Guild Wars 2

Is Mass Invis limited to 5 players?

Transfer to Yak’s Bend and Honnor will serenade you all day and all night!

/wink /wink

Or the weakest server gets Green, etc.

Ekove.4586:

I always found green to be the easiest to defend, red second…blue is definitely the worst (even though their keep is harder to take, their towers are the easiest to take)

Bang on.

Rhyis.7058:

Maguuma; teleporting away from unopposed keeps since 2012.

I just snorted coca-cola out my nose.

eCheese.8240:

For the last time: Stopping your enemy from getting where they want to go (i.e. ganking) DOES ADVANCE MAP GOALS. Not if everyone does it all the time, but if a few people do so, it lets the balance of the population achieve those objectives easier.

In other words: people are presenting a false dichotomy here, roaming gank squads are not mutually exclusive with accomplishing strategic goals.

In the big scheme of things, roaming gank squads don’t advance map goals that much at all. However a 5-man that decides to take camps/dolyaks as their goal can be effective.

Dempsey.8760:

Could increase the cost of 2h then, and leave 1h the same lmao.

lol what? Bad idea imo.

Right now, Scepter and Torch are arguably the weakest weapons for a Mesmer. They are still used in some condition builds and hopefully will be buffed in the future.

Greatsword is powerful with it’s range, bleed/burn but iberserker is bugged at the moment.

Staff is also great, with tons of survivability. Chaos Armour/Storm have no other comparison in the game. Great over all weapon for use with straight up damage or condition builds.

Main-hand Sword paired with Focus is sometimes mandatory for moving quickly in WvW.

Sword/Pistol is an awesome DPS combo which also provides you some control. This combo is great when used alongside either greatsword or staff.

I have no comment on Sword/Sword or even just off-hand Sword as I really never use them but offhand sword is defensive in nature.

I would say Staff + Sword/Pistol is very popular these days, especially since a lot of Mesmers have banked their greatsword for now.

I hope the bug with Swiftness from Focus is also fixed.

It does not stack with any other forms of swiftness from other professions/runes meaning that when I use Focus’ Temporal Curtain to gain swiftness and when I only have a few sec left on the buff, another profession uses their group swiftness, when my swiftness from Focus runs out, I am left with no buff at all and fall behind the pack.

Super annoying.

MI is very handy in getting past the oozes in the BL jumping puzzles!

Yak’s Bend
Minimal WvW queues
Great Commanders, Great Leadership with weekly voice-com meetings by Commanders/Alliance Guild Leaders
Coordination across all maps
A number of great WvW guilds
Alliance website: yaksbend.com
1000 user Mumble server – great for coordination on and between maps
We fight above our weight, with smaller groups often taking out the competition’s larger zergs.

We need more coverage. We need you. Come and join one of the many PvP guilds or bring your own guild and join the alliance.

Still looking for more individuals or guilds to come try Yak’s Bend.

Especially interested in Oceanic and EU coverage.

Drop GS and go Staff + Sword/Pistol. Other than Greatswords push ability that is on a long cooldown, Pistol has much more control. GS is counter-productive to 30 Illusions really. I also find Pistol is better than Focus.

Go 10/30/0/0/30

There is a lot of stuff missing in GW2DB.

eCheese.8240:

Evil Santa.1756:

Looks like the name is a mix of Yaks (bend) and (Ehmry) Bay. I’m from CD and noticed that there are a group of individuals from either Maguuma, or Ehmry Bay that actively work to sabotage their opponents. We saw a lot of our CD keeps that had flame-rams setup behind quatermaster locations to burn supply prior to the location being attacked, during our multi-week match-up with those two servers.

Building flame rams to be ready to burn the supply is not an act of sabotage, its a scorched earth policy in action.

The real sabotage is when someone transfers to your server for the week to build useless siege and waste supply in doing so.

Case 1, legit tactic.
Case 2, bullshit cheating.

How do you even burn supply? What does that mean?

