Guild Wars 2

The thing with GW2 dungeons is that you don’t need optimal builds and comps to complete them, outside of fotm 40+.

This is still not an excuse to use bad traits, bad gear and bad weapons. On my warrior I have off-hand maces of smothering, seeking and undead slaying even though COE an COF are faceroll. Not saying everyone should do the same, but in those cases, at least night and force.

Right but in the context of this topic and the subsequent topic of how the Mesmer Greatsword is bad is an old argument that is moot at best. I’d welcome a more in depth discussion on the matter if someone wanted to min/max their character for optimal damage and quick dungeon runs. People do respond in these type of threads with good information but far too often their elitist side comes out saying how crap a certain weapon is. It’s not relevant to the topic and leads to the bickering back and forth which is silly to say the least.

At the end of the day, it still comes down to to use whatever weapon you feel comfortable with and build for dungeons (again, outside of fotm 40+).

The thing with GW2 dungeons is that you don’t need optimal builds and comps to complete them, outside of fotm 40+.

Hexxen.7216:

Please give up on Mesmer like you did on Necro and move on.

Honestly it’s getting really ridiculous. I swear he just makes threads just to see his posts on the front page (hence why all of the strange bumping he does) because these really don’t offer any constructive feedback. The better thing to do other than make this post was to reply in the September post discussing this.

On a side note, is there an ignore feature on these forums?

It’s very simple. Here’s Sensotix’s video:

Joe’s into Christian rock. He probably uses Self-Regulating Defense in the Alchemy tree that uses Elixir S (which shrinks you and makes you invulnerable).

Certainly a lot of DD burst (pure glass based on stats) but the people you went up against didn’t seem all that great. You’re very susceptible to conditions so I was scratching my head with the first fight against the Necro.

With the Mantra changes coming up, I’m sure we’ll see more theorycraft builds focusing around them.

Keep it up!

The funny thing out of this is that the OP received a infraction for this post.

Still a kitten move by the person from ANet. It just shows how clas*less they really are.

I really need to see a video of you killing people because this build (outside of the traits) just doesn’t seem good at all. Your condition damage is way low and your dd burst is not going to be high either.

New build title, same old PU build.

It just… doesn’t end.

DevonCarver.5370:

Season 1 is going forward as we described, however nothing about future seasons is set in stone. We’ll take a look at the data we get from the first season and will absolutely make adjustments so that future seasons are even better than the first one.

My concern with four leagues is simply that there isn’t enough variety at that point. I could very well be wrong, but we are going to try season 1 this way and then we’ll take a look at how it played out.

So the year of WvW data, the 6 months of updated WvW data based on the new seeding/matchup, and the constant forum posts about how bad your design is isn’t enough for you?

I really have to question your ability to lead WvW game design because everything you’ve been doing to WvW has been abysmal. Based on a forum post you made a while back (saying … “I won’t make changes with just a few weeks worth of data…”) about how servers are matched, your fix comes in the form of a huge oversight of just a 2 league system for NA.

Now we’re going to be stuck with this system for 2 months… you sure know how to take something good and turn it into a pile of garbage.

Get your act together and leave your ego behind.

Darthaemos.6370:

Everyone tells me I need to jump over the waves but I lost my thumb in a cooking accident so jumping is hard for me to do. Please fix the waves anet, I bought 800 gems last month so I deserve to have fun.

Map your jump to another button.

I have to question the quality of the players you went up against.

saiyr.3071:

Chris.3290:

Jinks.2057:

Chris.3290:

I’m justifying my winning against doors.

Getting old you are facing 2 servers who’d rather kill ppl than kill doors. Have fun taking empty keeps ^^

I talk about open field fights and Jinks brings it back to PvD because it’s the only record he can play.

Please, tell us which elite guild you are from on SoS so we can look for it

Fang.

I keep seeing GH build mass amounts of siege in camps when a small (relatively speaking) breaks out. But so far we’ve had some good fights. People should not be concerned with PPT and just focus on engaging in decent battles against zergs.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Stability ?

jportell.2197:

phokus.8934:

More importantly, are Confusion and Bleed stacks going to be capped at 5? From the leaked notes, they’re not listed but from what j.sharp wrote, it sounded as if all boons/conditions were being capped at 5.

