Guild Wars 2

Catalin.5341:

Never seen this lag..

You must have played when few people were online.

Yeah that’s pretty much all the time(im on t1 btw).. So are we talking like, exactly the same thing that happens in a 3 way SM battle? Yeah, it’s just servers are trash and cant handle big fights. Not the map or event.

Never seen this lag.. This event is the only time I find more then 1 player per hour. DO NOT REMOVE IT PLS.

I support WvW merges to create the type of population atmosphere present in the early years of GW2.

Fist flurry is an amazing utility I love it… I land it without any CC’s all the time so it is quite doable. Just a timing thing, I do like to couple it with steal though just so I know I’m right up on top of my target.

Also- Impact Strike can give you the cC you need to use it just as basilisk can, just not as easy to land.

Yeah that’s what I need on my daredevil… More dodges…owait how bout some kittening stability or stunbreaks that don’t pigeon hole you into crappy utilities. kitten maybe just move the stunbreak trait to a line that isn’t trash..

bump because I want action in wvw..

Happened to me inside mendon, ranger shooting me straight through the wall. Also at red keep water I accidentally either daredevil dashed or vaulted through the gate, not sure which I did both after another but ended up inside the keep.

I use it and like it a lot except sometimes it says I have no target when I do. Especially troublesome with the new elite as I end up bouncing away and missing the followups. I also have alt bound to activate/deactivate action cam for easy switching back and forth.

Salamander.2504:

I play reaper and basically just get wrecked. After playing for a few weeks now, it’s pretty clear that giving reaper stability doesn’t do a thing to change the “focus the necro” attitude. Reaper has all of the weaknesses of base necro, with the exception of decent stab uptime. It’s actually disappointing. Maybe once ANet fixes the power creep won’t matter so much, but attrition is a poor imitation of real sustain (blocks/invulns, etc.).

Seems like you don’t have a build that generates life force good enough. That’s the key to being a tanky beast knowing how to get and use that LF>

Yeah I remember back in the day toxic players with abandonment debuff who couldn’t queue anymore, seeing them in hotjoin. How great it would have been if they weren’t still earning those dailies in hotjoin unaffected.

Arius.7031:

Jana.6831:

Darkhaven is T5 – just saying.

Edit: And I think the problem is that people are quitting the game/wvw and the question is why and the solution is to fix this, otherwise we could merge servers until only one is left.

I think Darkhaven was a typo from him, not sure. That’s what I assumed in my post anyway.

T3 was the typo, but I just moved from mag a couple days ago, so I have both perspectives anyways. the mag match is dead too btw except some activity in ebg.

Mak.2657:

Just don’t worry about win\loss at hj. Hj result doesn’t affect your game statistic. Hj for me is a place for relaxed play, testing, spectating, etc. Plus it keeps rank/track farmers away from rated arenas. Farmers at rated arenas is a bad thing imho. Only their incentive is pve reward.

Not worried about win/loss I’m worried about the cancerous environment where every game is 5v3 and if you join the losing side you are getting zerged the moment you leave spawn.

What’s the point in rewards when the outcome of every match can easily be manipulated?

The only thing I see carrying DH is the broken elite trap.. All the other nukes and bow damage and all that, fine in my book. My experience is from playing reaper, chrono, daredevil. Both tanky and squishy builds on both. All I see is DH’s losing fights till the elite trap drops then game over.

I just want a more active queue and a less snowball match atmosphere in hotjoin.. Really no matter which you play it would be better. So many ppl play just for the chests if you force them to queue for it the queues will start popping instantly.

And then hotjoin can just be a fun casual environment.

If you’ve spent more then 2s in hotjoin ever you would see that’s all that happens in there. People wait to join a specific team and spam the join button. If they don’t get their way they leave, like the guy I quoted mentioned.

DD is hard to do any good with.. Either you have to go bunker and rely on gimmick runeset to do damage or you die to one revenant hammer 2s cd 1200 range skill. Oh and don’t forget to evade spam either way it’s all you can do well.

Jaxom.7310:

i find hotjoin much moar fun than un/ranked.

