Yo after having some limited time on mirage ( sonce my laptop died after the first day of the demo). And allot of discussion with friends and mesmer players in general id say mirage is in a wierd spot.
Im by no means an amazing mesmer player id say im average or a little above that at best but, i believe the mirage needs more of polishing certain mechanics thanstraight up buffs.
The only buffs id say it really needs is to make (imo) the gm trait that guves mirage cloak on illusions baseline.
I also believe phantams sould get some attention as well (give them as well mirage cloak and their own ambush skills). Im sceptical about this because it could turn out to be too much because of already how strong mirage is in some ways.
On the other hand the devs made 30+ skills for weaver and soulbeast so 7 more ( gs phantams, sword oh, torch, pistol, focus, spear and trident) is really not that much trouble.
Another thing that i find wierd is that the ambush skills for power weapons like gs are condi based. This is just wierd for me and i believe the skills should be power through and through.
The sword ambush for me is amazing. I love the movility and the daze ( id love it to deal more dmg but idk if that would be balanced). But the daze-interupt atm doesnt proc stun daze interupt traits afaik. Is this intented or a bug?
The mirrors are a really cool mechanics but the randomness of where they spawn makes them looks worse than they really are. Ppl have said that the class doesnt bring group support and utility and thats true but its not somerthing bad because theres no reason for mirage to be a support spec in any way. ( it can have the freedom of being more egocentric at least in my eyes)
A good support gm tho could be inplace of the horizon trait. With a icd (of 8 sec~) allies can use your mirrors for the blur effect. Only 1 ally can use the mirror and it wont take the mirror from the mesmer.
Future mirrors could have a curcle on their ground target indicating that it cant be used by an ally for x amount of seconds.
Thats could btw be a little too strong so idk.
The axe i think needs a buff. Axe 2 imo is too slow moving and easily interupted. It could be spead up or have an evade componment added. ( with an increased recharge cd to balance it out)
Axe 3 is just wierd on how it lands sometimes but ihave faith that will get abjusted.
All in all id love it the axe scaled well with power as well id like to see it have play in power builds.
As i said i only had a time span of (2~ 2 and a half hours so my judgement could be poor.
EDIT: Looking back at it i feel i come mostly negative and i want to further talk about the positive aspecs of this spec.
The mobility it provides at least to me feels insane. All the skills have a repositio ing compnment which makes it feel like i playing shiro rev or a thief. I really love this change in playstyle.
With this mobility comes alot of utility youc an run around a battlefield much faster secure kills much easier mebause the elite works like blink and confuse/ frustrate players with your supperior repositioning.
The dodge its also great. Amazing utility and the ambush skills provide me with abit more mobility and interupt potential ( power sword mirage ).
The ability to dodge while ressing, preparing mantras, casting long channel spells, stomping, etc to me is insane and makes the class feels colpletely doff than it was before.
It deff has a bigger skillcap due to being so diff from what i played during prehot times and chrono. Which i feel plays a big roles as to why ppl give it all this kitten.
Going forward i believe other than some no brainers ( make gs ambush an actual cool power skill and make mirror spawn near you) that the devs should take their time with “fixing” or “buffing/nerfing” aspecs of this spec.
Im sure way more “exp” mesmer have their own feedback from the elite and i would love to hear some. But if ppl just want to qq id prefer they do that elsewhere.
(edited by zealex.9410)