Duration stacking… So say you got an engi a necro and a guard on a team. They all have skills/traits that apply burn… You can only get the duration stacked 5 times. Intensity stacking will still be capped at 25. There is only one boon that is intensity stacking (might) all others are duration stacking. This is more than likely an intentional nerf to classes/team comps that amp up on boons.

Ah OK. With that, it has me thinking that Lemongrass and Hoelbrak will be even better against conditions.

More importantly, are Confusion and Bleed stacks going to be capped at 5? From the leaked notes, they’re not listed but from what j.sharp wrote, it sounded as if all boons/conditions were being capped at 5.

Excellent, thanks for the help.

I have a ticket open because when I used that transmutation stone (which was given to me in the mail) it turned my Twilight into a white greatsword. I was told by the friendly support person to provide them with a date/time as to when I created Twilight but that’s really ballparking that date/time.

I did create a forum post going over my progress but it only shows “2 months” and no exact date/time. And my achievement doesn’t list that either. Is there a way for Anet to determine the exact date/time of my forum post and/or when I unlocked the Legendary achievement?

DevonCarver.5370:

The stat boost, while controversial, is there to give the buff meaning in the context of the general WvW battle. Providing boosts like %WXP, etc. don’t have impact in fights against other sides, they are just a nice bonus for you. The stat boost and the points for finishing players mean that not only do you want to have the buff, but you don’t want your opponents to have it.

At no point did I, or would I have, said “Fair competition” WvW is not intended to be “fair”. There are servers with more people, there are servers with better organizations and that will always be the case. This competition will be about showing how your world can do over a defined period of time, against a variety of opponents. SPvP is the part of our game that aims for a completely level playing field. WvW would never be able to match that goal.

At least he’s holding true to his words and I’m guessing Devon has never stepped foot in WvW during his short tenure at ANet. I don’t really know what to say at this point.

Another change that ANet is making which shows they have no idea on how to handle WvW.

They have some very questionable WvW game designers.

themenaceofseventhdimension.2075:

first of all, I have 6 condition removals. Sigil of generosity??

Second of all, I am guessing you lost every battle because you just abused your stealth and decided to make yourself be very vulnerable. I get that, it happens alot with this build and you have to manage everything. but that is what staff is for, to help gain a bunch of aegis to try to at least stop some incoming attacks. Of course you are gonna lose to a typical 20/20/30 condition build because you have lesser stealth and you might make the big mistake to abuse everything. you have to manage everything You have to conserve all your stealth skills, and all your other skills shine.

Also, I appreciate all your help, it is tremendous and the ideas are kitten nice. But you have to let me say my ideas is all, everyone has their opinions, including me. It just felt that you guyz wouldn’t hear me out on why I don’t have Torch CC. I had my reasons. I just wanted to let them be heard, and you guyz wanted none of it. It was sorta sad situation for me.

Sorry kid but your build is pure trash and has been pointed out here too many times. Stop playing the victim here because you brought this all on yourself with the constant name changes to your blatant disregard to any advice being posted here.

And stop spelling ‘guyz’ with a z.

The Prestige from Torch really needs to blast on use and not when you come out of stealth. The block mechanism for applying Torment doesn’t make sense. We need a way to apply it (tied to 3rd attack on Scepter 1 for instance).

Scepter Torch is just too weak through my point of view.

Good GvG tonight versus TW and TWL. That was the first GvG for most of us and we had some great fights.

Dietzen.6127:

phokus.8934:

Has anyone tried these runes with a 20/20/30 condition setup? Perplexity seems really hard to give up for these.

I switched from perplex to traveler, I’ve never been happier. Condi and boon duration, less condi dmg but more vit and though is ok. But the move speed indeed does make up for it.

I wonder if Traveler would open up to a 20/20/x/x/30… time to hit the theorycraft!

Has anyone tried these runes with a 20/20/30 condition setup? Perplexity seems really hard to give up for these.