-more soloq’rs
-no queue (read u can play right now, not 5+min from now)
-if match is too much a landslide, just leave and find a better server, nothing holding u there to waste your time. in otherwords, i get to play matches on my terms, not some terrible mmr where u have no idea if ur party is going to be dumb

in un/ranked if u get a terrible match up, or 3+ in a row, u are sol an just have to waste your time w/ a losing matchup.

in hotjoin, its up to you, an u can find a good fight eventually. it ain’t perfect, but my time is better spent playing the game on my terms rather than clicking around hoping ‘this matchup will be good, rite?’

i jus want to play. i want to pvp. i want to do it now. and i don’t want to be in a terrible matchup for ~10+ mins. thats not fun. thats not rewarding. thats not how i want to spend my time.

thats why gw1 RA was so nice. no mmr, so fast matchups, tmd = very short matches. if your team was that terrible it was over in <2 mins. since no mmr, no streaks trying to keep u at 50% winrate.

u just got to pvp and have fun. what happened to that part?

so w/ ur idea:

This WILL remove me, and likely many others, from spvp altogether because i jus don’t have the time to deal w/ long queue + terrible matchups. u think it will move every1 to un/ranked? people will just stop playing and do something fun. theres already a hard cap on teh hotjoin rewards, so… u sort of already have what u want there.

lose, lose, lose, the way i see it

So you play hotjoin to stack teams and farm rewards like pve and if you can’t do that you wont pvp? bye

And increase rewards to unranked and ranked.

This WiLL. Remove toxic gameplay from hotjoin (significantly reduce at least), no need to stack teams for a win that gives you nothing. Hotjoin should be for practicing and learning.

This WILL also, increase activity for unranked, which leads to faster queues, funner games due to a fuller rating system etc.

Win, win, win, the way I see it.

Arius.7031:

If you’re whining about needing a server merge because the game feels too dead in your matchup, transfer, it’s 500 gems to get to a t5 server which is fairly lively or 1k to get to t3 which is very lively. Don’t ask anet to kill a legitimate style of play because you’re too cheap/lazy to improve your experience yourself. That’s downright scummy to do.

If you’re whining about needing a server merge because you’re in t1-2 and think the poor uncivilized heathens in low tiers need your protection, please go away. Your opinion is not wanted and not helpful in any way. Unless you have experience in these tiers, leave the discussion to those who this would actually effect, specifically t6-8.

When will these threads stop popping up? This was getting tiring a year ago.

I’m on Darkhaven, “t3”. It’s dead. If this is what you call very lively then I don’t respect your opinion because it is crazy.

And I can’t transfer to a more populated tier because ITS FULL. T1/t2 have players… The rest of us? Yeah I spent 4 hours in BL yesterday to see 1 guy.. OOO EBG lagfest is slightly populated though!!!

Pink Ninja Man.4375:

Tongku.5326:

I also wonder if it is related to people crashing, as too many bags not disappearing will eventually fill the memory. There seem to be a few seperate sources of crashes, this may be one of them.

Actually, it won’t do much if anything to memory. In memory the only thing they will take up is a cordinate (3 float values, not much memory) and ONE model for ALL of the bags. There are other things taking up a lot more memory then these bags (different model for every player/piece of gear on screen/map), however it would be nice to clean up the clutter. :P

You would be surprised what something like this could cause.. As a programmer its quite feasible whatever code is causing this could be causing bigger problems. I mean there could be any sort of reason for it like a broken loop etc..

I hope so. Please merge WvW servers Anet.

I’d go for it in the new bl.. Might actually make me want to play them.

Sandrox.9524:

BrunoBRS.5178:

you are aware that jump dodging provides no advantage in combat, and isn’t even intended behavior, right?

hell, jump dodging is a liability. if you’re jump dodging during a fight, you’re risking yourself more than regular dodging.

Oh but it does. It makes you faster young padawan.

And with regular dodge animations you cover more ground. Also with this new dash a jump-dodge can take you across quite a large gap (like between cliffs etc).

Salamander.2504:

dank.3680:

Salamander.2504:

Xillllix.3485:

It’s not just the Dragon Hunter that has been balanced poorly. Ever played staff ele in PvP? Yesterday I got destroyed by a reaper with 5-6k cleaves and 1-shot by a Daredevil with a 11k vault and a 6k uppercut following.

