make sense? I thought all teleporting utility-skills (Blink, Judge’s Intervention, etc) were supposed to be stun-breakers, the fact that all cantrips are supposed to as well aside. What do people think about this double-negative in GW2-logic?

“What’s so great about the Greatsword?”

Absolutely nothing.

ExZee.8109:

Ilthuain.5634:

ExZee.8109:

Sebrent.3625:

It’s not the “condition mesmer” that’s dead … it’s the really easy “confusion mesmer” that is dead. Combine conditions.

The actual condition mesmer is a slow build-up but powerful once built up. As such, it is forced to be survivable. Staff, our best condition weapon, is slow … but x4 it is quite quick on condition per second. Add in 100% bleed per crit on 3 of those hits and you have something.

Think about it.

If you’d actually played a condition Mesmer you wouldn’t be telling others to think about it because you’d actually know.

But you don’t.

I play a condition mesmer and I have since beta weekend 1.

I agree with Sebrent. This nerf reduces the efficiency of a specific playstyle of the condition mesmer build, but there are still many ways to kill with a condition mesmer.

Ok, I can play this too.

I’ve played nothing but condition Mesmers and not only is Sebrent’s argument a huge piece of theoretical BS because 1. good luck “building up” bleed stacks on any decent opponent, especially thieves that stealth and remove bleeds and burns 2. good luck getting 3 staff clones up, implying that he’s not weapon swapping, not using any phantasm skills, and not shattering for confusion pressure. In fact, go hit a lone dolyak and see how many bleed stacks you can get (you should’ve bought a lottery ticket if you can “stack” burns for over 2 seconds, too). Oh and see how LONG it takes while you’re at it.

I find both of you to be hilarious pretending to know what you’re talking about because the absolute CORE of any variation of a condition Mesmer build is Illusionary Retribution + Master of Misdirection. I’d love to see either of you run a viable condition build without these traits.

Quoted for truth.

Lanny.6987:

Osicat,

I know I’m not sharing any secrets here but your sense of space and tempo are unreal.

In this last vid I saw you get thumped by knockback shield off downed guardians several times. I know you portal stomp on occasion to avoid the big “I’m stomping, light me up” effect. Have you played around with begin-stomp/phase-retreat/blink for a similar effect?

I second this question!

Troy Shadowblade

Esplen.3940:

That is if they ruin the economy. An action like this will not ruin the economy (nor did using Runes of the Noble to spawn an ungodly amount of Drakehounds).

Incorrect. My friend was banned for botting when he’s never botted a day in his life (he just so happened to be near bots often during his node runs in Malchor’s Leap). He appealed it all the way up the chain to no avail. It took six months for ArenaNet to say “sorry we ****ed up” and unban his account (which is really just a slap in the face because I bought him a new account that he’s put way more work into than into his original account; make that a double slap in the face since his original Guild Wars account is tied to said first Guild Wars 2 account).

The moral of the story is: If ArenaNet can use it as a reason to ban you, steer the kitten clear of it because they will.

Cease all actions thus concerning this matter. ArenaNet is very ban-happy and all they need is a reason. Don’t give them one.

Embolism.8106:

Skills really shouldn’t be balanced by traits though, and if Illusionary Elasticity worked with Clones it’s basically 2x DPS.

Clones and DPS don’t belong in the same sentence wherein clones denote actual DPS gain.

Dub.1273:

The anomaly isn’ an illusionary weapon.

It is now!

Crossplay.2067:

I’ve forsaken both as I don’t use greatswords often and i absolutely hate all the electricity sounds coming from bolt. Bifrost seems more suited to elementalists than a mesmers so I’m saving all my legendary crafting materials and waiting for the next wave. Hopefully something will impress me.

Can I interest you in some illusionary weaponry?

/signed for truth

Miku Lawrence.6329:

Though you were the OP. And i’m taking things personal… whatever.

It’s cool. With that little misunderstanding squared away, I’d say we’re gravy.

Iskandir.2764:

http://i.imgur.com/oYxwz3C.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/mxNYrHy.jpg

I think I look pretty cool!

Definitely in that lighting. Forgive my skepticism, though, but I’m curious about how your armor looks in a much brighter setting.

