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the amount of people defending virtuoso's mechanic is honestly disheartening. as of right now, virtuoso is just soulbeast without merge. imagine soulbeast but instead of merging with a pet, they only get to choose a pet that don't participate in fights and only get to use the same skill the pet already have but with themselves. the only good thing about dagger replacement of clone is that it persist out of combat, not the worst but there is a problem if you are only selling a fix for the inconvenience you created and nothing else, instead of actually addressing the problem in any meaningful way
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just a heads up on fractal, no one wants a alac mirage on the team because they can have alacgrade instead, in general mesmer just don't have a place in fratal, the only thing mesmer can do is dps and even then it is inferior to almost all other dps options in fractal because you don't have time to ramp up your damage, that being said, if you are just looking for casual t4 dailies then at least power chorno is still usable
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I mean they have kind of done that with scourge, it is just the other way around, many trait that effect the transformation was linked to simple skills that are more similar to our shatters, and the difference between scourge f skills and their core or even reaper transformation skills are night and day
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you know i kind of feel bad for you since you spend so much time to write this thing but entirely missed my point. my point is not that Bladesworn trait are so much better then virtuoso trait (it's better, but not by a large margin), but that the entire virtuoso mechanic can be fit into 2 mesmer grandmaster trait while Bladesworn mechanic have enough depth to actually be a e-spec
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the entire mantra change is just to give fb some convenience, it just happens to gut most our mantra in the process. fb got their lost of last charge effect compensated with trait, and our charge up effect is just gone forever... and even when they say that they want both mantra to be similar but fb still have 3 mantra count while we have 2...
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Pve is more than just raid, chrono and mesmer in general just sucks in fractals, you offer almost nothing to the group except maybe portal for certain places but people have white mantel portal anyway that they don't even need to take up and utility skill for. you are just a power dps that is bad at doing dps in fractal
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actually yeah, i think it would be great that if reflect does not reflect piercing projectile, but instead it just get rid of the piercing tag on those projectile, so a piercing projectile would only hit the first target it hits when in contact with reflect
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I mean if they nerf the visual then the only redeeming quality of virtuoso is gone
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lets face it, they probably will just ignore all the super long and actual constructive feedback and only look at the short one that says "i love the visuals, this is so much fun to play with all the new visuals" and think this spec is in a great place and in fact the damage is too high then precede to nerf it. otherwise we would not end up with the current mirage and chrono, and core.
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Well, those are also the situations where projectile get reflected all the time so they turn around and kill you and your teammates
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Can we get the new Sword 3 leap on all Mesmer specs?
AXLIB.8425 replied to Yoci.2481's topic in Mesmer
maybe they should just make a trait in maybe duelling to let you take this as the option, while upgrading this skill to justify it being a trait, so we can choose to keep the old one, or take the mobility that hopefully will also have new effect and not that buggy -
Because mesmer have access to unblockable like signet of hunt, and is able to counter reflect when ever it is off cd
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currently it the spec feels better the I expected, but there are still quite a few problems. This is mostly from pve perspective First, something I think is good: dagger skills are all really great, dagger 3 feels a bit slow with how much blade it shot out, but it is not that major and over all dagger skills are good. The spec can still be benefited with having an off hand dagger, since mesmer still suffer from not having good off hand cleave weapon, especially with dagger having great aoe, off hand skill have a great disconnect from the rest of the spec when it comes to aoe. Giving mesmer a off hand dagger would also solve the problem with mesmer being the only class not getting more then 3 weapon skills from weapon in any expansion, and letting a master of blades to use two dagger just make since aesthetically wise as well. blade renewal is great for replacing