Guild Wars 2

Yea it’s an interesting setup I didn’t see right away. But yea, I’ll stick to the “meta”

Oh yea that one is true – 5.4% for everything but pistol skills wich are 8.1%.

So let’s see …

Took me some time but here ya go:

Due our already long durations I’d say stick to the 5+1 setup, so you won’t lose too much damage from dying enemies. But overall still totally viable.

It’s late so if you find a mistake, tell me

Neither are 10% more or less condition damage 10% more or less damage with conditions :P

I’ll do the math for you later, kinda busy right now

10% condi duration aren’t 10% damage with conditions in the long run.

No, they just have to adjust the CD per mantra, thats all. Not 20 sec cd for the last mantra, but stacking 7 sec cd PER mantra.

The idea of a trait is to make something stronger, not to make something viable. That was already the problem with the engineer grenades

because mesmer are doomed to be played glass cannons to be viable in competitive and thus stealth is a must.

That’s not a lv up guide at all – wolfineer is good for lv80s, but not for newcomers.

To level =/= zerg play. What level are you?

It looks kitten but so unrealistic and stupid that I have to agree with op.

Before I start giving you tons of advice you might not need – for what? PvP? PvE? WvW? WvE?

Altwazar.3708:

It seems to be a strange bug with flamethrower and mortar kit projectiles when I use them at maximum range. If I use an ability (napalm from flamethrower or any fields from mortar kit) and take a several steps back before the projectile has landed, it lands in front of the target location, i.e. it “moves” back with me.
Video with bug: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR_-oqEBZJ8

Noticed those aswell and it’s pretty darn’ annoying. But glad you made such a clear video about it, now ANet knows

It’s an option to sacrifice those 89 condition damage for 10% condition duration. But it’s not like you need more duration. +10% condi duration does not equal to +10% condi damage over time. I think on paper it wouldn’t make much of a difference, but less duration and more condition damage has always proven better if you ask me. But yea, still a good idea, didn’t think about it myself!

Abused? I still swap the mantras with CD when they got 1 charge left and swap them back to have the “hidden CD” on them.

Mantras are just broken at the moment. The CD for 1 charge = 2 charges = 3 charges thing is ruining the whole skillset.

With best insane expensive food you’ll be at 98%, with expensive one 88% with cheap one 84%.

afaik just pulles once

It made them rather viable than op. Right now they are crippled again due the full cd for even 1 stack.

Yea you already got 84% (or 88% with the expensive bufffood) bleeding and burning dura with the current meta equip and build for engi. You can’t get over 100% (except for +50% dura for pistols).

I suggest you this build for pve open world, dungeons and fractals.

• Note: the editor bugs and thinks he can’t go beyond 100% condi dura with the pistol trait, stating 10sec dura for blow torch for example. But it’s actually 13.75, dont worry

Questions?

I know I know … underwater combat, who really cares :P But since Mesmer is one of the strongest (if not THE strongest) professions for underwater combat, I kinda do.

Apparently Wells are unable to be cast underwater. Necro wells can be cast underwater tough. Therefore neither weapon- (obviously), nor utility-skills of the chronomancer can be used underwater.

The few ppl who might be interested: discuss.

Pardon me but clipping is just a tiny issue when it comes to animations trough emotes. What makes more sense? To wave your friend while your spinal wing backpack slightly cuts your ellbow or when it magical disappears? … meh

Is it just me or is somone else also annoyed by the fact that emotes, instruments, dancing books and a few other things are removing the back items?

It’s just an aesthetic problem, but it annoys me so heavily, each time i wave, dance, bow, sit, my back item gets invisible until the animation is over or i de- and reactivate it again…

:( QoL please

It’s a flamethrower since she used it like that in the trailer. There are most likely 2 engis on the screenshot, indicated by the brown dyes. Most likely these are indeed skin reworks since the current one’s really look like placeholders to me. Let’s wait and see

Gave my feedback too – really really good work! ANet should look into it!

Yea for condi it won’t matter that much, since 5% weapon dmg isn’t really important.

To give you some accurate numbers: Both givers and sinister deal almost the same damage when the full duration of a condi skill has expired. Sinister is about 0.5% weaker but that’s insignificant.

