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Ranger has always struggled with group boons outside Regeneration and Swiftness. Its not really the class for it, self Might and quickness is fine but providing them to others not so much.

But they also buffed the base critical change so it should even out. Well hopefully, I mean either way the DPS shouldn't drop to much even if we remove Iboga.

Just run Inspiration Mirage with Signet of Inspiration. That is how I maintain Alacrity.

The Alacrity side should be fine it's more the might generation on Mirage. It might force more people into Inspiration Mirage to pump out boons but that combo will not net you the 28k DPS.

That's why I said it was a class feature and not a bug sigh.....

Yeah looks good over all, brings felines up to par with Iboga. It could mean that the felines are stronger in certain situations where Bleed damage from feline skills accounts for more damage.

The only real issue in PvP is Bladesworn but it's more due to feature of the class rather than a bug. Dragon slashes are not affected by certain mechanics and they are hard to dodge. Otherwise to be perfectly honest in high gold / platinum the game had never been more balanced. I don't see any profession being spammed or abused even with the Bladesworn problem they can be shut down with CC.

The shorthort answer is No. The long answer is people like myself who do enjoy let's say Mesmer and any changes made to it get a reputation for defending Arena Net and then get called names untill we leave the forums. Stick to the concensus that Arena Net doesn't care about game balance and my once OP class is ruined.

I don't think people know that they can still cast their ability while unleashed. This change opens up a whole new pile of Pets that would otherwise be useless. You can use Iboga for example and then have something like a spider for a poison combo field as second pet. The primary damage source is the unleashed pet abilities but they will autocast their skills while unleashed so amazing DPS utility by swapping between 2 pets.

Very true, honestly Mechanist I will agree is a Specialization that does need some adjusting. In terms of over all balance, I believe we are living in the golden age of everyone having at least one or two options for content. I mean Necromancer, Warrior, Guardian all have 30k DPS Quickness Support. That sounds so much better than before EoD where it was just Guardian and Engineer. PvP is complex and i think we suffer most from this complexity, I notices a huge drop in players once EoD launched. Most complained about the new elites being to strong, which has since gotten better. I never dropped gold and still play Soulbeast the whole time.

Honestly at this point they probably wont touch Mirage outside a second dodge being added back. Even then they will probably remove the ability to attack while dodging. Nothing is really broken and the kit is very geared towards PvP. The only thing that I could see changing is maybe some of the numbers or an entire condition being balanced like confusion. I mean it holds a some of the highest DPS spots and is very tanky, I don't know what more you could ask for.

The one class that really needs some more ultimate skills is engineer so I totally agree with this idea.

Yes I totally agree, along with that you get stability so if you time your shatters right you can permanently maintain one stack. This isn't to useful for axe or staff Mirage but can offer some insurance against a weird cc mechanics.

Again I agree, the whole thing stemmed from me saying I like playing it in PvE and Salt saying the post was about PvP. Arg I don't want to name call but yeah. I regularly bring Alacrity Mirage it to raids/strikes/fractals. I play the Insperation versions so I can push out more boons than Mechanist. I will stop responding since this is going nowhere sigh.... I agree with everything said about Mirage.

Good response, I never noticed the build had a gear difference its a very new concept for meta builds. Honestly even with all the "this should be a defensive traitline" chaos and by extension illusion are both a great pairing. Dueling is very much the anomaly in condition builds like you said, since it's more focused on power damage.

No I wasn't looking at play time just performance. In most dps rankings soulbeast came out in the top 5.

Based on that link it seem soulbeast is the best preforming class currently.

Great response. To add to regeneration idea, tormenting runes are a great paring with the chaos trait line since they now provide regeneration. I agree it should be.

Why even bother commenting here lol. I agree with the author that was my point guys.........

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Well that is good to know, so the one Mirage I thought could be this legendary Support DPS doesn't really exist. I mean when i play it i do full support by using Inspiration.

Its good for them to see the back and forwards since we bother bring up valid points I also agree with all your comments on Mirage and everything else. Mirage is my second favorite specialisation in the whole game. Chrono is first.

Lol shall we do this all day. "Condi Virtuoso outshines that build in almost every case as well as its a much easier rotation. As far as Mesmer top DPS is concern no it does not use chaos" Well it does Chaos Dueling Mirage is Mesmer's highest DPS build. Playing it isn't that hard as well and in certain situations its better since it can cleave with melee/ambush attacks. Another cool thing to note is that Mirage clones don't benefit from Alac or Quickness so it is much better at any solo content compared to Virtuoso. I guess the main downside is that the skill required to avoid damage is so much higher compared to standing far away. Maybe I will stop here, I don't want posts being flagged. Nice chatting to you 🙂

The Heal should be at the start like Alacrity, keeping the actual skill proc at the end is fine but the traits should proc there effects at the start. Either way Wells can work in some content but if you want to heal Mantras are the way to go.

?????? "Chaos traitline is not for condition damage builds that is more on Illusion line then it is Chaos." ????? https://snowcrows.com/builds/mesmer/mirage/condition-mirage At the higher 38.5k uses Chaos and not Illusions. Hey my Mirage builds uses Illusions and not Dueling so there is difference. I mean you corrected it later so its fine man, don't worry about it. I guess I'm adding to fire by responding.