Guild Wars 2

Just take them out of the game as far as pvp. This class is VERY VERY VERY overpowered. Lets see. First, they get 2-4 clones who will blow you up and do MASSIVE dmg that is impossible to dodge because if you dodge them, you get owned by the actual mesmer. The mesmer can also go invisible. COMEPLETELY INVISIBLE. WHY does this class need invisibility? FOr the love of god they do MASSIVE burst dmg and then you decide, hmm they really need a way to just vanish and set up a combo to kill you. Then they can blink 20 feet away from you. YEA this is great for melee who already have the impossible task of targeting the real mesmer while simultaniously chasing him 20 ft ever 15 seconds and then when he catched the mesmer, he vanishes. Let me just simplify the mesmer.
MESMER= insaneburst+serious escapability+4 clones to confuse you who do massive dmg that takes no targeting on the part of the player. IDK what arena net was thinking when they made this class. IF you going to give them 4 pets WHY WOULD YOU MAKE THE PETS DO SO MUCH DMG. i get it if the player himself can do massive dmg, but the difference is that player has to actually target and use his timing to do it. These phantasms are on auto attack and you cannot prevent them from casting. OOO lets not forget the freaking moa. YES the mesmer can turn you into a moa if he feels threatened. a freaking 10 seconds of free time for him to heal and go brush his teeth. They also have a move that does dmg and allows them to evade ALL attacks for 5 seconds when they use it. YES THEY NEED TO EVADE MORE ATTACKS. IN conclusion. my suggestion is to either lower the mesmers insanely dumb dmg. Take out the clones who take no skill to own ppl. OR reduce the mesmers escapes. This class is single handedly ruining this great game. Most people i talk to, when they see a mesmer guess what they do? they run.

Let me guess: your main is a warrior and you whine because you can’t move during HB.
0/10, by the way.

1) Mesmers can only have 3 Clones and Phantasms up at a time, total. Phantasms are the ones who deal the damage. Clones don’t do that much damage and are mostly shatter-fodder.

2) The whole point of Mesmers is misdirection, hence the stealth / clones.

3) Blink is on a 30 sec cooldown (24 sec traited), not 15. Portal is a 90 sec cooldown, and Phase Retreat is 10 sec, and only available to Staff Mesmer.

4) Moa skill can be dodged / line of sighted / blocked with Aegis. And while in Moa, you aren’t entirely helpless, since you can still dodge and sprint. Although I agree that the duration could be reduced a bit.

5) In your point, Thief should be taken out of PvP as well? Insane burst, stealth, teleports.

You can always tell people who’ve made no attempt to actually play or even read up on mesmer as they have all these misconceptions.

The reason mesmers are owning you so easily is because you don’t understand them and havn’t made any attempt to. reverse the tables for a moment and imagine you’d never played a game that had a “warrior” or “tank”.

Would you complain that he had insane damage AND insane armour? – because that’s so imba a class that has good damage AND good survival. The reality is that warrior type classes lack flexibility in terms of conditions and utility skills.

Mesmers here are the diametric opposite, their damage is relatively poor and they are squishy; but they have crazy a amount of flexibility and utility which they will use to buy time until they set up a perfect storm, and then drop the hammer on you all at once leading to the aforementioned “insane burst damage”. Just like you don’t try going toe to toe with a tanks, you need to pick apart the mesmer’s plan and prevent him setting up the conditions for a killing blow.

As a mesmer the worst fight i had to deal with was this guardian who just had the pressure on me non-stop. Couldn’t ever buy the time needed to set up a complete spike and what damage i could do was too small to drop him so he’d heal it off – take his lesson to heart

OP, play a mesmer and learn ‘our’ weaknesses

I play a mesmer as a main and I have no idea what you are talking about.

The four clones thing is great. I’d love to have four clones…. then maybe bosses would die faster. Or I’d die less.

Thieves that run Cloak and Dagger with Health regen while stealthed are way more OP than any mesmer build.

That build is literally unbeatable if the thief takes their time.

Also, learn to mark target. If you’re not marking targets on a mesmer than you already failed before you even began.

I love QQ threads about OP classes, especially when the poster knows nothing about the class.

Mesmer Clones
2 clones 1 Phantasm
or
3 clones

Clones do a max of I believe 50 damage in a full rotation
Phantasm do a lot up wards to 3k.

Mesmer shatter spikes are slow and take time to set up properly. You not only have to get a phantasm and two clones up but you have to make sure they are alive for the spike. Then for an effective spike you need them to all hit at once.

Squishy spiker is Overpowered

Just like the people that complain about C&D stealth Thieves being OP. Hit them once with a good spike and they run away or die. Most squishy professions can not stand an onslaught of damage which is why they have the utilities to remove them self from it.

Play he profession learn how they work learn how you are being owned then apply that to your HB warriors.