Guild Wars 2

Mass Invisibility is ten and Time Warp is only five, from what I recall of what I’ve read from official sources. If my memory is correct lol

Qaelyn.7612:

What exact build are you using takatsu?

As an aside, I’ve been trying to work IC into my PU-ish build without success. I just can’t find anything else I can give up without seriously damaging the build.

My two common build variants are in my signature 10/20/30/10. the main concept was just the standard 20 dodge clone, 30 PU, 10 condi removal on heal, esp if mantra heal it would be four condi removals before a short CD, leaving your slot skills for max stealth, or free slot for whatever is necessary. I feel that my build gives me alot of versatility and flexibility to switch weapon sets, and at least one free slot skill. I also never felt the necessity of reducing CD for gs or aiding OH skills either, imo. I don’t stay on gs for that long, it’s always constant weapon swapping whenever possible. Extra pistol range, or even focus reflect to me wasn’t necessary at all to consider, in the heat of combat, those are only small toppings to add. i.e. reflections not many classes while roaming stay ranged or would people continue firing into reflection for too long from what i’ve encountered, nor do i really need it with a mirror heal and aegis/damage reduction/stealths/blinks/dodges.

Yeah i’m also considering IC but it might be a bit to overrated and hyped up because of the patch. I don’t feel it would be really necessary, with everything we already have and weapon swapping. I can see how it would be be important if we sacrifice clone dodge, and just rely on illusion production skills

I do the “direct damage” PU thing. It’s viable imo. especially the gs/staff build i run often, it is a kiting machine. It’s not going to ramp up huge numbers, but that’s not the point. In wvw, in real combat situations, its’ not like PvE imo, it’s not about the numbers. I play by that philosophy. for example, a lot of classes have and are often melee, but with gs/staff there is simply no way they can pull off huge numbers on me, with aegis, constant blinks, stealths, -42% dmg reduction.

A direct damage PU build from my own experience can last very long and can do 1vX indeed, but yes, the damage isn’t so bursty, it is about steady heavy damage. I watch the opponent’s health drop by chunks, while I’m always at full.

I also don’t run torch as I feel that limits the OH and flexibility. I also often switch out weaponsets. In a direct damage PU thing, it doesn’t limit you to condition damage weapons or such. I’ve ran sword/sword gs, sword/pistol, sword/focus, etc. I use staff for its defensive purposes. Each can provide flexible strategy in different situations.

Anyway , yeah i think it works well for me. it’s not impressive damage but it’ll be sustained damage. which is useful. I’ve never had problems, except for necro when I didn’t slot in a disenchanter or whatnot lol

I’m a SoR mesmer and warriors have never been a problem for me x3 but I’d have to contact you after my exams this week

i’d say you’re missing out if you don’t play mesmer honestly. It’s the only class i’ve clicked with… all the other classes just pale in comparison because i could hardly care about the numbers. the game play, the play style, the skill and capability that can synergize with a good player’s skill is amazing fun. it just has a lot more potential than other classes imo in the right hands. it can be pushed far, whereas i feel limited with other classes into its box

3k armor is indeed quite high. You can 1vX with 2.4-2.5k no probs, especially with gs/staff. I ran gs/staff extensively in wvw, and its a kiting machine, nothing can get close to you or put pressure on you, while your damage is steady and frustrating for the enemy.

The lack of condi clears is also what i see but just slot in a Disenchanter when you need to or pop on lemongrass poultry as well. necro coming in the distance? slot skills xDD

overall im liking the look of this

The mesmer has always needed more effort and play skill to keep on top of things. dueling and roaming mesmer no doubt is great and has a fun time. With some good builds you could do 1vX pretty decently.

in zergs they feel more like utility bots, but it’s because commanders or the group largely doesn’t prioritize calling out or asking for mesmer skills other than veils etc, mesmers can still do alot of good stuff like insane downing people with reflects in a zerg. But yes it takes a lot of work, and other classes have some important core things they do well which makes mesmer seem like a topping in a zerg setting.

