Guild Wars 2

well they did change sword 3 according to its tooltip and killed it so…

ye but there is always this ‘resist’ when i use my cc

Dondagora.9645:

Hm, here’s what’s been annoying me at some points: Manta of Distraction’s charges have a 5 second CD. That might not seem like a lot on paper, but it feels like forever in combat. Plus, I feel like the whole point of mantras is to give us on-immediate-demand skills, thus requiring us to charge them before hand or in combat for whatever consequence. If MoD’s charges, or Power Lock, had a shorter CD, like 2 seconds, I feel it would tremendously increase our potential for lockdown chain-dazing and hitting interrupts when they’re present. Now, my suggestion is obviously to reduce Power Lock’s CD.

However, I realize that such a buff might be taken as OP. It might even be so. Therefore I wanted to take it up with my fellow mesmers and the mesmer community on whether or not this seems like it would be a good idea for a buff or not before sending it out into the Professions Balance forum.

i use mantra of distraction to interrupt enemy heals x2, its insanely strong as it is instant and u can use it while casting smth else,

i dont think it needs a buff

i seen a lot of my cc (knockbacks mostly) get immune on engineers in wvw, and i dont have any idea what it could be, sometimes on warriors as well, i am pretty sure its not the condition to boon thingy trait, altho i wonder, anyone has an idea?

edit: did pay a lot of attention to stability, no there was no stability involved at all, 100% sure, did check it all the time, i never cc enemy if he has stability

i could see one thing tho, to make necros more wanted in pve (i dont play necro myself)
f2- create a reflecting bubble / or absorbing
it heals allys in it, reflects or absorbs anything that hits the bubble, it has infinite duration (aka till ur life force runs out) , it consumes life force as long as its up, if u tap f2 again it stops, 40-60 s cd (could be broken in pvp against some proffessions like rangers or longbow wars etc, therefor the somewhat long cd)
ofc the lifeforce consumation should at least be 10% /s
its ground target with 600 range, u can walk further away once its casted, u can gain life force with weapon skills while its up, has around 360 radius? like feedback maybe, could be smaller for balance
thoughts?

copied from a thread in necro forums, did write it myself, sry for some fail in grammar etc , dont kill me, pls no hurt

RyuDragnier.9476:

Wyrden.4713:

RyuDragnier.9476:

PvP is only stale because it’s boring Capture mode. Where’s the Team Deathmatch, where’s the King of the Hill, etc

there are barely some pvp players left, adding more gamemodes could possibly destroy pvp by splitting the players even more – therefor less pvp player- way more wait time- less times played

Or it could bring in new players. A lot of people I know who don’t PvP don’t do it because it’s a single game mode. They’d jump on the chance for a team deathmatch, or any new mode for PvP. Because Capture severely limits the builds people play into bunker status…Team Deathmatch would change that around with more builds being viable due to the fact that “anything goes”.

the new meta would most likely be condition bunkers

how does using adrenaline punish the warrior? just curios

i didnt even like the music…

RyuDragnier.9476:

PvP is only stale because it’s boring Capture mode. Where’s the Team Deathmatch, where’s the King of the Hill, etc

there are barely some pvp players left, adding more gamemodes could possibly destroy pvp by splitting the players even more – therefor less pvp player- way more wait time- less times played

i could see one thing tho, to make necros more wanted in pve (i dont play necro myself)

f2- create a reflecting bubble / or absorbing

it heals allys in it, reflects or absorbs anything that hits the bubble, it has infinite duration (aka till ur life force runs out) , it consumes life force as long as its up, if u tap f2 again it stops, 40-60 s cd (could be broken in pvp against some proffessions like rangers or longbow wars etc, therefor the somewhat long cd)

ofc the lifeforce consumation should at least be 10% /s

its ground target with 600 range, u can walk further away once its casted, u can gain life force with weapon skills while its up, has around 360 radius? like feedback maybe, could be smaller for balance

thoughts?

Grimreaper.5370:

The amount of people taking this thread seriously is hurting my brain :|

abyssal scepter

immobulus

i personally love immobulus , abyysal scepter is mesmerish

immobulus costs 1 k gold tho

idk u could get sword but.. i personally love meteorlogicus but the reason i made it was coz i love burst ele

u could go for sword maybe, in my case i like jormags breath more, fits better with my anomaly

nowadays u r lucky if u get2 drops

Miku Lawrence.6329:

Edit: Asked guild, it has no alteration at all, for anything. Nigh/Day cycle and footprints that’s all.

i myself got it, and can confirm this

if every proffession besides guardian gets ‘kill all enemys in 5 k radius, unobstructable, unevadeable’ skill!

jokes aside, u clearly r not knowledged , these skills r great especially the stability one.

