excelsior.2168

Join ANGL and EXCL Raid trainings on Sundays at 7pm Pacific/9pm Central/10 pm Eastern! We run for about 3 hours. We are open to players new to raids, veterans, and everyone in between! Raid trainings are very chill and we focus on learning the mechanics of the fight. We do the emboldened wing first and then, if time allows, we head to the next wing for a preview at next week's emboldened wing and a chance of double gold! We have three leaders right now, myself, AngelWriter428, and Migmak! We all strive for a chill environment and helping players understand the fights, their class, and overall just have fun! We have one static group right now and are creating a second static group! The second static group will run Sundays 4pm-6pm Pacific Time (6-8 Central/7-9 Eastern) and led by Migmak! Talk to him, or me in discord to get added to the group! We have a discord as well (https://discord.gg/PkFAZfGGPY)! It may seem bare but most channels are locked until you head to the "Roles" channel and click on the games you're interested in. Once you do that, the channels open up! 🙂If you join the discord, ask to get the tag, "GW2 Raider" so you can see the channels and pings. If interested , message me in game at excelsior.2168 or in discord at excelsior1115! Happy gaming, y'all!

Hey y'all! EXCL is a chill PVE focused guild looking for players to join us! We're looking for veterans, returning players new friends...all of y'all! We are all about building community and having fun together! We are also a LGBTQIA2S+ friendly guild! Also, we are a 18+ guild and discord. We are mainly active in North American time zones (Eastern to Pacific) and we do weekly events! Guild Missions Sundays at 8pm Central Raid Trainings with partner guild, [ANGL], Sundays at 9pm Central We are also creating a second static group! Strikes Tuesdays at 9pm Central Fractals with partner guild, [ANGL], Wednesdays at 8pm Central More events to come! We have a discord as well (https://discord.gg/PkFAZfGGPY)! It may seem bare but most channels are locked until you head to the "Roles" channel and click on the games you're interested in. Once you do that, the channels open up! 🙂 The Gilded Hollow is our place to vibe in. Rep is only required during guild events (i.e. guild missions, strikes, raids). If interested , message me in game at excelsior.2168 or in discord at excelsior1115! Happy gaming, y'all!

Yeah I'm very sad about the confusion nerf. Was trying to make a confusion focused condi build for funsies and maybe for strikes and raids but it just can't keep up with the iterations I've tried (mirage and condi chrono). I am le sad Maybe it'll get buffed??? Or they'll scrap all confusion and make it Torment since Anet seems to love Torment over anything else

Yeah just checked when I got home. Still the same issue. Long map queues, no floor or ground where I load in, can't see weapons/icons/parts of my character, it's jittery. This is just getting ridiculous. I'd love to play the new expansion but feel I can't with all these nonsense

Yeah I've noticed logging out and in again helps a little bit. But it's still bad. Like dialog and voice acting don't happen for me. I 'll see the text that they're talking but don't hear anything until halfway through the conversation. But glad to hear it's not just me or my computer. 🙂 Thanks for linking this! I posted there too and gave a link to this post here. Not sure if it's the same thing but they'll know and figure it out 🙂 But the servers being overwhelmed makes sense. I can't remember if I had this issue when EoD came out but it does make sense

Hi Rubi, I'm on NA server and been having issues playing the game too. I created a post because I couldn't find the issue listed but someone on my post sent me here. I'm not sure if it's related but wanted to let you know. Link to my post: https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/topic/136148-long-loading-screen-times-and-textures-not-loading/#comment-1973959 Thank you for your help with this!

For context, I'm in the USA and NA servers. I live alone and the only one on my internet and it's pretty reliable. My laptop is 3 years old and I've quadrupled its memory from 8 to 32GB. Since Saturday before SoTo release, I've been having multiple minute loading screens. And when I do load in, there is no ground, textures, icons for items, character not loading in. I've uninstalled and reinstalled the game multiple times and done cache clears to clean up any junk. I've checked my harddrive and defragmented that as well, it's about half full so I don't think it's a harddrive issue either. My laptop can run Baldur's Gate 3 fine. So it is weird to me that it's now struggling with playing Guild Wars 2. I plan to update the graphics card (again) when I get home. But right now, all I can think of is Anet is doing some backend stuff that is making the game unplayable for me right now. Anyone else having this issue? What have you done to try and fix it?

I want to say I understand the monumental amount of work that @Cal Cohen.2358 and their team are up against with updating this game. There's a lot of backlog and weird to not at all good scaffolding to even work from. In addition to say creating the "holy trinity" of players from a game that said it wanted to move away from that. So, again, I get the work ahead and I know y'all are working on it and it will take time and I'm appreciative of you taking on balancing this game. ❤️ But I do want to point out that with all this focus on Quickness and Alacrity, ANet has forgotten that healers also need access to give group Protection and Regeneration. I'm just gonna talk about the classes I play and I know there are more. Druid used to be able to give protection through Stone Spirit and now can't reliably give it. Mesmer still has no reliable healer build. Chronomancer is the closest but has no group Protection or Regeneration uptime. Maybe with Chaos Storm but it's random. I think Elementalist and Guardian are still good after the patch with Protection and Regeneration uptime. Overall, what I'm saying is, stop looking at the two trees (Quickness and Alacrity) and look at the whole forest. Y'all seem too narrowed in on getting those boons to specs you're not thinking about the whole picture. Step back and look and more importantly, listen to the players. P.S. And figure out Alacrity Mirage...goodness. I echo the sentiment that it's the only boon spec that locks you into a weapon type for both your weapon sets. Mesmer main rant done haha.

