Mell.4873

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.

They are pretty good all rounders, the aoe doesn't mater much outside of a few game modes. The main downside which has been mentioned is they don't really have a decent place in fractals since the meta is quickness, might, healer. But honestly don't listen to meta, rangers have stances with soul beast which are amazing group buffs and they also have healable spirits with a 45 aoe ressurect on downed players. If you have another player doing quickness with hb, scrapper, chrono you can run this is CM. The spirits alone are very strong for druid since you can stay in celestial form longer since it will charge to full in 9 second between modes.

I think the main problem is nothing to do with ele, it's to do with how we play classes. We only use glass cannons or full healers/buffers. Ele is all of them, filling multiple roles so something like celestial gear would make them more tanky but also reducing there dps. Since everyone cares about the numbers and buff uptimes no one would run celestial in a fractal or raid. It is probably only used in wvw. I don't like the meta at all for pve and would rather see people contribute there individual classes unique aspect to a group, rather than damage number.

I really only do fractals and mist pvp. For fractals I find classes that can have a good ability to stack and aoe dps/heal the best.Jack of all trade master of none is the best, which is why I use a berserker chrono and either dps or alac. I use shatter with clone spamming for about 8k dps and 80% alac uptime. For pvp I use a condi soulbeast with roots. It is the best for stop people getting on the point or running away. It can even help you run away. The wolf pet is amazing for stun locking high damage targets like holosmith. The major weakness is being focused by rev or warrior.