Boop Boop.
It seems like the new meta now is to nerf mesmers in every patch until they eventually get deleted to the game and we log-in one day to have a choice of another class and a free total makeover kit because Mesmer is no longer in the game.
As a Mesmer since GW2 Year 1, It’s sad how we get bit-by-bit nerfed in every patch and getting narrower to build versatility — Get Meta or Get Rekt
(In PvP) Yes, you can experiment in different builds but the gap is just ‘too kitten high’, quoting ‘Vieux P.1238’ at a different Mesmer topic: " But no matter how good, you are, you are dead countered by other classes due to the awful multi nerfs mesmer suffered. Condi build with a descent amulet is the only build left. Like said before, no build diversity. & like i said, Anet kill them all."
(In PvE/General) – Other professions can do what Mesmers can, except for probably have Time Warp (but hey, Guardians have one too – just a little bit weaker).
Revenants and Guardians can do more reflects than Mesmers.
Stealth? Thief.
Damage? Probably every other profession since Mesmers can’t burst that much now and fell to the “Utility Support” Meta.
What we have now that’s really a signature since ever – is Portal Entre/Portal Exeunt (and don’t tell me you’re about to nerf this one too
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…And… Alacrity? Alacrity that we cannot really use much because there might be better Utilities than our pathetic wells.
Speaking of Wells…. In fact we’ve lost a part of our “Mesmer Identity” when Well of Precognition became a Guardian-like skill. Bye Distortion! Hello Aegis
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“Well of Precognition: This well no longer grants invulnerability. It instead grants 3 seconds of aegis with every pulse.”
- Yay. 3 seconds of aegis that can be broken in ‘x’ attack as long as they don’t miss.
(In my perspective) – Well of Precognition was really a strong skill but a nerf to Distortion’s duration or a pulsing one probably would’ve done the work, not nerf Distortion and make it Aegis…?
“-No one plays Mantra no more cuz it has bin chopped to the point of unviability. "
Oh, and not to skip this Mesmer PvP Condi Build too… Hello Reapers.
Nothing special left for us master of illusions… except for the illusions themselves… I guess.
Yep.
Well, on the good side. At least we got that Cooldown reduction on our wells because we can’t really do much after we burst out what we ‘got’ because of our high cooldowns on skills (+ the Alacrity nerf). *in-doubt cringe
- casts Continuum + Elite + Phantasm – gets back to Shift – recasts – run -
Mesmers™
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