Guild Wars 2

I agree with all that the OP said. I am not very much into talking and writing on forums, but I thought alot about this game, too. I really hope this is one of the posts Mr. Sharp prints out and brings to the team meetings. If the attention and care that is given to PvE content is given to PvP just for a while, alot will change, more people will embrace PvP for sure.

Im in a casual guild that does all types of game modes, but I mostly prefer PvP, but I know my guildies, if the game changes in the ways the OP discribed alot of them will go into PvP.

Illurim.6059:

I play both classes in question; both are 80 and fully decked (well, Mesmer slightly poorer gear than my Ele). I love playing both classes, they’re flat out oodles of fun.

I can literally slaughter some Mesmers with my Ele; they cannot cope with the amount of burst I can toss out or the amount of hyper-agressive behaviour I can generate. But when I come up against really good Mesmer players, they’ll normally win.

I can also literally slaughter some Ele’s on my Mesmer; they cannot cope with the amount of clone generation and confusion I can create whilst pew pewing them with my perdy butterflies. But when I come up against really good Ele players, they normally win.

Moral? It’s not the class. It’s me. I’m better than some people and I’m worse than others.

Exactly this. Your rate at defeating any class is alot higher when you atleast played that class for a while.

OP do not worry about your 1v1 abilities to much. Like in Team Fortress 2, not all classes in GW2 are balanced for 1v1.

If their is any proof for Mesmers being intended as strong 1v1 class, its in their traits: Dueling is a mesmer trait line, with some of the most useful 1v1 traits in the game (for example Deceptive Evasion). Plus the name of the trait line says everything…