Guild Wars 2 Commentary - Mesmer Concerns

A video outlining the concerns of some of the GuildWars2Guru community and myself regarding the mesmer's shatter mechanic

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[09251987Libran]

Sounds like nothing but gibberish the mesmer is perfect how it is!!!!!!

[GalloGSM]

@09251987Libran It doesn't seem like you really understood my points, maybe that's why you thought it was 'gibberish'. But still, disliking the video because you didn't understand what was being said is unfair!

[X12115]

Another thing is that the author is begging to be op, you want full range, full control, constant and full damage. You are asking for elementalist with extra bonuses, which will prevent anyone to get him. A-a, you greedy greedy boy^^ You leave no room for player skills and movement, just nuke and cc to death. Maybe mesmer is to plan and prepare first char, then make a havoc and plan again. Wow, it sounds great for some type of people, who like puzzles, problem solving, tactics... and winning^^

[GalloGSM]

@X12115 At no point do i 'beg to be overpowered'. This video is purely feedback from the given information. I know a lot about the mesmer class, hence the fact i have made so many videos discussing them. Shattering isn't always effective in it's current state - ignoring that and labeling it as 'hard to play' rather than 'a work in progress' is silly. I appreciate feedback but it doesn't seem like you really listened or have looked into the mesmer at all. You should watch my other videos! :)

[GalloGSM]

@X12115 Also you're interpreting feedback to improve the class (which is what they want) as crying out for easy-mode.

[liutpry]

you are discussing about mechanics that have only been explained and never beeh shown. Wich in my opinion is quite pointless. Everything, including the shattering mechanic effectiveness, depends on general balancing, clones spawning cooldown and shattering system.

So in my opinion you should wait for more details before arguing if the mechanic will or will not totally fail ;)

[GalloGSM]

@liutpry As i said, these concerns aren't short term due to a lack of information. We know and have been shown (multiple times in videos) how shattering work. We had a long discussion on the Guildwars2guru forum about this and they are currently in beta - so no time like the present to give feedback :D

[AaronUdayan]

Honestly, all you had to say was phantasms should not be shattered. Ranged shattering just seems dumb, as it takes the deception out of the already beautiful mesmer class. I agree with you on the phantasm problem; however, I believe everything else about shattering is perfectly fine.

[GrimoireOfAlice]

Going by the guild wars 2 wiki, specifically the page that lists the mesmer skills. It seems that the illusions from offhand weapons are meant to support the sword main hand. Which would imply the mesmer is already within melee range. Making travel time of the clones a none issue. Now obviously not every weapon skill is filled in here but going by this, the mesmer is a close range/if not melee caster. Clearly the illusions are intended in a similar way to minion master bombing from GW1.

[ardalla535]

Gallo, posting intelligent vids on YT is a waste of time. GW2 threads are full of fanbois that are going to attack any indication that the game may be less than perfect. Might as well just send your concerns to AN. If the game turns out to be crap then don't play it. It's no big deal.

[CaptainBlackSparrows]

@GalloGSM i Agree with you. it seems pointless to shatter when u have all sorts of clones out standing in different positions. But maybe shatter and summoning will have a short global cooldown.

[Kevlord22]

I get what he says, i'm also concerned, But i have trust in ANet. We didnt saw any pvp, pve video and i'm totaly sure that if as you said this things are really that bad they wont leave it like this.

Personaly i agree with you, but i'm still confident that they cant screw this up this much. In interview they stated that they used mesmer in pvp and they like it, so cant be that bad. They knew much more about the class than we are unfortunetly :D

[XtremeTurtle]

Hmmm. the hobbit has a point.

[rodney1415]

i dont agree with this video at all ^^.. Mesmer is strong enough how it is

[09251987Libran]

Wtf...