Meanwhile on staff ele it takes 3-4 seconds to channel any kittening skill that does 40% that damage. GW2 skill/class balance is soooooo bad now.

5-6K cleave on Reaper is Gravedigger spam. Either that or your cleave numbers might be exaggerated?

Anyways, I agree that virtually all of the elite specs need to be brought down in some fashion.

I can achieve 5-6k on third hit of either GS or RS 1 chains. 10kish with gravedigger… In pvt gear.. Not always on but squishies and I have to get my 25 vuln/might up.

The quote from XilliX above makes a 5-6k cleave sound common, when its clear that it can only occur under a special set of circumstances (crit+lots of might and vuln). In any case, the 3rd AA chain of GS and Shroud have damage coefficients of 1.4 and 1.2 respectively, which isn’t impressive compared to any other damage coefficients from auto-attacks or otherwise. Are we really supporting that Reaper (GS!) AA is OP now? I think not…

I think you assume a lot of things in that little paragraph but that’s ok I guess. I was just clearing up that it’s possible, and did in fact make very clear that it’s special circumstance (ducks in a row) to make it happen.

I never said anything was OP. I do like the GS though after giving it a chance and getting used to it. I do think AA is lacking but I’ve played a lot of slow weapons in this game I don’t think the speed is a big as an issue as most people are saying. I’ve seen good suggestions to improve the AA (range, chill to 2nd hit etc) but that is another topic.

Still using the GS since my comment about not liking it the other day. I finally swapped out my staff for it instead of my offhand set, it works a lot better. I’m running axe/focus (I’ve always disagreed with axe hate its a good weapon imo) and GS..

The axe/focus is the main set but the GS when used at the right times has become very valuable to me.

4 is great everyone agrees,

3 I personally find useful because my build relies on vuln stacking a lot.

5 is very situational and you need to only use it when you know it’s going to work(much like spectral grasp has always been wonky)..

skill 2 is amazing when you set it up by baiting dodges and stunbreaks with reapers shroud.. I’ve also used it to down multiple lower health enemies at once which none of my other necro tools could have done that.

If I’m using 1 spam on any weapon, it’s not a vital thing I’m doing so I don’t really mind the slowness of it, besides I don’t have issues landing it when I want to and it does huge damage.

I think a lot of the issue with these traps is HOW you avoid them. When I first ran across a DH I knew nothing about it and got wasted.. Next fight against him I thought “ok well I know he’s laying traps on point so I’ll dodge them”.. Well that didn’t work, I dodged into the trap like I would marks or any other traps and still got hit..

Did not take me long to realize you need to set off the trap THEN dodge it because it doesn’t activate it’s damage right away.

Salamander.2504:

Xillllix.3485:

It’s not just the Dragon Hunter that has been balanced poorly. Ever played staff ele in PvP? Yesterday I got destroyed by a reaper with 5-6k cleaves and 1-shot by a Daredevil with a 11k vault and a 6k uppercut following.

Meanwhile on staff ele it takes 3-4 seconds to channel any kittening skill that does 40% that damage. GW2 skill/class balance is soooooo bad now.

5-6K cleave on Reaper is Gravedigger spam. Either that or your cleave numbers might be exaggerated?

Anyways, I agree that virtually all of the elite specs need to be brought down in some fashion.

I can achieve 5-6k on third hit of either GS or RS 1 chains. 10kish with gravedigger… In pvt gear.. Not always on but squishies and I have to get my 25 vuln/might up.

that baby stealing dingo.7216:

Shadelang.3012:

A few reasons. One you ruin the experience for your fellow gamers. And if you any self respect as a human being youl see why that should be avoided.

Two. This is a game. Not work. This isn’t like wasting time at work playing solitaire waiting for your shift to end. This is supposed to be what your doing to waste time. And again. Other people are also trying to enjoy the time there wasting. You copping out cause things aren’t going well kittens that up for everyone else. In this case if your not enjoying simply don’t reque for awhile until your in the mood to pvp.

Three. It sounds like your not used ot using your build in the new meta. Keep at it and you find your niche. I hear thief is in a rough place atm but if you give up now you probably won’t preform well when it gets buffed (relative to other profs) ANYWAY.

