No, not really. I’m actually here as a Mesmer, trying to help other Mesmers understand why our forum is full of trolls right now. Try to pay attention with an open mind, think back to your days in GW1 when Mesmers sucked as, and have a little empathy. Not saying the trolling and spamming is justified, but let me explain why it’s there. I should clarify I come from the perspective of someone who has played both classes in both games, prefers Mesmers in GW2 and Necros in GW1 (for a reason, as I’ll explain), and that I am speaking mainly regarding sPvP, though many of the flaws apply to PvE as well.
First, you have to get your head out of your kitten and look at the situation, WITHOUT just writing off the obvious design problems as kitten kids raging. They do have legitimate claims:
1)the fact that a Mesmer can repeatedly and forcibly unlock a Necro + force them to cycle through 2-3 clones EVERY time they’re forcibly unlocked ruins all Necro condition builds,
2) the fact that Mesmer Condition builds outclass Necro Condition by a mile right now when built for it (in damage, condition variety, and utility),
3) the fact that Mesmers are better Minion Masters due to their inexhaustible supply of minions + their ability to cause those minions to do cool, debilitating effects. Not to mention Minions on a necro take up utility skill slots, whereas Mesmers get them for free
4) The fact that Moa has completely ruined minion-master Necros (nerfed or not, it’s still a forcible destruction of all necro minions + forcing them on CD)
5) The fact that they have access to a ton more self-buffs than necros, including the dreaded retaliation, and on top of this have tons of escapes to Necro’s 1 (flesh worm, with a long channel time. DS isn’t an escape against any skilled opponent),
6) The amazing synergy to Mesmer kits, as opposed to the current disparity all throughout Necro kits
7) the difference in usefulness between Mesmer and Necro class skills (meaning the f1-f4, DS is hated by most all Necros because it’s essentially useless in PvP, most view it as nothing but a crappy shield + a short fear)
8) The obvious difference in ANets attention paid between the two classes (the last post from a red in the Necro forums was months ago), not to mention the obvious interest in design creativity between the two (look at ANY of the weapons comparitively in their range groups: Necro Staff vs Mesmer Staff for example)..
You get the idea. I could go on but as an avid GW1 Necro, they butchered the GW2 Necro, made the Mesmer a similar class that does literally EVERYTHING a Necro can do but better (except fear of course, unless you go condition Mesmer in PvP and use Nightmare runes, which I do. Works great btw), and then they just dropped interest in making Necro a fun, creative, or “good” class.
The trolls are annoying, sure, but at least be aware that there are 3 really strong reasons they’re here:
1) Devs have completely ignored Necros for months now
2) Mesmers counter Necros in every possible way, no matter what Necro build you’re using.
3) Mesmers outshine Necros in their own territory. Any Necro build except for the relatively new fear builds can be built on a Mesmer and be built better right now.
Unfortunately, until ANet gets their heads out of their kitten about these issues, the trolls will keep coming, and though they shouldn’t be mad at the Mesmer community, the fact that Mesmers have a tendency to outright deny that they’re the favorite child, and that they sort of “stole” the Necro class, isn’t helping either. ANet needs to do something about these two classes.
Mesmers got attention when their community complained about them being useless in GW1, but the same issue is happening for Necros in GW2 and NOTHING is being done about it.
As someone who has played, and loved, both classes in both games, I’m trying to explain that they’re probably right about this, I play more Mesmer than Necro in GW2 because the GW2 Mesmer IS the GW1 Necro as far as its mechanics are concerned, and the GW2 Necro is just.. laughable. I play it as a homage to GW1’s Necro, that’s about it.
All I’m saying is cut them a break, they’re kitten off for a good reason, and the constant gloating/denial of a problem from the Mesmer community isn’t helping… Remember how much is sucked to be a Mesmer in it’s early days in GW1. It’s arguably worse for Necros right now, and we need to get ANet to care.