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  1. No I solo roam mostly, I don't know what you're trying to project here. I don't run with zergs or play around zergs. No? What the heck is this supposed to mean? I want back and forth fights where there are risks and you are rewarded for appropriately using your skills at the correct time, as well as being punished for making mistakes, things Cele gear doesn't allow. I don't play 1 shot cheese builds so I don't know what you're projecting here as well. I don't even know how to translate this. Unless you're just being cute? You're not using Cele gear properly if this is how you think. <-- This is on one of the worse elite specs to use Cele gear on btw, the better classes can get even more ridiculous stats. I have 1500 condi damage in cele gear while running a condi build because I have perma 25 might, vigor, perma fury, perma prot, perma regen, and perma whatever else the class I am using can provide, so while I'm condi I am still doing 3k power worth of damage and 60%-70% crit chance (80%+ with some classes) crit chance and ~200% ferocity. With Trailblazer gear I have ~1500-1700 condi damage give or take, but no boon duration, no healing power, and no 3k power and the other crit stats. You can play a condi build and deal a kitten load of power damage inadvertently because ALL condi skills have power coefficients whether you like it or not. You can even play power builds with the same screenshot of stats I posted and your random condis will tick hard even if you don't focus on condis, a lot of skills still apply condi. This isn't Hybrid, Hybrid would be something like Grievous, Commander, Diviner, Plaguedoctor, Crusader, etc. Those are hybrids, Cele does it all, that's not hybrid. I'm the solo player being jumped by groups of 6 cele idiots who can't fight and are too scared to engage enemies unless they have their cele lovers around. Whenever I put on cele I can 1vX without putting in any effort and on classes I don't know how to play properly because of how stupid easy the game becomes. If I play my main in cele gear I end up logging out because of how monotonous and boring fights are due to all the sustain and perma boons REGARDLESS of me winning or losing.
  2. I'm just adding another thread to the many topics. The fact that it takes no effort to 1vX in celestial gear through or to outsustain most other builds by just brainlessly spamming your sustain and incredibly long lasting boost is stupid. Cele covers up way too many mistakes and makes fights last way too long while invalidating builds that require a much higher understanding of the game to succeed, but against cele builds a couple of mistakes is the end of you while the cele player can make a plethora of mistakes and still rebound from them all. Why do my celestial builds have more power, more condi damage, and nearly comparable crit through perma boons and traits than builds that need to sacrifice stuff? If I swap to cele I can just shrug off most power and pure condi builds without even trying because they had to sacrifice stuff I didn't in order to make those builds "work." Too many classes have too many builds that work too well with cele stats, it's stupid all around. It takes way too many resources to "adapt" and "counter" groups running full celestials comps AND Minstrel supports, like wtf is even the point of logging on nowadays? Cele gear was originally buffed to make PvE lives easier, you can nerf Cele gear and it would still be an OP crutch for PvE casuals, it has no reason to be as strong as it is right now in WvW.
  3. wtf do you think AoE means??? You really are a troll that doesn't understand this game and especially not Mesmer.
  4. No, the issue is you ignore our plight and refuse to acknowledge actual issues regarding the class. I don't care at all whatsoever if you enjoy Virtuoso or not, it has nothing to do with me, what I care about is the god awful release of a new elite specialization that did nothing for my main class when it came to how it performs at high ratings in PvP, a world that does not exist for you and never will. So please stop dismissing our issues just because you are having fun in your tiny little bubble of ignorance.
  5. You didn't read what I wrote, but I'll fill you in anyways. The non-Virtuoso specs haven't been touched in over 2 years and will most likely not be fixed properly in order to prioritize the new $$$ expansion that comes with a shiny new thing for people to buy. We're going to suffer even more as Chrono and Mirage than we already are and have for years.
  6. If you don't WvW (remove Celestial gear and that stupid joke of a Mirage build for bad players) or PvP at a competent level you wouldn't understand how miserable it has been being a Mesmer, especially Power, for years now and Virtuoso did nothing to address the issues and instead came with even worse functionality and terrible fundamental mechanics that will be nearly impossible to balance for these game modes since number changes can only go so far. We have to play our brains off just to do what other classes and specs can do passively. Given ANet's love of nerfing everything prior to an expansion that means we're not going to see Chrono or Mirage come back to relevancy and it's frustrating. I hope you PvE players are enjoying Virtuoso, I don't hate on the game mode, it's just not my cup of tea. I just hope they do something about Mesmer overall in WvW and PvP since this has gone for YEARS every since they neutered Mesmer with a nuke.
