Guild Wars 2

AvuriDash.6578:

It certainly needs to be said that clone creation breaks targeting. You can cause enemies to waste some precious single-target skills with a well-timed clone.

Otherwise, there are many things that make a mesmer difficult to kill. With staff, you have access to Chaos Storm (Staff 5) and Chaos Armor (Staff 4, or leap finisher with Ethereal Field), which grant some potent defensive boons (such as Aegis and Protection; Weakness, Blind, and Cripple on enemies). The Phantasmal Defender utility summons a phantasm that soaks up half the damage you and nearby allies take. There are also multiple utilities which grant stealth. Blurred Frenzy (Sword 2) makes you invulnerable for 2 seconds, as does the Distortion shatter (up to 4s with the Illusionary Persona trait.) There are also two block abilities (Sword 4 and Scepter 2) which can be cancelled into effective skill interrupts. Then of course, you have access to the Diversion shatter and Magic Bullet (Pistol 5) for even more interrupts.

So is this the 30/30/30/30 build using GS,Staff/Pistol/Sceptor/Sword/Focus at the same time that I should be using??? You make it sound like Mesmers get all those abilities at the same time, which of course is not true.

Mesmers will make bad players scream in frustration, I have no problem identifying and killing the mesmer, clones/phantasms’ always act in the same way, they do not dodge roll, they not move in circles, clones will stand still and cast, it is very, very easy to pick the mesmer out from the clones.

I wish people would take the time to understand something before crying on the forums and asking for nerfs.

All this complaining from horrible players (probably) the same horrible players that continue to spam skills when they have 5+ stacks of confusion or those players that continue to spam abilities with a clearly visible feedback bubble around them, how I love my mesmer.

This class punishes bad players, they then come onto forums and complain that they blew there own face up while spamming abilities, instead of using their brains and possibly figuring out why they died.

Here’s a few tips for you:

1) Learn to use the Focus Target button to put a big red bullseye over the real Mesmers head.
2) Stop spamming abilities if you have stacks of confusion on you
3) Don’t spam ranged abilities if you have a big pink bubble around you OR just MOVE out of it.
4) Kill the phantasm’s they have ridiculously low health and can be killed in one or two hits.
Phantasm’s only attack once every 5-6 seconds, they can be dodged, out ranged etc…
5) Mesmers are very slow, you can easily run away from one.

I really hope arena net does not listen to people who are not prepared to learn how to counter a play style / class.

Hello WvW Community, what is the most competitive EU (English Server), what I mean by competitive, is not necessarily the most populated server but one that competes using tactics and team play (a tall order it seems :P). I am sure there are other players like me who are looking for a similar home.

I’ve been hopping around servers in the EU to find one and so far I see a mixture of things and lot’s of common themes. So far I’ve seen commanders who don’t know how to command, people arguing in the chat channels at each other and people generally not working together. The worst I’ve seen so far, is the Karma train where people follow a commander just to farm Karma, they make no attempt to engage the enemy, run from fights, never defend anything and just zerg from tower/keep/supply camp with the sole objective of farming as much karma as possible, they finish last each and every day, that’s not my idea of PvP.

There must be a server out there that attempts to be competitive that tries to work together and while you might not be the biggest, you fight with brains and do well against the more mindless zergy servers, so which server is it???

EasymodeX.4062:

iLeap is fine in design tbh. Needs the range on the first part (clone spawn+leap+cripple) to be extended to 900. The swap can still by 600 imo.

I think this would help smooth out the issues with the ability. As someone else has mentioned, the GS changes are really nice, the weapon feel’s much better to use and more fluid.

I love my mesmer, you can really do some very clever things with this class but you have to think about what you are doing. The longer people think it’s underpowered and under-estimate them, that’s better for me lol.

I won’t go into details of things I’ve done, but I have won 3v1’s in WvW and 2v1’s in sPvP and if I catch you alone somewhere, your gonna die

It’s a mistake allowing people to buy this title, it should be tied down to achievements in game or linked to some sort of vote, why should people follow someone just because they bought the title???

