Guild Wars 2

Yea it’s the last part of my collection aswell. For a whole 3 days now I couldn’t find him once not stuck at his place. It’s extremly frustrating, even worse than the stupid wraith… but hell, at least that guy showed up once in a while.

I really hope since it’s tuesday and patchday, they fix this bug or at least change it to another champ branded devourer… :/

When the damage is applied, you have to be within 240 range.

Kahrgan.7401:

boumz.9851:

did you seriously find nothing else to complain about? flamethrower is viable as it is.

Its really only viable as a : swap to, hit some cds, swap out. As a stand-alone weapon, its auto attack is pretty bad.

after they buffed it like 432849 times now, no, it’s fine and good dps, yet just worse than bomb aa for dps, and worse than nade aa for vuln.

It depends on what you do: open world, jungle, tyria, fotm, dungeons, raids – ?

Use the skills with most damage as often as you can. Right now there is no longer a proper rotation, thx to alacrity :P Now the only thing that counts is the inner clock that remembers every cd on every kit.

It’s more awkward that the radius is bugged and the indicator scales with the size of the mob, even tough the radius always is just 240~

Btw I noticed something else, apparently phantasms scale with vita. With the vita in my build, phantasms have 16% more HP.

Another interesting thing I noticed is that the iAvenger has 14k HP, like the iDefender. All others have only about 6k HP.

@Fay
PH does still not affect iAvenger as far as I could test it. Sad news :/

@Fay
True, did kinda forget about that! Good you mention it. But I guess the alacrity from wells will come up with that. Yet afaik the iavenger does not grant alacrity to himself, could be wrong tough…

@Lumpy
Passive damage means the damage the whole party deals more because of something that doesn’t deal damage itself. For example if the mesmer applies quickness, everyone deals much more damage during that time. This dps increase is called the passive damage of the mesmer. This means you can’t just take 5 times the profession with the highest dps for max dps, you want to take the 5 professions with the highest personal AND passive damage for max dps. Warrior for instance has probably the highest passive damage due might generation, banner and empower allies (+150 power for everyone).

About the breakbar crushers: Slow is a very rare condition that drains break bars very fast. You won’t have a 100% slow uptime, so they can reapply it very quick to break the breakbar. Also there is focus 4# and shield 5# aswell F3 if you really need to (wich in this build even is aoe).

greez!

Malediktus.9250:

If you nerf their toughness, please increase their power scaling. When I did Mai Trin on lvl 100 it felt like she was doing less damage than on the old lvl 50. On lvl 100 she should one hit low health classes!

Totally agree on this one. I feel most fights are just LONG now, but not challenging. #wetnoodlefight :P

Faux.1937:

Please add a 76-100 Daily (combined with a 51-75)

Also agree on this one, this is a very important point imo.

I want to hint to this thread over here, you may want to read the the OP

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Fractals-need-to-change/first#post5756288

@frifox:

I did not test PH on avenger yet, will do soon.

Alacrity uptime with 3 iAvengers is meant without any other skills like wells and ofc I tested it on an ally, not myself But good thinking, made the same mistake once too :P

@Plum Butter:

Ever done high lv fotm where the enemy constantly gain retaliation? That’s the pain in the * xD Same goes for some Chak. I also expect this kind of damage in raids, somewhere. That said, if you take a hit and you still are alive, you’ll most likely have some time to regenerate. That’s where you can cast a mantra.

About Minstrel stats – I tried to use them but they are just not better at all. The problem are the following points:

• less healing power
• less damage (but who cares in that build right? :P)
• the boon duration increase is decent, yet our boons are so short, the boon duration increase results in about 1-2 sec quickness and does not have any effect on the 1.25 sec per tic from TW (monk runes give already boon duration)
• regeneration is anyway permanent

The Heal-O-Mancer not being able to burst heal is less of a negative point than first tought. Sure 2.75s cast time is quite long, yet I assume a decent quickness uptime wich reduces this already ba almost a whole second. Still not that fast but totally ok. I mean the heal after that is huge.

and thanks for all the support and compliments!

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Upcoming-Fractal-Changes

This is a good step in the right direction. Now only daily, diversity, and difficulty have to change

I present to you … the magnificent heal mesmer, aka, the
Heal-O-Mancer!

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vhAQRAse8dncfCloh9fCmfCUrhllj68ACgIr+Qj0JFdyOhLD-TByGABA8EAwTJoiq/M0+DLp8oWlYtpfg8TCgoA8L-e

Why now? Why not pre hot? What happened???