Jax.5106:

FrownyClown.8402:

how do you guys find collecting mini’s enjoyable?

How do you guys find collecting other stuff enjoyable? facepalm
Ok, let’s say anet added an exclusive weapon/armor/whatever turns you on – for codes, and made them account bound, so there was absolutely no way for you to get it. How would you feel?

I would move on because it doesn’t have any effect on me whatsoever.

The self entitlement of the majority of the people here is overwhelming.

themenaceofseventhdimension.2075:

I don’t know why

Word of advise: test your build out pretty extensively before coming here and constantly asking about your build. Go into WvW, go into s/tPvP, go into PvE and see how the build plays out. Again, test it extensively before posting about the “best new build”.

Just as an edit: What you post is straight theorycraft. Make one post and add to it about your theorycraft builds. That would suite you best.

Harbinger.8637:

Those runes are really random now….

Lets give players 15% boon duration. Ok sounds good, now lets give them 10% condition durations! Err what? Now to top it off +30 stats and 6% crit dmg…. I don’t even.

Seriously who designed these? 25% movement speed does sound nice, but definitely not worth it.

It’s just like the new Sigil of Luck. 50% chance to gain a random boon on killing an enemy. Nobody is going to use this!

These are Mesmer runes.

I read most if not all of the posts here on the Mesmer forums and I’ve been paying close attention to menace’s builds and it’s really the same rhetoric.

“Build <name of build>”
“I’ve tested this extensively…”
“How can I make this build effective?”
“Suggestions”
“Please respond”

Pyro and jport have been more than helpful in trying to steer you in what to do but you’re not taking their advise at all. Reading your posts and looking at your builds, it seems as if you have a very minimal understanding of the Mesmer class. People have been very upfront with you and you’re choosing to ignore that.

I think everyone has been very patient with you and has tried to help but you’re not taking their advise at all.

I can’t seem to find the required materials to discover this: Berserker’s Pearl Quarterstaff

Anyone know what it entails?

“Please respond.”

Dulfy…

All existing drops and crafting recipes that have created Magic Find gear will be replaced with three new combos:
Explorer’s recipes will be replaced with the Assassin’s stat combo (Precision, Power, Critical Damage)
Traveler’s drops will be replaced with the Dire Stat Combo (Condition Damage, Toughness, Vitality)
Pillagers recipes will be replaced with the Hunter’s stat combo (Precision, Power)

ArmageddonAsh.6430:

keenlam.4753:

Any gear with MF stat, the MF stat component will be replaced with something else, hopefully interesting for us. I read it somewhere that Rune of Scavenging gets life steal or something but we’ll see.

You got any Links for that? from what i heard gear with Magic find is just getting the Magic find removed and no other stats added or increased. Guess it would be impossible for the same to happen to some of the Runes due to the fact they have so much of it as part of the set.

Read the front page of GW2, it outlines it clearly as to what is happening with Magic Find.

We had great fights this week against some very organized guilds, especially CNB. I don’t remember having to defend our home borderland this often throughout the week so thanks to EB for putting up good fights.

If you guys ever get a good oceanic presence, you’ll jump ranks real quick. Best of luck.

Another post on how someone wants the best of the best right now without putting forth effort? How surprising…

It’s referred to as “pseudo random number generator” and not “random number generator” for good reason.

People complaining about free items that ANet decided to do when they didn’t have to!? Say it ain’t so…

You people are ridiculous.

I wouldn’t pay much credence in what another class says about who or what gets nerfed. ANet has done its fair share of nerfing to us so I’m not sure what else they could do.

I’ve noticed quite a few small skirmishes going on in the different maps. I prefer them more as it shows more skill than rolling up in a 50 man zerg and just dumping aoe on the ground. Bring on more small group fights!

I just did this with Goose’s build and it took a few tries to get used to it but once I got down the abilities and fight layout, it was pretty easy.

It’s rare when it goes off and I can’t really explain it.

I’m wearing WvW PVT armor (that don’t come with runes) and I’m able to get Fears off via clones.