PvE is great fun, easily capable of amazing solo-ing feats or great utility in runs. but don’t compare dps numbers, because obviously warrior for example can pull of high numbers. this is all good and all in pve, but mesmer utility and survivability are essential in a lot of situations. often i find mesmer the last class standing in runs or whatever bc of all the skills mesmers have

all in all mesmers are about skill, both player skill to put in extra effort to stand toe to toe in competitive situations, and class skills that acts as catalysts or changes the tide of the situation. it’s not your direct damage focused or tank class. it has decent damage and survivability, but obviously other classes will pull off better numbers on paper. but i always say, its not about the numbers in real combat

I like thief looks but I honestly wish that we could have that Order of Whispers MALE medium hood on all classes and characters xP that would be great. It’s the best hood everrr

Shatter is using the profession skill, you produce and use clones/phantasms (together considered illusions) as bombs. Four diff types of shatters, mind wrack does damage, cry of frustration does confusion, there’s one that dazes and one that grants distortion (invulnerability/evade for the mesmer). With traits, they are even stronger, like all shatter doing confusion or distortion doing reflect and less shatter recharge etc. It has tremendous burst damage in player vs player situations.

Phantasm mesmers generally doesn’t shatter or shatters less, and keeps throwing out phantasms which actually do heavy steady (possibly kinda burst) damage with their “weapons” (clones don’t really except for condi damage when traited). This is what you use for PvE as well, as it is the highest straightforward direct dps. There’s different types of phantasms produced from different weapons which has some effects like iWarden being stationary when attacking but huge aoe cleaving all around and projectile defense, and iDuelist using thief unload? skill with the dual pistols which hits for a lot of ranged damage.

Clone Death mesmers focus on producing mass amounts of clones and just rewriting them, (we can have max three illusions up), and/or letting them die from damage. You would use melee clones like sword clones to stack on top of enemy. These clones on death will be like an explosion and trigger an effect like aoe cripple and conditions.

Those are the three basic foundations of mesmer strategy however, you will find a lot of modifications, all of which probably use some of the above three fundamental mesmer mechanics mentioned:

Condition mesmers may use any of the above three, often the clone death and shatter, and focus on stacking conditions. A popular build like the Blackwater build, and runes of perplexity and so on often are tanky and achieves tons of condition damage.

Mantra mesmers are rarely seen, but Dec 10th patch had tried to fix them up a bit more. These aren’t illusion related skills, but provide utility/boons etc.

Shutdown/interrupt mesmers have a high skill cap but are great fun and focus on stuff that happens on interrupts, daze and does a lot of CC and so on.

There might be more. But mesmer does have a lot of viable builds and variations. Excluding PvE where its just dps phantasm pretty much. In addition, mesmers have a ton of active defense skills, evades, blocks, position displacement, stun breaks, stealth etc. The concept of mesmer is mobility and constant rhythms of melee, ranged, repositioning, denial of targetting, which keeps the mesmer alive and the enemy disoriented or annoyed. On the other hand, if you trait up or gear up with some defensive stats, the mesmer becomes even more powerful. 1vX battles are usually no problem for a seasoned WvW player and build.

Pyroatheist.9031:

takatsu.9416:

The signet keeps you invincible pretty much but I only tried it for a little. I can’t deal with the lack of swiftness on my centaur runes either. I’m just completely used to perma swiftness. I also switched to Mantra from Mirror heal. Literally perma swiftness

So in pve, yell at your teammates to buff you :p

hahaha but in open world PvE i enjoy soloing most of the time > < lol and in dungeons, yeah, I don’t feel a need for swiftness at all most of the time, unless skipping and skipping i focus on giving invisibility to the group while they buff XP

The signet keeps you invincible pretty much but I only tried it for a little. I can’t deal with the lack of swiftness on my centaur runes either. I’m just completely used to perma swiftness. I also switched to Mantra from Mirror heal. Literally perma swiftness

