Guild Wars 2

Hello everyone I made a similar thread in the Warrior forum and it had a great turn out (aside from the little bit of arguing that occurred). I’m hoping for a similar effect here.

I will be making topics in the other profession forums as well because I want to aggregate all the comments and the best way to do so would be to post in each profession’s individual forum instead of just placing it in Players Helping Players because the professions’ forums get more traffic and are filled with players most knowledgeable about that particular profession!

Anyways, now with that out of the way I would like to know: What makes the Mesmer appealing to you?

Why do you enjoy playing the profession? It could be based on its theme or for other gameplay reasons, perhaps you enjoy the diverse amount of options available to the profession? Tell me anything and everything!

Mesmer was actually my first main profession when the game began and I have just always wanted a spellsword class that could be well represented in an RPG AND that didn’t have to wear heavy armor. Arena Net pretty much nailed the vision I had except for the heavy use of illusions. While I no longer play it (for the time being) it is the profession I was instantly drawn to even before GW2 released when I was introduced to it in GW1 and will always be near and dear to my heart.

Pink
Butterflies
Time/Space manipulation
Visual/aural effects of skills
Active mechanics
Unique/original concepts – ie Greatsword
Non-stereotypical fantasy genre class, unlike all the other peasant classes.

• Closest thing to a Psionicist in the game
• Crazy Time/Space mangling abilities
• Manly enough to kill you with pink/purple butterflies, for crying out loud.

Curunen.8729:

Pink
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Non-stereotypical fantasy genre class, unlike all the other peasant classes.

I giggled.

But yes, what they said.
It’s also a nostalgic thing, as a mesmer was my main in allllll of gw2

Because I have played many mmo’s and tried many different class’s/professions and none feel as unique as the mesmer and I like to be different hence making a new mesmer thats a charr :p

Curunen.8729:

Pink
Butterflies

It’s like 90% about the pink butterflies.

The clone/phantasm mechanic is also pretty unique. It’s a cool niche between traditional “pet” classes and Final Fantasy-style summon magic.

Kill people with butterflies.

Unique look and feel to the class and its abilities.

Special abilities that only you get (Timewarp, Portal, Mass Invis).

There can be 4+ of me at a time … feast your eyes on this sexy Norn ladies and gents!

Wearing a dressy outfit in the middle of a warzone isn’t out-of-place as a Mesmer.

It used to heavily punish groups of bad players that just spammed abilities … before confusion was nerfed

Clones
Portals

• Mesmer is a challenging class to play
• It strokes my cerebral cortex. “The cerebral cortex plays a key role in memory, attention, perceptual awareness, thought, language, and consciousness.”
• Purrrrrr

It’s the most aggressive class in the game, by far. Even when we’re on the defensive, we turn our defensive cool downs into devastating counterattacks. Remember that we fill a similar role to a Thief, usually, but we don’t have the runaway or disengage of a Thief. We can’t make gap like a Thief can. So it’s necessary to be fast and violent and make our opponents flustered.

In martial arts, there’s a bit of a yin-yang parallel called hard and soft styles or skills. Hard involves directly breaking things, hitting a bone to break it. One that omits force. Soft involves indirectly injuring the opponent, conserving energy. In this case, one who receives force and manipulates it to become one’s own.

I feel like mesmer, while having its fair amount of hard abilities, is a specialist in softness, and I don’t just mean the butterflies. Confusion and torment to turn the opponent’s recklessness every move against them, reflection literally sends their attack force back at them, interrupts deny the opponent momentum and increase our own, clone-death traits makes the opponent’s aggressiveness into their demise, and our very mechanic of illusions buy us the time and cover we need to set up and react to the opponent’s moves in such a way that we can benefit from their actions. Other classes are not nearly as specialized for softness as mesmer.

Basically, I love our role as a controller. Plus, mind-mage and purple and butterflies.

My favorite colors are magenta and purple.

Space/Time control (best teleportation skill in the game)
Unconventional weapons use
Cool and unique animations
Aether > four elements= we are the best scholar profession lore wise.
Unique skills like Arcane Thievery, Moa, Portal, Veil, Phantasmal defender, Signet of Inspiration
We have every boon and condition of the game, but applied in a chaotic way
A lot of builds, but few are good
Probably the hardest profession to play in a competitive scenario.

simple, Mesmer is the only class that plays like a ranged caster. I play ranged caster in every game

Mage class with stealth and clones – take all my money

Edit:
In Anarchy Online there was a profession called Bureaucrat, they could mind control (they called it Charm) monsters (and other players in PVP zones if I dont remember wrong). I think a skill like that would be quite fitting for the mesmer. If they would add something like that I would be happy. Like ranger but with any creature, rangers would be so kittened though.

@jenzie: there was a class like that in Dark Age of Camelot as well. It was restricted to mind controlling Humanoid creatures though. I think that would better fit.