Rasalhague.8270:

Thats Guardian Sanctuary.

80 second cooldown for 10 second duration boon = balance?
Thats Guardian Hallowed Ground…

Almost all Guardian cooldowns are higher than 40 seconds.

Meanwhile thief can step in and out of combat every 3 seconds.

PS : I have 8 character slots, I play all professions.

i can clearly see 996 ap :0

Cangrejo Volador.3812:

All clases could use another weapon TBH.

As for mesmers, MH Pistol is the obvious choice, but what I really want Anet to add is a land Spear, it fits so well with the mesmer theme of precision and confusion. Evades, counter attacks, AOE, mesmers going Oberyn Martell… tho with the usual nerfs mesmers would end up like him.

as i said.. a halbard!

finkle.9513:

no its designed for medlee clearly. How can 80% be invunerable. Swap to sword/ focus and 10% (as normal)

i had no issues at all, maybe u didnt use the cannon to weaken it at all like taimi explained?

Rocketmist.5436:

Nah, I normally play with scepter so thats 900 range. I just think there is probably a blanket statement that is somewhat true “a skill rewards not dodging requires less skill to play”.

well if an enemy doesnt stop atking into ur reflects thats not skilled played and therefor he shouldnt get rewarded

Baest.4061:

1100 toughness, not even 13000 health… u won’t survive long even with ether renewal. Any skilled player, whatever class he plays, will melt u in 20 sec
travler runes? why? u should have non stop speed cuz the air refreshment on crit

i play s/d fresh air too but i builded some more survivability, i needed it but maybe u are more skilled then me

i am looking forward your clip ^^

most s/d roamers play in full zerker actually to insta kill enemys, fresh air usually tend to be played glassy anyway

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

null field is broken, and not working as intended. please fix.

from wiki:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Null_Field

Null Field | ¼ Activation time | 40 Recharge time
“Create a field of energy that rips all boons from foes, and cures all conditions on allies.”
Number of Targets: 5
Duration: 5 s
Radius: 240
Combo Field: Ethereal
Range: 1,200

Notes
This skill pulses once per second, removing one boon/condition per target per pulse.

^ this is wrong, and does not fit the description at all.
no, do not edit the description, fix the skill so that it does what it is intended to do.

- remove all boons
- cures all conditions

for the entire duration while being inside the null field.

it is called a null field, please make it behave like one!

no, it will not be overpowered at all but instead working as intended to be after the fix. at the moment, it is a broken skill, good for etheral combos every 40 seconds.

oh, the recharge timer should be 30 seconds instead of 40 seconds.
also, duration should be 6 s and not 5 s.

as such, meet the null field as how it should have been:

Null Field | ¼ Activation time | 30 Recharge time
“Create a field of energy that rips all boons from foes, and cures all conditions on allies.”
Number of Targets: 5
Duration: 6 s
Radius: 240
Combo Field: Ethereal
Range: 1,200

Notes
This skill pulses once per second, removing all boons and conditions per target per pulse.

discuss!

i am a mesmer, and i gotta tell u that this would be totally op, its not only self, its aoe, and it harms enemy as well. its a great skill alrdy, but making it doing all boons / conditions at once is a bit.. too much i guess

dont get me wrong, i would love having it

maybe ur enemy had some toughness.

and u rly complain about the invulnerability? it was champs mechanic

i dont rly see how the earth trait is unskilled play, if u dont dodge a must dodge skill u die, if u do dodge it , its not like u dodge away from enemy, u can dodge to ur enemy and the trait is useful, or are u playing fro 1200 range with staff?

make Image heal when it bounces to ally, so we may have some way to help out team minorly, and all these useless healtraits would be more of use,

well ofc ppl say ‘dmg is the way to go’

but giving it 1 -2 k heals /bounce isnt that bad i guess, and change the confusion of it to torment or add torment additional to confusion or whatever

Veruah.5302:

Darkheller.6437:

PU is for noobs

I give this argument a 10/10. Well said, good sir.

tbh , mesmers dont have much left to play with, just shatters and pu i guess, and shatter takes some skill compared to warrior 1 button spam so…

edit: forgot interrupt build, but tbh, its not rly smth i would call viable

link to a build pls w amulets wich traits, sigils runes, utilitys etc

edit: i take it back after watching vid, but pls a vid of dueling some real players and not npc

gonna get right to the point~

mimic should absorb the first projectyle in a way that it doesnt deal dmg to us, for example ds1 of necro, if its a zerker necro we all know it hits dam kitten our first absorb we always get the dmg

when some projectyle with a cc is fired, it interrupts our mimic (on first impact like above) , its fine k but, it doesnt absorb the projectyle so we cant shoot it back to our enemy

more may come ~

thats all~

Prysin.8542:

Wyrden.4713:

5 spirit ranger, hyna pet, hyna pet summon, pirate rune, 2 summoning sigils, there u go

dun forget ogre whistle. Just for the heck of it.

mortar kit, seed turret, fire elemental powder

thats about it i guess?

