Guild Wars 2

Cyninja.2954:

zealex.9410:

Phantasms are not its only feature. And neither these niche sutuations present feedback as a non supportive item. Most of the utility skills are utility / support skills with like a tiny amount of exceptions. The phantasms might not be all that supporty (even tho warden is really good safe zone from projectiles) but usually the other skills on the bar provide a form of cc or buffing. To say its not a support because the phantasms are there to deal dmg (which makes sense because mesmer dps is 40/60 personal and phantams and withoutit it would be just trash) is just bad logic.

Actually i’ts bad logic to argue from todays perspective about how mesmers supposedly were designed.

Most of those support skills you mention did not exist during vanilla and the skills were changed in such a way as to allow mesmer to perform a support role simply because making it a viable damage dealer was to much work.

Here’s a hint though since you are either a new mesmer, a no-mesmer being a smartkitten or just out to argue: there is a few mesmers who over the years have shown to be quite knowledgable about the class. One of them has a name that is 3 letters long and answered shortly in this thread. Never a good idea to pick an argument there unless you are very very well informed about the class (hint: which you are not).

I dont believe i argued with that person. He/she stated his/her opinion to which i agreed on a lvl.

well the first fracatl was a test tho you can say it was doff and its understandable if the devs dodnt wonna take great pride on it in case it flopped.

Idk ppl arent so uhmm how should i say this. Ehh ppl arent expecting a good weapon somce the last ones we got werent all that great. And anet beimg anet would ofc upload a zhot that barelly shows anything and has low res.

every other mainhand has one form of defence. This weapon could lack that and as trade off get more dmg.

I never said im not willing to w8 a week. It just baffles me that such an overwhelmingly positive adition such as cm’s isnt mentioned by the devs where it should be just as big of an anouncement as a new fractal coming out otself.

Tbh you know a leggie is not well recieved when a huge number of plyers treat it as a joke (torch and medium legendary armor being examples)

yeah and ofc to make that stand perfectly clear distort doesnt work on deimos’ aoe. “they dont think” goes a long way from being the case. They are ppl they dont make perfect execution and i dont expect them to know the game at such lvl that years long players do.

“its a 2 hander and they can do what ever they want”. And why exactly doesnt this apply to mainhands as well? Its their game they ca do w/e they want.

Phantasms are not its only feature. And neither these niche sutuations present feedback as a non supportive item. Most of the utility skills are utility / support skills with like a tiny amount of exceptions. The phantasms might not be all that supporty (even tho warden is really good safe zone from projectiles) but usually the other skills on the bar provide a form of cc or buffing. To say its not a support because the phantasms are there to deal dmg (which makes sense because mesmer dps is 40/60 personal and phantams and withoutit it would be just trash) is just bad logic.

prob :/

EDIT: still there he just renaimed it.

i think 69 is fiiine : ))))))))

maybe because they cant make a good endboss fight

Idk if its op or not. But its not fun to play against and i though the game was about all of us having fun.

Iv noticed it more and more with every time a dev talks and now again with a molten duo solo comment on reddit. The devs avoid to speak about a cm in the new fractal.

Should we take this as confirmation that the new fractal wont have 1? Coz if so what a god kitten disapointment. (if yes tho thank you very much good sir’s (but i dought it))

The new elite will anyways open up alot of new playstyles and builds. Thing is im scared thy will make axe a sword 2.0 but just better in any way.

“they are ok” aka they introduce mechanics that give no kittens for distort.

you cant equip elite soec weapons outside of elite soecs sadly

i mean im not saying something diff

Like its design is far better than some memes we got with the last updates. And if lw leggies had one good thing about them i would say its the attention to detail.

And well, the effect and here i wonna add my only complain. The weapon’s effects from what we’ve seen (footfalls, hand) are barely noticable and i dont think thats fitting for an orrian leggie. Let alone the final leggie of the season.

LUL like the world takes place in the living world anymore. Its just you some npcs and the map. Rest of the world is pretty disconnected from the current season.

prob a diff angle on the map and yeah the tower is most likely a new jp

https://mobile.twitter.com/GuildWars2/status/887704541214392320

Any chnace the amas could be moved ti a day after the release? Im asking because instead of being in the game playing and seing the new stuff i have ti get to reddit to talk with the devs.

Wouldnt it be more beneficial if we had some time to play through the update and then discuss it in the ama?

its because they care that they removed it lol

could that prob be phantasms in the area? That have the orrian weapons

This is more to ask of an update in the subject. The devs said they wanted to make this happen but certain complications with the current economy arived and they said they are looking deeper into it.