If you take a condition mesmer, like I did when I was levelling, well i had power and condition, i don’t think i boosted up crit at all, it was quite powerful. I had sword/focus and staff. My staff skills were doing a lot of damage, especially as i had my staff clones set up around on mobs letting it bounce while I would move around and dodge and jump in and out, and sword focus had a ton of defense and straight forward steady aoe damage. Once you get into the rhythm of it, it feels wonderful. Before level 40, where we have access to higher traits, I had to make up for the slower illusion generation with mirror images as one of my slots. With staff and sword MH the illusion generation wasn’t slow at all

But the main reason why I particularly enjoyed condition was because I push my limits especially while levelling solo, I would go to maps 5+ levels higher than me and see how I hold out. The mesmer is an extremely strong capable solo machine. So when my attacks were only glancing, my conditions would do a lot of work for me.

Unless you do what I did, there’s no reason why you should select condition in PvE to level or play at level 80. Conditions would be strong in player vs player situations. I also levelled condition warrior in PvE because I was in higher level maps as well. Mesmer by far had a lot more survivability, was way more capable and more damage though :P

The question is why would you need to roleplay a druid in this game / lore? There are no real druid style concepts in this game. The Ranger is NOT a druid, or meant to be a druid. He simply is in tune with nature and makes use of nature and the spirit of nature, like some sort of magical life force of Tyria that exists in nature etc. Spirits which are like similar to oakhearts or whatnot, that doesn’t mean he’s supposed to be a druid. He also isn’t supposed to be categorized as a beastmaster. He simply befriends these animals and can fight together, the story is up to you.

Those are a specific concepts and classes in other stories or games. If it doesn’t exist here then it doesn’t. But if you can manage to make it work in your roleplay then by all means do it. My mesmer can roleplay as a scholar rather than a fighting class if I wanted to. I could be no profession at all, and simply be a peasant. Roleplay is roleplay. Game mechanics is game mechanics

The ranger in gw2 is not meant to be a druid, because it isn’t part of the lore. You can still roleplay an archer however, just equip two bows and then roleplay that, without showing your pet. Your pet when it pops out could be like a bird that flies around whom answers when battle begins, up to you. But you could still roleplay as an archer, i don’t see why not.

First of all, separate yourself from all the existing concepts that you seem to want to play that exists from other games or stories. like a druid. Doesn’t exist here, then don’t try to force it or categorize the ranger into it.

Secondly, if you’re going to “roleplay”, separate yourself from game mechanics. So what if a pet pops up when you go into battle? Make up a story of why that happens and hide your pet another time. Work with your two bows and consider yourself an archer. I’m pretty sure a warrior or thief wouldn’t fit as an archer as much as a ranger does. The ranger is the huntsman sort of style, which archer is closest to, like the Legolas style archer. If you’re an archer in say an army like the Seraph or Vigil or something, a warrior would work then in context, as a soldier.

I don’t see what the issue is really. Work with what you got. Stop trying to force something that you’ve somehow decided in your own mind

But sure it is entertaining and fun and satisfying. For me as a new player it clicked for me like no other class. Even at low levels I felt incredibly strong and capable and solo’d many things I wouldn’t have been able to on other classes. I simply had Mirror Images, staff and sword/focus which makes up for fast illusion production without the whole clone on dodge thing. Other than that trait, the mesmer is all about active defense skills, stun breaking, mobility and constant rhythm of weapon swaps, jumping in and out of range and melee. It’s great fun. If you can get the rhythm of it, it is amazingly capable. It’s not for everyone though. You’d have to try it. Some people hang on til 40 before they enjoy themselves, or if you’re like me then it simply clicks and feels natural!

If it goes back to what Rangers are about, then you need to see something like this which is a great extensive resource with a lot of common game/fantasy concepts: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FantasyCharacterClasses The word Ranger might be confusing you. It does not necessarily mean long ranged archer class. LOTR is one enterprise that made the Ranger really famous. But this Ranger means range as in ranging through the lands. Dictionary says: Verb. They ranged over the sprawling hills: roam, rove, traverse, travel, journey, wander, drift, ramble, meander, stroll, traipse, walk, hike, trek.