More important is the fact that sinister can do the same damage in a shorter time and therefore has higher dps (~8%) and suffers less from conditions who were running while the target dies.

Anything else I can help with?

Or simply, all phantasms spawn directly at your position (except for warden / zerker).

Sinister i did ton’s of math, sinister is better. Also once you got ascended, there are no givers weapons.

I sense a high amount of NaCl over my comment… ;D

btt: Since we don’t know all specs, we don’t know, but daredevil power ratios look pretty strong atm.

i agree that the random spawn sux – i want to spawn him next to me to place him safe.

The new profession skills and traits MUSTN’T nullify our current builds. They should be better and weaker in some aspects of the game. Otherwise build diversity will be elite spec + 2 traitlines. It’s not in their intention to do that.

The hammer will most likely outdamage the rifle due the fact that it is a melee weapon. The aa will be weak as usual, like a cleaving rifle aa, we will definitly have at least 1 blast finisher on it aswell a knockback /- down. And probably some sort of condition skill too. I assume the hammer will replace the rifle dps wise unless it lacks of vuln stacks.

*Advanced Turrets shield when overcharged
-> best idea ever

*Deployable Turrets baseline
-> worst idea ever

Even though you would shift heal from deploying to cleansing burst, it would still be put down, overcharged and picked up again (or exploded). You would have to shift to soothing mist, but even though all other healing options are so extremly weak we still would do exactly the same as we do now :P

Just for eradicating any misunderstandings:

Pre July 23. untraited:

• bomb 1-4: 180 range
• glue bomb: 240 range
• big ol’ bomb: 300 range

Pre July 23. traited:

• bomb 1-4: 240 range
• glue bomb: 300 range
• big ol’ bomb: 360 range

Post July 23.:

• bomb 1-4: 180 range
• glue bomb: 240 range
• big ol’ bomb: 300 range

Pre August 25. (wich was my brithday, what a present ANet ;D):

• bomb 1-4: 240 range
• glue bomb: 240 range
• big ol’ bomb: 300 range

I wonder what the irony is when you reflect a dagger and interrupt a dagger while having power block traited :’D hue hue hue

Afaik they mentioned the “+60 range for bombs” trait will be baseline. Therefore:
bomb 1-3: 180 range → 240 range
bomb 5: 240 range → 300 range
bob: 300 → 360 range

Guys :< … I’m talking about pve … it’s alwasy such a flamewar when you miss to mention the section :P

It’s not an obsession of not running with kits. It’s a desire to not run with 4 kits, to use other skills too, not to end up like a warrior with 5 setup heal/utility/elite skills you never wanna touch.

The only time period you can not change is bob until 2nd os. And therefore you will always see 12, wich might be 12,99 aswell sec.

Aslong the drones do something worthhile, I see them replace 1 or 2 kits. You often don’t need all 5 skills of a kit. For example the grenade kit: If the drone (just stupid theory so you know what i mean) would do grenade 1# each time you use rifle 1#, it could already replace the grenade kit. The toolbelt would throw grenade barrage for example. We will have to wait and see, but I think the drones have to be very powerful to replace a kit.

The question is how long that cd will be – i beleve 5-10sec would be ok.

I’m fine without having nearly no blast finishers, since we would become pretty op with a trait like “shatter skills are now 1 blast finisher on persona”. Even though it would be funny :P

But no, I’m fine with the diversity in classes. Blast finisher clearly belongs to other professions. But the point, Robert Gee, you mentioned that Mesmer provide fields, I’d really like to see improvement for the chaos armor or etheral fields in general.

Jerus.4350:

What Are said, though I believe you can still do it with SD, it just means you have to spam the crap out of the buttons to get them to fire. Best to not take that trait.

BoB -> Orbital -> Field of your choice.

I’m loving traited orbital, allows me to do an easy full stealth stack (Healing Turret -> BoB -> Orbital -> Smoke Bomb -> Wait a tick -> Detonate HT in Smoke Field as BoB/Orbital do their thing -> Swap FT and Flame Blast) Flame blast can be swapped for your shield blast, a thumper rumble or really a lot of options.

Short fuse is key to using the Bomb fields for it.

