If you introduce defenders rewards be ready to see incoming AFK leechers.
Has been tried before somewhere else and failed miserably.
Never mind, tonight you will have Ruins of Surmia/Fissure of Woe as your matchup, who are both smaller than Vabbi and you can exercise your frustration on!
We may be very very small, RoS, but we have teeth. As for frustration, we’ll see.
Hey Tklees.
Yep, I still <3 my Magus, even if Mythic’s going to nerf her again so badly. Anyway.
I’ve to admit that the Mesmer is a very good GW2 Magus and I enjoy playing her. It’s somewhere a mix of Zealot + Magus, perfect for my kind of gameplay. Say hello to everyone mate and catch ya around.
On Topic
I don’t think GW2 is going to die anytime soon, but I think there’s going to be a lost of interrest in WvW in the near future for a lot of players. It’s still all shiny at the moment, let’s wait and see.
There are a lot of different exotic sets with very different stats on them.
I regularly press my mantra heal button at full health.
1. It grants regeneration to nearby allies.
2. To empty my healing mantra to be able to recharge it for the aoe heal when needed.
Warhammer is fine as it is. We don’t want you, we don’t need you. Last think we need is to have a bunch of Zerging, whining clowns back.
Nidwinqq RR92 Magus (The Murder Junkies) badlands
No for server merges.
We transfered to RoS to make sure we don’t have any queues anymore, and hopefully never will again. If you want or need more peeps on your server, advertize and find them somewhere. Leave the ones having tons of fun every evening on their little servers alone.
Nidwina lvl80 Mesmer (Les Billouman) RoS.
Repair toons for me. They suck “petite” Nidwina dry, dry, dry!
I love rock, paper and scissors stories detritis.
Through this it has been proven that shields are OP, in the past, and that x can’t kill y because it’s impossible to get behind y if y has a shield and knows how to stay in front of x.
Mesmers are doing well in WvW. The only thing Mesmers aren’t good at is farming ez-mode NPC’s in PVE.
Interresting thread.
@OP
It depends what you’re looking for as toon for PVE. As explained already by others we aren’t the kings in aoe on easy to kill NPC’s. We’re actually bad farmers. Where we shine is on big and strong targets when we have the time to setup everything properly. We don’t have kitten burst at opening as during that time we’re just setting up our stuff. That’s one big reason why there’s a lot of whining on the Mesmer forum. On easy NPC’s it takes us way more time to kill it compared to other classes.
One of the things I like and enjoy with my little Mesmer is her incredible surviving/dps ratio in end game. It’s not a matter of “can I kill it” but how long is it going to take me to kill it. This of course lvl 80 full traited in exo heal/support specced.
Is this thread about Mesmer adjustments or I suck at playing a Mesmer?
I’m starting to wonder actually.
Godmoney?
It’s not because you can’t properly support with a Mesmer that the Mesmer is a bad support toon buddy.
Killua.
My mantra healing is at the moment around 2.9k.
My regen, the thing that Godmoney says blows heals me for 305/tic and it’s quite normal for me to have it tic during an entire fight. Most of the time it’s still up for 5-8s once the fight ends.
While being full heal specced + Time Warp + Feedback + Null Field I still do a shizz load of damage. It’s plainly amazing the amount of damage I still do while having 1800 toughness and 1400 healing power.
Never mind.
Go roll an engie or an Ele and try to do what a Mesmer can do, good luck, have fun.
The real question here is are you enjoying playing your Mesmer?
If yes than stay with it.
If “not really” than roll an easier to play class.
The fact is.
Mesmer in the hands of the wrong player is going to be a failure → see all whine posts about the mesmer in this thread
Mesmer in the the right hands is just a beast.
I’ve never, ever felt a toon as strong as the Mesmer in my hands. And I’ve played a lot of “toons” in my mmorpg life. ;-)
btw Fozeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee ! <3
Yar rolled a bloody Mesmer?
If you’re not getting any loot from events then I agree with you it’s time for you to roll another toon. I suggest a warrior or an aoe specced Clothie as they will probably fit more your playing style.
Same for the peeps not doing well in PVE. May be the Mesmer isn’t a toon for you. No shame and I’m not flaming here.
Mesmer has a very weird playing style and in some way with a lot of contradictions. This is actually his/her strength once mastered a bit, but it’s also a hell of an headache when you can’t see the “light” in that playing style.
I play ONLY PvE, & have one of each class … taken them all to at least 30 so far & of them all my Mesmer is by far the weakest class in Guild Wars 2 … I was aghast when I read the nerfs …
I play 10 levels on each Class, then swap to the next to get 10 levels & my Mesmer’s 10 levels takes twice as long as all the other classes, as she is so weak I have to be very careful on the battles I enter … have to rely on waiting for other players to come along to complete Skill Challenges (whereas all the other classes can solo most).