Four. The dishonor system will be coming with leagues. If your first impulse is to have a hissy fit and afk every time you don’t get your wah wah your gonna do it later and kitten yourself and anyone you happen to be in a party with att over.

First of all, thanks for your reply.

Let’s assume I don’t care what the PvP community thinks about me. That takes care of point one.

Second, if I can read a book or do something else while afk, it doesn’t really affect me one way or the other. Not sure I understand your work/play argument, as I can do something I enjoy while afk and still accrue points.

Third, I’m not a good player. I don’t think I ever will be at this point. I’ve done marginally better with other classes/builds (fighters, engis, etc) but not significantly better. I’ve been playing PvP in a pretty dedicated fashion for a while now and my win ratio is not getting better. With my chosen build, there IS no adapting to the new meta. Everything melts me. I’ll keep trying to get better though, at least for awhile.

Fourth, IF and when the dishonor system comes, that will be a reason to not afk. Yes.

Also, this is not an emotional point I’m making. I’m an average-to-bad player (blame on my skills, blame it on my build, doesn’t matter) and probably always will be. I’m fine with that. I don’t throw hissy fits when my team is losing, I always play to the end unless the score is something ridiculous like 300-10.

I just want to know, logically, if I’m working on a certain reward track and can get points by just going afk, why not? As a bad player I mean.

Point one is not “handled” unless you agree that you have no self-respect as a human being.

Coming from someone who was pvping and wvwing with vanilla up until the other day. I can say yes vanilla classes can still plenty viable. Hell I was playing vanilla thief the first few days and doing great. There are new trait, amulet and skill changes though that need to be adapted to, the same old build may not work.

I haven’t found the mobs too hard in HOT personally. I like the changes to the characters and it really isn’t overwhelming unless you make it that way. The basics of each class is the same, most of the main skills/traits are the same. Yeah there is new stuff, that’s a good thing. Take it one toon one build at a time its not hard.

The new maps are hugely open and explorable.. Have you even trained gliding yet?

I’ve always hated PVE in this game, but I love these maps they are actually fun and beautiful.

I agree WVW was killed by this expansion.

Cogbyrn.7283:

dank.3680:

I find the cooldowns are too long and don’t make for good rotation with RS like other weapon sets such as staff do. I can have my staff out only and take on many mobs hop in and out of RS and always have at least something on my staff off CD.. You can’t do that with GS unless you want to go 11111111111111111.

My staff cooldowns for 2 – 5 are 4.75, 16, 20, 32. For GS, my 2 – 5 cooldowns are 8, 12, 25, 30. That’s pretty comparable, and Mark of Blood spam isn’t doing you a lot of good if you’re Power-specced, which I’m sort of guessing you are if you’re using GS (though you don’t necessarily have to be).

Also, I don’t think it’s a good idea to evaluate a weapon based on “can I only use this weapon, and not a completely new and different weapon set that can provide me new opportunities and fresh cooldowns?”.

There is no reason to go pure power anymore. Mark of blood is doing decent dmg .. Anyways any other necro set I could use exclusively and have a nice combat flow with RS and the weapon cooldowns. Not saying I want to fight with one weapon just comparing the combat flow which the GS does not seem to match up like the other sets do.

I find the cooldowns are too long and don’t make for good rotation with RS like other weapon sets such as staff do. I can have my staff out only and take on many mobs hop in and out of RS and always have at least something on my staff off CD.. You can’t do that with GS unless you want to go 11111111111111111.

Yeah this is annoying me in spvp.. Both definitely do not actually apply though they do update tooltips properly.

Azure The Heartless.3261:

MakubeC.3026:

Improvisation should just recharge one equipped utility.

this could be abused.

running all venoms and trickery in a condi build would mean I could have burst up every twenty seconds.

Same for all deception skills.

Seems a bit too strong imo. Although, with other classes the way they are it could be a buff that would allow thief to fight with some other builds.

Improv is…. okay,I guess. It should only factor in physical if you actually have the line though. Don’t know how hard it is to determine that (perhaps there’s a handle that can determine that AND change a non elite trait), but it would be good for core thieves that are already stupid weak.

