Guild Wars 2

This mesmer weapon has always felt so unfinished and uninspired, although the torment added to Counter was a nice touch, I still wish the weapon was given more standalone power, mainly it’s auto attack. It’s skill set is just full of “situational” attacks so in the end has nothing really reliable as a main hand weapon it feels more like an off hand weapon with a weird utility auto attack.

It’s just a painfully slow, very average power only direct hit that slowly generates clones that do absolutely nothing compared to other clones (even greatsword clones attack fast enough to proc bleeds).

Just some minor suggestions.

Ether Bolt/Ether Blast – Applies 1 Torment for 2-3 seconds. (If not confusion then roll with the new condition, it fits Mesmer very well). Gives Clones some usefulness if there no shatters to use.

Or

Ether Bolt/Ether Blast – Reduces the current cooldown on Cry of Frustration by 0.5-1 seconds. The specific shatter could use the help and specializes with Sceptre a bit then, gives the clones something useful to do on shatter downtime.

Confusing Images – Piercing aoe width increased by 50-100%. Then sceptre has atleast a bit more reliable aoe with this instead of hoping to perfectly line up mobs

Confusing Images – Condensed to 2-2.5 second channel instead of 3 second. The channel is just way too long in a lot of situations just to get the 5 stack rolling, but that’s just my opinion.

Counter Spell – No longer a slow projectile, instead just an instant direct targeted blind with a little bit of splash. The super slow projectile and cast animation of this just makes it so unreliable and clunky.

I thought of making Ether Blast a bouncing attack since I felt it would be really nice for a Mesmer weapon to have a power based bouncing auto, but piercing Confusing Images is decent enough aoe (if the width was buffed), and who knows maybe a future weapon like a “Chakram” could have a bouncing auto instead.

And I understand why Anet doesn’t want confusing spamming clones and auto’s since confusion should be something that’s applied intelligently in bursts so it actually functions as punishment instead of just another passive dmg condition like bleeds, which is also why I suggest making Confusing Images cast faster, confusion should be burstier.

Anyway those are just my thoughts, hopefully it’s considered. Feel free to grill me on my ideas if you don’t agree. =p

Its auto attack speed simply needs to match the speed of the Necro scepter. That’s it. I don’t get why Anet hasn’t addressed this yet.

Honestly I was just thinking that.. why is the scepter 1 (obviously a condi weapon) 0 condition damage?

Look at Necro scepter; BLEEEDS and also procs burning weakness and awesome sauce

Don’t bother with scepter suggestions, its been one year, dozens of people gave great suggestions and what did we get? yeaaaaaah, anet doesn’t give a crap.

Darnis.4056:

Honestly I was just thinking that.. why is the scepter 1 (obviously a condi weapon) 0 condition damage?

Look at Necro scepter; BLEEEDS and also procs burning weakness and awesome sauce

You compare necro with mesmer ?) Necro buffed above godness and mesmer nerfed to the ground !

Nuka Cola.8520:

Don’t bother with scepter suggestions, its been one year, dozens of people gave great suggestions and what did we get? yeaaaaaah, anet doesn’t give a crap.

THIS. I have seen and stated (what i think) is some great ideas for the Scepter but nothing has been done and i dont think anything will be done about it.

dani.1956:

Darnis.4056:

Honestly I was just thinking that.. why is the scepter 1 (obviously a condi weapon) 0 condition damage?

Look at Necro scepter; BLEEEDS and also procs burning weakness and awesome sauce

You compare necro with mesmer ?) Necro buffed above godness and mesmer nerfed to the ground !

You keep thinking mesmer’s are nerfed to the ground, while I keep on paddling.

The Primary.6371:

dani.1956:

Darnis.4056:

Honestly I was just thinking that.. why is the scepter 1 (obviously a condi weapon) 0 condition damage?

Look at Necro scepter; BLEEEDS and also procs burning weakness and awesome sauce

You compare necro with mesmer ?) Necro buffed above godness and mesmer nerfed to the ground !

You keep thinking mesmer’s are nerfed to the ground, while I keep on paddling.

You paddle on forums but on game you are 0 !

Slow and power-based auto chain on scepter that supposed to be our condition weapon looks kind of silly.

dani.1956:

The Primary.6371:

dani.1956:

Darnis.4056:

Honestly I was just thinking that.. why is the scepter 1 (obviously a condi weapon) 0 condition damage?

Look at Necro scepter; BLEEEDS and also procs burning weakness and awesome sauce

You compare necro with mesmer ?) Necro buffed above godness and mesmer nerfed to the ground !

You keep thinking mesmer’s are nerfed to the ground, while I keep on paddling.

You paddle on forums but on game you are 0 !

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Change the scepter to a shortrange 3 target AoE shotgun attack (similar to guardian staff) that give confusion or torment every third strike and I’ll be happy. No kitten clones on auto-attack, that’s just kittened. Maybe make it pop a clone at the end of the channel for 3.

There’s nothing that’s going to fix the auto-attack short of a complete replacement.

How to fix scepter:
-Add MH Pistol, make it full power MH ranged weapon
-Turn Scepter in full condition weapon instead of this undetermined an unfinished crap, with bleed or something on a better animated and designed autoattack and few tweaks to 2nd and 3rd skills
-profit

AndrewSX.3794:

How to fix scepter:
-Add MH Pistol, make it full power MH ranged weapon
-Turn Scepter in full condition weapon instead of this undetermined an unfinished crap, with bleed or something on a better animated and designed autoattack and few tweaks to 2nd and 3rd skills
-profit

Power already has a Melee weapon – its called the sword. SO it annoys me when Scepter can be ALOT better in Power builds :/

I would LOVE MH Pistol though, i dont think it will get added any time soon, Power Range already has Greatsword.

Nuka Cola.8520:

Don’t bother with scepter suggestions, its been one year, dozens of people gave great suggestions and what did we get? yeaaaaaah, anet doesn’t give a crap.

This.

They just don’t care, and if they don’t care after 1 year, why should I?

ether bolt’s chain goes faster the closer you are to your target