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Other classes have kittenty bugs too, they “fixed” nades but they are still disabeled Mantras still work as they “should” though. Will see about more fixes “soon TM” :P

You guys should know that they need time for bugfixes – I mean … warden took them 1 year to be fixed and stop their staring contests

I love such ninja nerfs … really … can you please FIX stuff correctly? ty

animation of bombs is 240, it still hits 180 radius though…

:DDDDDDDDDDD I really hope they will also give us the legendary animation back! :<

Tor.1365:

Taking out siege is good fun too! 1500 range with a large area, and solid power damage means a couple of engi’s can drop ACs fast.

The regular mortar shots are good too, sometimes tough to get the angle but pretty similar to the old nades.

Taking out siege makes it a blast finisher for might stacking, but not worth using in our rotation due the long cast time and missing vuln stacks you could have generated via nades in this time.

The regular mortar shots have the same dps as the grenade auto attack, wich is fairly low, but those at least stack tons of vuln, mokittenoesnt (only about 40% as much).

Mortar is used as a last resort 1500 range weapon and for it’s field + toolbelt. So traiting it or ignoring it is the deal. Sadly … I tought they’ve learned from the grenadier trait changes …

Sold Out.7625:

As far as the “Perfect and maximized dps rotation at 25 stacks of might” goes, the traited orbital strike with static discharge does slightly less damage than the two grenade #1 throws you could do in the time of firing it off.

Uhm .. no? Traited orbital strike deals 52% more damage than 2 grenade autos. You might have done some math mistakes there. It deals the same damage as throwing freeze and poison grenade though. But even without static discharge, since that’s a very unreliable source of dmg.

Beeing quiet about it is the best way to say either “hey we intended this, look at us and how aweseome we are for what we’ve done!” so we love them, or to say “yea we removed it, it was a bug, ~obviously~ cough and would be op to leave it like this” and we couldn’t be mad at them. If they would have added it with an announcement, we would hate them for nerfing it. :P

Curtain has the same issue as veil has. If you already have mesmer stealth you cannot get any more from it.

I think it’s not yet possible (or they just didnt find a way yet) to let skills only not stack with their own buffs but with others. I’m not sure if it would be possible to have an ICD on those boons for the duration of these boons on mentioned skills.

But yea – it’s annoying. Since release … ye … T_T

~sigh~ You are missing the point in my comment… Sometimes I ask myself if ppl are just here to try point out “mistakes” or to actually learn someting about a specific topic…

BTT: The point is: Post patch condition damage has become weaker compared to post patch power damage of the mesmer. Even pre patch the condi dmg was only viable in solo content and this hasn’t changed at all. The problem wasn’t only the 25 stacks bleeding, it was mainly because the main condi damage came from the staff clones wich bounces also jump to allies wich cuts your dps in half.

So you can go for a pistol and scepter build for those situations eh? What’s happening here is you get some more power damage while shifting conditions but if you would have gone full zerk / kitten, your duellists and scepter attacks would have done simply more damage.

If you are honest to yourself and not a mindless fanboy of conditions, you realize that even the condi weapons scale off better with power than with condi dmg.

Open world bosses? I doubt anything can outdamage 3 iWarlocks with their 20k crits. Scepter 3# hitting for 16k full buffed? You’d need like 5000-6000 condition damage to deal that amount with confusion of the skill (+/- according on attacks the enemy does withing this time).

If you want to be useful for dungeons and fotm, you’ll have to deal sustained dmg, wich is now even more power oriented with mantra of pain (harmonious mantras) and fencer’s finesse. You also need precision and ferocity to deal damage with reflections.

TL;DR: If you want to max out your usefulness for dungeons and fotm aswell for critable open world content, you will always be better by going zerk / kitten instead of conditions. The only reasons to go conditions are for enemies like husks, uncritable enemies who are affected by condis or for pvp.

