Guild Wars 2

Ive been playing Mesmer since i start playing gw2, i have made alts of amost every other class but Mesmer has taken 90% of my play time. 80% of my pvp matches are with mesmer. i liked and played almost all mesmer builds, PU condi, shatter, Lockdown, but i just cant make my self like the WELL`s based gameplay of chrono, its just so anti-mesmer-ish, to be more specific , although i can see its use in pvp, i just feel that lacks PvE usability.

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Immensus.9732:

Ive been playing Mesmer since i start playing gw2, i have made alts of amost every other class but Mesmer has taken 90% of my play time. 80% of my pvp matches are with mesmer. i liked and played almost all mesmer builds, PU condi, shatter, Lockdown, but i just cant make my self like the WELL`s based gameplay of chrono, its just so anti-mesmer-ish, to be more specific , although i can see its use in pvp, i just feel that lacks PvE usability.

Alacrity sharing increases party dps by more than a dedicated dps mesmer. The playstyle is similar to glamour bombs before they were nerfed, but that may be before your time. However the playstyle does need to be similar to any on mesmer because elite specs are supposed to give new playstyles.

Chronomancer is absolutely not requiring of wells. In fact, condi builds probably won’t use them since they need the slots for other skills, and just spec chronomancer for the CD-reset, the clone generation and the phantasm recycling.

Keep in mind that Wells aren’t required. They are a part of our extended tools set, which can be incorporated into a build, should we so choose. It’s optional.

One place Wells can be of use, is through on-point denial. The same way a Chaos Storm can convince your enemies to move off-point for a short while, Wells is going to have this same effect. This can be effective when trying to de- and/or cap.

It is likely going to be more useful when you run with a zerg in World vs. World as well, giving us far more AoE possibilities than we can currently output, given the way our illusions are paper and explode before they can do anything at all, within a clash. With Wells, we can shift some focus away from largely harassing the side lines, with some engagement on the enemy cluster, to it becoming a larger split of focusing our damage and support within the clashes themselves (—still maintaining our role as side line harassers, using our illusions there).

In PvE; Chill on enemies + Alacrity to you and allies (both with Well of Recall and the All’s Well that Ends Well Trait), Slow to enemies + Quickness to you and allies, Blur to you and allies, Condition Removal + Heal to you and allies, and so on forth. There’s use for them in PvE too. Should you choose to want to do so.

Wells aside; The Shield in its current BW3 form will allow for Mesmers to more easily run with the allied zerg (or the melees if you like), through the enemy clashes, while at the same time providing support through on-block Blind (+ Confusion) from using our Ineptitude Trait, and/or even spreading out some Burning, should you opt to use the Superior Guardian Runes set. There’s Traits that is absolutely amazing for pretty much any facet of Mesmer gameplay within the Chronomancer too. Be that giving illusions Superspeed when shattering, Alacrity to yourself for faster recharges, a clone back on shattering two illusions, Quickness on shattering or Phantasms back on their first shatter. All of which benefits shatter builds, Phantasm builds, or even condition builds. It’s also giving us options for adding further effects to our interrupts, through the application of Slow, and with that again having synergy with the trait that increases our Critical Chance by 30% on slowed enemies, it can be rather “easy” to reach (short) periods of time with 100% Critical Chance, for some great burst potential (more applicable to PvP, since Anet is terrible at making interrupt-oriented traits usable in actual “boss” fights—fix this, Anet, seriously! E.g., make some attacks possible to interrupt in every encounter within the game, which occurs relatively frequent. It’s a big part of our Trait options and Skills—not to mention our GW heritage—it’s rather sad how the Breakbar and Defiance renders it useless).

Chronomancer is more than Wells. If you don’t want to use them, by all means, you can use Chronomancer for the Traits and ignore the Utility Skills. You don’t need to use the Shield if you don’t want it either, although it’s freaking amazing as it was refined in BW3. R.Gee, the hero we need.
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I found chrono played better without wells for PvP. Unless you are in a premade the support abilities are wasted. I would only ever use 1 well at a time, and that would Gravity or Calamity, and that was until the novelty wore off.

But there’s so many quality of life benefits:
- 25% movement speed
- can stack anti cc condition duration reduction with hoelbrak/melandru etc
- chronophantasma (which ought to be a baseline mechanic at least for the pve players)
- alacrity
- F5
- superspeed illusions on shatter

You might not like Chrono but Chrono is strictly better than Mesmer like a shiny new replacement card. None of the other elites can say that since there more balanced than chrono and mes but you get everything that makes a mesmer a mesmer and an F5 skill!?

The other classes had there F skills thrown out the window and replaced or at the very least altered however the chrono is an addition without change. Not a fan of chrono to all that myself but I’m going to be one my main is Mesmer after all.

Doam.8305:

The other classes had there F skills thrown out the window and replaced or at the very least altered however the chrono is an addition without change.

In what way did the Druid F* skills get changed? How about Warrior when not activating the Berserk? The Scrapper sure changed up the F* skills, did it not? The Daredevil changed theirs right? Tempest, those surely changed the Attunements beyond giving them additional effects through Overload which can be activated 5 seconds after swapping, oh.. wait. Herald totally changes up the Revenant, am I right?—it’s not as if you mainly just gain access to Glint.

Yeah.. Reaper and Dragonhunter changes stuff the most, and it’s not massive differences. Dragonhunter Virtues are basically the same as Guardian with their Passives, though arguably better on their Active abilities. Yes, we get a new shatter. Other elite specializations gets new things too with their profession mechanics.