Guild Wars 2

Despite the nerf & my ranting from last night, i just still love my new mesmer.
I’m just hoping they wont be to harsh on the nerfing.

Robert Gee overall did a great job & have done a great thing for mesmer players. He made it fun again!

& i’m not saying there’s still not a bit of fixing. I’m just saying it’s fun to play a mesmer that dosent down in 2 sec, or stuns for 15, or locks into place for ever from a single arrow.

For once, it feels awesome to have a fighting chance vs crippling or bursting classes. Yes it did force mesmer players to develop true playing skill. Witch is about timing & kiting all the time. & we are using it to it’s full potential.

Applying our skill’s we’ve learn, does makes us dangerous to most classes. In the long run, the other classes will developed skill’s of there own & will counter. It’s already showing.

Since the last 2 days, i’m having a blast experimenting & watching youtube video’s from other players trying out different ways to play the mesmer. From squishy & hits hard to medium & fair damage to tanky & full on support but very little damage output. All of them fun to play. …depending on your mood.

My favorite is in medium category. A PU build that lets you dish out descent amount of damage from shatters. But lets you survive by giving you time while invisible to reset & re-position urself. DOES THAT MAKE ME INVULNERABLE? No. But you are a nagging flea that does a bit more then sting! Especially to players that are use to a free lunch. hahaha.. You know who you are.

We are definitely harder to track & kill compare to before. & past 2 days, i’ve seen my share of salty spvp players that are use to a good trolling for an easy prey & kill. No bingo this time. You feel it it in there tone voice & comments on chat. The frustration cuz it’s so harder now! why cant they have it easy like it use to be. lol

how things have turned since this patch!

I got to admit, i feel a certain amount of satisfaction being able to match against does same trolls…..oups.. i mean players. & i’m not the only one. May the best win.

ThQ Robert Gee.

This is the first time that I felt where other classes had to adjust to us as opposed to us adjusting to them all the time. But I feel thing will go back to the way they were before revamp where we’re nerfed to oblivion while other classes get a pass cause “balance”.

I wish I had your optimism. Sadly Anet has robbed me of it.

If you were to decent player you already did good before the patch. Thanks to Confounding Suggestions and PU being OP, you are now able to melt thieves the moment they become visible and outstealth them if not.

Sure, it’s fun, but it’s not balanced.

If thieves can melt us I don’t see why we can’t. Besides I’ll never stop nagging on Anet’s ability to nerf/balance as long as that horrid Consume Plasma stays.

It’s not that I’m asking the devs not to nerf us at all, its inevitable. But their approach and activity is horrendous. What I expect is for them to look at EVERY class and not just us. The first few patches haven’t shown any good indication. I’m just hoping they prove me wrong.

Of course they should look at every class and i think the same about Consume Plasma as you or every other mesmer does. But this is the mesmer forum, so we should do what we can to get our class balanced and believe in the other classes’ players or go to their forums ourselves to get them right.

Alright fair enough. Cheers to the upcoming tumultuous weeks.

I have to agree with the OP. Overall, I enjoy the patch too. I don’t like the Sledgehammer approach to balancing either, but I have to say when I read the Engie forum threads about their nerf to Mortar, I started to calm down a bit and realize that perhaps I too am not being as objective as I thought. ;-)

Not even a judgement on Mortar, I have really no idea how OPd it was or wasn’t, but the thread looks identical to our “sky is falling” threads.

Maybe it’s good they use a Sledgehammer first, the only problem is that we have have zero trust in them going back to fix what they clearly broke. It could take months or years, and Mesmers know this better than most.

Still I totally agree with Vieux. The new Mesmer is much more competitive all around. There are more competitive builds all around as well, with support options that are likely to change the meta even.

I know some elitists would like to call this a bad thing for the profession, but that’s just silly. It’s still just as skillful to play as before, only you get more reward for playing well and perhaps slightly less punishment for not being godly yourself, with a godly connection, a godly PC, etc.

Sure that means the skill floor is slightly lower, but the ceiling is at least equal or mabey even higher. We’ll find that out in the coming weeks/months.

I’m a clone-bomber who’s not a big fan of shattering, and I’m going to miss my auto-exploding clones, but overall I do like where things are going.