Well the answer is quite simple:

• First raids may force parties to have one or two decent healers. But healing power focused healers obviously won’t deal that much damage anymore. So the best professions for healing are those, who deal a high amount of passive damage, trough vulnerability, alacrity and quickness, since those factors won’t be affected.
• Second, the mesmer recieved a pure passive damage phantasm, the iAvenger, aswell a whole bunch of those none-personal-damage-focused skills: wells. Alacrity and quickness are the primary reasons, why a chronomancer is in your party, aka the passive damage. The personal mesmer damage (including phantasms) may have become quite good with the QoL buff for phantasms, but this is quite negligible.

Pfff… but how can a mesmer even heal his allies? … Mesmer can’t heal … right?

WRONG! >cough< I mean: That’s not true my dear friend. While focusing on healing power, a Mesmer can be quite powerful with some traits and skills:

• Restorative Mantras is the main source of healing with the mesmer. Mantra of Pain heals others for over 4’000 each time.
• Healing Prism is just a small heal every 10 seconds. Yet 1’200 divided by 10 is 120 too, so it’s quite ok. Even tough, this little minor trait grants you 100 healing power per illusion, resulting into 300 free healing power.
• Illusionary Inspiration is just … wow. You could also call it “Illusionary Warrior Sigil Grant Skill … Thing”. Yea, it grants permaregen to EVERYONE, wich results with high healing power to 400 heal per sec. Really impressive, and all you have to do is to have at least one phantasm.
• Well of Eternity is the big mommy of heal. Big fat 8’000 HP for all your allies, and over 10’000 for yourself, while cleansing 5 conditions and with full alacrity it only has 18 sec CD. Oh yea – and it grants alacrity.

Ohhhhkeyyyyy, so … this is quite amazing! Any important tips and notes about the build?

I’ve chosen Inspiration and Illusions over the others because of serval reasons:

• Illusions grant you 15% cdr to all your shatter skills, including F5. Awesome.
• Illusions grant you faster attacking iAvengers and less CD on them.
• Inspiration give you the ability to reflect with focus.
• Having mantras NOT traited, lets you spam mantra of pain even faster. The damage is like 0 anyway with this build.

Some more tips:

• Alacrity can be kept up 100% for the whole party with 3 iAvengers. This means ofc you included wich combined with quickness lets you charge AND cast a mantra of pain about 3 sec.
• The sword is for vulnerability (passive damage) and not using a scepter since yea … you know the whole clones destroys phantasm stuff. Yet you won’t be using it’s aa very often anyway, but blurred frenzy and a fast spawned clone on illusionary leap is quite good for an opener.
• iAvenger literally DESTROYS breakbars.
• It doesn’t really matter if you chose Cleric or Magi stats. One is healing power > power = toughness, the other is healing power > precision = vitality. Power deals 7% more personal dmg, the precision focused one 17% more with reflected stuff. I prefer as much precision as possible, yet some trinkets are not avaible with those stats so… Yea you can see the results in the build editor.

I have a HUGE amount of fun with this build right now. It’s something special, different from anything before and I enjoy it. If Raids require to have one or two decent healers, or simply sustained heal, the mesmer is 100% totally viable in that position, because of the mentioned reasons.

What are your opinions? Do you agree, do you not? I wish you all a good day and hf with this post and the Heal-O-Mancer!

greez
- Xyonon!

It still deals good damage on interrupt for trash, but rather random and the lock itself became useless. I like traiting F1 more nowdays.

Show your other weapon set? :P

Rising Dusk.2408:

The OP is a really good post, thanks for that. I’ll make sure the fractals team sees it.

Thank you very much, this means A LOT to me.

I really hope things are gonna change – and you just gave me that hope. Many of my friends stopped playing fotm since hot (some still do daily tough). It’s more like a normal “daily” rather than a challenge we want to do. “Anyone needs daily? We’ll do all the swamps” etc.

I miss the deep urge to do the highest possible fractals for having the hardest time and the biggest reward!