Just like in Guild Wars, the Mesmer was smashed in PvE & will soon be exclusive to PvP.I am assuming these are knee-jerk PvP Nerfs with no thought whatsoever for the PvE implications.
It gets better at higher levels. Mesmer first big improvement I felt was around lvl 60 with an decent update of my stuff. After that it becomes one bug pleasure to play her.
I’m level 80, full exo (mhenlo as heal/support) and I solo up to champions, not the big ones but those I end up tanking most of the time while healing everyone and his/her grandma.
I would say it’s a slowish starter the Mesmer but it gains in power and strength along the road.
It’s a question of choice and taste Nretep and OP will have to find out what he/she prefers to play.
One little thing.
It’s at 80 once in full exotic + sigil + rune that you start to feel the power of the heal/suport mesmer.
I also opted for the stuff Healing power/Power/toughness. I have less hp’s than others but largely compensated by the high amount of toughness.
It’s sigil of water as for the rune it’s Dwayna (or something like that)
Nope for scepter in a support build for me (my thoughts and experience) as it’ll override your staff clone without bringing anything else. Means 1-handed sword in main and only usefull to melee possible adds.
I opted for pistol over focus because of the Regeneration on Phantasm with the pistol phantasm.
I presume you will enjoy your warrior much more than your Mesmer if the only thing you care about is damage. Sad although to see you go. :-(
But if damage and especially dd is your thing you shouldn’t have rolled a Mesmer in the first place.
One of the issues with the scepter is that it’s #1 nukes the staff #1 clone making it a horrible combination to use.
Doesn’t hit my heal/support build so no big deal for me.
And so much fuzzz about a couple of 3-5s cd changes on some phantasm and chaos storm.
But it would, effectively, be better if Anet strated to fix our stuff before going for nerfs.
But Plavski, we are very strong. Yes we have stuff we need fixed, but were you honestly not expecting any nerfs in the very near future? :S
We’re still strong and we have some retardly op builds, e.g. heal support specced.
Had a 1vs1 in WvW Saturday afternoon and it was completely stupid. I could smoke, nip from my cup of coffee (no joke here) and still ended up nearly full life when I jumped to finish the poor fella. It took me no effort, no skill, to just beat the guy, imagine when I focuss and try to play properly.
I also tanked a big Ethin Champ on Sunday, I can actually tank nearly everything.
Expect more nerfs incoming I would say.
No big impact actually.
Who cares about a 3-5s longer cd’s on the phantasm anyway.
5s cd increase on Chaos Storm, why not. I won’t feel the difference anyway.
This looks to me like a small adjustment and to make all the badies and cry-babies “omfg Mesmer is OP” kitten
-> look, we have finaly hit the Mesmer with the nerf bat.
Nothing to see here, move on.
You peeps should stop to look at the scores as you shouldn’t care. We should just focus to farm Germans over and over again. More badges, more loot and more fun. We also have plenty of maps to ninja stuff but keep focussing on one all together. Make groups of 5 and farm boys and gals.
Actually you can when you lose your target, very annoying as the skills don’t show the red bar.
Also out of LoS when still having a target will make your summoning fail.
- is the Mesmer of course
Mine brings in
heals (up to 2.8k aoe for every ally and his grandma around me up to every 6s through mantra healing)
Regeneration for every ally and his grandma
Glamour fields (null field and feedback) + Time warp
Boons on allies conditions on foes; 2x (auto-attack and clone) and more
Chaos armor on ethereal fields (4x ethereal fields)
Still sustained damage through confusion stacking on fields (combo), phantasms that also grant regeneration to allies and auto-attack
knockback with GS
and more and more and more
And they dare to play their Mesmer glass canon dps specced in WvW. ;-)
As the title says it, we need you.
No, not you but
UMA
Frag-ex
Myrmidons
Drow
Downfall
Brutal
Brettoel and Sieglinde
Liandel and her fanclub and boyfriends
even Kalvix is welcome
and all the others who know who they are
We offer and environment where
We dont care about towers and forts (boring, even worse than at the other place)
We farm germans (3 german servers above us so plenty to farm coming weeks)
We don’t care about the scoreboard
We can actually fill up 1 map in Prime-Time, gives you an idea how much you can farm on the other 3 maps
If you’re interrested, don’t send me a PM or don’t try to contact me. Just do it.
The Nid
Sounds like summoning an illusion without a target being selected. Some “bigger” npc’s make you effectively lose target on them.
