Guild Wars 2

For now, Traveler.

After HoT hits, probably something else if I pick up Chrono.

After ANet nerfs the speed trait to half because Mesmer, Traveler again.

Captain Jaguar.3642:

a PVP title meant to show skill in PVP

lol wut

I’d like these “experts”, who “picked up Mesmer just to see how easy it is” and “face rolled” everything, I’d like to see them record themselves fighting warriors, necros, d/d celes etc without using stealth. If you really think it’s an unnecessary mechanic, then go ahead and play Mesmer without one. See how far you get.

Fysem.9631:

msalakka.4653:

Judging by posting history, he’s in NA.

What?

I was simply pointing out that you are likely seeking info re: North American servers. Your post didn’t mention your region. Unless you are interested in Euro servers as well.

Sirbeaumerdier.3740:

I’m a rather bad mesmer myself and every time I play mine, even full glass, with a minimum of stealth and blink I’m next to unkillable (never mind using PU) even when the opponent has 20+ The only time I die is when I get kitteny which, to be fair, usually happen to anybody who feel so untouchable…

I think your bullkitten story is the evidence Anet needs to nerf Mesmer some more. You should email them your findings immediately.

And if you have any arbitrary bones to pick any other classes, include those in your report too.

Judging by posting history, he’s in NA.

#tieroneproblems

Why do you want a legendary?

It’s the journey that’s supposed to be fun. If you don’t enjoy it, why do it? It’s like the Obsidian Sanctum JP. You know going in that those drops are crap, but you do the JP because it’s fun.

How about you drop by the forums at gw2wvw.net and experience the toxic brainless kitten trash talk parade going on there. That’s what a cross-realm chat would be reduced to. No thanks.

Meta builds are only as good as the players using them. I run a non-meta (or at least I assume so since I’ve yet to fight anyone with the same spec) hybrid and I absolutely love coming across the standard issue power shatter in WvW if for no other reason than how easy they are to kill.

While Pyro has a point, I don’t judge anyone by what they run but how effective they are with it. Doesn’t matter how strong your glassy build is if you are all thumbs with it. Any meta build is really mostly a potful of soil out of which you can grow what you work best with and what you enjoy.

I don’t run any duration decreasing food nor armor, haven’t done so for years. I just cleanse. Try it sometime.

Sure, return Confusion back to what it was, so long as you also return Torment back to what it was.

SuzukiMethod.4732:

When either of them is a pu mesmer. And if one of them is on my server, then make a free account on the enemy server, grind to 60, and then come back and kill the “friendly” pu mesmer.

Aww…did the mean Mesmer hurt you? There, there. There, there.

I don’t interrupt duels.

However, two people fighting isn’t automatically a duel. You’ll never get the distinction 100% right all the time, but being able to tell a duel from a random encounter is something you pick up over time.

I think buffing it is a great idea. Still wouldn’t use it though, not with that cooldown and lack of reflect.

I’ve never understood this need for PvE skins and stuff from WvW. The only reason I wish the drops were a bit better is that it would make it easier to afford wasting gold on upgrades, traps, and blueprints. Yeah I got some weapon skin from one of the tournaments. No, I haven’t used it.

I can understand wanting ascended, since the stats are an improvement over exotic, but afaik the legendary weapons have the same stats as ascended and the latter are far cheaper to acquire, so I don’t get the appeal. If I wanted PvE skins to parade around in, I’d play PvE.

mulzi.8273:

This is the first thread i have ever seen where wvw’ers are now saying EoTM is WvW, and will give new players the experience of wvw…

Amazing how peoples perceptions of certain areas can shift so suddenly when it suits them.

It’s not a change of perception. Anet thinks EotM is WvW. So it makes sense to provide them a rationalized reason as to why doing this makes sense and is a good idea for them, while really, we just want the freeloaders to not kitten up our WvW more than it already is.

Azure The Heartless.3261:

Finer points aside, any class setup that allows you to FullHP -> Death a class without a telegraph is overpowered, plain and simple.

I haven’t been one-shot by a Mesmer yet, can’t say the same for thief pre-patch. If you want to run glass, don’t whine about being burst down. If you run without condition cleanse, don’t whine about how strong conditions are. If you don’t run a roaming spec, don’t wander in the wilderness by your lonesome smelling flowers. Gear appropriately and you’ll have a more pleasant time, instead of expecting every other class to be nerfed down enough for you to manage facekeyboarding them to death.

I think it was supposed to be implemented in stages to begin with, and not so much a case of something having gone wrong. I just wish they’d hurry up with it, but then again, as a WvW player I’ve grown accustomed to waiting endlessly.

Jay.7546:

I don’t roam, roamers to me are walking gankers. Most of their kills are people trying to get somewhere who aren’t traited for roaming but traited for WvW zerging.

