Lethion.8745

Mesmer mantras terrible. You never want to use all charges to gain casting effect on mantras as mesmer.

I thought it would keep working like it did before the update.

Mesmer Mantras were finally somewhat useful. Please bring heal on ammo usage to Restorative Mantras. It's completely useless right now.

Well, in my country, we say "Hope is poorman's food."

Expecting anything about Mesmer to make sense would be too much

Don't worry, you will never need those wells for what they actually do in PvE.

That's the neat part. You don't.

I am sorry but I don't think second dodge will ever come back or Mirage will be above average outside of PvE in general. Both devs and players have insane bias against Mesmer that can only be competed by Thief, (espacially against Mirage) Yes, there was a time where Mirage was broken and unfortunetly people doesn't seem to be able to get over it. Maybe in next 10 years after everyone forget what Mirage once was, we can see some improvements.

Well... I was wrong

I know this is what most likely will happen but considering that Lost Time is completely useless right now, it's still a big win IMO. Also they've talked about range and difficulty of applying Quickness which gives me hope that they might make some changes to Wells.

Man... You guys are as cheerful as a graveyard. Have some faith

Dude, I can't believe they've actually listened to us. I wasn't expecting this to happen at all. I'm gonna die from happines.

I can't believe we are discussing if Power Mirage and Condi Virtuoso is viable.

If you haven't heard, Twitch streamer MightyTeapot held a open comunity PvP tourmanent with high gold prize and title reward recently. Many prestigious montly AT teams have joined as well as some rogue groups. Someone has shared the statistics of the tournament in this Reddit post. As you can see, Mesmer is among the least played professions. In EU, it's the second least played profession after Warrior. However, while Warrior did win every match it has appeared, Mesmer also has very negative winrate of around 30%, tied in the lowest winrate with Elementalist and Engineer. It's way worse in NA. In NA matches, Mesmer was the least played profession and not only that, but it also LOST EVERY SINGLE MATCH it has appeared. If someone shows up and dares to say 'But these are pro-players, this doesn't refletct Solo Ranked', remember that there were also rogue groups in the tourney which made it to the finals. Also, there is no profession that is performing well in the statistics but underperforming in Ranked. Average numbers of Necromancers and Guardians per match are above 2 and they are also the strongest classes in the Ranked right now. Maybe it's time that Anet has turned a deaf ear to the complaints of those who play PvP for daily rewards and has started listening to the actual PvP veterans.

Unfortunetly I don't think anything will change in mechanical stanpoint for Virtuoso. It's exactly what the community has wanted for Mesmer: Does absouletely nothing but damage.