Guild Wars 2

Sorry if this has already been discussed! But, I’m writing a fanfic that might need extensive knowledge of certain parts of lore, so i’d appreciate it if any of you have more knowledge on the subject.. from what I’ve read, Abaddon granted magic to the races of Tyria, however, it caused abuse of magic and bloodshed. So King Doric pleaded to the human gods, and they sealed the bloodstone with Doric’s blood and split it into five pieces, set into the largest volcano in the Ring of Fire. Which then erupted later, and scattered the five pieces. There is mention of three locations, but two are not mentioned in the wiki.

1) The magic available in the land today, i.e. through our characters and classes, are they the same magic provided by the bloodstones, now sealed?

2) What effect does the four separate schools of magic: Preservation, Aggression, Denial, and Destruction have on modern-day usage? I am not aware of the mention of this in gw2 especially in our own “usage” of magic

3) What are your speculations or educated hypothesis about the location of the other two bloodstone pieces? Are there any evidence related to this?

4) Trivial, but are the bloodstone shards used in legendaries, the same part of lore, and if so, does that mean the five pieces were split into more shards?

Edit: extra question, I apologize for my ignorance, but, are there any other “artifacts” that come to mind that affects or controls magic in the world? Seeing that it is uncorrupted magic, what about other magic then? Things like the Lost Scrolls which is dubbed “dark magic” which sunk Orr, is that “corrupted” magic?

Thanks

I am asian (japanese) and i personally would love Canthan district and more details and lore about Cantha… i m super curious about it, i find no offense in a mash up of cultures. there are characters with chinese, korean, japanese names that sound distinctively separate, meaning different asian heritage. That they live in a same place doesn’t make much of a difference imo… its a global society nowadays! theres all sorts of culture living togetherrr and also

i personally hope when we get more info about this…. i hope itll b a big living story or quest or new maps or dungeon even…. that it would turn out to be a much bigger, ominous issue like… something Elder Dragon or dragon champion related or even canthan history related… there’s like the stuff about Jade Wind and plagues and whatnot from Cantha… something that needed to be hidden or destroyed or something alive deep underground that caused the collapse… etc… xD id love something epic like that. and like a boss battle or something! cuz the creature emerges lolol or at least let us explore the underground.

apparently, there’s also catacombs that go deep under Divinity’s Reach, according to the gw2 novel Ghosts of Ascalon. I wanna go into those things!! i have a heart for adventure ^^

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any class configuration can finish this dungeon >< if ur having big problems bring 1 guardian and that’s all, other 4 can be even all engi

omg why are you saying this? oO
seriously that is shocking me right now, engis are awesome! all 5 can be engi and rock this dungeon so hard!!!! \(>.<)/
..good engis btw

hehe i laughed a little, really liked the reply xD i dont play engi but that was really cute! xD i agree, doesn’t matter the configuration, its not that hard to finish! i’d love to try all mesmer team xD it’ll have to come down to individual play skill if theres trouble with it

I’ve beat it every time quite easily, its not hard, its the same drill, but mostly, ur gonna keep running in circles, strafing and kite the golems if u can, dont go near them, really, i think for the most part everyone should be focused on running from the lasers… lol let aoe, times when u can hit them, eventually they’ll go down. the short laser comes faster than the wall so u hv to watch ur back, hence, strafe. Then hop on boxes when the short one passes and then get off and keep running. just keep running and running , dont stop to dps the golems, they’ll go down.

Hey guys, I’ve been writing an in progress fanfic novel on my server’s forums loll it is by no means perfect writing but feel free to check it out if you have time. It’s been fun and i feature appearances of friends and prominent players I know in the story and more to come in the future ^^

It seems like it’ll be a rather long novel style story, it hasn’t gotten to the core part yet! lol, but stick with me for the journey

Summary:
While the Pact troops are mustering to fend off the awakened Elder Dragons and their minions, the human kingdom of Kryta faces civil unrest over a changing political landscape that threatens to throw Queen Jennah’s egalitarian government into chaos. Cast out of Kryta and running for her life, Reina Takayama embarks on a journey to discover her past of Canthan heritage and along the way, meets a band of heroes, who might coincidentally be the salvation of Tyria. Yet, a new threat emerges, creating a rift between dimensions and worlds, potentially an even greater problem than the Dragons themselves. What are the Dragons and whose side will the new forces be on?

The original fanfic: http://tiny.cc/reiff

Also started writing fight scenes just to take on the challenge, it contains spoilers! but u can read that here http://tiny.cc/reiff2

d/d ele is soooo fast. XD it’ll definitely “speed” up the process. Other than that d/d is actually very high survivability bc of how fast you move and basically evade a ton of stuff with all the gap closing, leaps, cc etc and high damage rate. It’s def a great solo build. I had no trouble solo-ing champions. i needed the help of my fiery gs though which adds more range and more movement to the solo ele, that spinnning gs move really makes difficult things np xD

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@takatsu, thanks for that last post, that was helpful.

