Guild Wars 2

If it clips, don’t use it. Not all the armors will look good together but it’s each player’s decision to use what skins they want to. I’d be all for letting us mix and match everything…they’d probably get more sales of the wardrobe crystals that way anyway.

Assassin.7890:

thank you for the feedback guys. I kind of feel tempted now to reroll as an asura – thank you for that
Furthermore, I noticed that Asurans have very tiny backpacks as oposed to humans. With humans it looks almost like they would actually fall over

The hobosacks are the reason I went asura for my engi. They are so ridiculous looking on all the other races and aren’t so offensive on the Asura (though I still would prefer to see my light of dwayna -.-)

The size is fine…what bugs me the most is that the backpack sits so far down off the shoulders and half way down the back that it makes them look so out of place.

This guide might help you! http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1cjmri/new_player_guide_to_leveling_a_mesmer_the/

I responded in your other thread:

I’d say try an Engi. They can be as chaotic as the Ele is or you can make it as boring as a LB ranger…and anything in between. They really are an all around can do a little of everything profession. You want AI to help kill things? Engi has it. You want to be able to stealth? Engi can do it. You want to might stack? Oh hey look, Engi can do that too. You won’t be able to stealth like a thief, or might stack quite like an Ele, and your AI sits around but you can always change your build if you don’t like it at any point. You aren’t quite stuck into a niche like some of the other professions. There are plenty of buttons to push and it’s not boring at all. Also, you have constant, permanent swiftness thanks to the Speedy Kits trait (so long as you are swapping kits every 10sec you have swiftness).

Warning though, starting Engi can be rough. You don’t get access to helpful kits until you are higher levels. Once you get Bomb kit…things get a whole lot better.

I’d go with the others and say try an Engi. They can be as chaotic as the Ele is or you can make it as boring as a LB ranger…and anything in between. They really are an all around can do a little of everything profession. You want AI to help kill things? Engi has it. You want to be able to stealth? Engi can do it. You want to might stack? Oh hey look, Engi can do that too. You won’t be able to stealth like a thief, or might stack quite like an Ele, and your AI sits around but you can always change your build if you don’t like it at any point. You aren’t quite stuck into a niche like some of the other professions. There are plenty of buttons to push and it’s not boring at all. Also, you have constant, permanent swiftness thanks to the Speedy Kits trait (so long as you are swapping kits every 10sec you have swiftness).

Warning though, starting Engi can be rough. You don’t get access to helpful kits until you are higher levels. Once you get Bomb kit…things get a whole lot better.

Curunen.8729:

lol, but the butterflies are worth it. :p

This. Stupid butterflies are one of the main reasons I fell in love with the kitten profession and have stuck it out so long. Might not do so much damage but we look good while doing it!

This looks a lot more fun than the meta ‘stand on point and hope they don’t kill the turrets before the turrets kill them’ sort of engi play. Thanks for posting it…poor kit refinement got a bad rap with that nerf all that time ago.

Do mesmers in general have a hard time with condi cleansing? This is important for me as i know hate getting locked down or burnt to death. – I don’t find I have a hard time with conditions but I always run the Mender’s Purity trait and have Null Field on my bar.

I can adapt to kiting and abusing LoS but does it require too much practice to make succesful combos and deceiving your opponent? (I play d/d ele s/d thief and d/p thief, how does the skill requirement compare to them?) – If you have Deceptive Evasion (trait that lets you spawn clones on dodge) it can make things more confusing but by now most good players know to auto target the mesmer and they can still find you.

I do not have lightning reflexes so cant react to everything. Would this be a huge problem for a mesmer or is it something that develops naturally? – I found it developed naturally and we have a few defenses to help you stay alive. Learn not to spam Sword 2 and learn to use the F4 distortion!

Lastly how is both in and out of combat mobility compared to ranger? (especially in wvw) – Mesmers are slow. You get used to it though and if you want to use your rune slot to slot in traveler’s runes it gets better.

