Monkey See.1498

Virtuoso should be top of the list. Damage that puts Sic Em Soulbeast to shame, almost permanent unblockable on all their most important abilities. 1200 range on basically everything. Has access to tons of block and distortion. Can run either power crit for insane spikes or condition for unrecoverable condition pressure. Virtuoso is a god mode build that annihilates everything in its path without a second thought and never dies to a degree this game has never seen before.

Damage that puts Sic Em Soulbeast to shame, almost permanent unblockable on all their most important abilities. 1200 range on basically everything. Has access to tons of block and distortion. Can run either power crit for insane spikes or condition for unrecoverable condition pressure. You've turned mesmer/mirage/chronomancer from a merely over powered build into a god mode build that annihilates everything in its path without a second thought and never dies.

Cry harder mesmers.

Virtuoso is exceptionally strong, and with the absurd permanent unblockable it'll surpass Dragon Hunter as the go to spec offering way too much reward from too little effort.

Bump for the specialization update This is one of the absolute poorest changes they've ever made. Virtuoso was already in fantastic shape during the beta. It wasn't overpowered, it wasn't weak. It performed well. There's no reason for Virtuoso to get unblockable. We don't need 15k unblockable shatters being thrown around or unblockable confusion being thrown around. This is absurd.

Lots of amazing changes here but one truly awful decision stands out Virtuoso does not need to be running around with unblockable in PvP or WvW. It was incredibly well balanced before and this change puts it to insanely overpowered territory.

Virtuoso is the end and what mesmer should always have been in terms of mechanics.

Don't think of it as "deleting" traits. Think of it as correcting things that should have never been there in the first place. Now lets hit distortion for all the specs, not just chrono.

Mesmer is exceptionally strong right now. Perhaps the strongest profession and frankly in need of serious nerfs. It pretty much has no losing match ups. You more or less have the right builds, you just need to get good at them.

Honestly, necro, scourge, and reaper are fine. Anyone saying otherwise is a L2P issue. Necros are popular in PvP, because being a cool necromancer is cool and popular. Simple as that.

Even Mesmer mains are coming into my thread to talk about how Mirage, Core, and Chronomancer are absolutely stupid OP and inherently unfair and that Virtuoso is exactly what mesmer should have been this whole time. Thank you for your service, sir o7

It's to remind people that Helseth and players like him said the exact same thing about Mirage being bad and completely unplayable garbage. Turns out it wasn't and they just needed to get used to the spec because it was outrageously OP right out the gate.

Mesmer players look at being on equal footing with other classes as the end of the world. Get good and you'll win on virtuoso. If you suck you'll be bad on it. Why do you think it should be any other way?

People meme on this, but it is true.

I'm talking about stuff like this after the PoF specialization beta. Anet listening to "pro mesmers" about how "garbage" mirage was created one of the most enduringly overpowered classes in the game's history. Virtuoso is fine. Good even. And Anet should 100% not listen to mesmer players this time begging for buffs like they did with "garbage" mirage.