Guild Wars 2

Karolis.4261:

Gakeman.5296:

style.6173:

BlackDevil.9268:

Ghostwolf.9863:

musu.9205:

But since thief highly counters mesmer

Never noticed this, 4/4/0/0/6 shatter.

And no to your request, 3s stability from a stolen ability from a steal that might not even land and clones usually deal with Aegis. You can also make a build focusing on destroying boons if it bothers you that much.

Maybe you never faced good thieves then, cause overall, thief is the hard-counter to mesmers at the moment.

Might not even land? Either that mesmer can dodge really good, or the thief is just failing to spam f1.

Make a build to counter a skill? Let’s just not do that shall we?
The stability and aegis are both not in the description, while the buffs are already long enough. The moment you think you can counter the thief by using I-wave when he uses his shadow refuge, it wont push him out cause he uses the cheap steal skill. The skill is already strong enough without it, why put both aegis and stability on it too? It’s not like mesmer gets stability from the signet of inspiration. It’s actually funny cause mesmer has almost 0 access to stability.

Wrong. At equal skill levels, a mesmer should win.

Come back, when you are actually on the leaderboards. Thx.

Why ? Those leaderboards looks like “who’s the biggest noob” list to me.

u just insulted all the top 1000 rank players

anyway, i played both mesmer and thief, i do think that thief would loose if mesmer is specced exactly to counter thief, but due to us trying to be as versitale as possible, we cant counter thiefs with a current build , but its fine, i dont think consume plasma needs to be nerfed, thiefs mostly build for 1v1 anyway due to em beeing roamers in pvp

i repeat, u guys dont have humor, and behave the same way as the op , kind of.

first off, i am gonna say it here, pu just gives more defence to the player, doesnt give any offence at all, most players out there think that pu is overpowered cause they deal ‘insane dmg’ while beeing tanky, this is wrong.

pu itself just gives awesome defence capabilitys.

so , despite saying that, its a really awesome trait, i think its one of best traits in game if not best..

everyone is calling out nerfs, and they r right, with changes i meant nerfs, but not nerfing it to ground, here are a few ideas:

we could make it so that it only gives one boon each time u go into stealth, boons durations of those current boons get a 2x longer duration tho, would mean that if u would currently get protection (idk how much the protection currently lasts in one tick) the duration would be doubled , but u would only get one tick of it, u wont get any other during the duration of that stealth (same as regen or aegis, if u get aegis it would be bad luck for u tho :P)

make the boons only apply once every two seconds, meaning in a 3 second stealth u would only get one tick(veil),in a 4 second stealth (decoy /prestige i think? the torch skill 4) u would get 2 ticks, on mass invi u would get 3 ticks, ofc if u dont get outta stealth before

dont make it making ur stealths last 1 sec more, so that u would still get booons etc, but ur stealth stays same

be creative, dont hate on me, admit that prismatic understanding is the best trait in terms of defence

ps: my honest thoughts, i am beeing serious, etc

why * just helping ppl understand u

so hi, gonna try making it short, we r a small guild in riverside, not all of us talk english, we do everything besides zerging in wvw, we looking for ppl who may want to join, u should have some humor and should be at least have basic english knowledge, we wont do guildmissions , well nowhere soon, but might do if the guild really expands,ppl from all eu servers r welcome, especially riverside ppl w some basic english knowledge, our guild does everything ye but we roam more than we do pve/pvp, ppl from all servers r welcome cause we can roam in eotm if we get same wvw colour

humor is important ^ coz most of us (if not all) r rly trolly.

just whisper me in game ~

bye ~

ps: yes its not rly a great post or smth, neither inspiring, just wont bother writing a long decent text for several minutes.(sry)

those sets r used for shatter or condi by several ppl. tho i cant post a build yet due to me hating scepter, i even play my condi spec with sword mainhand

and stability should be lost either if its rly a bug..

and if u r adding some skills, add all of them

guardian focus during stomp, arcan shield during stomp, guard teleport medi during stomp, mesmer chaosstorm aegis gain during stomp, ele lightning flash to blinking thiefs during stomp, engi smoke field bomb thingy stomp, etc

oh wait, lets just make it so that u cant kill ppl huh? and what about rezzers? we should be able to cc them during rezzing if they can cc during stomp. pls thats not a bug.

Da Sonic.6521:

Realist.5812:

And note that Thieves cannot use Steal (F1) or it will break stomp, because it isn’t a utility skill, it wasn’t purposefully picked, it has no drawbacks/trade off since every thief has it by default.

