Guild Wars 2

So I was duelling this necro in Spvp a couple hours ago, we had about 15 fights and I won 2/3 of them. Near the end of our fights he said, well if I’m beating a mesmer now, then it should be much easier after the nerf. Now I don’t usually keep up to date on these things and I just spent 50 g’s crafting my mesmer to 80. If there really is a nerf coming I’m not mad nor do I expect any amount of ranting to change it.

All I wanna know is: Is it coming, and if so does anyone know what Anet is looking to nerf.

Any input is appreciated, thanks guys.

They nerf us every patch, whether it’s in the notes or not. So probably, yes.

As far as I know, the stealth nerf will effect mesmers as well. They will also be looking at nerfing shatter damage across the board.

The stealth nerf isn’t really a nerf its more of a “side-effect” to “fixing culling” I think. And coming from someone who plays multiple classes, the stealth bug is pretty annoying. Anywho, if they are nerfing shatter that don’t affect my build horray! thanks for notifying me

Reckless.6325:

The stealth nerf isn’t really a nerf its more of a “side-effect” to “fixing culling” I think. And coming from someone who plays multiple classes, the stealth bug is pretty annoying. Anywho, if they are nerfing shatter that don’t affect my build horray! thanks for notifying me

Making it so that even if you don’t attack from stealth, you still get the revealed debuff, is a nerf.

Oh no not my shatters

Short answer: No.

An issue that allowed thieves to maintain near permanent stealth (which was extremely annoying) is getting fixed and may or may not affect Mesmers.

All that has been mentioned at this point is that they are implementing new beam technology that allows beam attacks to hit the enemies that they pass through on the way to the main target, which sounds awesome to me.

So old bugs left in and new bugs introduced put aside, there is no reason to expect a nerf.

They may shave a little bit off of shatters depending on how the beam change affects the “meta” lol.

There have been no verifies nerfs. The only indication of a nerf was that, in the GW2Guru State of the Game interview they mentioned the Beam change, in response one of the players participating stated his opinion that if we’re getting more AoE, however limited, that Shatter must be nerfed. All the devs stated is that it will be something they watch, not necessarily a must-nerf.

so far only 2 nerfs are coming for mesmer Stealth and Shatter damage lowered however Mesmers are getting a truck of buffs wich will make shatter damage seems obsolete to begin with.

Rezzet.3614:

so far only 2 nerfs are coming for mesmer Stealth and Shatter damage lowered however Mesmers are getting a truck of buffs wich will make shatter damage seems obsolete to begin with.

A truck of buffs? The only verified thing is the change to greatsword/confusing images beam… And it won’t matter really if GS phantasm still hits as hard as a cotton ball… The only other buff I could think of is if they made HM a master instead of GM trait.

jportell.2197:

Rezzet.3614:

so far only 2 nerfs are coming for mesmer Stealth and Shatter damage lowered however Mesmers are getting a truck of buffs wich will make shatter damage seems obsolete to begin with.

A truck of buffs? The only verified thing is the change to greatsword/confusing images beam… And it won’t matter really if GS phantasm still hits as hard as a cotton ball… The only other buff I could think of is if they made HM a master instead of GM trait.

the thing about phantasms is the cluster of conditions they can apply and the Permanent retaliation on each wich really punishes AoE and Channeling skill users.

Shatter does not hit that hard to begin with so whatever.

PearlGore.7419:

Shatter does not hit that hard to begin with so whatever.

What?

Kardiamond.6952:

PearlGore.7419:

Shatter does not hit that hard to begin with so whatever.

What?

Base shatter no… But with mental torment/rending shatter or shattered concentration/precise wrack/iPersona… yes it does… But base… Its a joke.

Until you play a Warrior and realize It’s a joke.

PearlGore.7419:

Until you play a Warrior and realize It’s a joke.

yeah try 100b on 3 phantasms with retaliation and confuse you when popped

Rezzet.3614:

PearlGore.7419:

Until you play a Warrior and realize It’s a joke.

yeah try 100b on 3 phantasms with retaliation and confuse you when popped

What for?

Rezzet.3614:

PearlGore.7419:

Until you play a Warrior and realize It’s a joke.

yeah try 100b on 3 phantasms with retaliation and confuse you when popped

If the mesmer knows how to counter your 100b good for them… However the retaliatory phantasms are very situational and some classes even benefit from us having our phantasms up…

jportell.2197:

They may shave a little bit off of shatters depending on how the beam change affects the “meta” lol.

Since when do they ever “shave” damage off anything; they treat nerfs like whack a mole – something pops up as being too strong, then hit is so hard it’s mother pops back out her hole BACKWARDS.

Ryuujin.8236:

jportell.2197:

They may shave a little bit off of shatters depending on how the beam change affects the “meta” lol.

Since when do they ever “shave” damage off anything; they treat nerfs like whack a mole – something pops up as being too strong, then hit is so hard it’s mother pops back out her hole BACKWARDS.

I was quoting what JSharp said in the SOTG interview… He said that if the GS beam attack is too strong they may shave some damage off shatters… What’s bad about that is “shaving damage” is subjective… If they said a 5% decrease in base damage… Or that certain traits around shatters would be moved up in their respective trees it would make us a little less tense. Maybe more or less angry.. But definitely less tense.