Guild Wars 2

I’d rather drop it under my own feet to get free aoe aegis then pretend I’m nodps wannabe elementalist with one aoe.
Each time mesmer uses storm as offensive aoe, ONE KITTEN DIES.

1) Clearly, OP is either glass cannon or not 80 or most likely, both.

2) Personally I like the mechanic and feel it has a place in the game.

A small part of the reason I rerolled mesmer was on my 80 geared Engi, i was defending a keep. I was operating an arrow cart that i ‘thought’ was safely tucked away. At some point i get a phantasm on me…. and then another…. i ignored the 1st one but by the time i had the 2nd one on me i realized… um, i need to do something. So as I was fighting the 1st one… a 3rd one pops and I was in real bad shape. Fortunately… they die easily. I barely lived through the encounter, but at no point did i say “OMG NERF MESMER THAT’S SO OP”
I personally think it’s a cool mechanic, summon your “ghosts” that can pass through walls to haunt their victims. I think there’s a place in the game for the mechanic. Ppl need to stop whining so much.

Wait so you as an elementalist were attacking a door in open WvW, seemed to be hit and lagged solid for 3 seconds, then suddenly you were at 10% health and a phantasm was nearby, therefore you were nearly 1 shot by an iB?

Carighan.6758:

Wait, I didn’t even notice that. A no-defence Elementalist? Isn’t that basically begging to be killed by any stray projectile flying around?

Ssssh!
Be quiet or else they’ll nerve staff auto-attack damage!