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They have more dps and other classes can fill the boon holes. Unless you run all scourges you can definitely run staff mirage.

I will say ranger has access to alot of stuns especially soulbeast + wolf pet. But they are ultimately easy to counter and only really work on interrupting long castes or chain stunning in a group. If I fight a guardian and he just tanks my dps, the stuns mean nothing. If I get a theif and he sticks around long enough for me to stun him a few time he is dead.

Yes you can but it's generally a bad idea. The only place I can see it being okay is being afk during a meta event like a world boss. If it negative effects other player, like camping a heart and not letting others get kills, it's a bad idea.

That's why I like idea that let's say a soulbeast could share his stances and they are affected by boon duration. I believe ele has a few boons like this too. It makes more sense that everyone brings something to the table rather than one class doing everything. I mean mirage and renegade alac is pretty good balance, maybe a third option but over all it feels good that you can bring either, even in cm.

Love this thread since its exactly on point. I mean I have my mirage keyboard playing down easily being able to pull 30k dps on some fights only to see the scourge doing 40k. Even firebrand beats me on some of the shorter fights with condi.

Necro is op in fractals but only scourge with all the conditions. Firebrand is the same but that's due to fire. I hope they just lower the dps a little since right now they can almost do nothing to get more dps that my keyboard playing style mirage.

They do fine but you need to be good at playing the keyboard, there are no rotations that require set-ups except chrono (pretty small one though) Basically hit skills off cooldown and anticipate attacks, a good rhythm of dodging with weapons swapping to get endurance back. When done well you can stand in the fire with distortion, you can produce massive stun breaks, tones of condition damage at the start of fight. If done poorly you will mostly likely die instantly, rather than your dps being low.

Yes but due to the way energy works CC will lower your dps considerably and they have alot harder time using things like Surge of the Mists. Mirage just has to tap f3 with full clones or use signet of domination to cc targets, not to mention conditions like chilled and weakness it can apply.

So essentially the complaint of this whole thread is that vets get birthday rewards which when used get a character to level 80 really fast. Here is a suggestion, don't use them? With the threads logic masteries should be character bound as well?

They don't provide protection like renegade but do provide just as much alacrity while running full dps gear. The other huge advantage is you apply aegis by using staff 5 chaos storm and also your healing skill. By running rune of perplexity you have have 100% confusion even while running concentration food. Then you can spamming shatters to refresh riddle of sand, you don't even need full clones. Some fights I can top dps or get a close second.

Honestly just enjoy the game, don't worry to much about the mount. You have do the entire hot story without one and alot of the masteries can be obtained solo. If there is a silver lining they plan on providing temporary mounts in the new expansion so maybe they will retroactively implement them.

I meant to say introduce new boons by allowing any buff to be affected by boon duration. I don't see why stances dont get the same duration increase that say alacrity gets and its arguable a weaker buff.

I think there are tones of amazing builds but people don't want them. I mean ranger alone has so many support skills that go unused in fractals, but in raids they are required.

Honestly it's the class that has always been great. The mechanics means it's easy to learn and has great buffs even in core.

Just wait for the Virtuoso, it has alot of ranged and aoe. Which is what is needed for casual WvW.

Yeah a support more elite specs getting specific boons, if warrior got quickness on warhorn then they could help to healers who don't have access to it like druid.

I always place 1 special bag in only my first slot and manually add things in there, like food.

It might just be in fractals, I never see it anywhere else even in raids and strikes people are pretty flexible with what you bring.

It is more that i get blamed even in casual groups that they are missing something since I'm not playing my meta class. Like mirage alac can't provide protection like renegade can.

Yeah I do well in bounties on my mirage but fractals I can barely keep up. It seems like I put so much more effort into my rotation only to be worse.

It's not going to be for everyone which is a point, I mean I hate chrono since it has to many set-ups in the rotations. I love to play the rotation the way I want, reacting to each situation. That is why mirage is my favourite class followed by ranged ranger.

I don't mean what snow crow reports, I really mean realistic damage in raids and fractals. Both cFireBrand and cScourge are normally top dps and by a lot. I see them sometimes spike at about 40k dps.

Mesmer is still my main but the way I play it is not mainstream so they won't nerf it. Even in pvp I just run full deception utilities and I do fine but I normally play ranger in pvp since I can pull of a 4 dodge build. I feel like they could bring back the dodge since the damage is pretty low on them at the moment.

I think the main problem is the same problem ele has, there is a lack of specialisation. Now I don't think that's a bad thing but all the elite specialisations don't really add the core engineer gameplay rather they take away from it. I mean kits and turrets are the core thing engi does and I guess finishers for gadgets. We got a tank spec with another mechanic the competes for utility slots and dps spec that tried to replace the burn rotation from before. What would be better is an elite specialisation that gave a second utility bar or something. Something that involves a weapons swap mechanic so kits are better.

How many year have we seen max dps, buff/healer roles. Atleast when druid was the only healer people wanted spirits, now its all about quickness and alacrity even though they have nerfed multiple times. I feel like there are so many builds outside of heal brand and alacrity renegade but people don't want to let you play them since they are scared you will suck. I mean there are many amazing healers or buffers with tones on unique ways to play, for example a chrono healer can provide aoe quickness and alot of short duration aegis. Then mirage staff can do alacrity with strong condi dps and provide the some short duration aegis with choas vortex on staff 5 and heal skill. Bring that to CM and no one will die.