Guild Wars 2

Even though distort is powerfull it relies purely on player experience to use it properly. Most chronos in pugs usually dont focus on distorting mechanics either cant or dont wanna bother. Its a nice trick if u wanna take it up a lvl on your chrono performance.

I dont particularly care about bunker specs, all that’s kittening me off are the passive triggered defenses. No class should get a free bail-out card just because they dropped to “insert number” health percent. For a lot of classes the defenses are up for so long that it’s a battle of patience to make enemy use skills and then kill. Negates all chance of counter play.

:( On a lot of T4 fractals standing there casting hundred blades is like asking to get downed. Not to mention social awkwardness is your biggest enemy….

Unfortunately atm power ps doesnt hold a candle to the condi variant.

Ashantara.8731:

UPDATED QUESTION:

People wrote that the Mesmer is not suited for good damage, hence is better put into a support role (with boons etc.).

Now, about a year ago, someone sent me this damage build for a Mesmer:
http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?vhAQRAsc8encfCFoh9fCmfCEgiFVjCtLSjsrOZn2qlMAGhiD-TBSBABmpE8hTCwVK/KU/goq/gnGi/3fAgnAQAgDg1j6BgUA5J0C-e
… and now I am wondering why you said that Mesmers aren’t capable damage dealers. What am I missing here?

Again, thanks in advance for any helpful reply.

What you are missing here is the boon duration. This build provides optimal dmg for mesmer but boonshare without boon duration is useless. Oh and chronomancer runes are useless atm cause of SoI nerf.

rabidsmiles.5926:

Malice.8439:

I’m already doing Sw/Focus + -/Shield, for that very reason.

I hadn’t considered that too much Commanders gear would lock me into a tanking role. That’s a very good point.

It would appear that I can’t escape having to farm Silverwastes for a few days to afford that Superior Sigil, then.

The sigil is pretty much the linchpin to the basic boon duration build. If I could ditch it, it would be a happy day but giving up 33% boon duration for a weapon swap hurts.

I know the Leadership runes woes, I never willingly go into DS anymore because I cannot stand that map; my guildmates even pointed out that it seemed like I lived there. It’s not easy just tossing away 30% boon duration because I didn’t want to farm DS or WvW. I figured that if I was going to commit fully to making a boon duration Chrono, I better just do it right. Why spend so much gold if I wasn’t going to go 100% into it?

The 4 Traveler’s runes and 2 water will work, if you aren’t planning on raiding much (or plan to always tank), the Durability Runes or the Herald Runes are a good substitute as well. I’d still suggest when you see a new map open for DS, just do one daily and eventually you can replace out the runes for the Leadership ones.

This sums it up pretty nice. Mesmer builds tend to be expensive so its always better to go all out and get optimal gear. The performance return for farming DS is huge.

Frozen maw i think

Would be refreshing…unfortunately Anet would need to make sure that it runs on every single pc of the respectable customers. Otherwise it would make the game inaccessible to a lot of people. Only way to do that could possibly be with next expansion by announcing new requirements half a year before release.

Atm balance between dps classes is kinda nice so indeed u can play w/e u prefer. It used to be tempest or nothing but now the options are open.

The real cry will come when light, med armors are released. We’ve seen heavy and it is…ok. Personally i got the li n stuff but i dont find it good enough to grind the gold and mats. If light and med are the same no1 is gonna care anymore.If they look good this forum is gonna get super toxic by the casuals. Im already stocking on popcorn for that time

You came back after 3 years and everything changed?? Anet dared to change stuff?
How did that happen, i mean its only 3 years…..

IQ going through the roof.

Same here, i soloed the fight 9-10 times when lvling each character….nothing hard about it…. I guess OP should step up the gameplay and stop qqing.

Now that u quit can i have stuffs?

Hmm i do t4+100 cm pretty much every day and i drop a fractal spoon 3-4 times a week. I don’t know if it’s luck or something…..

On a sidenote using the no concetration method can take away much of the chronomancers utility especially with the chaos build. Use the domination traitline and try to get used to using passive SoI + utility SoI to distort heavy dmg mechanics….soon enough u will be carrying like a bauss. The teapot build is consistent in boon uptime but unfortunately very passive and very easy to lose the rotation if u have to shutter/weapon swap/disengage from the fight to rez etc. Moa also becomes a liability since the cd without domination is 180 sec!