The OT asked if it works, I say NO, there is no viable good condition damage build for pve for Mesmer. (yet)

greez
- Madame Le Blanc

Tested this myself too and I have to say, sinister offers more damage but since the 30% condi dura removal and clone death is gone aswell miam got nerfed – no – it’s terribly weak compared to power or the true condi classes out there. We cannot sustain burn and bleed stops stacking at about 25 stacks wich is not enough to be viable.

The only way you can use condi mes in pve is with rabid gear to be tanky if you want to solo champs you are not capable of killing with power gear (yet).

I thought it was a bug, I still think it is a bug, but actually this is how mantras should work. I hope they will keep this change but increase the CD of the healing mantra, since this one is really ridiculous :P I don’t think this mechanic is broken or op, it actually gives a smoother mantra play.

First vid has 5 menders in it, 2nd vid has 2 menders.

This whole build rampes up just because menders get interrupted by dmg.

Confusion does damage -> interrupts them -> trait stacks confusion -> repeat.

There has just to be one mender and 4 targets around him die to this build. Everywhere else it’s totally garbage (pve), but it’s a nice idea. I know it’s intended to work like this but it seems like this trait needs an icd PER target (like the blind one in illusions).

This whole thing seems to work only on menders with that efficiency. The confusion damage is laughtable low on anything else :/ Sadly.

Xyonon.3987:

adelaide.6213:

The last charge (whether HM is traited or not) is bugged and does not work with MP.

There have been others reporting about this bug on this forum.

this

still this …

It’s always a question of how much of a tryhard you are, or if you don’t care about “perfection”.

Besides, about MoP – there are nowhere a consistent encounter of trash mobs where you have no time to recharge it. So it’s basicly a skill that just deals 15k dmg on active per encounter. It rarely leaves my bar, but agreed, it sometimes does

Adamantium.3682:

Agreed, without Siege Rounds it is just another blast. With Siege Rounds I think it’s good enough to slot into the DPS rotation.

exactly.

adelaide.6213:

The last charge (whether HM is traited or not) is bugged and does not work with MP.

There have been others reporting about this bug on this forum.

this

Hasn’t been a better system ever. Most stuff got baseline or fused, only garbage has been removed.

Traited mortar F5 into a napalm field is quite nice. If it’s untraited, the dmg is garbage. Sad – they didn’t learn nothing from removing the original grenadier trait :/

+1, add it to something we already have. I really miss this trait, big times!

my doc. Ziggy is very very unhappy about this( don’t let him be so sad, plox(

Disabling grenadier trait is (lets assume it is fixed now) even a dps increase if you swap on the alternative 5% dmg traits. Grenades will always be used for it’s toolbelt, 2# 4# and 5# for dmg and 3# for utility. Nothing changed by disabling this trait.

I personally didnt even use it, since I’m not a fan of “using op bugged stuff” :P Don’t cry about something that has never been yours intentionally!

Still use nades, they haven’t become worse since the patch dps wise. They still stack vuln better than anything else and they still deal great damage. I don’t know what this is all about … just because some obviously buggy trait has been disableded, everyone loses their minds?

I’m facepalming so hard to all the ppl here who are upset about this …

if you are not skipping some seriously dangerious parts, always have mantra of pain in your bar isntead of blink, especially with the new mantra trait that gives a dmg modifier, it’s just a must have unless you really need something else. mimic is nice and i love it, but there are many situations where the normal feedback + focus are enough so you can take mantra of distraction too.

@ expandas: totally approving the whole comment. i run trio and rarely with a good matie duo fotm 50. it’s nice to see that i’m not the only one making use of signet of midnight. not always and i also change the build multiple times each fractal, but i like how you kittenslap the meta and think on your own <3

@ doam: domination, duelling and inspiration are meta. so going for glamour is easy achieved. feedback is very strong if you can make use of it, do it. same goes for time warp. all other glamours aren’t really required. better go for mantras.

Well they’re right

I like Arantheal’s idea, but just make it with an intern cd and add:
The same foe cannot proc this effect more than once within the interval.