He said one equipped utility, not utility type.

I’m waiting it out.. I have 4 copies to buy amongst my family and just don’t think it’s worth the investment at this price. I’ll see how good it is and if the price drops later.

I will continue to wvw my vanilla toons. I’ve played this long without joining the ascended grind I’m sure I’ll still manage being one of the few vanillas in a beefed up world.

Ayrilana.1396:

Rococo.8347:

Ayrilana.1396:

Rococo.8347:

Destruct Robin.5203:

50 bucks is nothing. I spend more in coffee in a month.

I really wish people would stop being so dismissive of another persons concept of ‘expensive’

Many people DONT spend £40 a month on Coffee because they are too busy making sure they can pay their energy bills on time…learn a little empathy

What if the game had a monthly subscription?

It has been about 270 days since the expansion was announced. If someone started saving at that point, they would only need to save about 19 cents a day.

It’s been about 127 days since they announced the price. You would only need to save about 40 cents per day.

Your fallacious comments don’t have anything to do with me calling out someone behaving in a condescending way….many many reasons for not saving their19c a day for example wanting to se if the content is what they really want because they are – poor??

Actually scrap that – if you are on here trying to defend someones bad behaviour with Maths you obviously don’t get it.

I’m not defending bad behavior. What I am doing is arguing against how it is so expensive that the impact of the price for someone who is strapped for cash couldn’t save money over time. There’s also no harm in saving money each day. If they chose not to buy the expansion, they could’ve used the money on something else.

Well I don’t think it’s worth the price and that’s my opinion so you can believe whatever you want. I won’t be buying my 4 copies until the price is lower.

The tier was locked on purpose by collaboration.

It’s been said a couple times in the topic but for those who don’t read long replies.

Flipping a camp on mesmer is super easy. There are a few things to keep in mind I suppose. I’m just going to write some out..

The Scout is your primary target at first because the blinds and cripples will screw you over the most. So pick a Scout, call target on it and kill it till its dead, then the next scout. When fighting the scouts stay as close as you can to them while avoiding the black powder radius from the scout. This is because you want all the melee npcs on top of your aoe.

Keep in mind there are 2 guards and you will be in melee range usually for the aoe, so use your dodges/blind/scepter2/phase retreat etc to avoid their 2 attacks – first the bolas- next the bulls rush. . Don’t stealth without clone or phant’s out or you risk resetting.

Mind your phants and clones, shatter regularly because aoe is your best friend here but make sure to be able to have 1 of any out at all times to draw aggro and keep from resetting on your stealths. Dodge clones are well used to cover stealths and prevent resets. Also remember you can cast phants from stealth without breaking it.

You should in no way need* to stack the camp though it does make it easier. You should easily be able to just jump right into the middle of a camp and start in on those scouts. The most important parts imo are killing the scouts quick and avoiding the guards 2 very predictable attacks. Once the scouts are done it’s pretty much easy mode since without cripple its very easy to kite melee, just dodge that bola..

Mak.2657:

the fuk?
Am I saying I’m good or bad vs ele? You did though. Asking u bring vids to 1) see it if wasn’t just words; 2) l2p if you do really handle them well.
If you haven’t videos and don’t wish to makethem – just say it. I can live with it.
I haven’t vids.

I don’t record my gameplay.. I just play. Again, I can still handle eles just as well as I always could. Maybe it has something to do with a lot of ele hours logged I don’t know.. It just seems easy to me to work around their rotations.

Omg first actually read what I wrote, then if you choose to edit your response I might actually care enough to respond.

And please leave out the baseless assumptions, personal attacks and passive aggressive garbage, thanks.

Mak.2657:

May we see any of your videos from 1×1 server against decent ele? Distubin Angel for example?
Just for l2p sake.

the fuk? You think every player in this game runs a youtube or something?? You some kind of fanboy trolling me? How bout lets look at your vids of how badly mesmer fails fighting ele and we can talk about why?

