Guild Wars 2

Thaddeus.4891:

Full zerker is kitten ele, but that’s the optimal gear. So you are better to go full zerker anyway and if you need some more tanky pieces take them in your trinkets instead since they are WAY more cheap, so not a big deal to change them up over time as you get better.

What trinkets do you recommend to play with that aren’t berserkers? I have full berserkers…but was looking to get some tanky ones as back up for the harder fractals. Solider’s maybe?

Weapon is far more important stat wise. It boosts the numbers higher than a full set of ascended armor will. So if I were you I’d go make those weapons!

What set wise…still trying for figure that out myself. Celestial is mostly for the pvp crowd…some like to piece meal together some pieces of zerk and soldiers and some like to go all out just DPS and full zerk. Full zerk is usually for the PvE crowd, while the mix is for WvW (I think, I am not much of a pvp or heavy into WvW so not 100% sure on those builds…probably wrong and someone will correct me). So it all depends on your playstyle.

Making the set is like any other, you craft it. It takes ascended materials that will come up on the list of things you can make when you have tailoring up to 500. You will need various materials depending on the set you want to make. The Wiki is really helpful for this part.

It’s getting old fast, since the loading screen for Divinity’s Reach is taking forever now. When I exit the Bell Choir after the game has ended, it will re-enter me after having me wait for the DR loading screen…only to toss me back into the Bell Choir. So I have to exit twice.

Runewolf.8456:

i think it would be cool to just have a “weapon conjure” utility skill that summons a weapon based on the attunment you are in when activated

water = ice bow
fire = flame axe
air = static hammer thing
earth = earth shield

Wrapping them all into one utility would be awesome! I’d like having the choice of what conjure I’d like at any point during a fight.

cheshirefox.7026:

i agree with mostly everything you said x_x
and despite its virtues, it gets to the point where it feels redundant in most groups and also that i’m a walking lava-tomb when separated from the herd.. i think i’m just going to take a break for awhile, thanks for the info

Instead of quitting Ele…try using a different weapon set. D/D is so much fun to play! Or you can go with a might stacking scepter LH. Staff is really only good with zerging and the wold boss train. Not sure if you posted what parts of the game you enjoy playing (IE PvP or WvW or PvE)

Different game modes call for different builds. Also, your equipment isn’t Ele suited! You need to get more damaged based stuff or you won’t be killing anything anytime soon. Berserker’s is the meta for a reason these days. Get more power/precision based gear and you will love this profession!

Thank you for that link Lotus! That’s exactly what I needed to find

As much as I appreciate advice, Lotus, I am not a PvPer…I said so in my post. Your suggestions relate to PvP. I run dungeons and fractals so I am not sure how useful a single dose of poison would be for mobs? Energy might be helpful but maybe something is better?

For PvP yeah, I can easily see those suggestions as being ones to pick though.

Ah thanks for the link. Been looking over them. I am finding that Sigil of Purity is nice to have on my Thief but not sure about it on my Ele dagger. It’s hard to remove condi if you don’t go down the water line (and for a dungeon ele you cant really afford to do that…the usual build for that is 6/6/2/0/0/0 for s/d or s/f). I could make a Sigil of Cleansing as it would give it a reliable source of condi removal.

I know Sigil of Battle will be one…but that other is causing me issues. I suppose just the usual Sigil of Force might be nice too…or energy, more dodges is helpful. Too many choices! Any expert ele that can give some advice?

I am finally getting around to crafting my ascended weapons, and I am creating a set of daggers for my ele (and maybe thief). I am stuck though, what sigil I should stick into the slots. I am a little fuzzy on how main hand vs second hand work. Like if I had a sigil of battle in the off hand weapon, would the might stack still proc when I attunement switch? Or does it have to be in the main hand? Would I be able to stick a sigil of battle and a sigil of energy…and still be able to get both or would one be wasted?

I know I want to stick a sigil of battle in there…might stacks are great. I am debating on the off hand weapon slot. Energy would be nice…or maybe a sigil of fire? Or should I think about a whole other set of sigils for an ele?

