And you are able to catch them all witout trating bad stats or missing high valuable utility?
It’s all in the 20/25/0/0/25 guardian meta build.
However aegis and burning aren’t 100% uptime either i guess. I know guard can grant both of it, but guards self aegis is the only one that stays for a longer dura and if it’s gone, it’s gone. I’m not sure about the burning though. But I guess it’s more a 50% uptimer?
Burning is pretty easy to maintain since you proc it on every fourth hit (and this is assuming no other players in the group who inflict burning with their skills), and unscathed contender really depends on the fight. There’s quite a few Arah fights where it’s quite easy to maintain and then there’s fights like Wraithlord where he attacks so frequently it’s basically impossible.
Mesmer modifiers are in general 2-3 mantras + 2 illusions yes. Makes 19%. Ugh.
Also the modifiers for the mesmer are not as noticable as those for the guard (split dmg).
Mesmer modifiers aren’t as noticeable because they’re basically nonexistent. Mesmers seriously have horrible damage modifiers. Compare it to slashing power, berserker’s power, attack of opportunity and stick and move on warriors (38%) – these are all incredibly easy to maintain since you either build up adrenaline early on, use healing surge so you can start the fight with full adrenaline – and then you cause bleed on crit so attack of opportunity is basically always on, you dodge in fights (or you can double dodge before hand if you don’t need to) so stick and move is an easy modifier and slashing power is just a passive 10% on greatsword simply for having the thing equipped.
Well that thief just dealt 200’000 damage in 10 sec. That’s 20’000 DpS. And what did the rest do? I’ve seen same damage from eles so …
So the thief did what you claim a time warp does just by themselves, and the other classes just did their thing. If the thief can do this consistently in every fight with no cooldown, why take the mesmer? It’s basically a repeating time warp, and you don’t have to take a zero DPS class to do it.
Team with 4x 10k dps + 1x 20k dps = 600’000 damage in 10sec.
Team with 4x 10k dps + 1x 5k dps + TW = 675’000 damage in 10 sec.
Ignoring the fact that a mesmer sure does more than 5k dps aswell that the thief never does double damage of the rest makes the mesmer with TW even stronger …
And then you remember that you can’t time warp every single fight, mesmers are slow on skips, and the optimal class composition for damage is triple ele, warrior, ranger. If time warp was so good, we’d be using mesmers more often, but it’s just not worth it if it means dragging along a zero DPS class.
Yea sure … wake up plz and join the reality. Time Warp is the strongest dps Elite in the game. As I mentioned b4:
Fiery greatsword is the strongest DPS elite in the game.
You lose.
If I only think about fotm there are more than enough places where the guard just does not have enough reflection to safe the team, won’t matter against what, a huge crowd of ranged enemies like dredge, harpy, grawl or just a single target enemy where the mesmers dps anyway is higher than the guards. I don’t know what you did with your mesmer, maybe just the lack of 10k+ nubers after a 3~ sec animation.
Emphasis on “mostly”. There are situations where you need a lot of reflect uptime, and mesmers can be pretty solid there since they can achieve unbroken reflect uptime (feedback > warden > signet > warden > curtain is what I do on Alphard solos, by the time curtain finishes warden #1 starts spinning again, warden #2 stops then warden #2 starts). We think mesmer can be pretty decent in fractals but we have no problem doing them without.
What you’re also forgetting is that time warp completely messes up skill rotations too. My rotation on warrior is axe 2, mace 4, gs 2, gs 5, gs3, weapon swap (cancelling whirlwind mid-cast), axe 2, axe chain, axe chain, gs 2, gs 3, gs 4, axe 2, mace 4 etc.) the reason why this works is because when you switch to GS you hundred blades for 3.5s, rush for 1s, whirlwind has a 1s cast but by the time you cancel it, fast hands is off cooldown. Axe chains are 3.6s each and are heavily backloaded which is why after the first GS burst I do two chains. Anyway, the point I’m trying to make is time warp throws that all completely out of whack. You get stuck camping GS, you get stuck camping axe. A rotation is a ~10% DPS increase over sitting on just axe and time warp massively disrupts the rotation.