Siphaed.9235:

I’m pretty sure the intent of camps was never, NEVER for the purposes of being solo-able. That is why they added in the Sentry guys between points, which are entirely solo-able. The camps are intended to be taken by small groups of a handful of players or large groups. But again, they’re not really intended for solo players. That has more to do with Ascended gear creep (yes, it did creep a bit in comparison between 2012 and present) and creative play adjustment by players. But that is to change with the new WvW, which is a great thing.

Since when and says who? Can you show me a quote saying they aren’t meant to be solo’d? Ascended gear creep? I’ve been soloing camps since early beta so I don’t know what that quip has to do with anything.

Necrotize.2974:

dank.3680:

Necrotize.2974:

It definitely hurts our burst. Guess we’re slowly going back to people facetanking Mirror Blade Bursts and really taking at least 2 to actually go down. I wouldn’t care so much if amulets we reevaluated overall, but I definitely feel the damage lost when I’m fighting people, especially D/D eles. Fought one on point and just couldn’t get him below like 40% because after a burst+some took him there, I just couldn’t seal the deal before his allies showed up. Kinda sucks, but I guess I’ll live.

Throw in the Harmonious nerf as well and it seems like Anet wanted to try slowly toning down mesmer’s damage from several sources, just all at the same time.

omg 2 mirror blade bursts to get someone downed?!?!?!? say it isnt so!?!?? You might have to actually fight a player for 10 seconds to land 2 mirror blades??!?!?!? omfg the world is gonna end…

mesmer confirmed dead

That’s assuming they do absolutely nothing to counter any of your burst. Might as well say 100 Blades is OP because if I stand there twiddling my thumbs for 3 seconds I might die. Tankier classed didn’t, and probably now don’t, even have to try to mitigate the damage from mesmer’s bursts because it just isn’t bursty enough. That fight with the D/D ele went on for ages, simply because with all the nerfs to damage, he just wouldn’t drop below 30-40%, and if I missed a Mirror Burst, he was almost back up to full by the time it was off cd again. People said Blinding Dissipation was OP because it lacked counterplay. No one seems to care that some classes don’t even need counterplay to survive mesmer burst now.

I don’t know what to tell you I don’t have problems killing eles.. Of course I fight them for awhile, avoid their big attacks, bait dodges heals and utilities with fakes and mini bursts, before you know I decide to blow my load so to speak..

ASP.8093:

dank.3680:

All the bads who swarmed the mesmer class due to the updates making them OP and successful without any skill…

I did not have much trouble with most of the bads. They did better than they would before but honestly I think those bads could’ve done just as well playing warriors, mediguards, cele eles, pre-patch S/D evade-spam thieves.

That’s because, fundamentally, every good build in this game is designed to “carry” you some. That’s what makes a good build. People rage about overkill bursts, high mobility, great CC, or lots of sustain and “oh kitten” buttons, and general error tolerance but that’s the foundation of any great build.

Does that mean nothing in the world can be overpowered? No. Far from.

But this “No skills!” thing is a joke. Picking up builds that will work for you is also a skill. Learning a new build quickly, even if you’re not amazing with it, is a skill. We saw folks who spent years getting carried by their profession crying about how an actually-good mesmer build could do that as well.

(My main complaint — that Confounding Suggestions incentivized learning a key-press combo over learning good situational awareness, thereby making mesmers play more like the early days of stupid one-hit-wonder thief builds — was addressed pretty poorly. Alas.)

I did not have a problem with the bads either, that is fighting against them, obviously. What I have an issue with is when a swarm of people start playing only because of an overpowered too easy to use wombo combo 1 hit wonder pony with unending forgiveness. Then cry and quit when it gets a slight nerf.

No other classes don’t get 100% protection uptime along with invulns and just how long can we now maintain stealth without revealing once? So yeah, they don’t do near as well.

My issue with it is two fold.
1- I want it to be more challenging when I play my Mesmer which is my main class since forever. Right now I’t silly what I can get away with in WvW(I am wvw player I don’t care if you think it counts). Playing either power or condi, especially condi is ridiculous, even still post patch.

2- I don’t want my favorite class popular because of some stupid gimmick with braindead levels of play.

So yeah I’m glad the FOTM mesmers are crying and I’m not seeing them as much. I still want some touches to be made so that when I win a fight its not because “oh you are a pu mesmer”…

Personally my opinion is the cooldown reductions caused by the chaos armor trait and torch trait, are very unbalanced.