So i was wondering is there any update with that or its dead in the water? Because it feels wierd to not have this ability on legendary weapons and have it on the armor. Possibility of it coming with this update?

It was intented t make guild harder for 1 man and smaller guilds will ofc have it harder since the buildings cost. And why not its a nature of a guild the bigger the stronger. if you so decide to keep it small feel free but it will be harder.

Mesmer has always been the support. Its core class is build around utility and support.

Pre order Fast

+6 me and my chars aprove of this.

The trailer wasnt hype as like ep3 trailer but it sure wasnt trash either tbh. Im curioud what will happen with ep1 se4 ep will they use like 40 sec of all the episodes on se3?

@Gaile Gray Any available article that has more info on the release as well as picture of the maps and the legendary maybe?

Guy?? ;^;

the aa effect is the reaper’s

because groups are full of them

I can see how mesmer feel bad to play against the clones create so much clatter its not even fun to watch.

OriOri.8724:

CptAurellian.9537:

The low number of chronos is probably the result of a combination of issues. I hope they use the potential of the next expansion to fix quite a bunch of problems with the class – that would benefit the entire game, since the current state of mesmers hurts far beyond that single class.

True, there is no single problem with the design of the class.

I really dont believe that the class suffers so heavily from many issues. And i believe the biggest reason pll dont play chrono is because its playstyle is a niche and its not as exciting as playing a dps. Ppl love seing lots of numbers on their screen.

I never said that timing distort is ez and everyone can do it be i do say that its too powerfull and it just needs toning down.

New classes are cool but look at rev, anet has proven they are incepable of properly balancing their game.

glad you are enjoying your time ^^

tbh the guild hall arena should have the wvw balance.

Idk calling ppls arguement silly while saying guard rotation os just aa. Meanwhile mes rotation is press all the buttoms ones aa and use blurred frenzy when nececary. Then swap back to shield proc sigil and repeat.

There are many tells to notify you when an attack happens and you can expect when to “skillfully” press signet or sword or shield phantasm. If it was purely reaction based i would give you that bit its not. Its a powerfully skill good players abuse to trivialise the content.

Nobody said make chrono unviable and chrono isnt viable for the distort share. Distort just adds 50 more miles in the 100miles diff chrono already has when every other class that could tank.

Also, stating that mesmer wont get a dps spec in the future is also clueless. Mesmer has an already good dos spec for xertain boses and its bound to get 1 more from elite spec. No i dont believe mesmer should get any buff for nerfing the distort since its just a so broken bonus added on top of a really good class to begin with.

like… asura stuff are practically the same….

cough cough ventari cough cough. Your expectation for the reality also may differ. Unlocking weapons might be so big of an issue since the biggest gain in power comes for the utility skills and the traits.

undertuned mechanics are just as bad

i dont believe its anet’s fault if pll cant read “100cm Tittle food pots x classes”.

The combat was made with pvp in mind. About the rest i dunno prob pve

Illusive Sinner

Cyninja.2954:

Astralporing.1957:

Cyninja.2954:

Having to balance all weapons against each other all the time is far harder and will become more difficult as time and amount of elite specs passes/increase.

They will have to do that anyway. And besides, even unlocked, the weapons will still be strongly tied to their specs, because all the traits that enhance them are in that single traitline. That means that without that spec, the weapons will be weaker, not stronger.

No they don’t.

The new mesmer spec for example does not have to be balanced around chrono shield (as 1 example) because the way the system currently works it is impossible to have both chrono shield and the new elite spec available.

I would LOVE to have Tides of Time and an alacrity providing phantasm in every build I run. That is overpowered though or would require extra balancing.

Not all weapons are that closely tied to the elite spec in that they become trash tier without it, not in the current iteration of the game. Especially when most elite spec weapons get unique toys to entice players to get the expansion/elite spec.

Some weapons of mention that are quite powerful:

- Mesmer chrono shield (maybe one of the most powerful)
- Thief Daredevil staff
- Ranger Druid staff
- necromancer reaper greatsword

and that’s just off the top of my head. The other current elite specialisation weapons are quite powerful too. That’s without considering future elite specialisation weapon releases which I doubt will be less powerful.

But the mesmer shield is not a dps weapon its a utility support one. I highly dought mesmer will see more support elite specs in the future due to the extreme focus on support the class already has so if its either a power weapon a healing weapon or ancondi weapon they can all co exist. The alacrity phantasm would also take a huge hit from the lack of improved alacrity in traits.

Tbh inwouldnt like them to remove any more difficulty from fractals. They already nerfing them with the reworks. If i would chnage something it would be bring the 3fractal island and put them in the “random” fractal option. And allow us to farm it for those who have more time than 40 mims and dislike to afk.