Guild Wars 2

Mesmer Main Here,

Man Mirage is fun, but it is way to focused on conditions. As someone who mainly plays WvW, and coming from a spec like crono, Mesmer, really didn’t gain any tools to help groups. With all the other boon shread and condi clear the other new classes have, a condi Mesmer with the ability to only keep one’s self alive and have no way to provide support, really felt lost.

It felt lack luster, like it had the ability to jump around and be uncatchable, but any damage I could get off was just cleared away because condi cleanse is becoming more prevalent. Besides this fact, its mostly single target, so it is further lost in the works as WvW is not a HoT raid.

Suggestions: (not all these suggestions go well together, they are just ways to make this spec more suited for something playable)

1. move from conditions to power, this pertains more then just Mesmer but WvW as a whole, the condi meta is killing zerg mentality and forcing people to blob and drop wells (not fun).
2. give Mesmer tools to better move through the battle, right now Mesmer has to choose between stab and utilities like blink. Being a mirage is fun to play and moves through the field well, but it gets locked down way to quickly, and the condis they apply don’t last long enough in group fights to provide anything useful.
3. have a way for the mirage to provide group support, maybe allow them to give the party boons when they mirage cloak, or better yet, allow them to mirage cloak allies with skills like mirage mirror.

just some ideas. But, from what I saw, Mirage, doesn’t have anything on the ability of a Crono