More Melee Options for Mesmers

More Melee Options for Mesmers

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Posted by: Turbo Whale.1738

Turbo Whale.1738

So with the announcement of new unlockable skills and traits and the possibility of future brand new weapons, I would like to make a request. I ask for more melee options for the mesmer. As it is, mesmers have only 3 melee skills (SW 1, SW2, SW4) in our whole entire arsenal despite being the battle-mage class.

Not only that, but our melee combat is extremely gimmicky! The only way to do decent damage with Blurred Frenzy is by immobilizing our target! Don’t get me wrong- BF is amazing, however no other class has to play in such a gimmicky and annoying way just to deal some melee damage!

When I rolled Mesmer it was the first class I enjoyed enough to reach 80. However, I was a bit disappointed with the class because it has the least amount of melee options of ALL of the classes! Even Rangers have more melee combat than we do! Being forced to be mostly a medium-long distance fighter can be incredibly dull for some and this is the reason why I rolled a warrior and brought him to 80.

So for the sake of diversity and staying true to the class, please give us some more melee options.

Thank you. Please post ideas for melee skills or weapons and give feedback!

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Posted by: Godmoney.2048

Godmoney.2048

One of the things I’d like to see is a buff to offhand sword. The problem being from my perspective is that offhand sword only offers one block and a phantasm that doesnt really have a lot of pressure damage compared to offhand pistol.

I think if they made the block channeled 2 second block that would make offhand sword a ton better for melee orientated builds.

As it stands now you get actual pressure damage from pistol and utility from focus. Offhand sword is not horrible, but it’s not good either.

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Posted by: Nretep.2564

Nretep.2564

Mesmer has low melee cabability, indeed. But also only a single ranged one-handed weapon. The only second melee weapon for mesmer would be dagger. (or torch or focus, lol) I don’t like daggers on main hand. But I’d also see another ranged weapon choice while wearing focus …

And no, Engineer has worse melee. And you can’t compare to ranger, there’s a big class inequality when it comes to weapons. (Excluding Engineer and Elementalist) Only Thief is worse than Mesmer. But afair, Mesmer is the only class with two 1200 range weapons.

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Posted by: Spandia.6812

Spandia.6812

And no, Engineer has worse melee.

My melee engineer would like a word with you. Tool kit is just downright amazing, and bomb kit is the king of PBAoE.

Oh, and I can stack 12 confusion, so take that mesmers.

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Posted by: Levitas.1953

Levitas.1953

One of the things I’d like to see is a buff to offhand sword. The problem being from my perspective is that offhand sword only offers one block and a phantasm that doesnt really have a lot of pressure damage compared to offhand pistol.

I think if they made the block channeled 2 second block that would make offhand sword a ton better for melee orientated builds.

As it stands now you get actual pressure damage from pistol and utility from focus. Offhand sword is not horrible, but it’s not good either.

Did you try it a least? for more than 10 minutes? you would not answer the way you did.
If you want damage, sword off hand is way better than pistol, counter blade is the only thing that needs to be tweaked. Land 2 swordsmand and tell me that the pressure is bad.

(edited by Levitas.1953)