So Sinject, you want blind on shatter nerfed, daze to stun nerfed, damage nerfed even though it already was on mirror blade and PU nerfed.
Sure I’m game but nerf every single good extra a thief got too while we’re at it. Nerf that -damage while in stealth, nerf their damage by 20% because most aren’t taking exicutioner to do their burst which they should for burst. Oh and let’s nerf shadow rejuvenation, too much sustain too especially with it being combined. Oh and panic strike totally needs a nerf, far too low a cool down for passive immob.
Only fair.
you’ve made no points as to why they’re fair beyond acting childish and demanding that they are because i suggested valid nerfs for problematic mechanics and thus have contributed nothing to the thread but your bitterness.
here are my actual arguments, minus knee-jerk retorts found in your reply:
- blinding dissipation completely outclasses every single other AoE blind trait in the game, even the second best (elementalists’ blinding ashes) has an ICD and is a grandmaster trait. another comparable AoE blind trait would be thief’s cloaked in shadow, which again, is a grandmaster trait. there is absolutely zero reason for this trait be where it’s at on a profession that also has access to invulnerability (distortion) as this makes the blind unfairly strong as it cannot be cleared aside from attacking clones. the supposed balancing to it is that it’s tied to mesmer’s shatter skills, and their respective cooldowns provide the cooldown for the trait, however there is close to zero reason for mesmers not to chain their shatter skills in succession simply to spam blind on any melee attackers, especially when mindwrack alone only has a 12 second cooldown.
- confounding suggestions was never nerfed. the main utility (mantra of distraction) was fixed. this fix did not actually act as an effective nerf as it did not address the actual issue of the mechanic: having an instant, ranged, chainable stun.
- again, a slight nerf to current mindwrack damage is warranted considering how much it already hits for, the multiple-hit nature increasing it’s chances for critical damage, and the low CD it has.
not gonna even argue about PU. if you don’t see a problem there you’re biased beyond what is worth my time.
Blinding dissipation does have a CD(12, 25, 38, 50), it’s the cool down on your shatters. Incidently using a shatter to blind someone is stupid and your claim to stagger shatters for this just shows how little you know about playing a mesmer. Furthermore your own classes offhand pistol completely outclasses it in terms of blind application.
As for thieves GM vs Mesmer master, generally GM/Master status doesn’t matter only traits it competes with. Incidentally the actual cool down on cloaked in shadows is 4s not accounting for initiative and at most 9s assuming waiting for regen on initiative.
Instant ranged chainable stun is not CS. It only converts the first daze to a stun, you would then need a follow up stun which correct me if I’m wrong mesmers do not have in their meta power build or in fact any build outside of interrupt with OH pistol.
Having said that if you bothered to peak in the Mesmer forums most have said it should just be a 10s ICD perhaps making it local to the enemy. So blame Anet.
As for PU. I already said earlier. Mesmer lost all clone death traits. Go back and read my statement as I won’t repost it a third time for someone so ignorant.
My point, which you missed in all your rage, is that thief got plenty of nice buffs to survivability when they arguably didn’t need it in SA line. You essentially want to remove all Mesmer survivability added in the spec patch which would then push Mesmer completely out PvP again and revert them back to the shutdown by thieves status. So if you wish it done to Mesmer, I wish it done to thieves too.
Thief is still the most mobile class in PvP and the most viable and forgiving roamer in WvW. A thief doesn’t generally die to anything but their own bloodthirst/over commitment. Great example: Count how many times Magic Toker died in WTS.
