Guild Wars 2

I play a lot of thief vs mesmer match ups in WwW and noticed how easy it is to spot the real mesmer between illusions and clones. What I would hope at the very least for the Mirage specialization is to take make it even harder for players to determine who is the real Mirage. Right now it looks like the changes to the scepter skill 1 will make it one of the best weapons choices the Mirage will have access too.

For more illusion, players should pick scepter/x and staff.

For more traditional Mesmer game play, sword/x and greatsword should be picked.

I spent a good 2 hours trying to play with Mirage, with axe main hand and eventually gave up. However, I had no idea about the ambush changes to many of the weapons 1 skills.

I’m thinking when the game is released, I will avoid using the axe as a main hand with the Mirage. But use the scepter / sword and staff and I think everyone will be more effective at dealing damage in general.

Wielding the axe felt like I was giving out free experience lol. Literally jumping into fights only to be condition nuked or focus fired by 2 people. I think the Mirage with some balance changes (with specifically the Axe) the class may closer to what the game designers intended.