Joins group with lfg “farm40 all welcome”-> each run takes 5+min-> group disbands after 3 runs cause its a joke->still complain about lfg requirements.

Not mention some people throw a tantrum when asked for potions and food/utilities.

A perfect example of “easy mode” raiding are the 3 bosses of wing 4. These bosses are basically a clown fiesta in terms of difficulty, that’s right u can play like a clown and still clear them. And yet i’ve seen so many groups wiping over and over and over, especially on samarog’s slow motion attacks where u have 3-4 secs to see the attack coming.

It just shows that making easy mode won’t solve anything cause the majority of the playerbase will never adjust, never get better and remain stagnant and outdaited even after 3 years of GW2.
Changing the raids (which are atm wonderfully balanced and amazing) to something dumb and braindead would open up the game mode to people that arent really interested in it and drive away those who actually are.
Let’s be real here, most people who are interested in raids are raiding already instead of qqing on the forums.

Tbh the reason i stopped joining necro groups is because i almost forgot how to play the game on a decent level…… It literally reflected when i joined a group today as a chrono. 3 necros running around like chicken pewpewing and complaining about alacrity and quickness while no1 stacked on wells.
We finished 100cm but it felt like the first time i run dungeons….messy and lucklaster.

There are games out there that have 2-3 times harder content than GW2 raids. On those forums usually people ask how to progress in the content. Strategies, advice, tips……
Here people asked for things to be catered to them. It’s embarassing really….

It’s funny how everyone says that a very small percentage of the playerbase raids. Just one look at the lfg and you will find that raids are the most popular thing after fractals and i’m not even talking about weekends. Rest is usually map metas, hot/sw/dt etc.

Not to mention the guild runs that dont appear on lfg….

Bottomline is this. META compositions are used for efficiency to make the boss die as fast as possible. Really experienced groups can go with compositions far from the meta and still clear everything.

So the question is this. Are u referring to a static group? Is each and everyone an experienced raider? Then u can do w/e you want.

Are u referring to average pug groups? Then u are probably wasting your time.

mtpelion.4562:

Chris McSwag.4683:

Oldirtbeard.9834:

OnizukaBR.8537:

Remember how immersive is the Zaithan fight on the story mode? No? So yeah thats how immersive an easy boss is.

Then don’t play the Easy Mode boss, play your normal mode Raid.

Thats the point. An easy mode boss has none of the immersion “story-mode”-advocates ask for, hence it is a waste of time to develop it.

That isn’t the point. The story people want to see/hear what happens AFTER THE BOSS IS DEAD. The fight itself isn’t relevant to the story, other than any potential dialogue that may happen during the fight.

Which means people can just join a cleared instance or watch a yt vid just the same if they want the story.

When i run with pugs certain things are expected of me, build, rotations, tactics etc.
When i run with guild we do w/e the kitten we wanna do even if its not “meta”.
It is as simple as that and there is no reason to complain, just figure out what works for you and go with it.

Hi, i want new easy raid mode so i can play it once and then forget it even exists. Also Mursatt is too hard even for a dps golem.

About that cc i have to agree competely. Was doing cm100 an hour ago and cc was lacking…..i asked the tempest to switch staff for d/wh so we can get more flexible cc and they started complaining about staff being better and OP frost bow. Kitten stay there channeling frostbow 5 and hope u dont die…..

Im particularly kittened at the majority of tempests right now cause “its staff or nothing”. Most of them never even touched d/wh, d/sc yet they “main” ele…….

apharma.3741:

zoomborg.9462:

That’s forcing, not encouraging you kitten. Besides, any exp raider can foretell how disastrous it would be. Think b4 you talk.

If you get any random Joe then yes it will be a disaster, get people who play those classes most of the time and it’ll be perfectly fine.

If 10 people cannot pump out over 50k DPS between them something is going hilariously wrong and it isn’t the fault of the classes.

Let me spell it out for you cause u dont kitten get the point. It’s worse than the “pidgeonhole” meta we have atm. That’s how bad it is. I don’t care if people could pull qt numbers on each profession…its just bad and 100% forced. At least now a few classes change depending on the encounter.

We all have done things we rather avoid a few times in this game, weather its for a title, a leg, gold, karma, asc trinkets, achievement points…. you name it.These things take way more time than escort so stop being a special snowflake and go do them….geeez

If reaper can make a comeback it will be with the condition gs/dhumfire/sc/dagger rotation that was uploaded recently. Power reaper aint gonna be picked now or in the future unless something big happens.
Also better get sword/torch/scepter for the guard. As it is protection is very secondary as buff as groups get better with avoiding direct dmg. Pulse dmg during some raid bosses cannon be reduced through protection and one shot mechanics will still one shot anyway.