I am not a fan of torch myself, I usually slot in focus in the off hand. It’s a little clunky at first to get used to but focus lets you do so many neat things with curtain and the phantom isn’t as useless as the iMage is. Sword/Sword is another way to go, you get a block and an awesome phantom too!

I find I enjoy the mesmer playstyle better than a ranger. I don’t have to micro manage my pets. Also, who doesn’t love seeing their armor/character another 3 times?

Depends on if you have the cash or not to buy them outright. If you are cheap, join up the world boss train and farm them out. If you have the 100s of gold to spend…by all means buy them.

I love my Whisperblade. I do wish it were a little more like the Bonettis, in terms of blade size because that skin is seriously gorgeous. I too almost picked up the lovestuck sword back when they weren’t achievement points and were actually affordable. I do agree that the huge, weird looking swords need to go and we need to get nice looking skins.

For now, my purple misty sword is just perfect.

I have both a female Asura and a female Human. Asura by far have the most amusing ele animations, watching them go is so much fun! But Humans have them beat with the beauty of armors, most human armors are just amazing to look at.

I wanted to post something similar, so I think I will just ask here and hope to get an answer.

What purple/pink dyes do you guys think closely match the phantoms? I am trying to match my mesmer’s colors up to those but I am having a hard time finding the right shades.

Who complains about getting skill points????

Before they removed the Greatest Fear plot line…having to go back to the wife and tell her that her husband was dead. Not gonna lie, I teared up a bit on that dock when she was yelling at me to go away.

Carighan.6758:

Problem is, I can see why it is this way. Lacking breasts, the male design is slightly easier to copy over to the asuran (or charr) models, and this way there’s less work involved in creating armor.
Design once, copy&paste on Norn/Humans (I think they design on Sylvari, seriously), then copy&paste&adapt for Asura/Charr. Total designs needed: 2.
If they were to change this for a unique style for Asura (and I guess Charr), that’d be 4 total designs.

Still, stop giving me copy&paste implementations of bookah armor!

Here’s the problem with that theory. Most of us are asking for skirts. Boobs have nothing to do with skirts

I’d be happy and right as rain if I could have the male version of the winged bottom for my human female. That way I could use the piece for both of my female characters and not have one look like a stripper. Since I can’t, I’d like to have just one skirt to use that will make my Asura look nice and my human look nice when I swap armor over.

The other hand…I’d like for my female humans to have more options than dressing like a stripper. What functionality does that winged bottom have, with one half of the woman’s bottom sticking out for all monsters to gnaw on? Why does a mesmer/ele/necro have to look like she’s some pretty pretty princess doll? More than half of their armors are either too little or look frumpy.

Wish they’d hire designers who didn’t think about boobs and butt and put some thought into what characters will be running around their world in.

Chameleon Dude.1564:

Legendary armour, crafted from ascended armour and maybe a gift of mastery, stuff like that. That I could live with. Anything else, nope.

This. If we have to throw stuff into the forge for armor precursors I won’t bother.

Rangerdeity.5847:

but they dont heal you

Um we have a trait that allows phantoms to grant regen to nearby allies…ever seen it? It’s even called Phantasmal Healing!

I think it’s because my first serious try at leveling a profession in this game was a mesmer, I don’t find leveling them to be tedious or boring. I love the gameplay, it’s simple but complex if that makes sense. I enjoyed leveling my mesmers way more than the necro or thief.

As a Mesmer main…I am looking forward to that Time Warp buff. Finally I get to use it a few times in a dungeon.

The Time Warp change is lovely. Not sure adding stack of confusion, adding a second and taking away a second of cast time will help that fail phantom any though. Couldn’t they have thought of something better to help it? Illusion of life, still won’t be taking a slot on my already full bar. Defender remains meh.

Time warp though…that’s an awesome change. So thanks for not hitting us with a nerf bat this time ANet! Please don’t break more things!

What frustrates me the most out this situation is having one set of ascended armor that looks awesome on my human mesmer female but if I switch it over to my asura mesmer, it looks like a 5 year old tried playing dress up. So I can’t have my winged leggings (which I do like for the asura) because I don’t want my human running around looking like she should be standing in the red light district of Divinity’s Reach! I don’t have the resources to make another light ascended set just for the fashion look (because that is crazy).

