Guild Wars 2

One of the things that really ruined The Game That Shall Not Be Named was when the developers began giving one class the abilities to another class, leading to a situation where everyone had the same recycled set of abilities that were once class specific, which is really really boring.

What I’m speaking of in particular is the proposed new Mesmer elite, which is essentially a purple Lich Form. This has nothing to do with the mesmer play style, in fact it’s just a horrible idea.

How about instead of getting a necromancer elite, we get a mesmer elite, for instance an elite version of one of our class specific abilities: an Elite Mantra?

Here is one idea:

Mantra of Domination: 2 charges, 15 sec cd between charges, 30 sec cd. Deals X damage and stuns target for 1 second. Damage dealt and stun duration increased if target is interrupted. (Cooldowns and numbers adjusted accordingly for balance)

This is basically an adaptation of the GW1 elite, Psychic Instability. This would be an example of a really Mesmery elite, being a powerful control tool as we as rewarding counter play, something the mesmer is supposed to excel at.

Please Anet, continue being creative and dynamic and do not follow the path of Bliz… er, you know what I mean.

Edit: I just was informed that the list of proposed elites that I reference here was fake apparently. In which case, disregard the stuff about how lame it is, but still please consider the elite mantra idea. My bad Anet, I still believe in you!

Yeah. I’m glad a lot of them work fake. Could you imagine the cleric AH staff spamming guardians who will now be using their spectral staff elite skill? I swear that I would find the highest location in the game and then jump of it if that would ever come true.

Mesmer does not need any more lockdown capabilities.

Ayrilana.1396:

Yeah. I’m glad a lot of them work fake. Could you imagine the cleric AH staff spamming guardians who will now be using their spectral staff elite skill? I swear that I would find the highest location in the game and then jump of it if that would ever come true.

That Guard Elite really made me nearly hose all hope that the Devs could be in touch with the state of the game.

My first thought was: Really? Of all the things the Guardian class could use…they decided the players needed more spirit weapons? And a staff of all things? Why?

Glad to know it was fake.

Fevered Dreams in GW2, imagine the rage.

I would much prefer seeing the elites balanced across all professions. Some of our elites aren’t as elite as others. Moa.. Moa.. Moa.. in PvE anyway could use some tweeks. Love it in WvW though!

Nononono :l More stuns/dazes for mesmer? Nooo :c
Why not make it something more unique?

Mantra of Vision
2 charges, 5 sec cooldown between uses. 45 cooldown total

Reveals invisible enemies and inflicts 1 stack of confusion and two second blind to them.

Time Stop. Do I need to say more? I’d trade Moa for it, real fast.