Noticed it only on my Mesmer:

Mesmer: Illusions: Trait Set 3, Trait 1: Ineptitude
Cause confusion when you blind a foe. Blocking or evading an attack inflicts blind on your opponent.
The same foe cannot be blinded more than once within the interval.
Interval: 10 seconds

So the mechanic is already there

Read the first post then

The best thing you can do it going as much assassin as you can do: armor, weapons, accessoires, and then zerker back, rings and amulet. For allrounder use +5% dmg sigil and +7% crit chance sigil.

If you already have a zerker armor or zerker weaponset or both, use eagle runes instead.

As for a good build I recommend:

Domination: 2 | (1* or) 3 | 3
Dueling: 1 | 3 | 1
Inspiration: (1** or) 2 | 1 | (1*** or) 3

→ * for boon heavy enemies aka dredges or monks (asc fractal)

→ ** if you expect your allies might die against a projectile heavy enemy, like grawl fractal enboss, or if you got a dead npc you can abuse like molten twins endboss → frostbite, rox, braham

→ * underrated trait wich creates tons of passive damage if your allies notice him and know what he does. Thus, probably better in organized parties with friends – it allows you to facetank some hits from normally oneshot enemies, letting you dps longer in melee. It’s sometimes awesome, but it’s easier to just use trait 3 for feedback and timewarp.

Use all weapons according to the situation. Rarely use the healing signet anymore, mantra became better. Mantra of pain is almost always a must have. Mantra of distraction is darn good if used correctly but you sometmies can’t have it since double feedback (mimic ~?) is too good.

questions?

greez!
- Madame Le Blanc

PS: if you are on EU servers you can add me and we can meet ingame for some direct talk or play together

Is traveler still useful? I mean we can use the signet of inspiration now and when we encounter, just swap it out. If we get encountered as zerk by a surprise attack it’s your own fault and it’s over anyway. I doubt that we are able to flee just because of travaler runes anyway. But I’m not an wvw expert, so tell me

Now that bleeding has been reduced to almost 0 for none condi classes and the ninjabuff for iswordsman attack speed makes it a good chunk stronger than the duellist. If you are in a really good party, there will be tons of champs who die within 5-15 sec. The duellist attacks only every 6.5 sec whereas the swordsman does every 4.5. The possibility is high that in such short encounters the swordsman deals more than double damage a duellist would have done.

The phantasms don’t come alone, you always have that other skill too. The sword block lets you deal damage without doding wich makes this weapon already superior in most fractal fights. Against trash mobs, both phantasms are trash, but the swords daze applies 5-8 stacks vuln and may interrupt each mob for tons of power locks / quickness. The pistol shot only may proc 1 target to be dazed (vuln) and 2 to be interrupted.

Btw pistol now has 1200 range, so does it’s phantasm. There are only a few bosses with that range.

Blood Red Arachnid.2493:

MoD works in an AoE and hits 5 targets, so when used against a wave of trash mobs the chances that you’re interrupting one is pretty good.

Instead of just “spamming” MoD and hope for interrupts, better try to find some dangerious animations some mobs have. For example cliffside fractal, the heartseekers, caudecus, those thief d/d #3 attacks, golems who start rotating, aetherblade warbanner summoners, those are skills who are easy interrupted and cause much more passive damage than wild spams, since they also protect your team and won’t make them use heal skills or condi cleanses already.

This is just an expirience thing, but try to keep an eye on the mobs. It’s a very good training if you just go fotm with only 2 good buddies and try to make it. You will learn much more about your enemies this way

Heya, main Mes here

Phantasms do die often and quickly, but not everywhere. Make sure you use the correct phantasm for each encounter and do not bother too much about resummoning them when a boss is about to die.
A dps phantasm (warlock, swordsman, duellist) has to attack at least 2 times to greatly outdamage your basic attack. And never cancel your aa chain, since the 3rd hit is the spike in it.

Use the duellist if you know the enemy uses aoe’s around him. Summon one while running toward the enemy, so he will stay at 900-1200 range.

