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So? Any news? Can we have an answer? Because there is not a lot time left…and we don’t know how to obtain it.
Can we have a final confirmation?
In the blog post and Grouch said that it was sufficient to reach Legendary Division…and it’s the most logical thing.
I’m in queue from more than hour this morning…what’s happening?
I’m solo player too, always played solo and i’m actually last division of diamond.
Every profession in this game is versatile, you can support control damage with everyone…the difference is the way they do it: engineers have only more skill effects but the results are the same.
I don’t see revenant as “jack of all trades”, not more than any other class: you can build it with a celestial amulet, but you could the same with every class.
Time Marches On This seems to much for a minor trait the movement speed alone is allready really strong on a minor the snare reduction on top sure looks like its to strong.
Or does it only work in combat? Would be disappointing.
Why do you say such false statement? Mandatory in what situation? In spvp? I don’t think so, for shatter is better Inspiration for sustained, illusion for CD reduction and utilities; for pve no one care about a speed buff; in organized wvw or zerg you have always swiftness up, so it’s useless: it’s probably useful only in wvw roaming.
I will agree with the warriors complain only if they fix their leap/charge skills that should need a target to use them, like our fix to illusionary leap: then they could start to speak about our mobility.
Mesmer magic is not only mind and illusion, but also bending reality as already said different times by devs, even before gw2 release: time warp, temporal curtain, etc. are manifestation of theis ability, now further developed by Chronomancer specialisation; if you read the tooltip of the new skills and the explanations by dev it’s evident that we don’t speak only about illusion but something more solid.
Anyway, maybe the world itself it’s an illusion….so…
Edit. From the last dev post: " The mesmer of Guild Wars 2 is just as fond of toying with reality and perception as its predecessor, but it also possesses the ability to twist the fabric of space and time in the form of skills like Time Warp and Temporal Curtain. Jon says that this made the chronomancer a natural choice for the mesmer’s first elite specialization."
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I’m really happy about this Chronomancer, also finally we get AOE skills….something that we really need in massive area.
Yes please, it’s very important trait in shatter build.
All sound great, I’m only a bit sad because we lose our invulnerability after a kill with triumphant distortion, it added a great survivability in wvw.
While i don’t understand why you are upset about being “stuck with illusions” since that is the class mechanic and if you hate that then how can you play mesmer for any period of time…. i can understand the frustration about the stupid offhand.
It’d be great to have a talk with the dev who woke up some day and said: “let’s give mesmers a shield! that totally fits the class, they will love it!”
And i know people will now come and say that they think it fits a duelist and let’s wait until it is here and blabla… No it does not fit a duelist. Some heavily armored duelist maybe, but since when is mesmer heavily armored?
Mesmer in GW1 didn’t rely on illusions, or at least not manifested ones: i enjoy the idea, but the implementation isn’t good at all: every aoe destroy them so basically in large scale fights or versus hard hitting mobs you can’t use them.
“How about a new way to shatter illusions? "
So, based on this quote, it’s clear that also the new elite specialisation trait line will be based on illusions: it’s too early to say something based only on this element, but if so I think we will have hard times, like now, in massive situations like open map pve and ,sadly, wvw; the problem will be always the same, illusions will not stay alive enough time to shatter them.
Let’s hope…but after 3 years I lost faith almost.
Space/Time control (best teleportation skill in the game)
Unconventional weapons use
Cool and unique animations
Aether > four elements= we are the best scholar profession lore wise.
Unique skills like Arcane Thievery, Moa, Portal, Veil, Phantasmal defender, Signet of Inspiration
We have every boon and condition of the game, but applied in a chaotic way
A lot of builds, but few are good
Probably the hardest profession to play in a competitive scenario.
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Yes, they sound powerfull…but on the paper: sure, in a celestial build they are reallys strong abilities but if you play berserker and not with the classic 30/30 arcana water, they are worst than the Mesmer’s abilities: try it and tell me, as i said i play both but my main is Mesmer so i’m not biased at all.
You need to invest a lot of points in arcana and water (30/30) to achieve such defensive abilities: actually ,“meta” consists in celestial D/D or staff with 0/0/10/30/30; if you remove this build, other elementalist builds are very difficult to play because defensive abilities are less than Mesmer’s one (and also they don’t have portal) even if they have vigor trait with icd at 5s.
Honestly I am just hoping for shatter or phantasm based dps mechanics to be replaced by real skills and traits that do consistent damage.
