Guild Wars 2

I’m confused. The cooldown of the torch’s Phantasm is 30 seconds, so it should be reduced to 24 seconds with the trait. What you’re seeing is the reduced cooldown.

chandrawib.5489:

Sororita.3465:

im surprised i havent seen alot of golems…look at that pricing!

i bought 100 yesterday >.> and made 80 of them.

good to know that you will keep goleming us

As long as Honeybuns plays this game, he will always keep goleming things. The difference is where normal players build 80 golems and attack a keep, Honeybuns builds 80 golems and tries to spell things with them.

In fact, just last week I remember a screen shot of golems spelling out something along the lines of X86R….I think that was it, right?

Yuchen.5980:

gs1 will give 1 tag per hit if u go zerker. gs 2, 3 ,4 are good AOE skill.

Not everyone knows this, and it’s not quite as effective, but the 1 skill on the Greatsword can tag multiple people. It’s a beam that pierces, which means that if you purposefully target a player who’s behind other players, you’ll hit any player that’s in the path of your laser.

Crossplay.2067:

It speeds up the attack rate of phantasms. I think it works on clones too.

Yes it speeds up the attacks of most of your phantasms. For some reason it doesn’t work on all of them. I’m also pretty sure it doesn’t effect clones, but don’t quote me on that, as I haven’t tested it. It shouldn’t, since it’s intended for phantasms.

Someone recorded the exact speed of the attacks with/without the trait a while back and recorded it here: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Phantasmal_Haste

Keep in mind these numbers are pre patch, so who knows if it changed at all since then. Anet is famous for ninja nerfs/fixes.

juno.1840:

GS is a fine weapon in skilled hands… anyone that says otherwise is simply not using their brain. The 1H sword is also an excellent weapon (again in skilled hands).

At 1200m the GS clearly out-DPSs the 1H sword (lol, it’s so silly I don’t know why I typed that in). At melee range the opposite is obviously true. This is more of a play style discussion, and not a “sword vs. GS” discussion.

As far as a ranged weapon goes, the mesmer GS is one of the best options in the game (if not the best).

I agree. And this was generally the point of my original post saying that you can’t make a blanket statement about how one weapon is clearly superior to the others and should be in all your builds.

A build is not ‘sub optimal’ just because it doesn’t use a 1h sword, and trying to “prove” that it is by using straight DPS numbers in a vacuum is silly. You can believe whatever you like, and I certainly have no desire to (nor do I think I’d ever be able to) change your mind. That’s your playstyle and I’m glad it works for you.

Personally I find uses for every weapon in the right situation and can make them just as optimal as the 1h sword (exception being the torch, which as much as I want to like it is just weak except for the stealth).

Anyway, as for the topic, I highly recommend making the weapon you find yourself enjoying playing more. Nothing worse than making a Legendary and being forced to use a weapon you don’t enjoy! As a tie breaker, search Youtube for videos of both weapons so you can really see what you like more (animations, look, sound effects, etc).

I’m interested in why they call the Greatsword the noob stick as well, especially since Supcutie (the highest rated Mesmer in pvp) uses it. And for that matter, I’m interested in who calls it that, since I’ve never heard of it before today.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s not my favorite weapon in the world (I like it, there are just others I prefer more) but I don’t think it deserves that nickname.

It’s up, here’s the direct link: http://sittingonacouch.com/gw2-mesmer-podcast-mesmerized-willowbreeze/

:)

Thanks for having me, it was a blast hanging out with you guys! So many things I realized after that I didn’t ask/bring up, but it was the first time I ever did something like this so I figured that would happen. Should have prepared more, so sorry about that.

Anyway, can’t wait for the AoE Moa patch!

P.S. I took my screenshot channeling Mantra of Resolve just for you Pyro

So thanks to skcamow and some input from talking to Kylia/Pyro I’ve experimented with and come up with a much more effective and (more importantly) reliable rotation for spreading the boon love! No more worrying about breaking stealth and losing all your beautiful PU boons.

