Guild Wars 2

Needless to say they don’t do anything to actually improve skills/traits.

They aren’t designed to try and trick us into thinking something has changed because anybody who plays the class can instantly see these are useless.

Its to convince other classes we got buffs so they will argue with us when we point out the state of the class, so that we can’t get our voices heard.

Was sat in HoTM testing the changes to see if they actually worked and the usual conversation was going on about the patch notes and while surprisingly nobody argued against Bunker Mesmer now being useless, people swore blind that the scepter ‘buff’ and the furious interuption ‘buff’ were going to make interupt Mesmer and Condi Mesmer very strong.

Obviously they refused to tell me how it was going to make it strong or how it was going to compete with Theifs and Necros, they just saw these changes and thought ‘oh look buffs Mesmer will be OP’.

Scepter buffs mate , haven’t been happier in my life

They put these “buffs” on the patches so it didn´t look like they were butchering a proffesion.

kitten condi mesmer.
It’s the most boring cancerous bullkitten in the game. It’s seriously not even fun.

It also doesn’t work in WvW or PvE.
It’s also inferior in effectiveness to Condi-Rev & Necro/Reaper.
It’s also a kitten team fighter/+1 (Reason why it sucks in WvW), it’s better for sitting on far.

A pure decapper role, yay!
I’ll just play druid instead? Thanks, but no thanks.

So now, now we have to convince ourselves that shatter mesmer is viable in this meta.

Why?

Well I’ll give the argument I’ve heard a 1000 times.
“Shatter mes can 1 shot people”.

With what? The EASILY AVOIDABLE burst?
I dodge mesmer shatters all day long AS A MESMER.

Kinda have to if I want to have any hope of winning a 1v1 with another shatter mesmer.

Nah, this game is full of people who went, ran the daze/damage mantra in WvW, insta killed a kid in full zerker that didn’t know what he was doing (Probably too busy drinking and having fun on TS to pay attention), and proceeded to say “mesmer still viable”.

On the bright side. We are still viable in WvW. Had one of our cool “save the commander” mechanics removed, but still viable. TW didn’t lose effectiveness for WvW, neither did gravity well.
So yay! I still have a game mode I can enjoy on set days when my guild is raiding. Huzzah!

With the amount of passive procs at 25%, full blocks and protection spam, I doubt you can actually one shot anyone 100 to 0 nowadays lol.

…I probably shouldn’t laugh at this.

NICENIKESHOE.7128:

With the amount of passive procs at 25%, full blocks and protection spam, I doubt you can actually one shot anyone 100 to 0 nowadays lol.

…I probably shouldn’t laugh at this.

There’s air that passed through my nose. I find the idea of where Anet is taking this game THAT funny, jeez!
I noticed something, and maybe there’s no causal link, but it’s definitely correlated: My happiness and pleasure in having free time to game increased tremendously when I stopped playing.