Use the warlock only and ONLY if you know you have a condition heavy team (means you got an engineer with you) and never swap back to the staff again. It’s just for summoning the warlock for the best dps IF you got many different conditions on the enemy. It then hits like a truck for up to 20k each attack.

Use the swordsman if the target uses single target attacks, or if it’s pretty safe to use this one. It deals much more damage than the duellist and unless there are really many condisions also more than warlock since the it attacks so darn fast. He also evades attacks during the leap.
Keep in mind that the offhand sword also carries a block that hits pretty hard and prevents you from dodging, wich makes it superior in 90% of the situations.

Use the warden if you want to reflect projectiles or if it’s the 2nd phantasm you cast and you know the duellist would not be able to use a 2nd salve of its attack (fast diing bosses). Its also cleaves (hits 3 targets at the same time).
Keep in mind that the offhand focus also grants you a pull and or reflection wall wich makes this weapon almost always a must have.

Use the berserker only if you need an aoe opener against 4+ targets. You want to use the greatsword only for it’s phantasm and maybe skill 3, then swap to sword and stay on it until the encounter ends. Only good for short encounters. You normally won’t need this tough.

You will learn on your own wich phantasms suits a certain enemy the most. But in some encounters it’s impossible to keep them alive whereas in others they simply wont die. According to this use the signet of illusions (heal skill) or the mantra of recovery. It’s useless to try resummoning via ultra long cast time from signet and phantasm against a foe who wipes the phantasm out 2 seconds later.

In speed encounters it’s the 2nd best to just use phantasm 1, swap, phantasm 2 and sword aa, since the target will die fast. The best would be to swap weapons between summoning the phantasm 1 and until it first hits the boss, so you can like summon i warlock, swap to pistol b4 the projectile lands, summon duellist, swap summon swordsman – BAM!

High level fractals are a different story tough. There you have to think in longer terms. Phantasms will come and leave very often. They are rather a single skill to use once. You’ll learn that too, don’t worry

greez Madame Le Blanc

PvP uses it’s own gear, so is it for WvW only or also PvE?

Best mimic we’ve ever had – DON’T TOUCH IT ANYMOE ANET!!! :P

There are some skills ingame that already have a ICD per mob. This would be pretty viable, since the only way to stack this trait at the same time is via fire bomb.

define “setup” ö.ö and for what :P

Heyhey,
After I’ve tried to play some condi engi in pve (wich isn’t really that great tbh :/ but regardless of this) I noticed this good old but imo lackluster trait. So I want to talk about it with you fellow engis:

Shrapnel
Specialization: Explosives
Tier: Grandmaster
Type: Major

Explosions have a chance to cripple and cause bleeding.

Chance on hit: 15%
Bleeding: 12s
Crippled: 2s

I think this trait is extremly underwhelming for dealing condition damage aswell applying cripple on demand. 15% on hit for one single stack of bleeding that lasts 12s is just suboptimal. The cripple passive procs when it wants aswell and not when you want it to.

I suggest to change the proc to a higher rate to have a more consistant results.

• Examples: 33%, 50% or even 100%

To balance this reduce the duration of the bleed to a lower amount, but to overall buff the dps slightly:

• Examples: 8s, 6s, 3s

(bleeding damage on a condi engi is between 120 and 200 per stack per s, (200 when full buffed))

Now we have the cripple that would op if it would be applied at this ratio, especially when there would be many short cripples, since you cannot really cleanse them like this. We don’t want to create a such movment imparing unfair scenario. So putting a simple icd on this skill would already be what we need. I’d say a 4 sec cripple on a ~15 sec cd would be already engouh.

What do you think about this trait? Is it really good? Or just the least bad option to choose. For me – definitly the 2nd one… I think this trait need some love.

greez Ziggy!

