Guild Wars 2

Karl McLain.5604:

Illusionary Berserker has not received a direct damage decrease. Instead, is seems that the damage reduction you (and I) are seeing is most likely associated this fix:
“Fixed a bug that caused many piercing, boomerang, and bouncing projectiles (those that hit more than 1 target) to continually increase in damage the more targets they hit.”
We are aware that this particular phantasm is now experiencing a significant drop in damage and are looking at getting it back to a more effective state.
Thanks for keeping the post civil and constructive!
-Karl

Well if izerker is working correctly, it would probably be easier to buff spatial surge, and maybe buff izerkers initial impact a touch as well. Id take the first before the latter if i had a choice. Not sure how other GS users feel, input? I think a spatial surge buff would be more pve oriented than pvp, which would maybe settle a lot of whiners =)

Iruwen.3164:

Yes, unfortunately it does. Good luck trying to create an illusion on an invulnerable boss trying to increase your ether fest healing.

Yes, they have taken the entire idea behind the mesmer class, and made it impossible to use. You would think they could fix the LOS zerker issue, fine, but to make it so its hard to summon your primary source of DPS, Healing, well everything….sigh

Fix the Phantasmal Berzerker!!! Why why why, my dps was just ok before, and now its just awful because my zerker spins around and nothing gets hit, or i get one tick for 500?? My only reliable damage skill now is Mind Wrack, thanks. We have 1 ability that causes a useful amount of damage now. Mesmers went from being very slightly OP if at all, to complete pushovers.

My shatters seem fine, but the zerker just not hitting sometimes and only doing lik 500 damage because it misses its other swings or is bugged out sucks. I dont think there was an intentional nerf to zerker, i think they broke it trying to fix their LOS bug. All sorts of classes have solid ae they can spam on walls and zerker was our only solid move for getting people on walls back so they cant ae your zerg. Ive had them thrown at me while LOS plenty of times, it takes about a half second to kill them. This game appears to be turning into another wow, where the devs just nerf anything people cry about, until the game is dumbed down playable by 5 year olds.

Or drop 5 points from Domination and get Deceptive Evasion. Ive always felt the more clones and phantasms i can drop the more confusing I am, and they are good shadder fodder for bursts.

You wont want bleeds from phantasm crits with a GS as your primary. Ive never seen a zerker crit. I would honestly say drop all your points from dueling, put 10 more in Domination for 50 power with GS and 5 more in insp maybe? Idk do whatever with the last 5, maybe even 5 in chaos for rejuv at 75%.

The berzerker dies in about .5 seconds if you target it. If you are getting killed by something on a 16 second cooldown that hits for 5k total if you get all 3 ticks, you should really be asking for a buff.

30/20/0/0/20 or sometimes i go 20/0/0/30/20. I like both specs quite a bit, but the first is way more bursty, and the second is more tanky. For my additional spells i use decoy, mirror images, and blink. Special is Moa in sPvP, Mass Invis in WvW or Time Warp which i use on seiges and golems.

Important skills for me are deceptive evasion, 20% crit and 10% damage on mind wrack, and crippling dissipation. Sometimes i swap the others around but those are pretty much always static

GS/Staff is what i use in pvp and its pretty rowdy. I use the staff when i need to be defensive. I assume if you wanted to primarily use the staff you would want some sort of condition based build, if you primarily want to use the GS you want to go clone/shatter

As a GS mesmer with full exos i notice my DPS is typically on par or better than most other people in my groups. My only determining factor though is when we have to split up to kill mobs like COF. My mob is usually down first or right around the same time as the other fastest person. Ive never been last or slow there so I assume there is no issue. Best thing i can tell you about being a GS mes, dont go condition specced, and stack the crap out of power and +crit. Also go clone heavy/shatter as phantasms just dont stay alive long enough on 99% of pulls to be worth traiting.

Also ive seen plenty of bleed mesmer vids, they dont do anywhere near the damage i do. I am the same as you, i swap to a staff when i need to get defensive, but im not going to spec condition or traits for staff damage when i use it to drop some armor, blink out, and try to regen or run away (decoy) Once im healthy again its right back to GS

Ive seen 4k crits on occasion. If you have issues with survivability get some power/toughness or power/vit gear. Right now i have 4 pieces that are power/toughness/vitality, and the rest is a mix of power/precision/crit and power/vit/crit. Im at work but my stats are about 22k health, 20% crit, 2400 power, 60ish% crit bonus from memory. Either way, if you want to DPS GS, condition damage does nothing for you, you want power.

Full zerker with runes of scholar stacked is your highest DPS output with GS, and i would use scepter/pistol as my alternate for PVE which also benefits from full zerker/scholar runes

I stack power for GS. I see a lot of 2k-3k hits from GS1, Zerker, and GS3. My wrack is around 1200-1400 non crit and crits for 3k. I have 4 pieces of exotic karma gear from various vendors for toughness and the rest is all power/vit/crit damage with a couple having precision rather than vit to get my base crit to 20%.

This is for WvW though, if i was in PVE i wouldnt even bother with toughness, and just go all power/precision/crit multi

Yeah Mayoken, i follow you whenever i see you on! Nice work out there

You are completely full of it. Im a GS/Staff build with full exotic Berzerker gear and have played TPVP plenty. I feel like most fights are pretty fair and balanced. The only i win we have is MOA, which i feel maybe could be nerfed to a 5-6s instead of 10s. Otherwise i dont feel greatly OP vs anyone, especially not when i was fighting some engi and no matter how much dps i did his health bar was barely moving, or the thief who vanished when i had him at 20%, came back about a minute later and killed me within 3 seconds. Im not complaining, im sure i could stack toughness and duke it out longer, but then my DPS would suffer more. My mind wrack crit% is 45% and it does crit for 2k, but i feel like it still doesnt crit that often, usually all 3 pops are 1k hits. My zerker which is my only other spell that does any real dps has a pretty long CD, and any smart player who knows to smack my clones and phantasms a couple times leaves me completely defenseless. Either you are playing against terrible players, or this thread is complete trollbait.

GS Power Precision build and dominate. My DPS is fine, in fact ive been in a lot of groups that wonder why the mobs are dropping so fast…and i once was in a double mesmer PVE group where we both ran GS and it was easily the best run ive had to date.

I use GS/Staff as my weapons. The GS has a lot of movement inhibiting traits, might, and boon removal that seems to work really well for me. I use a staff in my offset which i switch to when im traveling so a thief doesnt jump me and kill me before i can react, and so i can drop the chaos storm in all of the situations where its helpful, which are quite a few. Its too bad i would prefer the scepter/pistol|GS as my weapons but i feel defenseless