Guild Wars 2

All is in the title. Currently mesmers contribute mostly by veil, time-warp and noll field (which is already fairly strong). They are also good at picking enemies on the side and finishing them. Could wells (or other chronomancer stuff) be a worthy addition to their kitten nal.

My 2 cents:

• “Time Marches On” is already a justification for chronomancer in itself.
• “Well of Calamity” seems like an amazing zerg well: high AOE damage + pulsing weakness and cripple: yummy
• “Well of Precognition” potentially useful to pass the blocks and gain some invulnerability, but seems like a high CD…
• “Well of Recall” I don’t know how strong could alacrity be for frontliners, but I would say “meh”
• “Well of Action”: a baby time-warp, always useful.
• “Gravity Well” AOE stability is nicer than ever, but without the pulsing CC, can it really beat time warp??

Final note: 2 condi cleanse on wells can also be a nice bonus.

well of calamity and action will see use easily. Just use them the same way as necro wells, under enemy hammertrain’s feet and laugh.

Much less so for precognition and recall. They have to be placed under allies’ feet to have them benefit. Recall at current state is pretty bad, your allies’ have to stand in there for 3 seconds for 3 seconds of alacrity and that is only 2 seconds skill cdr. Precognition can see some use because unblockable counters some guardian skills. However, it is not that good to justify its long cooldown.

I could see the ‘support’ wells getting some use in holding a gate beside some eles. Just drop it to keep them Alacrity so they can nuke the siege operators. Otherwise, as Exciton said, the offensive ones just have more use in large-scale combat.

I’d say… until we see all the elite specs there’s not much sense in speculation. Some of the wells are nice and interesting, but our utility slots are already in high demand…

Menaka.5092:

I’d say… until we see all the elite specs there’s not much sense in speculation. Some of the wells are nice and interesting, but our utility slots are already in high demand…

Why do you have to see all the elite specs to have assessment? At the rate they are announcing the elite spec, it would probably take another 2-3 months and the last one could be announced a couple of weeks before release.

By that time, it is already too late to give them feedback. There won’t be enough time to change anything. And after release, most devs will have to move onto other things.

That’s why they give BWE now. It is for you to test and give feedback early. Let’s make our assessment now so that we can have a better chronomancer at release date.

Exciton.8942:

Why do you have to see all the elite specs to have assessment?

because I think that to even start to speculate on what the meta could be after HoT we need a full picture of what the classes and elite specs will bring to the fights…

even after this beta weekend we’ll be able to say that “on paper” some skills seem to work or not, but it’s hard to tell if the whole meta will shift in that direction, because simply we miss more than half of it…

right now I think the only wells that makes sense are well of precognition and of action, because the bonus on pulse is actually good, but for the damage and CC you need to wait 3 seconds and that’s an eternity during a WvW fight