Guild Wars 2

Please state your point and not post on something vaguely. If not everyone that post will always be arguing on something not even clear to begin with hence let alone a discussion.

Ho it’s the same thing, it’s just that everyone want to burst stuff down. Mesmer isn’t meant to be played like that, you ll do enough damage indirectly in PvE … again with conditions and cross combos sometimes.

Try to maintain burning / bleeding all the time in PvE while you dps normally and miracle will happen, true story there.

How does sword/sword and staff phantasm differ from your defensive play

Staff is terrible for a defensive play unless you want to use chaos storm on your buddies. (and even so, it’s still kitten) Chaos Armor isn’t long enough to use the #4 properly before inc in the battle, use some stuff, go out.

Storm is horrible because completely random. Sure it’s good for warlock if you put earth rune, you ll always have minimum 2 conditions on someone but come on, sword & focus + scepter & torch is actually the most effective combination you can find, you ll eat everyone alive with that.

Play with defensive utilities + traits and you ll be like “oh god, its so amazin, why didnt I find this out at the first place ?”

I’m gonna give you the answer : because everyone is still in their old habit of playin a classic mmo.

I do believe than not more of let’s say 10% (im kinda large) of the playerbase actually REALLY know how to play. Lately I found only one team in PvP usin a massive amount of Dark & poison cross combos, and hell it was such a fun match to play that playin in “normal” others was just totally boring.

Same goes for builds & players, that find out an easy way to play a class, qqin hard about it, and still not performin decently even with powerfull builds : it’s clearly not the way thought by the devs at the first place if you think a bit about it.

Are you implying how to defend a node or are u talking about spvp or are u building a bunker type mesmer. Dunno what you mean here.

burning =.=, suddenly a condition mesmer. In pve of u understand burning only happen on staff, ur dps is mediocre on staff without warlock and bleeding does not stack high on warlock only duelist. So make ur choice , which is which don’t add something that won’t happen together. Still you depend on your phantasm to deal consistent dmg from range in certain fights in pve. If your telling to learn to use glamour skill to do well in pve, i telling you i am the wrong person to tell that too.. I have been leading my guild into dungeon once i am at their appropriate lvl and have completed all the DEs i been doing. I am swapping utilities as i progress into the dungeon, swaping them out each encounted i been doing but my dps which relies on the phantasm dealing part of it is lacking. So i do not know what a defensive mesmer can do in pve to clear a DE or farming in the world.

In pve of u understand burning only happen on staff

I’m already seein torch – staff – projectile finisher / leap finisher / whirl finisher (that work on warden, hint)

Without considerin runes

So i do not know what a defensive mesmer can do in pve to clear a DE or farming in the world.

So clearly you still don’t have the proper amount of knowledge about your class mate, no offense here.

Considerin there is a lot ranged dps encounter in dungeon you shouldnt even have a problem at havin high dps in the first place. Not directly, of course. iwarden, feedback, confusion & burning while you are burstin meanwhile. For the lulz you can also take the trait givin reflection when you shatter. (always fun to do when you don’t have an illusion up)

See what I did here ? full reflection / punishment. Add might on top and have a laugh

reliable!!! Stop giving me part by part!

“I’m already seein torch – staff – projectile finisher / leap finisher / whirl finisher (that work on warden, hint)”

yeah i see every1 else have prokectile finisher/leap finisher/ and an inmovable finisher that left behind or “dead”. Hiaz, still link to phantasm. Stop talking trash would you.

Whatever u been saying is to prove that you can get the job done, i can too. So stop posting irrelevant stuff, you like condition build, i like my phantasm build in pve. Why should my build get nerf and why should mesmer already weak pve performance in term of dps( you can see that by just taking on a mobs in the world), all other class kill faster than a mesmer. So stop proving your so smart, i not here to prove your smart!

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