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A decent player will kill the condi mesmer before the condi mesmer can hope to kill him.
If that decent player can’t, he just has to runaway and reset the fight. Mesmers aren’t great at chasing.
But, hey, you have to be at least “decent”. Not even good as a player. I assume not everyone is decent in this game.
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You have the lowest skill floor of all classes and the second most uptime on stealth, I wonder.
You have AI that stays until destroyed or shattered on extremely low cool downs while you dodge around and basically laugh. A decent Mesmer would not lose to anyone in a 1v1 and would only die in a 2v1 if all players are on a even skill floor.
Stealth and AI (lol) aside you are talking about the warrior bro.
The only way to perform easy duel win with a mesmer is that your opponent is watching you like a kid that does not know what will happen to him. Someone aware won’t have so much trouble against an ordinary mesmer. Unless he doesn’t know anything about mesmer, what is seen these days. I faced people that could not tell the difference between my clone and I while I lied on the floor.
The other way to be deadly is to be realy fast and accurate. It requires so much timing and focus that a single mistake can screw you up. So please, don’t talk about low skill floor. It’s your ignorance that’s make us strong.
Yup, let’s take a couple of more-or-less useless rune (though Traveler and Centaur are not bad, stats they give aren’t great either and take 6 slots just for speed) so we can do what others naturaly do. Nothing wrong, yup.
And there come the recycling feature making trash gold.
There may be apologist but there is also a huge amount of guys you see blaming the game all the day. Most of the time they just critize like a machin.
Try a traditionnal shatter build. You’ll see if mesmer is “easy”. Non-Pu builds are riskier but way more rewarding and fun imho.
Staff is a great weapons for shatter and phantasm build. (Also PU, but is anyone runing PU in PvE?).
I used to think that GS > Staff. But that was when I didn’t use my warlock and my chaos storm properly. Chaos Storm grant you some sweet boni like aegis. You should launch it on yourself and your ennemy while your warlock is doing his job. Besides if you are runing a phantasmal build, use iDuelist or iWarden and then switch to your staff. You will maximiz your iWar (bleed stacks of the iD/W) while benefit from the defensiv aspect of the staff.
Staff is strong in a power build or an hybrid build. But for condi build, you rely rather on scepter/pistol.
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