Sensotix is going to be a shoutcaster, weee. Congratz!
Those series sound amazing and I hope you will have time to do all of it and yet manage all the IRL responsibilities.
That part about you not having friends make me sad. I should take you out for a beer as I am living pretty close (Bratislava) and I won’t ask for any gem cards!
Just my first ideas on how to give away the gem cards:
Before the regular dueling days in your new arena you can create a dueling tournament where the winner will get the card. It should help promote your arena and channel a bit and also give you some content for the dueling series.
You can give the card(s) to players that will help you making the dueling series by playing the other profession. If the format of the dueling series is going to require a lot of effort of your “enemies” then it would be a nice incentive I guess. Like if they will have to run multiple builds and show their side of the fight, etc.
Also it would be great if you could put the link about the patch notes preview into the description of the video so your subscribers won’t have to look for it.
We should hang out some time, how does sunday sound?
Sure, I’ll be all over the [OMFG] guild chat! No active guild Team Speak usage for now because my terrible accent plus my current location making me nervous (visiting parents in law) won’t make it fun for anyone.
Wohoo, Chaos wrote his feedback into topic created by Jon and even got an answer. He is even more e-famous now! But I am not sure how I should feel about the reply itself. Source
Also not sure if people noticed, but guardians got a interesting change for their swiftness symbol.
Symbol of Swiftness: This skill now applies 4 seconds of swiftness per pulse, rather than 8 seconds if you have no swiftness and 1 second if you have swiftness.
So if they want to get their original 8s, they will have to stand there 1 extra tick, but this allows multiple guardians to stack swiftness to people pretty well.
The thing is if they have any plans to make changes to the Temporal Courtain to allow stacking too. But I hope they won’t ask people to run through the “line” multiple times to get the original duration as that is way more annoying that just standing in symbol extra second. We’ll see.
Hey, butterflies can look manly on females aswell :P!
Them sexists, man.
I wrote “for female players” and not “for female characters” even tho that is sexist too, so I am sorry.
I am a man playing a female character, so that post is just showing my inability to phrase my thoughts in english well, but apart from that I am a great person obv!
Pink butterflies are stylish and cute for female players and yet unbelievably manly for male players!
A study has shown that charr male warriors wielding greatswords and hammers are still jelly how manly do mesmers look with their pink butterflies. [citation needed]
All of the changes are kind of awesome, but Confounding Suggestions barely merited Grandmaster as it is. What makes it so good is that the 50% stun chance makes it MUCH easier to chance down fleeing opponents as well as escape crappy situations. Increasing daze duration takes that away, but gives us the potential (w/Mesmer runes) for a near 2-second daze, making the DazeMantra -> OH SwordDaze -> DazeMantra combo into a beastly 6-second daze… assuming they don’t just run away from you.
I’d much rather them make the 25-point in Domination grant a 20% daze duration increase. The Confounding change is still barely grandmaster-worthy IMO, if its an addition to the stun chance, then it becomes freakin’ glorious and totally worth the 30 points.
This is a well written feedback and I would like to suggest to post it into the original thread as Jon is (pretending to be?) reading all the posts there.
I really doubt they won’t introduce trait making confusion stronger. That would make life of other players pretty difficult in a sense that they may end up with some confusion and they would have no idea if it is this normal confusion and they shouldn’t be that worried about lets say 3 stacks or it was applied by a mesmer with the trait so it is stronger and he should really cleanse it.
Having trait for confusion duration (as we already have) is one thing but having trait that will make confusion stronger will be a bit painful to implement without other players going into heavy QQ mode I think.
I can imagine adding a trait that will introduce a x% chance to add a stack of bleed or torment whenever confusion is applied to a target even tho they are currently trying to get away from the randomness. But change like that will alow to make applied confusion stronger, but enemies will still have an idea what is going on.
I just hope they don’t nerf our perma vigor, as Jon said they didn’t like people having it perma :/
Agree.
