Guild Wars 2

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Windmoor.9834:

Are you trying to imply that ALL French people must live and work in the same times zones? Or German? Or Spanish?

Let THIS sink in;
Its a 24 hour real world, with different people everywhere and in every timezone.

LOL, no.

The implication is the scoring system ought to be weighted by the number of players active.

It’s a tad easier to do than relocating all French-speaking people to live in the Paris timezone

Damage in GW2 is so much stronger than tank/heals, the only way to survive is to dodge or otherwise negate a lot of it.

Minionmancers have an additional weakness with Moa dismissing their minions.

Lies.

Phantasm builds rock in WvW.

Back to your question, the best thing a solo mesmer can do in WvW is making sure enemies don’t get to the back of their zerg and regenerate lost health. We have the dps to do it, and the mobility to get away with it.

Nah. It’s just the “calm before the storm” trench buddies time.

I play a lot of Mesmer in WvW.

95% of the portals I make don’t move big zergs or golems around. You could AoE, but going full overkill AoE on each and every mesmer portal will certainly leave you at disadvantage too.

You only get to choose how to lose.

A player able to log during the night is worth more points gain than a player able to log in prime time.

It’s as simple as that.

Consequently, many prime time players feel discriminated against, as they are as skillful as the night players, yet worth a lot less.

It’s human nature. Wiser people might be able to see the pettiness of this natural response, but that won’t help ANet’s stand on this matter in general. Nor will locking threads.

You intend to keep and invisible, swiftness running, 1200-distance-traited blink player “from the center of your group”? Not going to happen

You don’t just “kill” a mesmer. They have four stealths and a blink.

Anyone who is complaining about Deso night zerg has absolutely no idea, nor preparation to face, what Canadah Square is.

shoognite.2106:

Zid.4196:

“wait so forcing the server to not load all models in time is a tactic?”

Well, doh. If the likes of EVE Online have taught me anything, it’s that there are people who will use the ugliest possible tricks to win.

If it’s in the game, it’s intended to be used…

Heh. Right now, even free transfer to opposing sides to waste their supplies on uselessly positioned siege is “in the game”. That doesn’t make it less distasteful, tacky, or cheesy.

“wait so forcing the server to not load all models in time is a tactic?”

Well, doh. If the likes of EVE Online have taught me anything, it’s that there are people who will use the ugliest possible tricks to win.

I couldn’t disagree more.

It’s exactly the people’s actions that decide WvW. If anything, we decide too much of WvW, with no random element present, it turns out the server rankings are pretty static and the matches are usually decided in a couple of days.

The nature of the zerg member is to take some damage, then fall back and lick wounds. Rince and repeat.

The trick is to be able to burst wounded members that are trying to fall back. The mesmer is pretty good at that.

Now, if you do want to see people suiciding to your reflect, Feedback is no good because it is too obvious. The sly way to do it is the Focus trait in the Inspiration tree. Mesmers are the least played class, the focus is only moderately used, and even less people pick the trait. It also has no other visual cue besides the projectiles themselves and the damage numbers.

Nah.

The deck building system of GW1 had passing FOTMs.

The thieves are here to stay, and they will until they are nerfed. Think WoW Arenas, not GW1.

fastcast blink > all melee burst combos

In the respective areas, per stickied on top.

In the world, the best nightzerg. So USA>EU, until we have Asia Pacific server. They’ll beat USA and lose to EU.

As a former Darkfall, Warhammer, and especially Wotmud (best ever) player, I agree with most of the OP points.

The one I disagree with is the ease of killing, both in and out of water. I have a really easy time, but that probably has to do with my class, the Mesmer.

Unlike spvp, wvw is inherently unfair. Gear mattering just makes it a bit more unfair.

Wrong.

Underestimating Swiftness in WvW is a huge mistake.

Any good mesmer is either wielding focus, rune-ing Centaur, or having a friend who can buff swiftness.

ConterK.3972:

Zid.4196:

The tank of a mesmer is not getting hit

Having high damage opens up some amazing plays.

Well.. in WvW u’r usually going against 20+ players..

Well.. in WvW u’r usually going against 20+ players..hard to not get hit by that many AOE’s lol!

Eh? I have over a thousand kills in the top EU bracket and I barely ever die, and especially not to AoEs. Most of it is situational awareness, the rest is having Blink and the 180 flip bound to easy access keys, having fast-cast enabled, having red circles enables (default). If the situation is extra sticky, like taking over a bridge under heavy fire, I also get Portal, place one end at a safe-ish location, and lead the charge for as long as I feel like it, then portal out.

You’ll be too slow in WvW unless you have a friend or go Centaur runes.

It’s a viable setup for PvE when you spec for phantasm damage. Having the sword up all the time is often better than switching to scepter. However you’ll be missing on the iWarden which can be imba vs the AI.

You do realize the reward for winning this match is two boring weeks against Canadah Square.

The tank of a mesmer is not getting hit

Having high damage opens up some amazing plays.

That’s one of mesmer’s weaknesses, especially in WvW. Knowing how to play around it is a mark of a good mesmer.

It is kind of the GW2 ritualist. Not inbalanced though, just a noob-stomper.

Last night I had this happen in the EU top bracket: a dude was to the side of a zerg that was attacking one of our towers. I spawned a traited iWarden, and the dude proceeded to suicide on the warden.

He wasn’t doing much damage, so it took him like 30 secs until his own reflected attacks downed him. There wasn’t anybody else nearby, no one was giving him any pressure, and I just watched from the wall. He never realized it was his own attacks that damaged him. He never fell back. He never tried melee. And right now he is probably kittening how OP the mesmers are.

It is skill-based. I’ve been rolfstomping anyone in my way since I was lvl 15, often not dying at all the whole day. It doesn’t matter what stats 80s have when I can dodge/reflect/block all their attacks.

As our best condition damage is bleed via phatasm crit, the rampager outdoes the carrion.

However, condition damage can compete with Berserker only on Veteran or stronger mobs. Anything less will be vaporized by full Berserk anyway.

One way to go is to consider which pieces of the Berserk set offer the worst crit damage ratios compared to the condition value of the Rampager. Anet values 1% of crit dmg roughly equal to 13 condition rating, however various pieces of equipment and equipment upgrades will vary between 7ish and 20ish.

You don’t need tons of options vs mob AI. Duelist and Warden do excellent damage, one at range, one as melee AoE. The sword offers more AoEish damage and two very strong defense effects, 2 secs of distortion per 8, and a clone with a blink/cripple. Between the clone and the temporal curtain kite is really easy.

The scepter is quite useless as its 1 spams useless clones you don’t want; its 2 is weaker defensively than the sword’s 3, let alone 2. The scepter’s three is nice but it is single target, and when autoattack is out, can’t really match the damage of a sword’s 1.

Confusion will only work well at the very beginning due to its poor scaling.

I soloed the end zones, including underwater, with a glass cannon phantasmal build, using sword + pistol/focus.

Actually, the Mesmer is the one true general of the WvW. Portal and two wide stealths make us the masters of logistics. It’s probably only a matter of time till all the top WvW guilds use a Mesmer to make engage/disengage calls.