Note: humanoid would include more than just “Humans”.

Dondagora.9645:

In martial arts, there’s a bit of a yin-yang parallel called hard and soft styles or skills. Hard involves directly breaking things, hitting a bone to break it. One that omits force. Soft involves indirectly injuring the opponent, conserving energy. In this case, one who receives force and manipulates it to become one’s own.

I feel like mesmer, while having its fair amount of hard abilities, is a specialist in softness, and I don’t just mean the butterflies. Confusion and torment to turn the opponent’s recklessness every move against them, reflection literally sends their attack force back at them, interrupts deny the opponent momentum and increase our own, clone-death traits makes the opponent’s aggressiveness into their demise, and our very mechanic of illusions buy us the time and cover we need to set up and react to the opponent’s moves in such a way that we can benefit from their actions. Other classes are not nearly as specialized for softness as mesmer.

Basically, I love our role as a controller. Plus, mind-mage and purple and butterflies.

Very eloquently put – this is exactly the reason I love Mesmer.

Sebrent.3625:

@jenzie: there was a class like that in Dark Age of Camelot as well. It was restricted to mind controlling Humanoid creatures though. I think that would better fit.

Note: humanoid would include more than just “Humans”.

loved the sorc

Xkqep.2819:

Sebrent.3625:

@jenzie: there was a class like that in Dark Age of Camelot as well. It was restricted to mind controlling Humanoid creatures though. I think that would better fit.

Note: humanoid would include more than just “Humans”.

loved the sorc

So did my Lurikeen Ranger … made excellent pin-cushions :-p

I enjoy the “I’m not killing you, you’re killing you” style of the mesmer.
I also like the visual and thematic consistency of the mesmer. It’s all butterflies and pink sparklies instead of lava = fire not earth and lightning = air not fire of the ele, or the bonesandbloodandgreenstuffandsmokeandteethandhandsandsplotches of the necro.

This class does so many things right for me. I love the butterfly motif and how deep the meaning behind it is. Such a beautiful, harmless, little insect has the potential to be one of the most destructive forces of nature. I love that my character can wear the same dress to battle as she does to a ball and no one questions it. I love that she can levitate a greatsword between her hands and shoot lasers out of it. I love how so many abilities have a “good for me, bad for you” theme.

What I love most of all, however, is the mind games. Case in point, I was in wvw one day when a zerg clash turned bad for my server and we ended up scattering. I had several people on my tail and had a sudden flash of inspiration. I laid an entry portal down and kept running. Half of the group stopped, expecting me to come out of it but I never laid the exit portal. I then used Mass Invisibility and made 90-degree turn while the rest of my pursuers assumed I kept running forward. Five seconds later, I was over a cliff and in the water while my lynch mob was scratching their heads! Sure other classes could have outrun that little zerg but none of them would have evaded death with such style!

For as long as I can remember, I’ve been a fan of duelist-type characters and spellswords. There’s just a certain style about it that appeals to me.

That being said, if Ele gets a sword, I’ll probably rethink my decision to main Mesmer.

Xkqep.2819:

Sebrent.3625:

@jenzie: there was a class like that in Dark Age of Camelot as well. It was restricted to mind controlling Humanoid creatures though. I think that would better fit.

Note: humanoid would include more than just “Humans”.

loved the sorc

Mentalists can do the same thing.

Mesmer was my main in GW1. I loved it and played it to death! There were so many fun builds.

Fast forward to GW2 and I am like WTF??!! this is like a pet class and I don’t want anything to do with it.

But I did reserve the name “Temporal” just in case. Maybe I should level the character now that the chronomancer stuff is coming out. That seems appealing and hopefully I can get away from the pet class nonsense. There are already rangers and necromancers for that.

Edit: And I have both rangers and necromancers…. I just want mesmer to be different!

I think this guy sums it up pretty well for why you will love them … or hate them in WvW

In PvE, it is all those lovely reflects, distortions and tons of purples

Butterflies…need I say more?

I think the profession appeals to me because of it’s uniqueness, no other game (except GW1) has anything like a mesmer. I love the clone mechanic, even if it is a bit clunky and borked. I’d love it more if my clones/phantoms didn’t die from an enemy looking at them but still, I really do enjoy the playstyle. It lets you think about positioning and situational awareness. You find yourself thinking in triangles and using geometry! I watch the super awesome mesmers on youtube and they just amaze me with what they can do with this profession.

I love all the blocks, reflects, and ways it has for mitigating damage. I stay alive a lot more on my mesmer than say on my Ele (though this might be because mesmer was my first loved profession in the game). I like knowing I have a back up dodge in case things go wrong with sword 2. I wish I could work IP into my build so I could use f4 without clones but it’s nice having it when they are up.

Plus purple…I just love purple

Because it allows me to emasculate my opponents