I think different classes just make more sense to different people. Some classes feel natural from the start, some need a little time to adjust. I just finished lvling a guardian so for me this feels like quite a switch plus I don’t usually play casters so it’s not a style of play I’m used to.

I don’t think that most people saying that they are having a tough time are necessarily complaining about the class but just trying to learn.

np! It’s interesting bc i’ve shared the same things i said in that post to some other mesmers who are already level 80s but they never realized how to use the staff. Most would only shatter at most.

I agree with one of the posters, at lower levels I ran with mirror images for a while. While it is not vital because you can still do okay without it, without the clone on dodge, your illusion production is slower so the mirror images was like a quick cheat way. Once I hit level 30 i think, I took out the mirror images bc I was doing pretty good with updated gear and traits even without the clone dodge.

One other experience that I had was the same as the last posters. Even though i had alot of friends to play with I levelled really really fast solo. In fact I could go as far as to say mesmers are quite one of the best solo classes in PvE. While I was lower level playing in groups was difficult. It was difficult and frustrating to put out enough damage compared to other classes who would just use brute force and hack and slash. It was also difficult to find my role in a group. Was I doing support or using single target weapon skills like just a gs auto attack bc things died too fast or was I trying to tag as much as i could with an aoe zerker but phantasms might die in groups before they did significant damage.

My suggestion is to level solo. And you can level fast if you hit all the events and solo as much as u can. Challenge yourself and go to higher level maps and take on swarms and champion events. I found the mesmer to be extremely capable as well as scoring extra credit for higher level places. Challenging situations also helps develop your play style and skill with the mesmer. After all those levels in tough situations, things became really comfortable and intuitive.

In those lower levels it can be an awkward spot. Level solo if you can to train your mesmer play skill and there’s no pressure at all when you’re alone. Just do it til you handle the class well and then you will level fast.

There’s alot of good traits that we can use but just one funny thing I find is that I cannot live without the farther manipulation range lol xD. I use blink and for me without 1200 range it isn’t instinctive everytime I click it I have to re target bc it’s out of range. With the trait I can actually evade in time bc it is much more instinctive for me and gets far enough from danger xD

I think I’ve said somewhere before that I too had a great time leveling my Mesmer in maps 5-8 level higher and also enjoying soloing swarms and champs and events I would never do on another class, yes even the seemingly op warrior.

Mesmers have alot of fantastic utility, evasive, and quick responsive abilities that can keep u invincible if played right. When built and geared and traitor right (making sure ur updated) ur dps is also phenomenal with most weapons yes even the staff

My experience has been that my staff melts targets as fast as a power gs

Here’s some tips as to how with the weapons I like to use :

Staff – you WANT THE AGGRO. Staff Illusions are uber important. Clones stack conditions that just melt your target. Right off the bat when engaging any target I have two clones and one warlock up. However bc these are key to staff dps you cannot let then die so always attack ur target first and hope that they stick to you. Once they do things get pretty easy, you are a player and can kite, dodge, position, phase retreat and even decoy and blink and u can stay pretty safe. Second important tip is to use chaos storm as protection for your clones, it will grant aegis alot of the times and it keeps ur illusions up longer and it is quite a significant difference. Also kite in a small circle between and around ur illusions running through chaos storm getting defensive buffs, phase retreating for chaos armor, and putting more conditions on targets. Targets melt. I also find that I can deal with swarms easily with staff. The staff creates high survivability while it’s not like you actually have physical aoe, sometimes i tab and put a clone on each target lure them into chaos storm or plop one around them and kite forever and watch them melt. In fact the illusions are so amazing that there are times where I stick two clones on one target and put a warlock and myself on another and both die at the same time just one from clone conditions as long as I keep them alive

GS – you don’t want aggro. GS is like an on the go instant illusion machine u kinda want to keep them at max range and throw out ur zerkers, mirror blade, clones etc and it doesn’t matter if they die, but get the zerkers first hit in. It’s kind of like a burst weapon? Not really saying its burst dps persay but u just throw things out as fast as possible. I seem to like shattering with gs illusions cuz u don’t rly need them for long periods of time and they rly won’t survive that long being in melee range. YOU however need to stay far and stay alive. Don’t forget that knock back. I think GS despite its nice damage output and numbers u see, it shouldn’t be a weapon u stick to all the time while levelling bc it is mostly offensive it leaves you vulnerable defensively. a GS needs a nice secondary to swap to every time u bust ur cd. Staff or sword combinations can be nice synergy

SWORD – mainhand sword is a lot of fun and u see lots of great damage numbers but don’t forget we’re not tanks, so only spend seconds in melee range. Timing is super important for melee bc u don’t want to jump into a aoe or the boss attacking or something always time it for when the target just uses a cd or skill. Fight like a ninja u don’t need to stick to ur target, run around and wave ur sword like an idiot and dodge roll all the time. Of course I don’t need to mention that u should always go in for a blurred frenzy pretty much exclusively but if u need to stay melee yeah, u don’t need every second to be hitting the target we can’t really afford that while you’re not invulnerable. That was a major problem i had when levelling was how i thought i needed to not waste time and hit every second. We need to run around like ninjas for melee or we can take a lot of damage. Send in clones first you don’t want aggro definitely. Swap as soon as weapon swap is avail

