Guild Wars 2

Right now, i really don’t see why i should pick scepter over greatsword. For pve dungeons that is. Not only because GS brings way better support, range, AE, trait support and utility (and damage too, i guess), but because in my opinion GS even beats the scepter in its very own domain: creating clones.

The scepter creates one clone every four seconds, yes, but only if you spend the whole time doing nothing else than auto attacks. Creating a clone is not a free side product, it’s a time consuming process and get’s often delayed or even aborted. The GS on the other side creates one clone every 6 1/2 seconds, just as a little bonus on top of an nearly instant, high damage, high supportive attack. You can rezz, dodge, purge, knock back, dispell and all that nice stuff while still maintaining a very high clone output.

So even if i run shatter or “on clone dead” builds, i highly prefer GS for that and that’s what just kills the scepter for me. I would really love to see it become more viable, especially so i can make more use of our offhand weapons.

Yes please. Setting up custom chat channels would be great.

Thank you for reacting so quickly ANet. That was a badly needed hotfix.

Maybe i just suck at exploiting, but i think you’re wrong. As soon as the spell does damage or places confusion on the target the cooldown gets triggered. You can abort the spell in the first 0.5 seconds of its animation to force that 4 second penalty but that’s how it’s intended to be.

I found Illusions XI to be very effective. Just jump right into the action and ‘spam’ Mind Wrack and Cry of Frustration without summoning illusions. Combined with a mainhand sword and a offweapon staff for the occasional Chaos Storm i’m doing fine. But yeah, i think we Mesmers really have to ‘specc’ for that, it’s not as easy as with most other professions to tag mobs in AE events.

And when you trait for Illusions IX you get an AE blind + confusion + (maybe) burn + combo finisher: blast every four seconds.That’s great, but won’t be here for long i guess.