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Well, it can work in open world pve, but yep, you won’t do big damage, you won’t have aoes for tagging, you won’t have permanent swiftness.. It comes down to a matter of personal preference. Some people I know really love their mesmer and even with these obvious disadvantages they enjoy playing it more than say, a thief or an ele. If you like cc, eles have good area controls+ everything the mesmer lacks in open world pve ( swiftness/movment skills, damage, offensive support and self buffing, cleaving/aoes).

Gaile Gray.6029:

Tom Yzf.5872:

we’re approaching our 100th page. just a reminder to you all, gaile may come in any moment now and lock it + create another fresh thread with a link back to this one.

Tom I don’t know if you’re serious or not, but we don’t normally lock threads and fire up new ones unless the page start having serious load issues. I haven’t seen that in this thread, so I’m thinking we’re fine for now.

Of course, posting about 100 pages without content is likely to catch a mod’s eye because it’d be nice to have real content instead of bumps and number counts.

It’d be nice to have actual answer instead of “we’re looking into it” and " I’m asking whoever". Not everyone has what they want, it seems.

I found that weird as well. Maybe that’s just me though.

It’s getting worse and worse after day.

100 pages of pure elitism.
Good job.

i reported u for breaking the COC with ur illegial vedios

Half the threads are how easy dungeons in berserker gear are because you’re exploiting the content. I call them the “buffspiderqueen” threads. The other half is the same phiw when they actually try the content/ try the speedrun strats and get destroyed. I call them “nerfspiderqueen” threads.

Speaking for dungeons mainly:
I personally don’t enjoy mesmer, but it’s a really strong, and fun class. I just don’t like doing no damage in pve/ being reliant on AI. The tormet buff has absolutely nothing to do with the pve mesmers. They don’t use scepter, don’t use torment, and don’t rely on conditions.

Mesmer is a strong group class. It has all the utilities in the world, and having a mesmer/guardian in the group makes everything easier. The problem with mesmer is there’s a lot of strats to learn, and a lot of things to do to be efficient ( portal spots, lots of useful utilities and buids to switch to) They are worth rolling if you have a semi competent team, otherwise you can’t really carry pugs because you have little offensive support.

Perfect, you just forgot the part where they had to make a post on another subforum to complain about you all and your toxicity.
Well, to be honest they are better out of our beloved dungeon subforum.
#justelitiststalk

Well, only using virtue passive and no shelter/focus 5/ retreat/wor would already be quite impressive.
edit cause flood control:
Miku, I feel like coordinated reflects like you see in organised groups where a non targeted wor still oneshot lupi requires coordination. The thing is, now, every pug can do it. Reflects used with proper vuln/fury/ lh should still have devastating effects imo. What’s wrong is a random ah pug getting confident about his skill because he managed to put a wall on another wall.

BTW: I found the wall trick a while ago, iirc it was after the removal of the spiders p2 wp, but it was probably there before.

For guardian? It’s garbage. For exactly the same reasons all the others condi set are bad. Sinister is a pve thing mainly, as the selling point of condi pvp builds is the increased survivability, and a sinister condi guard is just as squishy as a zerker. And it deals less damage.

Well if you main guardian like me it makes sense for yourself. Just imagine a lupi guard solo without any block. (inb4 someone links a video)

Yeah miku come on and get better kitten

Thieves say hi.

Grenade fireballs is my only reason to play the game.

If it was me I’d call that an additioner. Or a summer but that’s already taken. Maybe a pluser.

If they were additive we wouldn’t call them multipliers, just sayin’

Don’t ever use signet of judgment. If you have one less utility, it’s one less chance to avoid getting hit. Use rather wall/hg/purging flames/ SotA/ SY to keep yourself alive. Keep 4/5/0/0/5 on your bar ( even in situations where you should use, for instance, 4/6/2/0/2) just to get comfortable with one build. If you get a mix between zerker and something else, go with knight. The extra crit chance will help you. If you still struggle on bosses, move a point for vigor. That would be 4/5/0/1/4.

Hey, I heard you were looking for toxic elitists so I thought I’d say hi.

Hi!

wow. 300 sec flood control. Guess being a toxic member of the community has some drawbacks after all.

My first 2 days ban is over, I’m getting into elite PvF !
Lol at those threads, especially the toxic one.
( Is “lol” still a bannable offense?

Since my rng is awful and everytime I’m in the group lupi will shadowstep to the npc it’s not much of a problem for me, but yep, it’s lame. If npc is dead just range a bit in p2 to unwall him and hope for the best.

The Hundred blade syndrom is still a thing.