From what I said u can tell I’m quite bias towards staff. But staff requires alot of thinking and a lot of work to be effective or efficient if u can get it to that point. Right now at 80 I no longer run with staff primarily bc I am capable of other weapons . But when you level I highly recommend staff if you can adapt to it and understand how it works. It is essential to keeping u invincible and also melting targets. The best synergy I’ve found is when u pair staff and gs. It is kiting ultimate. You can literally go on forever and never die while chain pulling bc kiting sucks in terms of aggroing new mobs, yet u still survive in swarms xD it helps that for staff u want aggro and for gs u don’t want aggro, that way u can swap when the situation is needed if u have aggro u go staff and melt targets while keeping urself safe. If theyre going after all ur illusions then u throw ur gs stuff at them and deal some nice damage from afar whetheror not ur illusions are alive

Good luck!

XD I just started a warrior recently and decked him out all fancy and stuff with extra dungeon tokens for armor and gear skins. After making it look so good for fun, despite my reservations and reluctancy to play the warrior class, i may give in and give it a go and bring him to level 80 quick.

I know I can research builds, watch youtube videos and read through the forum, so i’m just being ignorant and annoying here and hoping for first hand personal opinions…. What build, strategies would you recommend or would you do in detail, if my play style has always been mesmer and ranger etc. Somehow what i enjoy is strategy, mobility, evasion, block, jumping in and out of melee/ranged.

Definitely not going for a solid stand in one place bunker tank spec or something that is too utility or condition/buff focused. I also don’t completely go glass cannon and burst, i tend to want to deal substantial damage over time while taking as little damage as possible by being mobile and playful. Does the warrior class have things that will work like that? Or you can tell me to forget about that and adapt to the class lol

I’ve read alot about people reporting there’s a bug about zerkers missing attacks but i’ve been using the new updated zerker for two days now and i’ve never seen it miss a single attack first, second, third run :S Being completely truthful and honest. Not once did it miss for me…. I let the zerker attack and stayed away and watched it do three runs and i repeated that test many times.

The zerker damage counts are of course quite a large range lol but I do enjoy the numbers i see out of it being almost full glass cannon, and berserker gear and whatnot.

It definitely is better than before. I’m not getting the halved damage damage, only the random rolls of regular attack towards highest crit.

Can I just add a point? Do you realize the usage of today in these kinds of advertisements/promotion content doesn’t necessary even talk about a specific date or time despite the actual meaning of the word?

Advertisements and companies use things like grab a copy of this today, check this out today etc very loosely and vaguely, although you might think it is actually accurate for the most part, it was never used in a way that says the actual absolute day of today when u really think about it

I don’t think there was a mistake at all or miscommunication, it is quite clear that I wouldnt even consider it a statement about time but simply a catch phrase promotional statement to say check it out ASAP (before its too late sort of implication)

The only time we need to see is the dec 14 to jan 3 for all our events

I think we shouldn’t be talking about people’s education, that’s surely not nice but just the very nature of some parts of gw2 culture and gaming community that things are absolute and can’t be more open minded and also the feeling of entitlement that everything needs to be flawlessly printed in big bold words and spoon fed and also entitled to items and other goods at the best possible way for the good of self. Like people complaining about how halloween events was so unclear and confusing and they didn’t know what to do… It just takes a little thinking and investigation, research and asking around and onwards, like learning about how to do fractals and play or do anything in game at all…. How did the pioneers who figured out crafting guides, forge recipes, and put up walkthroughs and stuff figure it out? It doesn’t need to be spoon fed or written out…. Just understand it with common sense and wisdom everyone has.

Whether or not it is today or tomorrow’s today, it really doesn’t matter and we shouldn’t even ask. When it’s available it’ll be available and you’ll see it for sure

I find that my mesmer survives the best in dungeons out of all my characters rofl! Mesmers have some great survivability but they are very niche. Rather than just about your skill its more of ur play style whether you can operate in a way where the mesmer is super effecitve in ur dungeon situation.

Mesmers have a ton of utilities to get out of tricky situations, decoys, blinks, are all super important. I even been running sword lately and been jumping in and out of melee no problem, blurred frenzy can be used defensively even bc u get invulnerability. so you have blink, two dodges, if u run with a staff, a phase retreat and blurred frenzy to stay out of danger. you could even distort shatter if you have the instincts for that. I even have a sigil on my sword/focus for pve that gives me 50% endurance back on weapon swap, so i get my dodge back.

As you know mesmer is a kitey class and jumping in and out like a ninja kinda style, so even when not dodging like you said i’m strafing left and right, making circles and stuff, just kinda keep moving, you’ll practically dodge most of the damage just from walking around so things miss u or ur not in it for long.

for traps, everyone gets killed in them… all classes. lol i’ve seen teammates go down. all classes. i practiced enough to get the rhythm/timing. with sword focus i have swiftness to run thru half of it, and then blink the last half. i’m also traited for farther manipulation skill so i have a blink with a range that i actually instinctively expect.

