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I’m not as enthusiastic as most of you about the changes. The mesmer looses its (arguably) two strongest grandmaster traits, Illusionary Persona and Triumphant Distortion.
Both allow interesting tactical options and I don’t see any proper compensation for them. The versatility of IP is well known, its absolute standard in PvP, but also very useful in PvE and WvW, so this is a huge loss. But also the latter trait is excellent in PvE and WvW and has proven valuable in the new Stonghold gamemode as well.
Furthermore, I agree with Neijala Ceya regarding Harmonious Mantras, wasting your utility slots for a minor dmg boost (not even pure dmg, just ferocity) sounds suboptimal to me, but even more ridiculous, this trait now competes against Deceptive Evasion, so in my eyes this is the death of mantra based builds.
I have hopes for the Master of Fragmentation trait; as Miku Lawrence pointed out, this does nothing at the moment, I interpret that as “work in progress”.