This is false, I use Steal to stomp other thieves all the time in WvW.

Realist.5812:

But these skills on the other hand…..

Mesmer staff blink
Necro transform elites
Necro DShroud
Elementalist tornado

Cannot freely be turned on at any point during the stomp channelling (at 20% done or at 80% done etc). So being able to use it at the same time as starting a stomp is a bug that needs to be fixed.

Mesmer Phase Retreat can be used at any point during the stomp.

Please educate yourself about game mechanics before speaking about them. Misinformation like this being spread as fact is the reason so many people struggle to learn the game or come up with opinions based on completely incorrect assumptions.

exactly, pls try to understand game mechanics, else it will ruin the game for most ppl

i took a real good liking to the new chaos traitline, but only works out of pve, if u meant another gm trait in chaos then idk

IP is too good to ignore in pvp

i may be wrong but i think u lack toughness

great guide +1 /15 charr

yep thats me, failed anyway

ArmageddonAsh.6430:

Wyrden.4713:

altho i gotta say that there was one condi ele in obsidian sanctum whom i duelled for hours and couldnt beat, he was running dskin and 3 points in water, tanky as hell, condis hurt as hell

/waves to the ele if u ever check this post, u were one hella good player

edit: tried all different spec against the ele in this one hour

I’m sorry you didn’t like the build i made
Though at least this post isn’t similar to the one in my thread…
Though, i have to say i am enjoying the fact that a build i made annoys people ^^

Unfortunately, i can’t remember which Mesmer you are

i didnt mean u lol. didnt even check ur build:0 just said that there was a godlike ele immortal to everything, who was actually silver

on other hand i solod 3 ppl who were silver and higher:p

and u ppl rly cant handle humor…

am i the only one who fell in love in the way he opened the thread and made the post? nohomo ofc

ooo broski hiiii i am the nub mes u duelled earlier

if someones looking for condi help, ask that overpowered scumbag, he literally stood 2 h in os and didnt loose a single duel

uh ye , no , pls make it harder for roamers to stomp ppl in zergs…

silver and gold means nothing, i solod 2 silver necros and 1 gold war today, didnt even break a sweat(w maim the disil. trait)

altho i gotta say that there was one condi ele in obsidian sanctum whom i duelled for hours and couldnt beat, he was running dskin and 3 points in water, tanky as hell, condis hurt as hell

/waves to the ele if u ever check this post, u were one hella good player

edit: tried all different spec against the ele in this one hour

so u shouldnt have added first 2 fights, in first ranger just ran parallel to u and took all the dmg, on second the war or whatever that guy was , was outnumbered

stuff that annoyed me: the text that u wrote was in middle of screen and insanely big, srsly annoying

not sure but i think u got slow reflexes? idk i never rly played pu before, i am running pure shatter and i spam everything in a rly short period and move around rly quickly:p

awesome fights, u did well

ps: i am sadist, u wont get long pros of me , suffer from the cons!!!!

even right now i escape everything with a 900 range blink, making it 1200 untraited would be over the loop. it would get much higher cd as well and maybe loose its stunbreak

leave it as itis, its pretty fine now, mesmers would just be 2nd ‘runaway spec’ warriors.

with all the stealth and teleports we got. u can outrun a lot of stuff w phace retreat alone…

if u go on saying that thief has higher teleports, thiefs r well known for awesome mobility. so dont go on saying smth about that

buffing blink would also make it a must have utilitys(it actually is right now but it would make it to an extreme) , is that bad? not directly but it crushes the build diversity.

i might be wrong on some stuff but, those r just my honest thoughts

gonna make it short, the torment trait on mesmer, maim the disillusioned , deals same dmg to moving target according to tooltip

just came back to mesmer after months to see that leap blink etc doesnt bug so often anymore, and testing new traits atm, btw the chaos shatter trait is awesome if u got 4 pts in first line, fury+a lot stacks vuln. on target, then just burst em down in one go

not sure , but did anyone notice that the torment by it in describtion is kind of bugged or the trait itself is bugged?

dmg is same if target is moving…

is it rly like that or tooltip wrong?

ignore the op tho, he goes into every proffession forum and says thats ‘this is op pls nerf’

check his posts

did a fast ac p3 run today, after killing the last boss the ele left too early (idk if its cause of that) and we didnt get the second bonus chest, on screenshot u can see there is no ’leave instance button ’ either, just reporting cause idk if its happening often or not

ghost.3208:

