The following are two common scenarios found in WvW post 4/30 patch:
Scenario #1:
1 – Fight is engaged
2 – The enemy is bad (because lets face it, bad is bad) and has no idea how to engage the mesmer class. Runs in circles flailing at every clone he/she sees and after 30 seconds is dead from weak confusion damage and an inconsistent stack of 4-8 bleeds proc’d from the staff.
Scenario #2
1 – Fight is engaged
2 – The enemy has a medium of common sense (doesn’t drool on the keyboard) and immediately recognizes the condition build. The enemy laughs to himself/herself and either a) powers right through our limp wristed confusion damage (so little damage it is no longer a deterrent) and bursts the condition spec’d mesmer into the earth or b) continues to laugh to himself/herself keyboard turns and walks away. I say walks away because the enemy knows we are spec’d for condition damage, we have no direct damage (190-240 from staff, 200-300 from scepter,) all are slow moving projectiles, slow animation/cast time, and our primary condition (confusion) is not doing any damage because as we all know CONFUSION DOES NO DAMAGE UNLESS A SKILL IS ACTIVATED.
Pre-4/30 patch condition mesmers could at least work to catch an enemy off guard with a punishing confusion burst to put them on their heels and alter the course of an altercation. Now the damage is laughable. Just as it is in sPvP.
The condition Mesmer is dead effective 4/30/13.
Basically, this. Just went into WvW for a few hours, and that’s exactly what happened. Bad or new players died as usual, fights with good players lasted for several minutes and ended with a zerg interrupting or the enemy simply ran off.
Well, back to shatter/phantasm. I am really bored.
Really hope they gonna compensate the huge lack of damage for condition mesmers. As some already suggested, exchange vulnerability with poison on WoC.
Anet hates [your class], since [other classes] got buffs while [your class] only received nerfs.
I made a portal to bring ppl to the end of the jump puzzle… Well I put it a bit close to the edge and watched as everyone entered it, then dropped down to their deaths..
Also once I tried to res my own clone, and many times someone else has tried to res my clone while I’m screaming “I’m over here!! the one with the arrrow!!”.
#MAGSWAG: All class player. XOXO