Only wvw since release. I’ve dabbled in sPvP since people claim I don’t like it because I don’t know it, so I put in my time and still don’t like it. I’ve dabbled in PVE when I’m forced to because I need gold or want to level a character quickly, for wvw…

Carighan.6758:

apharma.3741:

My favourite bit is today I went on power necro to get the daily. I literally killed a thief in one attack. Life blast with air and fire proc and spinal shivers auto cast. All I had to do is wait for his dodge animation to end.

I then kept killing him by using DS fear and again, one or two life blasts.

I liked the game more a few weeks ago when things were strong and you HAD to dodge, kite and rotate around the power. Soon we’ll all be back in the same mud as pre patch with everything being different colours of brown except ele, guard and engy.

In sPvP that might be fun, but honestly if I want twitch action PvP I got better and more focused games for that.
In my MMO I want a leisure and relaxed combat which allows me to chat and hence socialize. Even between casts. That’s what I play a MMORPG for after all.

yeah well this game is and always has been about ‘action combat’, it was the main selling point… Not leisure relaxed combat… Although that is still available, you can pve or go in zerg and 1 spam like the rest.

Necrotize.2974:

It definitely hurts our burst. Guess we’re slowly going back to people facetanking Mirror Blade Bursts and really taking at least 2 to actually go down. I wouldn’t care so much if amulets we reevaluated overall, but I definitely feel the damage lost when I’m fighting people, especially D/D eles. Fought one on point and just couldn’t get him below like 40% because after a burst+some took him there, I just couldn’t seal the deal before his allies showed up. Kinda sucks, but I guess I’ll live.

Throw in the Harmonious nerf as well and it seems like Anet wanted to try slowly toning down mesmer’s damage from several sources, just all at the same time.

omg 2 mirror blade bursts to get someone downed?!?!?!? say it isnt so!?!?? You might have to actually fight a player for 10 seconds to land 2 mirror blades??!?!?!? omfg the world is gonna end…

mesmer confirmed dead

All the bads who swarmed the mesmer class due to the updates making them OP and successful without any skill…

A couple nerfs now ya’ll getting trashed like you should on your newbie Mesmers.

Good start Anet, we still need a little more nerfing.. Still too easy and boring.,.. Take a look at the torch trait next please.

Highchu.3806:

Anyone have recommendations for fun/competitive WvW builds for zerging (mainly) and maybe some occasional small group roaming?

I’ve been using the HGH Flamethrower build for some time now which is fun, but I’m starting to get bored of it. When I originally switched to an Engi main I did so for the versatility and now with new specialization system its killed alot of the viable hybrid/experimental builds. Now I feel forced to either focus more on survivability: “Alchemy” – (Protection Injection/Backpack Regenerator) and “Inventions” – (Automated Medical Response/Mecha Legs/Bunker Down) or give one up for more damage.

My current gear is:
Full Ascended Berserker – Runes of Strength
Ascended Berserker Rifle – Air/Energy
(Considering changing Air -> Strength, but I’m not sure if its worth it as I can easily maintain 15-20 stacks Might solo already)
Trinkets – Mix of Berserker and Celestial
(Celestial is mainly for added survivability, but I may change it back later on)

Ideally I’d rather not change too much of my gear setup (especially the Runes) as they were incredible expensive. I was originally considering “Rune of the Pack” instead so if anyone has had good experience with them let me know if it’s worthwhile.

Also, can someone explain to me if there’s a trick to the Healing Turret combo? Whenever I execute the combo (double press): Healing Turret-> Cleansing Burst -> Detonate, I only get the burst heal about half the of the time or else nothing happens and the CD starts counting down. Sometimes I wait for the Healing Burst animation to trigger first (which in my experience it usually doesn’t) before detonating which sometimes works, but most of the time it still does nothing and feels like a complete waste of a heal. This is incredible irritating and one of the main reasons I switched to “Elixir H” in the first place.

You just have to time it right, overcharge it and watch till water comes out then blast, and be in the field too.

haven’t enjoyed a d/d ele vid this much in a long while.. good stuff