Guild Wars 2

LordByron.8369:

DPS is king in fotm..

Then projectile destroyers is second king in fractals, thats why guardians are mandatory for smooth runs.

But we all know that accursed chains is mesmer weapon, so it should glow purple and attract butterflies.

:P

During betas I used downed 2 in spvp to port into objects and res myself. Now only thieves can do that. :s

Gaudrath.6725:

Depends if it is important to you. Some of us invested considerably into getting a Charged Potion, the effect of which was then completely changed.

As I mentioned, imagine if they did a simple graphic change on Sunrise that removed that shiny blade and replaced it with dried guano.

Or just take a look at the torrent of complaints that ensued after they broke the glow on some exotics last patch.

You can’t make people put a large investment into something and then change it just like that. It is just not done.

The point is, only part of people will consider this simple graphic change as dried guano. Other part will actually like that. And there’s always larger part of those who simply don’t care.
Ultimate decision and the way it should be is in hands of designer.
Remember recent ponybow changes.

No reason in arguing about purely graphic change.

More reasons to stalk endless spark tonic!

I don’t want to know if this is intended or not, but try dagger fire 3, staff fire 4 and greatsword 3 in similar conditions. Nice damage.
It would seem obvious that some other profession’s skills work similar.

I think they are cute.

But anchor is fixed already. No reflects.

Embolism.8106:

Winds.3087:

What we really need is fix of temporal curtain reflect.

I can get behind that. As it is it’s extremely low and therefore fails to the most miniscule differences in elevation.

Exactly. At least 2/3 of guardian’s wall of reflection, please!
I’m not even asking to fix certain projectiles that go through feedbacks and don’t go through projectile absorbs in pve. :<

What we really need is fix of temporal curtain reflect.

You missed great deal of utility, and honestly I don’t think anet will be giving “legendary focus avoidance” achievement for that feat.

Are you joking? Greatsword features tons of damage that deals tons of damage while dealing tons of damage!
Find something with fat hp, knockback it to the wall, then beat the hell out of it with your fiery whirl. Warrior’s choice of the week!

I was running with full berserker elementalist some time ago and he was dying from sneeze, so his dps was nearly equal to mine in full clerics. In my opinion, berserkers is for those who know encounter and class like their own pockets, clerics is for people who like to disregard “we don’t have healers”.

and pvt is for www

Solution is simple: play necromancer.

Forget about conditions, critshatter is our only viable dps build now.

Gallrvaghn.4921:

You mean we have the ability to weapon swap underwater? I never knew. I always used Trident. XP

Yes, we have. Spear is still way better then trident in terms of damage, especially if you socket sigil of rage in it and use power\precision\crit damage gear.
Recent changes improved quality of life in trident a bit, so I found myself using it more.

More reason to actually use trident in pve as swap weapon. Also they ninjafixed trident’s illusionary anchor that was previously causing target to reflect any projectile.

But if they change to aquatic animals underwater, we can’t really call them “elementals” anymore. Spirits are spirits, I suppose they can assume form better suited for water. Elementals on the other hand are guys that don’t really like changes.
Just look at those icebrood ice elementals.
You work for 16 hours a day and what do you get? OVERGROWN LIZARD POURS ASH ON YOUR BACK AND DEMANDS YOU TO DOMINATE THE LIVING.
No wonder they’re angry now. :C

MLieBennett.9031:

I’ve always been tempted to try to Mimic a Treb shot, using Mantra of Concentration to ignore the knockdown. The hard part is getting HIT by the Treb Shot directly, before it hits the ground.

That somehow reminded me of renown heart in wayfarer foothills… you know, one where you catch frozen barrels.

Ruufio.1496:

He did catch me with crappy utilities up though because I was traveling. Necromancer everybody! You have to use Signet or Spectral Walk in WvW no matter what woohoo!

And mesmers need to blow 4 rune slots on air or 6 rune slots on centaur to not feel like slug in www compared to any other profession that just swaps 1 utility and equips weapon with swiftness.

I believe it’s all about level-appropriate gear(masterwork at least!) and knowledge of dungeon.

But healing power benefits entire group, while vitality benefit only player. Why giving up on that?

Why don’t just place your projectile destroyer directly under his feet and stay close? He usually targets nearest player.

I hope they’ll just add smoke field to it someday.

davidcrickett.8536:

*Kodiak, you link to an empty skill calculator. Nice discusssion.
“…maintaining Gale, Static Field + Arcane Wave and Glyph of Elemental Harmony”… Gale? Elemental harmony? Please elaborate.
Is there a place you can get an overview over elementalist staff+field combos?

I think he wanted to say windborne speed, and glyph is, well, our heal.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Windborne_Speed
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Glyph_of_Elemental_Harmony
As for combos, check http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Table_of_elementalist_combo_skills

I’m always kinda sad when people outrun my winds of chaos. :<

Ah, you saw that infamous 30/30/30/30/30 build with “clone yourself!” shout and “sigil of instant battle domination” in action.
But all these skills and builds are available only for dragon ranked players with at least 500 QP, so please don’t bother us dolyaks, deers, wolves and other cute critters with that stuff, thank you, good bye.

