Just my two pence as a pve-player only playing mesmer/chrono.
When i was playing mirage for a short bit, i got a lot of gw1-assassin feeling.
Leaping, shadow stepping, and back. I saw the link with the torch to go invisible and all that stuff. I got a lot of mobility and a hit-and-run feeling which i liked a lot. I liked the idea, the utilities, the way it wanted to go.
there where two things:
i really got the feeling it’s pvp-based mainly. The “getting rid of player-target” for instance is something very pvp-y. As is the "shadow step to a random location togheter with your clones. I don’t see me using those in pve.
And secondly and more important.
What the hell are we doing with another condiweapon?
If all utilities are about mobility and fast hitting, how is the weapon that is linked to it based on slow sustained dmg? It would be way more logical to make it a hit-and run thing, hit hard, go invisible, hit hard again. Together with our low health pool and light amor that would be in balance and would make perfect sense.
The forward leap i hated as well. Since it has no direction (forward), and you don’t know where you gonna end up. How’s that useful in a game based on positioning yourself tactically? We just leap forward, not even to our foe, but randomly in a direction. Seriously annoying. and that while there are skills in game (guardian sword leap ex.) that do the same but more epic.
Kudo’s on the animation though, they are awesome.
So in short. Can we have also a good pve-idea about Mirage?
and can Utilities and weaponskills be linked? Keep the mobility-idea, get rid of the condi idea. ex: have a hit-and-run weapon in combination with the mobility.
Can we just try to make a mesmer/mirage-whatever as epic as we always make the elementalists? They are like the uber-mages. Can we plz be too, in a time-based-deceptive idea?
just my two cents
