Guild Wars 2

Little frustrated with Mesmer’s lack of build depth. Decided to rewrite the profession just for fun. Maybe the developers will be inspired. Oh, I do like the class! I just feel like we have been nerfed 3 consecutive patches in a row, and haven’t received much in terms of replacement traits/skills. The below changes would open up a variety of builds for all modes of play without breaking game play. Maybe the topic will be fun to discuss.

Domination

Minor Traits

Adept – Dazzling moved to Adept Tier from Master

Master – Illusions of Vulnerability: Illusions inflict vulnerability on critical hits.

Grand Master – Confounding Suggestions: 20% Chance to apply 1 second stun
whenever you daze a target.

Major Traits

1.        Mental Torment: No Changes.
2.        Mantra Mastery: No Changes.
3.        Rending Shatters: No Changes.
4.        Crippling Dissipation: No Changes.
5.        Signet Mastery: No Changes.
6.        Shattered Illusions: No Changes.
7.        Confusing Enchantments: No Changes.
8.        Cleansing Conflagration: Now effects up to 5 players. Radius:
9.        Great Sword Training: Increase range of Great Sword Skills. (+150) Reduces Recharge of Great Sword Skills by 20%
10.      Harmonious Mantras: No Changes.
11.     *New* Dazing Strike: As Halting Strike except the following: Deal Damage when dazing a foe.
12.     *New* Total Insanity: +25% Confusion Damage.

Dueling

Minor Traits

Adept – Critical Infusion: No Changes
Master – Sharper Images: No Changes
Grand Master – Confusing Combatants: No Changes

Major Traits

1.       Cleansing Inscriptions : Activating a Signet removes 2 conditions.
2.        Empowered Illusions: No Changes.
3.        Retaliatory Shield: Gain 5 seconds of retaliation when you block an attack.
4.        Blade Training: No Changes.
5.        Desperate Decoy: No Changes.
6.        Protective Mantras: Gain 3 seconds of protection when you cast a mantra. (Cool Down: 10 seconds)
7.        Phantasmal Fury: No Changes.
8.        Blurred Inscriptions: Gain 2 seconds of Distortion when you activate a signet. (Cool Down: 10 Seconds)
9.        Duelist Discipline: No Changes.
10.      Deceptive Evasion: No Changes.
11.      Furious Daze: Gain 3 seconds of quickness when you daze a foe. (Cool Down: 15 Seconds)
12.     *New* Concussive Strike: Deal 20% more damage to target that has confusion on them.

Chaos

Minor Traits

Adept – Meta-Physical Rejuvenation: No Changes
Master – Sharper Images: No Changes
Grand Master – Confusing Combatants: No Changes

Major Traits

1.        Chaotic Revival: No Changes.
2.        Descent into Madness: No Changes.
3.        Illusionary Defense: No Changes.
4.        Debilitating Dissipation: No Changes.
5.        Retaliatory Demise: No Changes.
6.        *New* Lingering Malady: Winds of Chaos, and Chaos Storm have a 30% chance to inflict Torment (2 stacks) for 3 seconds on critical hit.
7.        Master of Manipulation: Manipulations have increased range and 20% reduced cool down.
8.        Mirror of Anguish: No Changes.
9.        Bountiful Daze: Gain Might (3 stacks) for 5 seconds and a random boon when you daze a foe.
10.     Chaotic Dampening: No Changes.
11.     Chaotic Daze: Inflict Blindness, Torment (3 stacks), and Cripple for 5 seconds when you daze a target.
12.     Prismatic Understanding: Stealth Skills last 1 second longer (This benefit affects allies when you apply stealth). You gain Protection, Aegis, and Swiftness for 3 seconds when you are cloaked.

Inspiration

Minor Traits

Adept – Vengeful Images: No Changes
Master – Phantasmal Healing: No Changes
Grand Master – Phantasmal Strength: No Changes

Major Traits

1.      Medic’s Feedback: No Changes.
2.      Glamour Mastery: No Changes.
3.      Vigorous Revelation: No Changes.
4.      Menders Purity: Remove a condition from allies when you heal.
5. Shattered Conditions: No Changes.
6. Compounding Celerity: Gain 5 seconds of swiftness when you create an illusion.
7. Malicious Sorcery: No Changes.
8. Wardens Feedback: No Changes.
9. Temporal Enchanter: Glamour Skills last 50% longer.
10. Restorative Mantras: No Changes
11. Restorative Illusions: Heal nearby allies when you shatter illusions.
12. New Forceful Mantras: Create an area of effect knock back when casting a Mantra. (Cool Down: 10 Seconds) Radius: 180, Damage Coefficient: 0.65, Cannot Critical

