Guild Wars 2

So I leveles my mesmer to 80 a while back and geared him up. I then moved to leveling my Ele and have been maining him since. I mainly just run fractals these days and there are soooo many eles. The other night my pug had 4 eles and one Guard. So my question is, is there any real need of bringing my mesmer over my ele besides just the fun factor? I know what our class can do with reflects and portal but portal is rarely needed. Just wondering as I’m trying to figure out which class im main once HoT comes out.

Heh, you answered it yourself – play mesmer for fun, play another class for efficiency.

Mesmer can do just fine in dungeons and are in several of the record-holding dungeon runs at the moment … though those teams are usually 2+ elementalists, 1 thief, 1 mesmer, 1 something else if they didn’t just take 3 elementalists.

I guess my need to be different is what draws me to mesmer. I don’t see many in my pug groups. And I always pug I guess that’s enough of a reason to focus on him over my ele.

The core for each party is at least one warrior and one ele and in general one guard OR mesmer. They both can do excellent jobs on their own, yet since mesmer is harder to perform these, most ppl (especially pugs) use guard instead. For example at caudecus manor, the mesmer has more reflection and enough condi cleanse and stability for everything the guard could do. But to drop a simple perma stabi is much easier than to time a mantra.

Mesmer are also used in record runs for reflection and time warp and they will always use a lightning hammer in those records to deal damage too. They get babysit and will babysit.

You can play a mesmer for efficiency, especially at fractals of the mists. But it’s hard to master and it will force you to retrait all the time. But yea, if you like this as much as I do, keep playing mes and become a good one, rather than a “I always stay on weaponset + utility I’ve seen at metabattle.com” mesmer …