Guild Wars 2

I’ve been playing a mesmer since beta and it’s still my main class. I absolutely love the mechanics and gameplay involved with illusions, misdirection, and shattering. My question is, why are literally all mesmer skills bugged still? They’ve been that way for a LONG time and it’s just really disappointing that only a few bugs have been fixed.

I could go on and on, listing every bug I’ve witnessed playing as a mesmer but I’d rather just talk about the more frequent ones that occur with me and cause me quite a bit of frustration: 1- clones exploding before reaching the target, cutting my damage by quite a lot 2- the focus 4+5 combo field and finisher, just… 3- Sword 3, where the illusion can’t even climb up stairs. Need I say more?

Those are the ones that come up most frequently while pvping and if at least one of these happen while pulling off some kind of shatter + blurred frenzy burst, you lose so much damage. Have it happen over and over again in the same game and you just feel defeated, like no matter how well you play, bugs are literally ruining your gaming experience. It bothers me that just about every other class can move fluidly while in battle but mesmer abilities feel stuttered and slow.

Come on, it’s season 2 already, and I’m sure every mesmer player agrees with me that these bugs are ruining the game and that it’s time to do something about it. Mesmers need some love.

I feel you. That’s why I’m playing more and more with my alts :/
I can’t stand especially watching my iWarden staring enemies and die dealing 0 damage (if I don’t shatter it).
But no new threads about it because anet know most of our problems thanks to our feedback. We can just wait and try other classes or accumulate anger playing with broken skills. Make the right choice. :S

Completely agree.

The bug list seems to be growing, not shrinking.

I’ve played since launch and you can let bugs slide to a certain extent, as all games have bugs at launch, especially MMOs, but the longer these bugs exist the more they begin to frustrate the players.

Most long term mesmers are always worried about upcoming patches, as its always a gamble as to what seems to get randomly broken next, usually to be left that way, or take months to be resolved.

We waited patiently for the feature patch, hoping to finally see some focus of the class bugs, but unfortunately a lot of the stuff they said would be fixed was left out, and some of the stuff they said they had fixed ended up even worse.

Now with season 2 just round the corner I think they need to be careful. If theres no bug fixes appearing in the start of season 2…… I don’t know, it could be the final straw for some.

I’ve given up playing my mesmer although she was my first and favorite. Sad state of affairs when they mess a class up so much that people stop playing it.

The one that is preventing me from playing my Mesmer lately is the permanent immobilize on blinking/phase retreat. Serious close to 3/4 of my deaths in Tpvp come while typing /sit so I can move again. Beyong fustating when it happens up to five times in a single match.

If they could just fix sword 3 I would be soooooo happy. Screw stairs, it doesnt even work on flat terrain within range half the time

The sword-3 clone…stumble… makes me laugh and cry at the same time. So annoying!!!

On the other side: the last (two) time(s) they tried to “fix” something, they broke iWarden beyond recognition.

personally i enjoy that Anet Fixed the bug where Far reaching manipulations would reduce a CD on AT… 4 times.. in a row..

Tbh i’d be more open to Anet just taking the class out of the game for 3 months and redoing it Entirely vs waiting till year 4 just to have the bug pile we have now, fixed..

I could dink around on a necro or guardian for that long and maybe enjoy it.

I dont think they need to remove it completly, it’s not like a car on service.

I still enjoy mesmering, just made my third mesmer last night! The bug that frustrates me most is the sword leap.

That little kittener looks so confused, sometimes it overcomes an obstacle (like an imaginary rock) and charges again and I get all excited.

In my mind I sometimes cheer for her “come on! you can do it little fella! Aaw a rock too bad, oh wait your at it again, thats the spirit” and there the timer ran out.

It’s like a mesmer intern, trying and trying but kittens up the most simple tasks.

People had to cry for a mobile Warden. They just had to, right? Doesn’t matter how senseless it is to have a projectile-deflector without a reliable position or anything, nope, had to be mobile.

I hope they keep it bugged. And add a long list of players advocating the change to mobile in the other thread to the tooltip as the players you can thank for this mess.