For pve, usual support traits are 6/6/2/0/0. As Thaddeus explained, the goal is to stack fury/ might/vuln via fire fields+ blasts. Since everything was covered in his post I won’t go into details but ele is a great offensive support class and also bring blinds+ proj defense.

oxtred.7658:

melee> more risks
more risks> more rewards
more rewards> boons, dps, faster revives

quoting myself until you understand.

Please create next topics in the profession balance subforum, though.

This, and " you’re exploiting the dungeon because it’s impossible to duo".

melee> more risks
more risks> more rewards
more rewards> boons, dps, faster revives

Some permanent tonics remove your pet in pve. As i’m not playing ranger extensively I don’t know if it applies to everything but I can’t see why it shouldn’t. At least, the endless monkey king tonic ( what most of my guildies use) works. Probably the same in WwW, but it’s dangerous to go tonic in there ( as you loose some stats and reaction time)

Did it with 3 upleveled, one non meta guy, and myself as a guard and it was just as boring. Kill time wasn’t really slower, never had 2 burrows at once.

No change< bad changes.
Especially bad changes already dismissed 2 years ago.
Especially bad changes already dismissed 2 years ago, made by unexperienced special snowflakes.

FrizzFreston.5290:

I don’t think that certain encounters being harder for one class than for others means that that means that the mesmer is left out for that specific type of content.

Also that Mesmer is the only one that needs to change builds is fairly obvious as the mesmer is fairly reliant on phantasms and gear. Other professions can only switch a few skills and still be fine with their current gear.

Then again, Mesmers also have things that other professions don’t have, like portal. I don’t see anyone ever complaining that portal is cheesing the content for many players, simply because it makes things ALOT easier. But when it gets harder people complain.

Seeing this video of a clearly full berserker (or assassin) mesmer still doing it within 2 min 30, I don’t quite see the problem. What do you want? Do it within 1 minute?
I wonder if it’s even worth having a discussion about whether mesmer needs a buff in this content because the damage is slightly lower than we’re used to. If not that this is a direction I rather see than just go full berserker and nail all content within minutes.

I must say I played through this content with both guardian and mesmer and I found both times to be equally satisfying. Then again I’m not that hyper serious that I’m going to time my encounter and notice that in the most optimal runs there’s a time difference. Let alone to make the point that that means the mesmer is left out because it takes a few minutes longer.

Just saying, but I remember a few posts asking to nerf mesmer portal because it allowed to “bypass the content”.

This is gold. The guy saying miku should l2P and then linking his own video. Thanks for the fair laugh.

For fresh air: It’s great couple with electric discharge and scepter, as it allows 2 high damage low cooldown and instant single target damage. That’s why it makes a good burst spec, coupled with all the damaging bursty abilities of scepter. But you’re right: especially in WwW, giving up the survivability of water or arcana is dangerous. Fresh air is a high rish moderate level reward, and only really good eles can get the most of it, and only in WwW. Scepter also lacks the cleave and dps of dagger.

Runes of perplexity is cool, but hoelbrak/ strenght is the core of the build and you can’t drop them. I’ve seen a great ele player using them in a cele build, but he’s the only one making them work.

Don’t use more than 3, maybe 4 celestial piece in WwW. I personally use 0, and I do fine, but I may play around with some to see how it goes. WwW power creep allow direct damage spec to be far more viable for eles, and guard stacks gives you 2.5K free health you shouln’t worry about . I use a mix of knight/zerker/2 cleric rings/ptv, but then again a bit of cele could make my stats better.

Hope this helps.

In the meantime you can use tonics in pve.

They are. Thieves are suited for dungeons with a lot of trash skipping. Engis and thieves both provide stealth, but thieves have more single target dps, longer stealth, easier access to blinds and interrupt.

Use 6/6/0/0/2 for bosses you can backstab, and 6/5/0/0/3 everywhere else except niche encounters you’ll learn after gaining experience. Weapons are dagger/dagger for single target, sword/pistol for cleave and difficult bosses, dagger/pistol for some encounters where you need both the single target damage and the pistol offhand utilities, and shortbow as an utility weapon. Sword dagger have some situational use.
Gear is full berserker. For your utilities, you can take either personal dps utilties like signet of agility, haste and signet of the assassin (agility is the most important one, you should take it pretty much all the time), group stealth/ projectile defense like smokescreen and shadow refuge when pistol 5+ blast isn’t enough, and shadow trap/ shadowstep/ sig. of the infiltrator (iirc) for mobility/ stunbreaks.

Ranael.6423:

Leo G.4501:

Gosh, it’s like talking to teenagers who are often only concerned for themselves XD

Go on with your bad selves. Nothing I say here on these forums is going to stop you from going unpunished for timing your dodges and avoiding those AoEs in your zerk gear because that’s all I’m concerned with is punishing you with my words.