1) Jon doesn’t like perma vigor
2) some people in the original thread mentioned that mesmers still have perma vigor
3) Jon is reading posts in that topic
So he either switched his main from warrior to mesmer and don’t want to nerf it or we may see some additional changes to go into the patch.
This preview looks pretty good for mesmers so far. Also changes to other professions should make mesmer feel fine in the relative sense from my limited understanding.
Hopefully those changes will get released without additional nerfs.
Reworked Diamond Skin trait for elementalist is making some necromancers nervous. Should condition mesmers feel the same?
Also warrior control builds have their damage nerfed and Skull Crack will finally have animation that will be easier to read. /cheer
When I’m running with friends/guildies swiftness isn’t really a problem, it’s moreso in pickup groups. I really wanted to know if the Traveler’s were worth it for the boost – I assume they are and the comments here have supported it. I’ll check out the other runes, but if Traveler’s are much better I’m sure I’ll end up going that route.
For me traveler runes are worth it and I have them on my PVT and zerker armor which I use mostly for WvW. On my rabid armor I am still using Perplexity, but god how slow it feels . I wish there was a +25% movement speed rune that boosts condition damage/duration.
I would have no problems using zerker + traveler runes in normal dungeon runs. For speedruns tho I would get a extra armor set with scholar runes, because maximizing damage is a priority and you can count on swiftness provided party members (+ your focus).
Runes of Speed looks like a cheaper alternative, but they are really quite heavy on defensive stats. Looks more suited for some WvW builds.
What party composition are you running so you don’t have anybody providing swiftness?
When running past trash:
- ask party members to use their banners, warhorns, shouts, staff symbol, etc.
- switch to focus offhand (it is useful in dungeon runs generally)
- switch to Blink when running
You can always try cheaper runes (Centaur, Air, Pack) if Traveler is too expensive for you and you are really desperate.
You want a number of players mesmers can beat? Give us a number that will describe skill level of mesmers and skill level of their opponents. Also we would like to know the builds, gear, sigil stacks, food buffs of enemies. Don’t forget to add if they are all talking on TS/Ventrillo/Mumble and what is their ping. It would be helpful if you can let us know in what mood and how tired everyone is. How are their display settings? Can they see character animations? Etc, etc, etc.
I have no idea how can you expect a number without providing any ideals. It is not like we can just plug the numbers into an equation and come with a result .
3 mesmers can beat any number of opponents (0+) depending on a ton of variables.
On an engineer I was abusing Bomb Kit and especially Smoke Bomb (before the nerf) to AoE everything and not get touched.
On a mesmer I was running staff and sword/X and was able to solo Svanir’s Dome meta in Foothills without problems, but AoEing down packs required more work than on engi and I was missing 100% swiftness uptime so on higher levels I was doing WvW exclusively and made sure to do dailies to get fast XP.
Your 3 mesmers will try to grab their attention while their zerg arrives and steamrolls them – that would work. 3 vs 10 is unwinnable against good max level players. If they are really bad then yeah, it is definitely possible.
I would like to participate if the timezone difference allows it. I am PDT+8, but have a crazy sleeping schedule because of playing on US server so anything starting 8PM PDT or earlier should be managable.
Movement Lockdown – Immobilize is missing from the list.
Confusion – Engineers have solid access to confusion too, but it is not supported by traits like in the case of Mesmer, so I guess that is the reason you are not mentioning them. Bomb #3, Toolkit #3, Pistol #3 can stack 12-14 stacks of confusion.
Thieves – You are probably referring to D/P thieves. If you interrupt their Black Powder (1/2s cast) they just lost 1/2 of their initiative and you denied them their stealth (smoke field + leap combo). That is more often than not a “gg” for them.
I have 6 asuras and 2 sylvari characters, so I like recommendations posted above.
My mesmer is asura and I can provide my subjective pros and cons.