I’ve updated my original post to explain the new rotation, but it involves a lot more staff. I also put a disclaimer on the video that it’s more of a guild video than anything (in fact, I’m considering taking it off this thread considering the amount of mistakes I made running it in those clips).

I’m going to make another video either today or tomorrow showing the full rotation so you can see it in action.

Phew, that’s good to hear! For a second there I though the wiki might be out of date and my grind was gonna be a lot harder haha

Why do you need 750 Charged Loadstones? I don’t see those required anywhere on the Bifrost recipe…

Homonavn.6348:

ProtoGunner.4953:

A legendary on an asura is a waste, sorry. It is so tiny, most ppl won’t even notice. Otherwise, I would make Bifrost. And the argument about mesmer ‘slowly getting nerfed and unplayable’. I rarley read such crap, just go for it, they will be playable in the next 10 years…

No offense, but if you get a legendary to brag to other people… Wow.

A legendary should be a long term goal and making it should give you some sort of completionist feeling

I see where you’re coming from, but the crafting of a legendary is pretty much solely to show off. The only benefit you get from it is cosmetic, so by definition the purpose is to show off (or brag as you put it).

Don’t be so quick to judge people based on their motivation. Nothing wrong with wanting to brag about something that took a lot of time/effort to accomplish.

Thorson.9218:

bokkieskitten.8023:

Sororita.3465:

titanlectro.5029:

Personally, I’d be willing to get stomped in order to get that fight.

GoM wants fair fights is what you should really say…back when it was GoM/NSP/HoD where every week could be a new winner.

Last week, GoM taught FC how to use Arrowcarts, this week: can we teach GoM not to stand in them?

Yes, for the love of things and stuff… STOP STANDING IN RED CIRCLES GOM.

Killing me….I can only heal so much.

LOL.

Two comments:

First, re. the “we want tough/fair fights” comments. Interesting. We’ve heard that many times in the past from the “big” server in the match, but it always turns out the same: our third of EB and our borderlands are filled with players from the largest server. If you really want “fair/tough” fights (vs. PPT), why not attack the more capable opponent (in this match that would be IoJ)? I see a lot of comments in our chat about this as we all notice that IoJ’s third and their BL go relatively unscathed, while ours constantly turns the color of GoM. Same story last week. Hmmmmm.

Second….no, please stay INSIDE the red circles. They are your friend! Embrace them! :-D I managed to get my daily kills done in one tower defense (Veloka tower….I was the Norn Warrior on the cliffside raining death down on you last night), so please please PLEASE <3 the red circles. It was the only fun I had last night…… :-/

I don’t think I’ve left IoJ’s BL once so far this matchup

Ryuujin.8236:

Bolt

Greatsword and staff arn’t used in all builds, while sword is ubiquitous in all game mode and builds. It’s our highest DPS weapon, it’s also our best defence, it allow the use of offhand weapons and it can strike multiple targets.

In terms of getting air time, sword/offhand is the most common set when running around (so you can access your focus for swiftness), and in most situations it’s favourable to sit in sword for the DPS when you don’t need to swap for your off-set skills.

Situations where you won’t be using a sword are few and far between (Like, the lupicus battle using standard strategy)

This is kind of a blanket statement. It largely depends on your builds/playstyle. A few months ago I used sword/offhand a lot, but the last 3 builds I’ve run don’t include the sword at all.

However, I’d say an average of about 98% of my builds use the Staff. For that reason I’ll most likely be shooting for Bifrost.

Bolt is a very cool Legendary, but I’d be careful suggesting it soley on the reasoning that it’ll be used in all your builds. That’s for the individual player to decide when the figure out which weapons they like using.

I’m debating between Bolt or Bifrost right now, hard to choose, although I am constantly using staff, so that might just seal the deal.

Are there Vision weapons other than the Greatsword? I can’t seem to find any other ones.

styx.7294:

wish.1027:

How is it that everyone else is so bad?

