My assumption at this point is that we should be porting people through the jump puzzle for a donation of the occasional siege piece, then just planting and manning them 24/7.
I guess mesmer is relegated to a skirmisher class. That’s all we can do in WvW. I just wish you got as much of a reward for taking a supply camp as taking a keep/fort. Then it would be a little bit more fair.
“Failure to remain calm is the sign of a weak mind.”
Yeah, we are a utility class man. Obviously Anet does not want us to do anything OTHER than portal and build siege. Else they would not be nerfing everything that makes the class what it is
I mean, it was really too hard to kill an illusion before. I mean, who can bother taking 3 seconds to hit an illusion that has a 20 second cooldown? LOL you must be drunk.
I mean, ranger pets aren’t good either. They have 20x the health, and regen it almost instantly when they die. That is MUCH better
Um that is why the Chaos Storm nerf seemed so ridiculous. It was the only targetable AOE we had, and its not all that powerful…and the cool down pre nerf was perfect…and that kinda…almost made up for mesmer weak AOE overall.
Some of these thoughtless nerfs create more problems, like now we have almost no AOE ability at all if chaos storm was on its old cool down it would almost make this situation no nearly as bad. Poorly thought out nerfs will be the death of this game yet.
You’re pretty much pigeon-holed into a GS/Shatter build for strong aoe, with dodge clones, GS abilities, staff as alt weapon illusions/phantasm + mirror images & signet of illusions you can pretty much chain shatters non stop for aoe damage but that is a very specific build/configuration to be able to do good aoe …other builds are kind of screwed in that regards right now which is sad.
Speccing for the extra “bounce” trait helps too. Isn’t to bad for a condition staff build too for aoe condition spreading.
Our real “AoE” used to be the Phantasmal Berzerker. Now we have none.
Oh please… /facepalm It still works perfectly fine. The damage on large amounts of mobs is smaller but that nerf was confirmed to not be “intentional” and they will be adjusting the damage on it.
In WvW and other niche situations where there is a lot of ranged / projectile damage do not forget your reflects <- people will suicide on them a lot.
Do not forget to make use of your combo fields even if someone else aoe’s in side them it’ll trigger aoe confusion which can and will add a lot of extra damage as well to multiple targets.