This is true, to a large extent. As a solo roaming PU condi kittenlord, people trying to reach the mother blob are simply walking lootbags to me.

Jayne.9251:

I think you failed to understand placement. Go experiment. I’ve tested and found the spots.

That’s nice, dear. However I don’t think it is our job to find ways to avoid being subjected to exploits, but Anet’s to plug them.

EnderKid.2567:

msalakka.4653:

EnderKid.2567:

I’ve got just the thing for you, It’s not a PURE power build, but it’s pretty amazing in PvP, it’s all I’ve been playing for the last month and i’m having a blast with it

It’s a rampager hybrid shatter mesmer and if you’re still intrested feel free to go down here

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vhAQNAR7flknhy0YjawINwtGLvGk5KW2IKTQvjGaAyZTA-TJBGwAu3fAwTAowBBYaZAA

Sigils can change depending on situation or preference
(it IS very glassy though so don’t let anyone near you with your block on cooldown)

Have fun learning it
-Lukki

I’ve been running this in both WvW and sPvP since the patch, and I have to say it is awesome. The only thing I do differently is I dropped the GS and now use Scepter/Pistol Scepter/Torch. I find it offers a lot more flexibility and negates some of the glassiness as iDuelist will continue to damage your opponent while you recover in stealth, and you can still shatter it at will, so it’s easier to maintain pressure.

Yes but I wanted to use a non-meta build in which I can use a Greatsword because I had just crafted Vision of the Mists by then

Edit: You said you’ve used it in WvW, how did it do? cause I’ve wanted to use it in WvW but i can’t guarantee it’ll work.

Would Rampager armor, Sinister trinkets work?

You can use a GS, but then you have to decide which one to give up, torch or pistol. I’m not willing to let go of either. I suppose in a power build it makes more sense though.

As for what I run… Rampager works if you’re comfortable with the lack of toughness and vitality. I personally don’t run in zergs but always solo roam, often getting into 1v2/3s, so I prefer dire armor with rampager or rabid trinkets.

EnderKid.2567:

I’ve got just the thing for you, It’s not a PURE power build, but it’s pretty amazing in PvP, it’s all I’ve been playing for the last month and i’m having a blast with it

It’s a rampager hybrid shatter mesmer and if you’re still intrested feel free to go down here

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vhAQNAR7flknhy0YjawINwtGLvGk5KW2IKTQvjGaAyZTA-TJBGwAu3fAwTAowBBYaZAA

Sigils can change depending on situation or preference
(it IS very glassy though so don’t let anyone near you with your block on cooldown)

Have fun learning it
-Lukki

I’ve been running this in both WvW and sPvP since the patch, and I have to say it is awesome. The only thing I do differently is I dropped the GS and now use Scepter/Pistol Scepter/Torch. I find it offers a lot more flexibility and negates some of the glassiness as iDuelist will continue to damage your opponent while you recover in stealth, and you can still shatter it at will, so it’s easier to maintain pressure.

SwiftXShadow.4236:

Also if one uses a pistol is "Duelist discipline " mandatory? Is that bleed effect rly that good? I rly like what desperate decoy is. It sounds like a great skill to get out of death situations + a clone?
Which one of these traits is better?

The bleed on it is still bugged at the moment and doesn’t work. It’ll be great though for condition or hybrid builds once it gets fixed. I run a hybrid condishatter with pistol and for the time being I find Phantasmal Fury to be more useful.

Desperate Decoy I wouldn’t recommend at all. It’s just more likely to get you killed by putting Revealed on you at the most inopportune moment.

PU Condi. Takes five minutes. Just focus the lord and ignore the guards as they will die from the AoE. A couple of useful skills I slot in for this that I don’t otherwise run: Pain Inverter (since Asura) to help with the confusion bomb, and Mistfire Wolf. As long as you are careful about keeping clones up or aggro on you so your wolf isn’t instantly targeted, his damage is really helpful.

Garrison lord takes longer though and you have a much higher risk of getting intercepted.

maeggle.6021:

Some former main mesmer players I know and play with switched to other professions because they consider the current state of mesmers unbearable, some of them even expressed, they don’t think they can get better at the game when the profession and their players rely on the current imbalances.

Pray tell me what these other professions are that they feel are not overpowered, and which builds they play. I am going to guess balanced builds requiring loads of skill and intricate gameplay, such as d/d ele, cele necro, and everyone’s favorite, burn guard.

If the only way you can contribute in WvW is as a portal kitten or veilbot, you deserve to be deleted.

