Guild Wars 2

Since the very first HoT beta weekend – this phantasm was bugged, not being affected by phantasmal haste.

How can it take ANet so long to finally fix this? They must know this by now, it has been posted a hundred times already. Or do they just not care at all? Or is it even intended?! #balance and stuff???

Please fix this already – so we can use anything else too but 3 iAvengers ~.~

mesmer’s focus, Temporal Curtain, took 3 years to fix.
So I am guessing between 9 month to 1 and a half year.

BTW, don’t you guys feel like shield is very underwhelming ATM?
First they nerf blocking duration from 2 1/4 sec and 2 1/4 sec to 1 1/2 and 1 1/2, and we are ok with it? i mean the usual block of shield is 3 sec but mesmer having it split which is not equal to full block of 3 sec.
Also the damage from iAvenger is abyssmal too

Excuse me?! shield 4 was ridiculously op in pvp and terrible in pve, now it’s amazing – and shield 5 is one of our strongest skills aswell one of the strongest skills in the entire game. The shield is amazing, nothing else to say.

Hlord.5940:

mesmer’s focus, Temporal Curtain, took 3 years to fix.
So I am guessing between 9 month to 1 and a half year.

BTW, don’t you guys feel like shield is very underwhelming ATM?
First they nerf blocking duration from 2 1/4 sec and 2 1/4 sec to 1 1/2 and 1 1/2, and we are ok with it? i mean the usual block of shield is 3 sec but mesmer having it split which is not equal to full block of 3 sec.
Also the damage from iAvenger is abyssmal too

working with alacrity the cd of phantasm skills got reduce so 3 sec every 12 sec is great unless you phantasm is killed before you shatter

Xyonon.3987:

Excuse me?! shield 4 was ridiculously op in pvp and terrible in pve, now it’s amazing – and shield 5 is one of our strongest skills aswell one of the strongest skills in the entire game. The shield is amazing, nothing else to say.

Luckily thats your opinion. I hate shield, it feels clucky. Shield 5 is nice but I dont like #4 on it plus the tracking on 5 doesnt allows come back to me which is annoying. It wasnt even OP in PvP before it was nerfed, more annoying because it carried bads. I’d rather take off hand Sword. Sure its one block but it can crit pretty dang hard, its also a daze, the phantasm hits like a truck. So yeah. To me shield is again, like so many of our off hands, situational.

Ok, my point is that they shold just give us full 3 sec block, the first phantasm spawn at 1 1/2 mark and the the second will spawn at the end if we got hit because let face it a full block of 3 sec is more usefull than having split it and taking some random damage during the split.
Also how did you get it recharge to 12 sec? echo of memory effect by Persistence of Memory and Illusionist’s Celerity too?

It took something like 3-4 patches containing the note ‘Phantasmal haste now works’ before phantasmal haste actually worked. I expect nothing less for this one.

Hlord.5940:

mesmer’s focus, Temporal Curtain, took 3 years to fix.
So I am guessing between 9 month to 1 and a half year.

BTW, don’t you guys feel like shield is very underwhelming ATM?
First they nerf blocking duration from 2 1/4 sec and 2 1/4 sec to 1 1/2 and 1 1/2, and we are ok with it? i mean the usual block of shield is 3 sec but mesmer having it split which is not equal to full block of 3 sec.
Also the damage from iAvenger is abyssmal too

Are you seriously complaining about your shield block? At least you HAVE a shield block…

-Jaded guardian main

Jace al Thor.6745:

Xyonon.3987:

Excuse me?! shield 4 was ridiculously op in pvp and terrible in pve, now it’s amazing – and shield 5 is one of our strongest skills aswell one of the strongest skills in the entire game. The shield is amazing, nothing else to say.

Luckily thats your opinion. I hate shield, it feels clucky. Shield 5 is nice but I dont like #4 on it plus the tracking on 5 doesnt allows come back to me which is annoying. It wasnt even OP in PvP before it was nerfed, more annoying because it carried bads. I’d rather take off hand Sword. Sure its one block but it can crit pretty dang hard, its also a daze, the phantasm hits like a truck. So yeah. To me shield is again, like so many of our off hands, situational.

The shield is definitely one of our strongest off-hand. It has a strong defensive skill (block), also providing a phantasm giving a powerful debuff to enemies and strong buff to allies (still decent after the alacrity nerf), and shield 5 has actually very decent damage and is possibly the strongest CC skill mesmer weapons provide.

Honestly, I don’t see what more we could ask for a SHIELD. If you want damage, yes, take sword off-hand, that’s pretty much the only thing the sword oh provides.

I posted this thread in the new reddit thread.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/48v1x4/announcing_the_known_issue_tracker

Unfortunately the “Known Issue List” does not include a single mesmer bug.

If there are other known mesmer bugs, please post it on the reddit post too or let me know and I’ll update my post there.

Edit: We have a forum thread too: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Announcing-the-Known-Issue-Tracker

It’s safe to say that ANet just doesn’t see mesmer bugs as bugs. The issue tracker is more or less a “bugs we actually may bother fixing someday” list.