Guild Wars 2

Guys, a few words about WWW. WWW is not about 1×1, 5×5 or even 10×10. It’s ZERG vs ZERG. Small scale combat makes almost no difference for WWW’s points income.

So, what can mesmer provide for WWW?

Damage? No. Most part of mesmer’s damage comes from illusions – and illusions live about 0.25 sec in WWW. If (considering the last patch) summon illusion ability doesn’t fail at all.

Heal? No. ~2500 points heal every 6 sec for 5 frendlies, which must be cast for 4 sec – almost nothing, compared to guardians.

Utility? Yes, finally. Portal for the most part is the only reason to bring mesmer to WWW.

So, you request to limit portal to 5 people? I hope you understand that this nerf will make portal almost unusable for WWW. And the last thing, that makes mesmers viable for WWW will be gone.

About portal bombing.
First, it is available to everyone, but requires organization. If someone can’t fully use the portal due to organization, but the other side can – it’s not the reason to nerf portal.
Second. Thanks to last patch’s nerf to healing (5 friendlies only) portal bombing is quite unreliable against organized groups. You can easily be killed upon exiting the portal.
Third. Culling/rendering should not be the reason to nerf portal – it should be the reason to fix engine. Or maybe we should nerf keep doors too – a lot of people getting out through the doors simultaneously work like a portal :-)