Scepter which is terrible in it’s own right would be better suited with Staff in my opinion.

Scarn.6810:

russia.9057:

[ERA] and [SLAY] from EB exploiting the invulnerability bug.

http://i.imgur.com/NKYhP.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/eMcbJ.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/intZQ.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/JXFrW.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/0Jy48.jpg

That’s not a bug, and it’s not exploiting. The team’s spawn has to end somewhere,
and they are invulnerable in their spawn. Simply fall back to the camp and kick the crap out of them when they push again.

They are using a terrain bug/glitch to stay alive. That is exploiting.

And yes you can move away and let them come out however they can also just camp there forever, tying down some of your own resources who have to watch them, only coming out when it is safe to take the supply camp.

It is an exploit.

Got it last night again while in EB WvW. Had to live with no sound and the constant wail in my left ear for another hour as we fought in SM. When I restarted GW2, I then had to wait in queue to get back into EB.

So annoying.

When is Anet going to either add the Exploration Complete Star to clones, or put in an option to turn it off or just remove it altogether from WvW, sPvP, tPvP?

It’s no fun for Mesmers and the star even makes it easier to spot other non-Mesmers as it is often visible through gates, walls, landscape, terrain, etc.

I consider this a bug.

Ugh the lag in SM yesterday with all 3 of us in there…couldn’t even use my abilities most of the time.

So Emery is an Alt-F4 server?

digitalfodder.5086:

ok, it doesnt have to be group only, but 5 people max (i.e group) should only be allowed through the portal. that completel negates your argument.

LOL and how do you choose which 5 people portal? Let’s say you are tying to portal your group and some stray pugs walk onto the portal and take it instead.

No thank you.

AntiVenomm.8154:

/gangnamstyle

Heeeeeyyyyy sexy ladies!

/salute

From Yak’s Bend

Yumiko Ishida.3769:

AC is best on the virtue as its the easiest dungeon to get power vit tough exotic armor which is the best stat type in the game!

I disagree with you.

Berserker already has a cripple. GS is already the highest DPS 2-hander. It doesn’t really need any more buffs. It is also noob friendly, often the weapon of choice for leveling.

Fix other weapons first please.

/fistpump

Want.

How do I get the giant grub to use my portal? Every time I drop one on the grub, he never presses ‘F’?

digitalfodder.5086:

Daecollo.9578:

Going through the portal should daze you for 4 seconds and put on a 3 second revealed debuff.

Thats all, it needs no nerfs.

No that is quite clearly a nerf. It would be useless in PvE and as an escape mechanic. Limiting it to group/5 people is fine.

The problem of limiting Portal to your 5-man group now becomes a problem where every 5-man group should require a Mesmer, and this then excludes or diminishes the need for other professions being in the group.

Party-only Portals is not the answer.

etrigan.4213:

insaneshadow.1654:

Guys, this is the last day we get to be together. Huggles all around!

Although I’m itching for a change, I’ll miss my Bender bros.

Thought you guys had us this round…after our nearly non-existent WvW presence on Sunday. Seems like your coverage sort of disappears during the week. :P

Yeah Yak’s presence has trickled away all week. Hell, we had the outmanned buff in EB last Friday after reset. Ugh.

digitalfodder.5086:

Portal does the exact opposite, it prevents “creative dynamic” because its the only thing thats being used.

So Portals are being used every time they are off cooldown during sieges? Hardly.

So you think a creative dynamic will be knocking down a gate/wall and then defending that hole every time via zerg vs zerg until attrition takes it’s toll on those that have the farther res point and the other side pushes through and wins? Sounds like a very “creative dynamic” to me.

There are a lot of people posting in this thread that I bet have never even been in a portal bomb or been portal bombed more than once per week and for the sake of adding noise, they just cry that it is OP because everyone else is crying that it is OP.

100B is OP. Spin2win is OP. D/D Elementals are OP. Thieves are OP. Lets all nerf those as well.

Portal is fine and adds a creative dynamic to the game.