Half-naked huge male norn in pink for massive psychological assault.

I miss bwe downed 2.

Were your duelists attacking?
Perhaps illusions share same recent anti-exploit with mobs and are invulnerable if can’t reach anything. Saw that on frost fractal elemental boss from dodge clones.

Moddo.7105:

Um how in hell are you comparing Rocket Boots at all in this thread? Do you even know what Rocket Boots does?

Well, he compared rtl with portal, which gave all mesmer players reading that message a good laugh.

Ever tried jumping before you RTL?
http://i.imgur.com/4FzAPnr.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/dRsSN8n.jpg

VmissileX.8653:

Awesome. Well most of the threads were 3+ months old. Was there something in the past that prevented mes from performing well?

Mesmers were viable in dungeons from start.

VmissileX.8653:

I saw old threads, and saw mes were not the most viable class for dungeons.

Who said that? Slap them with minus green, they are either wrong, either disguised guardians.
We are viable in any dungeon. Time warp, huge utility, survival(even in berserkers), damage. Mesmer simplifies most content in dungeon.

Dhar.6392:

Letting them spend two hours getting to the final boss is BS on a huge scale

That’s just harsher way to punish someone. 1 vote for kick isn’t good though.

Idea like this won’t come to fruition even without us swarming your forum opponent. Just ignore trolls and don’t start flame wars please.

Sigils don’t affect illusions, but they get part of your stats when summoned, so stat-boosting sigils are good idea if you’d like your illusions benefit from them.
Like double bloodlusts for double stacking speed.
Stacks persist through entire fractal run too!

You guys surely know that most melee stuff is frontal cone aoe with at least 3 targets affected.
But I think they were talking about gtae like chaos storm and mind stab.

Nibiru.1423:

Winds.3087:

I heard about something called “achiev or kick” in wow, wouldn’t want this here.

That used to happen sometimes, but it’s no different to the “Experienced Only” posts you get now, rather say up front then get kicked part way through because you died.

Either is bad I suppose. Haven’t played wow though.

Nibiru.1423:

A bit more transparency of the players your pugging would be nice, so that you could view a players setup/achievements etc. like you can in WoW.

This can tell you a lot about a player. I know that this can also be a bad thing and cause more discrimination thou.

i.e. how many times they have Dc’ed / Rage quit would be nice too.

I heard about something called “achiev or kick” in wow, wouldn’t want this here.

Runcore.5107:

I think that some Shadow gate on thief make sense thematically. This teleport should have all classes and not only some like necro or engineer. If you speak about absurd portal it is engineer portal.

Pocket asura gate is not absurd, and they could add it with race-specific turret meshes too.

The Fish.8079:

Another question:

How does the game determine which fire effect is ticking and renewing? Let’s say you applies a weak fire DOT on the first cast (let’s say a simple auto attack), then you cast another spell that has a strong DOT effect. Does the strong DOT supersede the weak DOT or does it just refresh the weak DOT?

How does the game decide what is refreshed?

“If there are two unique sources of Burning, the effect with the greater condition damage value will be used until that source ends, at which point, the intensity from the second source is used for the remaining duration.”
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Effect_stacking

Seetoo.9316:

My point is shattering kills illus. If you really want all the effects of becoming an illu, then that should include death. Talk about double standards. “I want all the good effect of being an illu, but non of the bad.”

So why every on-shatter effect trait except shattered strength works on IP?

Seetoo.9316:

So why don’t you die after shattering then? It’s like you’re an illu and not at the same time.

So why do you get vigor from inspiration III when you shatter with persona and no illusions up, but don’t get might?

haviz.1340:

Sorry, but you can’t reflect projectiles on necro.

Master death shroud then.

Noid.2871:

Sorry, but the only response I can think of is “l2p”. Mesmers are widely considered 2nd tier PvE (with warriors, below the op guardians).

Players are considered 1st, 2nd and 134th tier PvE(that 80 guardian fella who died from deer, I know you’re reading this :p), not professions.

Zero Requiem.5908:

Fine, then balance it so that ALL pull moves need line of site

Use stability.

AmateurGod.5403:

@Staff users:
Are you kidding me? Chaos storm gives 3 seconds of swiftness and you have to wait until that boon comes. It’s useless for speed.

And staff users will answer: use backward phase retreat. Works 70% of time(at least for me), but when done properly I feel like accomplished mesmer.

I have full cleric guardian and full cleric ele.
Scepter\dagger ele heals more\faster in terms of burst healing and staff brings even more utility when you have coordinated blasts, but guardian on the other hand brings aegis, good chunk of stability, protection and projectile destroyers, so they are kinda even.