I’m interested in some (unbiased) opinions on how strong Chronomancer, or Mesmer in general, is.
I don’t own HoT so I’m playing this for now. Dying a lot but still fun nontheless. I’m a roamer by heart and so I duel a lot. I met many Chronomancers and I have yet to win against one – be it sword/shield power or some condi-variant. I like to talk to my enemies, and many said that it’s a learn-2-play issue for me. That Chronomancer takes skill and is not that easy, or that they are just better than me. That they played core mesmer before and (core shatter) is not that any more difficult.
In the past I just created class x and got to know each skill and played it before I got salty with the player, but this time I can’t because I did not buy HoT. It’s very difficult for me to judge a build, if I lack experience.
This game is not made for 1v1 of course, but on that basis, how strong is power chrono and condi chrono in this setting, and how forked am I as a core mesmer?
Evasive mirror looks godlike compared to MR. With IP as baseline, grab chaos+ master of manipulation for bonus mirror on blink. Cancel cast the actual heal skill mirror to just troll them even more. You should never die to ranged projectiles after the change.
I can’t afford to go into Chaos as a Shatter Mes, and building around fending off projectiles seems overkill.
To me, EM is not good enough in small scale fights since dodging has two purposes. Also with Energy, there’s too much pressure/focus into “dodge spam”. It just doesn’t compare to MR. The latter is more reliable in that case.
If it’s bundled into that new Illusion trait I can rest easy though, so all is good.
With HoT coming up, I had a look at the core specializations and saw that MR is gone with a couple alternatives like Evasive Mirror (seems bad) or Master of Manipulation(no go).
I only play WvW and grew quite fond of MR (as a Shatter Mes) against Power Rangers, Power Engi and the like but seeing it gone makes me worry, that projectiles are gonna be a PITA as they already are.
I don’t see the reason to get rid of MR when it has some really nice burst capabilities / getting out of bad situations. Is Evasive Mirror going to be a good alternative?
I feel the inner salt rising. Please comfort me with words, that it’s gonna be ok.
Seems like this change was made so your typival spvp evade spam build would think about what fight to engage as he can’t just inf return back with no repercussion but anet forgot about the other s/x-users who use it for any other means.
Feels very clunky and now being so vulnerable to any hard cc coming at you makes this a very undesirable weapon choice. Really wish they would revert it to where it was before.
A wave to the engineer and guardian from [EXE]! Chasing someone for 10 minutes requires full dedication! I hope you don’t dream of tiny asuran butts tonight
Back when you could remove blind by auto-attacking, as a d/d, dagger/pistol thieves were not that much of a problem but still a challenge when the player behind it was good.
Nowadays it’s just bad/mediocre thieves with a weaponset which allows for too many mistakes. Dazing important attacks/heals? Nope. Reacting to what your enemy is doing? Nope, I’ll just stand in this mesmer’s chaos storm auto-attacking with no worries of maybe him getting aegis (and me getting poisoned) and potentially ruining my attempt to stealth at him, wasting initiative.
But hey, black powder away folks because while everyone is a noob and needs to l2p on how to counter dagger/pistol (Like the fella above me “Don’t stand in BP, man!”) you just be ignorant of what your surrounding is doing and reinforce bad habits on the way and get frustrated when, one day, it actually matters of what your opponent is doing. (But don’t worry, that won’t happen anyways.)
