Guild Wars 2

Harrier.9380:

How about you guys take your PvE talk outside PvP forums?

I second that, besides glass cannon builds are horrible for a mesmer in PVE go with PVT gear and stop whining about how its tough to lvl a mesmer when its not

Best thing I saw in this whole thread was making Portal usable by both teams, oh man that would a great fix, then they could reduce the CD to 30 sec so it’d be great in PvE then too!

Seriously though, let’s do that! I want to have some mind games with Portal. . . one stipulation. . . make it more skill intensive, let’s make the Portal button activate 3 times, with the third press closing both sides of the portal so we can strand the enemy team if they try to use the portal, with a 5 sec delay so it can only be used after the portal has been open a little while.

PowerBottom.5796:

But again; atm. the Mesmer is too strong by itself, which just doesn’t work if he has THE BEST SKILL in the game. If Portal remains as strong, Mesmers should just be squishy supporters that loose in every 1v1, so that at least another Person would have to go through the Portal to def a Point.
But with Mesmers as strong as they are right now, a well Portal-guarded Point can basically only be recapped if your team collapses on it and how do you collapse on a point fast without running into the Problem of loosing your other point(s)? Exactly: with a Portal! ^^’

I’ll start by stating, yes, I main a mesmer since launch. I chose the class based on it’s concept and issues like this make me fear that mesmers will indeed be nerfed to only a support role that cannot do anything on their lonesome. I would rather nerf skills like portal than destroy our damage/viability in 1v1/etc. to compensate. Fix blatant damage bugs to put our damage on par with other classes (below some bursty classes damage to compensate for our escape/defensive mechanisms) but relegating any class to a support class would be countering the original premise of guild wars that there are no set roles based on class. Obviously some classes perform at some things better, but the give and take of HOW each class fulfills goals is what makes this game interesting.

Nerf portal, give some other classes similar (not exactly the same flavor) utilities to get rid of any class being ‘required,’ but none of this ‘squishy support class’ or any other such concrete role for various classes. That’s been played out ad nauseam elsewhere.

This game desperately needs a fleshed out ranking and elo system. Atleast then, there would be visible representation of what professions and team comps are the strongest. Also, there wouldn’t be all of this ridiculous fighting between people about which profession is stronger and weaker then the other. The rankings and elo would be evidence enough to show how weak or strong a profession is.

But anyways – Mesmers OP.