5 spirit ranger, hyna pet, hyna pet summon, pirate rune, 2 summoning sigils, there u go

i love using bugged portals with experimental gun and selfportals, so u can use ur own portal, its in cd, but now someone else needs ur portal, u just use experimental gun , drop weap asap before second portal opens, now u can put ur own portal wherever u want with its own cd

or u can put a port, if u die, u usually cant use the portal anymore, u just use experimental gun, drop it b4 second portal of it appears, wait till the electric portal runs out, tadaaaaa u can use ur portal wich u put before u died now!

its rly a cool thing, try it out !

T raw.4658:

TheThiefMaster.3812:

The Op is as clueless as it gets tbh and he obviously started this thread to flame people since he was on Amon’s thread earlier spilling the same stuff.

You’ve been told this but ill repeat , the reason people aren’t happy about the changes isn’t because they are going to make our class unplayable its more about how unwarranted and unnecessary the changes were …..however for some reasons that seems to be too difficult for you to grasp.

You’re also missing the point.

Every class discussed so far has received buffs. Even warrios are in the green so to speak after that discussion. Rangers/Engies for sure got bufffed too much.

Thieves got nothing but nerfs. (Sorry kitten about 1050 range pistols…..uhh the only way you are reaching that range is if someone is standing behind the dood you are shooting at 900 range)

So currently thieves are in decent place. Neither OP or grossly UP. With these nerfs and subsequent buffs to other classes tho……..

You get the picture…..hell these nerfs alone with zero changes to the other classes would put this class in a kittenty place

hows war in the green, the adrenaline nerfs to zerker stance and overall new adrenaline system is a massive nerf, and it doesnt proc cleansing ire as well.

while i do think that not all of these nerfs were needed, s/d thief needed a slight nerf at least.

i saw several ppl just spamming skill3 and beeing succesful by doing so (ofc by adding minimal amount of shadowsteps)

u ppl r overreacting

edit: no i am not a warrior.

mompen.7952:

@Fay: No? I think it’s rather common because without SA (for added toughness and healing in stealth+condi removal) we are practically free kills. At least when we get hit between the 5+2 combo :P

But yeah, if I am gonna make the first appearance he can go glassier and pick targets off faster.

S/D evade build will most likely get nerfed (ready up yesterday. check thief forums for whine whine, lol).

Anyways, I was more interested in my mesmer, so what do I do? ^^

balance patch will hit in several months so, s/d thief for months isnt bad iguess

Fay.2357:

mompen.7952:

The thief I am playing with is using D/P, 0/6/6/2 setup, with valk armor and valk weapons. Maybe I should encourage him to go even glassier?

D/P shadow arts? Haven’t seen that in a while. I’d encourage him to either go with a glassier D/P build or with a S/D acrobatics type (still glassy).

glassy but rly high active defence tho! dem random evades

nice vid, btw who does ur charackter actually cosplay?

Ross Biddle.2367:

SaintSnow.6593:

I just want mimic to allow me to actually absorb any skill to use later. Example: quickly absorb that incoming eviscerate so I can use on another. Be able to burst someone for 10k+ while shattering someone else.

At 1200 range traited, I might add.

this mimic rework would be so neat! abosorbing eviscerates or backstabs ftw!

thanks for the input ppl!

i do know the small tricks like tapping the weapon change button thingy that cancels, or small other tricks, i probably know like99% of these tricks in gw2 alrdy :p

was just wondering how and when to use these skills with elixir gun, helped me out a lot! altho i still didnt end up liking elixir gun, to each their own playstyle i guess

and again, thx for ur input and help!

inb4 everyone running around with endure pain and warriors complaining about it

i am coming back to engineer and want to try a 3 kit engi bad

but i never managed to do well with elixir gun, so my question , how r u using it? wich skills in wich situation etc?

in pvp/ small scale roaming

uberkingkong.8041:

Differences
Cannon, you can dodge a cannon ball coming towards you in real life.
Trebuchet, you can dodge a treb attack coming towards you in real life.
Skyhammer, you cannot dodge a nuke in real life.

No one in Hiroshima was able to side step, dodge roll or anything in that nature to a nuke attack. If anything, it should have a side effect like lava instead called radiation which you slowly die as well.

they just had no endurance left, it all makes sense now.

