Guild Wars 2

Try send in game message or whisper them. Someone took one of my names and the person doesnt exist but the name is on there account. Which is weird.

It worked. Thank you.

Thank you, blinding hits auto, lighting hits auto, done a successful block, so need to hit a gale i reckon.

I have ran over 15 races, placing very high sometimes. Used all the powerups but still not got the acheavement. What have i missed?

100% complete personal story. Allowed to race change. 3k gems. Cultural armour will no longer be equip able.

I currently want to change race, but have around 2k gold worth of item skins attach to the character, all my ascended gear, all dungeon storys, 100% map completion. Loosing 80 gold worth of cultural armour will not affect me.

62 Rares. 6 Ectos. Black Lion Kits.

I would say it just happens sometimes, but this was just abit annoying. Did get Abyss dye 2 days ago though, so it all goes in circles.

Got Moa’d today by another Mesmer who was loosing a 1v1 with me. Killed him in Moa form. Got called a hacker.

Had to chuckle.

Signet gives swiftness when out of combat. Suddenly we go from being the slowest class to one of the most powerful. Our in combat speed is second only to thief, so we would really be a mobile class.

Staff doesnt give vul. Gives the new torment for a few seconds.

If this changes ever happen, i swear i would just donate a lot of money just hoping some of it reaches the guy that makes the change and he treats himself and family to a pint and dinner.

Nuka Cola.8520:

It has the best auto, iwave is amazing, izerker does the job now and mirror blade is great n spammable. The only garbage skill it has is mind stab and 4/5 good skills on a weapon is pretty good in my book. Its my 2nd fav after staff because staff with chaos storm/phase retreat is hot.

Boon removal on a weapon, will never not use it.

Celestial armour gives more critical damage than zerker armour. New best armour for phantasms?

If critical damage is higher on the new armour, i can see alot of people thinking of getting it.

Is this similar to the idea of ascended armour? Its a massive grind to get, since you cant buy the crystal after its been used on a skill point, so will be hard to get a full set since the AH price will be massive, not for the materials but for the lack of supply and time invested per piece.

The spike damage is very impressive, and with sigil of fire can do nice aoe damage.

Before this topic disappears, to confirm, if your trying to make your phantasm damage with sigils, sigil of strengh for the might stacks on critical hits would be one of the best options?

7# Sigil of Bloodlust (25 stacks to power), this affects phantasm damage?

Awesome, thanks.

Kaunt it is a great help. It means i will change sigil of force to sigil of strengh in my weapons.

Any other information relating to phantasms would also be great, i know all about the recharge times from the wiki now as well.

Compounding Power

Compounding Power
Trait line Illusions Tier Adept Type Major

3% more damage for each of your active illusions.
— In-game description

Illusions are unaffected.

From the wiki. One of the things i missed.

Scattered across the forums and buried in many posts are people saying what does and does not effect Phantasms attack damage.

So does anyone know if this statements are true or false:

1. Might on yourself increases phantasm attack damage.

2. Phantasms can get stacks of might like ranger pets.

3. Sigil of Force (5% damage increase) increases phantasm damage.

4. Your condition duration effects bleeds that phantasms can do.

5. Your critical damage is the same as your phantasms.

6. Phantasms have fury trait, increases there critical chance by 20%, what happens if you have fury as well?

Anybody that can make these things clearer for me and hopefully other people will like the information as well will get to know they have honestly helped someone

Anything else i may have missed would also be great.

Thanks

Anyone notice nearly every Drak player is upleveled?

Why are they not tradeable, would be a lovely place to farm decent skins that people would pay alot of gold for.

Cant help but love the super weapons when using it on my asura. Screenshot of my ranger in spvp since cant afford the t3 armour yet.

Think since the event is over no one knows about them, so spreading the love, just search super on the trading post.

Who else is using super weapons on there asura?

Not enough love for the Super Longbow. Just search Super on the auction house. Best weapon for any asura ranger I think, especially with T3 armour.

I find skills not casting and having to press the button a few times.

Mesmer with a certain condition removal phantom and a staff, signet of inspiration.

A guardian playing support type roll.

Fight is quite easy now.

http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/mesmer/?4.0|c.1g.h4.c.1g.h3|1.0.h2|1c.71j.1g.71j.1c.71j.1g.71j.1c.71j.1g.71j|2s.e13.2s.e13.3s.e17.2s.e13.3s.e17.2s.e13|a3.u42a.0.p45.5|2e.1|33.34.35.3m.0|e
Effective Power 4344.06
Effective Health (EHP) 22066
Damage Reduction 10.35%
Reference Armor 1836

Ok can anyone get higher than this. Open to any build, to find the top stats possible on this site. Any other problems with trying to have an interesting thread of theory crafting, just let me know.

