Guild Wars 2

Listen. I’m a Mesmer. I get that we’re tough to deal with in PvP.

Thing is, many of the things that make us so tricky in PvP don’t really apply to PvE. For example, enemy health pools are high enough in high-level PvE that shatters can’t make nearly the impact they do on your health pool in PvP. Confusion does very little in PvE because enemies attack so slowly—we’re lucky to see one tick. And while our utility is nice to have in PvE dungeons, our damage is loaded almost entirely onto our phantasms.

So if a nerf has to happen—as opposed to a buff for others—please make sure it only applies to PvP. As a Mesmer who also plays PvE, I’m actually afraid of our PvP power, because I’ve seen so many “great in PvP, okay in PvE” classes in other MMOs pay the price in both areas of the game.

Splitting skills, despite all of its drawbacks, can prevent that from ever happening. Trust me: Mesmers don’t need a nerf in PvE.

I’m not to certain but I think I read some where that they do plan on splitting pvp and pve.. but again it was a while back when I read it.

I’m sure they would do that. Also when I was leveling in PvP at around lvl 60 I ran into a mesmer who was soloing a champion event mob that usually takes 15 or so people to handle easily. The mobs in PvE do not know how to handle illusions.

I agree with this. PvE changes should not effect PvP changes.

Yeah i’d find it hard to make confusion better in pve while not overpowering it in pvp. How else would you fix this ability? I got no clue.

And if Mesmers turns up as one of those hard to balance for both types of gameplay classes cough resto druids then why shouldnt they deserve this treatment? Lets not repeat any previous mistakes.

/no
‘Shalashaska nods in disagreement’

agree i enjoy pve more than pvp and i would hate if a pvp nerf made me useless in pve.