the distortion we lost, A+ design. cooldown can be lowered, or better yet, see the trait suggest below. quiet intensity, yes, finally a good crit chance modifier on memer that is not tied to a scarce condition. the vitality to ferocity is a bit weird for pve, would be nice if it is power to ferocity, but currently vitality to ferocity is good. the new sword 3 is soo good, and i think that should just be put on core mesmer instead only on virtuoso Things I think bad and should be changed: Rain of swords and Swords of Decimations feels too similar, I thing it would be great if rain of swords can become one of the off hand dagger skill, and you have a utility freed up, maybe you can make a movement skill, or a skill that buff you next few attack and give unblockable(if there is no other source of unblockable). Psychic force doesn't feels good to use, the cooldown feels too long and you don't gain that much from it. Thousand cuts damage is low for it being an elite and 75 sec cooldown, and really hard to hit moving targets quite a few trait that doesn't do anything on virtuoso or get overlapped with virtuoso: Deadly blade alone give you 25 stack of vun, making half of domination trait that you take useless. Deadly blade need to be replaced by something else, like blade grant you one stack of might for maybe 2 or 3 seconds, as mesmer have low access to might, or gain precision based on power Illusionary inspiration currently does not work with blade, so that trait just does nothing. I hope this is just a sign that you guys will be reworking inspiration trait line to make it better for supporting and buffing others Empowered Illusion seems like it is only buffing phantasm, but then again, 15 percent increase on clones wasn't that much to begin with anyway All the master traits are wasted on the fury part, since you will almost always have perma fury with master fencer. the condi line of virtuoso and confusion of f2 feels really out of placed. I do not agree making a specialisation not focus on one thing, and this spec could very much be focused on the shatter and power dmg aspect of mesmer. The top line with block and evading adds the much needed survivability, however Duelist's reversal and Psychic Riposte are very much not useful in pve, and since I have not tried pvp on this spec, I will not address this two trait. The lack of trait to buff dagger and psionic like the rest of the class is really not a good look. I think a trait to buff dagger and psionic in place of the current line would do a lot of good to this spec. Like make jagged mind to reduced psionic skill for 20 percent, and maybe give unblockable for next 1 second to address the lack of unblockable for a spec full of projectile. and a dagger trait that give increase precision and additional precision when wielding dagger (or power). The current Phantasmal blades is not great, but it is also the only trait option to take for power build for that additional 500 damage. It would be better or at least more fun to play with if it auto shot the current phantasmal blade (400 damage at a target) when you have 5 blades. The all the blade generation trait expect bloodsong are very bad at generate blades in pve, and that one has the problem of being the condi option for a spec that perform poorly with condi. Infinite forge is just deeply flawed, it is the current signet of illusion but caped at 3 blades, so if you want to burst with power, you will be wasting time and dps to wait for infinite forge to generate 3 blades, and if not you are just wasting a grandmaster trait. the Psychic Riposte works feels underwhelming even in open world, but it is probably still the option to go for as power build just because everything else doesn't work for you. Mental focus is just... weird, and feels bad to even take this trait. you have a kit of 1200 range, but you need to stay within half of your range to do get benefit. I think if you want to force us to stay close, at least increase the range to 900 or 1000. More weapon need to have blade tag instead of just greatsword, MH sword definitely should have it, would also be nice if some phantasm have blade tag like Phantasmal disenchanter and warden are two that should have it, swordsman is a good candidate as well. All in all, I glad that virtuoso feels better then I expected, but I still hope that you guys can rework most of the trait line, since the current one is just uninspired and feels kind of lazy. I think having option to improve certain bladesong like scourge's Herald of Sorrow that make desert shroud into sandstorm shroud or holo's crystal configuration: storm that make auto during forge ranged would be good for the trait. And please consider Tseison.4659 's suggestion with the empowered bladesong, it will solve a lot of complain with bladesong being just the reskinned version of shatter
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if you look at pve, our medic feed back has a cooldown of 32 seconds, and it revive 5 percent, while both necro's and ele's revival trait is 7 percent, and necro has a 30s cooldown while ele's has a 20s cooldown. guardian does 15 percent, but it a one time thing. so it doesn't even measure up to other traits in pve