it’s tough to believe you are not fine with class as is right now, because you do vocally calling people wrong and / or discredit other people’s complaints.
So, I’d love to see your list of what YOU are not happy about, because from the posts I’ve seen you made, you sure sound like you are perfectly fine with the current state of the Mesmer class.
Let’s see…
The scepter autoattack is absolutely awful. They slapped a half-hearted bandaid onto it and called it a job well done. It needs a total rework, many ideas have been given, they’ve ignored everything. It’s an absolute disgrace.
The iMage is the worst phantasm in the game. It’s been the worst for a very very long time. We’ve been asking for a rework to make it non-awful for ages and haven’t gotten anything. They recently buffed completely random numbers on it in the hope that we’d just shut up and stop complaining, but since they don’t actually understand our class at all, the numbers were the wrong numbers and it’s still awful.
The mainhand sword is still a shadow of what it used to be before being hit with countless nerfs. It used to be a fantastic utility and damage weapon. Then, blurred frenzy was hit with a double-nerf in one patch. A year or so later, iLeap was effectively deleted from the weapon. iLeap is still awful compared to its old utility, even with the teleporting implemented. You can’t use it to break stuns, can’t use it for mobility, you can just spam 3 twice and hope that the animation lock lets you swap before it gets killed by random aoe.
The new grandmaster traits that were released were, and are, an absolute farce. Disruptors sustainment and bountiful dissilusionment are both indescribably awful traits. The simple fact that multiple people at anet must have said ‘yes, this is a good idea. Let’s do it!’ is incredibly disheartening. The fact that they’re still wasting spots in our trait trees that could be taken up by something other than trash code is even worse.
Power block is arguably in an even sadder state than those other two traits. On release, power block was a strong and interesting trait that instantly created a really great style of mesmer play that hadn’t truly been seen since GW1. Unfortunately, the devs immediately decided that that was a mistake, and nerfed it into a state that’s just as functionally awful as disruptors sustainment or BD. The fact that it was almost a fantastic addition to our class before being snatched out from under us is just flat out insulting.
Overnerfing traits has been a theme for a long time with anet’s relationship to mesmer.
Blinding Befuddlement was turned from a really handy trait that added utility and damage in a lot of interesting ways into something that is once again, just useless scrap code in their database. They both nerfed it with a massive ICD and lowered the duration. It’s now not in a usable state.
The dissipation traits were slammed in a single nerf-ridden patch. Not only were they made blockable, dodgeable, and blindable in one patch, they also severely nerfed the strength of the bleeds that debilitating dissipation applies. These traits at least are still very viable, just the amount of nerfing that occurred in that one patch was patently absurd.
A long time ago, I made a build that functioned around a particular minor trait: vengeful images. This caused phantasms to have retaliation, allowing you to do some really interesting things by combining the damage transfer on the pDefender with high retaliation uptime. You can look it up if you want, it’s called the Immortal build. Unfortunately, anet decided to take what was an interesting trait and fun build and delete it from the game in a single patch. The trait was nerfed to providing 5 seconds of retaliation on summon, and it’s now once again just a useless scrap of code cluttering up their database.
Mesmers still have absolutely abysmal options for aoe anything. Compared to so many other classes, we have no aoe control, no aoe damage, and little aoe support. Literally the only handy things we have are portal and veil for large-group support. This makes obtaining loot, dealing damage, and generally being useful in other ways than as a veilbot in WvW an immense struggle that nobody has actually solved yet. This is a complaint that’s been getting aired since the beginning of the game, and in that time anet has made 1 or 2 half-hearted efforts to improve the situation.
The mesmer signets remain some of the worst designed signets in the game. There are incredibly few builds that actually utilize signets as signets; for both the active and passive effects. Additionally, the signet traits are scattered and disjointed, causing the creation of any build relying on signets to be haphazard and incredibly forced.
. Had to pick and choose, didn’t want to fill up 3 posts
This was less a ‘lets go through and pick out everything’ and more of a ’I’m going to rant until it feels like I’m getting too long’.