Guild Wars 2

Dear Mesmer-Community,

as the topic says i was thinking about Chronophantasma Trait.
I thought about removing the debuff on the shattered phantasms after a CD from 5-10 seconds but just for PvE. The idea behind is that we can use some more shatters in long fights like in raids without wasting the time to create new phantasm. This would increase our CC(F3)(i dont like to use it at the moment), our survivability(F4) and our damage (F1).

What do you think?

Thanks for you seriouse answer!
(PS. sorry for that terrible English)

I think you don’t understand how the trait works, but I’m fairly sure that I understand what you’re asking. What you’re saying is that you’d like to be able to shatter the phantasms and have them respawn more than once as long as you waited long enough inbetween shatters?

It’s an interesting thought, but ultimately wouldn’t do anything to resolve the issues that prevent Mesmer from being a good PvE damage class. It also would be a drastic change in mechanics between PvE and PvP, and Anet has never made a PvE/PvP split that substantial.

Ah sorry the trait for illusion after shattering dont know the name atm xD(chrono line master) got a debuff. I know mesmer wont be a puredmg class in PvE but it is a slight buff and offering access to shatter in PvE. Im thinking that PvE/PvP/WvW need a splitt for a good balance but dont let us discuss this xD and some traits in PvE build will get some use like mindwrack 15% dmg buff and illu shatterbuff (10% crit for mindwrack etc)

Interesting idea but I’d rather mesmer DPS was removed from phantasms so I can
1) Shatter as needed in PvE and use associated traits if wanted and
2) Not suck when I’m in WvW and there’s more than 2 eles or necros cleaving out my phantasms without even the slightest thought about the speed of their head rolling across the keyboard.

yeah shattering is possible but the dmg los is to high i think…
it was just a little idea for anet if they dont have good ideas xD
it is sad that we have 2 line with useless grandmastertraits in our dmg lines that could easly get removed by this traitrework i thought and if they dont want to splitt it that hard from pve they can increase the cd at pvp/wvw to 15-20 sec

“Why should they buff Mesmer in PvE Moa is OP in PvP nerf staff” – PvP forums probably

Shatter build is useless in pve anyhow. I still take this trait because I can get one shatter and eventually another. But for the big pve fights I just try to get 3 pistols or sword men up and keep them up. Shattering slows down dps unless you can get them right back up. In the smaller pve skirmishes and the trash mobs in hot I shatter like crazy with shield, I don’t think anything will make that faster and it doesn’t even matter whether I kill them in 4 or 6 seconds. CD in shield is so quick that reducing CD on trait wouldn’t help. I’d just like CD on F1 reduced. Haha

You don’t have to be using a shatter build to make use of shatter skills (except for F2, that’s just garbage, basicly only a tiny add on for final burst or boonstrip).

You should always shatter with F1 when a fight ends, when you are facing multiple trash mobs wich happens often in open world. It’s also a great idea to shatter avengers to reset their attack cd.

In raids you want to shatter against VG adds for the final burst, you want to shatter F3 for cc. At gorse you also shatter burst adds and him before phasing. At Sabby you always want to shatter F1 before she’s leaving if you are about to skip flame walls beacuse chronophantasma does not work when she’s away (invuln) and CS is up at the same time again. Sloth F3 and F4 ofc for shake, Trio aoe burst, Matthias F3 and F1 when you get sacrificed yourself.

Giving Chronophantasma a CD in PvE seems like a GREAT idea and encourages players to shatter more frequently. It’s also a slight dps boost in raids in general wich wouldn’t hurt us to have at all.

I support the idea, the CD should be around 10-15s tough.

Greez!