Not sure, am just a natural I guess.

Edit: Also, cool video Zumi!

Thanks! More to come once I get better video, I kinda just wanted to do one to see how it’d come out :P

Thanks for the feedback skcamow!

You’re absolutely right. I have to admit, watching myself play is very revealing. The whole time I was watching them I was yelling at myself “Share those boons, you idiot!”

There were a lot of times where I had 25 stacks of might and didn’t share anything for a while, and plenty of times where the signet came off cooldown and I didn’t share them for a while.

I also completely forgot to add the stealth to my rotation in the description, thanks for catching that, that’s a really important part. I also need to use GS #2 more, swap weapons ASAP, and remember to stealth at the beginning of fights.

But that’s why I started recording, and why I’m posting videos that might make me look bad, to learn =P

In short, there are a lot of things I can improve upon, but even with that many mistakes I felt really useful to my group. Glad you like the build, and I’ll be sure to post more videos as I get some footage of me making better use of it!

Hey guys,

So I just finished putting together my first video. It’s a little montage of the build in action during reset night last night. This is my first attempt trying to edit a video, so feedback is welcome! Enjoy!

Hey guys,

Here’s a video I put together of some of the action from reset night last night. It’s my first time actually trying to edit a video, so feedback is welcome!

Enjoy!

Yay, a new opponent!

Look forward to seeing you all on the field.

Pyroatheist.9031:

Ok, so what we have is a failure to math. The trait line says increases the recharge rate.

15 seconds/1 Mind Wrack = speed.

1 Mind wrack/15 Seconds = rate = .066667 Mind wracks/sec

30 points = 30% increased rate = .066667*1.3= .0866667 Mind Wracks/sec

1 second/.086667 Mind Wracks/sec = 11.5 seconds/Mind Wrack

Bah, beat me to it! As I was reading this I was so excited because I thought I knew something about a skill that you didn’t :P

This is absolutely true, and it works the same way for other classes (like Engineer’s toolbelt for example)

Interesting how the ratings have adjusted this week. Looks like FC is actually gaining 50+ points!

And we’re moving up to spots to “Tier 6” not that tiers mean anything anymore. Can’t wait to see the next matchup.

Updated the solo build a bit. Getting some video finally so I’ll be posting it up within the next week or so.

@jportell – To be honest, I haven’t tried it out in dungeons yet. I find myself sharing 15-25 stacks in WvW, but I imagine it might be a bit harder in PvE with the reduced attack time of mobs.

I’ll probably run some dungeons this weekend, and I’ll be sure to let you know it goes, and thanks for the tip, if I notice some warriors in my group (duh, I feel like there’s 2 warriors in EVERY group) I’ll try that out for sure.

Nordic Natedog.4360:

My toughness is 1960, 19.4k hp, and 400 healing powers so I am a little tankier. Running a condition tank has it’s bonuses (draw backs at too) but I will often change out my weapon sets even if i’m traited for something else. Plus since you are using PU, torch is even more beneficial to you.

Wow, that is a fair amount tankier haha

I tried condition last night, it’s a very different play style but a ton of fun. And it’s an reason to use a torch!

Just wanted to say that being a bit of a schizophrenic when it comes to builds, I’ve been meaning to try a condition build for a long time. I finally got my last piece of rabid last night, so I gave this build a whirl (with a few tweaks) and I love it.

The playstyle is completely different from the phantasm builds I’ve ran lately, but it’s a ton of fun! Thanks for sharing, I’ll be sure to post some videos of it in action once I finish a vid or two from my own build :P

Nordic Natedog.4360:

As a fellow GoM mes, I find myself doing the same type things. Although I think I’m a little more durable than your setup, but always do crazy stuff like run in like that.

