Guild Wars 2

I’ve heard that mesmer DPS in raids is subpar compared to other professions and that we’re mostly taken for the high alacrity and quickness uptime. I just wanted to know if it’d be worth playing a mesmer in the raids, especially if there’s already a mesmer on the team, or if I’d be better off trying it out on an elementalist?

Having two mesmers should be fine because of the mass quickness you can provide through time warp. Some guilds posted on reddit with their winning compositions and a few had two mesmers. Having three or more mesmers probably isn’t worth it though because two mesmers can generally keep alacrity permanently up and mesmer DPS is not the highest.

caerulean.4837:

I’ve heard that mesmer DPS in raids is subpar compared to other professions and that we’re mostly taken for the high alacrity and quickness uptime. I just wanted to know if it’d be worth playing a mesmer in the raids, especially if there’s already a mesmer on the team, or if I’d be better off trying it out on an elementalist?

Mmh,

you can surely complete raid with 2 mesmer (some guild has already done it in that way) but yesterday defeating vale guard with pugs i was the only chrono and quickness\alacrity uptime was more than enough (we had really huge dps and good timer).

So basically you can complete raid with 2 chrono but 1 chrono is more than enough.

Personally i didnt had any issue till now to find a spot like chrono but if you want to be “the class who everyraid is LF” leave mesmer and ele and just go viper engie and gg.

ps.
i dont speak for ele cause i dont play it and i have no personal experience about how much easy or hard is to find a spot with class

aelfwe.4239:

caerulean.4837:

I’ve heard that mesmer DPS in raids is subpar compared to other professions and that we’re mostly taken for the high alacrity and quickness uptime. I just wanted to know if it’d be worth playing a mesmer in the raids, especially if there’s already a mesmer on the team, or if I’d be better off trying it out on an elementalist?

Mmh,

you can surely complete raid with 2 mesmer (some guild has already done it in that way) but yesterday defeating vale guard with pugs i was the only chrono and quickness\alacrity uptime was more than enough (we had really huge dps and good timer).

So basically you can complete raid with 2 chrono but 1 chrono is more than enough.

Personally i didnt had any issue till now to find a spot like chrono but if you want to be “the class who everyraid is LF” leave mesmer and ele and just go viper engie and gg.

ps.
i dont speak for ele cause i dont play it and i have no personal experience about how much easy or hard is to find a spot with class

Ele can hold its own pretty well in raids but you want to be D/F and tempest. Wash the pain away is a great heal for you and allies and slotting a shout like feel the burn with the healing auras trait helps keep the team and scholar bonuses up. Ele can also make a really good healer/tank allowing the other 9 players to go all in DPS.

As for mesmer, I find the time warps are the most beneficial but you want to make sure you have a revenents facet of nature on you when using well of action and timewarp. 50% boon duration gives 5 people something silly like 25s of quickness, more if you use food and runes of leadership for even more duration.

Making sure you use the time warps at the right time and usually only in continuum split is the key.