Guild Wars 2

Some people that have been complaining about the dragonhunter have been trying to compare it to mesmer and chronomancer buffs. Just don’t.

Mesmer has been one of the least played professions since the beginning of the game because all we bought to our teams were veil and reflects. We were a niche class with very buggy skills and our damage relied heavily on purple clones of ourselves that died in an instant at the mere whiff of an aoe.

In pve, mesmer is horrible irrespective of niche situations where our reflects are beneficial. In pvp, very few players have mastered the class competitively and the only reason teams would take a mesmer is for portal because theives are better at peeling and spiking and have better mobility than shatter mesmer.

In wvw we are only valued for our veil.

We are recieving a buff mostly but in most mesmers eyes we are finally being brought up to the same level as a lot of other classes. We are finally receiving the trait rework that anet promised 3 years ago.

Guardians have had their problems too but dont even begin to compare the two classes because guardians are always asked to the prom while mesmers are stuck dancing with their cousins.

If youre still cranky, come join the butterfly army.

Translation:
Hey Guardians dont QQ because your Elite Spec is kitten. Because I been playing a kitten class as well, so stop complaining about kitten things being kitten.

yes does that sum things up for your OP?

Thanks for the mature response.

Guardians havr better damage, better sustain and better support so stop comparing apples and oranges. Thats the translation I would go for.

I tend to agree with the OP about the complaining. We don’t even know what our elite traits are. Frankly, I hope they kick complete kitten so all the people QQing about a name will look ridiculous and crawl into a shame hole.

Yes Obtena you are in every thread saying the same thing

Actually I think I missed a few. Can’t keep up.

There is some truth to not comparing Dragonhunter to Chronomancer, but its got nothing to do with the idea that Mesmer is terrible and needs a buff more, especially since the idea of elite specs is that they’re not supposed to be straight buffs but rather options.

The reason the two shouldn’t be compared is because Anet already specifically stated that specs are not being made “one to one”. They want to give each specialization cool stuff to play with, but they aren’t all going to be getting the exact same stuff in the exact same way. Dragonhunter gets a full new weapon with 5 new skills and functionality changes to all 3 of their Virtues. Chronomancer only gets 2 weapon skills and a single new Shatter, but the stuff they are getting is more complex in return.

Sure. I don’t see our mesmers reach that supposed level even with the new changes if we look the news outside us, but yes a better QoL, improvements are always welcome in the baseline. But with new skill ceiling of the Chronomancer’s mechanic I only can see the butterfly army as empty as before.

Good luck tomorrow fellow guardians.