Guild Wars 2

I don’t really care about mesmer shield specialization although it looks totally fun…
but look at F5…a new way to use their shatter…it is totally imba
look at mesmer forum thread…they are totally rejoicing…

gives me hope that necro’s new way to use deathshroud will be just as imba

“Have you ever wanted a different way to take advantage of all that life force? How about a new way to shatter illusions? These are some of the changes you can expect to see for your favorite profession.” -From their spec news 1 week ago.

That f5 shatter is completely awesome and unique. Here’s to hoping that our additions can match up

Mesmer just got necro’d..

All of their skills will be nerfed into uselessness because of hypothetical situations that will never happen in game. Mesmers will come to resent the F5, relying on it as a crutch to prop up their broken class.

The existence of this cool arcane echo and cool down reduction effect should mean that mesmers, starting in hot, will be stuck in cool down hell most of the time.

All skill changes don’t occur in a vacuum. Where one hand gives, the other takes.

And you should also look at the dog that’s not barking: existing mesmers have awful access to boons and will continue to do so. The anet idea of: you can apply confusion so you don’t need defensive boons didn’t change either.

Mesmer got wells, but wells aren’t so hot in Pvp. What looks the best is the super blocking CC inflicting shield.

All necromancers need is some extra traditional defense. It doesnt even need to be that good. No need to get too fancy.

^It’s for WvW mainly to me, glamour bomb mesmer used to work like our wells,they deleted it and did a revamp and added extras chances are it might be worse traited glamours were perfect for WvW the meta was GWEM but their revamp has that dueling feeling AKA might not be so great.

just imagine, mesmer can manipulate time
necros deal with death
our DEATH shroud now allows us to manipulate death by using it to

revive allies in an aoe affect up to 5 targets,
cause instant death to any downed enemies in an aoe affecting up to 5 targets,
cause instant down state to any enemies in an aoe affecting up to 5 targets
cause instant death to any enemies that were ressed during combat

etc.

Being able to insta finish someone off with a touch of death would be pretty neat.

Sabre.8627:

“Have you ever wanted a different way to take advantage of all that life force? How about a new way to shatter illusions? These are some of the changes you can expect to see for your favorite profession.” -From their spec news 1 week ago.

That f5 shatter is completely awesome and unique. Here’s to hoping that our additions can match up

Instead of a new set of skills, the elite spec “Death Shroud” Boosts our stats and (with the Grandmaster trait hinted at in the part 2 specialization blogs) gives us a Defiance Bar?

…no, that isn’t’ awesome enough… except the breakbar part.

Foefaller.1082:

Sabre.8627:

“Have you ever wanted a different way to take advantage of all that life force? How about a new way to shatter illusions? These are some of the changes you can expect to see for your favorite profession.” -From their spec news 1 week ago.

That f5 shatter is completely awesome and unique. Here’s to hoping that our additions can match up

Instead of a new set of skills, the elite spec “Death Shroud” Boosts our stats and (with the Grandmaster trait hinted at in the part 2 specialization blogs) gives us a Defiance Bar?

…no, that isn’t’ awesome enough… except the breakbar part.

Stomping machines. Unstoppable stomping machines. RUN, LITTLE FOOLS! We’d actually BE the incarnation of death we keep shouting about.

Our death shroud F5 will toggle it as a defiance bar.

DISCUSS.

Why would we get an F5 without an F2-4.

Bhawb.7408:

Why would we get an F5 without an F2-4.

Tell me about it, I just had all my keybinds in order, and suddenly F5 happens q.q

Also, F5 for edginess of course

dood.7526:

Our death shroud F5 will toggle it as a defiance bar.

DISCUSS.

It’d definitely be strong, but that would be incredibly uninspired.

EremiteAngel.9765:

just imagine, mesmer can manipulate time
necros deal with death
our DEATH shroud now allows us to manipulate death by using it to

revive allies in an aoe affect up to 5 targets,
cause instant death to any downed enemies in an aoe affecting up to 5 targets,
cause instant down state to any enemies in an aoe affecting up to 5 targets
cause instant death to any enemies that were ressed during combat

etc.

Dream it lol….
I think the only thing that may come true is a range skill that cause death on down foe, which will be a single target skill.

Reasons behind this is because necro is generally terrible at dpsing downed body in their condition build, and they lack ways to reliably stomp someone unless heavily invested in it. They also have terrible AOE cleave aside from dagger which is melee range.

CambrianExplosion.6394:

dood.7526:

Our death shroud F5 will toggle it as a defiance bar.

DISCUSS.

It’d definitely be strong, but that would be incredibly uninspired.

I actually think it would be VERY inspired. With how pinbally and escape-less we are right now, having a defiance bar would be kitten ed interesting. Especially with traits that could, potentially, allow necros to say… Take significantly less damage while defiance is active. Now instead of burning necros traditionally, you have to dump ALL your CC on them, while they may very well be generating more, before you can do significant harm. We’d be facetanky as hell, and well… That’s kindof our thing, apparently.

Unstoppable and unyielding, just like the very thing we claim to control. We’d be like the terminator. But we’d still have to be careful, since we’d be as vulnerable as a current necro without DS when that bar breaks… If not more.

Bhawb.7408:

Why would we get an F5 without an F2-4.

Ok, we’ll get F2-F4 to make Bhawb happy, then we get an F5 to toggle defiance. Let’s talk mechanics, not buttons.