Guild Wars 2

Hi guys,

Based on what is shown on this official website: https://www.guildwars2.com/en-gb/the-game/professions/mesmer/, i think Mantras were meant to be just as good as Glamours as they are our SPECIAL skills.

The truth is, and i think everyone agrees, Glamours trump Mantras in almost every way.

The way I see it, Mantra is something so isolated from the rest of our class. It simply doesn’t synergize well with anything else. You either use Mantra or you don’t.

While I welcome the new buff to Mantra, it simply doesn’t address this issue of Mantras being lonely in their own world.

In this light, I would like to suggest my idea to improve on Mantras so they can integrate into our class better.

When you activate a mantra charge, you have 20% chance to spawn a clone.
Mantra of Pain/ Mantra of Distraction: clone spawned near target.
Mantra of Recovery/Resolve/Concentration: clone spawned at your location.

Also, the trait Harmonious Mantras no longer gives you extra charge but instead increases the clone spawn chance from 20% to 50%.

Now let me explain the logic behind my suggestion. There are 3 mantra traits in Dueling line, and thus compete fiercely with Deceptive Evasion. With this change, Deceptive Evasion is no longer a must-go-to that most builds rely on. You can have a mantra build with a decent clone generation rate.

So what do u guys think?
Please discuss.

Was thinking along the same line, however I was thinking more of stealth or evasion.

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Also hoping that they would give mesmers some way to channel mantras that are not fully charged (e.g. 1/3 charges) so that we could prepare max charges for the next battle. Right now I am forced to switch back and forth skills to remove remaining charges to rechannel, or expending the remaining which takes some time. Perhaps we could ‘Force Channel’ by pressing and holding onto the mantra – this way instead of expending, the mantra is forced channeled to full charges.

What I personally think about this … https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/Mantra-Build-New-Meta-PvE