I’m sorry, I should have clarified I meant in terms of weapon; I think trait builds are diverse and you can usually use several weapons to for example PU in WvW or such. I really like that about mesmer and GW2 for most classes.
But, PvE just is the mode where all that is thrown out of the window more or less, weaponwise. I do find that as a longterm design problem, since it just needlessly sees many weapons unused. Maybe they’ll have a solution for it down the line, like bringing ranged closer or offering unique mechanics. Or offering us another melee weapon. Just, anything for weapon diversity.
I don’t think anyone disagrees that weapons could be better balanced for PvE. That’s hardly a problem unique to mesmers though.
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