Guild Wars 2

Jasher.6580:

Hexs.8015:

I think its reasonable to assume the devs are looking into both BM rangers and phantasm mesmers

How many Phantasm Mesmers are in the current meta? Oh that’s right… zero… I wonder why?

This whole complaining about mesmers is heavily based around hot join. In there people can’t distinguish between an illusion or a mesmer…

Is not about distinguishing: mesmer have some mechanics that make them natural 1v1 fighters. Even if you can manage to spot them, they still have ways to get distance, to block you and put high pressure.

For instance, they can run away from an enemy while still forcing him to dodge thanks to phantasms. I don’t complain about them, but I think they are extremely strong in duels or similars. Do they need a nerf for this reason? I don’t know, I think not.

And that is what I was looking for in hotjoins to test builds, to see how they worked.

But I do agree I fear them much less in tpvp: group fights are completely different from duels, and from this experience I’m starting to think mesmer’s defense are good against single enemies, just like kiting.

Advice #2. Use another mesmer and hope you are better. Once you play it you will defend mesmer too and have fun destroying every other class in the game. XD personally I like a shatter phantasm hybrid.