Fashion Mage.3712

Lol, most elementalist mains despise Catalyst, and rightfully so. Have some awareness outside of your own class.

Exactly. Like do they even understand how something as simple as healing scaling works in their own game? They just plop down the 20% extra healing and act like it's going to affect every healing skill equally, as if healing power coefficients suddenly just aren't a thing.

I mean I feel like the obvious solution is often wasted breath here, but instead of completely removing all healing power amulets and somehow thinking a mere sigil would be a suitable replacement, why not introduce new stat sets that have outgoing healing on them as a minor/major stat instead?

Use projectile defense (or one of your allies can) or use a mobility skill to get away and hide behind cover? An elite skill on a huge cooldown warrants at least that. I rarely die to it unless all of my cooldowns are down, and even then dodge rolling behind cover can still work fine. I borderline don't touch necro, and even I can tell that this is a l2p issue.Other elite skills being bad is a different argument entirely. I remember when people were screeching about wanting it replaced for ages even after it got reworked because they insisted it was useless, and now there are people whining because it's actually a solid skill.

Eventually everyone is only going to run Berserker's builds because that'll be the only amulet left. Why balance the game properly when you can just remove everything instead? Truly genius. /s

Sounds like a you problem. *breathes* "Sounds like a you problem."

You should consider how you nerf the base values of supportive healing skills in comparison to the much harsher nerfs you've applied to the healing power ratios of those skills (this goes for PvP too). There is literally no reason to use healing power if most of the value of the heals are just given for free; fully investing in healing power with the current changes merely negates an auto-attack's worth of damage (at best) per heal.

Lol, it still has the icon of a shield from back in beta(?) when it was symbol of protection.

I'd imagine Tornado would be quite strong if it was a ground-targeted AoE rather than a form you shift into. As someone who likes the backline caster archetype, I think it'd be more fun to use too.

Doesn't seem like they want mesmer anything really.

People actually used Illusion of Life? Especially in PvP? Chaotic Interruption getting reworked from one of the best lockdown traits to some RNG nonsense. What even is the role of mesmers anymore? The moment they have any sort of decent utility, it gets nerfed hard or pseudo-deleted.

I'm sure there's some truth to this, there always is. I think what we need the most right now is some transparency from the development. After that fiasco where ANet was developing two (ultimately cancelled) projects on the side, they likely aren't getting as much support. I don't think transparency will help much since it certainly seems like they don't actually have anything worthwhile to show. "Build templates are happening sometime, and after this episode of LW you can have another episode of LW in like 3 months maybe" isn't an answer I think most people will be happy to hear even though it's likely the reality.

What even is this post. People are disappointed because they went into it super hyped after ANet hyped the announcement to all hell and back. Personally I expected this to happen even though I'm guilty of having had a smidgen of hope left.

Being essentially permanently immobilized and dazed for 90% of all combat in a match should the Mirage focus you seems pretty objectively unfun, rather than a personal preference. But if you main this broken spec for too long maybe you forget that not everything can dodge while immobed etc., idk. I play guardian almost exclusively, so meh. I'm just less prone to exaggeration and overreacting.

Yes hopefully people just won't touch the class anymore, while they're at it I think they should just disable the whole class to essentially delete it. That'll teach those mesmer players. /s