Illusions

Minor Traits

Adept – Illusionary Retribution: No Changes
Master – Shattered Strength: No Changes
Grand Master – Illusionist Celerity: No Changes

Major Traits

1. Precise Wrack: No Changes.
2. Confusing Cry: No Changes.
3. Compounding Power: No Changes.
4. Masterful Reflection: No Changes.
5. Master of Misdirection: Confusion you inflict lasts 25% longer.
6. Phantasmal Haste: Phantasms Recharge 20%
7. Bouncing Elasticity: No Changes.
8. Dazzling Glamour’s: No Changes.
9. Illusionary Invigoration: Reduce cool down of Shattered Skills by 20%
10. Imbued Diversion: No Changes.
11. Blinding Befuddlement: Cause Confusion for 5 seconds when you blind a target. Removed Cool Down.
12. Illusionary Persona: No Changes.

Great Sword

Spatial Surge: No Changes
Mirror Blade: No Changes
Mind Stab: Increased Radius to 240
Phantasmal Berserker: No Changes
Illusionary Wave: Increase Range to 900. Increase Cool Down to 35 Seconds.

Staff

Winds of Chaos: No Changes
Phantasmal Retreat: No Changes
Phantasmal Warlock: No Changes
Chaos Armor: Reduced Cool Down to 30 Seconds
Chaos Storm: Chilled, Poison, Weakness Durations increased to 3 seconds.

Scepter

Ether Bolt: Attacks 1&2 inflict torment for 4 seconds (1 stack). Attack 3 inflicts confusion for 3 seconds (1stack) and summons a clone that casts ether bolt.
Illusionary Counter: No Changes.
Confusing Images: Increased attack animation by 25%.

Sword

Mind Slash: No Changes.
Blurred Frenzy: Increased Cool Down to 15 seconds.
Illusionary Leap: No Changes.

Sword – Offhand

Illusionary Riposte: No Changes.
Phantasmal Swords Man: No Changes

Pistol

Illusionary Duelist: No Changes.
Magic Bullet: No Changes.

Focus

Temporal Curtain: No Changes
Phantasmal Warden: Reduced Cool Down to 20 seconds.

Torch

The Prestige: Reduced Cool Down to 25 seconds.
Phantasmal Mage: Reduced Cool Down to 20 seconds.

Utilities

Decoy: No Changes.

Mirror Images: No Changes.

Phantasmal Defender: No Changes.

Phantasmal Disenchanter: No Changes.

Feedback: No Changes.

Null Field: No Changes.

Portal: Increase number of portal charges to 30.

Veil: In addition to current effect, enemies passing through the wall will be revealed for 3 seconds.

Arcane Thievery: Range 900, Radius 240, Duration 5 seconds, Target area pulses removing boons on target foes, allies gain removed boons. Increased Cool Down to 50 seconds.

Blink: No Changes.

Illusions of Life: No Changes
Mimic: Target an ally, replace mimic with targets elite skill. Increase Cool Down to 210 seconds.

Mantra of Concentration: Reduced Casting Time to 1 second.

Mantra of Distraction: Reduced Casting Time to 1 second.

Mantra of Pain: Reduced Casting Time to 1 second. Increased Cool Down to 15 Seconds.

Power Spike: Radius 180.

Mantra of Resolve: Reduced Casting Time to 1 second.

Signet of Domination: No Changes.

Signet of Illusions: Reduced Cool Down to 60 Seconds.

Signet of Inspiration: Passive – Movement Speed Increased by 25%, Activated – No

Changes. Reduced Cool Down to 40 Seconds.

Signet of Chaos: Passive – +10% Condition Increase, Activated – Range 1,200, Radius 240, Blindness – 5 seconds, Chill – 3 seconds, Confusion – (2 Stacks) 4 seconds, Torment – (3 Stacks) 5 seconds, Vulnerability (3 Stacks) 5 seconds, Damage Coefficient – 0.35, Cool Down – 90 Seconds.

There’s way too many things i would like them to change but the most important or the ones i’d preferred if they changed before others would be~~ Mind Stab, iLeap that spawns on target instead of leaping to it, Eather Bolt, Confusion Images, Winds of Chaos vulnerability removed and projectile velocity increased, Phantasmal Warden become ground targeting, the Prestige CD reduced to 20sec, Chill from chaos storm increased to 3sec or removed completely… i want daze to proc more often and the same goes for poison and weakness, they need to increase duration per hit cuz 1 or 2 sec does nothing, iMage~~~~get out of my game!!!, Siren’s Call boon from clones fixed, iWhaler… can i have a phantasm that deals good damage instead? Removed that stupid confusion and let it hit 8 times like iDuelist. and when are they changing Spatial Surge sound effect? Its annoying as kitten and no1 likes it, change it already, it doesn’t takes 3 months of preparation…

i see some interesting suggestions here:

agree with arcane thievery radius increase and cd needs to be adjusted too.

