Guild Wars 2

Uchi.2419:

I hate him.

I hate him with a burning passion.

You think you have it bad? Try your personal story as a Sylvari

The motherkitten hijacks it at level 20.

I hate him. I really really do.

I am a sylvarri on all my characters (sue me, I like glowy plant things) and I share your pain. So glad to see some representation from Sylvarri on these threads. I thought I was the only one. LOL

Trahearne needs to go.

ANet – please kill him in a future expansion (or even just a future patch, retcon him if you have to I don’t care) and give us back our personal story!

Nexi.1297:

Zhaitan saying “Trahearne, I am your father” definitely couldn’t harm the story telling about Trahearne….
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The more I think about it: it would be an improvement
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I LOL-ed in real life when I read this. I know GW2 has a lot of things that need fixing ASAP but I hope somewhere down the line they retcon this guy out or something. I can’t speak for the other Sylvarri players but as a Sylvarri, I really don’t like this guy. I was very happy with my personal story until he showed up. The other characters are way more interesting and less annoying compared to this lettuce face.

Chris.7653:

What’s a Rengar?

^ apparently it’s a league of legends character. Just not sure how this is related to GW2.

http://leagueoflegends.wikia.com/wiki/Rengar_the_Pridestalker

Nretep.2564:

@Topic
Clones are not meant for PVP deceiving. Unless they get a complete rework.
They’re meant to deceive PvE or cause conditions.

Orly? Then why is it that more than half of the time the mobs will just ignore clones and go directly after me instead of my clones even if the clone is placed between me and the mob? The only time I can reliably force mobs to switch on clones is when I use decoy (which is on a 30 something second cooldown).

Clones fool mobs less than 30% of the time for me, and they go down in what, 1 to 2 hits?

@riku: "Came outta nowhere and feels weak: Well, for Sylvari, he doesn’t. "

Actually, he did come out of nowhere, even for the Sylvarri personal story. After you do the initial stag/crescent moon/green knight quest line, the Pale Tree avatar suddenly infroms Caithe that some dude named Trahearne has just come from Orr and without so much as a hi hello he starts taking over your personal story.

Hi guys,

Planning to level up my ranger. I hate getting into melee range so please limit suggestions to either utility/longbow/shortbow/traits only. Can someone inform/teach me how rangers AoE for tagging in DE’s? A lot of threads in other sections of the forum indicate that rangers have high burst AoE but so far I’m just seeing one AoE for longbow so not sure how this is happening.

Thanks!

Thanks Easymode. I was trying to build my own build “theoretically” while I was waiting for an answer in this thread and so far what I’ve come up with lines up nicely with what you have indicated. TY!

http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc#MVmmzz9bGf0pacaMVoc

Hi guys, which phantasm build has the most damage output for PvE (meaning solo questing and DE’s while leveling up)? Can someone link the cookie cutter spec (or even non-cookie cutter as long as it works best) for this build? Hopefully this will be a build that won’t require me to get up close and personal. I was thinking of a Staff/GS build or a Staff/Sword+Focus (just to spam the warden) build.

I’d appreciate a straightforward answer.

Thanks!

+1 to this. Definitely needs at least (at the very least) 900 range.

Great post Shrike! This effectively summarizes all that I feel wrong about playing the Mesmer class. I don’t know what mind-numbing drug some of these people who have replied are on. The Mesmer is a fun class to play – true. I have a ranger that’s a no-brainer to play and but I persist and persist with the Mesmer class because of the potential I see.

But the class also needs a lot of work and re-work. To pretend that shatters are not flawed is like imagining the empty glass as full and drinking the air from it. The mechanics of this class is flawed, not just in implementation, but in its inherent design.

All I see here as counterarguments are of the “lrn2play better” types. You people don’t get it. You don’t give someone a brand new car with flawed brakes and then when they crash into something tell to “lrn2drive”.

Now that GS has been “improved” (I put this in quotes because the present state of GS should have been the baseline to start with), is GS/Staff a viable way to do solo questing and dynamic events?