I couldn’t help but think you could have been using GS #5 and Staff #5 more often which would have kept him from building the ballista in the first place. I guess hindsight is always 20/20 though. Another thought could be that since you knew he was going to be hanging around, you could have changed out your weapon sets to a sword/torch to give you a little more stealth and use BF on that ballista.

It’s possible you’re tankier than I am, but it can’t be by much I have just under 1800 toughness, 17k hp, and all the protection/regen from PU. Definitely possible to be more tanky though.

As for attacking the ballista, you’re absolutely right. To be honest, this is one of the big reasons I wanted to start recording myself in the first place. I’m learning a lot just going back and watching myself play. Although at the time I had just woken up and I was probably still dumbfounded that he was building a kitten ballista to 1v1 me…

Hadn’t even thought about switching out weapon sets to be honest. Probably because my traits are set up for those weapons, but definitely not a bad idea.

@Pocachubbz – Thanks! There’s def room for improvement, but I have the most fun trying to win near impossible situations. Some of my favorite fights were taking down 2-3 people while having the vets beating on me. I find that people get way over confident when they’re inside a camp and I’m usually able to take at least one down before I need to pop back out and heal up a bit.

New Thief skill: Summon Ninja

Instantly teleport the nearest perma-thief to your location to help you get owned.

So the quality is garbage, but here’s the video I was talking about yesterday. First ever vid, and it’s not a serious video so the editing is pretty terrible, but you get the point. I’ll figure out how to make it look nicer in future videos

gotem.5284:

Osicat.4139:

No, at least not yet. I just got inspired by some threds in the forum and wanted to try my condition gear who collected dust sens glamour nerf. So I setup a 20-20-30 build, tweeked some and tested 3 different sets of sigils untill I found one I like.

As its not a pure shatter build and I not realy tested it etc like i do with my guide builds I have not setup a build/guide for it. Not yet alteast.

See it as a experement

/Osicat

Just came back to the game from a long break and the only gear I have is condition. I tried your other builds but without the proper gear I find myself struggling. I have a full carrion set for condition damage and no clue how to spec with it. For the 30-20-20 are you doing 30 illusion / 20 dom / 20 chaos? I don’t mind if it’s not an optimal build currently just looking for any condition spec to mess around with.

When he says 20/20/30 he means 20 Dom / 20 Dueling / 30 Chaos. The recent buff to PU in Chaos has made it very powerful for survivabilty, so a lot of people are putting the torch in condition builds now.

I’m trying to put together a condition build also, but I’m struggling between the torch and the pistol off hand. Those bleeds from pistol crits just seem so good.

styx.7294:

Sororita.3465:

Devanuze.8734:

You’re mad

Oh god this is it. Styx posted a gif, we’re all screwed.

Tootsie.5217:

Good morning, AR!
Hope you don’t mind, we made ourselves feel at home in your borderlands while you were fast asleep! =3
Yours sincerely,
Night Crew.

But, but, they have 3 of our towers!

styx.7294:

In the case of Dovgan vs. Pocachubbz, I’m gonna have to side with Dovgan.

Funny, I was just thinking the same thing. It feels dirty agreeing with him after our back and forth yesterday :-P

But don’t let me interfere, this is quite amusing.

So I didn’t get a screenshot, but I took a video while roaming FC borderlands this morning. I’m at work, so I won’t be able to upload it until later. This story ends in my death but it’s too funny not to share.

I logged in before work to see if I could get a good fight (just started being able to record last night, so wanted to get some footage). So I pop into FC borderlands and start flipping camps to get some attention. I flip south camp and some sentries and decide to head up north.

I get to the NW camp and start working at it when a thief show up. Finally, a player! So we go at it for a few minutes, I get him to about 15% or so and he stealths away, so I go back to working on the guards. I start to get low run away, come back, you know the drill.