Mokitteneals no condition damage. The poison dmg is laughtable so go for sharpnel and use actual condi weapons – pistol, bomb, nades etc

I personally haven’t noticed that the tooltip ever was 240 after the patch june 23. I’ve only seen it to be 180, but I’m pretty sure hitting mobs with 240 range and not 180. Maybe they doublemessed around and b4 it was 240 range in tooltip and 180 where the damage happens and now vice versa.

Edit: I’m not sure anymore if it’s really 240. They look 240 but they feel 180 now that I’m testing it. Same goes for mine toolbelt. The normal mine has 240 too and hits much further than the bomb does. I assume it’s bugged since they promised bombs and mines to be 240 radius baseline and it honestly wouldn’t make any sense if they weren’t. But in the end, all we can do is wait for next tuesday where hopefully a few engi fixes will come. We are the most bugged class right now and it’s kittening annoying …

Known bug, like 40+ others. Don’t worry, wait and see

Yes, I have an old fancy picture for this :>

Always try to interrupt this skill for using it in melee as a high dps skill. It’s one of our best!

Unfortunately EU and US cannot play together :< If somone can proof different, I’d be happy :< But you can still add me and pm me ingame if you got a question Anytime ^.^

But with kitten armor and zerk weaps / trinkets i get 99% crit chance and that with a +7% crit sigil. So you could even get over 100% and replace that one for a dungeon specific sigil, replace it like bufffood :o

I didn’t think about warden at all, wich I will add aswell, thanks!

The question isn’t scholar vs eagle at all. Scholars are ofc better than eagle with the proper equip. I’m just using eagle because I have zerk weapons and I don’t want to change them to kitten since sigil of force is 10g :/ And the whole thing is just for a few % more personal dmg … and apparently less for warden So I don’t bother chaning them now. Especially if the jungle may become too difficult to stay at 90%+ :P maybe …

Anyone else suffers greatly from skilllags? Try to stealth, stack might very fast and half of the skills won’t proc. I beleve it’s some **** with the “new intern cooldown”. Revert this ANet, it makes engi tryhard impossible T_T

Engi: ^what Jerus said. Speed is great for open world quality of life. Focus on Power > Precision > Ferocity. (You later get 2 and then 3 stats per equipment).

Mes: Focus on the same stats. Lv 80 equipment is slightly different, but until then, Power > Precision > Ferocity is the way to go.
For mobs: Use scepter phantasm and scepter #3 and normally that should kill a mob alone. Then swap and use sword and it’s phantasm for the next one. If you have many many mobs as enemies, you could use your greatsword instead of the scepter and sword offhand for its aoe phantasm and gs (greatsword) #3. But after that swap to the sword since it cleaves (3 targets). Keep in mind that scepter #3 also can hit up to 5 targets if you target the one behind the others and the rest stands in between.

Sad you are on US :<

Edit: Wait I just read some stuff about being able to gues o.o Never noticed this and thought it’s only EU guests other EU servers etc. What server are you on??? :O

As stated in my very first post Eagle are just “the best” option if you don’t want this 90%+ HP restriction wich is really not optimal for new players or when I duo / trio fotm 50 to sell it after.

I also prefer to have almost 100% crit chance for fotm, due the fact that there are parts like bloomhunger where mantra of pain crits oneshot the adds, but if you don’t crit once you have to recharge again, the spirit stays, time goes on, the buff stays on bloomhunger etc.

But I’m so glad you posted your sheet here fri, I noticed you have “modis” there and I totally forgot about a very very important fact! That multipliers get stronger together!

For my calcs I only have the +6% or +10% multilier applied, wich is exactly +6% or +10%. But the +10% become more compared to the +6% if adding other multipliers like sigil of force, mantra charges or vuln and vuln boost trait! I will add all multipliers we have and see what the new result will be! Definitly in favor for the scholar runes!

frifox.5283:

However, you complaining about him recommending Rangers (he didnt) and implying that Eagles are the better option (they aren’t), is exactly what prompted my reply.

But they are o.o I mean lupi drops below 50% sometime and then they kick in. Everything is better than a wasted 6th rune slot – even an Opal for raw stats!

