i was fighting another mesmer in PvP and i found out that the stealth worked rly great as i lost sight of her and didnt know who she was amongst all the clones for a moment, however lvling up as a low lvl mesmer, and being really used to the very mundane standard attacks like: Warriors hits you with things, rangers shoots you with things, and this does obvious dmg. whilst the thought of being a Mesmer that makes illusions and does magical dmg not entierly similar to a standard Mage/wizard/sorcerer etc etc is a great thought for most active mmo gamers to try out. however when making a mesmer with next to no knowledge of any class similar to a mesmer or its functions from any games whatsoever, learning to play a mesmer isn’t so easy as most " hardcore or Pro " players seemingly proclaim it is or the way that they talk. mesmer being magic dmg, ofcourse the normal first thing most do is find out wich weapon they’d love to use right.. warriors with greatsword or sword n shield etc etc.. that wont necessery work as a mesmer.. as iv’e learned that almost all magically ranged weapons: Staff, scepter to mention two, does very puny passive dmg with atk nr.1.. the other atks like Phase retreat to mention one adds fun gameplay, but when you put hard cold fact to the table.. over 50% of the time the illusions just does " NOT " get any aggro from the mob.. and they run straight through them and keep attacking me. iv’e noticed most of my illusions does " 0 " dmg to my enemies and only the phantasms like with the sword or gun etc are the ones doing dmg while the others just look fancy and can soak some aggro and dmg in the small % of the time when they DO get aggro.. so that leaves me with either dealing with really bad aggro magical ranged puny dps.. or go melee weapons or pistol ranged or combined.. wich does basically the same direct dmg as warrior or ranger, wich makes me think that its pointless as i might aswell be playing a warrior or a ranger if im going in that direction.. wich forces me to use the staff or scepter combined with a pistol in emergency direct dmg situasions or a Torch for stealth and fire DoT to add it up faster.. overall the start if you’re a Normal player that just wanna sit down n play, Mesmer will most likely make you either annoyed or Angry in some cases because its too confusing and not simplified enough OR severly nerfed.. now i did mention i havent had a mesmer in high level.. so im not talking from a 1-80 experience here.. but i believe strongly that a class, any class should be fun and entertaining but also very Appealing and Gaining from lvl 1 all the way to lvl 80.. if they fail at that.. then there is something Wrong here and it should be corrected.. Period. It would be like.. you buy a CD to play music but unless you know how a CD work in detail combined with the CD player then i cant enjoy the cd even if i just pop it in ?… i just wanna sit down and enjoy myself. Mesmer start.. is not that. Main ISSUE: Need to lose more aggro, and divert it over to Illusions or phantasms without having to be a genious or having to check it out on the internet.. should make it obvious ingame. wich you’d think would be Stealth for a few seconds so the mob attacks ur clones but NOOO.. totally useless.. better run for your life and hope the Condition dmg does its job before they do it to you xD!.. for the next 40-50 lvls or more!.. now thats a FUN class yesss…. also if you actually Read all this i Salute you. bows
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