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Now if only I could figure out the berserker dmg thing…
Worst case scenario I will just try and readjust the numbers based on the new functionality but that is harder because I don’t have the old data. For what it is worth it was not the bladetrail change that messed with this because we locally reverted that and this berserker issue still persisted.
Jon thank you for being engaged in our plight. For those of us that have been bordering on fanboism (or at least being accused of it
) the last few patches have really felt like we will be wiping egg off our faces for a while. We all knew that the LOS fix was coming and most of the community embraced it. The dodge/blind/invul “fix” felt as if we were being punished twice and moved us further from parity with other professions because of the nature of how zerkers work.
With the latest patch…well…you obviously have read our feedback.
It is very hard to swallow the perception that iZerker was somehow OP from a damage perspective even at pre-11/14. In comparison to other professions out there we are a slippery class that could deal some damage if set up properly. We could never roll over anyone like a Warrior or a Thief even in our “OP” state so please understand our issues here.
What would you want to see so that we can help you? I am sure there are plenty of mesmer vids out there that show that iZerk hit for 3.5-5k fairly consistently and it hit almost immediately. Something that many other professions do without the drawbacks that we have to deal with. How is that it was decided this was something that is any more of a “powerful attack” than numerous other ones from other professions that have not been touched?
I am not suggesting more nerfs to other professions. We don’t want pillow fighting professions wedged between Warriors and Thieves.
Here’s what I would do. Make the “sweep” that the iZerk does 50% of the the length it does now so it doesn’t end up so far out of range it just sits there. Make the Zerker swings activate almost instantly. Give it 3 swings, with the first one doing 70% of the damage total damage of the attack and always hitting. For example the Zerk would hit for 3.5k, 1k, 500 (not real numbers…just showing what I mean) If you want to give some sort of miss chance to the last 2 swings then I guess we can live with it but I would put forth that even in that state it’s not even close to the amount of damage being dished out consistently by other professions.
This would give us more consistent GS damage and allow us to at least compete again in WvW and dungeons without resorting to shatter specs that frankly are not on par with other “burst” professions despite what some people would have us all believe.
We don’t want LOS reverted. We can deal with blind, dodge, invul…yada…I guess…though thats a whole other conversation. But please help us do some decent damage when we jump through all the hoops and actually get a phantasm into play.
Thanks for working with us.
Nice video for showing people the basics of skirmishing. It will be a help to folks looking around for some videos on how to play your spec. That being said, running over green arrows isn’t changing my mind. The 1v4 was comedy in a keystone cops kind of way lol. Also your “skilled” thief keeps trying to burst you with huge stacks of confusion and he doesn’t even blind you once. Please show me the way to these guys so I can farm them til they cry. :p Some of the 1v1’s you started – the first thing the person you are facing does is run away? Pro.
This isn’t a critique or aimed at you personally. I really did like the vid and you know how to play the class. Your use of portals is pro, nice job. I also can appreciate your posts on your spec. They are well thought out and I think you are a great member of the community 
However, I would like you to consider that edited vids giving basic tips say nothing to the state of where the profession was before and where it is after the patch.
Show me the video where Warriors, Thieves and Ele’s dance around columns, run up and down slopes and jump over short objects while you see lots of “Obstructed” and 0 0 0 0 0 0 flying across your screen while they have no problems stacking 4 digit numbers in red. That’s the reality of a competitive match up.
I managed to scrape together 50+ badges over the weekend when I wasn’t messing around on the event side of things, so its not like I’m not getting kills on him, its just a huge pain in the kitten . In similar play situations when on my warrior or thief it’s not a big deal and the play is so much more predictable that it’s almost laughable. Badges just get racked up on those toons and I am more of an asset to my team when I play them in every aspect of the game.
So unless Anet changes some things to the way the mesmers skills are coded they will still be a sub par profession. Inexperience is going to be magnified when up against a skilled mesmer just like any other profession. It still doesn’t change the fact that mesmers have no place where they do anything very well anymore other than making unintelligent players look even worse than they already are.
Anet has already said they see that there are issues with the patch in reference to mesmers. Lets hope they see that they LOS nerf has nothing to with the parity of mesmers with other professions. The people that want to play at the top levels of competition don’t expect it to be reversed. What we expect is that they tweak the code so its not so biased against mesmers and that they take a hard look at the dodge, blind, immune changes and understand that it kittens core mechanics in the bulk of the traits of the entire profession.
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