Miku Lawrence.6329:

You didn’t check black dyes. I won’t trust you on this one. Looks like you just don’t want to search for something that suits you. Use dyes maybe? Everything will be kitten if tainted in brown.

Here is Orian set I had. I changed of gender so can’t take a better picture.
Oh and, sorry but who uses headgear if they want to look kitten?

Take things personal much? Also, something that suits me? Did you not see me post a pic of my character earlier? I think I’m doing just fine, and I can’t help but think you’re confusing me with the TC somehow seeing as the question in my initial reply to this topic was altogether rhetorical.

That said, I don’t see why I need your trust at all in the first place on anything for that matter. I’m not here recommending jack kitten to you in the first place. Your aggressive and defensive quips are rather backwards given where you’re coming from in this conversation, Guy.

As for that last bit, I’m pretty sure my headgear suits my entire look perfectly fine.

Miku Lawrence.6329:

Try tier 2 Human dyed black or Arah set. Easier, give him facial hair and dye his armor black.

Um… My character has plenty of facial hair.

http://www.gw2armorgallery.com/armour/human/human-light-cult-2-male.jpg

^ Doubt that’ll look bad kitten no matter what I dye it.

http://www.gw2armorgallery.com/armour/human/human-light-dung-arah-male.jpg

^ And that looks like I’m ready for Halloween, not bad kitten.

Trust me; I’ve checked every armor skin.

drongas.4189:

no. look at true mesmer

I see red on your arms! Looks like you missed an opportunity for pink. Anyway, you know what the difference between us is? While you wear pink, I wield it.

cedric.9342:

What kind of armor is that?

Crafted level 80 exotic light armor… in other words, Exalted. Dye it Abyss and it becomes the only bad kitten looking light armor for human male characters in the game. I used to seriously consider blowing a bunch of gems on a Total Makeover Kit and Name Change Contract until I stumbled upon this combination.

It isn’t really worth it in PvP to begin with since ArenaNet saw fit to kitten retaliation…

http://imageshack.us/a/img844/5064/gw035zg.jpg

Am I doing it right?

Aside from meta PvE, I used to run Greatsword/Staff for WvW front-lining zergs and to basically counter-Mesmer since Greatsword Mesmers have it easy against Sword/Sword Mesmers, but then other Mesmers started rolling Sword/Focus after Osicat posted his new build, and Focus #4 was CC’ing me so hard that my epic-ranged laser-beams didn’t matter anymore since I was getting bursted after burning my stun-breakers that I rarely had to burn against Sword/Sword Mesmers.

Thus, I started playing Sword/Focus as well, and while I can’t front-line like I used to, I’m having a blast roaming around and dueling. It’s a great feeling when you force a D/D Elementalist to burn a cantrip to avoid a burst just because you CC’d him with a single weapon-skill.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Phantasmal_Warden

According to the official wiki, this guy’s CD is 20 seconds. However, with a focus equipped and Illusionists Celerity in effect, the CD is also 20 seconds. Is the wiki wrong or is it bugged?

While I can clearly see rare weapons with these stats on the Trading Post, does anyone know if exotic variants exist?

With Sword/Sword:

3003 Attack (2003 Power)
43% Critical Chance (1728 Precision)
2503 Armor (1583 Toughness)
15083 Health (916 Vitality)
80% Critical Damage

With Staff:

3114 Attack (2003 Power)
40% Critical Chance (1678 Precision)
2552 Armor (1632 Toughness)
15083 Health (916 Vitality)
80% Critical Damage

With both of my Precision consumables up (Bowl of Curry Butternut Squash Soup & Master Maintenance Oil), I have 90% Critical Damage and over 50% Critical Chance.

I suffer from OCD, so all of my numbers have to be a certain way. Anyway, I’m currently contemplating going down to just over 2300 Armor to maintain over 3000 Attack while wielding a Focus; I’d also gain 7% Critical Chance in the process. Hm…

Osicat.4139:

God condition clensing abilitys due to focus

How…?

