The background recharge would be a decent feature with some tweaks to mantras themselves. I was in middle of Ascalonian Catacombs run with some newbies when the build came live, remember helping them out with shrugging off lots of immobilizes, providing some stability for the skipping moments. We finished the dungeon, game forced an update and we decided to go for fractals. What happened there, really made me tired of my mesmer and mantra setup itself. I’m not dealing as much DPS as other classes, so I focused on support role to make people feel safe and confident when running with me. Now I’ll have to either time everything correctly (which is another burden) or play solo builds with just reflects to satisfy salty elites who never have their precious classes nerfed to the point when they want to abandon playing their character.
Right now, with such “balancing” the game just gets less dynamic, more troublesome – no satisfaction at all, and that is not the point of video games.
Regards.