This post is not even about the mechanics we’re given with Mirage. Some of them will change until PoF launch anyway, numbers will get tweaked etc.
Now, thinking back I was incredibly disappointed with Chrono’s shield. Design-wise, that is, since shield proved to be an incredibly strong weapon that will be sorely missed if Mirage ever makes it into the meta. Still, what I really wanted was a dagger. Offhand, for the style (though I’d have taken main- and offhand). I always pictured the GW2 version of Mesmer as more along the lines of a 15th/16th century duellist, running around with a slender blade in the right hand and a main gauche in his left. Greatsword was another thing that confused me when first picking up the game, but the rather flamboyant way the Mesmer used it kinda redeemed it for me.
Seeing that Spellbreaker got both the weapon I wished for and a good portion of GW1s domination Mesmer (pBlock-variant, if you take the slow-application into account it even has some Migraine in it) was really disheartening for me (silver lining: I play warrior, too. Actually ran around with a demo Spellbreaker called ‘Is Actually Mesmer’). And as a final thrust, we get axe. Like I said, more or less clunky mechanics aside and the fact that I’m not really happy about a dedicated condi-weapon, for me it just doesn’t fit Mesmer’s theme at all. At this point in time, I feel that I’ll have to wait for a long time to get a nice dagger. I mean, what’s next? Folks have been wishing for pistol mainhand for a long time and, while I don’t particularly like it, it might even fit into the duellist theme I had in mind. It could also be that the next weapon we’re getting is .. I don’t know, warhorn? Hammer? Mace, maybe? Offhand scepter?
Well, I’ll just sit here and hope for the best.
/vent
