Guild Wars 2

Hello.

I just started playing and after reading these posts about the nerfs on mesmer, im considering changing to a different class.

I just dont know if it is worth losing a lot of power to remain efficient.

The Mesmer would fullfill both PVE/PVP/WvW.

But since i dont really know a lot about the class, i was hoping some of you could help me.

Mesmer didn’t get any significant nerfs, we just got nothing good. No new worthwhile traits, only 1 significant bugfix out of the many we were promised…

Pyroathiest.4168:

Mesmer didn’t get any significant nerfs, we just got nothing good. No new worthwhile traits, only 1 significant bugfix out of the many we were promised…

We did get the Empowering Mantras switch, which was a pretty big hit to the most effective PvE builds. There are workarounds now, so it’s not a huge hit, but it was still not great.

I don’t think it made the class very much worse than it already was in comparison to others, though.

While the EM switch certainly hurt PvE, it opened up some interesting build opportunities for PvP/WvW.

In a long term i wanted to use Mesmer for PVP/WvW.

I can´t see how PvE would interest me the slightest.

Although this class seems to be sort of a fail pick compared to others.

It is easy to spot the “real” you and it lacks power due to fact that if you go beserker for armor, you lose a lot of crit.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/Guide-Lyssa-s-Grimoire-The-Mesmer-Handbook

This is the major guide for mesmers, having the main gameplay mechanics and build-types that are used. It should probably answer most questions you have about the class.

well, thank you, i will check it out.

Mesmer is still great for roaming in WvW, imo the best profession beating out thieves simply because most roaming thief builds don’t really stand a chance against an equally skilled mesmer. Not much changed at all about that with the patch.

If it is blob zerging you care for mesmers are still complete kitten at tagging, doing aoe/cleave damage and surviving, the patch didn’t change much at all there either.

PvP mesmers were and are middle of the pack, again patch changed little to nothing there.

Rainbowtwist.6102:

it lacks power due to fact that if you go beserker for armor, you lose a lot of crit.

lolwut.
I could understand you saying the survivability is low, but Berserker armor has a lot of power/crit. The damage is fine.