I plan on having a scepter as well…figured the same sigil for that one too?

I am a PvE player mostly with a touch of WvW but nothing serious. Mostly dungeons and fractals, hence the want for easy might stacking.

Just saw the salvage o-matics up…great bundle, thanks guys! Now where are my bunny ears???

Bring back the kitten bunny ears already!

Hours to get the wolf? Are you serious? I was a color that was halfway across the map to where it is and I was able to pick it up in 5min. Just equip your movement sigil and don’t wander around in the open space. Go the long way around and try not to attract attention to yourself.

I love my SB and you couldn’t pry it out of my hands. It’s great for kiting and for blast finishers. Your DPS weapons are obviously D/D or S/P…or a mix of them but your second slot should be a SB. It helps skipping trash and getting you from point A to Point B. There are spacing tricks (like in that asura one with the ramp of blue moving lines) that you can use SB5 on. It’s just a useful secondary weapon!

Wow look at all those neat SB traits for thief. WTF happened? Poor neutered SB

I am not a fan of T3 female human armor (with the exception of the shoes…those sandals are adorable!). I have my thief dressed in a Noble Outfit, so I don’t have to worry about piecing together something that isn’t going to make my female thief look like she’s a stripper. I know it’s Gem fashion, but I seriously love that outfit. I was running around with the Krytan Human armor top I got from buying the game initially and the T1 human pants. That set covered what needed to be covered and didn’t make her look like she should be carrying around a staff in which to twirl around for silver.

Hmm…well if I could use SB all the time, I would. I love that weapon, it’s got everything a thief needs…except the damage of daggers of course.

I do have an energy sigil sitting around unused that I was also considering. Was also thinking maybe Air and Fire, since it hits so much but the cool-downs sort of put a damper on that. I can see leaving the purity sigil would be good for WvW/PvP but I tend not to PvP. I never see much use out of the bloodlust because I hardly ever get the full stacks and I am always bouncing around maps on the WB train. Maybe the Sigil of Battle for the might? Ugh…too many choices!

I finally got my first legendary done, I wanted Dreamer ever since I saw someone using it at level 5. Took a good year but I have it bound to my account (though the TP was tempting!).

I plan on replacing the Sigil of Purity, though if any of you have a case as to keeping it on there, let me know. It just seems like something better could go there.

So my main question is this: What Sigil/s should I stick on there? My other SB had a Sigil of Bloodlust and a Sigil of Flames…should I stick with that or is there a better option?

I just wanted to point out that when they nerfed Blix and this by default, they caused more problems than it fixed.

Before they patched both farms to a longer spawn time, the farmers would complete the whole mission, escorting the dolyaks and completing the LS for who ever needed it. People complained on the forums about how they were exploiting the last boss farm to extend it and how people were getting mean over being asked to wait a few extra minutes for the champs to spawn. Things got nasty, and so ANet in their infinite wisdom decided to make it so it took a half an hour to respawn the start of Coil. Had everyone just played nicely, the farmers would still be farming the WHOLE thing and the LS people would be getting it done.

Good job guys…

We are great at PvE, the only complaint I have is that we are slow as molasses and tend to lag behind the group when moving. This can, of course, be negated but only if you want to use up your rune slot for movement speed.

For dungeons we supply an almost endless supply of other beings for the monsters to cleave into. I think this fact is almost always forgotten about with most groups. We also have some nice reflects and we do hold our own with DPS.

It’s just hard when you have everyone comparing all professions to either a warrior or a guardian. Not every profession can match up to the ease of play those two professions bring to anyone who plays them. Mesmers take a bit of skill to use properly and you have to pay attention to the battle instead of mindless spamming 1-5 while eating dinner.

I love my mesmer and it’s my main. OMFG is a good place to start, the leaders/members are super helpful with builds and general mesmer questions.

I’d like our Phantasms to have a darker purple dot on the Illusion bar. Sometimes I can’t see exactly what I have out and it would be nice to just have quick reminder to see that a light purple dot means a clone and a darker one means a phantom.

