Guild Wars 2

Seems lackluster that Endure Pain is susceptible to conditions, I say it should give out a buff like retaliation.
Also, stances seem a lower value of signets. Signets seems to do the same thing that stances do except better. Why are signets and stances copy pasted from each other? did the devs run out of ideas for warriors?

Hey guys I grabbed the wrong laurel accessory. How do I get a refund on it? Is there a support tab I can go to to ask the devs for a refund?

Sorry to say this guys but since the recent confusion nerf I’ll be retiring my mesmer. All the effort and work I did into getting the gear for her went down the drain. This recent patch has made me feel down and playing my mesmer and trying to get another gear seems like a waste of time and effort since we never know if that build will be nerfed as well (this has happened 3 times now). This isn’t a whining thread I’m just saying goodbye to all my fellow mesmers and hoping that you guys hang in there. Thanks for all your help in the past by sharing your thoughts and builds.Good luck.

If this gets nerfed and BACKSTAB/HEARTSEEKER doesn’t I’m gonna freak out.

nvm read it as Kill Shot not Rifle Burst. I think a thief burst is worse

Can anyone tell me the build in this video pls?

I suggest something other than a bubble. Whenever I see a bubble I get the urge to poke it.

By 50% this will save you the trouble of doing it next month or the following months. With all the whining from ARM…. I mean bad players mind wrack will be the next source of complaints. thx Anerf

morrolan.9608:

sephire.7296:

I don’t have any ConditionDamage yet my Confusion does huge amounts of damage. That’s clearly not right. Blanket reducing it to 50% damage would punish those who do spec +CD too much though, imo the scaling/CD contribution needs to be changed, so that the damage is very punishing for those who have high +CD and negligible for those like me who have 0 +CD.

Spot on, but anet have never made more subtle changes like that its always just bang an outright nerf.

BTW I can’t stomach watching the vid, do any of the participants actually raise objections to the change?

The only thing that needs nerfing are their salaries.

Now I have an excuse to get away from this game. Thanks for all the nerfs!

I really liked this game, but the constant nerfs every month just discourages me to play more and more

niea.7504:

That post is almost like a haiku. I like it.

this made me laugh
we were just talking about haikus
in my class this morning

oh good I hate it when ele’s run away all the time from me.

Navi.7142:

Nuka Cola.8520:

Its funny that they haven’t even mentioned izerker fix, nice fail.

We have to assume they already have a fix for him, but they just don’t want to tell us. Whatever their reasons might be for that. ^^

don’t hold your breath though since this patch is from the ones who fixed confusion

Fuschia.6573:

Kazhiel.8194:

I don’t think it breaks stealth. The radius is quite small, basically safest to stand right next to them.

So – and correct me if I’m wrong, I’ve never tried this – you would now be able to fully charge a Mantra while in stealth from Decoy or The Prestige, right?

Seems like it could end up making an interesting Bunker build or something of that sort if you built around that in some way.

Anyone have information on maximum affected allies? If it’s unlimited this is probably what I’m going to start doing in WvW fairly soon.

Last time I tried I could charge during stealth both decoy and prestige. It wasn’t very useful for me when I tried a bunker build honestly but it might work out for you, you never know. Also it heals 5 allies.

kylia.4813:

Hrmmm
Nothing like waking up sat morning to some news like this!

What does Kylia think about it, well we had a good run, from launch till now the glam build had not been touched, of course when a build gets more and more popular, complainers like good old ARM get louder and louder and companies like Anet tend to listen to the whiners, after all they are the loudest.

I have no quams with the change (Have a few builds that I made incase a situation like this ever happened) after all a great build will eventually get nerfed, its what happens. )even when it relies on the enemies stupidity )

Just sad that whiners who don’t know how to play are the root cause, as the french say “Cest la vie”

Remember that us Mesmer’s are the “Specialists” of the game, luckily thats a plural so we have lots of other choices as people like ARM will soon find out, and of course begin the crying wolf again

I hear ride the lightning gets a 40 sec cd? T/F?

darkace.8925:

Fuschia.6573:

Take a look at sPvP. Confusion simply isn’t used there, because it is terrible.

Forgive me for stating the obvious, but PvP isn’t WvW. Just as WvW isn’t PvE. Not all builds are viable in all arenas; ArenaNet has stated as much. A full-on, 100% confusion-spamming build might take too long to get rolling in PvP while still being perfectly viable in WvW.

Fuschia.6573:

Will it still deal damage? Yeah, sure.

If this statement is true (which it is) then the statement “rabib gear is useless for mesmsers” must be false.

Fuschia.6573:

Will that damage amount to anything? No, it will not.

There’s a LOT of space between “it’s not as effective as it once was” and “it will amount to nothing”

Fuschia.6573:

Tell me what would happen if they took Guardian’s Burning and reduced it’s damage to half. Would you still be willing to use Condition Damage on a Guardian.

