Guild Wars 2

Xyonon.3987:

Caelus.7139:

thetarot.8246:

My prediction will be Mantras no longer cooldown in the background while they have charges remaining.

Please no…

wich is rather a bugfix since it’s never been mentioned anywhere to be intended

Crush my dreams some more why don’t you. Sigh…

IMO, Anet sees Mesmers as a bug in whole that ALWAYS needs “fixing” lol

Besides, it’s easily hard-countered by just one necro trait. The one that fears you the enemy when they’re CC’d. Tested the stuns and CCs with my friend who was testing out Necro, they could barely feel the stuns/CCs lol.

thetarot.8246:

My prediction will be Mantras no longer cooldown in the background while they have charges remaining.

Please no…

Exciton.8942:

I knew this when they announced chronomancer will get alacrity.
The end result: Mesmer will need alacrity application to be just on-par with other profession cooldowns.

Which is complete BS since that means all that required effort to get the same result as other professions who just sit with their traits on.

Vieux P.1238:

It’s kinda weird that Ileap in theory has the same basic function mechanic as heart seeker. Witch is Teleporting from one point directly to a target. No matter what movement that target has. Only the visual effects & damage are different. Why ileap does not work as well a HS?

Because if clone is destroyed or doesn’t land properly=no teleport. Not to mention it doesn’t even damage.

If warriors can stun/cc us consecutively without drawback how come we can’t.

My prediction: reverting all changes, we get pre-spec mesmer kek

Kirito.9207:

We ask for buffs and we finally get them. Then we complain about the buffs lol..

QFT
Besides, we already know how Anet caves in hard (why is Anet censoring the word “hard”?) on mesmer nerfcries. And at the end of the day we’re gonna be nerfed to kitten once again, and we’ll be asking for buffs….again.

Vicious cycle.

Looking forward to it.

Still dont understand how they can’t code it in a way so that if you ran through the curtain it flags you so that you can’t get swiftness from it til the AoE expires or something like that. Lazy…

GJ Anet.

/15brokenchar

Johje Holan.4607:

Caelus.7139:

Fay.2357:

Caelus.7139:

Fay.2357:

The only single situation in the game where tons of stealth is objectively handy by itself is when you’re hiding in a keep in WvW.

Exact reason why I know this’ll get nerfed x_x

They put stealth traps into wvw for a reason, and they’re quite easy to use.

True, but we all know how quickly Anet caves in to nerfcries, especially nerfcries on mesmers…

They won’t nerf it for WvW. WvW’ers can complain ’til the cows come home and be ignored.

They may change it when PvP’ers in Stronghold start complaining but not for WvW.

Ah, I stand corrected again. Completely forgot how Anet treats WvW lol

Curunen.8729:

Caelus.7139:

Curunen.8729:

Caelus.7139:

Curunen.8729:

Woah, mantras recharge in the background now?!? :o

What a beautiful buff!

Wait, is this true? O_o

Yes.

So, if I’m not mistaken, I can cast MoD, and even if I don’t use the casts the mantra goes on cooldown? o_o

Yes – you can hold on to them for longer than their cooldown time and you’re able to immediately recharge after burning the charges.

Oooooo me like

Fay.2357:

Caelus.7139:

Fay.2357:

The only single situation in the game where tons of stealth is objectively handy by itself is when you’re hiding in a keep in WvW.

Exact reason why I know this’ll get nerfed x_x

They put stealth traps into wvw for a reason, and they’re quite easy to use.

True, but we all know how quickly Anet caves in to nerfcries, especially nerfcries on mesmers…

Curunen.8729:

Caelus.7139:

Curunen.8729:

Woah, mantras recharge in the background now?!? :o

What a beautiful buff!

Wait, is this true? O_o

Yes.

So, if I’m not mistaken, I can cast MoD, and even if I don’t use the casts the mantra goes on cooldown? o_o

Curunen.8729:

Woah, mantras recharge in the background now?!? :o

What a beautiful buff!

Wait, is this true? O_o

Did they break it again =/

Fay.2357:

The only single situation in the game where tons of stealth is objectively handy by itself is when you’re hiding in a keep in WvW.

Exact reason why I know this’ll get nerfed x_x

Wut.

