Guild Wars 2

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mesmer and eles turns this week

I’m scared! I’m really really scared… Chaos/Warlord/Pyro protect me!

Me Games Ma.8426:

I’m scared! I’m really really scared… Chaos/Warlord/Pyro protect me!

not going to lie…i’m terrified. I was excited but now the bad feeling is sinking in. Hopefully they prove me wrong.

A quote that sticks with me throughout change that unnerves me:

“Different is not always better, but better is always different.”

I’m glad we’re not last, but I’d really have wished… well… I don’t know. I feel like no matter what we see here, it’s going to be changed based on non-Mesmer’s opinions and we’re going to get bent… again…

I’m severely apprehensive, borderline terrified. I want to hope for better changes, but I’m scared to get my hopes up. So I have that, “the principal just called you out of class to see him/her, and you’re sitting in the office waiting in abject terror” feeling.

Take it as it comes, we were born to die anyway.

So far the changes they are making have either been for the better, or to transform an average profession into a much meaner version of itself. Bearing this history in mind it could look good for mesmer.

I’m hopeful… but tbh a bit skeptical due to history.

A theme with the recent changes especially to warrior’s adrenaline, as well as thief S/D seem to force players to set up more in combat… with mesmers already being a class that needs to set up a lot to do anything I feel we may be getting some QoL changes that allows us to set up and hold pressure longer.

Fingers crossed #Shatter4Life

I would rephrase: mesmer are this weak
And anet consistently broke more and more the profession patch after patch…I disn’t hear they drastically changed the balance team…why would it change then ?

I have no hope in Arenanet whatsoever. Even if we ignore all the bugs that have been in since beta, they nerfed the Glamour build right after they said they were going to create more build variety. They nerfed portal to the point where I don’t know of anyone that uses it in combat. They nerfed confusion in the only game modes where it actually did something. Every profession but ours got buff to balance the nerf to quickness. Basically they’ve done so much nerfing that I can’t remember the last time they did something that actually helped us significantly. I want to say Power Block but they nerfed everything that made it worthwhile within days of release. Speaking of which, the fact that Disruptor’s Sustainment even made it off the drawing board is insulting.

However, they absolute worst offense is the lack of communication with their own profession forums. Even if you don’t want to put in the time, energy and effort to respond to at least the best written port listing the problems that our professions faces, how hard is it to respond to posts where the players have cataloged all the problems they are having AND have listed several solutions for each one?! That’s half the hard work done for free! I work retail and I WISH my customers would come to me with all the problems they are having in a tidy, little list. Do you have any idea how easy that would make my job? And if they gave solutions too, I’d be doing cartwheels down the aisles!

I know skill balancing for an MMO is hard but these guys are supposed to be professionals. I, as an amateur, should never feel like I could do a better job but I get that feeling with almost every update they made. To make matters worse, the fact that I know any idea I come up with will be ignored is why I have several half-written fixes that will never see the light of these forums. Every single time start one, I spend at least a day and a half putting my thoughts into words before I realize that Anet just doesn’t care. They’ll just do whatever they want and claim that it’s what the players want when they own forums show an entirely different story.