Guild Wars 2

Thanks Chaos for expressing what I had felt for a while now. I think the mesmer community owes a big thank you to Robert for actually putting in the time to make mesmer interesting and well thought out. Kudos!

I’ll appreciate it if he can put in a word to get MtD restored.

(but I do appreciate the Mirror heal and mantra buff).

Edit: Why am I being so cautiously polite…

No, not put in a word – rather please just fix MtD/restore it to 2 stacks of torment, because currently condition shatter is worse than pre-patch even without IP.

Nice thread @ Chaos and obviously to Mr. Gee.

Mesmer is pretty much the only class that I’ve really enjoyed playing in GW2. But at times, it sometimes did feel like a struggle as to why people would want to bring a mesmer onto a pvp team.

I feel like we are very much worthwhile for a number of roles now, and I never expected once class could feel so complete and diverse.

There are a few kinks to work out, but I think Mr. Gee knows what we’re after and he’s done a great job for us so far.

Cheers!

Thank you Mr. Gee.
Loved Mesmers and love it even more now.

Cheers.

I also appreciate Robert’s work and I hope one of his co-workers come to their senses and release him from his cage before we’re nerfed into oblivion.

It’s true, the new streamlined Mesmer is a major boost to the enjoyment of the class. Thank you.

Needless to say, I’m all for more Robert. Hell, just let him run the balance squad.

While it is rather easy to step onto this hypetrain for a guy I hadn’t heard of before this post (not a really active player and TERRIBLE at remembering names), I am sure that random acts of appreciation like this can truly make someone’s day.

So, Robert, for shaping and maintaining the sole reason I keep playing GW2 (my Mesmer):

Thank you

Edit: Oh, and Chaos, you leave that Unicorn alone! There’s no such thing as too much fabulousness in the toolkit of a Mesmer

#BelieveInGee.

gg really but the mtd nerf not in place which remove condi build (pu clone its not a build its harassment)

Thornum.8607:

While it is rather easy to step onto this hypetrain for a guy I hadn’t heard of before this post (not a really active player and TERRIBLE at remembering names), I am sure that random acts of appreciation like this can truly make someone’s day.

So, Robert, for shaping and maintaining the sole reason I keep playing GW2 (my Mesmer):

Thank you

Edit: Oh, and Chaos, you leave that Unicorn alone! There’s no such thing as too much fabulousness in the toolkit of a Mesmer

Until I read that book, Ima be squirmy about that kitten unicorn.

And if you check the ready up stream where they unveiled the balance patch, he’s the guy who explained all the Mesmer changes

Undo the recent change to the Chaos line trait for the Staff CD’s and maybe look into that lil MtD thing we’re golden. From one Robert to another, thank you.

Robert is doing a very good job. It’s the balance devs that are…………….

Robert has done and continues to do a good job. Something I appreciate and see that the feeling is general.

But Robert: keeps one of these Tools… in your work wardrobe. And if John or other question you about the first balance us regularly beating us and then we’ll see what we do with the other …. make good use of it

P.S: Of course those are of wood for training, to avoid unwanted accidents. Nevertheless, we still want them to continue working.

Dear Robert Gee

Thank you so much for everything you have done for the Mesmer class and guild wars in general. Mesmer was not my first class. However, long ago I decided to try it out because a friend was playing it and I felt like a class that was unique and interesting to play. It quickly grew on me to become my favorite, and now I could not imagine myself playing anything else. Fairly soon after I created my Mesmer, my friend switched his favorite class to guardian, as he felt the Mesmer did not do enough damage. However, I have always stuck with the Mesmer because of the unique changes in brings to the game. I am very happy, thanks to your work, that these changes continue to happen today. Thanks to you, I am very excited about the Mesmer, chronomancer, heart of thorns, and the future of guild wars. I have always enjoyed watching you talk and feeling your enthusiasm. I truly believe if you where never around, the Mesmer would nearly be dead, disappointing many in the guild wars community. However, you continue to bring joy into the game. Of course, there will always be complaints within the class, as others have mentioned (MtD, chaos line, feel my wrath overpowered compared to time warp, wink wink https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/Time-Warp-no-innate-cooldown/first#post5216712). However, I know you will continue to do what you can with the objective of creating a viable class in all aspects of the game that may be played with a wide variety of builds and play styles. I greatly appreciate what you have done for the Mesmer community, and I hope you continue to work with the Mesmer and guild wars in the future.

p.s. Although the unicorn does not send the same message as the butterfly (I always think of the butterfly effect now that the chronomancer is coming), the unicorn can be a fierce, dangerous, and deadly animal in the right circumstances. I also believe that if any mythological animal “inspired”, it would be the unicorn.