I don’t want boobs slapped onto my Asura, what I would like is more than 3 skirts in the whole fashion wardrobe to pick from! And no, the half pants half skirts do not count. I don’t want my Asura to look like 3/4 of the human wardrobe…as that’s a whole different topic about objectifying the woman form that this thread doesn’t need to delve into. I just want another kitten skirt! And one that looks decent on ALL the character models.

Yes but they could have easily went the other direction and said that ALL asura dress more like how we humans would describe as being ‘girly’ but this game is made by mostly men and is for mostly male players (its a MMO…we all know this is true) and the majority of them wouldn’t play an asura in a dress. So they still made the decision based off how we perceive maleness and femaleness.

I run a Mac. So my choices for a heavily populated MMO were either this or WoW and I hate WoW. This game is so much prettier! I am a sucker for pretty games

I was irrationally upset the day I got those shoulders and found out that my asura mesmer wouldn’t have the butterfly on her shoulder. They get that tiny nub of a piece of armor…and the human female gets this glorious butterfly

I get it, they don’t want to slap breasts on a small race and have people throwing the around bad terms at the game. But kitten it, give my female asura some skirts!

Oh just want I wanted…my asura to look like a Sylvari with the TA stuff…or a scruffy skirt with the Arah. /sigh

I never consider those two because I don’t like the style so I am left with the winged. I wish that the Cabalist legs were like the humans, with that adorable bow in the back and a big poofy skirt but instead it looks like all the other tribal/weird desert outfits.

And you guys make it twice as hard for those of us making ascended/have ascended armor to switch between characters. One set that looks awesome on a human female will look terrible on an asura

3 dresses? I think you are being generous. When it comes to light armor, a female asura has at most the winged pants for a ‘dress’ look. There are a few others but they are either half dress and half pants or just don’t look nice.

Yeah the winter’s outfit is cute and all but sometimes you want to have a nice armor set and different dye pallet than just the 4 of an outfit.

I just want to shoot unicorns and have pretty purple butterfly graphics too…is that so much to ask for Anet? Come on, just look at Dreamer and tell me that it doesn’t look like a mesmer shouldn’t be using it???

Uh the blues and greens are another way of giving us crafting materials. if we didn’t get these as drops we wouldn’t have a reliable source for cloths/leather for the armor crafters.

KyreneZA.8617:

But you did ask!?!

Clearly (as also stated by others in this thread) that bow (as a SB) is less than optimal for what you are planning. You are not open to persuasion and this is therefore nothing more than a validation thread rather than you seeking any serious advice. You have clearly made up your mind long before your OP in fact.

I’ll reiterate: “Do whatever you want, it’s just a game.” and add: don’t be so touchy, it’s JUST a game.

I was asking for a build. Do I already know that SB isn’t optimal over LB? Yes. Do I care? No. I was asking for a build for SB. So why would I want to be swayed towards using the meta when my OP obviously states that I don’t want to use it?

It has nothing to do with validation. I don’t need that from this community. I gave a reason for wanting to use SB, because I have Dreamer. It’s a pretty big reason for wanting to use a weapon type that goes against the grain of Meta…so I figured it was worth mentioning.

I don’t think you read my post?

Fester.9328:

I’ve been using this in open world a lot lately, and the name rings true. it’s a lot of fun, and i have played around with it a bit, even swapped in a gs and dual axes.

http://intothemists.com/guides/1757-the_lazy_murderer_crossfire

Its a bit outdated, but like i said, play around with it and find what you like.

Thank you for finally someone giving a build. It looks decent and I may have to try using parts of it

If the precursor was account bound, as well as the Legendary was too…I’d have no problems. They can’t flood the market and make it bottom out. Granted, I am someone who thinks that Legendaries shouldn’t be able to be listed on the TP anyway.