Effective Power 3327.92
Effective Health (EHP) 22066
Damage Reduction 10.35%
Reference Armor 1836

With 30% Dmg to Phantasms.

Can anyone do any better?

http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/mesmer/?4.0|1.0.h2|0.0.0.0.0.0|1c.71j.1g.71j.1c.71j.1g.71j.1c.71j.1g.71j|2s.e13.2s.e13.3s.e17.2s.e13.3s.e17.2s.e13|a3.u42a.0.p45.5|0.0|33.34.35.3m.0|e

http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/

This calculator can find out the perfect combination of equipment to push your stats to there max.

In the Thief sub-forum there is a brilliant post trying to find the best mix of stats for a damage build.

So wondered if a few people want to get together and see what we can push the Mesmer max to.

Going to take Fay’s build as the starter build. http://www.destinysedge.net/fay/mesmer/fay.html

10,30,0,25,5

So lets see what the max you can get is, in a power/crit damage orientated build.

Greatsword, Sword/Sword, give that a try. Fay’s build is also a very good zerker phantom build.

I have a thief Denial Flow and a mesmer Deenial and use the thief for pvp and mesmer for pve. They are both over lvl 20 in fractals for farming purposes and was wondering the damage difference. Playing, i see the mesmer doing alot more damage more constantly than my thief.

My thief is in mainly zerker gear with ascended. Sitting at around 90% crit damage. Its not the perfect build but its just tanky enough to survive a few hits in the fractals.

The mesmer is alot more tankier, and has crit damage around 70%, with crit chance below 40%, yet the damage numbers are more impressive.

So for my own piece of mind i watched a video of each side by side, and thought i would upload it so other people can see. Its only 30 seconds long, but it is quite interesting to see. Both are not being played to there absolute top spec, and the thief has more damage gear.

I think pistol whip damage needs to be returned since our pve damage is alot lower than other classes. If i took thieves guild and ambush trap, i could improve the thief dps abit, but not close to what the mesmer is putting out without using many utilities.

Watch in high quality to see the damage bubbles.

I would debate the fact that when stealth, 90% of down attacks cannot hit a thief doing the stomp.

Very quick video (3 seconds) I just made to prove the point, you can see me (thief) in stealth performing a stomp, and not getting hit by his 2/3 attacks.

Thief has to deal with other Thief classes performing a stealth stomp as well. We don’t have an agreement between all Thieves that we will never stealth stomp each other and just do it to necromancers!

I think the topic has come to its end, first post describes thieves as being able to stomp, everyone else says that everyone has a way to stomp, apart from necro and ranger.

Wolfheart.1938:

Wolfield.9812:

Thief – Stealth Stomp, blind stomp (can make a blind field) and teleport stomp
Mesmer – Invulability Stomp, stealth stomp, teleport stomp
Engineer – Mini Stomp and Stealth Stomp
Guardian – Bubble stomp, stability stomp
Warrior – Stability Stomp
Necro – Death shroud stomp (not really amazing)
Elementalist – Mist form stomp

Thief has the most stomping options and also is able to go into stealth very easily and not use up a utility slot.

Biased list is biased. As a Guardian, I also have access to teleport stomp (Judge’s Intervention), blind stomp (traited F1), aegis stomp (f3), and “block” stomp (focus 5th skill).

Your proving my post correct that other classes have different stomps. So none of your biased rubbish. Merely a quick post i put to show other classes. I didnt even include ranger since i do not know them. Obviously you play guardian so you know how to stomp as one.

Thief – Stealth Stomp, blind stomp (can make a blind field) and teleport stomp
Mesmer – Invulability Stomp, stealth stomp, teleport stomp
Engineer – Mini Stomp and Stealth Stomp
Guardian – Bubble stomp, stability stomp
Warrior – Stability Stomp
Necro – Death shroud stomp (not really amazing)
Elementalist – Mist form stomp

Thief has the most stomping options and also is able to go into stealth very easily and not use up a utility slot.

I think every class should get stealth, then you will realise it isn’t any good without the thief traits.

You see a thief stealth, and remove conditions, heal, and regeneration, maybe shadowstep, also extend the stealth for longer than 4 seconds if not 4 seconds later he appears, with lots of initiative. If not, can stealth again.

A glass cannon warrior stealth’s, will run in a straight line, will stop attacking me so i can hit him for awhile, he appears in the downstate.

Stealth is powerful because Thief takes an entire traitline to make it powerful. It takes offhand weapons, and uses cooldowns to make it powerful.

If you want stealth, get a mesmer friend, he can stealth you in two ways, and take the stealth runes so when low on health you automatically stealth.

lol a cheap class that exploits a broken mechanic

FranBunnyFFXII go onto the thief or ranger forum for more information.

