Urphen.2857

There are coming a few Patches that can change things so have this in mind. Thanks to e-spec Classes can have different roles. Guardian personally I find it not as good in solo play like the other options but I have to say I don't have played Willbender enough to rank it, other than that for grp play Guardian has everything you want with Firebrand as Healer/Quick support and Dh/Willbender as dps, but it's Firebrand that let's Guardian be strong and Meta. Mesmer has access to roles like quick (Chronomancer) or alac (Mirage) support. Mirage is a strong (if not the strongest) solo spec and with its staff/staff build easy to play. Virtuoso is a strong ranged dps in grp play. So while Mesmer seems a good choice I need to say many mesmer mains (me including) aren't happy with the state of mesmer but this goes mostly in the direction of competitive play (pvp/wvw). Revenant I will pass, like I said its long time ago that I have played him actively. Necromancer ist a strong solo spec too, Reaper is fun to play, Scourge brings good Condi dps and can be barrier/rezz, before eod it was the carry spec, can't say much how it is yet. Harbinger gives necro another strong Condi dps or a quick support. Necromancer is a good class for wvw too. Ranking them is difficult because e-specs can change how easy or hard a class is to play. I think I'm not the best person to do this since I stopped playing a few months ago but I hope i could help a bit. Guardian: DH Power Dps, Firebrand Condi dps and healer/Quick support, willbender Condi dps Mesmer: Chronomancer Power dps and quick support, Mirage Condi dps and alac support, Virtuoso dps Necromancer: Reaper Power dps (there was a time Condi dps existet too), Scourge Condi dps and barrier/rezz bot, harbinger Condi dps and quick support

Since endgame isn't your goal for open world (the casual part of the game) I would say full healer aren't rly needed there and rev/mesmer could bring enough healing. fracs/raids/wvw (endgame) the answer would change. Rev was a long time ago a good healer but nowadays it isn't used anymore as such thanks to nerfs and better options. mesmer never was a healer beside the self heal/Tank build what was niche, there will pop up another guy telling you mesmer is a good healer because of reasons no other understand but the reality is that mesmer isn't taken as healer in endgame content. Nekro was no real healer it was more a barrier+rezz bot. If you are searching a good solo class all 3 are good, mesmer and necro both are good solo and have both dps and support builds for endgame pve. Can't say much about rev because its long time since I played him. For healing Guardian engineer druid and ele would be the best choices. But like I said if you only plan doing open world and the more casual things you can play what you want and heal a bit with mesmer or rev.

First they need a clear vision and balance philosophy, they nerfed chrono in the past, dps and support stm build with the claim it was overpresented in every game mode while in reality you saw them only in raids, they nerfed ele because it began to be "Meta defining", but at the same time they allow now mecha to be everywhere... e-specs should add new gameplay styles/roles and not something that compete with the other class Specs making them useless because they need to be nerfed so the newest can be the best.

Don't give them ideas... 😑

because it is what he is always doing, you should stop and ignore him, trust me the frustration is not worth it, you are talking to a person that now over a year trys to defend anet no matter what, people before said how biased anet is with speccs und that they have golden childs and gues who was in every thread saying "noooooo, they have a plan, a big vision thats why they make (unjustified) nerfs" and at the end what we got? a leak that showed us how right everyone was, and still the same person is here defending everything because people arent allowed to have their own opinion.

Understaffed or not they had the whole forum community here with lots of feedback, the Mesmer community has done such a good job and it got totally ignored, its no wonder people are angry and it has nothing to do with growing up

It gets deleted every time because the dev's call it a personal attack, it was on reddit

https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/topic/114647-new-idea-virtuosos-floating-blades-should-copy-your-equipped-daggers-skin/?tab=comments#comment-1659649 https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/topic/113048-let-us-hide-the-daggers-already/page/2/?tab=comments#comment-1644185 https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/topic/112015-please-anet-allow-us-to-disable-virtuoso-daggers-out-of-combat/ Others asked this or similar things so you are not alone, maybe they bring somthing with the next big patch, otherwise there is not much hope since we have here in the forum the "its fine for me so it has to be fine for everyone" group, so its easier for anet to hear what they say since this means no more work for them.

Legys go to the legendary armory, the item apear only in your equipment tab in the hero panel for all chars that can use the specific armor ot weapon type. For each template it is like you would have a extra gear/weapon, you can make temp 1 armor with berserker stats and on temp 2 with viper, it switched automatically between the temps dependent on what you choose on stats. For every slot you need a Legy, that means if you want play dual dagger you need to have 2 legy dagger otherwise you can only equip 1 and for the other slot you need to use a normal weapon.

That's why I said on our Server because you don't see there much chronos and necro is preferred over mesmer and being a veil bot with a pull is nothing I consider as a must have, so yeah good ones can make it shine but I don't saw much mesmer pre EoD.

As dps you are the strongest spec with Mesmer/Virtuoso (Condi dps), power isn't that strong and not so easy like Condi virt but still strong. Alac support with Mirage it's OK and a boon that necro can't give. Quick support you are the worste spec of all quick giver since you can't like the others press 1 button and give the boon, you have to summon first clones and shatter them. So dps wise virt is a bit stronger as Condi and much stronger as power than necro. Support wise necro is now better with Heal Scourge as a hard carry and quick harbi. Quick chrono gets more and more pushed to a niche role from anet, but as a Tank its still a good choice. So the reason to swap to mesmer in pve would be when you need a alac support or you want a safer Tank (end game)

Even in WvW (on our Server) squads prefer everything else before the chrono since this minstrel chrono thing is at this point more e meme then anything else. In pve for end content Virtuoso is one of the strongest and easiest pve (till anet decides to nerf it like chrono because it get stacked), for solo pve mirage and chrono are strong too. spvp you have to be rly rly good otherwise every other class played there at the moment do things easier and better than mesmer and will outperform you. I will say stick to Necro, you will have a better time and enjoy the game more with it.

Not sure if serious or trolling but 1. Clones aren't a problem they die in an instant in wvw and you can see the real mesmer if you look on the boons 2. Stealth is it's own story but why mesmer should get nerfed and other Classes should be allowed to have it? We aren't the most op class in pvp/wvw with stealth 3. Your solution for Mirage cloak is mirrors so you have to walk every time to them or have to look where they are only for using ambush? Why not suggest to delete it completely and don't give something in return? Imagine you can't even escape with the Sword ambush anymore since you have to create first mirror and collecting it 4. You are realising that Mesmer is the only class that nothing changes with the elite spec? Only the chrono f4 is a total different thing and virtu f4 is a block instead of distortion also still a defensive shatter even if it is worse. Beside this nothing changes all our shatters are doing the same thing F1 dps F2 Condi F3 cc and beside of chrono F4 defense. It's one of the reasons why mesmer and its Specs starts to get boring for me, because there isn't something new like on guard or necro, only animation changed on Virtu that's all

For which game mode are they?

Yeah there is no hope so I'm going to ignore him again, the ignorance that some people have here baffles me every time again