Guild Wars 2

I’m about to make a Charr Mesmer but I have to ask first how they are in farming groups. Tagging monsters before they die. Are they poor at that or is there a way?

Thank you.

I’m torn between a Charr Mesmer or Charr Ele but I find Mesmer more active and challenging as I saw another Player make mesmers look cool in my eyes in battle.

I dunno really, it certainly takes a bit more work but I feel alright with contributions. Between chaos storm, mirror blade, iberserker, and various shatters ( target different areas of mobs to spread your clones out for the shatters) I do alright.
Sure it’s not running around as a dagger ele spamming pbAOE or whirling through crowds as a GS warrior, but with some effort you can spread damage around fine.

Blackmon.1903:

I’m about to make a Charr Mesmer but I have to ask first how they are in farming groups. Tagging monsters before they die. Are they poor at that or is there a way?

Thank you.

I’m torn between a Charr Mesmer or Charr Ele but I find Mesmer more active and challenging as I saw another Player make mesmers look cool in my eyes in battle.

Hmm not sure how well mesmer does for group farming but I have heard that they are sub-par for the zerg farming. They just don’t have enough initial damage or aoe damage for the zerg farming to capitalize like engi’s can.

KK i will try stick to pure pve

In Instances and general at 80 mesmer is a fun and effective member of a team, for solo farming ore, wood and food supply its smooth with al blinks and stealths. Only place we dont shine in is in farming parties of bigger size.

As I despite al kinda of big group framing this fits me wonderfull. A fast ore farm if I depseratly need gold but I rather do Fractals and instances in general as group play suit us so well. For karma I never had any problem, noticed I had 600k+ the other day and I have not spent a hour farming in Orr.

Join the mesmer ranks but not for a farm alt, do it to learn to play a amazng class flexible like a poledancer dualwealding swiss army knifes.

/osicat

I play mesmer as my main and 1 of the few times I play any other of my lvl 80 chars is when i farm in CS. Mesmer cant compare to the other casters when it comes to aoe dmg no mater how you play, I for once prefer necro in CS farms but ele is nor farm from it, I got all casters lvl80 and I have tried. You can ofc do decent with a mesmer but it is harder to time it right.

Mesmer is by far the most fun char to play tho if you ask me

They mentioned it pretty well above, but you’re opting for Charr!

We get toys like the Charrzooka for AoE, Proxy Mines, and battle roar ^^

Mesmer can work in these situations.

Glass cannon gear + shatter spam (illusion signet helps here) is still easy outside of timing things but you’re forced pretty much into that spec/gear to do it. iWarden and iZerker(even post nerf) can still help some before you shatter them.

For context – my main is a level 80 mesmer, and I’ve done plenty of zerg events (e.g. Orr). Before the iBerserker nerf, I had no problem tagging mobs with the greatsword. It probably still works (albiet less effectively).

Basically for tagging, spam:

• Mirror Blade + immediate shatter
• iBerserker + immediate shatter

And if traited w/ Deceptive Evasion + Illusionary Persona, you can also rotate in:

• dodge INTO a mob cluster + immediate shatter

The above works best with a 20/20/0/0/30 trait spread, but it is workable with a wide range of builds, as long as you have power on most of your gear. My current gear is Soldiers armor, Rampager weapons, and a mix of Knights and Carrion trinkets.

Let me put it this way – on the Orr events which move across the map (e.g. opening temples), I barely had time to get all my loot before the NPCs moved on.

iBerserker and shatters are the only decent mesmer AoE damage, in the context of mob tagging in a zerg. But, since the last mesmer nerf, my iBerserker is only doing 33% to 50% of it’s previous damage. I really hope that is fixed.

I dont want to be an kitten, but this topic has been discussed 1 billion times.

Mesmers are fine (especially with a shatter build and a tiny bit of creativity).

The real problem is the tagging system – and stupid event zerging.