I stopped playing this game with my guild after it was decided that phantasms must have a delay before attacking on top of also requiring line-of-sight to even spawn (GG), and we each have over 1,000 hours clocked in the original Guild Wars (an example of an actually good MMORPG). It’s pretty sad considering the majority of us beta-tested this game too. We had such high hopes… and now we just play Battlefield 3. If this is what MMORPGs have become, then we’re not wasting our time anymore.

I would also like confirmation concerning this issue.

Confusion should be somewhat adjusted (in my opinion):

Since it doesn’t stack in duration, it should last 5 seconds from all sources (so a mob would trigger it once 100% of the time when not charging/channeling a skill, chasing, or running [thus the duration trait should be bumped down to 20% from 33%]). It should also have its damaged reduced appropriately to offset the longer base duration. Also, the Rune of the Mesmer should increase Confusion’s duration (by 20% rather than 33%) rather than that of Dazing considering Confusion is the Mesmer’s signature condition rather than the latter.

With 20 points in Chaos, the increased-duration trait, and the Rune of the Mesmer, Confusion would see a duration of 8 seconds and would damage mobs twice before expiring, and since its damage would be lowered appropriately, it wouldn’t be overpowered in PvP. I believe these changes would make Confusion far more viable without diverging from the developer’s design and intention for the condition.

I think it’s rather absurd that it lasts 5 seconds and I have to trait it to last the actual stated duration. It should work as stated and last 10 seconds with the trait.

Right, so my entire armor (Exalted [Exotic crafted Light Armor]) is dyed Abyss:

http://i628.photobucket.com/albums/uu10/Velimere/Guild%20Wars/gw003.jpg

As you can see above, EVERYTHING is black. However, going underwater and resurfacing will cause certain parts of the chest and feet armor to revert to an odd red/white color-scheme until I re-equip said armor pieces:

http://i628.photobucket.com/albums/uu10/Velimere/Guild%20Wars/gw001-1.jpg
http://i628.photobucket.com/albums/uu10/Velimere/Guild%20Wars/gw002-1.jpg

This glitch aside, there is also a lot of armor clipping (most likely due to me choosing a more buff body-type over the default skinny one), but it’s well hidden when everything is dyed Abyss, so I don’t mind it.

I do however mind having to re-equip armor after every little swim, so please fix this glitch!

Renegadeimp.8439:

Just because youve known him for 5 years doesnt mean you KNOW him.

That’s not the point. The point is that I know how much time and money he’s invested into ArenaNet’s games, and it makes more sense that ArenaNet made a mistake than it does him doing something stupid after the fact to throw it all away.

Renegadeimp.8439:

ArenaNet felt they had enough info on his account to issue a ban. It doesnt matter what your friend says to you, ArenaNet have much more info.

That’s just a blanket-statement without any supporting evidence. ArenaNet has made numerous mistakes like this in the past. The problem is that they’re choosing to not do right by this one.

mastershke.8145:

Your friend probably ran a bot while playing alone.

I’ve known this guy for over half a decade, and we both share dislike for botters. In the first place, if he was running a bot, he would’ve gotten banned a long time ago in the thousands of hours he’s been playing ArenaNet’s games.

tolunart.2095:

The matter was investigated, found to be in violation of the rules, appealed, investigated, the decision was upheld, it was appealed again, and he was told that the matter was already investigated and will stand.

The problem is that my friend didn’t violate said rules. The only thing he’s guilty of in regards to third-party software (which most people I know who play this game are guilty of) is using the Steam overlay to chat with other friends and browse the web while in-game so as to not have to Alt+Tab.

Hello,

My friend had his account (esuke.7905) banned for botting while we were playing Guild Wars 2 on the 10th. I find this rather ludicrous because he was actively playing when it occurred. He has always been a faithful follower of Guild Wars (he even maxed out his Hall of Monuments goodies gained from playing the first game), and he himself reports bots (as well as gold-sellers) whenever he happens upon them.

He went ahead and made a support ticket, but was quickly written off:

“As previously indicated, this account will remain closed. All reviews have been made. Further inquiries about this account may be set to Closed without response.”

Is there really nothing that can be done about this injustice? This guy has thousands of hours clocked between Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2, and he shouldn’t have to buy this game again because of some random write-off.