Guild Wars 2

Legend: Snaff
Weapon: Rifle- Fires Magic Bullets with a focus on applying conditions and various elemental effects. His utilities could summon turret-like golems.

I can only think of two classes that use the Rifle in GW2, the Warrior and the Engineer (who uses it more like a shotgun than a rifle). Its sorely underrepresented, and I’d welcome more classes using it, even if its in unique ways.

Guardians need throwing Shields, like Captain America.

A substantial amount of that is ignorance. The way the mesmer assists the party is not always overt and the party needs to work with the Mesmer to achieve the full effect. I cannot even begin to count the times I’ve thrown down time warp or null field only to have my party instinctively run out the giant pink bubble, even after I explain it to them. Then we also have fantastic party mitigation tools like the Illusionary Warden that many people do not realize deflects projectiles and can shut down ranged mobs entirely.

As for raw DPS, the mesmer has to work harder to keep up the pace, and in the chaos of inexperienced groups, that becomes exceedingly difficult.