Guild Wars 2

Hi

I’m having difficulty in choosing a profession to stick with. I’ve tried them all and this 2 are the ones I enjoy the most, however I want to dedicate my time to only one of them.

I’ll be mainly playing PvP and WvW, can someone list me their pros and cons?

Thanks a lot

I ply both of these in pvp. Typically, necromancer builds in pvp are generally best at being a tank or bruiser who can do decent damage while taking a lot of damage. They have low mobility, and without reaper, most of their damage comes from autoattacks. Marauder builds are decent too, but relatively easy to kill,

Mesmer builds on the other hand aren’t bruisers at all, there is no viable tank build that I’ve seen yet. Most builds will be twitch burst specs, where you lock your enemy down and burst them. They’re also much more mobile than a necro due to portal and blink and staff. They have condi builds too that are easy to pick up by new players, but reach an effectiveness cap earlier against organized teams.

In general, mesmers have poor ability to tank damage while remaining on a point compared to necromancer. Necromancer has better sustained damage but weaker burst while Mesmer has poor sustained damage but higher burst damage.

well mesmer is more fun to play imo…..with reaper incoming however necro will be in good spot with stability on low cd and reaper is really fun to play also…..hard decision

Necro is boring to play, especially if you’re playing the celestial build – you’re a punchbag with no mobility and no stability and relatively low damage.

I started with a necro, because it’s easy to play, but the experience was very unfun and frustrating.

lazycalm.5186:

Hi

I’m having difficulty in choosing a profession to stick with. I’ve tried them all and this 2 are the ones I enjoy the most, however I want to dedicate my time to only one of them.

I’ll be mainly playing PvP and WvW, can someone list me their pros and cons?

Thanks a lot

In WVW, if you go mes you will be reduced to roaming or being portal bot / veilbot. yea you can keep quiet that you’re a mes and just run on tag but after a while its a pretty horrible experience, also, mes is by far the absolute worst profession hands down to tag targets with in WVW group play which is very important for longterm play. On necro, you have more options.

In PVP they are both about the same. Obviously mes makes a far better node off-capper and has stealth, but you can make a good necro build that counters mesmers with relative ease, you have better options to run builds that can hold / sustain a cap point.

On necro, you will do far better then mes in WVW group play, but have less choices for roaming, will not do as well though still decent.

MESMER

necro so boring. effective at times but so boring plus you cant escape so once you are on a point you are committed to remain there until your death.

Mesmer: Bursty, mobile, squishy, fairly easy to play at parts due to your skill being related to how combomatic you are. Can’t hold points well, can’t take hits, weak to conditions. A nimble, tricky mage.

Necromancer: Bursty, Tanky, sustainy. Roughly as easy as Mesmer mechanically, far more difficult to play properly because as Cakeonroof stated- when you hit a point, you are there you are staying, and you will not leave until you win or they do. Hard to fight against crowd control, but can easily win condition/power fights. Practically immobile. A terrifying, destructive mage.

Just my 2 cents. I prefer Necromancer- knowing I can walk to a point with a proper build and just END fights. Sad I can’t go from point a to point b with thief speed, but whatever right. I’ve been winning 1v1/2/3 so far because people think playing power or condition is the only way (hint, Rampager is broken beyond belief right now).

Depends on if you’re getting the expansion or not. The Chronomancer has many more tools for zerg fighting in WvW and almost completely overshadows core Mesmer in just about everything.

In both PvP and WvW Mesmer has quite a bit of build variety (however the higher your MMR rises, the less viable some builds become in PvP) and can play many different styles – Condition, Support, Shatter, and Lockdown Mesmer all work in both game modes however you will have a lot of people “expecting” you to play a certain role depending on your class.

Mesmer is known for high burst and good in-combat Mobility and brings some unique abilities to a fight such as Portal, TimeWarp and soon: Alacrity (opposite of Chill, enhancing cool down reduction).

You’ll be expected to run greatsword and a power build, usually grabbing Domination / Dueling for a healthy burst. Despite this, you DO have other options if you so choose to explore, and every weapon has builds it can fit into.

So if you want something unique, interesting to learn, but with increasing layers of complexity then go Mesmer. If you wanna be that other guy go with Necro.

And yes. This post is saturated with bias.