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That's just salt ... regardless, it's clear how Anet balances and it's not based on who QQ's the most. That's just ridiculous. If the class doesn't work for you in PVP, you have choices. Nothing says you have to stick to a class you aren't good with. Bs.I already proved in other post that ANet does balance based on forums' opinions.Every single nerf is preceded by a large complain on forums. EM, torch burning, blurred frenzy, vigor traits, portal, jaunt, etc you name, its not one or two, every single one. It's not salt, it's just adding one plus one. Check the balance patch and go on pvp threads just before that patch. On the buff side ANet does its ones but also take ideas from forums, daredevil change to exhaustion based on condition cleansing was safandula's idea, F3 to stun was mine and so on. ANet doesn't have a vision, they're lost without knowing where to turn balancewise.He is very religious and wont listen to facts, leave him be.

Double-triple revenants. notCalling the revenant OP is so wrong! - RevMain

That's just salt ... regardless, it's clear how Anet balances and it's not based on who QQ's the most.Tell that to over 50 pages complains about chrono and mirageThat's just ridiculous.Pretty much It could be 100 pages ... it doesn't matter. People complaining isn't a compelling argument for change. That's proof Anet isn't listening to QQ to get things changed. They have a vision for how things work ... and they are changing according to it.Thats exact proof they do. All changes were made according to QQ demands of the community and I provided more than enough examples that you prefer to ignore. Believe in whatever you want.

That's just salt ... regardless, it's clear how Anet balances and it's not based on who QQ's the most.Tell that to over 50 pages complains about chrono and mirageThat's just ridiculous.Pretty much

If id list names of these I would be banned. Yes,they are bots.

Step 1. Search for open world domination in Mesmer forumStep 2. make buildStep 3 ... enjoy soloing champion bountiesThe entire thread is about... PvP or may be at least WvW? Dont understand at all what made you think its about pve.I'm bothered by PvP, not WvW but they dont have any splits between game modes. Nice edit bruh but this:

There is one chrono build that perfectly counter spellbreaker, even carried a certain someone.. cough. Polo. cough to legendYou know the build?At this point, if I would look at top rated people at LB what would I see? By their placements :Scourge, Holo/scourge, Rev, War, Scourge/holo, FB, Holo, Rev, Rev, Druid. top10War, "incissor", Thief, coreguardlul, War, CertainSomeoneBelowLegend, idkwhosthat, Holo, Scourge?, Guardian/FB. top20.So lets balance based on top20 ?

S T a H p ?If it's pink its OP is the mindset of people in all seriousness?Pink color is OP.As you see according to NA ppl,its gives them no cooldowns and makes impossible to kill :joy:

For 1000 rated people?

I think thats pretty terrible that ArenaNet unable to find bots under their own nose.On EU region at at PvP Lobby Waypoint you can find silver-bronze-gold bots that stack on the WP, spamming attunments if its an ele,using facets if its a rev, others just seems to standing still when idle.You add them and you see 600-1200 games. You go sleep,you wake up and what you see? same bots spamming games still there Q'ing . Spent a lot of time observing this BS and I'm shocked that Anet still struggle to find "who is the bot?" who doesnt sleep at day or night?They lose their own money since gold they farm will be sold for real money. How much they dont care about the game is...surprising....

So, instead of targeted confusion, instant daze and invulnerability; you get a "oh, wait a bit, let me get my mirrors first ^_^"? Yeah, it's called trade offs, that we should have for these things. Because if you can have up to 5 or 6 mirrors on the field at a time, that's a LOT of Dune Cloak.Trade off = you give something, you take something . Mirage gets downgraded evade(the only thing its better at is being usable in CC,which is they forgot to delete to stop a lot of QQ prematurely) with weak ambush skills that unable to be covered and put you into risk of being cucked closer to the end of the cast and lower damage than warrior unblockable evade ... Are you sure thats great idea to force players to pick up damn mirrors?