As long as there are thieves we’ll always have complaints.
e.g. Un-nerfed Consume Plasma

Daniel Handler.4816:

Their trait improvisation was altered though. So now they can use stolen items twice. So two ectos in a row.

If this happens and consume plasma doesn’t get nerfed…I’m going to…not be surprised, lol..

10s all-boon is just too stupid

There will also be this thing called Resistance.

Flameseeker.

/15char

Can’t wait for your new spec builds and gameplay vash

Not gonna lie, I’m interested in making a nec now with the Reaper announce. All my time playing GW2 and I’ve never made nec, guard, and the unspeakable thief (which I will never make and play regardless of their spec, cheesy things) and now I’m about to make nec and guard (Dragon Hunter). Now I wait for Tempest and Engi spec.

It’s not a far fetched idea though, assuming Anet is willing to risk angering a whole class community that is. It would make sense depending on the thief’s spec theme.

What if thieves get clones in their spec?
lololololololoolololololoolololoolololol
cough

What do would you guys think?

Choosing this trait or SoI would depend on your build. Personally, I wouldn’t wanna give up any of my utility for the movespeed =/

Miku Lawrence.6329:

So nobody’s concerned with Chronomancer being so kittening powercreep and mandatory?

Not really because we’re an easy target for nerf cries. Before you know it we’re back to square one lol. Not to mention other class goodies might look better, if not on par.

I already hear the “nerf mesmer” cries which are so out of place…

Everytime I read: “all numbers are a work in progress.”
What I read: “All numbers are subject to being nerfed and underwhelming”

Please just take out the cleavable f5 mechanic…This mechanic makes us cornered as roaming/dueling classes since it’ll obviously be useless in WvW AoE spams…

Knockback+cripple on a 7s cd…

Coolest? Not sure yet.
Cheapest? Thief creepin.

Foolproof isn’t exactly the word I would use..

I think Chrono builds would benefit with having DE. But that depends on the other traitlines used with Chrono.

rchu.8945:

if the new skills and traits allow Mesmer to become not hard-countered by thieves, sure I guess I will be happy. But I doubt it would be the case. Thieves might even able to steal alacrity and completely destroy us, as is the case now.

Alacrity isn’t a boon according to the devs. Although I hope I’m right that they can’t steal it..

rchu.8945:

I bet it will good for the first few months, then other classes will cry and moan until it’s nerfed to the ground. The Mesmers become food for other classes again…

This is my only worry.

Except we have “alacrity”, the reverse-chill mesmer specific mechanic. Mind you I’m not expecting it to shave off 30s at a time in CD but it would still help.

Not meaning to be negative or anything, but if Chronomancer spec seems this powerful, do you guys think it’ll be a battle of super OPness when the other specs get announced too?

Hm, I suppose that makes sense.

Man, and here I am struggling to play Shatterlock (TLS build) and you make things look deadly, even making CI shatter. You the bomb vash

Yea, I wonder what happened to our damage….
https://youtu.be/hG9J0QQSTg4?t=982

I like all those ideas. Something more passive, especially since mesmer devs implied themselves that being hit shouldn’t be a core feature for us.

This topic isn’t meant to be a nitpicking topic, but I just found it, idk, odd? On the specialization livestream, it was mentioned: “Alot of the retaliation traits in Mesmer got removed as we didn’t feel like you want people to hit you as a mesmer.” Yet the main usefulness of Chaos Armor comes from getting hit...Do keep in mind that I’m not considering the upcoming protection/cd trait for Chaos Armor.

Well, I’ll say: Not yet.

Because everything is still subject to change, especially the cries for nerf from other classes that I can hear echoing from the future.

But if we get all this goodness unchanged or even at least only slightly changed. Then yes.

I bet it’ll have longer ICD in final.

OP didn’t take into account that Slow is going to be a condi.

Chaos Archangel.5071:

Anet just broke Chaos…

and I don’t even use Moa. Wtf!! Moa!? Moa tho!?! That’s Mesmer, that’s all Mesmer, and it should stay Mesmer. And if not, then we need our Moa Morph changed into something more Mesmery..

Like morphing the opponent into a clone of the Mesmer. O.o

/15 buckets of salt

I’ve always liked the idea of turning someone into a purple phantom..Imagine an Elite that makes opponent’s attacks hit their teammates for like, 3s O_o