If the stealth on a 240 seconds cd elite is your deciding factor then I would have to say that asuras beat norns fairly easy.

answer i was looking for, thx!

so, i got several lvl 80 chars at lvl 80 alrdy, but i feel like having a guard atm but i cant decide, shall i make it asura or norn.

so the reason i would like to make it asura is that asuras got an advantage w skill animations, ppl cant see the full range of hits etc, and ofc there is the hard to read animations, and we r roaming mostly as a 3 man asura team , wich is pretty funny, w 3 quaggan heads and similar looks ofc

so as for norn, the only thing wich rly seems to be appealing is the stealth elite, idk wich form it is, i dont know if its instant cast etc, anyway if any of u got norn guards , tell me if the stealth elite is worth making a norn for:p

thanks ! /15charr

Mattmatt.4962:

Mattmatt.4962:

THIS:

Fire: Condition Damage
Air: Direct/Burst damage
Water: Healing
Earth: Defense

Just get rid off this.
We ALL complain about the fact that beeing the squichiest class, we have to spec defensively and that then we can’t deal reasonable damage. With THIS stupid side of view, how do you want the ele to be able to balance offense and defense ? It’s impossible cause with this you split defense and offense.

There already was burning fire and they added blinding ashes which is a little underpowered but a trait that goes in the right direction. I hope we’ll se more trait like that.
But on the other side, they put stone hearth (100% underpowered by the way) in earth, in a RP point of view, i understand why, but still, this is the bad direction ^^

Fire while beeing the power line begin to get nice defensive trait. So to answer your question, they didnt say anithing, but, it seems that they begin to followe what i quoted (or maybe it just total random XD)

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While writting, i had an idea for water: a trait that chill opponent on something like “critical hit incoming”. But have to beeing hitted is often a bad idea for ele. So i think to “on heal” (not only utility heal, but every skill that provide heal) but with the amount of heal skill that we got, this could be OP.
Water has a few “dps trait” but all in adept, water need a few in higher tier.

getting hit is not the problem, u will always get hit somehow… on hit procs would be bad if it would be like : each time ur enemy hits u, u apply vulnerability, yes we get hit but, the problem is we wont get hit often due to us playing defencively mostly, so on hit effects with an ICD is not bad, but thenew trait has an ICD of 10 sec and its global not per attunement. thats way too long

so , traits like shrapnel , etc (idk if there is smth else) r only for grenades or do they count for bombs as well? cant check due to wiki beeing down.

actually, i dont know about 100blades but, on most skills they continue to follow unless u tap anything else even when they stealth, so if what u say is right and 100 b stops casting when in stealth, thats just one of the few or the only spell that stops continueing

bhagwad.4281:

Wyrden.4713:

overcharging means that it is doing the effect for x amount of time

You’re right. Testing it in HotM gives me two launches. Very interesting! I tested the various durations and it seems to be very close to two attacks. If I active it immediately after an attack, it launches only once. But if I wait for 1 second after a regular attack, it launches twice.

Neat.

well i am new to engi and asked for some build help, none helped so i made my own decap build:p it works extremely well and i had my own time to test stuff, then someone actually bumped the pve post and this helped even more, tho fractals as engineer is so much work, w the reflect turrets , used the 6/2/6/0/0 build:p

anyway thumper turret is my fav turret , i even use it in my roaming build:p

overcharging means that it is doing the effect for x amount of time

no, it has an overcharged duration, idk how long but, i always get 2 kockbacks w the overcharge off, ofc only once if duration wears off

i am using thumper turret, it knockbacks 2 times when overcharged and once destroyed, only the cd is bugging me but its fine considering those r 3 aoe knockbacks in one utility:p

and here with kodan armour buff, its not cause of the buff as i said

and here when its bugged or whatever

not sure if someone else posted this, but the eyes of asuras turn into a rly weird colour in eotm, not always tho, first i thought its when u got kodans armour from forge (the10%buff) but it wasnt the case, it just happened to me when i roamed for some time, my violet/purple eyes turned into a creepy red, i first noticed when my friend called out for it for how creepy my asura actually looks

see attachments

didnt read all the comments but, staff does NOT need buffs, its fine as it is, only thing it needs is that phace retreat doesnt get u into walls etc, rly annoying if it happens in pvp, thats all.

