Guild Wars 2

I want to open up discussion:

Will mesmers be part of the PvE meta with the chronomancer release?

What role will mesmers have in raids?

Well, we don’t really know right now. Many mesmers feel as if Chronomancers will have very good support to provide to a team which might be the new Mesmer meta. We still need to test this out more to be sure though.

There’s still plenty of builds that need testing to see how we’ll fit in with the new meta. However, I personally feel we have a strong shot at being a desired class in future content.

For dungeons I think it’s pretty safe to say chronomancer will take over guardians place ( sry guardians, it was just a matter of time till the cooler class become better in dungeons : P ). Guardian is still nice in fractals for the blocks. But you might be able to swap the thief out for chronomancer maybe. Or over revenant if revenant is taken. Definitely think there will be a slot in fractals for chronomancer. As for raids, it’s hard to tell. We don’t know what raids are like. We do have Well of Precognition and Inspiring Distortion combined with Signet of Midnight, so maybe. Chronomancer is like a guardian ( reflects, condi removal, well of precognition + signet of midnight with inspiring distortion if needed ) combined with a warrior ( alacrity + quickness offensive party buffs ) and a tiny bit of thief ( some stealth, good defiance striping with shield 5 if needed ) + portal.

Definitly yes. All the blur, quickness and alacrity makes the mesmer SO strong if you can keep up the apm. Guards have no chance to stay in the meta when the content is as easy as dungeons are. Especially after the Feel the Wrath nerf.

I feel right now Mesmer is “Okay” for PVE.

The Meta for PVE Party is 2x EL for Ice Bow, 1x Warrior for 25might PS + Banner, 1x Guardian for Half Util/ Half Damage + Feel my Wrath Quickness and 1 free slot isn’kitten Which normally the free slot is either Mesmer(More Utility, Better Single target)/ Thief(Insanely strong Single Target).

With the new Chronomancer we can share Alacrity which is gonna raise overall Party DPS more. Faster CD = Faster DPS. So it’s all good.

Chronomancer will be strong in PvE (dungeons and raids). Its still unclear what equipment choices we need to make – Arena net claims full berserker will be rough in raids (due to unblock-able damage and non-self healing sources being important) but whether that’s true in practice no one knows. If healing/defense does take a bigger roll I expect mesmers to possibly pick up some pieces of tanky gear, or perhaps even full celestial.

Mesmer will be in a very good place for both dungeons and raids in HoT.

With continuum shift mesmers will be able to use Ice bow as if the 50% nerf has not happened.

With Guardians FMW nerfed, mesmers are the prime candidates for quickness uptime. Paired with a Herald, Chronos will have ~60 seconds of uninterrupted AoE quickness.

Mesmers also get two damage buffs in the form of the 10% on sword AA and chronophantasma. In addition, Well of calamity does similar damage to a warriors hundred blades (although we don’t get all the +damage% modifiers warriors do)

Mesmers are also the prime candidates in dealing with breakbars, since they can use cry of frustration and chronophantasma to stack interrupts without sacrificing damage. In addition, since Slow acts as a DoT to break bars; time warp and well of action (which will be on the mesmers bar anyway) will allow for mesmers to deal with break bars very quickly. Mesmers also have interrupts baked into all their damaging offhands.

Need condi-removal or reflections? Mesmer has both. You can spec into inspiration for perma-reflection, or stick feedback on your bar. Null field has also been quietly buffed for some time, which gives mesmers a very strong condi-removal option.

In addition, mesmers got a nice buff to trash-skipping mechanics in the form of double-veil and double mass invisibility, with already having access to portal.
Finally, Mesmer is the safest melee classes in the game. With access to blur from sword mainhand/distortion, and a block on sword OH/ shield, Mesmer will be extremely “tanky” in melee combat even with dumb anti-evasion mechanics, something other DPS classes like ele or thief will struggle with.

It’s hard to say exactly what a mesmers role will be in raids since we haven’t seen them, but we have a lot of options that we can fit into.

Yes part of meta. Role, buffbot, very active buffbot Actually getting a little giddy thinking about it, it’s going to be what I originally wanted from the profession at least a bit, reminds me of EQ’s bard.