Ombras.2853

Skyscale isn't *needed*. Quality of life means quality of life. I remember doing Dragonfall farms (years ago) without Skyscale just fine, using the other mounts, leaning the timing and positioning, etc. The whole point about quality of life is that, once you have that item/thing/mount, you, then, don't have to care about small stuff. You just play the game and feel that you aren't being ostracized in any possible way.

Did you unlock it? If you do, you immediately understand why.

Do you realize that getting Skyscale is the biggest QoL improvement in the whole game for pve?

Staff/Staff Mirage already has a very high dps for being an alac spec. There's no reason to improve the dps specifically.

Well of Precog is a decent utility skill for Raid encounters like Deimos. When quick Chrono was still a good choice we were often taking it instead of Mantra of Pain to go safer in a bunch of situations.

I already wrote that several times, it takes very little time reading. In short: while cVirtuoso is in a very good position, PVirtuoso (the only competitive Mesmer class which is actually using GS) is in a “meh” shape. Most of the fights where you want to be on power instead of Condi, cVirtuoso is still better than Power. PVirtuoso needed buffs.

Excuse me? Virtuoso and Mirage in pve are in a very good shape, while Chrono is a dead spec.

If you played the class, even remotely, you’d know that while cVirtuoso is in a good position, PVirtuoso is much, much worse in almost every scenario. Hopefully now PVirtuoso will be better than cVirtuoso where condi is supposed to be bad, at least.

They already did. We ended up with Staff3 spawning only one Phantasm.

Something (minor) I would like is for Sword 4 to stun instead of dazing when double tapped. I think it’s a very respectable off-hand weapon, since it has block + decent phantasm, but when you’re not blocking the daze feels very underwhelming.

Yeah, of course this would be a nice solution. Even if it’s annoying in regards of “killing” Staxe Mirage.

Too difficult to understand for the forum 😄 Not really. Condi Untamed does a lot less, that benchmark never ever translates into reality because of several reasons. But around 31k is the maximum damage output a support currently provides. Yes, 36k that gives Alac would be simply broken, since those numbers are currently the highest Dps benchmarks (which is around 37k). I understand people wanting buffs for Mesmer (I, myself, have hopes in the incoming patches, hopefully we’ll get Chrono back in action). But they also have to understand the difference between pve and competitive. If you play competitive but don’t have a clue about pve, don’t feel in the need of commenting something you ignore. Ah, Mirage benchmark is higher btw. Both Axe and Staff. Confusion isn’t shown on the golem.

In that case they should nerf the damage output of other weapons, tho. Cuz Axe Mirage is still a very good Condi dps for several bosses. You can’t realistically imagine that a 40+K Dps will get Alac as well.

Hello. You must be new of this place.

I haven’t done the math after the recent patch, but using Ritualist armor + Viper’s gear and weapons I score something like 1-2k less than full Viper’s on the golem, and you get better boons sharing plus better survivability. While the second matters relatively, the first has been game changing for a spec that had its weak point in providing enough alacrity unless you could do the golem rotation in every possible scenario. Best change recently happened to Mesmers in pve, by far.

I already answered tho: in a rotation, you are able to cast Swordsman twice before swapping weapons, which results in a dps increase. Hence, you want Sword/Focus as your offhand weapons.

Sword/Focus offhand is the most used combination because Sword has the shortest cast time (hence, in a rotation you’ll often cast the Swordsman twice before switching to Focus) and Warden has the most hits, which means it will make trigger Bleeding the most. Phantasmal Fury, well, as I just mentioned, you wanted your Phantasms to crit because every crit triggers bleeding. I dunno why you would ever care about transferring boons in a raid squad, since you already have all boons covered. Raid composition =/= solo play.

Cries in Chrono 😔

+1 for Legendary Accessory, Portable improvements and Primers as rewards.

…seriously, just stop a second and learn what the skills on your character do before coming to complain in a forum.

…do you realize we are talking about off-hand weapons? I guess not.

So, we already confuted that blocks are bad on Mesmer, and we are switching topic. Okay. First, Scepter can be reworked to function better as pve weapon. But at the time being is a very good pvp weapon, I see no reasoning for doing so. And even if, it would be way more practical to just increase the damage in pve instead of reworking it, if we want to make it more viable for “other specs”. Once again, this has nothing to do with the block on Scepter, it’s about the damage coefficient. Second, PvE Virtuoso functions strictly better playing with Sword/Focus as offhand weapons. Going Torch/Pistol makes you lose something like 3-4K dps, which is a lot. Unless you’re talking of only Open World, and in that case I don’t understand why bothering, since you can play almost any build (and Focus pull in open world is still one of the most broken skills overall).

Chaos middle branch could possibly be the most “coin flip” of them all. I hope they’ll eventually just rework it.. But “bad players carry” means nothing. Strong traits makes people win, that’s literally all that it is.

No, thanks. Dagger 3 should be reworked in that sense (I liked the suggestion of double clicking to swap with the tornado). GS3 works, why the heck do we want to change things that work.

Then don’t label a skill “useless” if you didn’t play it. Also, the same thing applies to Sword 4 and its cc, and Sword offhand is a pillar on condi Virtuoso as well.