Oh my....
Mesmer PvP looks like such a mess. There are so many invisability and stealth mechanics. I had enough trouble focusing on the Mesmer in the vid, I wouldn't want to fight one of them.
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Moving on...
How are the AoE abilities of the Mesmer?
As far as I can see, Staff-Chaos Storm and Greatsword-Knockbackslash are the only ones. I expect clone shattering does AoE damage, but I'm wondering about other abilities.
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/characte...Cyphren/simple - Cyphren - Dr00dtank / Treeheals
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/characte...Cyphrin/simple - Cyphren - Bear Druid / Cat Druid
yeah I am kinda annoyed by that tbh. If I could do dual swords as a thief... I would.
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really? Odd. So much for using illusions to trick foes....
I guess stealth is then required but all the Mesmer stealths are kinda obvious. So you know that the ones you see are fake
---------- Post added 2012-02-26 at 06:22 PM ----------
Well that's the thing. The Mesmer is a "scholar" type profession. The Mesmer's focus is on magic, not weaponry.
Even with the Greatsword, you don't really use the sword as a sword - it's more of a focus that the Mesmer channels his magic through. Hence the giant lazer beams with the Mesmer holding the Greatsword out in mid-air.
That does of course beg the question, then, of why include Swords at all, but I think it was just to be different. My only real complaint is that Mesmers can dual-wield Swords, but the Thief cannot. Main-hand only. =\
Last edited by DrakeWurrum; 2012-02-27 at 12:23 AM.
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I'm going to assume that beta is beta on the not dropping the target thing... Otherwise there's no way that you could use em to trick people in pvp, well without stealths and such...
That mesmer in the vid seemed like he did a great job at confusing people though, so i don't think it'll be that bad...
You shouldn't really look at Mesmers and expect blatant damaging abilities. Mesmers are about trickery, deception... and most of all, illusion. Essentially, a dual-sword mesmer is meant to completely fuck with your mind by summoning a little mini-army of... well. Of him. (or her)
---------- Post added 2012-02-26 at 06:40 PM ----------
You're ignoring the fact that you can Shatter illusions. I get where you're coming from, but I think you're just looking at Mesmer the wrong way.
Dual Sword Mesmer, I'm pretty sure, can summon the most illusions, thanks to Riposte, unless there is a hard cap on how many you can get. And even then, the two Leap skills combined means near-instant max illusions?
Edit: nevermind, hard cap on three illusions. Oh well!
Last edited by DrakeWurrum; 2012-02-27 at 12:43 AM.
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If you give in to your impulses in this world, the price is that it changes your personality in the real world. The player and character are one and the same.
Not at all lol, the 2 leap skills are meant to confuse and mind fuck your enemy, hell, one of them doesn't even move you. the whole point to using 2 swords as a mesmer is to completely confuse your enemy and, eventually, kill them with you and your clones slashing.
Are you going to be smashing all the pretty buttons on CD? No, not at all, sword mesmers will probably be spending their time plotting their next move instead of how to do 1337 damage.
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If you give in to your impulses in this world, the price is that it changes your personality in the real world. The player and character are one and the same.
Well every dagger/dagger skill does damage. It's just the off-hand dagger skills are... well, one is a crippling thrown dagger, and the other puts you into stealth, but both still do damage.
---------- Post added 2012-02-26 at 06:49 PM ----------
You're doing plenty of things actively to do that damage. You use your two leap skills to summon two illusions that deal damage. Your 1 ability, and your illusions, will stack up random conditions (i'm pretty sure every mesmer 1 skill does that? Or was that just Staff?). You summon a phantasm which does more damage based on how many conditions are on the enemy (I'm pretty sure every mesmer weapon has that?)
And then... I'm not sure about Riposte. But it is nice to have a built-in defensive move, rather than be 100% about killing your foe.
And then, once your illusions are capped out (including the phantasm), and your target is covered in conditions, you pick one of your shatter skills to suicide-bomb all of your illusions, and summon them back up all over again.
This is all, of course, ignoring the 6-0 abilities.
I guess the TLDR is that Mesmers aren't twitch "maximize your GCD" gameplay. I don't think any of the GW2 profs are, but Mesmers are definitely far from it.
Last edited by DrakeWurrum; 2012-02-27 at 12:53 AM.
I hope you haven't forgotten my role in this little story. I'm the leading man. You know what they say about the leading man? He never dies.
If you give in to your impulses in this world, the price is that it changes your personality in the real world. The player and character are one and the same.
I hope you haven't forgotten my role in this little story. I'm the leading man. You know what they say about the leading man? He never dies.
If you give in to your impulses in this world, the price is that it changes your personality in the real world. The player and character are one and the same.
I enjoyed the mesmer playstyle in GW. They are a fancy pants warlock. Lots of dots are nice for pressure.
Hrm... honestly, Greatsword and Staff seem more offensive than dual Sword. Odd, ain't it?
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Depends on your 6-0 choices, don't it?
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