Guild Wars 2

To be fair, this wasn’t unwarranted in PvP.

Though I can’t imagine what it’s like trying to level a PvE mesmer now.

Confirmed: nobody at anet ever played the mesmer.

Goodluck attacking anybody on a keep/tower wall now unless you pull them down.

Totally cool with the changes. The phantasm thing was always a bit buggy and it never felt right to me.

Actually excited to try out Torch… Here’s hoping 3 stacks of confusion is enough to make it worthwhile!

Change to Phantasmal Haste working: also awesome.

The only thing that bummed me out about the notes was this in the thief section:

Smoke Screen: This skill’s height has been increased to help it absorb projectiles.

I feel like we could’ve used that change on Temporal Curtain as well.

As a 80 Mesmer with full exotics:

Portal- fair change, though I think they should have left the CD and reduced the number of players to 10

Moa- fair change, it was stupid as-is

Phantastms- bug fixed, good change

Torch changes- Thumbs way up

Yeah the portal nerf is not really a nerf. It didn’t fix any of the issues like being able to transport an entire map to one spot… they did however limit healing to 5 targets, that cuts down some of the “stand on the portal and heal because only 5 ppl get hit by aoe nonsense”.

psirca.9452:

Yeah the portal nerf is not really a nerf. It didn’t fix any of the issues like being able to transport an entire map to one spot… they did however limit healing to 5 targets, that cuts down some of the “stand on the portal and heal because only 5 ppl get hit by aoe nonsense”.

Yeah, the change to healing hopefully stops that “turtle formation” nonsense.

We should be glad there was no fundamental nerf to portal. It would have been another way to prevent turtle tactics, because without portal the “turtle formation” cannot move.

A cooldown increase on portal is not really a nerf. It could have been much worse.

While I hate previous nerfs, I don’t see so many reasons to complain here.
Portal : well it’s not that serious
Moa : quite fair, depending on the utility of the skills (useless if skills are good)
Phantasms : I don’t really care, more of a bug fix yeah, though it might scare
Torch changes : sounds like things are moving forward, cool to see
How about the same for sceptre now ?