A tiny little wisdom from me:

There was once a test where subjects were told to find the rule who matches the following numbers: 2 4 6 _ _ _. The test subjects could ask as many numbers as they wanted to, but could only try to find the rule once. So most of the subjects say … “hmm 2 4 6 … is the next one 8?” The scientist answered “8 works with the rule”. “8 10 12?”. The scientist again: “8 10 12 works with the rule”. So almost all test subjects said “The rule is to add +2 to the last number!” The schientist replied with “wrong”. Just a few asked wild numbers like: 7? yes. 3? no. 29? yes. -52? no. And so on. So only a few got the correct answer: The next number has to be higher than the one before.

This is called the confirmation bias and will lead us to beleve we found the results, just because it works that way. But we truly find the result if we can’t find anything that disproves the result and then do the same to that result again and again. Until the chain stops.

I just did the same with my calcs. I did everything correct with the math I thought. So I’m “done”. But fri disproving my results with showing me that I’ve forgotten to take the modifiers into count makes me start over again for better results!

Aither.2859:

I was hoping to find out the damage output from someone like Xyonon who knows how to run the numbers. I am assuming at this point that rampager armor along with sinister weapons, accessories + trinkets would be the best option but I have no evidence to support this theory.

@ Aither:

About the condi thing. I’ve made a huge excel file about condi engi, but it’s still not finished. Condi means every skill behaves differently and rampager / sinister also means, you still DEAL POWER DAMAGE aswell. Many people forget that and only see the condi numbers but don’t add the power numbers even if they are only medicore.

What I’ve discovered there so far is that condition damage seems superior to duration if you use any bufffood supporting that stat. I would suggest you koi cakes but they are unbelivable expensive – Veggie Pizza is 80% cheaper and only a tiny bit weaker. It gives you 36% condi dura and 60 condi dmg, it’s the best food for ya! Also at engi full sinister is much stronger than rampager or a mix. This has some reasons:

• rampager overkills crit chance
• more crits only give you better power damage (on engi! but mes has illusion crits = bleed traits … but …)
• sinister has also precision and on engi i’m almost on 90% with it (with condi build).

I expect sinister to be superior but rampager may work nice on mes. I haven’t done deeper math so I can’t tell you for sure. I just say I expect sinister to be better.

Aither.2859:

I didn’t mean any offense to DNT or Brazil. Their guild puts out some of the best builds for every class which is very helpful.

I thought so too but they lost reliability with their necro guide wich is clearly a marked manipulator and money maker for them. To support this they also did a vid who says “fast lupi kill – replaced war with necro” but infact you could have replaced the war with anyone. Mentioning that in the guide made my comment get removed wich is fine for me

What I want to say is … well … google “The Authority Bias” and “Social Proof”. Those two combined is exactly what happens here.

The other guides are perfectly fine, but necro one is against anything they said wich really bugs me.

Aither.2859:

Not everyone has assassin ascended trinkets, accessories, and back pieces thus they would not be seeing the same damage output with runes of the scholar.

There are only assassin accessoires, but no other trinkets / backs. Use zerker rings, back, necklace.

Aither.2859:

Once Xyonon did this post that is when I did the research and found that the ranger runes are no longer viable for the +7% damage output so I switched them for the eagle.

Yay I’m useful! =^._.^= meow

Aither.2859:

As Silverkey mentioned the eagle runes was started by Xyonon. So either you didn’t read the original post and just came in here to amass your own opinion, or you have a severe case of memory loss which in that case I feel sorry for you and hope you are getting medical treatment for it.

Wow wow easy easy chill :o frifox is one of the most omniscient mesmers here, espeically about dps and numbers. I was hoping he get here sooner or later. Don’t get too insulting, he just didn’t read the first post wich … uhhh … FRI!!! WHY DID YOU NOT READ THE FIRST POST!?!? ò_ó

Aither.2859:

I am happy that Xyonon did this graph and brought to light the best dps option for those of us who use Mesmers as a main. I am sorry if you got frustrated by my comments about Brazil but I wish you didn’t take them so personally.

