Guild Wars 2

Crafting two professions only gives you ~14 levels now. Still worthwhile.

Also this thread should be very helpful to those new to the Mesmer class.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/Guide-Lyssa-s-Grimoire-The-Mesmer-Handbook/first

I am on Yak’s Bend and we have trouble trying to figure out why we can only get a group of 40 players on our commander tag while FA has 80+ players, all the while we have a queue.

And no the missing players aren’t in the ruins or JP.

What is this exploit you speak of? We are having the same problem on our borderland on Yak’s Bend.

Terrible idea.

We had some scouts but that doesn’t account for 40 or so missing players.

So…Yak’s Bend has a queue on all 4 maps pretty much since reset. The problem is that it seems that we can only account for 40-50 on our borderland map when FA has 80+ on it.

If players log out of the game while in WvW, are those players still considered part of the population which doesn’t allow any more players into the map?

Or, are the queues that bad where they get hung up and won’t let players in?

This really needs to be looked at.

Yeah looking forward to this as it’s hard not to play my main when it’s close to rank 200.

Plus also want to play my warrior so I can press 1111111 and own stuff.

Many think the answer is equal population control where if one server puts 50 people on a map, then the other two servers can only put 50 as well. This doesn’t really work because it limits how many people can play wvw at one time.

However, maybe if we had two (2) Outmanned buffs that were different.

Outmanned 1 would be on the server with the least population on the map
Outmanned 2 would be on the server with the second least population on the map

The outmanned buffs would be different with the outmanned 1 buff having the stronger buffs.

Ideas for outmanned buff:

-camp supply
-tower/keep upgrade speed or supply costs
-dolyak speed or amount of supply they carry
-bloodlust or a form of it
-siege dmg?
-magic find, gold find, badges, wxp, xp

Principle.2019:

Transfer to low population severs

Say it 3 times with me

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excelsior.2168:

Hmm. I’ll look into your build Xavi. Seems interesting. It looks like you don’t want to shatter at all here? Except for distortion when staking? Looks very similar to RossBiddle’s build and I liked his.

It’s the 20/20/30 PU build (Blackwater), but with traveler runes and slightly different sigils and utilities.

Well you can immobilize someone using: curtain + iwarden + void pull + sword 3 leap + sword 3 swap + shatter & blurred frenzy combo.

Really?

I would like to know why our maps have a queue but are so empty? There must be a bug or something – maybe related to people logging out of the game before leaving WvW?

Yak’s Bend borderland has a long queue to get in even though we have half the numbers of Fort Aspenwood who are on our map. This has been happening since reset.

Errant Venture.9371:

Queues are bugged right now. When players log out in a map in WvW they are still counted towards the player cap for the map. That’s why queues are HOURS AND HOURS AND HOURS LONG there’s usually only a fraction of the normal slots available on a map.

We experienced this a long time ago and thought it was fixed. It seems that this may be happening again. On Yak’s Bend BL, we have had trouble since the weekend where it seems we have half the population we should have even though we have a queue.

Anet – you really need to look at this quickly!

Cheloss.1453:

YB hills incredible defense BL, boys hats off

Thanks!

We held it as long as we could with the amount of people we had. We had a queue on YBBL yet we had no idea why our defense in hills was lacking players.

How did you like my portal bomb of Omegas? Twice. But yeah, great hell of a fight!

[CL] miss you guys, wish you were still here.

Just to add,

Mesmer Phantasms seem to use the weapon damage range from lvl 80 exotics even if you equip ascended weapons.

Is this a bug or is this an oversight?

Mesmer class isn’t the strongest for zerging. The Triforce build is probably the best zerg build we have at the moment. It is terrible in 1v1 or small groups though.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fgAQNArfWlwzKqXQTmGb9IipHBHyBckUUavWJF62FC-jwCBYhBCpRZkWIjkIBiKBJHqIaslhFRjVJLoaGY6YKyeEYSBAx0I-e

My version with traveler runes.

Xyonon.3987:

Well staff is definitly the best range boss weapon. In a perfect situation (had it multiple times against dwayna) with 20+ might n’ vulnerability stacks with tons of conditions it dealt 25k damage… each

25k each from auto attack or p. warlock?

Great fights so far this week! Prefer this much better than any type of blowout.

Yak’s keep your heads up and keep the fight alive!

Great fights in YBBL last night especially around NE Tower. I hope FA and CD loved our Supply traps. I like the solo Guardian that FA sent up to try to set them off but he missed three of them! Three!

Keep up the good fight Yak’s Bend!

It’s a finisher.

10 player parties would be awesome!

7 weeks….not enough time.

Because spies would then be considered a new profession?

Zepher.7803:

before today, look at the logs at who has flipped ebays stuff, it’s been 99% BP
Yak’s and Ebay haven’t attacked each other than the token camp/free tower.

you get the points, but you needed an alliance to do it, you both know who will win 1v1 when these leagues are over and you can’t get an alliance.