What to say that i’ve not said before.

Thq for breaking the chains that held us back.
Thq for making mesmer fun to play again.
& just Thq…

Yep, thanks for the changes to inspiration line, chaos and everything. The lines flow now like they didn’t before. Where you look at what you want to do and can see the adept, master and grandmaster options clearly and are simply choosing which line to take for it.

The changes to utilities like reduced cool downs and reworking a few poor choices was great and kudos for not being afraid to do something different and buff something to be defining.

A small mention to the changes you made for necro, very nice support lines too, can really see the out of the box thinking there and many I know are loving it too.

Thanks Robert Gee. Lyssa has always shown us her vengeful side of chaos up until this point when it comes to Mesmer balancing. Her benevolence with this trait revamp is simply glamourous!

+1

Thanks, Robert Gee. There’s still stuff to do (buffs and also nerfs), but this patch was probably the biggest step in the right direction since release. Well done.

Wow, imagine my surprise to see myself quoted in the OP of a completely different thread from where I posted that. I meant every single word of it. We GW1 Mesmer vets still remember, Robert. Thanks again.

Now please stop the Dread Lords, Jon Peters and Josh Davis, from gradually taking away everything you gave us.

fresh stuff i realy like it !!!

I have probably clicked on my shatter skills more today than I have for the entire time I’ve played my mesmer, and I’ve loved every moment of it.

Robert Gee.9246:

Wow, everyone I’m really touched to see a thread like this and I’m really glad to see everyone having so much fun with mesmer since the patch. We’ve all been working on these changes for many months and it’s a really weight off my chest to finally be able to play these changes on live.

I want to clarify though that a lot of the changes you see aren’t my work alone. While I was driving most of the mesmer changes and pushed some of the more… shall we say “extreme” examples coughmimiccough, many other significant changes (like Illusionary Persona becoming baseline) wouldn’t have happened without feedback and suggestions from other folks on the skills team like Roy and Karl as well as our dedicated team of testers.

Praise Lyssa and have fun with the new traits!

Unicorns 4 Life
—Robert

Think you could get interrupt traits working in PvE next? Like if you do the act of interrupting on a target with defiance for example the traits that would require you to interrupt would activate but they boss wouldn’t be in interrupt stun.

I know this works for engineers and their knockback trait (quickness on knockback I believe)

Even though there is some OP stuff right now, I would like to thank Robert for the wonderful job he did on the necro and Mesmer changes. Both classes feel like they have an identity now and have unique features that other classes will never get. All I ask is PLEASE don’t overnerf things from kneejerking (Chaotic dampening, Healing prism, whats next???), and please fix our bugs <3

This has been a fantastic patch for mesmers. Great job Rob, Skills Team and Testers!

Now for next week, can you update the shatter effect for inspiration mesmers so that our illusions shatter into tiny unicorns? I think that would be a suitable addition to the game.

I’ll definitely toss in my agreement here.

While I’m a clone-spammer (have been for years) who’s not a fan of the shattering mechanic, probably never will be (don’t like the way it clears my clones off the field, messes up my pacing and limits multi-target aggro management) and do miss my auto-exploding clones, I think the overall changes to Mesmer are overwhelmingly positive.

There’s more to work out, and I’m somewhat concerned that non-shattering clone tactics may be pushed even farther into the corner (to the detriment of playstyle diversity), but aside from that, it’s definitely a lot of movement in the right direction.

Thank you so much for the hard work Robert, Roy, Karl and everyone who worked on the new Mesmer, and please keep up the excellent work!

Kudos Robert, I have kept the faith since the 1st Beta, and suffered (not quietly) through the nerfs. Thanks for the thought and time you spent making Mesmer fresh and reinvigorated. Love PB, just bring back Blackout haha, thanks for starting this thread Chaos.

This thread sums up my feelings about this patch too. Thanks Robert and also thanks to you Chaos good words!