Quip. The first few times you hear it, it’s funny and amusing. After the two thousandth time…it’s lost it’s charm and is now irritating as kitten. I can take the neighing of Dreamer but that honk/poppoppop/honk/popopopop/honk of Quip, I just want to throw the computer.

KyreneZA.8617:

All those wasted hours of grinding just to make a MLP-Slinger?!? No serious ranger would ever dream of using such an abomination. Seems to fit your attitude perfectly then, so why did you ask in the first place? Desperately needed some validation of your choice of virtual empowerment?

Do whatever you want, it’s just a game. IF that conflicts with the “do whatever you want” of an/other player/s, adjust your own “do whatever you want” accordingly.

I hardly think your opinion of the bow is of any worth to this thread. Some of us actually like the skin…so try to keep your opinions of such matters to yourself unless asked ok?

All I was asking for was a build that can use SB. Not for you attack my choices. If you have no well meaning for a thread and nothing useful to say just don’t say anything at all.

No wonder no one takes the GW2 forum seriously…it’s full of useless trolls.

Oh I wouldn’t be running a condi ranger in the dungeon. I’d be running the zerker meta, just swapping the LB for the SB. I know it’s not the best set up…but I made the kitten legendary and I want to use it. It was the only one I wanted to make…

I know SB isn’t a power weapon, and honestly I don’t really care much. Would only be using it as a source of range damage when needed. I have no problems running sword or GS and would probably end up using the melee more than the SB of course. I just want to use it

I have been dragged off to team PvP and honestly, I enjoyed it with my guild mates. It was fun while on TS with people I am friends with but I can’t see myself hot-joining. So yeah, I know SB is good for PvP.

I just want to kill all the things with my Dreamer and not have to switch out to LB. I know condi isn’t great in Dungeons…wish they hadn’t turned my Unicorn bow of death into a neutered condi wet noodle.

You can have as many crafting disciplines you want on a character, you just have to pay around 50 silver to switch between them. So feel free to level them all

I made the one legendary in the whole game I truly wanted to make and I’d like to give the other profession who can use it a better try. I am mostly on my thief to use it and I love murdering things with unicorns. However, I don’t see many builds using SB outside a few in PvP (and I don’t PvP much). I mostly run in PvE situations, dungeons and fractals and what not. Seems like the meta builds run with LB and SW/D/Axe but LB is so boring and has that knock back that all Rangers get lumped into using.

Are there any semi-viable builds that use SB as a secondary? I run dungeons and fractals with my guild, and I try to avoid the elite groups who only want the meta run. I don’t mind running spotter and frost spirit for the usual dungeon meta…I just would prefer to be able to use the expensive legendary I put all the time into. Would I get kicked out of PUG if I used the SB instead of the LB?

I don’t know ranger too much, I started one a while ago but it fell into alt/mule land and I’d like to try it again.

Dreamer of course…it shoots unicorns. I just wish I could use it on more characters than just my thief and ranger. Mesmer needs to shoot unicorns….NEEDS TO!

Not a fan of the big swingy swords of screen blockiness or Bolt for some reason. The skin is sort of ugly. And Quip…omg I want to murder my speakers when I hear someone spamming the 1 skill over and over again. Yeah sure, my Dreamer neighs a bit…but holy kitten that honk noise Quip makes will drive me into a blood rage. The rest of the legendaries are pretty meh to me, I am in no hurry to make another.

Wish the Minstrel wasn’t so kitten ugly. Why you make it look so hideous but have lovely music notes ANet???

I love my light armored professions. I mean I love the 3 professions so much I have two of each.

Now, I am making my ascended armor and I would like to be able to swap the set around for all 3 of the professions. I am making it Berserker’s as I run a power necro, already a zerker ele and it’s a good set for the mesmer (right now my mes is in assassins). I am used to being squishy so won’t be a change.

So my basic question is: are Scholar runes the best over all rune to use for all 3 of the professions? Or is there a better one I should be looking at to stick in there? I have a set of strength but not sure how well that would fair for the necro or the mesmer really.

I admit it…I love shortbow. If I could, it would be the only weapon I would use. I want to be able to just spam the AA and skill 2 over and over in dungeons and be useful! Who needs stealth on hits when I can hit things with a unicorn?

