Guild Wars 2

I just noticed the hearts around the circle in Mantra of Pain. Love hurts I guess?

With all of the new features and all of the player’s complaining about small things, people have looked over other smaller details!So I’d like to make a thread to appreciate Anet’s attention to detail.

There are quite a few new skill animations in the new feature patch!

So far I’ve noticed

Mesmer -
Greatsword 3 – had a radius increase therefore it is much much much taller (it’s great)

Mantra of Pain – has an new casting animation as well as a new animation for the AoE damage it causes

Mantra of Distraction – new casting animation as well as a new animation for the AoE damage it causes

I will add more if/when I find/see them!

Awesome job, Anet!

How do you trait/build your mesmer for zerg content?

Personally, I run Greatsword/Staff with a 20/20/20/0/10.
This gives me shortened cooldowns on our best ranged AoE (staff 5 and GS 4)

What do you guys do?

It seems to me they were going for something like this, which personally, I would LOVE to have on my mesmer.
You can’t show off such epic concept art and not give us something so epic!

What does everyone think of the new world bosses?

Do you think Anet has worked around afk-zerg content or do you expect the usual?
Are you hoping for more Tequatl-like encounters?

I couldn’t agree more. The current meta of gw2 is just “damage, damage, damage”.

The most “support” I can slip in on my mesmer without being useless is full zerker gear with some invis and reflects.

I totally agree with the healing power/rezz time idea though! It would give it a lot more usefulness.

As for the rewards for playing support, I couldn’t agree more. Why should I get punished in a zerg and given less rewards for healing/rezzing/providing boons?

You’ve got some great ideas. Keep it up Chaos!

Is this build viable in PvE? Especially in pugs.

tl:dr – Outside of reflects and Time Warp, why bring a mesmer?

My main has been a mesmer since Guild Wars 2 came out and its my favorite profession, I usually can’t max anything else because I enjoy my mesmer so much.

I mostly play PvE and rarely do PvP. So, in PvE, what good is a mesmer?

Most of the classes use the Veteran Risen Giant as a dps test and mesmer seems to have the slowest times. The fastest would be the Elementalist averaging around 4 seconds, then we have classes like the Thief, Warrior, or Guardian who kill it in about 10 seconds.

The mesmer seems to lag behind with the fastest recorded kill being 16 seconds.
So if you have a mesmer in you group and a fight does not require reflects what good does a mesmer have? Elementalists can bring much more might, healing, and damage, are mesmers just slowing the group down?

Sidenote : I may be misinformed and will probably keep playing mesmer regardless.

But any feedback would be greatly appreciated!