Rizigmar.2681:

Lets face it, the only thing Thief is better than mesmer is in the mobility department. Everything else Mesmer does better. There’s nothing like summoning Phantasms from ranged and chunking the enemy or blowing their dodge while still being in stealth. D/P Thief stealth is on demand true, but can be interrupted unless they carry black powder to blast it. The usual D/P BP+HS combo however can be interrupted and can punish the thief pretty heavily. Meanwhile mesmers pretty much get free passes to one shot almost any zerker build just because of the extended stealth durations and rewards being in stealth with really strong defensive boons, on top of that, invulns and blinds.

Short story/ Mesmers are Thieves 2.0, though with lower mobility.

Good. Thieves didn’t seem to mind killing us with their eyes closed for years; I hope they enjoy them apples.

By all means, nerf torch. Bring it in line with Chaotic Dampening, the new MtD, the mantra nerf, Mirror Blade nerf… Keep on balancin’.

Just don’t do anything about burning, d/d ele or cele necro.

Simply change it so that only the Mesmer himself can use the portal. You can still use it for battle mobility. I’d say turn Mass Invisibility into Invisible, with the same duration and cooldown but only affects the caster.

I’ve been a Mesmer main for about 2 years and hide in keeps and portal people in on a regular basis. However, I’ve never been entirely comfortable with the idea that repairing walls and building siege and defenses can be negated by a Mesmer simply portaling a zerg in.

I’m not wild about AoE swiftness abilities either (on other classes) but that’s a story for another day.

If you enjoy solo roaming, stay out of T1/2, at least in EU. I’ve been a solo roamer for 2.5 years and ever since we hit gold it’s been kitten. FSP, Deso, now even Piken…their solo roamer equals 5 guys (with at least one condi thief) coming in under Refuge to 5v1 you and emote.

Thank god they were quick to fix this, this was really annoying.

UnknownFreak.2805:

devs aware of this, and a fix is on the way.

Source?

Yeah, stealth is an exciting part of competitive play. Please add more of it. Give it to burnguards and other cheeseboxes. Also please add +40% stealth duration food for more excitement.

Well you should email the propellerheads at ANet’s exploit address and…

…I’m sorry, I almost managed to keep a straight face to the end.

You can build waypoints in the “secondary castles” to facilitate getting around faster.

If you want to just spawn and fight, there’s sPvP.

I hadn’t prepurchased it, because there’s been so little information about the new expansion’s WvW content. I don’t care about PvE content.

However, after last week’s golem bug fiasco and ArenaNet completely ignoring the WvW player base by not even acknowledging it, I haven’t even felt like logging on. I have no faith at all that they will give WvW the focus it deserves in the future. I think it’s more likely that bugs and balance issues will continue to go ignored. With that in mind, it’s six to five and pick ‘em whether I’ll buy the expansion later either.

Do the new calculations include people who only pop in to get the daily as being part of the WvW population?

CrimsonNeonite.1048:

On Desolation we have a culture of staying up late and lately this one Guild whom seems like something off of EoTM, are from different timezones.

Sounds a lot like [CI], the PvD train…

Only NA works. Nothing happens if I select EU.

OS X 10.10.4, Safari 8.0.7

“Fairness in competitive play is something we believe in very strongly at ArenaNet . . .” – Josh Davis, ArenaNet

I think they’re complacent enough to just let the clown show continue for the remaining few days of the event and then call the golem disaster a “great success.”

After the completely ignored golem buff bug, I dread even good event ideas being implemented, since quite clearly there’s no QA testing done whatsoever.

Wow, this is still going on?

At this point it isn’t so much about getting new players into WvW, it’s about stopping the bleeding of veteran WvW leaving GW2.

You’re always creating PvE events on WvW maps.

How about an event where we can attack and kill people on PvE maps? Expand their horizons and shake their playing experience up for a week.

It’s very simple.

They are not discouraged from posting by the perceived forum toxicity. In fact, the toxicity would not even exist if they did post here more, as it grows out of the frustration with the lack of communication.

Whenever they do post, they always get smoke blown up their kitten. That security dude publicly banned one hacker out of hundreds ignored, and he got treated as the second coming. Admiration and applause.

The reason they don’t post here is that there is nothing to post. No current issues are being worked on, only EotM 2.0. Why would they come here and answer people’s threads with factual replies like “we’re not working on any fixes for that”, or “I can add that to the list, ETA for a solution is about 2 years”?

TJgalon.5012:

Here what I do not get. You do the same thing, day in and day out, everyday, for months on end. So anet decide, lets shake it up, have a event, and i see complaints. No construction on, how is bad, just saying, it bad and it sucks. But why, were you so set in your ways they this is a big change? Why not go out there and have fun

Next time you’re at a bar, don’t hit on the cute redhead, take home a dude instead. Shake things up, go out there and have fun.

I think this is the first time I’ve ever been truly bored in WvW.

At least other times boring moments could usually be fixed by switching maps; now this PVE kitten is everywhere.

Ahh, finally someone started a thread about the golem event.