Guild Wars 2

I love mesmer, but throughout playing it, I have one real complain and that’s its AoE.

I run a power build, so I use greatsword as my ranged AoE with berserker phantasm as the strongest form of that. Mind Stab is my major complaint.

While the Berserker is good, it often dies before hitting anything so it’s not reliable and Mind Stab’s radius is very small. I understand Anet took a daze out of mind stab but didn’t change anything else with the attack and that’s a mistake imo.

Shatter is also a good AoE but like I said before, illusions often die before attacking esp in AoE situations because of the large amount of mobs.

I would say fixing Mind Stab would be the best solution to this. Increase its radius, lower its damage slightly and make it spam-able. Using your single target on single target should always be best of course, and balance that accordingly but giving Mesmer an AoE like the other classes is needed.

I use Chaos Storm, Phantasmal Warden, and Feedback, as my only real AoE skills. They combo especially well together. But I’ve never really felt like I needed more AoE skills.

Derek, berserker is not working as intented right now, he is buggy. He has a too high delay after spawning before he damages and his attacks are sometimes missing and do less damage as they should. That results in berserker getting killed before he can do his damage.
They “promised” to fix him.

Mind stab is just taking up space on the action bar as it is now. There are very few instances where it is a good idea to root yourself down and use it.

Navi.7142:

Derek, berserker is not working as intented right now, he is buggy. He has a too high delay after spawning before he damages and his attacks are sometimes missing and do less damage as they should. That results in berserker getting killed before he can do his damage.
They “promised” to fix him.

That’s good to know! But I also agree with the guy above me that mind stab is pretty useless atm :]

give Mind Stab a blast finisher and increase its radius, so simple but they ignore everything. There’s so many ways to make this skill shine but they just don’t give a pew pew.

Well, we don’t have ‘reliable AoE’ in the sense that we need a target to cast phantasms and such. Even then, that AoE is very specific/unique. If you’re doing a dynamic event or farming, you (particularly phantasm-build Mesmers) may not be able to do enough for gold medals or tag enough mobs before they’re obliterated by all the other classes whirling blade spinning and firestorming spawn points.

I am not a fan of ground target skills, but when farming events/mobs I often do feel pangs of pain in trying to tag everything and compete with other classes. It’s quite lacking there.

I really think farming now adays really has to do with wat world you are in i know some worlds ive been in thiers really not many people in orr at all for events i would say a max of like 7 or 8. but if ur in a populated world then thats pretty much your fault really id say transfer to a more low populated world rather than staying in one that u really cant tag anything because the abundance of players but i understand we shouldnt have to do that just to do events etc.etc. Its also always good to have an alt for these types of things but im pretty sure alot of people like to farm karma and sure that is character bound right thier except for the jugs so that also sucks :p

My Mesmer just retraited into a shatter build – Mindblade

The build is traited mainly with illusionary persona (shatter effect on me) and restorative illusion (shatter heal me), shatter also give me vigor and might.

I often start off with Mirror blade>Mind stab>iZerker switch to 1hS / pistol, Illusionary leap > swap > F1 shatter > Blurred frenzy; switch target > phantasmal duelist > magic bullet > Mirror image > F2 shatter then switch back to GS with the same loop again.

This way could make loops of AoE burst again and again. The close range is danger but the shatter heal keeps me in good shape even within groups of risens. The AoE burst provide roughly 3.5k damage each loop on my not fully geared mesmer.