Guild Wars 2

Phantasms are killed by AoE or Line of sight, they go chase the target and get stacked up and ban, no phantasms. This make shatter the most viable option, because you dont need to rely pure on phantasms. Seriously, is mesmer class really messed up? Give phantasms more health or something, this is getting tedious. You go demi bunk: no damage. you go berserker: got big hit by conditions or thief. I fell like other classes can go semi bunk with decent DPS. I think mesmers need a serious revamp. Make more utilities that arent blink and decoy. We are trying. This is get boring: shatter shatter shatter. How can you go against someone that is hidden line of sight everytime? you can’t melee any other class. Make Phantasms scale up better with stats. Give mesmers more love

Let’s assume a perfectly flat playing area with no LoS obstructions and you’re a full zerk mesmer specced for phant damage. There are warrior builds who can easily tank through, not to mention out maneuver your phantasms illuminating the threat of their DPS entirely. All while still being able to dish out solid burst damage back on the Mesmer. And I’m not even adding in the fact they can just 1 shot AA them dead.

Phantasm builds are in a far worse state in the meta than what you’re saying. They are a huge part of a Mesmers DPS after all.