increase confusion more than 25%. i’d say at least 33 percent or unnerf it as the bb nerf and the so called bug fix already destroyed a ton of stacking ability! if u allow other classes to burn, posion and bleed u to death with such high numbers, then give us confusion back!

mantras need rework, in wvw its not practical to be forced to channel

unnerf clones in wvw as we cant even shatter anymore as clones and phantasms die instantly in a zerg.

adjust tw cooldown. it doesnt last very long, has been nerfed to 50 percent and our cd is 240 sec……wayyyyyy to high

mass in visibility should last 1 sec longer as it is an elite

remove rng based conditions. i’d rather be able to spec into a viable condition than being lucky if it maybe applies something useful to enemy

less rng based boons its annoying!

new elite skills! i wouldnt mind losing darn moa!

if u want us to use mantras, then get on it and makem useful for wvw as well.

i like HorridForm idea of the signet of inspiraton and chaos signet

most importantly though: balance spvp and wvw differently!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! stop destroying wvw mesmers with your kitten spvp mania. and btw even there u did a terrible job at balancing.

I like some of what you said and didn’t like some other things but the one thing I will say is your Scepter ideas are WAY OP. A condition Mesmer would be unstoppable when our clones also give a stack of Torment per hit. I won’t say I would love that change but it is simply too much.

A thing I haven’t seen anyone asking (maybe it’s only me) would be to have those 3 pink dots above the action bar to display, once you hover it with the mouse, the name (or the type) of illusions active in the world. When a fight gets very long I find difficult remembering which illusion I have out. That could help

Yeah, I know it’s nothing major but I felt that would be cool

Torment on staff 1 and scepter is hard op …. on the other hand u nerf pu…..
Dont like the changes …..

• Domination
  • Total Insanity: +25% Confusion Damage.
    I guess this doesn’t work with the current system. Condition’s damage is bound to malice and not traits, runes or food. Better make it + duration

• Dueling
  • Protective Mantras: Gain 3 seconds of protection when you cast a mantra. (Cool Down: 10 seconds)
    We don’t need toughness or protection, we need stability or aegis here
  • Furious Daze: Gain 3 seconds of quickness when you daze a foe. (Cool Down: 15 Seconds)
    So, pulling and pushing does interrupt but shouldn’t trigger it anymore?
    12. New Concussive Strike: Deal 20% more damage to target that has confusion on them.
    You put confusion damage to domination GM to dueling GM. The original condition line is illusion. I expect you want to run a 30/30/20/20/30 build then.

• Inspiration
  • Menders Purity: Remove a condition from allies when you heal.
    I think Mender’s Purity is strong enough. Especially with HealingMantra.
  • Forceful Mantras: Create an area of effect knock back when casting a Mantra. (Cool Down: 10 Seconds) Radius: 180, Damage Coefficient: 0.65, Cannot Critical
    Mantra builds then also require a 30/30/0/30/0 build ?

• Scepter
  Giving #1 2 torments and 1 confusion is pretty much overpowered

• Sword
  You really wanna increase blurred frenzy further?

• Arcane Thievery
  No, I don’t need to stand in melee to get the boons. Especially not 3 seconds and ask the opponent politely to also not move

• Mantras
  They are fine the way you are. Actually, I’d prefer a longer casttime. If you can’t micromanage your gameplay, don’t use them. Giving them a 1s casttime would make them like other skills. And especially do no increase MoPs recharge from 1s to 15s!

I’d disagree with most of your suggestions.

HorridForm.5926:

8. Cleansing Conflagration: Now effects up to 5 players. Radius:

I like it, but it doesnt make sense to put a support skill in the domination tree >_<.

9. Great Sword Training: Increase range of Great Sword Skills. (+150) Reduces Recharge of Great Sword Skills by 20%

It wouldnt be in line with the ranges of other weapons from other professions… Maybe making the damage treshholds for range 300 lower could be a thing?

Grand Master – Confounding Suggestions: 20% Chance to apply 1 second stun
whenever you daze a target.

This one is veeeeery underwhelming, needing 5 dazes for a single stun, no thanks. Id suggest “stun a foe whenever you daze or interupt them for 1 second (5 second cooldown)”

12. New Concussive Strike: Deal 20% more damage to target that has confusion on them.

Imagine this trait in a shatter build. Due to a trait the target will have confusion on them whenever you shatter, which basically increases brst damage by 20%, too high if you ask me.

1. Chaotic Revival: No Changes.

I think this trait should give us permanent chaos armor whenever were downed, but the internal cooldown of it activating is 2 seconds. Just a random suggesiton i jsut thought of though.