I hated mesmer and didn’t and couldn’t play it until this patch. Now people are angry at me because a guy in my guild gave me a kitten build. It’s fun now!

Now about making Signet of Inspiration give permaswiftness…

My sincere thanks Robert Gee in particular and the dev team in general for having restored mesmer identity in GW2.

Also thanks Chaos for making this thread.

I, too, would like to thank the work put in in letting us be on par with every class so far. My only hope now is that when the dust settles after all the adjustments that we would still be level with the rest.

I wanted to start a similar thread for the last few days. Robert, I don’t think Chaos wanted to downplay the effort from the rest of the team, but you’ve been the face we linked to the changes, so I guess it’s only natural that you’ve been mentioned here

You all did a good job with the mesmer rework, and I’m really looking forward to play the Chronomancer in HoT!

I wonder how long this will last. Perhaps one more week.

Robert Gee.9246:

Unicorns 4 Life

My first reaction to seeing the new Inspiration stuff, both the abilities and the build/training screens, was “GW2 really gets me.”

I’m happy. The game’s been fun for me. A lot of the new changes emphasize stuff I like — both the general feel of forcing enemies to do more than execute their rotation, and specific gameplay elements like interrupts, mantras, and general “slippery” abilities (new PU may be a bit much, if I’m honest — that’s not a big deal and will shake out in time, though).

+1
Thank you, Robert!

(Get us confusing combatants back please!)

+1
ty for your hard work. i finally feel like im doing something in wvw other than just putting veil down and wait for the veil cd to finish…lets hope the wvw mesmer will keep getting love and attention.

Thank you for bringing shatter back. I am so happy that I will work on my guide again as sign of support. I want to give back.

+1

Thank you for the wonderful changes. With SoI Mesmers can now fly over the WvW map almost as fast as the Warriors

+ 10000 to this, and I am a main thief.

The changes are really well designed, traits interact a lot and support eachother, all the broken and annoying stufff that needed workarounds got removed. Awesome.

Now, please Sir, get a baseball bat and move over to Karl knock him out and take over responsibility for thieves…

Robert Gee.9246:

While I was driving most of the mesmer changes and pushed some of the more… shall we say “extreme” examples coughmimiccough

I just want to throw it out there that the new mimic might be impractical most of the time, but Ive been having a bunch of fun with it.

I want to live in a world where chronomancy is a thing and quadruple blinks exist.

Huge thank you Robert Gee and the Anet team that worked on all the Mesmer changes and Chaos Archangel.

clipnotdone.9634:

I want to live in a world where chronomancy is a thing and quadruple blinks exist.

Yeah, I am so very exited for that. I don’t care how practical/useful that would be. I wanna do it… blink over the whole bordelrands inna second^^

+1 to this thread and thanks to Robert Gee and the balance team. There are some bumps on the road still, but I’ll give it time. After seeing those changes I am confident that the balance team will balance things out. So that finally Mesmers all over the globe will get more and more hate mail from interrupted and locked down foes. As it should be^^

Robert Gee.9246:

While I was driving most of the mesmer changes and pushed some of the more… shall we say “extreme” examples

Those changes are what makes playing around with every trait line interesting and fun. You did a really good job with Necromancer and Mesmer.

GJ, keep up the good work!

+1. It’s nice to know we’ve got someone in Anet who cares about our class.

Robert Gee, Lyssa’s Champion since 2010.

We salute you and your team (but mostly you) for shaping Mesmer into what it should’ve always been in the first place.

Ty Robert (and other Devs) for the changes! Looking forward to HoT!

Arshay Duskbrow.1306:

Wow, imagine my surprise to see myself quoted in the OP of a completely different thread from where I posted that. I meant every single word of it. We GW1 Mesmer vets still remember, Robert. Thanks again.

<strong>Now please stop the Dread Lords, Jon Peters and Josh Davis, from gradually taking away everything you gave us.</strong>

+1

I had my doubts when the trait revamp was introduced, but glad I was proven wrong. Now we just need Robert to help stop all the incoming nerfs while other classes are left mostly untouched.

+1 for Robert, you did a really good job on the mesmer changes.
But please, I beg you on my knees for me and the rest of the mesmer community, please stop with the over nerfs.