AC and all dungeons including Arah explore and yes lupicus has been easy with mesmer for me. Of course the group is so important. the group needs to know the dungeon well and knows all the shortcuts or easy spots to go, what mobs to ignore, which targets to focus on etc.

AC has been tough on any class tho if u run it with an appropriate level like lvl 30-40, so i think deaths with that level is expected.

Lol, despite all the nerfs and bugs and issues that we all face and terribly disappointed or angry about, i still have to say i love my mesmer!!

Not that the issues we face are completely fine and dont need to be changed but i still enjoy and can do effectively regardless of what weapons, strategy and build i choose to use or what i’m up against.

Phantasms are delayed and i see them being destroyed every here and there, but so far, not every one has been useless, with some good timing i let them put out some significant damage. its annoying to see misfired skills or wasting cd cuz they were rendered useless, but u can still stay on top and adapt to your position and situation. of course i dont depend on just phantasms so its not too bad.

it would be great if we had full potential but fighting with half our potential is kind of fun, it helps create a better player imo

i switch weapons around alot, i even just stuck with my old build and its still doing fine, i think we’re still viable

despite all the issues, i still love mesmer! it’s still fun and u aren’t useless! don’t let any issues we face bring ur confidence down. tough it out and do ur best and most likely you can still do as well or at least ur honing ur actual play skills with more limitations.

thats my thoughts. plz fix mesmer but at the same time don’t lose ur confidence and think we suck now. i mean with just ur utility and stealth and stuff u could already rly do a lot, even without a single clone or phantasm

thanks for the replies guys

yeah even with other classes, i don’t see them fixing things soon. they have said about many bugs that its going to be fixed but nothing happened, and some players wanted to complain about it as a stealth nerf lol

Yeah i was referring to the damage numbers, not the los change. even though los sucks but we have to deal

lol i haven’t studied it myself but i believe the only useful skill you’d have is the screech stun thing if you manage to land it but it takes a while to cast/wind up. The rest are dumb physical pecks and attacks that you probably can’t actually land. I think they changed the moa skills in the last patch so i’m not sure what the skills are now.

regardless it’s probably much more subpar than what a normal player can do so i would just say run and dodge and don’t try. just stay alive til it wears off LOL

I heard that Anet replied somewhere that the nerfed damage numbers on the first hit of the berserker was a bug and said they were fixing it, do we know if it’s fixed or what the status is?

I obviously didn’t test it yet since i’ve been doing events/dungeon all weekend, so the zerker manages to get a few hits in rather than only the first hit nerfed amount.

The website itself said it will take place on Southsun cove, if you prepared by reading it you would’ve known. I’m also sure there were some directions from LA like others had said.

Once on southsun it’s not hard to see the event symbols or read the meta event texts.

We also didn’t know about the rewards at the end, however i stuck through because of how big and how long the event was i had a feeling there was something good, or i was HOPING for something good lol but also ready to be disappointed and just i guess get some fun (ish) out of it.

However, i don’t think we should make such a big deal out of it. Yeah maybe its a lot of gold but that’s about it. I got exotics but i didn’t make that much since i’m an unlucky person anyway. My one or two exotics only sold for like 2 gold. other items were only rare. Most people didn’t get precursors despite how it seemed like there was a lot. It was like three – five people from the whole zerg from what i hear and from my experience, maybe like 10%. And they got like, one. since the price dropped they got like 200 -300 ish gold. And precursors also don’t sell that fast right? Bc it IS expensive.

If you’re looking for legendaries, there also no guarantee you’ll get what you need. It’s just random and you end up getting stuff that makes u feel good but isn’t THAT life changing.

This is a pretty big problem, bc i’m a pretty unlucky person myself. My loot with full exotic mf gear on is about the same as a normal person ( i have some friends who are just lucky and pick up stuff like no tomorrow ). I mostly get trophies like porous bones rofl. My loot from the karka event for example had no precursors where other people were getting them left and right ( i exaggerate) .

Same experience here, friends running with me all picking up vials and none for me. I think this is an issue, the vial either needs to be tradeable or purchasable thru a vendor. There should be a sure way of acquiring this. I have a feeling when i hit level 11 in the dungeon, and we’re supposed to get ring loot, I won’t even get that.

Therefore I won’t have any source of agony mitigation when it comes into play…. Anet, i really hope this won’t be the case, bc some players won’t be able to have agony resistance otherwise.

Please make vials tradeable or vendor-based, it would be expensive but at least we can acquire it. Even if it was with some gems, i would buy one lol

:3 victory!! hehe ^^

Don’t know if this had been mentioned before but after that ancient karka stuff… the karka hive being so abandoned… it would be cool if we had actually opened a portal to a Karka dungeon…. and the bosses and mobs in this dungeon, you can imagine how hard it would be! (and fun) hopefully itll b slightly better design than just hacking away at champs and vets that have a ton of life.

