Kaioh.7598

Yes, we know! We're asking for more! 🤑🤑🤑

I agree with you. If it exists, it shouldn't be a huge lift to just release it! More things are always welcome!

I would pay big $$$ to have more of these added into the game as gem store items or earnable rewards. Just sayin' 😄 I can appreciate what they're trying to do with the new art direction we've seen in some of the later releases, even though it's really not my cup of tea. I really love and miss the old armor styles we used to get with GW1 and even back in core GW2 days.

Tbh all I really want is to have our lovely gw1 armors ported into this game.

This hits the nail on the head for me. I think a good elite spec design would offer a trade-off where some aspect of the core profession would be sacrificed in order to gain access to something new and powerful. The fact of the matter is that in its current design, Virtuoso gives up too much, without really gaining anything in return. Core Mesmer has so much of its strength baked into its clones, and it’s going to take a lot more than two extra blade charges to compensate for losing them. It’s going to have to be a pass for me. Hopefully chrono/mirage can remain competitive against a potential power creep 🤷🏻‍♂️

I realize the numbers are purposely under-tuned right now, but even considering that I think that the design of this espec is not very well thought out. I'd like to preface that I am not talking about aesthetics or theme, but purely how it performs in a practical sense. Core Mesmer sustain is balanced around its passive defense with clones providing the ability to misdirect/block enemy attacks in the heat of combat, and active defense cooldowns (distortion). When you take these away, Virtuoso has nothing left to sustain itself, and provides nothing substantial in return. After playing with/against Virtuoso last night, I found that it's just free farm in competitive play at its current state. I think it's particularly problematic that the new F4 are channeled. Mesmer relies on its F4 to buy time to turn around an unfavorable situation (because it needs time to ramp up its burst). Virtuoso doesn't have that luxury, so at best you're just prolonging your opponents' offensive window, with no opportunity for follow up of your own (unless you can burn another CD like stealth or blink). In order for Bladesongs to work in their current form, they need to be immune to reflects, and lose their cast times. It doesn't feel nice or rewarding to lose a whole stack of blades, because they are extremely telegraphed, and losing the unpredictable/instant nature of core shatter provides nothing in return right now. tl;dr I cannot think of a single situation where one would be better off playing Virtuoso over any other Mesmer build except for memes. And of course, this is from a PvP/WvW perspective, because PvE balance is w/e.

Salvage this kitten by giving us offhand dagger too please 😢