Guild Wars 2

Oozo.7856:

Wow, only one page? This must be a boring matchup.

Closed for off topic and flaming. And Bunzy wasn’t even involved!

#FreeBunzy

For Magolemga!

Score from Colhearth right before thread close.

Commisar.8695:

I ain’t no salad, but here’s an update.
Though I guess with all the heat it’s a good thing I’m not a salad, I’d be ruined

Thank you, sexy norn lady!

This type of off topic abrasive argument is why threads get closed.

You should already see the amount that Maguuma no curr about getting forum banned for a few days. I’d give up the argument and let the mod do what he or she sees fit.

Now where’s a salad with the score?

SM is a sexy, sexy guild!

dreztina.4820:

So what are the odds of Mag dropping down soon? This wvw is literally unplayable for me. Aside from hating the playstyle, there’s such a kitten amount of people everywhere that I’m lagging hardcore no matter where I am.

Outmanned on FA bl. Go have your fun.

ParaldaWind.4523:

kfarb.6732:

Skapocalypse.5236:

Oh Maguuma why did you push against us on FA borderlands. You never push the other invading team on a borderlands that isn’t your own on reset day. It only made it easier for FA to take their east keep back from you guys.

Oh well good fights so far.

That was Yamma X, our only remaining visage of the supreme commanding prowess of Tolbrinh.

Is that what happened? Gah… Legion took that east keep and upgraded it at reset. =(

:( We got Yamma’d.

Acelerion.6820:

Something to think about. If mag continues as it is we will probably start looking around again.

Would be very interested in kind of an unofficial official small man server…

Is that a threat or a promise?

Honestly the tier 4 we knew and enjoyed is gone. Make the most out of your current situation and dig in.

Arcane Thievery – Range is too short.
Illusion of Life – Most people don’t realize it’s on them and think they’ve been revived, then die and freak out.
Mantras – Mantras in general are great on paper but not so great in usefulness. Also, I believe the Mantra damage boost is capped at 10% artificially though it does not say it in tool tip.
Mimic – Most useless skill ever?
Phantasmal Defender – I should really use this more but there are more useful things on my bar.
Phantasmal Disenchanter – Useful in PVE that’s about it.
Signets – Only Illusions actually provides something I like/need.

Buy a makeover with gems.

I have the same problem, still broken.

Girls, girls. Let’s relax.

As for the Flame Rams in EB yesterday…
I’m feeling a painful self-contradiction.

It is important to mention that the Greatsword Phantasm used to be broken and ignore LOS. Many people made recommendations based on this OP-ness in previous threads. However I think that what has been said above is on point and accurate for the current game situation.

Also, I think what was not mentioned is the staff has superior support capabilities, where damage is not a big issue. A staff’s boon bounce is nice when you’re in a squad of melee classes.

Your swap weapon will come into play in your choice as well. I use Greatsword/scepter/focus as a WuvWuv toon because of culling issues, clone insta smashing, and range issues. Sceptre enables me to have decent mid range damage and fast clone generation where a sword would fail. In PvE I would use a sword, ofc. Staff does not have that much of an issue with range concerns so either weapon would be feasible.

All of this is subject to change in upcoming patches as every update tends to bring a new nerf for Mesmers, so keep that in mind.

Rainu.6871:

I hope necros get it, they’re the second slowest class and badly in need of some loving. Engineers would also make sense but if it’s only one other class that gets a portal like skill, necros get my vote

Necros are FAR from the second slowest class. They’re one of the fastest.

iAmTheDuke.6201:

For Fort Pangloss!

The treb is a nice touch.

Hard to get a general feel for Mag’s pop on a reset night. We’ll see how it goes throughout the week.

Kazhiel.8194:

kerona.3465:

All this said, Necro is so AoE-tastic compared to anything else I’ve played, but still somewhat under powered in general. It’s the class most people will not want to take to a dungeon, sadly…

Did all three AC paths the other day with four necros, they all changed their traits around so they could have a gazillion minions and we totally wiped everything in there fighting head on faster than I’ve done with anyone else lol it was pretty danged entertaining.

Minions are kinda crappy in general but that’s for another thread lol.

Purple is my least favorite color, but c’mon. Purple. Butterflies.

kitten yeah.

I play a support/wells Necro as well… the damage itself from wells isn’t really that staggering and the trait lines are pretty spread out to trait into them properly. The fear Mark, however, can be bubble bursting for defenders. All this said, Necro is so AoE-tastic compared to anything else I’ve played, but still somewhat under powered in general. It’s the class most people will not want to take to a dungeon, sadly…

If Mesmer, who lacks decent AoE in general gets nerfed, I will be very angry.

Mortalitas.9710:

Yeah not sure people are taking this seriously ! This may have back fired in the worst way possible. If I have to wait in a que tonight we are gonna do a noob BBQ in North Camp BL. We can tell the noobs real easy too we have a style others don’t have. See you all tonight ready to have more wars instead of free badge give aways.

We have failed even more in that now they have been warned of how much we hate them so it will be harder to scare them away!

Thief deserve portal? Must be a troll.

Both work fine, different play styles and different gear recommendations.

I would be OK if Engis had it. Or even Rangers, though it doesn’t make sense thematically. Any other class would just be absurd.

GuardianOMS.8067:

kerona.3465:

Oooh. Lemme get some popcorn and I’ll meet you in the next thread after this one gets closed.

