Low Damage: Please help me with my build
I’m pretty nub too but here is my assessment, fairly fresh 80
lol you will always do ‘low’ damage. not Low as in LOW but it wont be like the warrior who does 15k in 5 seconds. Mes does “just enough” damage then we get multiple sources of damage with phantasms.
Best way to put it is that you wont down same level mobs as fast but (if your skilled enough) you can put down mobs 5-10 levels higher and are given the skills to kite much easier than others.
It’s really strong if you focus on what your doing but it’s nature is really gimmicky. With that said it’s gimmicky but it works!
^ But this you already know by 50
However a lot of mesmer think we need tweaks and I agree… when you get to 75 open world PvE since our damage is lame you can’t tag mobs as easy during events. Our Greatsword needs to be more… Great, our Scepter is still not as desired as it could be, some people find shatters need more work ect ect ect.
Take each fight 1v1 and duel, you’ll learn the class and you can get better at learning what you personally are capable of and what your not.
as for build
Our Domination tree is pretty dismal unless you plan to go stun lock, shatter, or mantra build. dip into it for stuff you need but I wouldn’t focus on it, and with the current meta at least for tournaments we even build more tanky in tPvP (which happens to be our phantasm’s trait line in turn.)
I think crit + crit dmg is much better for power mesmer. But your still supposed to be kiting and denying damage until your foe dies. while leveling it may make it easier on you to go 20/20/20 duel/chaos/insp then last bit into either Dom or Illusions. <- this may not be optimal for your end game goal but you may find it a bit easier to level.
Also it seems 1-75 our damage really lacks it only starts to steady out into what’s considered fesable around 75-80 and even then every other class still out damages you.
Get some power and crit gear if you want stuff to die, and keep your phantasms out.
TL;DR – No we don’t do much dmg over all, need some tweaks, if your not dying your doing it right… more or less.
Side note:
I wanted to try guardian and when I could kill the first level mobs(not defense of shamore) alone with one rotation of auto attack… I felt Dirty, and didn’t want to play it, it felt sooo easy it made me feel… Wrong like if I played it to lvl 10 I’ll forget how to use a mes (as noob as I ultimately am)
I made a mes to test to see if starting mobs were nerfed (still not DoS) got 3 clones up with scepter and Mind Crushed (wracked)… and it didn’t die ><! I deleted my guardian at that point
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