I hate hate hate getting into melee range but I’ve seen so many people in this forums claim that they don’t get any contribution in DE’s because of the “AoE is king” aspect of this game when it comes to dynamic events and I feel like I’m being forced to use a sword just to get that damage in.

I’m a low level mesmer and I really don’t want to waste time being forced to learn a playstyle I don’t want (melee) if there’s an alternative that fulfills the same goals that I want – which is to effectively contribute in DE’s (to earn that gold medal exp and kharma) and to not take a million years to kill mobs when I’m questing.

oh god… just stumbled on this thread. I play Sylvarri on ALL of my characters (and I chose different backgrounds for each of them). I’m at the level 16 quest and Trahearne has just been introduced and I really HATE him already. I’m like… who the eff is this guy? He just came from Orr. He’s a firstborn. SO. FREAKIN. WHAT. I didn’t know he’d get into other races’ personal story as well. I thought he’d just be like a bad fungal infection that goes away after a few months. I fear for the future of my personal story. I don’t want him to get any more involved in it.

Well… reading this thread was, forgive the pun, really disillusioning. I was generally happy with how my level 20 something mesmer was doing but hearing how badly they’re doing in DE’s at higher levels is discouraging. Bleh. :/

I do feel it though, as early as now. In DE’s where the mobs keep constantly moving, the only recourse I have to is to throw a chaos storm then switch to sword/focus. The warden does not last more than 3 seconds though as people would be killing the mob the warden was tied to. I just rely on sword no 1 and 2 for the “AoE” damage and hope for the best.

I did see MrPrometheus’ video and that’s the build I’m running with right now. I’m very happy with it when I’m the only one killing stuff but the moment heavily populated DE’s happen, I just really feel useless.

Uggh.

hmm… okay thanks. that’s strange though as I’ve searched in Google and it seems nobody else is asking about this :/

Parasitic Bond does not seem to be working. There’s no trace of it in the combat log and we’ve tried looking at the health pool (with no minions out) and making sure to get the killing blow but there’s still no health returned.

Can anyone explain what it does and how it’s triggered?

Hi guys… thanks so much for all your suggestions. You’re right in the fact that I RARELY switch elements and I’m used to playing mages in MMO’s where you get skills to push back/cc mobs without having to move an inch.

Anyway, after having read all of your comments above, I think the elementalist isn’t the right class for me. It seems too much work having to switch attunements all the time :P Kudos to all of you who manage to do this.

Elem.8917:

It really depends on how you feel like playing. Personally, I like to spec towards my phantasms/ condition damage in PvE, so I use a Staff with plenty of Power and Condition Damage traits. I also have a Greatsword as my 2nd weapon, mostly just to get Illusionary Berserker out and use the push-back skill if the mobs get too close.

I’ve also had lots of fun (especially in sPvP) with using Sword/Pistol, and putting more traits into the traits that directly incrase Phantasm damage, give them bleeds on crits, etc.

I’ve also recently seen Prometheus0110s videos on reddit , and they are way useful.

Thank you so much for citing this. I regained interest on my Mesmer after getting discouraged after the first few levels.

I always play mage-y type characters on MMO’s but just can’t get the hang of elementalist in this game. Talking about PvE only. Haven’t really tried PvP yet.

Anyway, I have a level 16 ranger, a level 17 mesmer, and a level 16 elementalist – all of them sylvarri. On my ranger I have 11 deaths. On my mesmer, I surprisingly only have 5 deaths (considering that I always feel very very weak damage-wise when I’m on my mesmer), and on my elementalist – I have 31 freaking deaths.

It seems like whenever there’s more than 1 mob – I die.

I generally use a staff on fire attunement. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong. It’s like one moment I’m alive – and then the next moment I’m not.

Here’s what I’m rolling with so far: http://www.gw2builds.org/create/bwe_1/elementalist#0.0-2.19.15.0.0-5.0.0.0.0

Help? Any tips?