I thought I was seeing things but as of recent I’ve been noticing that my staff clones are applying fear every so often as well.

I don’t have any runes that would apply fear on hit, crit, etc.

The swim lane design is a much better approach than the space invader tree layout.

Lalnuir.4957:

phokus.8934:

A while back I used to run a support build with the greatsword and staff. It worked extremely well in organized group play (that was the key there, organized, not zerg) and the amount of uptime you provided your members was significant enough where you could take on greater numbers.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fUAQJARWlYgqC3GyIEf4ES2jVCBXQsHaUG1RXFcIA-jkCBoLAoNQEEQ0HAZPJNLaQjVWFRjVNjIqWZDzUuIa1CBgcMA-w

You have made some strange choices there.

Soldier runes and pure of voice but only one shout and no superior aria?
With the changes to weakness signet of judgment is nice but I have never seen much point in contemplation of purity. I’d much rather remove conditions on me and allies than just turn the ones I’m suffering from into boons.

From my experience the stability from virtue of courage is better than the aoe stun break as all too often you get multiple CCs piled on top of each other so all to often you end up breaking one just to get hit by another. Stun break also doesn’t help get past guardian wardings or necro fear walls.

At first glance it does seem a bit odd but worked really well in organized group play. I haven’t played this build in ages and will most likely pick it up this weekend to give it a whirl to see how it goes. I found that having a lot of shouts made them “wasted” when playing so I switched it up with other abilities that provided me with better survivability. Courage trait I’d swap out depending on who we were running with and what the comp was.

A while back I used to run a support build with the greatsword and staff. It worked extremely well in organized group play (that was the key there, organized, not zerg) and the amount of uptime you provided your members was significant enough where you could take on greater numbers.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fUAQJARWlYgqC3GyIEf4ES2jVCBXQsHaUG1RXFcIA-jkCBoLAoNQEEQ0HAZPJNLaQjVWFRjVNjIqWZDzUuIa1CBgcMA-w

This post is “meh”. You seem to overlook that the shield is a group weapon while the focus is a single-player weapon. Shield of Judgement offers group protection while Shield of Wrath applies block/damage only to the Guardian.

And I can’t believe you don’t see anything wrong with swapping Shield of Judgement and Shield of Wrath. No one would take the Focus and everyone would take the Shield for a ridiculous overpowered ability layout.

I just need the full mailbox achievement to wrap up Hint Completion. Can people send me in-game mail?

Much appreciated.

Here’s what I’ve come up with that utilizes Celestial accessories. The goal was to provide a quick way of adding burst with the great sword, utilizing dodge rolls to heal and to not have full endurance (vigor to increase endurance regen so you get more dodge rolls/heals), boon duration, max boons for more damage, and condition removal through shouts.

This is far from any kind of final but I was looking for a build that really tried to be a Jack-of-all-trade. The armor is low comparatively speaking but I don’t value armor high in this game. Avoidance (through Aegis and Dodge) and Protection is more valuable than trying to bump up armor. I’m still playing around with different sets of armor and switching out accessories to really min/max this setup.

I’m still not sold on the weapon sigils but this gives you an idea on where I’m headed.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fUAQNAR8dlUgqC33RLEf4ESOjCMBrUEP3DODMKjA-jECBYLCyUgQEBBO5RZNBSQsyqIasqaER16aYCBMaMA-w

I’ve been messing around with Celestial accessories and seeing how I can utilize the greatsword for maximum damage. I created an unusual build that revolves around passive damage increase through boons, low endurance, fire application, and having a greatsword equipped. What came out is 20/x/x/25/25 with stats of 3067 power, 42% crit chance, 2606 armor, 17115 health, 216 condition damage, 59% crit damage, 20% condition duration, 466 healing power.

The damage output is also increased by 54% while having a greatsword out, all boons, <100 endurance bar, and having fire on an opponent. At first glance I didn’t think it was a good setup but the spike damage is insanely high. With full soldier runes, I get pure of voice and with the celestial accessories giving healing power, my dodge rolls heal for 595.

I’m still playing around with armor setup but celestial has made the guardians that much better.