I don’t read his comment to have taken it too personally. Just be friends with each others. After all we are all mesmers here – we are all scholars! Unlike those uncouth warriors! snooty laugh (@ 20 sec https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PbkoVCEDgU)

(nothing against wars, just a joke :P)

Haha that’d be hilarous :P No – seriously that’d be awful. I hope they realize it’s their own fault :| Lets see how long it takes for a hotf .. i mean … coldfix.

fsswim.5610:

So I tried to send you a PM Ziggy, but Anet is making me wait 2 days due to “spam prevention policies” since i’m a new user.

i LOVE that you use math (and good math) for theorycraft. Do you have a STEM background? I just picked up GW2 and after trying all classes Engi and Mesmer were the most appealing and they just happen to be your specialties. So I decided you are my new sensei. :p Plz teach me the ways. My engi is lvl 22 atm. Been messing around with all the kits but haven’t found any reliable info on the best leveling build and stats to look for. Any suggestions sensei? How about mesmer? That one confuses me even more. Someone told me go GS +sword/focus. Do you agree? What kinda build and stats do you think I should go for?

Really appreciate any input and your data is amazing :p Keep up the good work.

Jerus (last post) is pretty accurate and correct, just wanted to add a few things:

Yea I’m a mesmer and engi main and even tough I’ve been teaching only engis so far, I’ll probably start with mes aswell. You can pm me ingame (Xyonon.3987) and if you are EU servers, we can even play together and I can show you all the complicated stuff better.

For leveling the engi I’d say med kit for speed is a good start until you get a trait that gives you perma swiftness. Since it has been a while since I’ve leveled my engi I’m not sure how much effort you need to get those traits and if others are more important. But in the end at 80 you have them all anyway :P
Grenades and bombs are very important and I suggest you use a rifle for leveling.

About the mesmer, I’m leveling one again myself since they have been the WORST to level in the old days. He’s now 20~ and I have to say, the last patch changed a lot of things (positive)! Mesmer deals great damage now and I suggest you don’t use the greatsword anymore to level. It’s damage reduces if targets get closer and the scepter skill 3# burst is now darn strong (got buffed).
So better go for sword + focus and scepter + sword. Trait all your points into duelling. Unlock the following skills if you can:

• Signet of the Ether (great for leveling but you’ll probably replace it with Mantra of Recovery when you get more expirienced)
• Mantra of Pain (quite good and becomes really strong with some traits)
• Blink (everyone loves ports)
• Mimic (everyone still loves ports … and a 2nd one … or a 2nd one of whateveryouwantmetobe)
• Feedback (THE mesmer skill!)
• Portal (THE OTHER mesmer skill!)
• Mirror Images (helps you for leveling to deal greater damage with shatter skills, mainly F1)

I can show you more ingame, I hope you are on the EU servers aswell Otherwise we can’t play together.

Wahoo! greez
Ziggs Ironeye / Madame Le Blanc

If they can’t hotfix things like this, they should just temporary disabel traits like that. Same goes for this silly symbol stacking for guards. Hotfix or temporary disabel.

Finally frifox you are here I missed you :<

Yea I was using ranger runes until they died for us. So the most similiar alternative was eagle. After that I wanted to know how much the difference between eagle and scholar is, since you once told me that scholar was pretty on pair with ranger. So following step by step, the result is what you see in the first post.

The whole thing started for me, after reading a book about common fallacies of humanity. So I made use of the confirmation bias. “Noone used eagle runes, why start now?” is what some may think. I also don’t want to become a victim of the social proof effect, so I’d probably add some more runes later.

Bleeding isn’t the way to go. ö.ö

Can confirm a similiar bug with the rune of the mesmer: Daze duration +33%. When you equip this rune, all dazes have a duration of about 0.25 sec oder something. Just pops up and vanishes immediately again.

Don’t use any stun oder daze duration sigils or runes atm. So they seem all bugged.