Mesmers shine in enemies that have huge health pools such as bosses. Their illusions can save a player because the boss might use an attack on the illusion and since boss fights are long you can usually have 3 illusions up throughout most of the fight. You can also portal/invis past groups saving time. Autoattacking with staff gives a random buff to allies. They have survivability with decoy/blink don’t know how you came to the conclusion mesmers are the worst class? Maybe you thought you could just autoattack everything?
Sorry but have you played (with) a Mesmer in dungeons? I feel a lot of people are theorycrafting with their weak defenses. Their illusions don’t save players. Never have, never will. Their DPS is OK with 3 phantasms up, but in explorables most bosses have enough AOE that takes care of a phantasm before they’re all up.
Portal/invis past groups saving time? I don’t even want to comment there, it just shows you haven’t really played many explorables.
Their random buffs all sound great in theory, until you realize other classes have the ability to pop 2 great buffs near them all the time, which is a wee bit better than your 1 random buff. They have survivability yes, and are generally the last to die. But just like their counterparts in AC, they’re a nuisance and no real threat.
Their DPS is low. No way around this, other classes can all out-DPS a Mesmer
Their utility is low. The random buffs and lack of true support skills make them unreliable support characters. What good skills they have (Null Field) are on a rather high cooldown.
I stopped playing my Mesmer in dungeons because I don’t think they’re as viable as other characters. I have yet to find someone prove me wrong on that. Looking forward to the day, but doubtful it’ll come. Everyone defending it, I urge you to get another class to 80. I thought they were fine too. And then my alt tried a dungeon. Total eye opener.
Im sorry but have you actually played a mesmer at 80 in a dungeon with a proper PvE build? because I’m certain that have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. As far as “random buffs”, you realize with a staff, and traits to support it, you are applying 2 buffs instead of 1, across 2 people, (1 per person) at an auto attack speed. Now add in staff clones. Staff clones, 3 of them, also provide buff and dots. With a damage over time, tanky support build, yeah damage starts slow, but build up bleed stacks and burn plus insane amounts of buffs. It really shows.
My average party, I can keep a natural 7-12 stacks of Might + Furry + Vigor on my melee or close ranged party Members. 10-16 stacks of bleed, burn, and vulnerability.
stack on top of that, Chaos storm, which can potential provide, 2 Aegis stacks in 1 duration, and protection. Plus, in conjuction for AoE fights, an axe warrior or really any other class, can use the Combo Field Etheral to provide confusion or chaos armor to allies / enemies. yes I know confusion isnt that great, but still its free.
Mesmer portal is greatly helpful in many situations, as well as using Mass invis, but even more so then both of those. Haste. 10 seconds of haste on a good damage party, can provide enough DPS to take some end game bosses down to 40% health before it fades. CoF path 2, you can coordinate with a group of geared DPS and 1 mesmer, and kill the crystal nearly on its first vulnerability time. Stand in haste, dps, win.
So you my friend, REALLY need to play a class built properly before you make lame and uneducated judgement.
TL:DR
Tell me how, roughly 7-12 stacks of Might + furry + vigor on all melee, at all times and Haste. and twice a minute Aegis / Protection is a bad thing?
Please do. Please tell me how all of this helps no one. I dare you.