Me too, but it’s an uthopy…
Elementalist in berserker is very difficult to play, only celestial bunker is easy: Mesmers has got a lot of tools to evade attacks, the greatest is stealth…and don’t forget you have an invulnerability always on F4. You have also a lot of boons , use Prismatic Understanding and you can achieve a great survivability. Also, an elementalist needs to invest 10 points to take that triati, we need only 5.
My main is Mesmer but I play both in PvP (always berserker scepter/focus , I don’t like celestial).
Sorry if I reopen this post, but I feel really sad when I think that they destroyed an average skill in something completely useless like the new Mimic (arcane thievery is better prarically in every aspect).
What do you think? Do you like the new one?
I really would like to see the copy skills from GW1 Mesmer.
Very well played shatter Mesmer, I like it!
I hope , but it’s an uthopy, that they’ll remove illusions ,clones and phantams, because they are practically unplayable in open fields (massive pve and wvw); but after years of bad decisions by arenanet around Mesmers I lost the faith. An off hand weapon and a F5 skill is not enough to compensate: elementalist will have a sword main hand with 20 skills ( if you count autoattacks as 3 skills) and others professions 5 skills (practically everyone will get a 2 handed weapon).
Same for me and also very low ping.
Same for me, also when I press B to see the stats of the match I’ve a delay.
Same for me after patch, EU .
In PVP the phantasmals’ weapons don’t glow anymore (as you can see in picture), in WVW and presume in PVE yes…I don’t understand.
If i’m not wrong, they removed the glowing effect from phantasmals’ weapons? They look like normal weapons now.
I loved the old Mimic animations, during cast and after cast with glowing orb and cool sound: also it was great in some situation, like escaping from a zerg.
Now, it’s completly useless…i really don’t understand why when they change our skills, they (often) become worst than the original.
I like the idea of a shield for Mesmers, but I don’t understand why we will get only that: let’s hope at least they’ll change deeply mesmer’s mechanic removing clones and phantasms… but it’s an uthopy.
There is (practically) no reason, even in solo queue I always use it: it’s perfect to control two points and also very useful to escape from hard situations.
WTS finals, 20 players, all classes represented…. except Mesmer. This thread has never been more relevant.
There was one Mesmer, supecutie , played for 2 matches but after changed for a thief…
Really a terrible situation for Mesmers in tpvp, even necromancers and rangers were in a better situation during WTS.Hell even in regular tpvp matches. I see mesmers maybe once every 10 matches in ranked (aside from me). And when I do they are usually from OMFG.
I’m in EU, to say the true tPvP is the only area in which I see some mesmers compared to other areas (wvw and pve), but it’s in my experience the least represented profession nowadays even there: also, practically every Mesmer is terrible except someone that play very well; Mesmer’ s players are or incredible or ridiculous.
^ this guy’s got it. power rangers can appear strong against average players, but they lack something to be truly competitive.
Same situation of the mesmers, strong against new players that lack experience.
WTS finals, 20 players, all classes represented…. except Mesmer. This thread has never been more relevant.
There was one Mesmer, supecutie , played for 2 matches but after changed for a thief…
Really a terrible situation for Mesmers in tpvp, even necromancers and rangers were in a better situation during WTS.
Wall of the Mists…without any doubt.
Mesmer have been nerfed too much in these years, compared to the other professions that received buffs constantly.
Some mesmer nerfs were unwarranted, however the idea that other professions have recieved constant buffs is total nonsense, thief has had more nerfs than mesmer, engi for the first 12-15 months was the most nerfed class in the game, etc.
Peoblem is, the nunber of buffs or quality of life improvements are greater than the nerfs for other professions (not all but I don’t want to be specific, it’s a Mesmer thread): for the Mesmer is the opposite, they destroyed many builds in the past.
The nerfs that I hate the most is to blurred frenzy and illusionary leap.
Beautiful video, I like your style.
I read all and I agree with the majority part of opinions: Mesmer have been nerfed too much in these years, compared to the other professions that received buffs constantly.
I don’t want to say that Mesmers are useless in every aspect of the game, because it’s not true but his utility it’s very limited compared to other professions that often can do the same task in easier way: yes we have strong utilities skills like portal, unique among professions, but you can’t balance a profession around one singular skill.