They are trekkers, trackers, hunters, versatile resourceful fighters, or they might not even fight. They’re not a specific narrowed class. If anything almost all experienced fighters who have travelled far and wide, can be considered rangers, no matter what profession.

I’m going to be RPing with my ranger in addition to my Mesmer soon. it’s not a problem about the class. you’re simply boxing your mindset into existing archetypes and trying to replicate something from other games or stories. this is a different game with different mechanics and design. over the hundreds of years since GW1 if you’ve seen the lore interviews, Tyria has changed both in magic potency and evolution of professions and skills. For example all classes now have learned to heal and we don’t have ritualists bc we have actual magic released around the globe.

I take my ranger as the huntsman/woodsman/traveler well ranger sort of thing. That doesn’t mean he is inexperienced, it means he has traveled far and wide, extremely knowledgeable about the land and nature and proficient with many different weapons to use in any situation. Combat in games are unrealistic as you know, it’s trying to narrow things down and structure it so it playable. but in reality any class would simply pick up or use what they have at hand in order to fight to survive. I’m pretty sure a Mesmer will even pick up an axe if they had to. Rangers are simply more obviously resourceful and makes use of both ranged weapons and melee. axes are also for chopping firewood and so on to stay the night outdoors…. Legolas in LOTR used swords when it was close quarters. Aragorn does have a quiver and bow at times out in the wild. he’s an expert at terrain and they listen to the resonance of pounding hooves from miles away. it’s not uncommon.

having a pet with you, I run two wolves doesn’t mean they fall into a beast master archetype, it just means they’ve befriended and trained animals in some way backstory up to you. like a falconer, it doesn’t even mean a ranger can be the only falconer.

however if we stick with lore and game mechanics simply take on a more realistic view of the ranger. they’re versatile resourceful fighters in tune with nature and the wild. They may have fought off animals whom the ranger nursed back to health and befriended or something. I don’t see any issue with being a versatile resourceful hunter type. if you don’t want to be a skillful hunter of the type, then choose a different class.

I main Mesmer but my Mesmer isn’t specialized in all the mechanics either. She was trained with swords rather than magic and will have limited illusionary powers and so on. bc a thief is called a thief does that mean he cannot be in an assassin RP role? my Mesmer assassinates time to time as well sometimes not with Mesmer related skills but more realistic things. so what?

It’s RP work with what you want. there’s nothing wrong with the classes in context.

bah xD typing on a phone sucks

Hello all! It’s been a while since I took out my ranger, over a year in fact, but I freshened her up into a nice looking him, and feeling like he should have a good story of his own.

So I’m working on fixing up my build. My main has all my ascended so i’m stuck with exotic stats but anyway. I PvX, I do WvW, PvE, not really PvP with my main. Of course being that this guy is for fun, I don’t expect too much seriousness.

But I’d like something well rounded enough, that has more than enough / tons of damage/ solo-ing ability , but also decent survivability. I’m used to the mesmer which has a lot of active defense and mobility options. I’m used to having pretty nice 2.3-2.5k armor as I WvW roam. While Ranger does have some nice melee mobility, it’s different.

Anyway, my preferences, just for fun, I want my ranger to have:
- Full melee sword sets
- Pet wolves bc… they’re pretty
- No need to retrait much once the build is done, but can swap out trait skills for diff situations

I’ve got this pile of junk right now, thrown together real quick mainly for PvE soloing around so I was trying to put as much aoe as I can, but I can’t help feeling it’s a little all over the place. Of course skills and trait skills and what not, I’m willing to switch out for wvw or whatever else. But I really have no idea what to do with Ranger:

http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-F;4wEky-t2JEF-0;9V1E;2JTJ;204-39A48;2SJ04;2m9fgm9fgNBGvN435;2VOVYWY1hYi3t_6Z-870HV8aNX8a;9;9;9;9;9;53-61m

What are your thoughts and suggestions on what to change for traits, stats, gear to make it more effective and focused?

