Shao.7236

Since the phantasm rework, mesmers in general has just been self carried since, being able to mirage dodge in any state just adds insult to the injury. They never really needed a condition nerf. (Besides the confusion nerf that was for every professions.) The real issue steams if not from the easy clone spam is how GOOD the evade is and how MANY they get along the way of their already strong core F skills (Without forgetting blindness on shatter which is quite unnecessary making them the strongest stompers and this blind is not removed until you legit get to have a hit on them, aka when using F4 blindness stay regardless.) and then you have the fact that immobilize doesn't stop them from dodging, nullifying so many viable strats that would work on ANY other professions. They are quite just untouchable in most hands as the skill gap heavily decreased since PoF and those reworks, all from a single button that might as well be called Invulnerable instead of evade for 1sec at any given time. All better than a warrior who has to wait 30 seconds to even get the right to avoid just power damage during 2 seconds for a "simple" example, I'm not comparing for the sake of 100% accuracy but just to make you think about how beneficial said evade is. You can tell me otherwise, but come back after you fought an OG chronomancer and seen how they get TRULY punished for their mistakes and not just able to avoid anything with a simple dodge that they might has well gotten from a mirror alone by accident or their heal alone. Also the Rune Of the Adventurer is just plain cancer to deal with as you make your way through the dumb spam of clones and conditions that regardless with any sustain is a pain to even lay an attack on them that isn't instant casted. I personally have my ways to deal with condition mesmers, but the latter still remains that the profession is just TOO strong and needs to have it's sustain nerfed in many places. My most drastic suggestion would just be to reduce endurance regeneration permanently by a certain amount upon picking the elite spec since people have such an easy access and can recklessly spam them without any consequences.