Guild Wars 2

Well, seeing as we have a million threads about this, I figured I’d make another one. Maybe, just maybe someone actually listens.

Ah but who am I kidding, fat chance of that happening.

I have been playing a condition mesmer since launch. It’s the only thing I like honestly.

And when I finally found myself a nice 20/25/10/0/15 build with GS/S+F, they’re going to kill it. Being able to override clones to proc DD is a staple of the build. It’s why I use the GS, since all clones spawn on the enemy, you get guaranteed conditions applied to them on every clone death.

What exactly will I have left? Going back to staff and doing kittenall dmg?

Speccing to phantasm because that’s the way I’m meant to play the game?

God kitten it I even wanted to get Sunrise because I’m having such a fun time with the build.

Please, just separate PvE and PvP traits. It shouldn’t be hard to do.

That is the simplest and best solution to your problems. If you want to neuter PvP builds, don’t do it at the expense of PvE builds.

If this goes through then I’ll most likely abandon the mesmer. No real reason to play it over a necro. Even as we stand, there’s little reason to bring a mesmer along that doesn’t have to do with portals.

And yes, I know it’s not set in stone, it may not happen. But from my experience, ANet tends to take the easy way out, which is to do the first thing they think of.

/rant over, yes it did deserve a separate thread

Staff is better than GS in PVE.

Word. This nerf takes a lot of fun out of one of the most fun mesmer builds. Is it even necessary, given that the Deceptive Evasion nerf also nerfs this build?

How about a compromise – change Clone-on-dodge to only overwrite clones but not phantasms.

Totally feel ya OP. I think the main reason I’ve been so vocal on this issue with the newest proposed Mesmer nerfs is that the play-style and build I enjoy the most is the Condition Mesmer (I jokingly call my weird build Mesmermancer). For some reason this build and style of playing is being singled out for elimination with no reasons given other than it’s ‘cheesy’.

Of course Mesmer being my main since launch and really my favorite profession to play (I have all 8 @ 80) that’s where all my ascended armor/weapons & trinkets go…all Rabid. So if Condition Mesmers become utterly useless all my Rabid gear, not to mention my enjoyment of the profession, goes the way of the Dodo.