Well on my way back in I notice he’s dropped a ballista site at the depot. Long story short a combination of tiredness and desire to get more fighting on film I decide to stay and fight, get him low again, and then he pops on the ballista and between that and the 4 or so guards on me, I died instantly. Would have been pretty sweet to kill him with a ballista and all the guards on me, but was probably pretty foolish to stay =P

Anyway, shout out to you, FC theif, whoever you are, thank you for at least entertaining me this morning! I was laughing pretty hard, don’t see that too often.

x FERGUSON.3046:

Hey GoM look what happens when we builds AC’s ontop of using tactics

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5D2WG--Ldco

zomg, you need siege to win? l2skill :P

DuckDuckBOOM.4097:

I remember someone on the forum saying that blind used to NEVER work on chaos armor. Also, I thought protection was only from the staff 4 and NEVER from leaps/blasts in chaos. I didn’t use them enough to know if this was the case, but if blind/prot now works on all chaos armors, this might be a buff. It is true that chaos armor on staff is now a really weak skill though.

This is a VERY good point, I hadn’t even thought of that.

Before the patch, Staff skill 4 gave guaranteed protection, while the combo Chaos Armor had no method of protection.

Now both offer protection (randomly). Personally I find myself using the combo version much more, so perhaps I might see more protection overall. That said, it still can’t compare to on demand protection, and the Staff skill is now meaningless, but that’s another thing entirely.

Iavra.8510:

Bountiful Interruption:
- remove all random boons.
- now grants 5 stacks of might for 20s on interrupt.

The sheer amount of randomness in this skill makes it basically unusable for any build. Since a real interrupt happens maybe 2 or 3 times in a real fight, i suggest to increase the base duration of the gained might to make it actually usable. In combination with the change to Confounding Suggestions, interrupt builds might finally be useful.

Unfortunately I don’t have time to make a full reply, but I like some of your suggestions. Just one thing I’ll note from personal experience. Bountiful Interruptions is far from unusable, and increasing the might duration to 20s would make it absolutely overpowered. Think about people stacking boon durations, that’s 40+ seconds of might!

We have quite a few methods of AoE interrupts, and as it is currently and I’m regularly getting an easy 15-25 stacks of might from this trait as it is. Plus, the random boon (although unreliable) is a nice bonus.

That said, I think the randomness is sort of the flavor ANet wanted with the mesmer, so I doubt we’ll ever become as straightforward as other professions in that regard, but I agree that we should at least tailor the randomness so that it makes sense and is beneficial to the mesmer using the skill.

Averaelas.1876:

Wait, Zumi. How many of those posts did you flag as offensive or inflammatory. None of them? Right.

Just checking. wanted to make sure we were still being good sports about things.

I’m honestly not sure, but I think you’re saying that I should have flagged them? I could be wrong.

Either way, come to think of it I’ve never flagged any post as offensive. Maybe it’s because I like to give people the benefit of the doubt and assume they didn’t realize how their post could come off as offensive. Or maybe somewhere deep down part of me subconsciously enjoys these kinds of back and forths (they can be entertaining!)

I’m sure Dovgan is a perfectly nice guy, we just started off on the wrong foot.

Just to clarify, I’m always up for constructive criticism and feedback, and I promise you I read the entirety of all of your posts. The problem is that what you wrote isn’t constructive feedback.

Every statement has been an insult that you claim to be “advice”. Let’s recap on your posts today:

“…just a blast going up against a server with t4 population and t12 skill.”

“I just don’t understand why the median of player skill is so low on the server.”

“…in small doses your players are laughably bad. "

“I’m not saying everyone on the server is terrible, but a huge percentage are”

“It shows poor use of skills, poor class management and a total inability to play your class”

“I said that not all, but a majority of GoM are not good players”

Meanwhile, the only thing one can find that could be labeled as “advice” would be:

“You may want to direct some of your player base over to the class forums”

Bottom line, you’re entitled to your opinion, but don’t throw around trash talk, label it as advice and then claim we’re raging about it. In fact, I’d like to think my responses thus far have been pretty calm.

And yes, I suppose we now have the drama you were asking for

Can we all move on now?

