This topic supposed to discuss condi mesmer problems not how annoying they are, not?
I play PU condi often, while being fun it has a lot of flaws. There’s a lot of builds they can’t really fight well. They are vulnerable to condition pressure or a high damage pressure. DPS is quite low and generally fights are long. They can’t chase well.
For example, I find unload stealth-abusing thieves are much more annoying than all mesmers together
This happens to me time to time when I play unranked. Basically, like this – in the middle of the fight I suddenly loose all my health (can be like 15k) and become downed. In combat log I can’t see anything that can explain how I lost all my health in a blink of an eye.
Just now I was fighting with ranger and thief, I had 18k hp out of 21k. I blinked out of stun, ran several steps and become downed. Ranger and thief where quite at a distance from me. In combat log where few hits for like 1k and nothing more. Could be lag or something?
I still play a lot PU condi mesmer unranked because it’s so fun to trick people. Unfortunately, it’s very true that with all past nerfings this build isn’t strong anymore.
In my experience solo roaming is counter-productive and generally is a waste of time. Amount of good fights you get is generally very low, a same are rewards. I totally understand the idea behind solo roaming but for me it simple don’t work as expected.
As was noted, small-scale / party-base roaming is way better in terms of fun, efficiency and what can be achieved.
It would just end in people slotting another kit, upping our max skills from potentially 40 to 46 (or 47 if we also get a F6 toolbelt skill).
Personally, I already sick of using multiple kits and managing 40+ skills. It makes engineer gameplay very tedious and tiresome. That’s why I very fond of idea running with hammer + one swap (could be a kit). But also I would like to see a better synergy of scrapper trait line with other trait lines and skills.
Every profession has it’s incredible skill. Engineers have HT. Nerfing it won’t balance things. If you expect ANet will nerf HT simultaneously balancing all other skills, traits you’re very naive to say a least.
To add my 2 cents for the mass of the rest:
I think Hammer damage and skills are overall good. Traits need some work.
- Gyros aren’t ok at all: bad AI, slow and underpowered. Waste of slots basically. Purge/Healbot gyros aren’t as good as healing turret.
- Function Gyro clunky and not very usable. For same reason Stabilization Core isn’t good trait.
- Rocket Charge should be reworked (probably as already suggested to work similar to warrior leap).
- Thunderclap – damage is low, I think it should be raised atleast by 30%. Stun is ok but since every one have stability and stunbreakers these days it doesn’t really works kudos. Also this skill should add some conditions like burning and cripple.
- Impact Savant – +25% duration to stun not very noticeable. Should be 50% or 100%. Same for -25%. Also, it will be great if this trait will add Might i.e. when you’re stunned gain 5 stacks of might. Protection is also a solid approach.
- Hammer AA lacks damage. Also definitely needs different condition.
- Perfectly Weighted trait should be reworked (Almost no reason to take it over Adaptive Armor).
- Final Salvo – since Gyros suck a bit this trait is a waste.
- Rapid Regeneration – very weak for a major trait.
- Mass Momentum great synergy with FT Juggernaut but I think it should give bonuses when we use hammer instead.
- Expert Examination – I think scrapper have way too much Vulnerability stacking. Not bad but would like to see different condition here.
lol, it’s definitely harder than all of the classes and their metabuilds you mention.
I agree mesmer isn’t very hard to learn the basics. but engineer running 3 kits is much more difficult to play properly than revenant. Engi is a most tedious class to play if you want to be efficient and competitive.
Engineers can be pretty good or even awesome in PvP when using kits builds. But playing kit-heavy engineer is very tedious, both in pve and pvp. It’s not for everyone for sure.
I am also a returning player. I played several months on game start, than left for other MMO, occasionally coming back for few weeks every half of the year. Now, with HoT around the corner I have decided to give GW2 one more try.
I totally agree about classes discrimination – my main was ranger and I feel like being an outcast to most end-game aspects. Even with my mesmer and engineer I feel depressed with pve lfg stuff centered around meta-builds and how hard is to find a party and how easily you’re getting kicked.
Seems leveling is still the most entertaining part of this game. You know what to do, you can do it your way and have a lot of fun.
