Guild Wars 2

My two greatest fears:

1. Throughout future expansions, people will still “only” expect you to be a quickness boonbot. I actually enjoy filling that role today. However, in the future I would like the option of playing a different role on mesmer without offending people. I see this problem as being less likely to happen as my second fear simply because it would be relatively easy to give mesmer a new elite specialization that makes its dps competitive with other classes.

2. In terms of mesmer damage, condition damage will always rain supreme over power . . . . . .always. One of the main examples of this is necro/reaper. Reaper was suppose to fill the niche of power damage for necro. However, that did not happen. Even with the reaper line, condi is still better in terms of damage. I immensely hope this doesn’t happen to mesmer. The reason I can see this happening is because of two specific traits, illusionary retribution and maim the disillusioned. These traits allow you to apply condition damage with every type of shatter, and they are in a base mesmer line. Unless the actual shatters change, power shatter damage will still only be isolated to one skill, mind wrack. This means it will be impossible to have more sustainable power damage in shatters like you can have with condi (even if the sustainable shatter problem still remains fixed with traits like chronophantasma and illusionary reversion). Additionally, what would greatly disappoint me is if the only new elite specialization in the next expansion forces you to play condi to be “high end” competitive in pvp. We all know that that elite specializations are better than playing only base specs. However, this would mean that even if the next elite specs are balanced with the old ones, your choices for competitive pvp after the next expansion would still be condi or . . . . . . .condi.