Ditto. Got kicked and now cannot log back in.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/Yak-s-Bend-wants-YOU-Yes-you/first#post938933

Yak’s Bend would be a great choice as the only thing holding us back from more greatness is more great people. We have a number of great WvW orientated guilds.

We need more on Yak’s Bend!

Yeah all clones and phantasms are Illusions but often the phantasms have “i” placed in front of them for some reason.

iWarden, izerker or iBerzerker, iMage, iSwordsman, etc.

I have seen them referred to as: pWarden, pBerzerker, pMage as well.

I blame Apple.

Auesis.7301:

I am against the existence of Portal in WvW simply because it makes the Mesmer a more desired profession over any other. I thought we could play how we wanted? It’s simply pathetic to hear the mandatory “sweep for Mesmers” EVERY SINGLE CAPTURE.

Sorry if it ruins your pve experience.

papacooldown.9482:

I agree that portal is too powerful, but rather than remove it why not make it so the level of coordination required scales with the size of the force in need of transport? These changes would tone down portal in zergs while remaining useful in small groups:

-The portal vanishes once 5 players have gone through it.
-The portal vanishes immediately if the mesmer dies.
-Placing the portal entrance puts a debuff on the mesmer that prevents stealth. Placing the portal exit removes this debuff.

Those are terrible suggestions. You just nerfed Portal, Decoy, Mass Invisibility, Veil, Shadow Refuge all at the same time. GG.

iZerker is Phantasmal Berzerker, which is the 4th skill using a Greatsword. It is a Phantasm that summons right next to your target and does in area of affect (AoE) damage by doing a spin in a straight line.

The current problems are:

1. After any phantasm is summoned, there is a delay before it attacks. Because it is spawned in melee range of your target, it often gets attacked and killed by both NPC’s and players easily before it can do any damage at all.

2. With the change to all illusions, it now requires line-of-sight LoS to summon, so if your target is in and out of LoS, when you cast it it may fail to even summon, putting the skill on cooldown and you without a Phantasm. This is why it is very difficult to summon on tower/keep walls now as it often fails due to LoS which puts the skiln on cooldown and makes Mesmers mostly useless for sieging.

3. With the recent change, all Illusions (clones & phantasms) may not spawn because your target goes out of LoS, gets obstructed, dodges, goes invulnerable or you get blinded.

4. iBerserker also seems to be missing a lot more than prior to the 3/12 patch. I believe it is supposed to hit it’s target up to 4 times but it often just hits much lower than this now.

Not sure if I missed anything else.

Which sword skin glows at night?

Also Osicat, could you do a video of yourself slowly mousing over every piece of gear, jewelery and weapons to show all which pieces are which and the stats/orbs you use?

I know you mentioned overall stats but just curious if you have the time.

Mesmer’s are not very good for sieging.

nyaonyao.8402:

HTXL.2598:

Grunim.9034:

Interesting, I just peeked at the login screen and TC, FA and YB all appear as full servers. Congrats FA and YB for joining us in the full server club!

LOL by that measure, if YB is full then SBI must be colossal.

Or ANet could be lowering the bar again.

Server population update~!

You know that just shows the population at that time. Do that again during off-peak hours and the results will be different.

Staff + Sword/Pistol is a great combination. The reason people use a Focus offhand is for the speed buff or for pulling people off walls (which you can switch to if you are about to siege a tower/keep). Otherwise, a Pistol is almost better in every situation.

I see a lot of Mesmers who like to shatter right away or kite. This is fine but another strategy is to hide within your clones. This works especially well with 20 points in Dueling for Deceptive Evasion while using a staff.

Just use Staff 2 Phase Retreat (don’t Phase Retreat out of Chaos Storm yet otherwise you get the obvious Chaos Armour bubble – save that for later) then Mirror Images to summon two more clones and let your target try to figure out which one is you while you and your clones (with Sharper Images for bleeds) slowly take down his health.