It’s been more than a month since the release, please stop the free server transfers as it is ruining WvW. For example: I’m from Whiteside Ridge and this week we got paired with Miller’s Sound and Dzagonur, both DE servers. At day 1-2 the ranking was Miller’s-Dzagonur-Whiteside. After a couple of days we started recovering and now the ranking is Miller’s-Whiteside-Dzagonur. Since that, we don’t see many Dzagonur even in the peak hours and they own no or few objectives; I have the feeling that being both DE servers, lots of Dzagonur transferred to Miller’s as it is the winning server right now, resulting in a costant zerg from Miller’s which now owns pretty everything and discouraging everyone to come in WvW as they greatly outnumber us most of the time. Please note that this is not a QQ because we are losing, i’ll keep fighting in WvW because i like it very much but i think those free transfers are ruining its very mechanics, causing one of the losing server to join the winning one instead of fighting along with the other losing to break the winner’s supremacy. Please find a way to limit these episodes, like paying server transfers with a good amount of gems.
Cool.
So this week-end we’re going to receive a fresh arrival of germans to farm. The ones we’re fighting this week are getting a bit, tired and softy.
Polish up your armors bros and sistas of Ruins, new German arrival incoming soon.
Low end servers aren’t dying, low end servers is where the fun is to have.
What I still don’t get is that “hard work” mentality.
It’s a freaking game so what should matters is the fun you’re having during your playing time. Why should you care about what’s going on before or after your playing time. You’ll sound like GW2 WvW is some kind of a job and your end of the month salary depends on it.
Clearly Mesmer isn’t for you OP, nothing wrong with it just stop being frustrated and roll a toon you’re going to enjoy more.
1. Don’t look at the scoreboard, it’s only there for the clowns and badies. Look at your kill/death ratio and if you end the evening with less than 10 deaths but with more than 200 kills you’re actually the winner.
2. Towers and forts are there for the clowns and badies who care about the scoreboard. You can easily recognize them as they always move around in groups of 20+, 30+. Be a pro, stay away from them. Far away.
3. Red is dead. Clowns and badies make alliances, pros just kill every red, no matter where the reds are coming from.
4. No loot for banging on tower doors or fort doors. Plenty of loot for killing clowns, badies and camp vets.
5. Pros are happy when the other big server has everything, full green map e.g. while being the blue ones. Pros are happy with night capping, when it’s the other server doing it. The less you have, the less you have to defend and the more you can choose to take back. Take back camps, not towers or keeps as they are for the clowns and badies.
6. Pros do have a family, social life, a job and enjoy beer, alcohol and french fries. Pros play during Prime-time. People playing more than pros are no-lifers. Never mix up both groups.
7. Pros run into the fight, no matter the odds against them. Clowns and badies evaluate the sitution and turn back if the odds are against them. Pros run into the fight and that’s it.
8. You easily recognize Pro’s doing PVE. They are the ones pulling everything in one go, not matter what they pull, and destroy everything in that one-shott pull. Sometimes it goes wrong of course but none is perfect, even not the pros.
9. Pros never lose and never let others win. Beating pros as clowns or badies is just an illusion.
10. Pros don’t care if their server is 600 000 points behind Wednesday evening. They will be there to kick some clowns and badies butts as usual.
Have fun all, it’s only a game.
If you don’t like them or they don’t fit your playing style, don’t use them. There are plenty of other options and the last thing we need is Anet messing up with mantras, ruining it for other players with different playing styles/builds than you.
I do use MoP and healing Mantra and I find both of them very usefull as heal/support Mesmer.
The only mantra build that I could see being of any use is having Mantra of Pain (direct damage one) with 1 second recharge, and traited for healing. You get a decent 3k heal every 5-6 seconds to everyone around you, if you smash that button fast enough. This is a fairly powerful support tool, IMO. but it still leaves 4 seconds of charging up the mantra.
You get healed by that too, by the way.
Yep.
And it also heals all allies, including some NPC’s and if I’m not mistaken your clones and phantasms too. Need to check although for the clones and phantasms.
It’s not uncommon to spread out between 10 and 15+k healing on one recharge. around you with a couple of nice 2.5k. With using healing mantra and mantra of pain you can have a 2*2.5+ k healing around you on someone in 4 secs. For you it’s 8 secs (double recharge) but for the one receiving the heals it looks like 4s.
Very very handy
Don’t listen to all those peeps Veiovis as there’s only one other choice for you.
The choice is so easy and there’s no other possibility for ya bro.
Roll another Mesmer
And after that
Roll another Mesmer
And once you have filled up all your slots with Mesmers.
Buy some slots to
Roll another Mesmer.
Friends already asked me which new toon I planned to roll.
Another Mesmer of course!
Reroll a Mesmer.
Even full heal/support specced the Mesmer still has enough damage output to have enough contribution to get some goodies here and there. Also tell your guildies to leave the easy killing blows to you so you too can get your share of bags.