Going to go ahead and preface this that I am PvE and WvW player, I rarely do PvP. But currently been doing PvP to get potions for my guild hall and been noticing that spawn camping is more prevalent than I would have thought. When did this happen? As a way to counter this, it should be like in WvW where you are invulnerable for a bit outside of your spawn camp. I realize that might be hard to code but being spawn camped and therefore really unable to play the game is just complete bull. Leaves a bad taste in my mouth. But as I mentioned, spawn camping might have been a thing for awhile and I'm just now coming into it. If it has been for awhile, it needs to get fixed but unranked matches and spawn camping are not a welcoming environment to new players to the game or PvP.

Yeah, what Exciton.8942 posted is the current best mesmer heal/support build. I did run this in raids not too long ago and it did pretty well. I have tried a chrono heal build but it's janky. Overall, mesmer and its e-specs need a reliable way to put out protection consistently. I think only the chrono shield has protection and mesmer gives itself protection through a traitline. But again, the mirage build posted is pretty good. I ran Marshall's and Seraph's instead of Harrier's to get more out of the staff condis and still worked out well 🙂

Hey, I just discovered this out too. I was all ready to feed my turtle only to find out I need to do more fishing. The tooltips do need to be fixed for sure.

I can't speak on the PvP aspect but I do think Virtuoso has potential in working in WvW. Yes there's lots of reflects out there. But this spec can bring some dps and utility and still use weapons aside from greatsword. I haven't tested it out yet but I think a dagger/focus and greatsword Virtuoso could do some fun work in WvW with a guild group and especially with a zerg. Not sure about roaming but something could happen. I found power chrono in my guild group boring because I was relegated to utility bot (veil, some wells etc.) with nothing to do ranged damage aside from greatsword. But I am excited to see what Virtuoso can do with my guild group. 🙂 It's also only been a few days. So, let's see what builds everyone comes up with. There's also a balance patch in the summer, so everything could change then too.

Overview So I only played Virtuoso in PvE for this beta and the first one. Overall, I do like the feel of Virtuoso. I think it plays well as a straight DPS class and makes mesmer more approachable by not being as complex of mesmer, chrono, and mirage. Now, I love the complexity of the mesmer and all but I do think the comparative simplicity will be welcoming to newer players and veteran players trying out mesmer. Great job Anet on the creativity and visual affects for this spec! SO beautiful and I can really see the Canthan inspiration with the class! Damage However, between the past beta and this one I do think the damage was cut down too much for Virtuoso. I used the marauder gear the beta characters get and I noticed a difference. The DPS as it is now felt underwhelming and I would rather use my chrono in PvE meta events with that damage than with what the Virtuoso was putting out. I did hear the Catalyst was hitting 55k DPS on the golem while the Virtuoso at first beta was only hitting 41k dps and during this one hit 39k dps. So, if this is supposed to be a DPS mesmer specialization, make it one. 41k dps video: 39k DPS video: Note: I did not create either video Shatters/Bladesongs The casting time of the shatters felt off for Virtuoso. I am used to the instant cast on the shatters but perhaps reduce the casting time? The play felt slower and a touch off putting. Saying that, might just have to get used to the new mechanic. In regards to shatters, the F4 is shite. The block is too short and the damage dismal. This shatter is replacing our distortion/continuum split and this F4 does not reach the level of either of those shatters. The damage needs to be more at base level, so it actually deters people from getting in our bubble. The block needs to be increased per blade used, the same can be applied to the damage dealth, both damage and block duration being increased by the amount of blades used. The F4 shatter was just not it comparatively. As it is right now, the F4 bladesong is useless in my opinion. The other F1-F3 skills I thought were fine (again casting time was an issue but it is a new mechanic). Traits I can't remember all of them to be fair. But, I will say I thought the condi traits were useless. Mesmers already do bleeding through the Duelist line, why have a double up of traits? The Virtuoso condi trait line doesn't offer anything new from what I saw. Any other mesmer build and e-spec can offer more variety in condi builds. The condi trait needs to be removed or massively updated. I prefer removal at this point for traits that interact with the amount of daggers we have, dagger skills, and blade skills/utilities. There was one trait, I forget the name of it, but it was a GM trait that after a successful dodge your shatters are unblockable. I thought this was too many conditions to make shatters work in Virtuoso. One constant I have seen is the amount of Virtuoso's skills are reflectable. This is a problem in WvW, where mesmers in general are not wanted in groups aside from small roaming groups. The Virtuoso can provide some DPS now to organized groups but all things being reflected is an issue. I'm not sure the best way to remedy this. Perhaps if a bladesong is used with all 5 blades, it's unblockable? Or at least not able to be reflected? I did find the traits uninspiring tbh Summary Overall great feel to the class and love this take on mesmer. Damage: Some tweaks to damage should put it in a good place dps wise without going overboard. Shatter casting times: Remove casting times or work with flow of them. FOR SURE fix the F4 shatter. it does nothing as it is now. Traits: Remove condi line. It does nothing. Overall uninspiring.

Makes sense. I'll try that out next time I'm in PvP! Thanks! :)

That's what I get for posting late at night instead of going to bed lol. I am running the wizard amulet. facepalms that's a my bad.Build with the amulet I'm wearinghttp://gw2skills.net/editor/?PiwAc+ZlRw4YJsLmJeKXvvSA-zZx8MyUF0rUwxDA And I figured. I just wanted the therapy of ranting...sighs