Pros:
- they have really lovely animations
- their animations are harder to spot by an opponent
- their racial skills are using color palette that is similar to the mesmer skills (it is a sign)
- their movement feel faster than movement of other races (even tho it is the same speed)
Cons:
- not a race for lovers of skimpy armor (and I am thankful for that)
- armor and weapons are scaled down, so if you want to carry around biggest legendary, choose something else
i will maybe do that in the videos in the future but it will be hard for me since i got little time beside university but i promise i will try my best!
Great!
Maybe as a trial run to get feedback how people like it you can take some fights from your 1v1 videos, slow them down a bit and provide a commentary. That should save some time. Those 1v1 videos have plenty of interesting stuff going on there for sure.
Would love if you can make a video in the future where some important spots are slowed down and you provide commentary what are you doing and why. You know, for us slower/newer mesmer.
Thinking about changing my zerk armor for Knight’s or something. But it’s gonna be really expensive if I have to buy another 6 runes of the traveler. So I’m kinda hesitant.
If you are in full zerker and trying to get more survability, what about keeping your zerker armor and getting PVT trinkets for karma? You won’t have to buy another set of traveler runes that way.
So that build has a recommendation for the Chillruption build, which is also super strong. I’m not a big interrupt fan as a lot of our interrupts have stupid long cooldowns and lose their potency in PvE, which still takes up 30-40% of my play time.
Yeah, I also like to use builds that can also perform well in other scenarios (like PvE). I wish there was a black lion account bound item allowing you unlimited resets of traits (maybe working like their special salvage kit), I would buy it sooo fast.
Feedback has the added benefit of crazy-stupid targeting. If you have no target, it pops up 900 feet in front of you – including through many keep doors.
TIL! No idea why I never tried it without target I don’t know. Thanks!
Love kubetz’s build though! I might have to try something similar out! I haven’t ridden the Rune of Perplexity wave yet and maybe now is the time.
Thanks for your kind words !
I’ve been looking for zerg build yesterday and found this thread .
I wanted to try focus instead of pistol as I think it will bring extra utility in more “zergy” fights and sieging and I feel that GS has more tagging potential than staff. So I moved last 5 points from Chaos trait line to Duel because I did not see any great trait there to pick instead of Chaotic Dampening, but I may be just blind.
But I have this strong feeling that I should move another 5 points from Chaos to give up the 20% protection uptime and take a nice juicy trait instead, like Phantasmal Fury, Empowered Illusions, Mental Torment or even Desperate Decoy (because I am a nub). As a extra bonus I would get also solid offensive stat gain.
I would love to see some other builds people are planning to run.
Mantra is a Sanskrit term for a sound, syllable, word, or group of words that is considered capable of “creating transformation”.
So I think Anet really wants to stick to the fact that you have to “focus and talk” (a.k.a press the button) to get it ready and therefore I doubt they will modify the concept of recharding unless they make your character talk those magic words at automatically all the time which may be pretty funny actually.
So what are the specific zerg builds you are going to run today, ladies and gentlemen?
I am very new when it comes to mesmer-ing around and I would like to run something that will make me useful and also allows me to tag stuff, because I am a little greedy asura.
With the option to switch to traited to Warden’s Feedback for more reflection (defending sieges?) and also get Dazzling Glamours if I see hammer trains nearby.
But it took me like 1 minute to make this build, so I am pretty sure it is horrible.
Regarding the discussion if there are any builds that would prefer carrion: I was browsing some builds and found out that Fay has some builds that is using carrion gear.
Therefor, taking carrion gear would be lowering your condition damage because of vit instead of toughness, vastly decreasing your endurance regeneration, vastly decreasing your bleed pressure, making your heals less effective, and reducing your power damage defense, while providing you with a tiny bit of power.
And aren’t there any builds that would make better use of carrion? I got carrion set a year ago because of some well-rated build (I don’t remember anymore, heh), but from your explanation it looks like rabid is better on mesmer pretty much all the time. Or did I miss something?
I haven’t had a pleasure to spend a lot of time with my mesmer outside of the open world PvE. The result of it is that my mesmer skills are at the moment terrible and I would like to learn from the more experienced players. This guild sounds like a dream comes true.
