I do see why Harmonious Mantra’s extra charge would help in PvP and WvW. But the changes to mantras benefits in raid/fractals content, it adds lots of dps to the Mesmer by making it charge overtime. I love Superiority Complex so much and didn’t really mind if Harmonious Mantras were removed. I do agree that 2 charges feel awful though in PvP and WvW, but I think it’s enough for PvE.
I do not like anything, see mesmer with dps direct damage on a mesmer, is very boring.
I’m glad we have your biased opinion out in the open but Mesmer power in PvE has been pretty much non-existant.
Opening up an elite spec to be used for condi or power would be a change that we all can get behind.
Mesmer have power damage extra. It have…
Empowered Illusions – Illusions deal more damage. +15% dps
Dazzling – Dazing a foe also applies vulnerability.
Fragility – Deal more damage for each stack of vulnerability on your target.
Imagined Burden – Whenever you or a clone uses Spatial Surge, you gain might. All of your other greatsword skills inflict cripple. Reduces recharge time of greatsword skills.
Mental Anguish – Shatter skills deal more damage. This damage increase is doubled against foes that are not activating skills.
and now… new traits…
Superiority Complex – Your critical hits deal more damage. Critical hit damage against disabled foes, or foes below the health threshold, is further increased.
Phantasmal Force- Phantasms’ damage permanently increases whenever they attack or gain might.
And still … want more power damage? No thanks, Mirage specialization need damage conditions, especially trait with mechanic of Confusion and Torment.
Mesmer have condition damage extra. It have…
Rending Shatter – Shatter skills inflict vulnerability on hit.
Dazzling – Dazing a foe also applies vulnerability.
Duelist’s Discipline – Pistol attacks from you and your illusions have a chance to cause bleeding. Interrupting a foe recharges pistol skills.
Sharper Images – Illusions inflict bleeding on critical hits.
Ineptitude – Interrupting a foe inflicts blind, and blinding a foe inflicts confusion.
Chaotic Transference – Gain condition damage based on your toughness.
Illusionary Retribution – Shatter skills inflict confusion on hit.
Compounding Power – Gain increased damage and condition damage for each of your active illusions.
The Pledge – Reduces recharge on torch skills. Flame bursts from torch skills inflict additional burning.
Maim the Disillusioned – Shatter skills inflict torment on hit.
Master of Misdirection - Confusion you inflict lasts longer. Reduces recharge of shatter skills.
Malicious Sorcery Increases attack speed while wielding a scepter. Reduces recharge on scepter skills.
And still … want more condition damage? No thanks, Mirage specialization need power damage, especially tied to the Mesmer and not Phantasms.
No, thanks. Mirage is a full specialization conditions, especially Confusion and Torment, thus not need power damage direct. For damage power, you have greadsword.
And this traits that you select is little for damage conditions, the necro have 2k damage conditions easy with her traits, mesmer does not arrive at 2k damage conditions, and above depends only Confusion and Torment (Bleed with mirage), the necro inflict more conditions, thus is more ease dps conditions than mesmer.
In addition, doing the sum of all the damage. The traits of mesmer power damage, inflict more dps than traits for damage conditions.
So, stop asking for more power damage, that Mirage is good as it is, full damage conditions.
I don’t really get why you don’t want a bit of Power damage on Mirage. It was never advertised as a condition damage spec, rather a deceptive fighter that fights with its clones and illusions. Which could still work with Sword and Greatsword, specially with Sword since it’s the only one with a Blur out of all the weapons.
Also adding power traits won’t hurt your Condi Mirage, it would just add options for Power Mesmers to use.
I do not like anything, see mesmer with dps direct damage on a mesmer, is very boring.
I’m glad we have your biased opinion out in the open but Mesmer power in PvE has been pretty much non-existant.
Opening up an elite spec to be used for condi or power would be a change that we all can get behind.
Mesmer have power damage extra. It have…
Empowered Illusions – Illusions deal more damage. +15% dps
Dazzling – Dazing a foe also applies vulnerability.
Fragility – Deal more damage for each stack of vulnerability on your target.
Imagined Burden – Whenever you or a clone uses Spatial Surge, you gain might. All of your other greatsword skills inflict cripple. Reduces recharge time of greatsword skills.
Mental Anguish – Shatter skills deal more damage. This damage increase is doubled against foes that are not activating skills.
and now… new traits…
Superiority Complex – Your critical hits deal more damage. Critical hit damage against disabled foes, or foes below the health threshold, is further increased.
Phantasmal Force- Phantasms’ damage permanently increases whenever they attack or gain might.
And still … want more power damage? No thanks, Mirage specialization need damage conditions, especially trait with mechanic of Confusion and Torment.
Condi Mesmer has always existed ever since. The same applies to Condis too. Dueling, Illusions and Chaos have strong Condi traits in them, which makes Condi Mes DPS in PvE an option and Illusions already has tons of condi applications with Shatter which makes them strong in PvP and WvW. I can list them too, and I’m pretty sure they’re more than our current power traits. We’re not saying Mirage should be Power only, we’re saying that if Mirage Sword ends up doing good power damage, it should be complemented with Power trait options. We can have a Mirage that can be traited condi or power just like Berserker or to some extent Reaper (;-; still no power reaper though)
No, thanks. For powers build you have Chronomancer. Let Mirage be full conditions damage, especially this trait “Nomad’s Endurance” is good, +150 damage conditions is very well. I dont like +150 damage power, i prefer damage conditions.
Chronomancer doesn’t even have lots of Power Damage. For Chrono you only have shield’s Tides of Time, Well of Calamity and Danger Time. Danger Time isn’t even a good damage trait and slotting in Chrono decreases Power DPS of Mesmer. Chrono is mmore of a Utility based/Support based traitline rather than a Power traitline. Mirage however has a potential to be the DPS traitline for Condis and may as well be for Power if Sword/GS ambushes would be good.
Okay, I’ve been looking a lot on Mirage traits and skills, and seen that there’s a huge focus on Condi Damage with the traits. Condi Axe Mirage sounds nice and may become a strong condi DPS option which I’ll be glad to accept. I just wonder if Sword and GS Ambushes end up being strong dps increases over auto attacking it would be a waste if some of the traits don’t match with using Mirage Sword/GS. To add, there are two new skills that deal some power damage along with some confusion which I suspect will add more DPS to Power builds. I was thinking some of the traits would scale with both Condi and Power, for example the Vigor= 150 Condi damage trait. It should have both Power and Condi to cater to both builds. Changing it to 100 Power and 100 Condi would be nice to both builds.
Also, consider new two damaging skills we got. Firstly we have Crystal Sands, which is definitely will be a dps increase due to its good power scaling and we have Jaunt which is a no cast low damage skill but its a better elite than anything since it has no cast time and deals a bit of damage.
