Guild Wars 2

I know ele isn’kitten I hate going against Elementalists. I was thinking maybe Guardian or Ranger if you use Feedback. I’m just really curious to see everyone’s answers.

Well, ranger with LB/GS who built against condi’s is going to be hard(er) to kill, and they can quickly get out of your 900 range depending on their skills and use of GS3.
With LB having the bigger range, you’ll be under pressure as soon as they see you, so best to get at when stealthed.
Any good ranger agaisnt mesmer will use signet of renewal anyways.

Thieves are more squishy (most are) but shouldn’t be that much of a problem, unless it’s not a 1v1 fight.

Warriors should be a preferred target, and maybe guards too (don’t play guardian, so i dunno really)

Probably Necros for me due to how relatively easy it is to CC them and keep them from disengaging. (I generally call target them first in a group fight for the above reasons plus they can be dangerous in a group fight if left unchecked.) I run Inspiration so their condis aren’t a huge threat in 1v1s so long as I pay attention to spikes.

The profession I one-burst most often is thieves, nowadays.

But I think that’s partly because I’m pickier with my timing against them, waiting until their evades/escapes are limited. And because a lot of thieves will totally HS face-first into a shatter.

A good thief (and I’d say the primary measure of “good” here is “good with Shadow Shot”) can still give you fits.

Anything now really.

StickerHappy.8052:

Anything now really.

Yea I rolled a mesmer today and did unranked/ranked pvp and was dominating pretty much everyone without effort using the insp mantra shatter build and standard shatter.

Also made armor for him and went to wvw and was 100-0 pretty much everything, literally everything aside from warriors with endure painon utility and traited , they just took longer to kill by 10 seconds roughly. Only class I had a problem with was other mesmers.

This really isn’t a knock to say mesmers are op, but man it was fun destroying things and really not being afraid roaming because i had numerous ways to disengage.

On my Temporal Condition Shatter build, here’s the easiest to hardest matchups:

• Engineers: lol Not a single engineer has had enough condi clear to ward off my candies. Did they get nerfed or does Condi Mesmer just counter them harder than we even did before?!
• Thieves: Blinding Dissipation and Ineptitude say hello. They have to come into melee range in order to do dmg. IP literally neuters them.
• Rangers: condition rangers can catch me off guard, but a simple NullField completely… nullifies their build’s effectiveness.
• Warriors: Rampage can be an issue, but if you can stall long enough, it shouldn’t be a hard match up. It does however take a few rotations to down them though.
• Mesmer: Only hard if they catch me off guard… which happens often with PU/MoD/CS. Otherwise, the dpsers are easy to scare off the point as they don’t take much condi clear. Not to toot my own horn, but I haven’t faced many condi Mesmers that can 1v1 me and win on a consistent basis. haha
• Necro: The bunkers can be a long and grueling match. And if you don’t mange your shatters for both offensive and defensive measures, they can catch you off guard. These matches can sometimes end in a stalemate. On the flip side, dps necros are still very weak to CC. Due to the on demand condi clearing, fear shouldn’t be an issue at all. Blind or Time Warp the Lich to death.
• Elementalist: HARD match up here. If they’re running diamond skin, you have 0% chance of beating them. Otherwise, it’s simply all about timing your shatters in melee range to connect while simultaneously clearing burns that are constantly coming your way.
• Guardian: Dps guards kill your clones so fast. Staying ranged doesn’t help as they tend to have a lot of self-sustain overtime, and you’re losing the point. By far my toughest match up. I usually wait for backup.

I drop other mesmers a lot because every warrior and his grandmother is playing mesmer right now, so its at the moment the easiest matchup by far just because 99% of the people that play the “OP MANTRA BUILD OMG NERF” actually suck and are free kill if you actually think a bit instead of mashing your face into the keyboard and if you don’t have the reaction time of a camel in surgery. Also the mantra build is the most boring mesmer build ever created. You spend 90% of your time just charging mantras and underpreform in teamfights.

Jurica.1742:

I drop other mesmers a lot because every warrior and his grandmother is playing mesmer right now, so its at the moment the easiest matchup by far just because 99% of the people that play the “OP MANTRA BUILD OMG NERF” actually suck and are free kill if you actually think a bit instead of mashing your face into the keyboard and if you don’t have the reaction time of a camel in surgery. Also the mantra build is the most boring mesmer build ever created. You spend 90% of your time just charging mantras and underpreform in teamfights.

This is so true
Since the patch I crossed only 2 or 3 decent mesmers in wvw, all the rest was cannon fodder jumping on the “mesmer is OP” bandwagon and sucking hard at it.

Easiest to kill for me? Warrior. Such easy tells to interrupt…

Q: Profession easiest to kill for Mesmer?
A: Other Mesmers trying to jump onto the fotm-train.

Teutos.8620:

Q: Profession easiest to kill for Mesmer?
A: Other Mesmers trying to jump onto the fotm-train.

Thats not true because they usually run full stealth builds
in my experience on average with condi warrior with power engineer

About 3 weeks ago i rolled a mesmer on my last open slot, mainly because i wanted a “ranged” toon besides ele and ranger. And to see if it was any fun.
I started out on focusing on power with GS – S/F for pve map roaming, but have since then completely chnged to full Dire condi build. A lot of fun, but granted, not the best choice to go into dungeons or do WB’s (stationary ones).

That being said, i’m kinda tired of hearing ‘mesmers are OP". They’re not. Only a few are because they are skilled, the rest just hops on the new bandwagon and basically sucks at it. Wether it is a shatter build or condi build, they go down just the same as any other toon, you just have to learn how.

Anything glass. Bad thieves are a joke now days .

Thieves haha

Mogar.9216:

Anything glass. Bad thieves are a joke now days .

Yes but that’s for everybody. If anybody is glass, all classes cant one shot them. It was the hole point of the new patch. changeup builds & metas from zerkers & glass to other options. Mesmers just got same dps bonus buff as everyone else & got some survivbality. & it was about time cuz with out it we be off worst then pre-patch. As for Thieves players, most of them are still playing there zerker high dps squishy builds. No wonder they die fast.

Other Mesmers, Ranger, Necro. In that order with Mesmers being the easiest. Every other profession may actually make me raise an eyebrow now and then.