I did like the ancient karka finale events chain though, the karka wiped out the entire zerg at some points, they pose quite a significant threat and are tough to deal with. Just that too many was a tedious.

i have more on instagram which i just took of my monitor… lol! with those effects it looks better ahaha but anyway here’s one, bf and i

i like the difficulty level, if this was another orr or even worse, frostgorge, then this would be nothing new for endgame 80 players with not much left to challenge

The young karkas are extremely easy to deal with, as mentioned into another thread, every profession has a way to deal with it. like as any good player should we plan and reconfig skills for whatever situations we face. Even a simple block/interrupt will deal with its cd

Also its projectile attack is pretty predictable, most will open up with that attack, with a long wind up, esp if ur standing at ranged. Also its range is less than most of our long range weapons. just staying outside 900 range (i heard is its range) is enough to dodge its initial attack.

The first time i did take a lot of hits and left with 1000 healt or something but thats because i was running around and it hit me from behind since i didn’t know it had a nice long range attack lol

Feedback just blows it up. mesmer sword makes u invulnerable and reflect projectiles if traited. My ranger longbow also has the knock back which interrupts and you can finish it off easily before it does it again. greatsword has the block/interrupt. other classes have damage mitigation or shield/protection, same stuff, to help u out.

but a simple double dodge will keep u clear of most of that projectile chain

the veteran karka have double life, which is nice. because it makes the map harder lol if this was another easy map, i think there will be even more complaints. Go in with friends if you can’t solo it. but for solo players this is a nice challenge. you need all ur dungeon experience developed skills. Comparatively i dont think it is harder than what you would hv to do in a tough dungeon run.

question though: do we need to care about those hatchlings? other than dodge when they latch on? i can’t tell if they actually affect me in the heat of the combat, if i should just focus on the vet

However i was never one shot by a veteran karka.. .but the champion karka that was a dungeon boss by itself haha. i didn’t know what hit me i was just down in one shot like 17k damage while i was running lol

But perhaps we need some sort of better animations with those big guys, to shows they are about to hit hard aoe or whatever.

nice! Dulfy is always so fast haha well anyway if you get your hands on some of these then post up how it looks on your character

Hi all! So let’s see what the Lost Shore items look like on your character! we can post up things we get our hands on as we go along here. Especially looking forward to seeing any ascended items that you can see.

Here’s my light island shoulders which i was surprised how nice it looked and really like them ^^ i was looking for something roughly this size, bc the winged shoulders are way too big for me xD

[img]http://i.imgur.com/FxWFn.jpg[/img]

Post yours!!

people in Halloween opened like 200 chests and got nothing… ROFL. and someone is complaining about 16 chests. Halloween people had more of a reason to complain bc the chests didn’t give anything event related. This time its unlocked and you get lost shores items as souvenirs.

Moreover, once again no one asked u to spend. And once again, rare drop rates are rare drop rates. When you go farming with full mf influence and kill mobs after a long event chain, how many rares do you get? 3? 5 on a lucky day? How many mobs did you kill? probably 100+ and this is with full mf influence…. Moreover, those rares really aren’t so rare, bc they exist for a long time. These are event and special items.

I don’t think Anet is doing anything wrong at all. They’re providing a way for players to gamble for something if they choose to and an optional way to make some money for themselves. However, most of us don’t use money for it, and will farm/save gold and trade for gems, and play the market as well to earn more gold and more gems and onwards. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with this.

halloween i can understand it being a bit more frustrating but this is completely fine.

lol it might have been posted already but here it is again. After reading this, i must say, Anet you guys are amazing. The dungeons are so creative and well designed. the difficulty levels and challenges needed to overcome looks like it’ll really require some skill and brains. haha i can’t wait to tackle these. The Lost Shores maps and events will also be exciting for sure. Let’s hope there are no bugs though

However the below article has a LOT of spoilers so if you like to be surprised or learn as you go, then don’t look at it

http://www.pcgamesn.com/guildwars/guild-wars-2-fractals-mists-guide-defeating-arenanets-infinite-dungeon

My berserker goes down super fast if targeted, after its down my cd is certainly still recharging, although the cd seems fast. It totally isn’t, once my berserker cd is down and i run thru the rest, i have to swap weapons, my phantasms arent up fast enough. It’s not THAT fast lol

u have time

lol! i’ll try to catch a vid. I love farming and any pve with my mesmer.. i find that I can farm a lot better than my other classes :S Just so op in pve lol kiting and chain pulling swarms of mobs, soloing champs, surviving in dungeons, supporting team mates and them all praising you bc they appreciate having a mesmer with them, all without much problem if you do it right. love it!

i just have one thing to say even if i disregard all other points lol, all phantasms, berserker included have a long pause before it hits again… you can down one then…. you have defensive skills… you can dodge… lol it sounds like you’re immobile and the berserkers just hit u over and over without being able to do anything. that’s far from the reality lol, u can dodge the entire attack of the berserker if u wanted. its the same skill as a warrior… you might as well say warriors are broken because they use that spinny skill and if there were three on you, you are screwed.

