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double post

There's probably some IP that already own the term Bladedancer.

I like those ideas. 🙂

You see this is the kind of stuff that should have come up within the first 30 minutes of them sitting down and planning Virtuoso. Maybe it just never occurred to them (lol) or it did but they didn't care (lolol). Either way it's not our problem. We are free to complain about it on the forums without ever offering any kind of solution at all, or to just go home and stop caring about the game. Whichever we like. But as long as they don't pay us we are under no obligation to fix their product. We sometimes try to anyway, but that's more like a hobby. A strangely masochistic hobby, but it's not a job.

@mortrialus.3062You are right, it feels like Virtuoso is the true core spec and core builds are elite specs in comparison. 😅

Guys, you can stop replying to this thread. We know the third Mesmer elite spec. It's Virtuoso. 😁

I like the downstate mechanic. It makes things more interesting.

You lost me at "next Mesmer Elite Spec".

Pierce: 1D AoE: 2D Well technically they both have a y component but most combat happens on a plane anyway.

They do read these forums. Sometimes they even post here. Sneaky sneaky.

Instead of writing that long reply you could have just get this fixed, right?

The short answer is capitalism. The inverstors aren't willing to put too much money into this and if EoD tanks they will probably pull the plug (again). And you are right, we shouldn't expect miracles from an understaffed balance team. At the same time it would be nice if the guy in charge of balance wouldn't meme nerf us while laughing in our faces.

That is a very dishonest representation. Timewarp is a skill that has almost never seen usage in any part of the game, because it is a bad skill. Even after several buffs it was still a bad skill. Only in one very specific instance of this game, in a place that is pretty much irrelevant to the game as a whole (speedrunning raids) was this skill ever impactful in any meaningful way, and only in combination with Chronomancer. And while it may have deserved a nerf in that specific context it was and is still in dire need of a buff in all other parts of the game. Yet it got nerfed.

I never really played GW1 so Cantha or whatever it's called means nothing to me. The whole GW2 story has been rather hit or miss with how it is implemented in the living world and the addons. I liked the branching story lines and the the general story telling of the base game more, even though the last few chapters feel rushed and would benefit from some polish. The newer PvE areas are all about farming and grinding achievements, another thing that means absolutely nothing to me. The only reason I kept playing was WvW and Mesmer. And both have become the most neglected parts of this game. This last addon only cemented that. I will not spend any more money on this game and I will no longer recommend it to friends.

It was rather obvious after the betas but now we see it confirmed. A-Nets treatment of Virtuoso and Mesmer in general as well as their neglect of WvW balance led me to the decision to not buy the expansion. I could go into detail about all that is wrong but this forum has discussed all that ad nauseam. Perhaps in the future A-Net will display a change of attitude that might make me reconsider my opinion but until then I will spend my money elsewhere.

Question: This is hard. I try my best but they still beat me easily. What am I doing wrong? Answer: Read this 10 page essay and get your Bachelors degree in Mesmer and if you practice really hard you may get a 50% win rate against meta classes rolling their faces on the keyboard.

Of course by directly attacking the Necro. What I mean is something like a single AoE that would wipe out all our clones, but would just tickle a Necro's life force.

It's fine for other professions to destroy our resources. Getting punished for that would be toxic. But why can't we kill Revs energy? Warriors adrenaline? Necros life force? Meanwhile our clones and phantasms are fair game.

It can work in certain builds for double casting Blink or Signet of Midnight but it's pretty niche and there are usually better alternatives.

They will always accept suggestions to make Mesmer weaker.

It can be done but it will be rough if you are used to the damage and survivability of ranger.

They first need to fix core Mesmer and only after that adjust the elites accordingly.

And I think it should have been. Not only because one of my many whine-posts has been put into it, but also because it's a well made video with interesting, fun and debate-worthy content. And nice power Mesmer action.

Yes you do not literally have to have a target selected for the skill to connect. But you do anyway because of course you have a target selected. That's the big "advantage". It's still single target.

The shatter is single target, not aoe.