Guild Wars 2

Munkee.3542:

You people are out of your kittening minds. If you’re using Mantras on a Mesmer, you’re playing the class wrong. Mantras blow, they always have and they always will. I can’t believe the amount of people in here freaking out over a freakin’ MANTRA change. Do yourselves a favor, go with a 10/30/0/0/30 max DPS shatter build and thank me later.

Empowered Mantras was very good for PvE unlike Shatter builds which suck for PvE.

YB

Munkee.3542:

You people are out of your kittening minds. If you’re using Mantras on a Mesmer, you’re playing the class wrong. Mantras blow, they always have and they always will. I can’t believe the amount of people in here freaking out over a freakin’ MANTRA change. Do yourselves a favor, go with a 10/30/0/0/30 max DPS shatter build and thank me later.

You really don’t know what you’re talking about. It’s actually hilarious.

Munkee.3542:

You people are out of your kittening minds. If you’re using Mantras on a Mesmer, you’re playing the class wrong. Mantras blow, they always have and they always will. I can’t believe the amount of people in here freaking out over a freakin’ MANTRA change. Do yourselves a favor, go with a 10/30/0/0/30 max DPS shatter build and thank me later.

Bit of a definitive statement? Maybe you mean in PvE, in which case I can’t really comment, but mantras are great for roaming in WvW. Like Osi said, combining the condition cleanse and healing mantra with harmonious mantras and healers purity rids mesmers of our main weakness : conditions.

A max dps shatter build on the other hand, lacks a lot of survivability.

Coxy.5269:

Munkee.3542:

You people are out of your kittening minds. If you’re using Mantras on a Mesmer, you’re playing the class wrong. Mantras blow, they always have and they always will. I can’t believe the amount of people in here freaking out over a freakin’ MANTRA change. Do yourselves a favor, go with a 10/30/0/0/30 max DPS shatter build and thank me later.

Bit of a definitive statement? Maybe you mean in PvE, in which case I can’t really comment, but mantras are great for roaming in WvW. Like Osi said, combining the condition cleanse and healing mantra with harmonious mantras and healers purity rids mesmers of our main weakness : conditions.

A max dps shatter build on the other hand, lacks a lot of survivability.

He’s definitely not talking about PvE, because all of the top speed-runners in the game have been using mantras for months.

@munkee, if you dont enjoy it, let the others be, mantras are awesome, especially in Spvp. even while daze, you can still use them, (if charged). this makes any class doing combo on you very hard, group heal with inspiration traits, just having a blast in spvp. i invite you to try it before judging.

Bunda.2691:

I would also like to hear their explanation for why they made the change.

I figure it was probably made for thematic reasons. Domination gives Power so they put the direct damage boosting trait there. Dueling is more focused on Finesse, so they put the extra mantras trait there.

KarinaCO.6948:

Csele.1647:

.so they messed up warrior and mesmer… my 2 main classses. great

Wrong lol, mesmer is super strong right now with strength runes and a battle sigil. My gs auto attack is scaling from 1k on first cast to 5k on fifth cast. I am currently running the famous 20/20/0/0/30 build. (PvP)

gs damage number that are appearing on screen are bugged and are tallying all your hit together it not actually hitting for 5k.

Magi.8643:

KarinaCO.6948:

Csele.1647:

.so they messed up warrior and mesmer… my 2 main classses. great

Wrong lol, mesmer is super strong right now with strength runes and a battle sigil. My gs auto attack is scaling from 1k on first cast to 5k on fifth cast. I am currently running the famous 20/20/0/0/30 build. (PvP)

gs damage number that are appearing on screen are bugged and are tallying all your hit together it not actually hitting for 5k.

Not bugged exactly. It’s just appearing as a single channeled attack because of the rate of fire.

Pyroathiest.4168:

Magi.8643:

KarinaCO.6948:

Csele.1647:

.so they messed up warrior and mesmer… my 2 main classses. great

Wrong lol, mesmer is super strong right now with strength runes and a battle sigil. My gs auto attack is scaling from 1k on first cast to 5k on fifth cast. I am currently running the famous 20/20/0/0/30 build. (PvP)

gs damage number that are appearing on screen are bugged and are tallying all your hit together it not actually hitting for 5k.

Not bugged exactly. It’s just appearing as a single channeled attack because of the rate of fire.

Similar to 100B for warriors. Which also had a habit of confusing people into thinking they were doing more damage than they actually were.

Munkee.3542:

You people are out of your kittening minds. If you’re using Mantras on a Mesmer, you’re playing the class wrong. Mantras blow, they always have and they always will. I can’t believe the amount of people in here freaking out over a freakin’ MANTRA change. Do yourselves a favor, go with a 10/30/0/0/30 max DPS shatter build and thank me later.

Dungeon Mesmers just took roughly a 16% damage nerf with no explanation why. Considering they were only being taken along for Time warp and reflects in the first place.

I don’t see this as a problem. This means shift 2 from domination into dueling and not worry about losing the condition removal of torch. I don’t know if its truly efficient but I’m loving the 2,6,6 build I’m using.