Let’s see what ANet says

Hello everyone – sad topic is sad but … everyone knows it by now, yet apparently ANet doesn’t. Fractals are dead! I’m sorry to disappoint you but you completly ruined fractals and now they are just like dungeons: “No fun, no reward, not worth doing”. There are some major problems with fractals right now:

Reward

• The reward for doing fractals is too small.
• There is no real reward for doing high lv fractals: The additional time you need for “just going trough this” does not get rewarded at all (looking at you 75+).
• Since the patch I have never ever dropped a chest of ascended gear, and barely get any rings anymore. That’s just pathetic …

Daily and Diversity

• There are not enough fractal dailies: Pre Hot you could go 3x fractals for 1-10, 11-20, 21-30, 31-40 and 41-50. Those are 15 fractals per day. Right now you can do 9 fractals with a much lesser reward: 1-25, 26-50 and 51+. A daily for 76-100 is required SO BAD!
• Fractals lack diversity due too much freedom. Need fractal dailies? Yea sure lets do mossman, bloomhunger and uhhh … mossman! This is a major problem and I suggest you change the dailies to “3 in a row” for each tier. So you can still chose where to start, but you are at least forced a little bit to do the harder and longer fractals too.

Difficulty

• There is almost no higher difficulty in higher fractals. Only new, more and different instabilities, yet the exactly same encounter, just stretched via vitality and toughness.
• Increasing toughness at higher levels is not a good solution. This gives condi an (hopefully) unintended lead at higher fractals. There should be a balance between condi and power for all players in all fractal level scalings. There should be enemies with high and some with low toughness, yet independend from the fractal scaling.
• The difficulty higher fractals should have are things like 2 horriks at 50+, even 3 at 75+ or Moss man and woman, more spirits for bloomhunger, different harpies at the uncathegorized fractals, maybe some who fly away at lv75+ and try to kite you, STUFF LIKE THAT is what makes content more interesting and more difficult, not just “higher stats”.

That’s my statement so far. I really love fractals, but right now they really lost their charme. I miss the reward, I miss the diversity and I miss the great time I’ve had with my friends playing hours and hours fractals. Please bring those feelings back!

- greez
Xyonon

inputs, suggestions, opinions?

I asked this question myself and what I’ve came up with is this:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vhAQRAse8ansIC9filfC+pBUrBFcjqMASgXruVv1cF-ThhHAB6pEMX1f2V5X57PAwTAo2TCofgUALqsC-e

Don’t despritly try to go for condi damage with staff or scepter. IDuellist is the strongerst dps basher, a scepter might be good if you can prevent a clone from spawning, otherwise sword aa power dmg + vuln is better for the pt.

All the wells, time warp and two important traitlines aswell the shield for quickness gives you the ability still to adapt. You can take one additional traitline wichever you need and the shield can be swapped for focus if required.

wp

btt: there is not one build for chrono – same as for mesmer, you’ll have to retrait and reskill all the time.

Into the Void: This skill now pulls foes to the center of the wall rather than to the nearest point on the wall.

SENPAI DID NOTICE US!!

Thank you, the pull is amazing! Thank you thank you thaaaaank you!!!!!

:)))

So this stays like it is or what? :/ I’d really appreciate some work here ^^

So this stays like it is or what? :/ I’d really appreciate some work here ^^

I hear you “V”, but my expirience so far was that it often didn’t reach it’s target because everyone just hops over a small cliff and what happens then, is that the gyro tries to go around but explodes somewhere in nirvana

The damage just doesn’t fit that way. The blast gyro isn’t really a “minion that attacks”, it’s rather a fancy animation of a single attack we do. So please let it copy our stats

Irenio CalmonHuang.2048:

Player minions don’t carry over their player’s critical chance; phantasms are a special case.

There is a difference between minions like elementals, pets, necro summons who last long and the blast gyro who is nothing more than a targetable projectile. I highly suggest you to reconsider the final decision about blast gyro inheriting player stats. If it’s would, I’d even take it over the elixier gun in pve for break bar damage + stunbreak, even tough the damage is still worse than EG 4#. But it would at least be VIABLE!

:)

All the other sounds are at a WAY lower ferquency. I totally enjoy chaos storm and portal sounds. Alacrity is just a different level … x.x

Btw I also noticed it pulls less now, sometimes not even to the curtain itself. I think it may have something to do with the increase in heigth so it tries to pull mobs into the air wich doesn’t work. But Maybe that’s just me and I’m going nutz x.x

Anyway, please revert the focus changes …

Yup, had 100% tyria completion aswell and gained no rewards for map completion.

I guess we’ll have to wait for a response from ANet and then claim our rewards later. But I’m sure we’ll get them someday.