I do most of my PvE content solo, while I was levelling and now, after i’ve done my end game grinds like dungeon runs and stuff… i love seeking challenging situations. Whether it’s soloing swarms of 10+ or champs. However, I don’t run PTV. You don’t need PTV for PvE seriously. haha Most of my gear is zerker except for some toughness. You don’t need much to survive in PvE… if survival is an issue, just switch out a gs for staff. The best survivability comes from the standard sword/focus staff combo actually from experience. Champs will have defiant which makes pistol interrupts unreliable of course. If you want DPS on single targets just go sword/sword , sword/pistol as usual

I think you should go back to zerker gear at the very least. Mesmers have too much active defense, distance making options and stun breaks to ever need much survivability in PvE. Even in WvW zerker gear is actually fine til you’re running against multiple enemies. with some defensive traits/gear, you can take on outnumbered 1vX fights in WvW

I see a lot of Mavericks, I think the problem is pronounced more obviously with the 10.9. However, i’d like to say that the reports of Gemstore/ TP not loading has been happening for months. This happens on my older OS too for many months, I haven’t upgraded to Mavericks. Please don’t believe it’s just to do with the new OS. The issue is client/code/server side

My Gemstore and TP was working fine today, but just now, I didn’t turn on or off the game or the computer, after an hour, the pages are now loading blank and bugged, the gem store shows all these text, unformated pictures and stuff all in one column. And no other tabs would open. I was in the middle of doing something and now it has prevented me from finishing what I wanted to do.

Once again, I’d like to say that I’ve had an issue for over 4 months with Buy Gems, Gem Store and TP tabs loading. Both my macs are old. I do not often update my software. I’ve heard of issues before Mavericks was released, so the initial usual problem IS NOT with Mavericks

2012 iMac 27"
OS X
10.8 Moutain Lion
gw2 1.0.009524

Late 2010 MacBook Pro 13"
OS X
10.6

Will update with GW2 version in a sec

My Gem store and TP hasn’t worked for over 4 months. I will provide computer info soon when i get on my iMac! But I am NOT running Mavericks and an older version of OS, on a 2012 27" iMac. This issue does have a range of platforms I believe, and not narrowed directly to Mavericks

BLTC Gem store and TP isn’t working once again, after I had to close the program and open it a second time. Nothing has loaded. This has been a reoccuring issue for me for the past 4 months at least. This must be fixed

it worked after i restarted my computer. The buy gems interface was upgraded, changed, updated etc. seems to work differently. Let’s see if it works over time. I’ve noticed that restarting my mac will help the normal TP tabs to work for perhaps the first three times I run gw2, but if i close gw2 and open again more, TP will fail to work again. there’s still issues with cookies or cache or whatever as the computer keeps running the program. But the restart DIDNT work for buying gems, until just now. Let’s hope it holds up

I think I’d prefer to smear blood on my armor !

No luck here as usual. The buy gem feature hasn’t worked for me for the past four months likely. It works around like 10% of the time if I’m lucky. It’s at that time I can buy it. But right now after the wintersday patch, it hasn’t worked once yet

Ok I didn’t even have to watch my health today,…. it’s quite diff …. so invincible… LOL i didnt even use the heal…. scary though, cuz i feel like a worse player cuz its so automatic > <

Didn’t you know? All mesmers are naked. We all use illusionary clothes.

lol I love Kasmeer x Marjory so much. They redeem the LS from Scarlet xD they’re so funny

OMG YES that was SO epic!!! I took so many screenshots of the cutscene, and EACH piece was like artwork! it’s so gorgeous! and i like how well animated / fully animated it is. As well, Kasmeer x Marjory seriously has to win character of the year award LOL. Kasmeer’s illusionary naked dress… They are seriously hilarious. Love them so much. Please we need more of them haha

This is really interesting. I have similar traits already i can easily switch to this. I’ve been interested in trying something similar before !