So keeping the scholar on the zerk exotic set then. Got it. Thanks again

I have a human and an asura ele both 80. I find that the armors for female humans are amazing and there is a lot of variety to them to suit anyone. Asura animations are by far the more entertaining to watch with any profession, and with an ele they fly through the air and murder things to amusingly! Yes their armors are a little more plain and hard to see (if you make them the tiny size) and the males and females are both clad in the same outfits, but you can find one or two sets/pieces that can look great. In the end though, it comes down to whatever race you can stand listening to the attunement swapping over and over again.

Ok so I should stick the strength runes on the ascended set and keep the scholar berserker’s set I have been using for the lower level dungeons then. Darn, was sort of hoping I could sell off the scholar runes but might as well hang onto them then.

I was considering getting a set of Soldier’s armor and placing the scholar runes onto that, as the higher HP pool might benefit more with that rune set. I tend to run staff with the scholar runes, and am working on getting the pacing down with scepter (trying to wean myself off staff lol). So, was thinking that for staff maybe the soldier’s might be a bit better? Or maybe Valkyrie? Or should I just leave them as they are, on the berserkers?

Thanks guys!

Sorry…I know this topic has probably been talked to death but there are valid points to both rune sets. Here’s the deal, I have a full set of both runes (the forge spat out the strength runes for me over time) so it’s not like this a cost issue.

My Ele is purely PvE. I run dungeons and fractals with the very occasional WvW if my guild runs a havoc run. I have no interest whatsoever in PvP. The ascended armor I am in the middle of crafting is Berserker’s for that reason.

Seems this forum is divided on which set is better, some say Strength and some say Scholar. I am using the scholar runes now and that 6th bonus is sort of a pain to have to keep up, but it’s manageable. Would I miss that ferocity bonus from the scholar if I switched over to Strength? I’m leaning more towards the Strength, as the 6th bonus doesn’t require me to be at almost full health. I find I am always with might so it’s not hard to keep it up. But I have to admit, that gold price of the 6 strength runes is really tempting!

Should I just suck it up and stick the strength runes on there or should I sell them, as they aren’t really all they are made out to be?

I would love the option of being able to spam /join party in chat rather than right clicking and getting the Map Is Full only to have to right click again. Would make Triple Trouble and Teq much easier to get onto

Dahir.4158:

Am I the only one who still uses the original F1-F4 for attunements and 1-6 for skills? (utility and elite on my mouse)

Nope. My muscle memory is too strong to move any keys…it was drilled into my brain what keys where were that if I tried rebinding them now, I would end up dead and frustrated.

Depends on the profession you enjoy the most/are wanting to make you main. If you like mesmer, go with cloth. If you prefer warrior go with heavy, though heavy will only be able to be placed onto the two professions, so it limits you a little that way.

As for the type of ascended…it’s up to you. Most go with Zerker, as that’s the meta.

I just wish it were pretty. The base colors of the focus look like someone barfed onto a color palate. If it were a real attempt at a metallic gold color or maybe purple I would totally put the effort into making one. I don’t understand the muted green-yellow of it.

This game is gorgeous. Everywhere I look, there is something wonderful on my screen to look at. There are parts of the maps I am just discovering now after playing for a year. The guild I am in does daily things to take part in and murdering Teq still amuses me. But I am not part of the ADD generation and I don’t need something new and shiney every week to keep my interest..

http://www.gw2crafts.net/

That site will help you a lot

I was maining a thief…then a mesmer…and now have settled on Elementalist. Ele is so much fun, and more than the average spell caster. If you want to be an in-your-face attacker you can go d/d, you can might stack to get the most power you can and then smash things with a lightning hammer, or you can equip a staff and mash things down with a meteor storm. You have easy access to condi clears and healing, so many boons you can apply, auras and lets face it…light armors are some of the loveliest skins in the game (imo of course). Also, this profession teaches you how to play, you have to learn to dodge properly or you face death. And dagger 4 makes map travel a breeze