That's how other classes were balanced. Why should engi get the im special pass? Alchemy is a bloated trait line, it can withstand nerfs. Because other classes still have value to being played in their core specs. Engie does not. Before even touching the Alchemy line, they need to buff Firearms and Explosives traitlines and then abilities that haven't been touched in years. (Kits and Turrets still suffer). Mes was nerfed core wise to nerf an elite spec ( which didn't do anything for the complainers) even when the value of playing a core mes was 0. Engie being spared because no one plays core is just as bad an argument or reason as we should balance for "fun". Mesmer was viable even without an elite spec. Engineer is not, no one plays it because of how weak it is, its only decent/good when paired with an elite spec. Ahh yes. So viable it was invisible.Also value is what you statedTheir is no value in having a core mes vs any of the elites. It's value to any team is 0And the core traits were nerfed.Maybe engi does need trait line buffs. But that doesn't make it immune to nerfs to traits that give it too much.It's why warrior traits were nerfed to core level. Thief traits were nerfed on a core level. Guardian, ele, necro, mes, and even rev. Their is no logical reason engi should be immune and I'm sorry but the " no one plays core engi so it's fine" is a poor defense. Edit: and please tell me when core rev was ever viable or added value to the team. There is rarely any value in having any core spec over any elites. Due to powercreep. When comparing engie to other classes you have to look at its playable state compared to them at a core level. No other class has been balanced this way. None. Yet engi is supposed to be the exception and have this luxury. Surely you can see how absurd that is. Not many classes have and they are still nerfed. I doubt engi will be immune to it. As that will set a very dangerous standard for Anet showing blatant favouritism to one class and nerfing core traits continually on others. Because no other classes have been in the state that engineer is in.What state? During core engi was unviable? Not true. During HoT scrapper was trash? Not true. Holo... ? Scrapper now? What state?Rifle is semi decent because with power it becomes a usable item, without going full power its a wet noodle. The core engineer weapons are not in a good state.RIFLE ISNT GOOD? What the heck is this "full power", is he alright there?If any class is being shown any sort of favoritsm, trust me, its not engineer.Holo needs nerfs - engi/holo getting buffed. Not favoritism ... or thats certain holo streamer cry that hard so its gets buffed ?

That's how other classes were balanced. Why should engi get the im special pass? Alchemy is a bloated trait line, it can withstand nerfs. Because other classes still have value to being played in their core specs. Engie does not. Before even touching the Alchemy line, they need to buff Firearms and Explosives traitlines and then abilities that haven't been touched in years. (Kits and Turrets still suffer). Mes was nerfed core wise to nerf an elite spec ( which didn't do anything for the complainers) even when the value of playing a core mes was 0. Engie being spared because no one plays core is just as bad an argument or reason as we should balance for "fun". Mesmer was viable even without an elite spec. Delusional as much as it can get Like. People openly made fun of ithelwen when she played core mes and came to the forums. I guess that means it had value cause one person played it?They made fun of incissor despite him being right about revenants and they being OP. All their arguments were "condi mirage crying about rev lululu".This kind of arguments as "it was nerfed before" has no value either, as mesmer wasnt nerfed for an entire year?

That's how other classes were balanced. Why should engi get the im special pass? Alchemy is a bloated trait line, it can withstand nerfs. Because other classes still have value to being played in their core specs. Engie does not. Before even touching the Alchemy line, they need to buff Firearms and Explosives traitlines and then abilities that haven't been touched in years. (Kits and Turrets still suffer). Mes was nerfed core wise to nerf an elite spec ( which didn't do anything for the complainers) even when the value of playing a core mes was 0. Engie being spared because no one plays core is just as bad an argument or reason as we should balance for "fun". Mesmer was viable even without an elite spec.Delusional as much as it can get

You can just pop an invuln and facetank the whole skill. The average human reaction time to visual stimuli is .25 seconds. It's not a meme, it's a fact. As for ping, anything under 60 is considered good. When I played on EU with 120-180 ping and I didn't have any issues dealing with PBS into Rapid Fire. If your ping is higher than 200 and you're desyncing, that's a personal issue rather than a problem with Soulbeast.Lets call it a magic. Just as you have issues dealing with shatter mesmer and I dont :)Ping is just as much of an excuse as saying you have bad FPS. Don't blame the game for it.I have fought people who are clearly lagging as hell and teleport like a ninjas and hit me through my evades. I blame the gameAlso lol I said you're wasting my time and you echoed it back to me. Y u copy? ._.You are still wasting our time, stop jebaiting me for responses