Morbridae.8607:

Wyrden.4713:

i tell him to switch to smth else, but most of em went ‘lol wat? ranger is called ranger cause its played at range’

At least, you can say that they aren’t called Rangers because of that. The name Ranger comes from the Long-range reconnaissance patrols (LRRP), bad kitten s units that does long-range operations inside of enemy territory. So, something like a Rambo+SWAT unit crazy enough to kill the enemies on they backyard (think of Inglourious Basterds movie).

More info on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Range_Reconnaissance_Patrol

its something!

most of the rules in dueling arenas are ‘no elites with 121+ seconds, no life force above 40% , usually 30% life force, no heavy bunker, no pu, etc’

Zelyhn Lekovitch.2867:

Wyrden.4713:

Neko.9021:

For sPvP, Ele is actually in a pretty good spot, in terms of tiers and power level!

Double dagger Celestial Ele is very strong and is either Meta or very near meta. You run 6 Arcana for Renewing Stamina, Elemental Attunement, and Evasive Arcana. You then take 6 in Water to ger MASSIVE AoE heals, and take Cantrip Mastery/Soothing Wave, Cleansing Wave, and Cleansing Water. Take 2 in Earth for Elemental Shielding. Celestial+Strength Rune+Battle Sigil+Doom Sigil. High team support with lots of boons, cleanses, healing, and might stacking.

Staff Ele can be run as a sort of pseudo-healer character. You play with a very similae trait array as the D/D Celestial build, taking Earth’s Embrace and Blasting Staff instead. Cleric’s amulet makes your heals massive, and the precious Water fields you put down can be coordinated to further sustain. You have great AoE CC. Take Energy Sigil and Renewal Sigil. Runes can be Monk, Dwayna, or Water.

Scepter is generally run as a Fresh Air burst build. Look up Zoose’s S/F guide on youtube. You basically take 30 in Air for Fresh Air and 30 Arcana for lots of attunement swapping and Evasive Arcana.

The thing about Ele, however, as you might notice from these builds, is that their PvP builds are generally:
-30 in Arcana taking Elemental Attunement and Evasive Arcana
-At least 2 Cantrips

Mind you, most classes have trait lines that they’re stuck to in any game mode, so this isn’t a problem unique to the Ele. However, the Ele is indeed quite viable in sPvP, and very strong for its ability to play:
-A burst DPS class (Scepter Zerker Fresh Air)
-A healer (Cleric’s Staff)
-A sustained jack-of-all-trades (Celestial Daggers)

Honestly, the Ele is in a good place in the meta right now.

u r wrong about these

How is that? Eles don’t generally take those traits and utilities?

oh my bad, thought u were still talking about scepter there, not dagger , u meant ele in general, sry !

i dont do a lot of pve, but when doing pve, i always get that one ranger staying on shortbow + longbow (pve as in dungeons)

i tell him to switch to smth else, but most of em went ‘lol wat? ranger is called ranger cause its played at range’

worst is, they refuse to learn, they dont want to take advice etc

(ofc i tried to be as polite as possible)

so my suggestion would be to change the proffession name to something else, everything is pretty fine, just that not

i think it would help to get rid of this wrong idea of ranger, what are ur thoughts about that?

edit: ah and found this as well, as i saw other ppl experiencing it as well, i just created this thread(here in this forums, not the one on reddit), ofc not mostly it is ranger based, but most of the times

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/2c80u3/what_do_you_guys_and_gals_do_with_people_that/

screw u, all dem condi mesmers in angz arena now…

mesmer gs auto does like no dmg at all if u r at meele.

skyhammer is best map ever, who said something as rubbish as this

me not playing warrior, me hating how warrior has nearly no weakness, yet thinking its silly that u hate a warrior cause u died to killshot wich is pretty much the most easy skill to avoid probably

Ulion.5476:

In spvp elemental need 15 water or 30 arcane to survive damage. People use cantrips or focus to help negate damage. Arcane skills are great for burst specs.

thats not necessary. u can play s/d ele with no points in water and 1 point in arcana only.

(fury is necessary)

Godric.3012:

Sifu.9745:

Ty for explanations:) I also have in mind sPvP, not just WwW. Anyway, i can go with staff, no problem for me, i just don’t like daggers much. How is survivability with a Staff? Is Air/Watter viable? Or should i run Watter/Fire (Earth)?

Eles don’t work like others classes, the attunements aren’t weapons that you have to choose. You need all 4 elements (20skills) because you are squishy.

- Fire: burn/ high damage/power.
- Air: stun/ swifness/damage/blind.
- Earth: weakness/immobiliz/blast fields/toughness.
- Water: heal/chill/vulnerability.

Camping one or two elements is a bad idea. Eles aren’t one of the top classes to master for nothing.

^for pvp /wvw

in pve u camp fire actually(assuming u pick staff)