Guild Wars 2

for game play wise

since i enjoy mesmer game play but well current game balance is a huge mess .and overwatch seems fairly nice also popular. so if any of you played it , do you find any hero close to gw2 mes ?

.even i really hate blizzard but i have to admit blizzard ,again , took a lot of ideas from other games and polished them ——clear skills tell(most of them),good ui ,certain role for each hero and ofc specific strength and weakness, good generalized art style to be popular (which i hate most about blizzard , they generalized everything to a mud for more easy money ),also generalized background setting.

btw with underwater combat and hot map design(and i almost forgot the edge of the mist lol) ,it shows anet has interest to make gameplay experience more 3D-ish. while anet has done a really impressive work on environment design ,overwatch map looks more combat oriented, and have more interaction with hero skills . i think that’s the direction anet wanted to take but couldn’t do much since the limitation of game engine .but few things anet really should have done better like "no valid path "(pain for thief ), engi grenade (it became more and more like a general aoe with every patch since they too the lazy way to fix it ),thief shortbow 3 ,feedback ,and along with pvp map design. and seriously no skill should ignore LOS . we should have less skills with unwritten "trick " but more actual fun combo .those “tricks” partly are exploits and created unnecessary barrels for newbies .even after so many tooltip" balance" patch balance team managed to leave so many skills with unwritten function which is beyond me .

i really hope sometime anet would do better at “polish” part , no need to “shake the meta”on everything .

I’d say tracer in terms of role? You can rewind time is thematically similar to chrono. You’re there to dash in and out and disrupt backline, hopefully draw fire away from your main group or gank someone; you don’t have much dps yourself; you can’t cap point or escort and you’re quite useless in teamfights except ult. Kind of like mesmer in a way. Tbh neither tracer nor mesmer fit the typical trinity role even though both games seem to encourage that now.

Zarya(?) has Gravity Well. It really depends on what specific aspects of Mesmer you want to emulate.

Genji.

Mobile, with decent close range burst, and adequate range DPS with damage falloff.

Ultimately being to squishy for the damage you deal unless they are not paying attention or don’t know how to play.

People still think it’s OP.

High Skill ceiling.

TTK is at least decent in overwatch for a cap point esque game type.

But you do realize one is a MMORPG and the other is a FPS?

Not a veiled attack-anet/crying/quiting thread at all…

This one’s easy.

Widowmaker with her rifle and killshots. Also wears pink.

It is known.

(I only know the one character XD )

It really depends on what aspect of the Mesmer you want to focus on.

Symmetra – Portal
Zarya – Gravity Well
Tracer – Continuum Split
Winston – Feedback (sort of)

I don’t think any particular Overwatch hero really embodies the Mesmer, though.

DeathReign.7821:

It really depends on what aspect of the Mesmer you want to focus on.

Symmetra – Portal
Zarya – Gravity Well
Tracer – Continuum Split
Winston – Feedback (sort of)

I don’t think any particular Overwatch hero really embodies the Mesmer, though.

Exactly. Mes (Chrono really, mes no longer exists) is overloaded and OP like all elite specs.

Overwatch has narrow classes with limited scopes XD

Ross Biddle.2367:

DeathReign.7821:

It really depends on what aspect of the Mesmer you want to focus on.

Symmetra – Portal
Zarya – Gravity Well
Tracer – Continuum Split
Winston – Feedback (sort of)

I don’t think any particular Overwatch hero really embodies the Mesmer, though.

Exactly. Mes (Chrono really, mes no longer exists) is overloaded and OP like all elite specs.

Overwatch has narrow classes with limited scopes XD

Such is the nature of power creep, sadly.

I’m loving Junkrat

thanks everyone
and for @Justine.6351
i did write the thing i think anet could learn from other games . but since its veiled attack in you eyes , i just shrug

in old days

gw2 community : dont worry , you can always come back since no gear grind no more lvl after 80 etc .

now
"guys i wanna try overwatch they did some things right "

forum : you traitor made quitting thread to attack anet .

GW2 or Overwatch, you decide.

XD

Overwatch was down due to maintenance for 2 hours.

In those 2 hours, I managed to get a total of… wait for it… 3 games!!!

FLIMP.8172:

Overwatch was down due to maintenance for 2 hours.

In those 2 hours, I managed to get a total of… wait for it… 3 games!!!

Come on Flimp, you can do better than that. Tell us how many minutes each game was XD

It was over in a flaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaashhhhhhhh~
(obviously because I’m OP and not because of MM)

kitten please don’t.

Ross Biddle.2367:

Overwatch has narrow classes with limited scopes XD

Not Widowmaker, her scope has quite good peripheral vision.

Carighan.6758:

Ross Biddle.2367:

Overwatch has narrow classes with limited scopes XD

Not Widowmaker, her scope has quite good peripheral vision.

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh, that’s so punny.

DeathReign.7821:

It really depends on what aspect of the Mesmer you want to focus on.

Symmetra – Portal
Zarya – Gravity Well
Tracer – Continuum Split
Winston – Feedback (sort of)

I don’t think any particular Overwatch hero really embodies the Mesmer, though.

Individual skills vs flair of the whole class.

I would say genji not because of the reason someone else listed above but because of reflects. Killing your enemies with their own skills embodies mesmer to me. Wall climbing and being a ninja is a bonus

Junkrat.

Just because.

DuckDuckBOOM.4097:

DeathReign.7821:

It really depends on what aspect of the Mesmer you want to focus on.

Symmetra – Portal
Zarya – Gravity Well
Tracer – Continuum Split
Winston – Feedback (sort of)

I don’t think any particular Overwatch hero really embodies the Mesmer, though.

Individual skills vs flair of the whole class.

I would say genji not because of the reason someone else listed above but because of reflects. Killing your enemies with their own skills embodies mesmer to me. Wall climbing and being a ninja is a bonus

That’s fair. But in that case, McCree might also somewhat embody the flavour of the traditional power shatter Mesmer. Lockdown and burst.