Guild Wars 2

Ok, so me and my team just played vs a team with 2 mesmers who abused the living hell out of portal mechanics. Basically, they kept chaining portals so that they could instantly portal 2+ people to backup at any node we attacked, so every fight would be 2 of us vs 3 of them, 1 of us vs 2 of them, 3 of us vs 4 of them, etc.

Now, aside from joining in on the mesmer-train and doing the exact same thing as them, how else is it possible to counter this?

PS: I don’t think mesmer in general is OP, although they are strong. My only beef with them is portal.

mesmer dont have many speed boosts, only swiftness on pvp useless focus, blink on 30sec cd and portal on 60sec cd… and he must get to the place where he want to place a portal + its utility slot, he will be probably very weak against conditions if he pick portal + blink or very slow if he pick only portal

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I have to agree. This is a clever use.

Mesmers really don’t have a lot of speed and, as previously mentioned, need to be in each location to place the portal. The portal also times out after a short duration (both once placed and prior to placing the second half). As such, I’d recommend lots of crowd control on the mesmer/s placing the portals.

They need to run from one location to the next in order to place the second portal to link so if you slow them down or stop them moving it would severely hinder this tactic. Especially if you can delay them long enough for the skill to time out before placing the exit portal.