Guild Wars 2

Using up an entire trait just to get this 100% increase in invis duration is reasonable I feel.

It essentially gives mesmers a defensive and offensive utility tool to use.

Thieves have always been the bane of mesmers precisely because they can stealth longer and they thus have the initiative to burst a mesmer from stealth.
In the end a mesmer can only play defensively against a thieve.

However, now with the increase in invis uptime, a mesmer can remain in stealth for longer than any other classes including thieves and thus the initiative to attack is now with the mesmer.

Which I think is reasonable since you are using an entire traitline just to get this initiative.

The only OP thing might be that a mesmer can chain invis and remain in stealth way longer than a thief might be able to and thus it is much harder for other classes to predict when to dodge in anticipation of a mesmer burst from stealth.

Against a thief, generally you see them go invis and chances are within 3-4 seconds you should dodge. against a mesmer now, they could camp in stealth indefnitely and freely choose when to burst you while in stealth and there is very little counterplay for other classes unless its an engineer with lock on.

That said, to gain this initiative to choose when to burst from a very long duration of stealth by spending an entire traitline is reasonable IMO, even if an opponent will find it almost impossible to guess when the burst is going to come unlike facing thieves in general.

You are going to link us to another thread. Don’t. We know your patterns already and I would prefer you stop trying to fuel your threads in other forums with this method.

How many salt mines do you own exactly?

Deathcon.5903:

How many salt mines do you own exactly?

legit
i keep seeing posts i’m thinking “wtf” on
then i notice it’s him
-flips desk-

Lol I have like no time on Mesmer and made a perms Stealth no-Attack Scepter Pistol/ Scepter Torch build. It’s basically the lamest thing in the world, essentially you win or you tie unless you screw up your stealth by accident (like actually attacking Rolf….) and it does enough DPS with rampager stats to kill people. Sure it’s not great for tpvp conquest but it’s still terrible for the game.