I don’t see the point of this kind of mesmer build, except trying to outlast in 1vs1.
I’m heal specced and focus on supporting my team with heals and combo fields and …
But even I am not invincible with my 1800+ toughness and 1300 healing power.
Regeneration isn’t what refill her/his hps bar, it has to be something else. My regeneration tics for 300 and this is with 1300 healing power. A non heal specced Mesmer will have less than half of it.
There are no Massive French Canadien players on French EU servers because it makes no sense for them to roll on French EU servers.
French Canadiens are like you and me and just like you and me they have a life, job, families and wan’t to have a good fight and fun during THEIR prime-time. The only French Canadiens on our servers are peeps with playing hours EST between 2pm and till 8pm as at that moment they’re playing in our EU prime-time. All the others are on US servers.
We do have French EU players that went playing on US servers because their playing time is during our night. Nobody wants to PVE door and we all want a good fight.
But I agree that with the actual WvWvW system night capping is an issue as it gives you the feeling you lost everything you fought so hard for and it all feels so, useless at the end. Anet needs to bring in “milestones” and a form of progression so even if you lose because of night capping it’s still worth to go out there. And just for the fun of fighting isn’t going to last long, we all know that.
It’s quite annoying in WvW too.
Of course me being the healer helps to slow down everyone, except the fools rushing from A to B , the ones thinking it’s their regen or their incredible skills that keeps them alive.
This would be great for the top servers but it wouldn’t work well for the mid tiers to low tiers servers. Imagine a US server with no US morning or night players vs 2 EU servers with no EU morning or night players.
Don’t listen to Wothan, he’s just a PVE carebear. ^^
Can’t have 3 French servers at the top I think. AR a bit behind the 2 strongest ones and FR and JS are far behind. FR and JS are filled with “normal” people with a life outside GW2.
Salut tes freres Nathow.
6 hours between Montreal and Paris.
Midnight Paris is 18:00 in Montreal so it means this is not French Canadien’s prime-time yet. When you guys and gals go to bed it’s still EU froggies you’re facing.
What you peeps don’t understand is what kind of “monster” Arborstone is, and they are still far from running around at full efficiency.
Anyway,
I’m done with this. If you want to stay on your little cloud and blame non-existing Massive French Canadien guilds on VS and AS that’s your problem. French Canadiens and Frenchies from France don’t mix well but that’s another problem, a French Speaking problem.
@MagnusLL
Nope. Some guilds moved away from VS but they went to Jade Sea, Fort Monique and AR. What you guys are facing is 100% Arborstone core. Imagine how lucky we, Jade Sea, were when we saw that for our first week we had to face Arborstone ^^.
But we didn’t came here on the forums whining about some potentiel French Canadiens or whatever, we just grouped up, sucked it up and tried to put up a decent fight.
Mantra’s recharging automatically out of combat would be bad for heal/support specced Mesmers. We heal while recharging our mantras at the end of the recharge.
Are you peeps aware that?
Arborstone >>>>>>>>>>>>>> VS
Because if you’re crying about VS I’m wondering what’s going to happen when Arborstone’s going to take their rightfull place. And read well, I didn’t wrote claim but take.
Arborstone is populated by one of the strongest, if not the strongest, french MMO alliance. Arborstone is the home of MoS, Millenium Old School, and if I’m not mistaken or misguided, Fureur too.
Nuff said.
I don’t know if they have or don’t have any fellas from Quebec but take my word they don’t even need them. They just schedule their playing time as an Alliance and have rotations for night shifts.
I understand your point of view ManCaptain and see where the frustration comes from. But if some abililites become too strong they would clearly be OP once traited in combination with the right equipment.
No.
I use Sigil of Superior Water on my staff. (30% chance to heal nearby allies)
But for you I don’t know. More critt, more damage, stacks, …
May be try them all out and see what works best for ya bro.
@Qelris
Still haven’t found out how it actually works or how the formula could be.
Let’s say that 2875 heals aren’t uncommon and I think I saw a 3k+ heal this morning on someone (could be a critt if it’s possible for heals to critt). But not certain about the 3k as it went fast.
@ManCaptain
It’s not because you have no idea why people use it it’s always bad. ;-)
1. I’m in Rune of Dwayna so every time I heal I grant myself and surroundings allies 5s regeneration (10s cooldown). Mantra has 2 casts.
2. Being heal specced when I recharge my healing Mantra it aoe heals around me.
Here it’s not about the amount of self healing I get but the amount of “heal my allies” that matters.
I use now Mantra of pain and healing mantra but I’m heal/support specced for WvsW so the situation is a bit different for me.
The big contradiction here, funny actually, is that I enter the fights with my mantra’s uncharged opposed to non-healing mantra builds enter the fight with their mantra’s full charged.