That’s forcing, not encouraging you kitten. Besides, any exp raider can foretell how disastrous it would be. Think b4 you talk.

Not to mention playing with random gear in instanced group content never yielded any results in any game whatsoever. You either play for the team or you are dragging the team down.

Apparently u can be pleased. Half the groups consist of druids/condi rangers and thief is back on the menu bois.

I did the same as someone said above, dagger/warhorn FA with air, tempest and earth instead of fire, the healing signet along with protection from auras and dmg reduction was so much mitigation that it was easy, just dont use staff in that fight, the long animations can get you killed.

I’ve been getting horrible lag spikes in raids particularly since the patch, is it a general issue or should i be checking my connection?

Blocks, dogges, invuln, blinds etc, etc, etc. The pitifull cc bar was the last nail in the coffin tbh for other stats besides zerk. The whole bloody game screams zerk gear.

Honestly not much use talking about it + what somebody said above. Trading dmg for tankyness doesnt actually pay off since the boss just survives for longer times thus does much more dmg. Not to mention that in some dungeons there are a few dps races where u can wipe easily if u prolong the fight.

Better to wipe a few times until you learn the encounters properly than being tanky, it’s not needed at all the way this game is shaped.

Pffff, kitten happens…unfortunately this should have been announced hours ago. Some people stayed up all night w8ting for the patch, others planned their schedule so they can free up time to play….

Not to mention helselth was the number 1 pvp streamer on twitch as far as numbers go. This was a big blow to the games popularity, not to mention the snowball it might cause….

I can’t blame helselth though, not much point playing competitive in a game with non-existent competitive scene.

I do open world for the nature sounds, the scenery and the cows on diessa plateau.Especially the cows

My friendlist is full of unknown people. Ty multiloot. Also ty Thanatos for a lot of nice ml squads. Back to farm 40! See you there.

u can solo all the hp bosses as long as u have NICE cc, put the chrono tree on, illu, insp with greatsword, sword+shield and for utilities wells +blink that’s all. Shield is amazing. Full zerk yadi yada you know the drill.
U can literally solo everything except maybe mushroom queen.

In a nutshell chrono will forever stay chrono in PvE no matter what. Even if new elite specialization comes anet would need to nerf chrono tree to the ground b4 a new traitline is viable. That’s how strong it is, even after multiple nerfs. Unless ofc the incoming powercreep is outrageous.

If u want to stay with howler at all costs, u might be limited in “meta builds” for raids…Necro isnt used at all atm, even “average” groups have dropped them from my experience. Warhorn on ps is good for dungeons but that’s it.

The other option is FA tempest, which is really good in some fights…still most tempest in raids use staff depending on the boss….overall ur gonna hit a wall if u wanna stick to howler at all costs.

I would post a pic of my charr mesmer but cant login atm. Looks more like anakin skywalker when he embraced the dark side. Pretty kitten looks.

For those that want it there are always things to do in GW2 provided u got time. Let’s say u did dailies/fractals etc. I usually clear raids monday-tuesday, the other days its either wvw/pvp and dungeon/world boss tours. Pretty fun if you are doing it with company. Another thing i found is that if u don’t mix it up between game modes it’s really easy to get bored/burned out like in pretty much every MMO.

It doesnt make much sense. Dps is not good without berserker specialization, mightstacking is non existent, there is pretty much no cc….no reason for pack runes if u are running sword/warhorn.

I realize u might be having fun with this build but in terms of performance it’s really poor to put it mildly.

You can no-updraft gors without cc delay while running 2 minstrel chronos. Thats how much impact chrono dps has. In the end quickness and alacrity uptime is your only concern, apart from the situational distortion.

Winrate with kitten music is 90%.

Every minute in GW2 some poor soul quits the game. Together we can change that.

I’ve been raiding for a year and haven’t seen any toxicity in pugs. Either i’m lucky or blind.
Only one person was toxic and half the raid community has him blocked. Most of you can probably guess.

Mind you mid tactic requires optimal dps otherwise it can turn into a clusterkitten. I just do wall when with pugs just to be safe.

but but but you are one of them……

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