Also like to add a link to a new thread about might stacking:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/thief/Concept-25-Stacks-of-Might-Yes-please

I have thought about it quite alot, and never run the numbers, but would be interesting to see. With the normal build i stay around 6 – 8 might, even we were to might stack would loose our runes of divinity, which i don’t think i would be able to do, as well as crit dmg. Just another avenue to explore though.

Engineer are one of the hardest classes i find to fight against. Also they are one of the hardest classes to play well, keep playing, keep learning. You only learn from loosing.

Hello Wish.

Been following this thread (your thread) very closely. The fact your willing to take the time to help people and also admit you are trying things out and explaining it, is really amazing, so well done to you.

Most of the things you have gone into detail with are very known facts, and its about time they were written down, i personally suggest you start another thread of your own, to continue the discussion and take copy/paste of your information you have already put down. Just so it can get stickied and be alot more clearer for people, since this is the kind of information alot of new thiefs need.

Currently, i think the best build is:

http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/thief/?7.0|8.1p.h2.8.1p.h17|c.1p.h2.8.1p.h17|1c.71j.1g.71j.1c.71j.1g.71j.1c.71j.1g.71j|2s.d13.2s.d13.3s.d17.3s.d17.2s.d13.2s.d13|0.u36c.u56b.a1.0|39.1|57.5c.5b.5h.0|e

Wish is right in the fact divinity runes are the best for the thief. Toughness and Vitality both scale better at lower numbers, and by having a small addition from the runes, it saves having to make a bigger difference somewhere else and loosing the most important stat, crit damage.

Now onto topic, most of the damage comes from backstab which is always going to crit. We also know that having crit chance below 50% also drops our damage and healing to much. So yes you can run full Valk, and just forget about precision and have a higher survive-ability, but you also will struggle to follow up your backstab with meaningful damage. If you run with a group this could be an effective build, since your other members will contribute to the overall group dps, while you can do spike damage and not worry about taking to much damage.

Keep up the number crunching Wish, really enjoying following this thread, and hope you do start your own one with the first 2 posts showing different things you have worked out with conclusions.

As funny as it sounds but for leveling i loved the sword/x and shortbow. Aoe dmg, fast movement speed to get around the map, aoe dmg. Pistol whip is less damage but you can evade. If under lvl 40 take caltrops for some good condition damage.

Was great fun, got a few guildies together and headed out as a team, if we saw someone in the distance we waited and all got it, by the end of our 30mins farm we had about 8 players (4 guidies) and they were just going down to quick, so we changed to 1 of the EVERY other map, was awesome. Great change, well implemented and still soloable.

Sell it quick. Its dropping in price and you can make 10 gold and buy it back.

25 rich coffers, 350ish candy, 20 bits of food, 2 risen knights, 5 fireworks. Was hoping it would drop lots of the jorbreakers to be honest.

There all jumping puzzles, which already have acheavements, so i say this is the jumping puzzle part of the precursor hunt. To stop the market from crashing they are saying its not.

Hell let them unbind and become sell able as well, to items that are obviously sell able in the first place Danikat.

Alot of people i know would pay money for this since they have items on alts that they just dont use and could do with the gold to put on there mains.

Xandr.3407:

Finally have a look I’m happy with ^^ not too sure about the shoulders though.

Vigil or T2 human shoulders would suit the look, especially because you say your not happy with it.

Thorp.7982:

Speaking from a WvW standpoint, D/P having much more utility than D/D, I can still see why people (including myself) prefer dagger offhand. The setup is faster to burst with D/D, and for some people the risk of missing a Cloak and Dagger is worth that small amount of time. With all of the NPCs in WvW, it’s even easier to use. That’s really the only clear reason (besides fun) I can think of why so many still choose X/D, other than being stubborn.

Burst is faster, but also higher, and if you time it right, more successful. Venom, Steal (Mug), Cloak and Dagger, Backstab, Heartseeker.

Compared to, Blackpowder, heartseeker (hits a full life enemy, cloak and dagger does more damage), steal (Mug), backstab, heartseeker.

I find dagger/dagger better, mainly for its ability to stealth stomp faster. Stomping in spvp will win or loose the fight, the point, and will decide the game.

I can increase the quality but i am trying to find the smallest file size with viewable quality, so would you say leave it how it is, or increase quality. Lastly would you like a 1080p option?

Starting up game recording and uploading and just want a quick check that the quality is good enough for people to watch.

Please dont worry about the content, was all just a test.

Any feedback would be awesome.

That was a backstory not his actual question.

I recommend the legendary dagger Incinerator. Fractal Dagger. Or the ice dagger. Since they all have particle effects they become more noticeable.

I found it stupidly easy with thief and remove conditions in stealth trait. D/5, stand there healing in stealth trait, regen in stealth, and no conditions can touch me. This is more important in the exp mode than the easy storymode.

2 Stacks of might everytime you stealth. 25 Shadow arts.