Guild Wars 2

I haven’t played the other specs much but I get the feeling that with most other specs the whole “playstyle” changes.

While with chronomancer it feels like the playstyle stays more or less the same but just gets buffekitten

he only one who feels this way?

I felt the opposite :p

With chronophantasma, you end the duality phantasm/shatter. With the whole line, DE is definitely not as needed anymore. F5 opens a world of possibility.

And I think the most important part is that it may allow very different role for mesmers, in particular favor support.

• Currently in PvE, mesmer is used for portal and reflects… that’s basically it. The rest of the time, just try to DPS as much as possible and your DPS takes a lot of time to build up . Now you open a new role of offensive support through quickness management. And through well and shatter+chronophantasma, you can also have burst DPS.
• In PvP, mesmer is currently mostly for portal and as a burst roamer. Now, keeping a mesmer in a group fight can be very beneficial, and I even think the bunker build is fairly decent.
• I had too much fun with the reaper in WvW, so I haven’t had time to try chrono there.

Not really it depends what your trying to do though/what build you are tryin to use. With mesmer in pve I was either trying to reflect as much as possible or provide as much damage as possible. With chronomancer I am mainly trying to focus on dishing out as much quickness and alacrity to allies as possible. Its a new ball game for me, a very fun game at that.

I think it changes your playtyle to a more fun way. You are able to shatter more, you are less phantasm oriented, you deal actually dmg!

I guess chronomancer was the first spec they made. It feels almost finished, only a few minor changes and it’s perfect! Meanwhile the other specs …

Guard seems like you want a few skills from the whole spec, the rest is garbage that looks great.

Ele is even worse, nice animations from the skills (except the overcharges – they look like a child made them … but i guess they are not finished yet :P) but the skills are so not good in combat. Flying projectiles with effects? Nice idea but … only a few skills are worth taking :/

And necro? Boy if I should play PvE with the necro and had access to the Reaper, I still wouldn’t use it :< it’s worse for PvE than the current necro meta :<

We’re the best spec atm, but I’m not sure if this is good … or bad :<

Chrono just felt so well polished, and it felt like there were several build opportunities from the new Spec.

Dragon Hunter felt okay. The Longbow is definitely a saving grace as Guard needed another range weapon. Trait line offers options for both offense and defense. Traps, meh for the most part, but the revealing trap is absolutely hacks in a good way.

Reaper….yeah, about that.

Tempest felt like a support bot. The overloads, I felt lacked a certain punch for the amount of time required to channel them. Warhorn skills were about the best part of this Elite.