24 Hours left in match up lesse if we can make it to 4 closed threads this week!

Where’s Bunzy?
#FreeBunzy

“I’m great PR. Maguuma doesn’t want people to move here, I’m your man.”
- Bunzy, 1-28-2013

#FreeBunzy

Forgot to mention that we will stop anything…. ANYTHING…. to kill Grub.

Preferably with Flame Rams. A slow burning death.

Oooh. Lemme get some popcorn and I’ll meet you in the next thread after this one gets closed.

24 Hours left in match up lesse if we can make it to 4 closed threads this week!

KwayZee.5742:

Pinko.2076:

KwayZee.5742:

Almost every other time I have seen you take the Garrison, you have never ran up there until after the lord was down. Like I said, make it less obvious. Hell we’ve already heard about all the mesmer exploits your server uses..

If you think our mesmer’s are exploiting, then you’re proving how dumb your other arguments are without us having to try.

Look I’m not going to get into everything I heard over the last 24 hours about your mesmers.

I think it would be best for you because otherwise you’re making yourself look quite foolish.

KwayZee.5742:

You know at first I had respect for Maguuma, but seeing the amount of spies they is ridiculous.. I mean even after winning by so MUCH. You resort to spies to still make the game easy.. thats crazy…

We are a very communicative server. It only takes one person running around to spot a seige and report it to the rest of us to bring down fury on it. Why something so simple apparently requires spies in your mind is beyond me.

I have never seen a mesmer on our server exploit. If you see one, please let us know. Conversely, I’ve seen BP mesmers stick themselves inside of walls at East Keep.

I have a close friend on Yaks Bend. I can’t wait until next week when I can go back to hunting her in peace.

GuardianOMS.8067:

“Guys, I don’t know which borderland I’m on, they’re all green.”

#UnevenMatchProblems

Pinko.2076:

The bunzy signal has been lit.

Nailed it.

I think what BP/DR seem to mistake as “zergs on every borderland” these past two weeks is Maguuma playing cross-bl. We’ll have a skeleton crew of 5-10 on the BL and if they get in trouble they’ll ask for help from a CMD and the CMD will bring the zerg.

Of course if you’re not moving over with the enemy zerg, it would be impossible to distinguish whether the zerg was there the whole time or just popped in to def a few things and moved back.

In any case, our population was pretty high tonight, pretty late. Not just WAR people, a lot of new-to-WVW PvEers were in each BL for better or for worse. As long as they’re open to learning, don’t mind them so much.

Introducing, fresh from Maguuma’s strategery board: The NOVA Supreme.

Each Golem is equipped with more Golems.

Oh well, back to Bunzy.

ParaldaWind.4523:

Rhyis.7058:

You left out the rams involved.

Only rams involved were the ones we left in the lord’s rooms.

Ah, the Sacred Flame Ram. How could I forget.

We used rams? Oh.

This is not a new bug, it’s an old one. The Glamours duration trait actually brings all Glamours up to what they SHOULD be as determined by tooltip. Otherwise, they’re much shorter.

The whiners and complainers seem more vocal on this forum because they have reason. Every patch there are more nerfs or “fixes” to Mesmers, and a good handful of them have seriously broken other mechanics which then take weeks to fix. It’s hard to recommend a build or say one is “best” without acknowledging that this could change in 24 hours.

With that said, most people will conclude it’s a toss up between staff or great sword. Both are good for different things, the staff having more utility and support options for pve, and the GS being excellent for WvW and a better AoE tool.

For your swap, I think most of us have ended up with sword/focus due to low movement speed. Sceptre is a bit underwhelming, but it’s nice when range is important (I currently use for WvW).

As for builds, like I said, this could all change in the next patch. The Shatter intensive build was recently nerfed a bit, but still functions. Phantasm build seems to be back on track after a major recent glitch, but some bugged traits are still effecting off hand sword and utility Phantasms. Glamours have tooltips that are mostly unhelpful and inaccurate, so best to read up on what effects what as Glamours do not even function as described without certain traits.

Is Mesmer worthwhile? It has a LOT of utility and people will always love to have you in squads even if they don’t know exactly why. But acknowledge that there are some major broken pieces to this puzzle and the whiners are more or less on track lol.

I see them too. I use an AMD Radeon 6780 or so.

Hard to tell exactly because Shatters also randomly miss/are too far from the target to effect them.

Sekin.7803:

6 illusions mind wrack.

What.

That’s a site of true beauty!

Someone mind explaining what all that maths was about? I’m allergic to large amounts of numbers and parenthesis.

I use sword/focus in dungeons as my swap, and sceptre/focus in WvW as sword 3 fails pretty constantly for whatever reason and when it does range becomes a major issue with weapon swap CD for me.

Well, it’s something, lol…
Thank you for the response
Hope to see the fix soon!

Phantasm CDs seem to cap at 40% reduction.

Still no comment or fix 14 days in….

I’ve also had this bug happen to me. I’m a heavy WvWer and frankly the skill never seems to function. Either the image is being delayed so heavily on summon that it dies before appearing to me (unlikely), or it’s just never being summoned. And then, even when the illusion summons, on the swap it RARELY immobilizes. I recently swapped for scepter out of sheer frustration that our one immobilize is borked.

I run full Knight Armor GS/S/F, and used to be full Knight Orbed as well. I swapped to zerker orbs and orns because the damage wasn’t a good enough trade off for the minimal survivability gained. My build 30/30/0/10/0. Used primarily for Wuv Wuvs.