The frenetic buff/nerf cycle we’re in is pretty typical for the immediate aftermath of a big balance path — and this one’s pretty big — but I think Robert has made some strong statements about Mesmer by way of its new design, and “wimpy” isn’t one of them.

It will not last. One-shotting people from insanely long stealth while having all the boons in the world is certainly fun. Still, one could hope that people know pu will certainly be nerfed soon and there is not AGAIN all this crying that mesmers are being unfairly treated once it is (although of course there will be).

Tissitra.4153:

It will not last. One-shotting people from insanely long stealth while having all the boons in the world is certainly fun. Still, one could hope that people know pu will certainly be nerfed soon and there is not AGAIN all this crying that mesmers are being unfairly treated once it is (although of course there will be).

Oh plz.. you get 1 random boon outta of 5 out of PU trait.
second of all.. everybody 1 shots squishy’s. thief is the best of them all outta of stealth.

Tissitra.4153:

It will not last. One-shotting people from insanely long stealth while having all the boons in the world is certainly fun. Still, one could hope that people know pu will certainly be nerfed soon and there is not AGAIN all this crying that mesmers are being unfairly treated once it is (although of course there will be).

From what i’ve seen most mesmers will agree that PU needs to be looked at. I think the thing that is worrying is the nerf to both MtD and Chaotic Dampening which imo were uncalled for, especially so soon

I personally would like for them to keep the stealth duration (or slightly reduced) but reduce the damage you can do from stealth so that the ability can be used more as a utility/defensive spell rather than an offensive spell. This would help keep its functionality intact for PVE and WvW where long duration stealths can come in handy.

I’m glad you are.

Personally I’m not liking iLeap/Swap and I’m hating MtD.

The thing I love most about this patch is traited Mirror heal and of course IP baseline. But I feel for my most recent playstyle before the patch, it is a few steps forward and also a few steps back.

Naaaa.. PU is fine as is boyz….. It gives to does who like to play servivorbility the ability to do so. Damage Burst has not change except they merged stuff to shakes up the meta. & it has.

Classes needs to work around it. & as i said, there starting to. I bin downed lots of times by every single classes since the new patch. humm. that’s says something???!!

For Example, i got 1 shoted by a ranger condi freaking trap.!!!! Walk right into it. Since i dint have any cleans i was dead in 2 seconds after. & yes it was op.. but i was cool with it. It challenged me to be careful next time or to change my strategy. I can tell you, 2 games in a row, that trap kill off most of my team. & maintained mid caps most of the games. & they won both times.

So plzz.. pretty plzz. stop whinning bottle & find ways to kill mesmers instead of calling for the easy road & try to nerf it . Instead start by learning new strategies & learn how to play.

It cant just be button mash 1-2-3… Gw2 is more then that. It’s timing & it’s math.
Learn it…. & learn the tricks

(mesmers) WE did!

I miss the reflect on blurred frenzy…

Caelus.7139:

I miss the reflect on blurred frenzy…

holly cow dude, really..? I mean the new reflect is awesome & works finally well. But dang, you have to time it well or get 1 shoted.

VieuxP +100000 on this… its just.. other profession tends to not thinking, ans smash things… comapre to mesmers hard life.. we learn the harder way… thats why we now crush any1. We have far more skill cos of this “Adaptality” wahtever they toss/nerf at us.

Michal.4513:

VieuxP +100000 on this… its just.. other profession tends to not thinking, ans smash things… comapre to mesmers hard life.. we learn the harder way… thats why we now crush any1. We have far more skill cos of this “Adaptality” wahtever they toss/nerf at us.

Your so right. I mean already, my spvp buds already adapting & kicking me back cuz the meta changed. They learned off the bat to switch from squishy power easy killing machine to a more medium hits ok but tankier & cleansing build. the fights are longer & the one who looses is usually the one who makes strategy mistakes. In time, there will be no easy kill’s. Just longer fights

& i’m loving the fact that my PU mesmer gives me the ability fight longer now. I’m having a blast.

Vieux P.1238:

Caelus.7139:

I miss the reflect on blurred frenzy…

holly cow dude, really..? I mean the new reflect is awesome & works finally well. But dang, you have to time it well or get 1 shoted.

It was really great against pewpewrangers back then, and often times those pesky stealth immob sb thieves. I used it quite often so have to adjust now x_x