Before everyone says gw2 doesn’t have aggro mechanic.
Let me explain :
my inspiration comes from a post in fractal &raid sub forum :Changes-to-distort. tho some of the ideas originally come from pvp subforum .
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Changes-to-distort
The post clearly shows the mes is broken and will always become broken :
low dps —->forced to tank —-> people complain mes being op tank —--> cant have dps —-> forced to tank or off meta —--> more people complain like in pvp forum coz less people read mes skill/trait tooltips.
Now question is how to fix this :
give mes reasonable dps while let other class be able share quickness you may say .
but that’s not the root of the problem from that post .
the true problem is mes is forever op and nerf (low )request(IQ ) aggros on mes forever.
the first part of problem ——mes forever op is impossible to fix according to that post and many alike .
So instead anet should fix the second part :nerf (low )request(IQ ) aggros on mes forever.
I introduce you new mes elite spec :half-braindead
High- concept name like dragon hunter
But everyone dislike the name dragon hunter you say
hey that’s the point :a dumb name so players will feel half-braindead less op ,also when they complain about half-braindead is braindead op people will get lost eventually .
Class mechanic :
Read is hard (passive ) every time you use skills or process traits , everyone else on the map will see big red tooltips of that skill/traits (like in kill la kill).
Beyond belief (f5 skill) shatter all imagined Mesmer power with hard facts ,if targeted foe is logical he/she will lose aggro on mes , if not , your mes will become whatever he claims to be.
example quote from Azoqu.8917 "They only give up damage in order to: buff the group beyond belief, provide heals ,able to tank better than any other class, can invuln the group so they can ignore certain mechanics, and provide awesome break bar damage in emergencies (ya last one is a stretch but no less true). "
since mes regen source with minstrel build is from chaos line , buff the group beyond belief = inspiration+ chrono line or dom illu + chrono line , reasonable invuln share =insp + dom line , applying regen being with minstrel =I’m rich, you know .
in order to achieve such thing in the past we need to run famous 30/30/30/30/30/30/30 mes build with all gear sets stack in slots and eat up all food.
with half-braindead we can get all those from only 29$ from next expansion.
New type of skills ?Hard facts. when casted , the target foes will see big red skills name on screen.
1. learn to math : laugh at the math done by foes and lose 30% aggro.
example quote from Elbritil.3817 “distort: 1s distort every 5s for a party. so effectively u provide 20% dmg red. in the 80% (4s without distort) prot boon it brings it down to 53,6%. so basicly only u ( if u can provide the prot too) provide an effective 46,4% dmg reduction to a whole party ”
2. learn to training golem :cry whenever someone says mes doing most dps buff to whole group and lose 30% aggro .
3. learn to spam :spam whatever skill your foes claim to be spamming and lose 30% aggro.
example quote from zealex.9410 “Giving dmg immunity to your group and yourself and spamming it with pahantasms and signet makes mechanics and any real danger tha can occur in raids fractals and any pve scenario a non factor.”
heal skill ?learn to not main mes ?swap main class and restore your sanity. and lose all aggro
example quote from “I have friends who, every time they play their Mesmer, find something new that is completely OP for what they have and they admit it. They are also not Mesmer mains, I have yet to meet someone who mains Mesmer admit that they have some pretty BS abilities (my favorite is still how OP well of precognition is compared to what Guardian, the aegis class, has for aegis granting).”
Elite skill : IQ check , target foes will be forced to play mes 24/7 and lose all aggro only if targeted foe has higher IQ than 80.
quote from zealex.9410 “these builds will have the ability to spam invul by default so yeah and no the timing is not so strict since the dmg is not so instant to make it hard to use most abilities in pve have a animations and are not instant.
That with distort being isnta cast with f4 and only a small cast with phantasms or signet use in general makes it really easy”
ENJOY.
