Guild Wars 2

This Ithilwen is crazy.

Except about the block nerf. I didn’t think that was necessary. But WoP was bonkers. Nigh invulnerability to an entire team while still being able to hold a point. Few skills in this game make you invincible without also making you lose capture point contribution and for some reason WoP did because of that peculiar classification difference between blur and distortion.

I have conceded multiple times that WoP may have been overpowered. Yes, that may have been needed.

The fact remains that ANET disregarded it’s own rules to single out a Mesmer nerf and they carried it too far by adding a block duration reduction.

You’re not really conceding anything. May of been overpowered? Try without question.

I really doubt any mesmer can say with a straight face before any of the changes that it was just fine. It absolutely was not and it is why I refused to play my mesmer until they fixed it. Cheesy builds might be fun for terrible players because it makes them feel pro. If you actually want to feel like you legitimately earned your victories though mesmer was disgusting.

May of been overpowered…. good grief.

@Cole.3824

As to legitimately earning my victories; I do luck out from time to time and get an easy match. So does everyone else. For the most part, I’m playing hard and I resent the implication that I want or need an overwhelming edge.

You are still ignoring my main point; ANET broke it’s own rules specifically to nerf Mesmer. This is a continuation of a long standing pattern of being very harsh and restrictive on the class. ANET over nerfed Mesmer by adding a shield block duration reduction.

Should this pattern continue, we may see a return to the bad old days (after the glamour nerf ) when a Mesmer wouldn’t even bother to engage a warrior or necro.

You seem to think you are a rather good player. Two responses to that;

1v1 me. I want to see if your skill matches your bluster.

If in fact you were good enough to be that condescending you’d be wise and / or gracious enough to realize that not everyone is.

Nobody cares that you think Anet is out to kill your dog.

Ithilwen.1529:

@Cole.3824

As to legitimately earning my victories; I do luck out from time to time and get an easy match. So does everyone else. For the most part, I’m playing hard and I resent the implication that I want or need an overwhelming edge.

You are still ignoring my main point; ANET broke it’s own rules specifically to nerf Mesmer. This is a continuation of a long standing pattern of being very harsh and restrictive on the class. ANET over nerfed Mesmer by adding a shield block duration reduction.

Should this pattern continue, we may see a return to the bad old days (after the glamour nerf ) when a Mesmer wouldn’t even bother to engage a warrior or necro.

You seem to think you are a rather good player. Two responses to that;

1v1 me. I want to see if your skill matches your bluster.

If in fact you were good enough to be that condescending you’d be wise and / or gracious enough to realize that not everyone is.

Did you per chance missed the part where Anet nerfed demoniac Revenant to claim anet broke any rule just to nerf the chrono?

If it is game breaking, needs to be fixed or hotfixed as soon as possible. If you can’t understand why it was needed, here have fun watching those:

https://youtu.be/Rz57UH9iMZM

https://youtu.be/Rt3DeMlLFPU

What I love as Mesmer bunker is wop not needed much a long as I have good team
With it i needed another ally so we can swap contest if I am being pressure
And now I see more trap guard so I swap to feedback so more resistance and reflect
Lest hope they won’t nerf resistance reflect and alacrity
Bunker mes is still in the meta house unless viper rev will pushed out to thieves and necros

Hunter’s Ward and Dragon’s Maw are still invisible. What a surprise.

messiah.1908:

What I love as Mesmer bunker is wop not needed much a long as I have good team
With it i needed another ally so we can swap contest if I am being pressure
And now I see more trap guard so I swap to feedback so more resistance and reflect
Lest hope they won’t nerf resistance reflect and alacrity
Bunker mes is still in the meta house unless viper rev will pushed out to thieves and necros

In my case I swapped well of precog for well of action. Feedback is good too.

Oh, and there are more trap guards now because wop was the countermeasure to guardian traps. They nerfed the counter but not the cause of it…

shame one of these changes is not that you dont loose a point for a close loss like 500-476

This skill should not exist in the 1st place. Much power creep, much unnecessary.

Ithilwen.1529:

WoP may have been overpowered. .

Really no reason to read anything you post after this.

If they’re gonna nerf WoP to become distortion, they might as well make it work with other traits like MoF… oh Anet.

The block nerf was kind of an unnecessary shave but not horrible.