Guild Wars 2

A major part of Mesmer defense is illusions. Confusing the enemy so they do not know who the real target is. However with the simple click of a UI configurable button they can call-target (mark) the Mesmer and know who he is no matter how many illusions they call forth. You can (if you have the weapon/skill) use stealth and drop the target however I think that calling forth new illusions should also remove it (or move it to the illusion).

As it stands now any person can negate part of the mesmer’s defenses by marking them. Imagine if you could negate the defenses of a guardian similarly? Or anyone for that matter.

To resolve this you could move the target marker to newly spawned illusions or simply remove the mark as happens when stealth is used.

I kind of agree with this, Mesmers rely heavily on tricking people and without this defense we are sitting ducks. Mesmers are quite squishy. I would like to see this changed slightly as well. People just have to learn to pick out the real Mesmer from illusions (which is very much possible) so only people who play the Mesmer really well can stay undetected long enough to have a shot at winning.

Here is the reason this should be considered a bug. Quote from the Warrior forum.

“If you can, get a target on the mesmer before they start pumping out clones – ctrl+t is the default, I believe. "

Clearly this is being used to negate part of the mesmer’s defense.

Yeah, I can understand if this was a class skill to mark a target (like hunter’s mark in wow) but a simple ctrl+t to completely negate all our tricks is really an exploit.

Also this literally makes us a bigger target in WvW because of people calling target just to keep track of us…

Well at least this bug makes me never use my Mesmer in PvP…

I just wonder how would I use my clones besides shattering them…

they just won’t tank any damage for me when ppl call target on me…

Mesmer is the best all-rounder and arguably one of the best duel classes (thief), You have many tools to stay away and fend off enemies plus awesome condition damage. Talking like they are kittened in PvP is pretty funny, I do agree though the target thing is a little harsh on Mesmers but with everything you have going for the class you can hardly complain.