(Not that you should use Condition Damage on a Guardian, but it’s a solid example since that is their main condition as Confusion is ours.)

That’s not quite an apples to apples comparison. Guardian’s only dot is Burning, mesmer’s have access to three (four if you count Confusion).

I’m not trying to argue for the sake of arguing, but I think we all – deep down inside – know a nerf was called for. Whether or not this is the proper way to do it, I can’t say. Since we don’t have the full patch notes neither can you, for the time being. It may very well prove to be overkill on ANet’s part. But let’s dial back the “the end is nigh” hysteria and wait and see how things play out.

The problem is confusion is the only viable condition a mesmer has for pvp. Bleed and fire is kittenedly unreliable. Why? Because there’s vulnerability in staff which makes stacking bleed or fire redundant

so did mantra get a 1/4 of a second reduction cd?

Just looking at those guys make me wanna punch them in the face even before the confusion nerf. Way to break to peer pressure devs…

So they fix confusion but they don’t fix BACKSTAB? I see favoritism.

I’m pretty sure it was Ghoul-em

Just had a good fight with a thief barely, he had all these cash shop buffs I don’t know who you are but that was a fun fight. It was a long fight and your interrupts almost got me but I manage to win. Then after the fight two more thieves came and they were crap compared to you, it didn’t take long to beat both of them at the same time. Cheers for the fun fight.

They’re honestly easy kills for confusion using classes since they loooove to spam their skills. I think all the thief HS spammers went ele. *puts on helmet

If direct damage is what you want you should try GS. Then have either sword/pistol or sword/torch or staff for defense.

Original builds are the best, this way you get better using your own playstyle. Copy paste builds tend to work but not as well as when you do it on your own sometimes.

I copied someones build before but it didn’t work as well as I wanted it to and then down the line I managed to make my own build and rebuilt it again and again. Now I have one that’s both fun and easy to use.

I’ll list a few pros on ele and mesmer

Elementalist: Extreme mobility, meaning you can disengage from fights. This also gets you to and fro really quickly which mesmer lacks. At 80 I’ve seen them use their mobility and buffs tank up 10 players while killing at the same time.

Mesmers: Able to be a team player with various utility skills such as portal, feedback, aoe stealth. But really really slow compared to other classes (this is my only issue). Mesmers are easy to learn but hard to play. That may seem like a contradiction but when you’re up against someone who knows their class well you can’t just spam buttons.

Necromancer: Never played it.

In conclusion, for WvW mobility is the way to go since you’ll see a lot of zergs. Elementalists can pretty much disengage easily.

So I can’t find my name. I just wanna check my kills and losses. Even when I select my guild I still can’t find it and I know I’ve killed more than 5 compared to my other g-mates.

nerf glamours…I think we’re only suppose to auto attack guys

I’m gonna be nice here and give you some advice. In WvW, winning is based on 3 things. In no particular order

1. Your traits and the skills you use.
2. Your gear
3. Your skill in playing your character

Just doing WvW for the first time don’t expect to insta win against someone who might’ve played a lot more hours and spent a great deal of time learning and shaping their character to perfection against other WvW players. If I were you I’d go to the Mist and find out what traits and armor works best for you and if you like it. Get the exotics and trait it in WvW and see how you do. WvW / pvp is based on dying and remaking your character to see how best fits you and your playstyle against other players.

Parktou.4263:

naphack.9346:

knight.8926:

You have your op pet I have my confusion

No.

lol’d hard at that. Also, mesmers have 3 stealths…..guess OP forgot about that?

they have 4 actually

Straegen.2938:

knight.8926:

It’s been said before that a zerg has multiple ways to get rid of confusion. Honestly there’s more than 50 ppl than can use a condition removal when they see the purple dome being cast. Is everyone just blindly attacking?

Not everyone fights in a zerg, not every group has continuous condition removal, frequently enemy groups apply several conditions and removal order seems somewhat random. I am not saying it is OP but what I am saying is that it can do more damage than any other condition and has limited accessibility so other classes cannot share in its goodness.

I see what you mean wink wink

It’s been said before that a zerg has multiple ways to get rid of confusion. Honestly there’s more than 50 ppl than can use a condition removal when they see the purple dome being cast. Is everyone just blindly attacking?

As a mesmer when I see 8-10 stacks of confusion on me I laugh. It has never killed me. I’m more concerned about poison more than anything that thing stacks up to more than a minute.

rubmywontons.3972:

The worst thing about confusion is wanting to remove it and you end up removing 2 stacks of vulnerability. Condition removal priority would be kinda cool.

Id love to have that. I’d get rid of that bramble bind that won’t let me move. That thing honestly kills me more than anything….other than cripple

The only way confusion kills you is if you attack. Confusion mesmers have 0 dmg that you can heal through as long as you don’t attack while it’s on.