Ryuunjin hit the nail on the head. The nerf sucks, but I’ll adapt as always. The real shame is the fact that one of the weapon skills on arguably our most popular weapon is now just the same as the result of a combo usage.

As far as I know, no other profession has a skill only that applies an armor that can be gotten via combo field (I could be missing something though).

I know it’s just another silly Ability Points tree they added, but I really like Build Master. That’s definitely something I’ll be investing some points into.

Cool ability ANet, but please focus more on better rewards overall (gold, gear, something for winning/participating) and better compensation for support characters.

Not gonna waste my time responding/repeating the same thing for the 100th time, but I will say (to Pocachubbz) that we shouldn’t bundle all of AR into that category based on one guy’s post. From what I can tell, the majority of AR’s players are just fine, and don’t claim all these types of things.

People can/will have all kinds of opinions on us (or any other server for that matter), but all we can do is just focus on getting better. Personally I’d love to play a higher tier server again. Even if we lose, I always learn something.

Looks very interesting, I like it! And it’s totally unique, which is also neat.

A few thoughts I have while looking through it:

• Have you found that having two utilities dedicated to condi removal to be overkill? On the face it looks like you could replace one of them and still be in pretty good shape. Signet of Dom comes to mind for the extra stun, or maybe MI/Decoy for more Diversion shatter fodder

• Have you tried Bountiful Interruptions? Losing 20% CD on staff hurts, but with all your AoE interrupts, you could get tons of might to help both the power and condi damage you’re throwing out

• I’d also look into either Compounding Power or Illusionary Invigoration. Although, Invigoration would probably be a better fit (more AoE daze!)

Is most of your damage coming from phantasms or shatters?

Those are my thoughts, but overall it’s a very well thought out build, nice work!

Good news! I’ve finally got Bandicam to work on my computer and be able to record with at least bearable quality

I’ll be recording my gameplay over the next week or two, so I’ll be sure to update this with some footage of the build in action.

Myst.5783:

Seriously, when was the last time GoM has got a match that required us to work?

I have to agree here, but not because any server is less skilled than any other server. It’s probably been a good 5-6 weeks since we had any semblance of a close matchup that goes down to the last few days.

I rarely get to play reset night (or very much on the weekend at all for that matter) and for quite a few weeks now by the time Monday comes along we have a pretty good lead and people just stop trying. Don’t get me wrong, I’m still having fun roaming and messing around, but I miss the excitement of a close matchup where everyone is into it and actually worries about PPT.

I personally don’t care if we’re T1 or T8, as long as the matchups are good and the fights are fun/challenging.

hand·i·cap [han-dee-kap] noun, verb, hand·i·capped, hand·i·cap·ping.
noun
1. A race or other contest in which certain disadvantages or advantages of weight, distance, time, etc., are placed upon competitors to equalize their chances of winning.
2. The disadvantage or advantage itself.
3. Any disadvantage that makes success more difficult: The main handicap of our business is lack of capital.
4. A physical or mental disability making participation in certain of the usual activities of daily living more difficult.

versus.

tac·tics [tak-tiks]
noun
1. ( usually used with a singular verb ) The art or science of disposing military or naval forces for battle and maneuvering them in battle.
2. ( used with a plural verb ) The maneuvers themselves.
3. ( used with a singular verb ) Any mode of procedure for gaining advantage or success.

I wouldn’t have bothered wasting any more time on this, but I couldn’t resist one more.

Pocachubbz.1928:

I really hope you’re from GoM, because you win the GIF of the day award in my book.

Avalanche.5321:

It’s really unfortunate that GoM has to react the way that they did to a legit concern. All StoneMist defenders did was build arrow carts. Literally, and while the FC group was “walking around destroying siege” there must’ve been 10 or 12 cannons shut down.

Listen, there’s nothing wrong with giving yourself an advantage. You’ve identified that your players are smaller guilds in the posts above, and have less experience, and skill in actually using builds, and playing the game. So I don’t understand what the argument is?