25% move speed would be nice, even if it was only out of combat

The lovestruck daggers have a rather nice skin and is good sized too.

If you just need linen scrap and if you have left over karma just sitting around there is a npc in Bloodtide Coast that sells light armor gloves. They are called something like Claw Grabbin’ Gloves, you buy sets of 4 and take those to the Mystic Forge. Dump them in, most of the time they will produce a glove that you can then salvage into linen.

Most of the time though, it’s not recommended to do this unless you don’t want or already have your legendary…or you love karma farming

The legendary choices for mesmers are pretty bleak. I gave up getting Bifrost once they put the Kasmeer staff back into the Gem store a few weeks ago. There isn’t a single legendary I would want for my mesmer, the only one that fits the profession is Quip and making an offhand legedary seems like a lot of time and effort for not a lot of payback.

Instead of making a legendary for my main now, I am making all the Mystic Forge ectoplasm weapons. They are gorgeous and fit the profession better.

Wish they’d give Mesmers Short Bows…I’d be all over making Dreamer in no time.

Khisanth.2948:

There is no need to go to the Sector Zuhl. The Embers at Sunken Halls of Clarent will also drop these. They are just across the bridge from Bloodfin Lake Waypoint in Iron Marches.

Thank you! I was hoping they dropped someplace else…the wiki needs really be updated

I am pretty sure I mentioned that I looked it up on the wiki, not a newbie here guys. I was hoping the stupid things dropped someplace else, but it looks like I am going to have to deal with that kitten Jumping Puzzle after all. Wiki says the event spawns when someone sets foot someplace inside. Really should put the drops else where -.-

I checked the wiki for this and it just says veteran destroyer troll/harpy/crab but only in a JP spawn event thing or in Kessex hills but none of the veteran destroyers in the Cereboth Canyon I have killed there drop it. So, was hoping someone could help me get my Honorary Skritt title by telling me where they got the the hot stone to drop?

It’s simple, I will never level another alt and therefore I will never need another character slot. Good job guys, because I was a serious alt-o-holic, no more gems for character slots for me.

I have both. I used to main a thief but the lack of long ranged options was lackluster. Also, they seem to always find a way to neuter the profession. I switched over to Mesmer before the patch and after, I am completely in love with my butterflies. Mesmers can do a little of anything, if built right. We can offer party support, we can do spike damage, we give other targets for things to cleave into rather than our teammates in dungeons, we offer a few forms of reflect, we have portal and ways of mass invisible.

For map completion, getting it with thief was easy because I had Shadow Refuge to sneak past vets to get the skill points and what not. Mesmer I am finding it to be easy as well, I just have to murder everything in my way.

If I were to choose the time spent all over again, I’d go with mesmer 100%. We all look fabulous and we kill with butterflies!

China has a way bigger potential playerbase (they do have one of the largest populations in the world) and as stated before we knew they wouldn’t upkeep a NA version of the game and a China version of the game (because let’s be real, they LOVE grindy games where you throw all of your money into them to be better than the average player). We all knew this was coming…it just hurts to see it cut away so harshly. I loved MP as a starting zone, I used to take all of my characters over there to level…now it’s like a half-digested Husk that isn’t even a champion.

We are not stupid, new players are not stupid. If you playtested in China and they didn’t understand the mechanics it’s because GW2 isn’t like all other games. They needed time to figure out the mechanics, not 5 mins to sit down with the game and then ask for a survey.

I am in the process of making up an armor set for the Triple Trouble Wurm for condi damage as doing condi is my absolute favorite part of that fight. Yay for being able to touch the husks! The set might get used for wvw/pvp though I am not really heavily into those at the moment.

Anyway, I know the bare bones set needs to be either full rabid or a mix of rabid/dire but I am stuck on runes. Krait runes seem awesome but undead runes give both condi damage and toughness. Rune of Balth help out the fire ticking and then there’s the Rune of Nightmare that come on a set from the dungeon (meaning I don’t have to buy runes). Rune of Torment are out of the question as they are too expensive for just a spare set of armor I will use for the Wurm.

