Guild Wars 2

Been quite a while since I have last played this game and I feel like hitting it up again and playing something I normally wont play but my question for this is simply the title.

I want to know if Mesmer will have me struggling to keep up because me being a solo player I would prefer playing a character that I can have fun with (Not faceroll) while still being able to play solo if I need to.

If you just mean solo in open world, then yea, mesmer is fine. There’s really no wrong choice with that decision. If you mean to solo dungeons or something like that, then it may not be the best choice…

I’ve been playing Mesmer since I started the game and never had any problems soloing PvE stuff, personal story etc, so yeah it’s perfectly viable for solo play.

Chrono is absolutely fine if you are soloing stuff. The cap between top and worst damage in open world is completely different from what you may know from raids.

For aoe I’d recommend a power spec, you’ll be around 6k dps with a relatively good spike via shatters.

If you want to solo HP’s or single target mobs in general, condi Chrono will be a better choice as one of the top solo single target dps professions with around 9k dps. Condi is also the choice for soloing fractals.

If you fight in a zerg against a boss tough, power with staff is even stronger than condi, yet only by around 1k.

Well to clarify what I mean as solo I mean anything outside of dungeons and such I will be trying to play solo.

Calenax.2405:

Well to clarify what I mean as solo I mean anything outside of dungeons and such I will be trying to play solo.

So just open world stuff then. Mesmer will do fine for soloing that.

That being said, Mesmer is indubitably the worst class in the game for pure open world soloing. We still do fine because open world is so easy, but everyone else is better at it.

Fay.2357:

That being said, Mesmer is indubitably the worst class in the game for pure open world soloing.

Depends on what you are planning to do, but overall Chrono is in a rather good spot for open world, definitly better than Druid, Guard, Rev and War.

Xyonon.3987:

Fay.2357:

That being said, Mesmer is indubitably the worst class in the game for pure open world soloing.

Depends on what you are planning to do, but overall Chrono is in a rather good spot for open world, definitly better than Druid, Guard, Rev and War.

What?

Guard, rev, and warrior all have drastically higher damage and better aoe than Mesmer.

All 4 have survivability and sustain mechanics on par or better than Mesmer.

Druid, rev, and warrior have mobility that dwarfs what Mesmer has.

The only place Mesmer has an edge is in soloing champions, but that’s obviously a drastic minority of open world gameplay.

Xyonon.3987:

Fay.2357:

That being said, Mesmer is indubitably the worst class in the game for pure open world soloing.

Depends on what you are planning to do, but overall Chrono is in a rather good spot for open world, definitly better than Druid, Guard, Rev and War.

Uh, no.

You seem greatly delusioned by the raid benchmarks.

Xyonon.3987:

You seem greatly delusioned by the raid benchmarks.

You seem under the impression that it’s feasible to walk up to every mob in the jungle and fart out 3 damage dealing phantasms without concern.

Mesmer has far greater inherent barriers to functionality built into the class than any other profession in the game. No other profession has to sit around waiting for cooldowns before they can even start doing their full damage. By the time mesmer has gotten their phantasms going on a veteran, a warrior, rev, or guardian has already killed it and moved onto the next one.

Fay.2357:

Xyonon.3987:

You seem greatly delusioned by the raid benchmarks.

You seem under the impression that it’s feasible to walk up to every mob in the jungle and fart out 3 damage dealing phantasms without concern.

Mesmer has far greater inherent barriers to functionality built into the class than any other profession in the game. No other profession has to sit around waiting for cooldowns before they can even start doing their full damage. By the time mesmer has gotten their phantasms going on a veteran, a warrior, rev, or guardian has already killed it and moved onto the next one.

Meanwhile the ele is ahead of them all spamming overload air or lava fonts and…oh wait the patch /upset.

I find condition necro is hilariously easy to kill champs with but yeah I couldn’t agree more with you, even running my power scrapper I tear through PvE mobs in open world like they’re made of paper.

Mesmer’s burst is so high you won’t really notice the DPS difference in casual play. In situations like open world, where you have to apply your own vulnerability and boons, mesmer puts things down pretty quickly. The only times those “high DPS” professions really start outdoing mesmer is in high level content like raids, when all the boons and alacrity is permanently on them (likely from a mesmer), and can hit 9 – 13k per hit. In those scenarios, you will be humbled. But yeah as others have said, mesmer works great in open world and was actually my first character in GW2

Fay.2357:

Xyonon.3987:

You seem greatly delusioned by the raid benchmarks.

You seem under the impression that it’s feasible to walk up to every mob in the jungle and fart out 3 damage dealing phantasms without concern.

Mesmer has far greater inherent barriers to functionality built into the class than any other profession in the game. No other profession has to sit around waiting for cooldowns before they can even start doing their full damage. By the time mesmer has gotten their phantasms going on a veteran, a warrior, rev, or guardian has already killed it and moved onto the next one.

Shatter and / or calamity burst on power is enough to deal with any trash to not notice a difference and as condi you’re gonna be top dps on single target (HP) as a soloer.
The only disadventage the Chrono has is against medium HP mobs. Yet most of them have a mechanic that a Chrono can fight against better than the average other profession. I doubt a warrior will have a nice day against Arrowheads or Bristlebacks for instance.

Most professions are around 8k personal dps, power Chrono is around 5.5k without the burst and 9k as condi. However each profession gets distracted and interrupted in their rota in open world. Thus flexibility and sustain is important aswell. Pulls, cc, reflect, blinds etc; those things matter more than pure damage in most cases.

Xyonon.3987:

Chrono is absolutely fine if you are soloing stuff. The cap between top and worst damage in open world is completely different from what you may know from raids.

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For aoe I’d recommend a power spec, you’ll be around 6k dps with a relatively good spike via shatters.

If you want to solo HP’s or single target mobs in general, condi Chrono will be a better choice as one of the top solo single target dps professions with around 9k dps. Condi is also the choice for soloing fractals.

If you fight in a zerg against a boss tough, power with staff is even stronger than condi, yet only by around 1k.

What kind of stats do you suggest for condi Mesmer in general PvE? Viper as per usual?

This is what I use in open world more or less:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vhAQNAr+ansIC9fiNoBWoBEgilcjqeVr1bF9HWiZoMAStWD-TByCQBN8BAAgTAgzU+Nj9HunehJcQAYm6PsUJIhAUsGA-e

I change some traits / utilities depending on the situation.