Guild Wars 2

Shame it’s on warrior though.

Mesmer is suffering.

lol I read the title and expected Warrior post. xD

Fay.2357:

Shame it’s on warrior though.

Was thinking exactly the same^^

Ele gets stances with charge but no Mantra cast time…

Ele looks insane.

TyPin.9860:

Fay.2357:

Shame it’s on warrior though.

Was thinking exactly the same^^

Someone has to, nobody’s posted to the Warrior forums yet.

Here we go, WP talking about Spellbreaker now…

Ele is ridiculous. It clearly got all the love this expansion.

Why tf did Warrior, the profession with the most weapons already, get 2 weapons with the elite spec?

OriOri.8724:

Why tf did Warrior, the profession with the most weapons already, get 2 weapons with the elite spec?

Too scary to give mesmer more than 3 skills, we might actually enjoy it.

I like the way the Mirage looks. Just as I imagined it.

Oh kitten, I’m already terrified of Spellbreaker… :o

Oh kitten , deadeye next – he’ll get to mirage eventually. :/

Mirage looks so cool…

I’m not a condi fan but I love the playstyle. Maybe it’s even viable with Sword… we’ll see.

Axe 3 looks like ileap on steroids. I like the look of that.

These specs look awful honestly. I mean they look fun, but the powercreep is absolutely insane. I was hoping they would have learned from HoT, but this is kitten honestly. The specs WP talked about are ridiculously overpowered. Beyond broken.

Axe has some cool skills but is still based around kittening torment and confusion.
Deceptions means we still aren’t going to have any decent utilities for PvE.
The glimpses of traits we saw look pretty mediocre, especially compared to what the other specs seem to be getting. Mirage gets a grandmaster trait that causes a small amount of bleeding when we dodge, Scourge inflicts burn when they inflict torment, yeah.
No new shatters.
Trying to trick any half decent player we are actually a clone is just never going to work.
He kept claiming that Mirage was way over tuned but I am not seeing it.
At least Axe seems to have an actual leap.

The play style looks fun but I’m not really sold on it and I don’t think it will help fix the problems we have in PvE.

Red Haired Savage.5430:

TyPin.9860:

Fay.2357:

Shame it’s on warrior though.

Was thinking exactly the same^^

Someone has to, nobody’s posted to the Warrior forums yet.

I corrected that mistake^^

Lack of new F skills is a shame – shatters don’t really fit thematically with this whole blend in idea, though comboing ambush into shatter will make for some disgusting condi burst in pvp. Though of course it will be nerfed before then.

And yeah I’m sceptical of the whole pretend to be a clone thing – but if they say like Axe 3 forces detargeting hopefully there could be more mechanics like that so that enemies have to constantly retarget you.

I like how he acted like Scepter was some amazing OP 4 unloads in one skill and then he shows it off and each unload does 600 damage.

There was also a Grandmaster trait that broke stun and cleansed a condition on using dodge (whatever the new mechanic is called). So even if it is difficult to necessarily avoid detection and successfully blend in, locking you down may turn out to be very hard. Or, well, at least long enough for some of that crazy condi burst to do its work (mesmer cloak = auto attack becomes “stealth” attack = all clones get that too).

All the specs do look crazy op. Apparently there are coming (major?) adjustments to current elite specs to help focus them and give better distinction with the coming ones. The concept of the spec (hiding in plain sight) is pretty sweet … well, all of them were pretty sweet. Very beautiful all around.

We are the kitten children of GW2.

TyPin.9860:

Red Haired Savage.5430:

TyPin.9860:

Fay.2357:

Shame it’s on warrior though.

Was thinking exactly the same^^

Someone has to, nobody’s posted to the Warrior forums yet.

I corrected that mistake^^

Lol, you’re probably just going to confuse my fellow warriors. Darn tricksy hobbitses, I mean mesmers.

OriOri.8724:

These specs look awful honestly. I mean they look fun, but the powercreep is absolutely insane. I was hoping they would have learned from HoT, but this is kitten honestly. The specs WP talked about are ridiculously overpowered. Beyond broken.