/sarcasm for the last sentence.

Thing is I never run dungeon in zerk gear… and I’m fine with it. I don’t want to touch that level nor I know if I’m able to. I run dungeons with guildies and pug to complete the group, never asked people to ping gear. Most of the time we have at least one support/healer in the group and if we don’t we can feel it. Oh and I run a lot of different condi build on several characters. I’m not a good player and never pretended to be. The thing is that I don’t feel impaired in the fun I have playing, simply because I like, like in GW1,to change build each time I load a toon.

And right now the discussion is about suppressing a problem that doesn’t really exist by making the way things interact together super complicate. It’s cool to imagine that this trait here will interact with this stat which will increase effectiveness of this skill… but in the end people will even more min/max things so that you may destroy the zerk meta but instead will get something like :
“Have a zerk torso with cleric gloves, magi boot, sinister shoulders, one weapon giver and the other celectial or get kicked”.

I love you. Marry me?

Hard task. Can help, but you may want to level and explore the world yourself a bit before asking advanced questions. I don’t mind answering you, though. Just need to get online again.

ShadowRX.9024:

Miku Lawrence.6329:

tl;dr – we should copyright the ability to switch traits, utilities and weapons when out of combat.

Take it as you want, all im gonna say to finish this thing is when i watched your record it felt like it was the same video we LuPi did but with 8 sec better rng at tazza wich is ironically exactly what I said in my description of my 3:28 (“Close to perfect , we lost around 8 sec on the 3 golems,tazza. Swiftness ran out and 1 down .” [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS4XRMgl38o]) . But im done,there is no point arguing with any of you from iV , better to just show you with videos then try to talk with you.

I feel heartbroken.
Jk, I don’t have a hearth

mmh. I don’t know how to feel about that. THe idea is nice, but imagine how toxic the phiw will become when they will be able to do arah. “pve so easy lol i phiw duck you cause my killtime is the same”. I don’t think it would work in the current state of the game ( especially since devs always do things wrong).

The bear explanation was the best.

Why can we respawn? I mean, if I’m dead, I shouldn’t come back alive.
Why can I recover from cripple? Our char should cut his own leg to remove it.
Why can shouts give stability? It makes no sense, remove boons from shouts.
How a ranger is able to shoot that much arrow? It makes no sense.
Yup.

TheBlackLeech.9360:

Harper.4173:

TheBlackLeech.9360:

Harper.4173:

TheBlackLeech.9360:

-stuff-

First and foremost people don’t stack anymore because FGS has been nerfed. Really there’s little reason to stack now.

Second of all your " one anchor" meta will never happen – because you can’t design an encounter with that kind of pressure on one person. If he’s bad he’ll get kicked instantly.
If he’s good he’ll be wanted in every group.

Welcome to the new trinity.

People don’t stack anymore? LOL

That is just a blatant lie.

Also, I’m happy you can predict the future.

I can predict what will happen because I know how I think and how people like me think. This is what will define the new meta because metas are set by those “elitist jerks” which I happen to be a part of.
I know what I’ll be doing and it’s a pretty safe bet most of the other elitists will do the same.

Also people who are clueless still stack – but most of them didn’t even know why they stacked in the first place.

The point is people who know the game realize there’s little point in stacking anymore.

So you are changing what you said to you don’t understand why people stack in corners?

I’m pretty sure that even the worst pugs from the bottom of the barrel realize that enemies you are in combat with who can’t see you will all run to a spot where they can see you to continue fighting.

It is called LoS, and pretending like you don’t know what I’m talking about only makes your responses even more insulting to your intelligence.

Gs5 and focus pull; learn to use those.

If i had any i would have lost faith in humanity there.

This is not about meta or not, it’s about the thinking behind the build. It’s a bad build period, not suited for gw2 pve, and the fact you try to join better geared party to leech them and then think you’re a pro doesn’t make it magically better. Sorry.

lol, 8/10

SenorMoody.5908:

I would love a solo option. Ive been trying to get Arah Story Mode done on my Engineer for months. But the game is full of Leet snobs that only want zerker warriors or what ever. Oh and lets not forget about the Path Selling Trend that keeps growing by the day.

Yeah everyone is selling arah story. I guess making a lfg is an exploit.

Yeah, if Eotm didn’t give www rewards, no one would mind it.

6/5/0/3/0 if you struggle against specific bosses. Use S/P for trash. You’re now unkillable.

COE and arah give berserker as well.

10/10

I didn’t scroll through all of it but the few last posts of this are pure gold in case you missed it:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/ranger/Mighty-Ranger-High-Level-FOTM-7-24-2013/page/3#post2780113