September feature pack
Mesmer PvE Guide
The Leveling & Open World Compendium
The Leveling & Open World Compendium
I think this article will just be a preview to the balance patch not including the real changes but saying stuff like “We will balance
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Mindblossom – Sylvari – Mesmer – Jumpingpuzzler
Equinox [EqnX]
Riverside[DE]
Equinox [EqnX]
Riverside[DE]
Hopes? What is this “hopes” you speak of? Is it something to eat?
> Engaging Pessimist Realist-Mode…
> Reducing Seriousness to 80%…
In all seriousness, i don’t have any hopes whatsoever. A-net made it clear again and again over time that they don’t give a kitten about the Mesmer profession: If anything they will nerf it further (or be fixing Bugs in case they bring the mesmer some – god no! – advantages!), seeing how probably every developer in existence mained, currently mains, will main, and will forever have excusively mained a Warrior, plays (read: somehow manages to die on) a Warrior, buffs the Warrior, and twinks on a guardian... who am i kidding here: twinks on another Warrior. In case you’re wondering why i think that Devs playing Warriors may be the reason for our classes sad state – take a look at the Warrior Subsection on this Forum, where arguably the most “Teefa ndm esmer OP PLZ nERF EM!!!1!!”-like Topics and Posts originate from (in case they appear in the WvW-Discussion or Balancing Section, click on the poster’s history, and try to discern what his/her main class is. You won’t be surprised in most cases…
). Hell, i know quite some Warrior-mainers from my friendslist who cannot cope with mesmer clones (“clonespam”) or claiming that shatter anihilates any Warrior build, no matter how good the Warrior outplays the Mesmer…
If we’re lucky, the devs decide that they want to fix one of our serveral broken skills, forget it, and leave it untouched. If we’re less lucky, they decide to fix one of our broken skills, touch it, and… a-net-fix it (read: break it on a magnitude even higher than before).
Maybe, just maybe, they’re actually nerfing something actually nerf-worthy, such as Prismatic Understanding. While i realize, that PU isn’t that much of a problem, since most of the current cheesebuilds from other classes can cope quite well with it, i would regardless like seeing it nerfed – on one hand because that way the current sorry state of the mesmer class may become more visible to the devs, and on the other hand because PU not only leads to cheesy and pretty facerolly builds (played it for quite some time at the beginning as mesmer, and… omg…), but also to the bad Image that our class has amongst the general playerbase (ever got accused of being a “dirty PU user” despite not having a single point in Chaos? yeah, the flood of players overly using PU caused this).
If hell freezes.. they may even buff Shatterbuilds! Maybe giving it some condiremoval, so that you aren’t pushed into running the cleansing Mantra with Torch against even badly played Condibunkers, although they would probably rather further nerf it, and buff more passive Phantasm, PU-Phantasm oder PU-Condibuilds. This way a dev could simply switch from his Warrior to his dusty Mesmer-alt, and still not die..to often
“I control time and space; you can’t break free.~”
“Maybe I was the illusion all along!”
“Maybe I was the illusion all along!”