Y-Bay enjoy your win knowing you needed a lot of help from another server to do it.

Yeah, Ebay and Yak’s Bend got together on Two Taquito’s Tuesday and shared some great food and strategy.

Proof:

WvW? PvE?

(1) Turn in different direction.
(2) Press 5 to run away.

I see Moa rarely used in WvW.

For Dungeons, I use:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fgAQRAsc8dlwzipHVzqGa9IxZGMf5oZgdvXSBu5NA-jwxAYrBRTQCERI0JvioxWcLiGruGT5SEVLFQELjA-e

You can also use Ruby Orbs which are much cheaper than Scholar for a small DPS loss.
You can easily switch to Pistol and trait it when needed.
Utilities can change based upon the encounter.

While I don’t really like Mantras myself, I do use a Mantra build for Arah because Arah is all about reflects.

Nice.

Awesome thanks. Now to dust off my guardian!

Edit: Is exotic jewelry better than Ascended?

Also, why Prayer of Dwayna over Shelter?

Would this be a top zerker build for FOTM?

Condition removal then dodge roll right after will remove it.

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

Brazil’s build is pretty much made specifically for reflecting Lupi. 0/20/0/25/25 or 10/30/0/0/30 is more balanced for overall play.

Yeah and I believe there are better Lupi reflecting builds (Mantra) out there.

Traveler Runes in that rabid armour imo.

Osicat’s Shatter Heavy 3.0 is sort of hybrid as it relies on might stacking along with a celestial amulet.

If you have 25 stacks of Crit (Sigil of Perception) and 25 stacks of Might, you have ~2787 Power/~3898 Attack. Also, by using Celestial Ammy (354 condition damage) and with the 25 stacks of Might, you also have ~1229 Condition Damage.

Crit is 52-59%, Crit Dmg is 73-74% and Boon Duration is 20%.

You can also change out the Precision sigil for Bloodlust for a reduction of precision but gain more power instead.

Sort of hybrid-ish.

I use the following for all dungeons and FOTM except Arah,

http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-N;4VPVz0273VV71;9;5J-OO;113;217-29-6Nk05;9o-FvcFg2v;1V1-60B1G2LZR_-30C-2i;9;9;9;9;3kkkkkk;9;0VR-6P

You can use Scholar Runes instead of Ruby Orbs
I sometimes will swap out the off-hand sword for pistol (and swap out the sword trait for pistol trait in dueling)

For Arah I run a Mantra/Reflection build.

I don’t understand some of the choices in the builds you linked.

anger rising….

SleepingDragon.1596:

Maybe it is time ANet considers adding more server capacity? Double the amount of the players allowed on each map. The new achievements have created and brought back from the past… The long queues when the game first came out is now back. Let’s allow more people in so they all can get their fair shot at the achievement rewards and perhaps finally making a difference for their server.

Are you crazy? The lag is bad enough.

This forum implodes in 3…2…1…

The PvE’ers are killing my WvW.

I also like to run into a zerg, use Torch Invis for Blind, switch to Staff and drop Chaos Storm and then when I come out of Invis it does a blast finisher which is AoE Burning and allies get Chaos Armour. Then use Blink to get out.

Lag is your enemy.

Arcane Thievery really needs be looked at by the developers.

Curious, have you tried playing without using a Greatsword?

The answer is above.

This achievement mechanic is stupid.

Jeknar.6184:

Xavi.6591:

ET, you need to sweep Bay more!

Dear Yak’s Bend… The faster you recapture our bay, the faster we can re-recapture. So you can re-re-recapture, and we can re-re-re-recapture… And the Wxp will keep flowing…

But keep hiding because the ‘die-hards WvWers’ will likely want to kill you.

kthxbye

So true. When YB took a garrisons this week, we were purposely not sweeping hoping it would be taken back sooner so we could flip it again and you guys could flip it back.

WXP for all I say!

Plus Maguuma’s emote skills are second to none.

I liked your vids. Great game play.

Well it’s the difference between hardcore players and non-hardcore players. Every MMO has had these two groups whether you like it or not.

Looking back at WoW, if you were doing Hardmode raids and you brought a DPS class, you were expected to bring whatever spec was the most effective on a boss encounter and you often were required to change specs, re-gear, etc. for every boss. You needed to squeeze every single bit of DPS out to beat the encounter. It was just the way it was.

Now GW2 doesn’t have quite the same difficult challenges as WoW does but the point is that there usually is a most efficient or highest DPS spec that will kill stuff faster. However it also depends on your group comp. and what the rest of your group is going to do. Even with the highest DPS spec, if the rest of your party isn’t on the same page, things will probably go badly.

So for those that are trashing the GS in dungeons, they are mostly correct except that for the fact that they could have explained why GS was not ‘optimal’ rather than saying is was ‘bad’ and that people using it were ‘bad’. As soon as you do this, you put up all kinds of walls no matter how correct you might be.