6. New Lingering Malady: Winds of Chaos, and Chaos Storm have a 30% chance to inflict Torment (2 stacks) for 3 seconds on critical hit.

I feel like this trait is in teh wrong tree, Duelling is for critical hits. Maybe a trait could be like “inflict torment whenever you block, chill or cripple a foe.” blocking, chilling and crippling happens alot with a staff.

9. Bountiful Daze: Gain Might (3 stacks) for 5 seconds and a random boon when you daze a foe.

make it: 9. Bountiful Daze: Gain Might (3 stacks) for 5 seconds and a random boon when you daze or interupt a foe. I dont want to lose my might stacks with temporal curtain and the like

11. Chaotic Daze: Inflict Blindness, Torment (3 stacks), and Cripple for 5 seconds when you daze a target.

It should immobilize.

HorridForm.5926:

6. Compounding Celerity: Gain 5 seconds of swiftness when you create an illusion.

make it: Compounding Celerity: Gain 5 seconds of swiftness when you create an illusion. (5 seconds cooldown)

9. Temporal Enchanter: Glamour Skills last 50% longer.

That is overkill O.o. Maybe we can instead merge the 20% longer trait with one of those nerfed confusion traits? “Glamour skills last 20% longer and inflict blind when they are cast.”

12. New Forceful Mantras: Create an area of effect knock back when casting a Mantra. (Cool Down: 10 Seconds) Radius: 180, Damage Coefficient: 0.65, Cannot Critical

please dont remove the cleanse shatter, im loving it :/.

11. Restorative Illusions: Heal nearby allies when you shatter illusions.

" Restorative Illusions: Remove conditions from nearby allies when you shatter illusions, gain health for each condition removed."

5. Master of Misdirection: Confusion you inflict lasts 25% longer.

Youre aware that you nerfed this trait? It currently makes confusion last 33% longer.

6. Phantasmal Haste: Phantasms Recharge 20%

I dont see a change here.

9. Illusionary Invigoration: Reduce cool down of Shattered Skills by 20%

This trait is already very powerfull, id prefer the effect before this change actually.

Blurred Frenzy: Increased Cool Down to 15 seconds.

Oh, come on.

Arcane Thievery: Range 900, Radius 240, Duration 5 seconds, Target area pulses removing boons on target foes, allies gain removed boons. Increased Cool Down to 50 seconds.

That would turn it in a glamour. I think transferiing stolen boons would be fun to copy to allies with a trait though.

Mantra of snip

We would be way too good at healing allies, not sure if its overpowered or not.

Mantra of Pain: Reduced Casting Time to 1 second. Increased Cool Down to 15 Seconds.
Power Spike: Radius 180.

I like the radius, but i wouldnt use mantra ofpain for damage due to the damage simply being pitiful. With the cooldwon it also loses its healing >_<.

Signet of Chaos: Passive – +10% Condition Increase, Activated – Range 1,200, Radius 240, Blindness – 5 seconds, Chill – 3 seconds, Confusion – (2 Stacks) 4 seconds, Torment – (3 Stacks) 5 seconds, Vulnerability (3 Stacks) 5 seconds, Damage Coefficient – 0.35, Cool Down – 90 Seconds.

Well i like it, but i dont think it fits with the mesmer profession.

Signet of Inspiration: Passive – Movement Speed Increased by 25%, Activated – No
Changes. Reduced Cool Down to 40 Seconds.

Suddenly solo players would use it, maybe even team players but they would never activate the signet unless theyre built for it… Maybe retain the passive we currently have, but your movement speed is increased by 10%, and an adittional 5% for each illusion you dont have? Well i dont know actually :/.

Disclaimer: I didn’t read all the notes, but the call for a sword nerf hit me. Nerf the sword again and buff the scepter because OP loves scepter and wants all the mesmers play scepter? No.

Scepter deserves a rework to make a proper main hand condition weapon, but the sword has already been nerfed a lot, stop calling for nerfs for your fellow mesmers that don’t like condition builds.

minor Domination Traits should be change, all of them
-Illusion of Vulnerability and Dazzling look good on paper but does not work, minor traits should not force the player to play as an interrupter, move them to major and buff them like Halting Strike, this way we can have option to choose as an interrupter or not.
-Wastrel’s Punishment, might as well as non-existing, sure inactive foes do exist but they do when they died

minor Dueling trait
-Confusing Combatants, please fix this skill

minor Chaos trait
-Chaotic Transference, fine in pve because we can stack toughness, in pvp? max condition damage we can have is 82
major Chaos trait
-Chaotic Interruption < Bountiful Interruption, for a major grandmaster traits it need some serious buff

minor Inspiration trait
-Vengeful Images, reverse it back

Mantra mechanice need some rework to make it more useful