So we all have a lot of thoughts and opinions about the Lost Shores series and all. But just want to suggest everyone to get ready to be productive, because it’s coming, and when it hits let’s try to shelve our opinions temporarily. In the Halloween Event we had a lot of people being confused as to what to do once everything hit as well as others who hopped on board halfway.

There will be confusion, there will be personal opinion but until you give it enough time to settle, you won’t truly know how you really feel about something. We will for sure have a lot of things happening in game that will take some time to digest.

So I’d like to request that those who find out information, finish certain things, etc when the events hit, POST IT UP ON THE FORUMS ASAP, and try to have most of the content organized into one thread as much as possible. We can help each other out and get up to sync on all the new things.

The forums here pretty much is the fastest flow of information and happens as it develops, before other sites catch on and start releasing guides. So this is our greatest source of information.

Let’s get ready to not only enjoy the content but focus to be the first ones to release vital information/guides on here for all to enjoy

Mobs Mesmers are amazing… from personal experience, you can just kite mobs all day, chain pulling and i’m no longer afraid of swarms like i used to with other classes… like almost ANY number i just tackle it, its kinda funny haha i dont even think about whether its risky or not anymore lol! u can just go on and on and actually mesmer aoe is so effective and there’s always aoe melting down mobs fast, and ur selected target even faster… pve champions are even easier as single targets are a joke for mesmers with multiple illusions up. Dungeon survivability is also amazing, always last standing and u can evade or protect against a lot of attacks xP as well yeah mesmers are very useful in teams

i run gs/staff and they complement each other well and ur cds always recharge after each weapon switch and keep up ur illusions and dps cycling… without even trying to keep illusions alive xD just lovely.. throughout all the levels never had issues and mesmer class kept me levelling in places 5-8 level higher so it was nutss…

Aggro: and i love getting aggro, when they come after me, i never die bc with all ur mesmer evasion, invisibility, displacement, projectile reflection and stunbreaking skills theres no way they can get u… its almost invincible plus unlimited mob kiting … sometimes i assign an illusion to one target each… other times just throw down a berserker and bounce attacks for aoe

dps hadn’t ever been an issue, even when ijust mained staff the dps speed in a place 8 level higher was almost the same as someone of the appropriate level and even some level 80s downscaled in the zone

zerg farming for the most part i actually never had issues with farming on mesmer.. all i need is my gs throw in a berserker early and it will tag almost everything with great dps.. sometmes when im slow i dont get one in, but its mostly when i try to wait for the mobs to clump up more… but launching it earlier always works. after that cd, i bounce a sword around and even rush up to use illusionary wave to tag more things… u could switch to staff and chaos storm but usually i reserve that for vets and champs that hit hard to help buff allies and protect illusions. Gs really was all i needed for each swarm wave. just timing it a bit earlier will tag a lot of things easily. my farming results from mesmer is no different from my other classes

style i think it comes down to your understanding and play style and way of thinking if u want to succeed with a mesmer or any other class in general in pve or pvp or wvw. each situation requires different tactics, set of thinking and even configuring ur skills to match.

build for pve id think mainly build power precision and condition damage (if u use a staff or other things) i have those three. plus some vit trait for heal conditions just so i dont hv to use null field to take up a slot all the time. toughness dolyak runes for armor but berseker gear seems to do really really well… i barely take much damage it seems XP but it gives great dps boost

During my levelling, i upgraded gear every 10 levels and in the beginning went with i think tough vit and boosted power and precision with traits. didnt have any damage issues

just use all ur skills and choose ur weapons wisely. keep kiting, moving and think on ur feet and mesmer suddenly becomes so effective in any situation

To be honest i have quite the opposite one, that i’ve seen from personal experience and lots of good mesmers lol:

“Wow, mesmers can’t dps, take on swarms or put out enough AoE.”

Mesmers can be extremely good at taking down, chain pulling and kiting non stop multiple mobs at the same time no matter how many come at you (even if the player has all the aggro) while being invincible even in dungeons and also tagging a ton of mobs while zerg farming XP Just depends on how you play, and how well u fit with the mesmer class playstyle/tactics..

Mass Invisibiity because i am mainly pve… and you need to get out of tricky situations or travel around easily like esp in Orr when you’re solo-ing etc good for dungeons too to get those extra seconds and of course its good for wvw situations too

I personally never needed the offensive support of Hounds on my mesmer, my illusions does more than plenty enough and there’s always full numbers of illusions up when you have your deceptive evasion traits and other skills from weapons, etc so on. solo champs no problems without hounds

i use distortion if i go melee, with your blurred frenzy, dodging and other clone tricks… lol throw in those protection traits, untouchable!! :P and then u can switch back to your ranged staff or gs or whatever no problem

LOL at the Population: Me comment. Every personal story cutscene… my character sounds like a total bish XD Omg lol

I too don’t really like how a female drags her sword like she can’t lift it xD As a well trained “Warrior”/whatever class, certainly you wouldn’t look like you can’t hold it.

