Guild Wars 2

My suggestions for Chrono changes to go along with the next patch.
Agree, disagree? What are your ideas?

Mesmer/chrono changes for pvp:

1. Add the bounce back to mirror blade. Mes needs a role. What is that role now? I don’t even know. Mes can’t compete with the sustain of thieves anymore after the new patch, even though both will be bursty classes. Therefore, I would like to see mes have a role that gives up almost all sustain damage for burst. However, the burst needs to be high enough to justify giving up all sustain damage. It doesn’t work if thief has just as good of a burst as mesmer and has better sustained damage as well. This would not be balanced.

2. lower the cool down slightly on distortion so that mesmers don’t get completely and utterly kitten d by thieves every time. This is a tuff one. You need to really be careful not to over do it. The goal is to make it so thieves can kill a mes. However, its not a guaranteed kill-in a 1v1 situation. Rather, it is a fair fight where both have a 50% chance of winning if they are equally skilled.

3. Add or update a sigil that guarantees a bit more condi removal. Shatter mes can’t have condi removal unless they take the inspiration trait line, giving up a lot of their damage. This is why even now a lot of shatter mesmers still take dueling and just try not to get hit by condis at all, even though there is the chance they just have to huddle up in a corner to die because they have no decent condi removal (even with a minimal amount of condis on them). Just doesn’t seem fair for any class to be forced to take a trait line to have condi removal. After all, you don’t need to take a trait line to have defense against regular damage. Another suggestion to go along these line, just so we no longer have all our eggs in one basket, is to change up the skill Master of Fragmentation in the illusions line. Make it so distortion, instead of reflecting projectiles, removes a couple on condis. I kinda believe the trait is week the way it is anyway. This would be a nice boost to it and a reason to take it.

I think anets going about it all wrong with thieves and mesmers if you want to play high burst play thief but i would like to see mesmer have good burst and a more crowd control oriented role to have its class more defined.