So, if anyone has any ideas for a rune set for a condi set of armor that aren’t massively expensive?

Stupid question, but do you get the sin amulet from the new achievement boxes? If so, what one?

Now back to the awesome new amulet stats

Sebrent.3625:

Focus + Enemy + Cliff = endless amusement. Always will.

Traited Focus + Noob Ranger Spam = even more amusement … though makes me sad seeing them since I love my Ranger.

Killing someone with Auto-attack (self + clones) while just dodging any big hits = even more amusing … made better by being the biggest Norn Mesmer around … all you see is a big, well-dressed guy wearing purple/pink, lol. Occassionally butterflies. It inspires fear :-)

Seeing glass builds and doing a quick double shatter on them before they know what hit them = beautiful. For whatever reason, Mesmer is the only class I seem to be able to beat a good Thief with when I’m glassy.

Making illusions explode with lovely conditions is also fun … though confusion’s nerf from over a year ago still makes me a sad panda … dumbest nerf ever (people can’t stop pushing buttons for 3s or just cleanse … bah humbug).

Trivializing any PvE content where mobs use projectiles … lovely … you’re welcome other 4 people in my party … feel free to take a nap while I handle these projectiles for you. I got this.

Hiding in a keep or being chased around it until you lose people so that you can portal people in … even funnier when you go from being the smallest possible Asura Mesmer to being the biggest possible Norn Mesmer … and still succeeding.

Watching people waste a big hit on a clone (/cackle)

Using scepter AA to go over 3 illusions so that your illusions that you’re spawning next to your enemies are auto-popping to proc their on-death condition goodness.

In a game where people are running around in Armor with scary looking weapons of death … killing them while running in a Dress Suit while wielding a Fairy Princess Wand and a Flower.

Only things I dislike about my Mesmer …
… my illusions die to zergs … which are WvW meta …. but this is why focus + cliffs are my BFFs
… farming open world content … so jealous of flamethrowers, grenade kits, and guardian staff.

Mesmer has so many unique things that if you are stuck in only liking one thing, I’m surprised you stuck with Mesmer as that isn’t the most beautiful thing about the class.

+1 to all of this…this profession has so much going for it in terms of playability. I don’t find myself doing the same old rotation over and over and over…and the other weapon sets HAVE a purpose and a use. It’s a not one trick pony profession (unless the player chooses it to be), where you know you can expect it to be carrying the same weapon skills. Also…butterflies, who does’t enjoy the kitten butterflies!

The reason I play this game is because there is no sub fee…there is no monthly ‘I WIN!’ payment to be made to make sure you have a benefit over another player. Please for the love of Dog do NOT implement a VIP system!

We just got some new AoE in the form of our mantras. Mantra of Pain/Mantra of Distraction and the like now have a radius to them so we are better at running with the zerg and tagging these days. Also, the radius of Mind Stab has been increased as well. Illusionary Elasticity, if your clones stay alive long enough, now bounces another bounce for a pseudo ‘AoE’ but I wouldn’t count on it being up.

100% agree…it functions exactly like an aura, give CA something to do besides take up a slot on the staff bar!

I accidentally procced the aura last night and was like wtf…took a look at the new field on the skill. I think it’s great that we got another field and that the leap aura works both defensively and offensively. We had too many ethereal fields as it was.

IE…oh how I loved you before and now, now you are simply amazing. So many purple orbs of madness that fly around the battlefield now, I feel like real sorcerer!

The change to the warden was welcomed, it moves wonderfully.

The iLeap, is a bit strange to get used to but it really does help sword…no more do we have to think about the kitten terrain and how it might bork out the clone.

Mimic seems to have lost a bit of itself this patch, it’s really ‘meh’…but I didn’t use it before and I can’t se slotting it over something else now.

Haven’t had a chance to test mantras, going to do that today but I have heard good things about them so far.

Scepter I think has really come in to fill a niche place for our main handed weapons. If you hit with all the last attacks to produce a clone (or dodge them out) you can easily keep up 5-6 torment at the cost of not doing anything else. It does have a draw back in that if you keep casting clones with it, as they are replaced the torment stacks dwindle because each new clone has to start up a new attack. It’s got it’s uses for sure and I can see playing around with it in a condi build.