Just cuz things are the same traits doesn’t mean its the same build…. some people are just here to troll, ignore them

tp has always been messed up for me, and it works around 50% of the time. but Buy Gems indeed almost never works for me. it’s like a rare 10% chance i might be lucky and have it work…. this is a major problem thats preventing us from getting certain things done. even when i have to tp, i have to get a friend or someone to act as my tp and send them gold and have them buy me stuff… that’s just ridiculous, its not always that i can have someone help

lol I paint digitally at 500 dpi bc of the flexibility and range of detail and control you can have or use a bigger brush :P I don’t do anything smaller that gets all pixels when I zoom in for details. this is from a graphic design background as well for print and just rescale smaller when needed

I hope to get in a piece for this :O should have enough time

I have whisperblade and anomaly haha It looks so darn good together! glowing energy ball. I would do whisperblade/anomaly whisperblade/whisperblade if I had another whisperblade XD

But right now I have gold black color scheme and Ebon Vanguard weapons. I love EV skins, they’re so sleek and cool, and LEGIT xD realistic with no effects :P

Btw, i don’t really understand the whole Lord Taere’s Shadow fondness. No offense and don’t bash me :< But I personally find it cheesy looking… like the solid hot pink/purple… like a toy no? Also the model is the fellblade but its like a big scimitar slashing sword of sword, which isn’t as mesmeresque as I’d like. Only the effect is kinda nice…. Why do people like it?

Hellooo , so I’m reviewing my choices of utility skills these past two days and I realize that my common selections are very limited, there are only very few i am comfortable with and use often. But the other ones, I haven’t used extensively to know their effectiveness. I play PvX, and kinda exhausted game content i’ve wanted to in the game. just killing things/doing things for fun now XD

I basically have one slot right now that is really free to experiment with, like I feel there isn’t too much that I absolutely need in that slot specifically. I have a WvW condi build and did shatter before but mainly just run a phantasm ish build nowadays, kind of want to boost my damage or condi removal and be versatile, I am not really concerned with survivability or lots of utility because I am well versed in mesmer survival and if I run my WvW/PvX build it has plenty enough. But discussion isn’t limited to any specific situations or usage, i just want to see the vibe of what people feel about certain skills

I have a few questions on your personal opinion:

- Do you use it and if so, how often? What is your build?
- How do you use it? For what situation / purpose do you use it the most?
- How effective/consistent is its effect/boost in your build/situations overall as opposed to when you don’t slot it in?

Specific Skills I’m wondering about (feel free to suggest others):

- Mantra of Pain (free damage, 1 sec cd, 1200 range, it sounds kinda extra fun)
- Mirror Images (used this alot while levelling without DE, used it for a time while doing shatter, but now im rethinking if i should or how i would incorporate it, clone death? etc)
- iDisenchanter (heard from a lot of players that it’s good, haven’t tried it enough, worried it’s inconsistent with terrain, varying amounts of players and death of targets)
- Arcane Thievery (ran it for a bit in WvW, but I didn’t enjoy the CD)
- Signet of Domination (stun, but condi damage on power build? though there’s bleeds)

- Which (generalizing), might be the biggest overall versatile increase to performance of a phantasm? shatter? condi?

Thoughts on those? Answer what you want!

It’s basically just PvE content with ranged attacks lol so sword/focus for sure, then other set is up to you probably just gs for zerker aoe and cc, knock back to cluster them, i don’t find survivability being an issue no matter what kind of build really

Do whisperblades! they’re pretty, super mesmeresque and shiny/glowy like lightsabers and doesn’t take as much work as ur bolts… i’d prefer a glowing misty effect rather than lightning… and also the model of the actual sword doesn’t matter imo and you can’t really see it… cuz of the glow, they’re like lightsabers

I had a lovely time levelling mesmer. Out of all the classes i tried nothing else clicked for me better. These are all comments we will see thread to thread, plenty threads talks about these issues. It is harder levelling a mesmer, but for me, it was amazingly OP. I was capable of solo-ing content that is much higher level or tougher, including pulling many mobs at once etc. It’s about play style and weapon sets when you’re at low level. You don’t quite rely on clones but your own survivability = damage over time.