GoM has in no exact words made reference to their inability to put together teams, and even in their screen shots, it took them three commanders to keep track of what seemed to be a small group when GoM is considered. Let’s be honest, if there isn’t 50 or 60 people rolling down the hill, GoM has significant trouble in those clashes.

We all need to relax. Siege is a handicap. It’s pretty much written in the book. You can build machines capable of doing significant damage over a large area, and you can place them anywhere. If that isn’t significant assistance, I don’t know what is.

So let’s all just have fun, GoM needs that tactic, and they use it well. FC uses skill, and strategy due to their lesser numbers than most servers. It’s two different ways of playing. I’m sure if FC had the numbers that GoM does, they’d be in a much higher tier just due to the amount of strategy, and cohesion they’ve had to develop being outmanned all the time.

You sir, are one of the more hilarious (read: ridiculous) trolls I’ve seen in a while.

• No one said anything about an “inability to put together teams”. We’ve just stated that we don’t have any desire to. Now if we run into you out in the field, you can bet your kitten we’ll fight you, assuming it’s reasonable.

• Being in a smaller guild has absolutely nothing to do with a player’s skill. My guild is smaller in size, but we have a lot of skilled players and we’re always improving, or as you put it increasing our “skill in actually using builds, and playing the game.”

• The FC zergs I’ve seen are just as big, if not bigger than GoM zergs I’ve been in (leveling an alt – Zergtastic!). Overall I’d say it’s pretty even.

• Making blanket statements about a server’s skill his both absurd and completely impossible to prove. I honestly can’t remember dying to any less than 3 FC in the last few months. Does that mean FC’s players are all bad? No. Does that mean I’m the best player on GoM or represent the overall skill of GoM in any way? No. Have I had to run away to avoid dying if I realize I’m losing/messed up/whatever? Absolutely. Is it possible I have died to a single FC player and just don’t remember it? Of course.

• As others have stated, an intended game mechanic is not a handicap. In fact, it’s a pretty big part of the strategy you refer to FC having. Using the tools at your disposal in an intelligent way is all part of effective strategy.

All that said, having fun with FC/AR.

styx.7294:

Sorry for all the gifs.

One day we’ll convert you Styx….

Yeah about the GvG, GoM doesn’t have many guilds large enough to put together a 15 man team, and those that do aren’t really interested as far as I can tell. A lot of the guilds I’m familiar with tend to run in groups of 5-10.

That said, no one is gonna want to GvG you if you just come on the forums ranting about lack of skill and how people “quit czu they couldnt win”. If you want GvG I recommend approaching it in a friendlier manner, since it’s a just-for-fun thing anyway.

I personally play WvW because the randomness/unfairness of it is what makes it fun for me. I enjoy outmanned fights, I enjoy using terrain to my advantage, I enjoy fighting someone when 3 more show up, forcing me to adjust, etc.

Which is also why I find it rather funny when people complain about the use of siege. It’s a part of the game for a reason. Complaining about ACs is silly. Just adjust your tactics to counter them, I don’t see the problem.

Like others have said, take a look around. The Mesmer community as a whole is extremely helpful. I’d recommend starting by finding a build that fits your playstyle (shatter, phantasm, conditions, etc depending on pvp, wvw, or pve). There are tons of builds people have put out there, and this should get you started thinking about how you play Mesmer.

From there tweak skills/utilities/gear/sigils/runes/food as you find yourself enjoying certain things or tricks. I find I learn the most about the class by reading about what someone else has done, trying it myself and adapting it to how I play. There’s just too many things to list, and nothing can compare to experience playing the class.

Now if you’re looking for a general guide, as Kyla mentioned, ChaosArchangel’s guide is a great place to start. It’s essentially just a hub of things that others have contributed, so it’s a pretty well rounded source of information to get started from.

All that said, if you have any specific questions, don’t be shy, we love helping mesmers both new and experienced

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