Some of us like using a staff…why is that so wrong? They are pushing this profession into being a condi user…we have to accept and embrace their new vision or find a new profession to play. I don’t enjoy being called a ‘cancer’ or bad for the game because I like my staff, I don’t play with PU and never have. Don’t assume all of us run PU. Sure the new torment is a little excessive, but you can really only manage 5-6 stacks without investing into condi duration (as the scepter over writes existing clones, you have to restart the chain…and you can interrupt the stacking process by creating more). You can play your shatter and still be a mesmer just as someone using a staff/scepter condi focus can still be one too. I wish the mesmer community would stop hating on itself.

I got kicked from a guild for repping TTS during the TTS sanctioned raids (the wurm and Teq). Yes, I will admit that I forgot to switch back to the other guild for like a half an hour but no warning…just a kick. Didn’t want to be in that dead guild anyway but it still wasn’t cool. Not sure why guilds demand 100% rep, it takes away from the point of having multiple guilds -.-

That lack of out of combat mobility is annoying for memsers, and getting runes just to keep up sucks a lot and limits creativity with the profession. Still, it has butterflies and is the most unique profession I have seen in a game so I still play it. You just put up with the no-speed-signet and slot blink to go to 1200 and remember to use it often.

Are you serious? They are nerfing the one of the utility that gives people a reason to allow Rangers into dungeons? Ok Devs can you please put away the scalpel and stop cutting away things that we aren’t complaining about?

Clownmug.8357:

Playing an asura mesmer - This only annoys me because it seems like the default choice of someone bored with their main class and wants to try something different.

Whoa, whoa whoa whoa…some of us play Asura because they are adorable little rat-creatures who look awesome in outfits. Not all of us play them because they give the advantage of being so small…we just like the master race!

I do agree though, there is a lot of boringness to the profession…same old builds running around. For a profession that can kill people with butterflies and tricks, we need more diversity! Now to get the devs to add our buffs to our clones’ bars already so it’s not so easy to pick out the real mesmer.

Has there been any talk of them changing so mini pets don’t count as ‘companions’…especially with that new mini always out patch coming?

Awesome! Runes of the Ranger it is then…they seem to be the best ‘all round’ rune for general purpose gearing. Thanks guys

It all sounds good on paper…lets wait until the patch goes live to see if they actually fixed the supposed ‘features’ with IE and the warden. We’ve been promised these fixes before -.-

Aesthetically, I love the birds. If they’d stop using that annoying swiftness shriek so much they’d be awesome attacking pets. I wish that the hawk and the eagle had some difference between them besides their skins, almost no reason to even find a hawk -.-

Battle wise, I love my wolf or a drake. Those drakes can take a bit of hits and the blast finisher is a nice add (when they manage to use it). Wolf’s fear is nice to have when dealing with other players.

Ranger runes work on mesmer with a mini out…but they don’t count for clones/phantoms though? Still a little fuzzy on how those work, I’ve seen people claim that they work when your phantasms are out and others who say they don’t. Can someone confirm this?

Nope. Both were simple enough to understand and if I didn’t know something, I am smart enough to know what Google is and how to use it. If you don’t know how to Google up the wiki and find the information you seek…I don’t think a MMO is right for you.

Main hand is always sword/X. Sword gives too much goodies (cleave, boon strip and vuln all in one neat AA package) to use anything else. All of the offhands give something to add to sword, each with it’s own unique add on. I can’t see the torment scepter really being able to replace that.

Favorite weapon however, for me is staff. It gives so much utility and kiting ability and has a nice AoE. The clones are useful and with the IE change coming, they will be something not to take lightly like other clones are. Also, my favorite skin in game is a staff, so that might be also part of my bias toward the weapon. Kasmeer’s staff is so pretty and so very mesmer!

That was great! And wow, Charr Butterflies are huge (unless its the bobblehead making them that big). I have an Asura mesmer and all we get are these tiny, little ones.