I had sword/focus and staff.
- Sword blurred frenzy evade,
- skill 3 aoe immob will keep them off of you if you run or keep them there for damage
- focus temporal pull to or pull them away from you, esp good against a wall or corner
- warden projectile defense and mass aoe dps,
- staff clones will stack tremendous condition damage on low level mobs if u place them well and let yourself have the aggro and just run around,
- phase retreat is spammable stun break and distance maker,
- chaos storm aegis and other boons on top of you and your clones (keeps ur clones alive as well).

The s/f staff set is what i will recommend for levelling. It has alot of damage, AND aoe damage for swarms, both straight forward power damage and staff clones stacking condition for DoT while you have to keep urself alive and can’t be concentrating on damage but also almost every skill can be used defensively. I love to take the aggro at low level, you dont have enough natural clone generation to let them die too fast, so i tag mobs, place phantasms and clones and run around dodging and whatnot, clones can’t dodge, you can, so keep the aggro on you.

Also i had mirror images for clone generation , decoy and blink for stun break and saving yourself. More about AoE, sometimes it is still lacking indeed, sword blurred frenzy, immob, cleaves, your warden will finish off a full chain before it dies if ur target dies, ur aoe chaos storm will tick and CC mobs, staff clones will bounce autoattacks and stack conditions on basically everything you have clustered together. However, sometimes AoE still lacks, so what i do is i tab targets and assign a staff clone on each that needs killing. Sometimes i have two staff clones on one guy, and a phantasm on another. They both will die almost together honestly. The staff clone conditions are just great. I think i had power and condition traits

those combinations right there is more than enough for survivability, especially at the hands of a skilled player who can time everything well.

I managed swarms of 5+ with those sets and solo’d simple champs of 5 level higher as well

While levelling at low level, its not about traits or gear, its about the skills and utility… and well yep it takes some work, but if you’re naturally adept at finger spamming, it’ll feel natural and rhythmic. almost relaxing once u have ur combos and chains and stuff XP

I’ll let other people comment, but you can’t have two on swap sigils on the same weapon set. Only one will proc. You have battle and endurance on your sword/sword, you’ll need to revise that detail

Unfortunately, basically all steps done to try to resolve the Mac client TP issue DOESN’T work all the time. I’ve been managing and ending wineserver, compiler and cookied processes for the past three weeks now. I’ve restarted the client over and over and of course all other troubleshooting steps have been done, however, these do not guarantee the fix of issues. TP still loads forever and cannot do day to day functions around 50% of the time.

This is a known issue that must be fixed on the development end, because solutions don’t work consistently, nor for everyone. There is an issue with the browser design of the TP and how it loads into the game or something. I’ve had this problem persist 50% of the time for over two-three months now and have been bearing with it. But we do need this fixed.

When i do play with zerg groups, i feel pretty good to be a veilbot. A good veil with the group coming from a good position/direction will change the entire fight in an instant. sometimes i drop a veil without being told to when theres another mesmer to back up and i can read the battle field well enough, and boom, they are caught so offguard. I’m proud to be a veilbot if i dont do other things. But i do other things so that’s cool too!

Veil, Feedback, Blink
Veil, Null Field, Blink

Mimic is interesting, good that someone mentioned it. but it’s solo use, it will really make you plow through anything, i’ve gone solo into a zerg of like 20-30 and ran out the other side like that lmao but i mean it only benefits you, so if you’re necessary, you might need the other stuff. I can imagine if you’re the driver/commander of a zerg group you might need to be the one that just plows through so the zerg can follow you with their skills and stuff, but if you’re helping the group probably not mimic