Traited orbital with “ht > bob > os > sb > detonate ht > acid bomb”, even if done perfectly, you only get 12 sec because of the long delay between first and last finisher. Nothing beats thumper turret for a “perfect” stack, but who want’s to have a 50sec blocked utility slot eh? Another option is “ht > bob > sb > magnetic shield twice + rumble (thumer toolbelt) + detonate ht > acid bomb”, since they almost all can be used at the same time without waiting for animations. Especially using acid bomb over flame blast gives you an additional quality of life since A) the animation is shorter and you can already jump into the direction you want to skip.

btt: Are is right, only with short fuse: Big Ol’ Bomb > Orbital Strike > Fire Bomb all 3 finishers are gonna hit. This is be the only in combat option to use them all at the same time. But since orbital has 50% more cd than bob and the fire bomb is up all the time, you could even play without short fuse and use those finisher seperatly. If you are talking about pre might stack, you’re doing better with the 10 sec napalm fire field:

healing turret > orbital strike > napalm > flame blast > big old bomb > rumble (thumper toolbelt) > swap bomb kit with elixier gun > acid bomb > flame blast (> magnetic shield if you really want to) = 25 stacks might (or 24 withtout the last one).

But it would be better if your whole team blasts together so all the finishers come at the same time and therefore the might uptime is longer

Originally all bombs had 180 range, glue bomb had 240 and big old 300. The old bomb trait increased those ranges to 240, 300 and 360. Right now all bombs are 240 and big old 300.

Also mortar toolbelt seems not to be 360. Mesmer TW is 360 and the distance zoomed out between char and minimap is 360 – orbital strike seems more to be 300 like big old. If you explode a 240 fire bomb on you and then just put the orbital strike marker on you, thats NEVER 50% more radius. :P

at august the 25.:

Zealot’s Embrace: Fixed a bug that required this skill to fully recharge if the cast was interrupted by the target moving behind the caster.

The same bug seems to exist with blowtorch, please fix that one too (pistol 4#)

Glue bomb and big old bomb are still missing 60 range.

Don’t prise something that has become worse … It looks too strange, it’s a mortar, why would you hold a mortar like a mini shotgun?! You definitly need both hands for the recoil … It just looks stupid – bad move anet – sry

I rather miss the piercing shot of 1# and 2# – that should be baseline imo. The cd of the pistols are fairly low and I guess they are fine. Glueshot as a skill isn’t that mad imo, it’s a root on a big area and it’s unblockable, pretty awesome for a setup.

Best.

Everyone wanted them cuz they are new and limited and by now most ppl realized that they are ugly

The new mortar animation is so nice I really love it! It’s so realistic to use just one hand for a mortar now! /sarcasm

What are you talking about “the new range”?! This is the “old traited range”, it should have been this way all the time. (except for missing 60 range at skill 5)

I don’t know what you want to say with “hitting properly”. Bombs always worked like this – putting them down, then they explode, traited they explode faster. The delay is intended.

Tzozef.9841:

YAY!

/15chars

80% yay :/

Hm … I prefer power at the volcanic / grawl fractal for the endboss. Since bomb aa spreads wide, whereas except for bomb 2 all other skills in the condi rota won’t, I think traited mortar with power and bombs and barrage with rifle are far supperior in that situation.

But I agree overall – sinister if burst doesn’t matter, berserker if it does. Yet also take in consideration skills that only scale with power and are worth much, like mine against dredges for the boonstrip for your protection affected none-condi allies or against condi resisting enemies like Mai’Thrin or Dredge/Ice Elemental endboss.

Try it like this: 6 – 6666666666666666 – F1

:D Just spam the heal skill a few times. I normally press it 2-4 times and then bow the turret up.

Turrets have rotations. You can see the healing turret animation, every few seconds. Between the animation the turret cannot be activated immediately. The turret will overcharge after the next animation. This means, either you blast him b4 the first animation starts (be quick) or you missed it and the overcharge comes after 2-3 sec.

You’ll get used to overcharge and blow it up, don’t worry. It’s basic engi stuff Even our healskill needs 3 keys xD

But don’t use this method mindlessly: You have more personal heal over time if you overcharge the turret and then pick him up again immediately! So only overcharge and blow him up when you need aoe heal for allies or burst heal for yourself.

Turret blast finishers are at your location btw, so you might aswell use the turret, overcharge it, leave it be and blast a fire field a few seconds later.

Questions? ^.^