I am enjoying all what this game has to offer, but I am mainly focusing on WvW at the moment.
My play time is quite random because of the responsibilities, but during the weekday I am trying to be online 11 PM – 1 AM CET (2PM – 4PM PST). Weekends are all over the place.
I was using CnD on the spawns like 95% of the time and 100% of the time when Liadri was doing that silly whip thing. You can CnD a spawn from max skill distance and you won’t trigger the explosion.
Now I am scared a bit what the next update brings in the “crazy achievement” area.
Anyone pull off Light Up The Dark? It makes me sad little Sylvari.
There just isn’t enough time. >.<
Yes, I did that achievement. Few posts above you can find the build I used and some random tips.
Enough time for what? To kill her or throw 8 orbs?
I had plenty of time to DPS her down running condition build. Start doing damage from the start of Phase 2 and you will even have to stop halfway through otherwise you will kill her too quick. Definitely don’t wait with damage until you throw 8th orb.
The difficult part about the achievement for me was not dying while luring spawns into that white AoE. When I focused too much on dodging I would start missing orbs, so I had to find that balance where I would somehow survive, but still get orbs as fast as possible and that is the reason it took me quite a few tries. Stealth, lot of dodging and the trait allowing you to remove cripple on dodge can definitely give you some room to make few minor errors.
I got normal Liadri kill and also “Light Up the Darkness” achievement using P/D and Carrion setup.
I used Veggie Pizza and Tunning Crystal, but in my opinion maximizing damage is not really needed as you have more than enough time to take her down with condition if you start damaging her right after 3rd orb.
Hints (some are specific to my build):
Turn off postprocessing.
Learn to dodge in the AoE instead of running away. When going for 8 orbs trying to get out of AoE everytime is close to impossible.
Invite somebody to the party so you can target Liadri. Fight can get pretty hectic in later stages and not being able to target her fast can result in quick death.
Using CnD on nearby spawn or Liadri right before throwing Orb makes the whole fight lot faster. They stop chasing you, you get some regen and can use Sneak Attack.
If you get multiple Orbs at once or you need time to stabilize and plan, don’t be afraid to use Shadow Refuge.
Use Shadow Strike if you need to get some distance and area behind you is safe, but be careful not to kill her before all 8 Orbs has been thrown.
Don’t stand in the white AoE if you are low, just stand close by. Standing there is damaging you.
Steal to those Shadowy Orbs pretty fast as they can kill you.
When you get crippled by Liadri dodge and it will get removed. Dodging also drops calltrops that will slown down spawns and together with Signet of Shadows you should be pretty safe.
You can dodge through spawns and you won’t get hit by the explosion.
I was running with Take Root, but actually didn’t use it at all. Also I never had to switch to SB.
Very entertaining video and the reason why there are still some people asking for more thief nerfs.
Subscribed and waiting for more!
cant use a thief v thief video to explain why a thief needs to be nerfed…just as you cant vs an upscaled player….they are both stupidly squishy :P
I am not referring to the speed which he was killing lowbies with, but more about the fact that several players were trying to hunt him down for soo long while he was killing his targets.
I am sure that they are thief haters now, but I don’t care, because it was fun to watch.
We have no information how it will be implemented (cost, recharge/cast time, visibility, radius) and what are the plans for future traps, so I’m not QQing (yet) .
I would like to think that it will result in less players complaining about stealth and asking for thief nerfs, but I don’t expect it to be the case.
I hope they will introduce some kind of boon removal and immobilization traps and also allow us to cast all of them standing in enemy zerg while being in stealth .
Being able to transform boons from an enemy to yourself does sound like a boon hate mechanism to me.
On the paper it sounds way more interesting than just flat out dmg% increase warriors are getting. Stealing boons is very thiefy thing to do and “in your face” raw damage punishment suits warriors more.
We will see how this concept will get developed in the future, but I think it will make experienced thieves that know what to steal in which situation pretty annoying.
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