Portal only if the commander needs it

Agreed with always blink, lots of CC getting thrown around, lots of movement, you need to keep up, gain distance and also get out when necessary

omg, well yes our condi removal is a little strained, it takes some sacrifice or specific decisions to get. But those comments about viable builds and not being able to kill other players… where are you getting that from??? We are one of the most feared and annoying classes people hate to face! Most good builds will take down players in their own pace. You can build to outlast 1vX fights, you can build to burst down people.
mesmers are extremely versatile… Conditions don’t even GET on you that often, with the amount of mobility/active defense and so on we have, if you play it right. in tpvp yes its a little trickier but i’m sure you can learn to play the class well in whatever situation you’re in

i use centaur runes for my power phantasm build, (no focus), love themmm, I rather have full perma 33% swiftness and spammable mirror heals

haven’t seen an issue myself. I used GS for the Fractal story bosses

How bout this?

lol jks aside, Face of Prestige looks good. Or something with the eye

Off topic: ^ What happens if we weren’t successfully extracted, are we transformed into ghosts ourselves and forever forced to stay in there? or does what happen remain in the fractal only, meaning no real significant damage? Would the Foefire being in the fractal slice of time not affect beings from another realm (us) ? Would Dessa still be able to extract ghosts, if we became ghosts? lol!

other than the offensive purposes, it is defensive both in PvE (keeps mobs distracted most of the time) and WvW/PvP (denies easy targeting esp when you stealth and creates stress/pressure). When you get your dodge clones – this includes having all ur clones applying bleeds (which is pretty nice damage) and other traits, they become quite fun and helpful, gives you breathers when you need it, while also doing all the offensive things.

It’s not for straight damage, but straight off the bat, at low level:
- Staff Clones will stack conditions and buff and ramp up massive damage after a few seconds actually
- Sword clones remove boons and stack vulnerability (which increases ur direct damage). cuz they stack on enemies they apply alot of melee pressure/stress for players and also holds aggro pretty well on pve

^ those are pretty good already without traits. with traits, they do bleeds, confusion, cripple, etc etc

I use mirror heal as well with centaur runes. It’s great. I actually would be more careful and calculating with heals but i find that I don’t even need to. I would go swiftness just before a fight no prob. I SPAM the heal like crazy. It’s like a massive regen. At 15 seconds like… with so much mesmer utility like blurred frenzies, aegis, stealth, so on, those 15 seconds are practically invulnerable anyway. I take some damage, I heal. LOL. I’m almost constantly at full health, all the time, no matter what i’m fighting, unless I’m taking on 3+ enemies or a lot of condi, but if u focus on condi removal it won’t be a problem either

Let’s just focus on the bug first, get the thing to actually attack and not bug out lol then see if it works. It works imo, it doesn’t affect the original playstyle at all i believe. when it’s not doing anything, it doesnt matter whether it moves or not. And any hardhitting aoe will kill it anyway after/during the first melee chain after spawn, so running after its enemy doesn’t make it any more useless/vulnerable imo

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They should have kept it stationary. I hide in my iwarden for reflects first, damage second.

Well, if it worked, I could see myself summonning a warden to ranged enemies and forgettign about them while I get rid of the close combat ones.

With stationary warden this does not work. As soon as I make a blink or a dodge to avoid a close combat attack I get out of its protection.

Well I’m thinking more along the lines of Dredge Fractal where you aggro 10-15 Dredge then stack and use reflects. I want the phantasm near or on the party for reflects, not running away if it’s target moves away.

As well, it’s target likely won’t move away when ur stacking….. I don’t see any issue with the warden moving at all. You can still summon it where u want and stay in there stacked for reflects, when you are moving/dodging and using it for aoe damage, itll be good to stick with the mobs. When fighting aoe bosses or something, melee phantasms will get killed anyway after its first chain, so that doesn’t make a difference either. If you’re having any issues, i’m pretty sure a quick adjustment of ur play tactics is fine. Like, stack before you summon the phantasm right on top of you, then stay there, or other ways to get it right

I’ve experienced the bug a few times as well. No damage numbers was recorded, it moved for a sec then stopped. This was like almost 40% of the time. I was solo-ing fractal story just for fun, so there was plenty of fighting going around.