One of the chore problem of Mesmer it’s own mechanic, illusions and phantasms, too weak in open environments where damages come from every direction: this mechanic is good for a 5vs5 situation (like every pet in game) but it simply doesn’t work in other aspect of the game.
I really hope that the expansion will bring solutions for these problems, but I doubt it after years of nerfs: sadly because I still think Mesmer is the most interesting profession.
For the Mesmer , I don’t want pistol main hand: I hate pistols.
Mesmer too use the power of the Mist or raw energy (ether or chaos energy) and can even change the very fabric of reality…do you think they share the same source of power?
I think Revenat power is a fusion between Ritualist and Mesmer.
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I’ve been a Mesmer player practically from beta period and it has never been the most common sight around , except for spvp; but actually I feel like Mesmer players (in particular in wvw and spvp, I don’t know in pve) are very very rare and even in spvp it’s not easy to meet one.
Is it only my feel or you did you notice too?
If so why?
I think lore wise they are “similar”, they both take power from the Mist and use raw energy: also they have some ability that change the very fabric of reality, time and space. Gameplay wise is impossible to say actually.
I hope for this: I love illusions concept but in massive damage area like wvw or open pve they are useless.
Mimic.
And really I don’t understand why they changed a not very good skill in a useless one: also I loved animation and sound of it. I really want the old mimic back.
It’s kitteneless skill because we already have Arcane Thievery that do practically the same thing but in a better way.
I would like a Mimic and an Echo skills able to copy my team mate or adversary ability.
I hate people that play with semantic to distract from real problems…i don’t care if you call it bug fix, nerf o what you want, it changes my gameplay in a bad way.
The weapon was already nerfed and this change ruins the weapon completly in spvp/wvw to the point that no one played it from months: now it’s time no to bug fix o little changes, but to recreate some weapon’s skills completly…in praticulary Illusionary Leap that should be similar (not the same) to Infiltrator’s Strike.
We are not superior in 1vs1 than other professions, and there isn’t a game mode called duel…there are three aspects of the game : spvp (5vs5), wvw (massively battle, I would say 5+) and pve; we have barely a place in each one thank to our utilities that have got long CD…I don’t call this a balanced profession.
The description of Mesmer like duelist profession means nothing and can’t be balanced on that statement.
They have to be sadist if they constantly nerf a profession that is pratically out of meta in every aspect of the game…i really don’t understand and i’ve lost faith.
I’ve differents professions at 80, but the problem is that i love the lore and the general concept of the profession, and i’ve invested some gems on it.
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No words…just incredible.
The problem is that Mesmer has been nerfed practically every patch note in the last two years, in the meanwhile the other professions , in particular warriors, have been empowered to the Mesmer’s precedent level or even more. From quickness, to portal CD, vigor 5s instead of 10, blurred frenzy from invulnerability to evade, phantasms that need los (no aoe on walls),the indirect nerf to reflect damage, in to the void CD,the nerf to glamour build,etc.: we had in exchange few improvements like prismatic understanding (that I’m sure it will be nerfed soon although it’s practically a troll trait useless in PvP ) and some nice improvements to sceptre.
It’s simply not enough considering how many bugged skills we have and the profession is becoming more and more useless in every aspect of the game (in particularly wvw but we risk also in PvP in which we have a role only for the portal).
Hello Mesmers ,
I was thinking in some options to improve our aoe ability, in particular in wvw, without adding new weapons (but I hope they’ll do) and I came to the conclusion to add a new shatter ability on F5: Ether Storm.
The chore of the ability is to maintain the duality and random that is very Mesmer style grating to this ability the possibility to do damage and heal in the same time with a random Field, this is the concept:
-F5 Ether Storm (60 sec CD): AOE ground targeting (1200 range) that last X seconds (1 clone grant 2 seconds duration, after the first clone shattered the second will add 1 second duration, for a total with Illusionary Persona of 5 sec) that tick for each second dealing damage to opponents and healing team for X amount.
The storm generate a random Field (Fire,Ice,Water,Smoke,ecc.) that last for the entire duration of the spell and change his colour to represent the element.
What do you think about?
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Mesmer hasn’t got any disruptor/CC aoe in zerg, you cant consider a 35 sec CD chaos storm like a reliable CC…Mesmer actually works quite well only in group with less than 10 people because of the illusions that due instantly in any zerg. Take a staff elementalist, he has got an excellent aoe damage, incredible aoe CC and nice healing with a very good survivability with cantrips, in one build.
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