Well… is this a surprise?

I mean this entirely seriously. GW2 has no increasing item level and no increasing player level. With HoT they did exactly as expected, used a rampant power boost across the board as their own version of boosting player power. And ofc now with PoF it happens again.

Same as any other MMO increasing player level, there is really nothing surprising about this :o

OriOri.8724:

These specs look awful honestly. I mean they look fun, but the powercreep is absolutely insane. I was hoping they would have learned from HoT, but this is kitten honestly. The specs WP talked about are ridiculously overpowered. Beyond broken.

The equation is simple:

does the expansion bring in more new/returning players compared to the nerfs scare away which will hit weeks after release of the expansion.

Otherwise they can trash their entire elite specialisation system down the road.

Well, Fay, we’re in agreement this time.

Fay.2357:

Shame it’s on warrior though.

It’s insane, half the effects on Spellbreaker look exactly how mesmer skill should look except in gold and not purple.

Why not, it’s not as though warrior wasn’t already one of the most played classes. Let’s give them even more cool stuff.

I don;t even care any more. I main mesmer and warrior for raids and have enough classes fully geared to switch to whatever class is needed and I find fun. Seriously doubting mesmer will be it for the next expansion.

It’ll be nice to be able to finally solo stuff in open world though if axe does provide some sort of consisten dps boost.

Cyninja.2954:

It’ll be nice to be able to finally solo stuff in open world though if axe does provide some sort of consisten dps boost.

Its confusion and torment based.

I suppose our main damage will still come from sharper images. Now with mirage instead of chaos.

I really want to make a Warrior right now…

Levetty.1279:

Cyninja.2954:

It’ll be nice to be able to finally solo stuff in open world though if axe does provide some sort of consisten dps boost.

Its confusion and torment based.

I’ll give arenanet so much that I do think it’ll be better dps than our current builds with less of a hassle mechanic.

I mean we will improve from terrible at solo to mediocre at solo.

Let me have my small rays of light, they are so far between for this class.

Now all that is left is for one of the other support specs to outshine chrono (which considering the powercreep seen so far is very likely) and mesmer won’t be meta of any kind.

This way we can at least play the class in open world, somewhat.

Working as intended.

Cyninja.2954:

Levetty.1279:

Cyninja.2954:

It’ll be nice to be able to finally solo stuff in open world though if axe does provide some sort of consisten dps boost.

Its confusion and torment based.

I’ll give arenanet so much that I do think it’ll be better dps than our current builds with less of a hassle mechanic.

I mean we will improve from terrible at solo to mediocre at solo.

Let me have my small rays of light, they are so far between for this class.

Now all that is left is for one of the other support specs to outshine chrono (which considering the powercreep seen so far is very likely) and mesmer won’t be meta of any kind.

This way we can at least play the class in open world, somewhat.

Working as intended.

They won’t even give us the Confusion or Torment buffs that Base Rev or Scourge got.

They won’t even give our DPS spec a damage trait.

And here I am, still waiting for my Mainhand Pistol for Mesmers since 2012…

Aveneo.2068:

And here I am, still waiting for my Mainhand Pistol for Mesmers since 2012…

Bah, mainhand Focus.

Carighan.6758:

OriOri.8724:

These specs look awful honestly. I mean they look fun, but the powercreep is absolutely insane. I was hoping they would have learned from HoT, but this is kitten honestly. The specs WP talked about are ridiculously overpowered. Beyond broken.

Well… is this a surprise?

I mean this entirely seriously. GW2 has no increasing item level and no increasing player level. With HoT they did exactly as expected, used a rampant power boost across the board as their own version of boosting player power. And ofc now with PoF it happens again.

Same as any other MMO increasing player level, there is really nothing surprising about this :o

Honestly yes, it did surprise me. Given how poorly received the powercreep in HoT was, I was expecting them to not repeat the same mistakes. Except some of the elite specs teased were worse than what HoT brought.