Confusing Images had a shorter cast time, higher base damage, higher power scaling, and lower cooldown than Rapid Fire while naturally piercing up to 5 targets. The only advantage RF had on CI was it's range.Mr.Genius they both have the same cast time. CI have higher cooldown and you will never realistically see that TINY laser hit more than two people maximum 1-2 hits,more likely an accident. So hard to take it as an argument.So the only advantage of CI is higher base damage/power scaling while having x2 less range, yet, was the only reason to play with a weapon despite it being that clunky and to use it you had to stand still(or it will most likely get interrupted) You're wrong, and you also misunderstand why base target pierce is important.The cast time for Confusing Images is 2.25 seconds.The cast time for Rapid Fire is 2.5 seconds. Furthermore, the mesmer build that ran scepter used Malicious Sorcery. This trait reduces cast time as well as aftercast. Also, the beam (and it's damage) starts about halfway into the channel.They didnt. It doesnt stack with quickness either, its not worth missing might trait stacking trait. Playing illusion traitline outside of coordinated AT with a firebrand carry is pure suicide as you have no sustain/cleanses at allAfter you take all of these factors into consideration, the full damage from the skill took about .9 seconds to land ((2.25 * .8) / 2). Keep in mind that the base damage on Confusing Images was 35% higher than Rapid Fire's and scaled nearly twice as high with power.So its like 1 evade is more than enough to actually evade the scepter...Yet, 0.25s is not a huge difference . Even with quickness RF need more than 1 dodge to avoid. Also you arent putting yourself at any risk from ~1900 distance when to use CI you are pretty much in at melee range.As for the base target pierce, it's important because the damage can't be LoS'd by clones/players/other AI. On the other hand, the only way Rapid Fire pierces is if we run Marksmanship with Lead the Wind which is both unused and a viable trait ONLY on core ranger.I agree but never felt like it was THAT importantI have a clip from my stream where I'm full health and halfway finished channeling RF when the mesmer at 30% health starts her CI. We both finished casting at the same time even though I had quickness and she didn't. I ended up taking 10k damage from CI while she was in Mirage Cloak and I died about a second later because the confusion stacks killed me when I tried to cleanse them.Why not? I dont say damage from that skill wasnt hilarious but scepter needed a rework,not just a stupid damage buff of 1 skill to insanityThey did. Both traits are viable but the cooldown reduction coupled with the cast time reduction on Malicious Sorcery was (and is) still a very strong choice. Also, the meta condi mirage build used dueling + illusions and was one of the most popular mesmer builds you'd come across in ranked. Calling it "pure suicide" is pretty inaccurate considering how strong it was.Em...May be it was very popular on NA,which is still people say its amazing good when their presence on EU at p2-3 for me is close to none.I meant chrono with a scepter, because mirage with a scepter wasnt that popular.Inspiration/chaos was a safe bet and had no problems with cmirages . Otherwise illu/chaos vs condi comp without a frebrand = pure suicide.In this post, you claimed that you are "dead on the spot if you don't react instantly to Rapid Fire with getting a chance to LoS." So you were lying. Or, you're implying that Confusing Images kills you even faster than instantly because you agreed that you only need one dodge to avoid it as opposed to two. Of course, only needing a single dodge to avoid CI means that you have significantly more time to react to it compared to the two dodges you need to avoid RF.What is a lie? Being killed by quickness sic em OWB/LB4-LB2? I did it a lot and people melt close to instant. Thats a lie ? Nop.As we speak about beam being released non wind-up VS non wind-up RF. Dont remember CI being boosted by sic em with OWP though.Against a good player that knows how to bodyblock/use AI to LoS, the base piercing is very important.i would rather to not count on that to actually process,identify every skill flying around especially in spamfiesta after all these expansions, and think IS IT PIERCING OR NOT?Where is the video ?