Guild Wars 2

1) When you use stealth, why do monsters decide to wait and NOT move at all (or in circles around their current position) waiting until you un-stealth to attack you once more. There was another player, a clone, two phantasms, and a ton of NPCs around attacking it, so this made NO sense…

2) When using blink, the walking animation stops working 90% of the time. I use auto-run + blink + continue autorunning…

3) Some skills like stealth have 1 second less than intended times for each skill (if it’s 4 seconds duration, it only lasts about 3 and a quarter seconds… Pretty sure that needs a slight buff?…)

4) Not only does light armor make you extremely squishy, and no stealth helps you at all …. The only thing that can be used against ranged is dodging, feedback, and clones/phantasms. The only thing to be used against melee is dodging… kind of depressing don’t you think?

I honestly think the mesmer has more bugs than any class so far… It’s just not a fair playing-field for anyone when you have a mesmer. It makes mesmers not wanted unless they are being used for their portals or something. (least, that’s how i feel?)

mesmer is fine, you just need to fix your build, or learn to play better.
the only bug is that blink running animation thing, which isn’t game breaking.

1) It makes sense the monster was attacking you, and from one moment to an other you disappear… The monster is totally confused about what happened and try to use his nose to find you again.

Have you ever played catch and fetch with a dog ? Try to fake the trow of the ball, he will try to find it even if there are 10 other balls around. All he wants is the one you hold in your hand. Same happens in guild wars 2

as for the squishyness, as a mesmer i always found the combo of dodge rolling, blink and the stealth clone. the two handed staff( as secondary weapon) also has a sort of blink move that teleports you back, the swords make you immune to damage while you use a certain move. With your clone pop skills like mind wrack, you also have one that grants you 1s of basically incoming damage immortality for every clone you pop so thats 3s of imortality. In the end if you use all these skills in an apporpriate order you can stay relatively unharmed. not to mention the other skills you already mentioned.

okay. That doesn’t fix the problem with the skills having less duration than the tooltip says..

Moa lasts for 5 seconds – not 10… I timed it 25 times and got the same result within a few miliseconds (my reactionary speed would be applied here…)

Stealth lasts for 1 second, not 2 in downed mode…

pretty sure those are meant to be lengthy in duration…

I even have boon duration+5% (right now) from traits! What about that??

Catori Tokala.6581:

okay. That doesn’t fix the problem with the skills having less duration than the tooltip says..

Moa lasts for 5 seconds – not 10… I timed it 25 times and got the same result within a few miliseconds (my reactionary speed would be applied here…)

Stealth lasts for 1 second, not 2 in downed mode…

pretty sure those are meant to be lengthy in duration…

I even have boon duration+5% (right now) from traits! What about that??

Stealth isn’t a boon, and neither is polymorph moa.

And on my mes the stealth a polymorph moa last the appropriate amounts of time, so it may just be your perception.

I agree that there is nothing wrong with the mesmer class, probably just the way you are trying to play it. Mesmers are hard to learn how to be survivable on, but I can run dungeons on mine now without downing once. It just takes time to learn how to play one. There are a lot of skills that can move you away from enemies/make you stealthed/make you invulnerable. If you use those and dodging correctly you should really have no problem staying alive. The only problem comes in if you are trying to play a mes like a tank and take hits all the time. Playing a mes means not getting hit, and it is definitely doable.

agreed that stealth on mesmer does not last very long. I’ve never timed it, but it just always seems like it’s not long enough. in downed state, the blink&cloak skill doesn’t cloak you long enough to do anything – everything has a longer activation than time you are cloaked.