Guild Wars 2

you are right another mesmer OPness.

you are right OP guardians are lame, you should try Necro or the new Mesmer1.4

(jump on these professions forums and see the difference between threads; mesmer and necros are filled with complains and bugged traits their list of bugged traits is a shame for ANet, and now look the guardian one… .see the difference?)

It won’t happen.

Since the game has been released ANet layed off about 50-70% of their staf (it is normal) adding new animations to professions will not happen at least until 2014.

I never unlocked MOA

I don’t have torch

I never unlocked any Mantra

I think I’m much pretier than my clone.

I just went through all professions’ forums to see what is the community support / attention we’ve been getting from ANet.

Basically I accessed the first 5 pages of each forum which means 150 posts per forum and the number of posts with at least one Community Support answer are:

Elementalist: 5 (the winner)
Engineer: 1
Guardian: 0
Necro: 2
Mesmer: 1
Ranger: 3
Thief: 2
Warrior: 1

So for every 1200 post ANet answers 15 of them or 1.25% if we go a little bit deeper, 9 of these answers are locking the post, therefore only 6 constructive answers have been given to the community.

How ANet thinks they can balance the professions if the community is not heard?

How ANet thinks PvPers will stick to the game if game balancing is not taken
seriously?

How Anet dares to implement big patches without testing it in a public test server?

GW2 is 3-4 months old, at this pace the one year celebration will be a 3 servers party.

I just went through all professions’ forums to see what is the community support / attention we’ve been getting from ANet.

Basically I accessed the first 5 pages of each forum which means 150 posts per forum and the number of posts with at least one Community Support answer are:

Elementalist: 5 (the winner)
Engineer: 1
Guardian: 0
Necro: 2
Mesmer: 1
Ranger: 3
Thief: 2
Warrior: 1

So, for every 1200 post ANet answers 15 of them or 1.25%, however if we go a little bit deeper, 9 of these answers are locking the post, therefore only 6 constructive answers have been given to the community (or 0.6%).

How ANet thinks they can balance the professions if the community is not heard?

How ANet thinks PvPers will stick to the game if game balancing is not taken seriously?

How Anet dares to implement big patches without testing it in a public test server?

GW2 is 3-4 months old, at this pace the one year celebration will be a 3 servers party.

Dear Anet,

Could you please disable all known bugged / not-working-as-intended traits from the Mesmer tree (clearly the most bugged profession in the game)?

The fact is that +90% of your costumer base don’t read the forums and don’t do theorycrafting, therefore they keep using these traits oblivion they are not working, and because they represent about 15% of our traits you can see the problem right there, right?

This action would show us that ANet not only recognises the issue but cares a lot about the players and could be potentially in ways of fixing them. Right now the only thing we see coming are nerfs (one after other) and eventually a bug fix which adds another one.

Deceptive Evasion is failing more often than ever.

great idea, but…. how are you going to take a keep if you can’t kill what is protecting it?

There should be no casting in this game, it goes against the dynamic / dodging concept. It is so bad that after 300 hours with my mesmer and 70% map completion I never trained a mantra, tried a couple of times in sPvP and said… “WTF this is garbage”. So the only way of improving it is to remove the casting entirely, maybe increase the CD between charges by 50% to compensate.

since beta I knew mesmers would be constantly nerfed (the concept is very difficult to balance we have to agree with it), it is up to ANet to decide where the fine line between fun and disgrace is before ruining it completely. Three or four patches like the last one and this class will be worst than necro ever been.

edamber.1549:

Hope this is a troll post, i’m a rank 30 sPVP thief and a skilled mesmer beats me 9 times out of 10. Best class in the game by faar. Got hit with 15k damage just yesterday.

There are exceptional players playing every profession it doesn’t mean I trolled or your rank 30 means jackas.

Before the last patch to win a fight against a thief was about poping your clones and stacking confusing + crippling + interrupts .. always been a hard figth but far from impossible..

However with the patch a well played thief will keep spaming blind, dodge and stealth therefore it is very difficult to keep the clone production at any reliable rate….

So, I’m sorry mate but if you want to kill a thief you better roll one or a guradian, mesmer are still a good class against regular players that can’t identify the mesmer, but any abore average player will kill a mesmer regardless of profession.

“Deceptive Evasion” suddenly stops working during the fight, I don’t know how it happens but it is happening more often then ever. Another great trait that is not reliable….

I know ANet just remove it and give another nerf hook on us.

- Clones will not be an identical copy of the caster but will look like chipmunks.

Clearly ANet changed their view towards the mesmer, at first it was the most original class of any mmorpg (the cherry of their cake), but then it became the biggest nuisance because the regular Joe (vast majority of players) could not distinguish between a mesmer and his (her) clone therefore they decided to keep nerfing the class so less and less player would play it, thus reducing the frustration of the regular Joe.

Said that what do you think will be ANet’s next step towards the “shattering” of the shatter profession?

I bet:
- portal will only transport 5 players or reduce the distance to 4000;
- change the Illusionary Persona to only apply it’s effect if at least 1 clone is up
- reduce time wrap to 8 seconds or increase CD to 300 seconds
- increase by 1 s all phantasm attacks
- decrease clone’s health by 20%
- increase the CD of all shatter skills by 2s

And you, what do you think the next nerf will be?

My play style is different from any of the above and I’m loving it.

I go heavy on toughness >> vitallity >> precision

Basically I never die or get downed (except TA because those blossoms), first because my dps is lower, second I decoy only at the right time and third I have 1.9K toughness.

Therefore in a long boss fight or pack of mobs I probably do more total dmg than most classes, simply because I’m 99% of the time attacking / shattering.

Besides I’m the one that when the party gets wiped I vanish and rez everyone.

Just time wrap in the right spot at the right time does more dmg than any other class by a long margin.

I pop a phantasm wait for the 1st attack to end, pop 2 ilusions (by dodging or other skill) and shatter with F1, F3 and F2… F4 when I’m rezing someone.

Speed runs I’m the man…. Portal for noobs or low geared players, I’m the man.

But I do agree with one thing: 2 Mesmers in the same party can be a problem.

So far I haven’t participated in a pug that would refuse a Mesmer, simply because our utility suppress by far any dps issue.