The samurai clip isn’t so accurate. Samurai generally, more commonly, (the other samurai and think kendo and other sword arts) hold their sword in front of them or to the side, but mainly pointing upwards. Pointing down is not so effective, taking too long for it to move to block. That might be a style/preference thing but the most common stance is upwards not downwards…

Anyway the female holds it too far back and stuff too. Doesn’t look professional xD I always sheath the sword after every kill/fight just so she doesnt look dumb holding it all the time :P

I feel bad for them too. Main reason is that they were just like “you and I”, warriors/mages/whatever class living their lives and doing their duty. Being condemned to being an insane ghost sucks. It’s one thing to be defeated and die but to be haunting one place forever without sanity sucks. But this is just on the surface.

Just like for actual deaths… it is mainly the feelings of those who are still alive and facing the tragedy that it affects. Those who are gone are gone, these ghosts are gone and no longer sane. They don’t have these same feelings anymore I’d think.

I don’t think how you feel bad for these ghosts has anything to do with the whole political and military situation/history. In any land, there is always war, those who invade and call it their home and then someone else who invades. Who can say who was there first? What about before it belonged to the Charr? Land does not belong to anyone. Land is land, nature is nature. There will be conquest and defeat.

So feel bad for them not because of the situation but because they had once been living perhaps.

I agree, my mesmer compared to my ranger main and even warrior, has been super easy and highly capable. I was always levelling in places 5-8 levels higher than me. From the beginning through the middle, level 30 in level 42 places, and til now, level 66 doing Straits events at 70-75.. and once i hit level 75 i’m heading to cursed shore.

Swarms are no problem if you focus and use all ur skills, single targets are just a joke. So if its a single target champion then it’d be a joke. Dungeons are also much easier on my mesmer than other classes

I ran primarily staff and sword/focus and people think staff is weak but it melts my targets so fast after the first two seconds with great defensive boons, protection for illusions, and combo fields! Even when i was like level 28 in level 35. targets would just melt so fast, compared to a level 80 thief friend, it was basically similar in speed…

But i went with a gs later because it helped me tag mobs better in any zerg situations and they complement each other well. If i started gs/staff earlier then i would have an even easier time. Just kiting around, you can do it non stop and be nearly invincible when you’re concentrating. the cd on gs and staff just goes on after another and chain pulling is amazing.

I never had an issue with mesmer, even with a warrior it was much harder. Maybe its my play style and thinking. It did take around 5 levels to get used to, and til level 15 to really get confident but mesmers are amazing for me. the direct damage from classes like warriors…. doesn’t really work for me that well, its risky, its whether you can overpower the enemy or whether they overpower u. i’ve seen countless warriors go down in tougher swarm situations. but a mesmer seems to be able to kite and survive through nearly ANYTHING in PvE.

Lol PvE Mesmer has no lazy easy to use option xD everything bout a mesmer takes a lot of skill concentration thinking and a bazillion steps to be effective. Where other classes just go auto attack sometimes if u want, there’s no way u do that with a Mesmer. But bc of this Mesmers are super effective capable and powerful even in PvE and almost invincible if u use all ur wits and skills

Lol it’s just the l2p issue. Ppl say staff takes too long but why did I have no issues killing mobs in level 35 territory as a level 28. The dps was mad fast even my level 80 friend who was jus watching at the time was astonished. Bc it was around the same speed (slightly slower) that he took to down a mob there and he’s a burst thief. Two clones up and warlock and chaos storm some of the time… It felt normal. Things melted so fast. The first two seconds is slow which is where the defensive stuff comes in chaos storm to protect clones, dodge, chaos armor combo but after that, they’re done. U can see their health just draining. At the time I was running main staff and sword secondary. With the gs my killing speed is even faster… With the gs I don’t even care about the distance. I use staff first then Berserker, bounces, done.

At level 70 now it’s even easier than ever before with a lot of good traits.

Now PvE issues Iknow one thing for sure. When mobs go after my illusions, it’ll take me tremendously longer. They take down illusion after illusions as fast as I can get them up, and therefore its a slow cycle. Which is why I want the aggro and pull the aggro as much as I can since I’m a player that can dodge and evade and kite while my illusions stack up and deal damage. I deal some damage myself which isn’t too bad but the dps speed comes from multiple illusions up that all help. Two staff clones stack tons of conditions and warlock eats off of the conditions on it. Then throw in your secondary weapon set, to finish things off

Now I do see Mesmers go down and stuff around me, but I notice that they aren’t moving as much as I was, some players aren’t used to gw2 being an active game style and I’ve seen players who are ranged casters and onward just standing in one spot and backpedalinf slowly but the mobs were much too close. Circles is ur best friend for a mesmer

MrMacAndCheese.3907:

It’s not the class, it’s not the game, it’s just you. Not trying to be a jerk, but these types of topics pop up about once a week. These mesmer forums are saturated with tips and tricks, and builds for any type of playstyle with a Mesmer, and they are all “viable”, so I’m not going to try to repeat the plethora of knowlege that’s laid out in pages here. What I will say is that I suspect these “Mesmer sucks in PvE” ppl have already lvld another class, and are trying to play Mes the same way.

