Guild Wars 2

Gaiawolf.8261:

The four skills they mentioned were surge, CI, arc lightning, and wrath. Not interference, nor piercing the target, but a line aoe that hits up to 3 or 5 targets from caster to target.

They never said they would destroy shatters. They said they might need to need to lower shatter damage “a bit” with the new beam aoe abilities coming in.

It’s the “a bit” that probably worries everyone with how they’ve handled nerfing in the past.

For the PvE and WvW side of things, it sounds more like they are limiting our build choice instead of diversifying it. Less clone AoE and more GS AoE. I see a lot of mes running GS in those areas as it is and this only promotes it more.

@EChen

I use Air runes because that lightning strike is just so valuable in WvW. I currently run the Hybrid Phantasm spec, with Ascended Cavalier Neck and Rings, Ascended zerk back, and exotic zerk earrings w/ Exquisite Ruby, Knight’s Chest, Valk Head, and rest zerk armor and have 92% crit damage (I know Osi uses zerk neck and cavalier back, as well as Karka Shell earring, and has Valk on feet as opposed to head from his last vid on the SC Mist). With full precision stack, I have 48% chance to crit on staff and 55% chance to crit on swords w/ 1349 toughness. Food/oil will boost that even further, so might be worth it to go with a ratio of 4 to 2 cavalier on your accessories, probably rings, neck and back (as they are the easiest to get). Rings are easiest to swap out, so they’d be the logical ones to start replacing if you find your survivability to be good with less cavalier (ascended wise). I probably wouldn’t go less than 3 to 3 ratio as you’d lose a lot of toughness that way and would be closer to glass cannon (given going all zerk on armor). The great thing about Osi’s specs is that you can just swap traits around and you’re already running a more ‘tanky’ spec without much gear change (except sigils, but even those are minor changes and would take a few dungeon runs).

@EChen

Would be an interesting setup- you’d actually have more toughness that way than the normal setup- trading 101 toughness on a Knight chest for well over 400 on the accessories/back piece. On ascended gear though you can’t put exquisite ruby jewels, though. You’d also lose out on critical chance from the extra precision on the mixed berserker jewelry. So your critical damage would be higher, but you’d probably do it less often, and be more durable. At least that’s my rough assessment of it.

Make sure you file a bug report so it might actually get fixed. There’s already enough indicators of real vs clone.

@Osi

What is your opinion about the new prefix/suffix combo that isn’t named Power/Precision/Toughness with Precision main like http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Charisma ? It looks like it would be viable to increase the number of crits for overall damage output at the cost of overall burst damage. Might be useful in a toughness based spec like the heavy or mist.

@Osi

Looked the spec over and seems very interesting. Trait choices seem very solid and good high burst chance and sustained output while being heavy.

On the Condi spec, though I haven’t played it for awhile in favor of hybrid, I have been running it Sword/Torch instead of Scepter and running 3% more damage per clone and +50 prec while wielding a sword. I personally find I have better sustained damage that way as it just seems so underpowered with a Scepter- one dodge and your entire confusion burst on skill 3 misses.

Love the name on the new Shatter Cat. What changes have you made from the original heavy build because it looks amazingly mobile?

JonSnow.5610:

Gothdir.8953:

Go to Wow, Lotro or DCU theyre allways pretty accurate. I mean there is allways something that can go wrong so that it takes longer but then you can communicate and please communicate the right timeframe for the right timezone, cant be to hard.

Anet can update the live servers. They said it will arrive today on the 26th, keeping in mind that they are in Washington DC state (Pacific Time). It will probably be in the late evening that we in Europe get the update.

DC is East Coast (EST), state is West Coast (PST)

@Scourge

Cavalier are Gwen’s Necklace, Thackeray something or other and King Jalis’ Necklace

Just killed Taidha Covington. Chest is a very large chest, but doesn’t open instantly like other ones from bosses (i.e.- dragons, other Legendary bosses), has an unlocking mechanism like smaller ones. No luck, though.

@Osi

Don’t have a setup like that, although it sounds interesting. I run Blink, Mirror Images, and Null Field on my Heavy or Hybrid in Heavy gear. I use Time Warp in PvE and Mass Invis in WvW, and all Runes of Air. Still my alleged build sounds pretty interesting.

Quite like the changes you made, had been considering running Sigil of Fire previously with the high crit chance. I think on Hybrid I’m going to run the Laurel Cavalier necklace, since we can only get 1 per month and get Berserker next time round, though, unless they come up with new ways to get Laurels anytime soon.

@Osicat

Watching your vids was what inspired me to actually play mesmer, now I can’t play any other class as they all bore me.

Currently have Condition mesmer built and running and love it, but have started to play like the original GW and acquiring multiple armor sets for different purposing (though will soon need more bag space again). Just can’t get into the scepter for Condition mesmer and have swapped out to sword main. I understand the purpose, but just don’t feel it fits right.

Have acquired all but the trinkets/rings/amulet for Heavy spec, and you just above answered my question about ascended amulet for it, as going Cavalier (Tough/Power/Crit Dam%) and what I was going to get (though the rabid one is so tempting as well).

Few other questions, though. For Hybrid spec, you now run both Cavalier ascended rings if I read through the thread correctly. What do you use for backpiece? Would an ascended Cavalier backpiece be that detrimental or is it what you actually run? I’m working on acquiring one for the heavy setup and figure multiple use would be good (and less expensive).

To swap from Heavy spec to Hybrid spec you change out a few pieces for berserkers (trinkets, amulet, one piece of armor) and retrait. How much of a difference does it make to play Hybrid phantasm in Heavy gear/have you tried it? The stat changes I wouldn’t think make a huge difference (little more survivability and a little less burst damage would be my guess), but as I don’t have access to both sets of gear yet, I can’t test for accurate results.

Thanks for the continual updates and testing. Hope sometime in the near future I can add something to the evolution of the Shatter Cat.