I couldn’t have said it better myself, when you mess with the core mechanics your mess the entire spec up the problem with chrono wasn’t the shatters doing to much damage it was the mantras, lots of the utilities in Mesmer need some updating to fit the current meta of the game. For instance girl is a skill from core Mes that is like a curtain that grants 2 seconds of stealth not only is this skill not used but the cool down is 74 seconds, 2 seconds of stealth is not enough to do much and 74 seconds is rediulous