Mesmer can be played so many different ways, it’s ridiculous. I only PvE so far, and I’ve tried GS/Sw+Sw or GS/Sw+Pistol with buffs in Power and Precision, and that totally works. I’m currently running Staff/Scepter+Focus with buffs in Toughness and mostly Condition Damage, and that totally works too, in a different way altogether. That’s why mesmer is so pimp.

To try to be constructive here: study the mesmer if you really, really want to be good with the class. There is so much good info out there.

I know next week there will be another thread like this. Something like : “Mesmer PvE Omg :O why?” But I’m telling you true, I only PvE so far, and the only thing that makes me sad is that Mes has So many good utilities and abilities and builds, that it can be hard to settle on one.

:P I wish we had more slots for skills there’s so many useful skills I wanna use ><

Ever since the beginning as a Mesmer once again I had no issues and I’d like to emphasize that I solo swarms and swarm events like 5 mobs at the same time with no problems. It takes getting used to. I felt awkward in the beginning bc I am so used to dealing direct damage by shooting or using swords. Then I discovered staff and got used to the play style

Sword sword is rly good for pvp and stuff like that but while ur getting use to mesmer in PvE plz I suggest pick up a gs and staff. They do wonders for aoe and mobs. Most of the time ur taking on more than one. Once u get used to the illusions and bouncing and aoe combo fields and so on u have no problem

Sometimes I tab targets and put an illusion on each and then do whatever else I need to do.

Chaos storm. Love it. Protects ur illusions and puts condition and so do your staff clones. Throw in berserker and gs bounces and u have a ton of aoe and damage. And ur free to do whatever u need to. Make use of that feedback on long range mobs that u are too tied up to deal with and so on

There’s a lot u can do. It takes getting used to. But at the same time sometimes personal preference and play styles just means u aren’t comfortable with Mesmer and that’s fine.

But I don’t think anything is wrong with the class. I have no problems and have never played a class that almost never dies like this

ah, and for the most part my mesmer does the best solo. but if its group events usually i’d have to stick with gs so i can tag enough mobs with the berserker and sword bounces before they go down from everyone else’s hits

i don’t know about you, but i’m pretty much just going pure pve right now, levelling in maps 5-8 levels higher than me all the time. it’s been a total blast and i feel like with a mesmer im so OP and so capable. i solo champions and events no problem in places much higher than my level… i was levelling in straits on level 64 running 70+ events. everything im running is just so smooth and you can be near invincible if you are careful and concentrating. when i fool around and get lazy i might take some damage.

but so far PvE it is a total blast, better than any other class i’ve used. It fits my playing style and thinking well so that might give me an edge. but i dont see any problems. my targets melt and are downed so fast, as if 5-8 levels higher is normal for me. my mesmer is now 70 and going for 80 strong…. love it!

i’d go into more detail but i’m tired. but just know that not everyone shares your experience and opinion. just make sure u keep that in mind.

my questions for you would be what weapons are you using? are you upgrading your gear? and idk but check out information to help you play better, like the comprehensive guide video Prometheus had put up which helped me a ton. With staff it is just amazing + gs right now though i hope to switch back to sword combos when i hit 80 and experiment with that. the dps on staff is great things melt even without a super strong focus on conditions with so many clones up all stacking conditions and leaving u free to move and kite.

When i get aggro thats when i do best. leave my clones alone and chase me around and things will go down super fast. GS right now is also a ton of fun and complements my staff well. it’s like a non stop cycle, the cd’s recharge so fast and i can kite and go on non stop. bc when i kite i draw a lot of aggro from new mobs, so its just chain aafer chain but whats amazing is like im invincible. i can just go on forever lol .same with champs, with a mesmer u can just go on forever if u play right

Yep! its winged but i changed the gloves and boots to something basic cuz i liked that look more

Tis a fun bug XP

LOL i found a fun “trick”? Maybe others know it already. That i hope anet wont fix but i know me talking about it means it might draw attention xD

Anyway, i put up a phantasm, i had three up for fun on some practice dummies. Warden, Berserker and Warlock. I used mass invisibility and after it wore off all the phantasms looked like clones and were in full color except weapons. Others could also see the same effect. It just looks so cool

I don’t think it can be exploited or put other players at a major disadvantage… u probably won’t be using invisibility too often.. But its fun and looks nice :P

Also if you change the colors of your outfit before making a clone, it’ll give you different colored ones :P

wait hold that thought, mad king reappeared and we’re walking together! event not complete??

Bug possibly? Also Mad King glitched about 80% into it and disappeared and i couldn’t hear his voice either XD but just read the dialogue