Guild Wars 2

Seriously what am I supposed to do as a Shatter Mesmer who has just had their defense and offense butchered like this?!!

You didn’t nerf bunkers by doing this, you nerf’d things that used active defense and on the fly counter attacks.

Change it back.

It also affected Engineer, Elementalist, Revenant and to a lesser extent, Thief. While it didn’t butcher them, it affected them, which was the purpose. What ANet should have done was compensated mesmer for its remaining role being underpowered post-HoT and out of consideration of its dependency on the energy sigil pre-nerf. They tried to buff the condi aspect, to be fair, but other classes outperform mesmer in that area by far - necro can corrupt boons, and engineer can provide some decent party support and utility - so it might as well not have happened.

They could add Sigil of Energy effect to Deceptive Evasion, so it stays Mesmer-specific.