  7. At least bring up the other Power Mesmer options up to relevancy so it's not nearly a guaranteed loss at high ranks for just wanting to play Power Mesmer, and then have to play your brains out just to do what other classes do passively.
  8. To preface I mostly only WvW Roam and Platinum PvP while I do dabble in Raids and Fractals rarely (PvE is too easy in GW2 and it puts me to sleep.) Mesmer is my favorite class and the reason why I keep coming back to GW2 and stay for long periods of time, because there is no other class in any other MMO that's like Mesmer. Chrono and Mirage were phenomenal additions to that fantasy, but unfortunately Virtuoso seems to have thrown away the identity of Mesmer and what makes it unique. Virtuoso was the solution to Mesmer's most glaring issues in Open World and Fractals, their lack of upfront/alpha damage. Though completely butchering the Mesmer fantasy and making Virtuoso feel like any old generic class from every other MMO in existence is NOT the price I wanted to pay as a lover of Mesmer just to fix the issues in Open World and Fractals. Anyone who mains Mesmer will know the pain, inconvenience, and headache that is playing Mesmer in Open World and Fractals with how fast everything dies. Virtuoso felt like I was playing a Warrior from range instead of Mesmer, it felt boring, it felt too basic and simple, it felt unrewarding and mindless to do DPS. Besides the removal of clones (why?????) which can be tolerated if everything else wasn't so poorly woven together, the incredibly long cast times on Virtuoso's Shatters were atrocious, and on top of that the highly telegraphed visuals alongside the cast times made it nearly impossible to hit good players in PvP. Then you went ahead and made the entire Virtuoso kit be Projectiles??? Slow moving projectiles at that that also have the highly telegraphed visuals. It seems to me that this was an oversight that didn't look at how it would play out in PvP. The damage numbers were overtuned for the shatters and it seemed silly that the trade off for those high damage numbers was all that clunky, annoying, and infuriating to use set of shatters due to the reasons I previously mentioned. I do not want to be mathematically strong by sacrificing fun and enjoyment. lol the Elite Skill is such a joke I'm not even going to rant about it, everything about it is terrible. F4 as a block instead of Distortion is upsetting and doesn't make sense in this kit at all. Keep it as Distortion, Mesmer and now Virtuoso relies on it way too much. Mesmers already don't have proper zerging builds besides being a boonstrip bot or as a zerg Driver/Commader as their only tolerated purposes, and even then you can only bring a 1 or 2 boonstrip Chronos and 1 diver Chrono. Sword doesn't count as a blade skill? I understand you pigeon-hold yourself with how incredible Mesmer's sword is, but denying BLADE synergy with a bladed one handed sword is such a silly slap in the face to the fantasy of a blade expert Elite Specialization. For the people who say "if you don't like it then you still have Chrono and Mirarge." Please, that's such an ignorant response given how much has been taken away from those Elite Specializations. Virtuoso gave none of it back, and as it stands there doesn't seem to be any indication that they'll be returning a lot of what they have taken away from Mesmer. I'll end this with saying that I'm very upset that I will be playing Virtuoso is Open World and Fractals simply due to how convenient it will be, but I loath the idea of using such a sluggish and clunky version of Mesmer. I will not longer feel like a Mesmer if Virtuoso stays close to how it felt in the beta.... .... was Virtuoso designed for people who DON'T play Mesmer, for people who HATE Mesmer, and developed by people who also share those sentiments regarding Mesmer? That's how I feel about it as it is right now, and that's very disheartening. I don't like it, but it can be remedied. ((EDIT) GIVE BACK SECOND DODGE ON MIRAGE JFC, the fact that 1 dodge is still a thing makes me lose so much respect for ArenaNet's balance team.)
  9. Please try to avoid events that solely give rewards for the sake of rewards and try to focus events so that they promote socializing. The greatest hook GW2 has in the MMO market is that it promotes a lot more interactions between players. This is what's hurting other MMOs, and if you focus these events on that you will have players create more memories and hopefully spread the word of what is going on in this game. Have silly events as well, I can already imagine the chaos and hilarity that will ensue if Moas invaded Queensdale or if NPCs with silly dialogue were up to no good in other zones.
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