Guild Wars 2

To be honest, if these mesmers did no damage everything would be OK however, with wells that is not the case. The real issue is that mesmers with these three trait-lines can run berserk amulets without sacrificing defense.

Inspiration
- shatter heals and removes conditions
-Remove 2 conditions when you heal
-Summon Defender to take half damage upon successful evasion.
Chaos
-PU aegis, protection, regeneration, and more stealth
-take 3% less damage per illusion
- Mirror of anguish (reflects cc)
Chronomancer
-50% Alacrity duration
-Alacrity after using a well
-Re-summon illusions after shatter
-Ability to use wells (one of which allows invulnerability)

The rest would include defensive options such as continuum split, torch, shield, decoy, sword 2, scepter 2, diversion many of which break stun and or can be sued while stunned

Ultimately No heavy armor class gets these numerous amounts of utility in addition to their damage. Warriors for example don’t get protection regeneration damage reduction free heals and condition removal but rather maybe a few of these if they chose the right healing skill and utility.

And the sad part is that mesmers running this much defense would be unenviable even with berserk amulet except for the fact that continuum split allows for double elite skill casting and a double shatter. I only call it as I see it. I currently, I main Mesmer, but I would really like to play my other classes in peace.

Don’t think i’ve ever seen someone running something like this? sw/t sc/sh with PU? I’ll give it a go in game but I really don’t see much of an issue.

I don’t really see why anyone should even play the build you just described.
It doesn’t even seem to have stability and with stealth and invulnerability it won’t really be able to hold a point.
And if you had a the choice why would you pick this sustain berserker Mesmer over any Revenant or scrapper? That build has less sustained damage than them and is worse at holding points. Heck it’s damage looks pretty horrible to me without greatsword or any damage modifiers.
The only mode I can think of for wich this build wouldn’t totally suck is 1v1 dueling servers.