Guild Wars 2

So is anyone else thinking this Living Story update is focusing mainly on the Mesmer?

Kasmeer is a mesmer, the tower was veiled by a mesmer enchantment, hallucinations are part of a Mesmer’s lore and fighting style.

They did it with the Winds of Change boss in gw1 where they gave us a “sample” of the Mesmer for gw2…

Do you think we’ll get a skill that causes hallucinations? (Like change screen colors)

I’m going to guess that it’s about scarlet being TOTALLY KA-RAZY XD 2randum for no reason other than a lack of good writers.

Actually I have been thinking about that too. It’s just too ‘mesmery’ skill. Like we have a unique distortion skill, we should also get hallucination (maybe shared with necros)…

I think it’s anet’s “low hanging fruit” way of storytelling. If they need a plot device, they go straight for asuran tech. If they want to explain an illusion, it’s always mesmer magic. I wouldn’t mind this so much if there was more thought put into it. For instance, if we have to use an asuran device, I would prefer a story where we tracked down a specialist, help them collect the materials needed, work out the bugs and kinks (which could be a way of unlocking the skills the device uses) and THEN use the device for story reasons. I would even accept an old device that was retrofitted to work in a new way. I just don’t want to be handed what I need from the start all the time.