and how to beat condi wars in wvw >.<

well necros and mesmer dont have rly great acess to stability either, i find it ok since every proffession should need counters (dont go on me and tell that warrior doesnt have counters, warrior is a broken class and needs to be fixed, i dont count the 7% heal sig eduction as fix) engi is rly vulnerable to cc but its fine like that rly

but rocket boots need to be a stunbreaker:p

so i just got my engineer to 80(actually got it like 2 weeks ago but was busy w other stuff) and i am looking for few builds and advice in pve

engineer is a rly fun class, i like it as much as i do my ele! , just too bad there arent any guides stickied here..

i am often just jumping to the wp in the middle in obsidian sanctum and type /sleep and see all the enemys jumping around me , and they inv me asking how i did that, its rly fun beeing engi, rocket boots r awesome!

so for pve/high lvl fractals, i know i need a zerker build, i got all accessorys gears trinkets alrdy, i’m missing the build tho, can someone post a build and explain rotation, as well as utilitys and wich else i could use

a non meta roaming build maybe..? i am currently roaming w a 30/10/0/20/10 build and use traited grenade always, other 2 utilitys i keep switchiing when ooc , did i mention that engineer is fun to play?

so a turret build w one kit , preferably bomb kit (i love the stealth) and 2 turrets as utility
i kinda like the reflect shield turret trait, so someone can post a build like that?and rotations on how to open up fights or save urself as well:p

it might be asking much but anyway, thanks if someone helps out here:p

sooooo, i mean do i get the full 25% boost if i have dagger in mainhand in one set and in the OTHER SET the offhand dagger?

Noc.2459:

I am also looking for a team.Thanks Wyrden for opening this thread.

i am actually looking for a guild but np lol, dont rly have fixed playing times

i c, didnt notice that, well, stop afking anyway if that happens.

ruins the fun.

so, i see all the teams getting 1 missing player sometimes, then in those teams most players just start going afk right at start and are like: oh one missing player, we lost anyway, see u in the next match’ they get 5-15 points for rewards then go afk on spot.

u CAN win 4v5 fights , so stop doing that.

yes ik, the chances of winning are very slim. but still, its possible if u have the luck of enemys beeing newbys (in this case they were pretty good actually, the thiefs in my team were awesome)

^ this all for spvp btw, for tpvp u always got the option to get ur own team

btw looking for a pvp guild!, i might not represent often but when i need teams i will just represent and ask if someone feels like pvping, just gonna say, i am not that good of a pvper

edit: in eu servers

Wyrden.4713:

Anomaly.7612:

Wyrden.4713:

there r mainly 2, the one i use is http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fFAQFAmAVPLZGgAQCHIyAxly0p0bA-TZQaAAQZAA

and the other one : http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fFAQFAWgVPFQAIkSGOQkBjmJqUp3A-TZQaAAQZAA

empty slots r choosable

about the heal, if i dont get condi favored proffessions as enemy i take arcan heal, if not i take ether renewal

The first build looks interesting. Is it not too squishy, though? Especially with Zerkers. Also, would I not be swapping attunements as much?

staff zerk ele dies right away anyway if targetted, idk wich deals more dmg but i am more comfortable w this due to the other one requiring 90% more hp and 600 range of ur target wich isnt that good in the snow map when u r high above at middle nuking stuff :p

and as nuker ele u mostly camp fire , u wont attunement switch much as full zerker, maybe some water fields, cc, then back to fire to pressure enemy and make em not ignore u, and when someone is after u, run, u wont have any chance:p instead the fire skills reduction u can take the downed font, w that spec it crits 3-4 k on non bunker ppl, + u hit 2-3 k w ur auto atk, its pretty op

Anomaly.7612:

Wyrden.4713:

there r mainly 2, the one i use is http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fFAQFAmAVPLZGgAQCHIyAxly0p0bA-TZQaAAQZAA

and the other one : http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fFAQFAWgVPFQAIkSGOQkBjmJqUp3A-TZQaAAQZAA

empty slots r choosable

about the heal, if i dont get condi favored proffessions as enemy i take arcan heal, if not i take ether renewal

The first build looks interesting. Is it not too squishy, though? Especially with Zerkers. Also, would I not be swapping attunements as much?

staff zerk ele dies right away anyway if targetted, idk wich deals more dmg but i am more comfortable w this due to the other one requiring 90% more hp and 600 range of ur target wich isnt that good in the snow map when u r high above at middle nuking stuff :p

it is fine as it is. leave it at that. dagger mainhand is and always been awesome (not talking about auto atks besides air)

what rly needs changes is scepter fire auto , scepter water skill 2, those 2 skills rly need changes.