Guild Wars 2

In general, I hate scepter. I want it to be deleted, and give mesmers the ranged one main hand weapon that actually deals an appropriate damage.
I love my pistol and iDeulist. I want to keep my pistol at all time, but I find it almost impossible to do so. Mesmer is not a dps class already, and scepter#1 just made it worse. Sword is okay, but I prefer not to melee most of the time.

What I love about mesmer is that he can summon all kinds of phantasms, but this is just a drawback for me.
I often scream in my head, "Oh shoot the bolt already! " when using the scepter because it’s sooooooooooo slow.

The scepter seems to be meant for shatter builds. But even those usually don’t use it due to being a weak option.

Even worse is that we don’t have any ranged mainhand option for power builds nor any mainhand option at all for condition builds. At the same time focus being our only swiftness access (apart from some rune tricks) essentially forces us to have a mainhand/focus combo as one of our weapon sets.

We need better/more mainhand options and/or better/more access to swiftness.

Fix Scepter and how much kitten poop it really is. I’d like to actually have it (and the rest of our broken skillset) actually, you know, functioning before Izzy starts nerfing us around an additional itemset equip.

That said, the Duellist that everyone loves? Roll a Thief. That’s what you do. That’s actually mirroring a Thief skill. No really.

Why not just fix/change Scepter? We already have 3 ranged weapons compared to only one melee, I don’t really see how we’d justify another ranged.