Honestly leave Engineers alone, they finally got a break and got beefed and up to par

hamsteak.1368:

Dancing Face.4695:

I love ppl complaining about offensive thief skill when the problem is totally different: defensive skills. Stealth, stealth regen, removing condition in stealth and all allow thief to go with offensive gear. Same gear on all other class, but mesmer, means death in 2 seconds as soon as you put your nose out of starting door. Thief doesn’t need a lot of armor or health when stealth is his own armor, with all the skills concerning that.

o-kay

This concept is pretty much what all skilled thieves use. The pressure they put in stealth with insane dmg is what makes it so crazy as well. We think their health is down to half but when they stealth it goes back up to 75% then they restealth again which hits for at least 3k and they regain their health to 100% by the time they pop out of stealth

sazaw.1347:

knight.8926:

You have your infinite stealth I have my confusion

You have that, decoy + veil + mess invisibility.

That’s 11 seconds. Not really infinite (dont make me mention backstab…oops)

by the way I honestly think this sigil isn’t working even at night lol. Conditions don’t seem to affect it. It’s probably a bad sigil to use now that I think about it.

Gisei.5749:

That guy has one, so I should get one too!

Logic at its finest.

um this isn’t a “let me get this since i they have it too post” I’m trying to say not to nerf confusion due to players complaining about it. It’s also a skill that’s unique to mesmers like how ride the lightning is to ele’s and infinite stealth to thief..etc.

shhhh this is my build that lets me kill everyone even thieves

I’d rather get a MANTRA OF SPEED. or SIGIL OF SPEED either works

“2) the fact that Mesmer Condition builds outclass Necro Condition by a mile right now when built for it (in damage, condition variety, and utility),”

I don’t agree with this. Their condition dmg is superior to ours. The stacks and speed of stacks they do is borderline insane

P.S. Also if I don’t pay attention to the stacks of conditions they stack on me I’m dead. It’s ridiculous how many they can put on you on a short amount of time.

I’m a condition mesmer. I need a sigil that’ll complement my conditions for wvw. I just grabbed a random one (namely sigil of the night) since I didn’t really see any good ones worth getting. I’m poor so I need to spend my money wisely. Anyone have preferences concerning sigils? Thx in advance!

it needs to be in the same concept as the warrior GS #3 skill where you have to aim it. That’ll get rid of the spammers

they need to give us a 3min grace period where we can relog in the same borderland when we dc

I couldn’t think of anything good with rangers other than there getaway skills

Endemonadia.8593:

Loco.4561:

I see so many complaints against confusion, it’s mind boggling that so many of you seem to struggle with this condition. I have NO problems handling confusion on ANY of my characters. It’s simple:

Pay attention to the conditions being applied to you
Don’t waste whatever cleanses you have IF you are fighting an opponent with a lot of condition damage
DON’T MINDLESSLY SPAM ABILITIES.

If a Mesmer (for example) dumps 7 stacks of confusion on I either cleanse or just wait it out. Don’t spam, don’t dodge roll. Just let them stand there looking at you. Confusion is awesome for catching people unawares, it punishes lazy players who feel they don’t need to watch what conditions are being applied.

Rather than calling for nerfs, learn about the condition being applied and counter by…well how can I put it…not being bad :p

Sadly its not this simple, and if u read the entire thread u will hear from extremely experienced PvPers why Confusion is OP and needs to be sorted out.

The fact that Confusion is nerfed by 50% in PvP shows that the devs know something is wrong. The question here is why its not nerfed in WvW also.

The opinion that players should simply ;pay attention really doesnt hold water. The entire Confusion mechanic is a very unskilled ability with massive yield on return. In Zerging it does the most damage by a mile over all other AoE.

Therefore, surely we should be rewarding players who must target individuals and time their attacks more than the simplest ability which u just dump onto a group of the enemy?

Turn up singletarget attacks and turndown AoE.

TLDR: this isnt a thread writtemn by QQers who cant handle Confusion, its written by peoploe who understand PvP fully whose opinion is that Confusion is OP and needs to be redesigned.

You know whats an unskilled mechanic? steal+CnD+backstab…but it still hasn’t been nerfed.

You have your infinite stealth I have my confusion
You have your ele speed I have my confusion
You have your op pet I have my confusion
You have your infinite buffs I have my confusion
Lately people have been complaining about confusion. For a mesmer they rely on this to counter classes that are too op to take down.
Thieves for example, with confusion on they’ll think twice before attacking in stealth.
Ele’s won’t just start spamming their attunement and just win.
This deterant is the only thing keeping us on par with these op classes. This keeps them on their toes and keep them thinking. Not just a mindless button spammer.

and if you do video tape it