So far my experience of people with the commander title are as follows:

1) The first person I saw with the commander title, did not talk in any of the chat channels, no communication what-so-ever or mention of tactics in use. He got everyone that was following that little blue dot wiped countless times, made horrible decisions repeatedly. When he finally did start using chat, it was too tell everyone else how stupid they were.

2) The Karma Train. This is where everyone follows the blue dot to farm Karma / XP from capturing objectives, they make no attempts to fight the enemy, they avoid contact with the enemy, do not defend anything and just zerg from keep, tower, supply camp farming Karma and they do it for hours on end.

I honestly think they should remove it altogether, as other people have said a real commander does not need that little blue dot on the map.

I have yet to come across a thief in sPvP who I would class as good, I am sure when I do, I will have a hard time on my hands and most likely lose. Until then I am going to keep going out of my way to kill heart seeker spamming thieves.

I had 3 1v1’s at the enemy Trebuchet against a HS Spamming thief and won each and every single fight, anyone who plays that spec at the moment should be embarrassed about how pathetic it is.

I’ve duo’d in WvW with a thief, we were just roaming around taking supply camps and skirmishing with the enemy. He played the class properly and we were taking on groups of 5 players plus and usually coming out on top :P He is the only player that I have seen so far who play’s the thief how it should be played and he showed me the potential in the class.

I go into sPvP however and all I see are HS spamming thieves on both sides, if they only realised that if they took the time to figure the class out and play it properly, they could potentially dominate.

Mesmers are difficult to play against that’s the whole point of the class. But they are easy enough to figure out, once you learn to pick the mesmer out from the clones, it’s a piece of cake.

Just bad players complaining about a good class. Probably some of the Hearseeker spamming thieves that I go out of my way to kill every sPvP match, they have literally no skill, it’s embarassing.

I tried the new changes, much, much better. Mind Stab now feels way more fluid, I used to hate the way it locked you in place for 2 seconds while you cast it.

Nice video, I enjoyed it. I guess your running a power based build??

Lewk.8359:

i rolled a mesmer, lvld to two, went to the dummies, looked at each attack, and then went and SPvP’d. The class is inherently stronger than many other classes for very little skill.

What a load of rubbish. Roll Thief, do a standard HS spam build and then you have a whole new perspective on classes that offer a very good return on very little skill.

At least with the Mesmer, you have to think about what you are doing and manage / use your clones properly to do decent damage to people. Yes Mesmer’s are difficult to play against, that is the basis of the class, they are meant to be confusing to fight against and turn your abilities against you.

However they are easy to kill once you get used to targeting the player and not the clone, admittedly I don’t do much sPvP but when I have I use the Mark Target button and kill the player, surprisingly easily. If they put confusion on me, I don’t spam my abilities, the phantasms are easy to dodge, avoid and kill, they are ridiculously weak. Some of them like the iWarden don’t even move, you can out range / los the iDuelist, you just have to think a bit about how you fight them.

I think Mesmers may be the “Marmite” class, some people are going to either love them or hate them. I played one briefly in the early beta’s and did not like it one bit. I created an Elementalist at launch as my main character and created various others to try them out. I went back to the mesmer and I am really loving it right now.

It does take some getting used to, but you can pull off some pretty insane things with the tricks you have. The illusion/summoning mechanic can be initially tricky to figure out, you cannot play this class like your typical stand there are pew pew class, you have to think about what you are doing you are not essentially a direct damage class.

I play a lot of WvW and I have yet to beaten 1v1 if someone catches me alone, as for keep siege’s / defence if you use the right abilities you can do some serious damage. Feedback is one of the best abilities in the game and you can put out some serious AoE Burst DPS if you use the right abilities, example. Chaos Storm, Feedback, weapon switch and put a Berserker and Warden up there and you will see damage numbers flying through the air. Phantasmal Berserker + Phantasmal Warden are amazing for taking out siege on keep walls, they can do some pretty good DPS, sure they die quick but not before putting some serious hurt onto your targets. I even think I could out DPS my Ele if I do it right with the mesmer + your adding conditions / confusion to all those targets if you do it right.

That’s my take on the mesmer, but as I said. Some will like it, some will not.