Mesmer and Chronomancer have to retrait and change skills and weapons all the time to adapt to situations and be strong. A single build won’t be able to be “the best” all the time.

If you really are that lazy and want a single build for every situation, you’ll be forced to take inspiration for focus trait, duelling for mantra trait and chrono for … well chrono. But you will be forced to change your skills and weapons.

I didn’t say “remove” the sound. I said “change it”. I play with sound so I can hear skills before they happen, with a headset even to hear WHERE they come from. Sound is important for me, yet it’s not good if my main profession with such a high alacrity uptime sorta hurts my hearing :/ I really love all the mesmer sounds, alacrity is an exception tough.

So I’m the only one who has a problem with it :| Well gotta live with it then

The underwater specs are inc in ~6 years :P There’s a reason they abandoned water combat … for now.

And what’s the price of one of them? Before I try to win the map I’d like to have all the mats to buy it

Still no news about curtain … I think we just have to accept our fate now

Heya ANet, I’d really appreciate it if you could change the sound of alacrity. The current ingame “whistle” is so high, it’s extremly unpleasant to my ears. Some people out there even have major problems with such high frequency sounds.

Thank you.

I doubt the 90%+ can be kept up as good as before anymore, especially raids, jungle and high fotm WILL damage you. I take chronomancer rune because it’s better than eagle in harder envoirments, not because it’s better than scholar in the already too easy parts of the game.

I agree with everything you two said but the thing with the illusions. Why would you… :P

Yea I find it confusing too. I’d be more logical if it would reset everything. But in terms of balance, it’s already good enough this way.

kitten armor, berserk weapons and trinkets + chrono runes seem to be the best option.

…or am I the only one who noticed this? They indeed CAN keep up with you. But if they get too close, they stop following you for a sec or two, leaving them too far behind again. At least that’s the issue I noticed.

I’d like to have increased radius on all the gyros, so you still benefit from them when they stay still for a sec. I mean bulwark works just fine, doesn’kitten

Besides – please allow them to follow you over cliffs. You can’t use sneak gyro for stealth if you jump over a cliff and it despritly looks for a way, or it can’t move at all like at the uncategorized fractal at the harpies…

Or just buy them from TP :P

I must say I LOVE those runes! Finally true good Mesmer runes! Best stats you can wish for and that quickness on well cast is just fantastic. <3

I’d like to have the rift count as a minion aswell

Use zerker weapons and trinkets but kitten armor + rune of the chronomancer. Use 5% dmg and 7% crit chance sigils and you’re ready to go. Even cheap bufffood + your party will lead to almost 100% crit chance.

My back item disappears each time I get downed and sometimes in other random moments. I’m not sure why but what I’ve also noticed is that IF you deactivate and reactivate it again, it will show again. Also then emotes won’t remove your back items like they do in other maps. Very strange behavior I beleve connected with the glider stuff.

Mobs won’t get pulled into the center anymore, they get pulled towards the wall itself wich makes stacking impossible. The probably best pull in the game became the worst now…

Is this really working as intended or just a bad bug?! :/ Please tell us ANet! It’s extremly annoying … Afaik you only intended to change that mobs won’t be pulled over the center anymore, but not this crappy version.

Here my paint skills:

So … I’m not yet lv100 at fractals. But the mobs appear to gain more and more tenacity @ higher levels. You can counter that by buying the %dmg potions. But since it’s a buff only applied to you … yea I guess you can figure out what I want to say here.

When will we finally appreciate fairness …

I guess since this is a focus skill issue … again … ANet will take about 6 months to “fix” it :/

Splendid.

I guess they also struggle with the part where they think “I-HAVE-TO-HELP-ALLY … -HAVE-TO-HELP-MASTER … -ALLY-MASTER-ALLY-ERROR-ERROR-ERR*BOOM*”…

Those gyros just should stick to the char like the function gyro does and everything – EVERYTHING would be solved! Hell right now you can’t even jump over tiny cliffs with the sneak gyro, he can’t follow you, he gets stuck… It’s pathetic and I’ve expected more, especially after the heavy feedback we gave ANet.

But hey, at least we had one BWE…

Overall I can agree. They would be much better this way. You can’t use most of the gyros because of the pathfinding, like stealth gyro when you jump over a cliff or something. Gyros just lack QoL. I would like to have them close to me like funcion gyro too, even if targetable. The passive / active rework is twisted since they then just become fancy signets. But the “stick to char like function gyro” this – yes THIS IS A MUST!