The key here is to try to not to move otherwise it becomes more obvious which one is you and which are the clones.

If your opponent gets too close, blink behind your target at max range then summon more clones via Staff2, Decoy or using dodge and keep auto attacking. Don’t bother summoning a phantasm yet.

If he is smart and figures out which one you are, you can go into your high DPS routine (Shatters, Chaos Storm, Phantasms, weapon switch, etc.).

However you might be surprised on how many opponents you can down just with auto attack.

Focus offhand
Runes of Centaur or Runes of Air
Blink
Staff – Drop Chaos Storm and run through it for ‘possible’ swiftness buff

The problem with Mesmers though is our swiftness buff from Focus doesn’t stack with other profession’s swiftness buffs, which I think is a bug.

For example if you use your Focus to grant you and your party swiftness and then just before the buff expires, another profession in your party uses their party-wide swiftness buff, your buff will not be refreshed but others in your party will have their refreshed with the new buff. When your swiftness from your focus buff expires, you will be slow while the rest of your party will have the new buff.

It is a tooltip change. It never caused reflection.

Working as intended. Last night a ranger was camping the puzzle raining arrows down on my head to try to kill me or at least keep me in combat. I used my focus and pulled him down then beat him with his bow. He deserved it.

We should only fight in WvW when all 3 servers say full. When they don’t say full, we should run AC until our brains melt.

Ilesyt.7084:

Draygo.9473:

Sword/shield+greatsword. Second fastest build in the game out of any class, faster would be sword/warhorn+greatsword warrior, but you lose a lot of surviveability

No. just no.

I agree that warriors can be REALLY fast, but accounts for when they are NOT in combat, that allows you to swap weapons all the time and making use of the skill right when they get out of CD.
But a D/D ele will catch up/outrun a Sword+warhorn/GS warrior ANY time.

It’s true that when the warr is not in combat he might be able to catch up to the ele. But the moment he gets in combat the ele will outrun him even if you have like 3-4 guys with you unless they’re really smart and can get the ele with immobilize + other conditions to cover the immobilize (the other possibility being the ele sucks or is a glass cannon).

I play both warr and Ele but my ele is just faster.
There were only a handful of times when a warrior was able to outrun me and all of those was because the portal was right there or he ran back to the enemy zerg which was also very close.
Just 1 Warrior will never be able to catch me and kill me. NEVER.

I think you’re missing the point which is to provide perma-swiftness buff 100% of the time when outside of combat to your 5-man party. Warriors can do it. I understand that Elementalists can as well.

HTXL.2598:

Saradon WarChild.2034:

Xavi.6591:

Saradon WarChild.2034:

The real question on everybody’s mind is if Yak’s is going to blow their biggest lead yet. Almost there!

Considering that Yak’s has very little EU/Oceanic presence, it’s not hard to predict that we will lose a lot of points during this time. Rocket science.

Oh, gotcha. When Yak’s is winning it’s because they’re better organized and when they start to lose it’s because you don’t have a presence! This totally explains why you lost several thousand points during prime time last night!

Many of my guild are on Atlantic or Eastern Time. I don’t have to work anymore so when I wake up at 8AM, I’ll often lead a bunch of raids before heading out for a run. I do the same thing in my early afternoon before the gym too. Is that nightcapping? I’m in North America, it’s morning and afternoon for me and my guys.

No, the explanation is simple really. TC and FA made pushes north on YBBL. Basic 2v1 nothing new really, taking on the smaller server no less. Hell, TC alone could probably turn that map green if they really wanted to.

You really expect YB to hold two fronts, especially when one server as populated as it is? Didn’t think so.

By the way, you can paint the bottom half of the map just as well as painting the left or right.

Xavi.6591:

HTXL.2598:

^

Yet last night we still 2v1 you on YBBL. Sorry bro.

Okay, you 2v1 us. Got it.

I was referring to the commander on YB, not you, sorry. You got your post off before mine. His post is legit.

Alright, no worries.