At this point in time I would like to do this to all the mesmer haters and doubters.
Unfortunately this reality does not allow arcane bolts of energy, so instead I will burn your eyeballs with the new design of MESMER.me.
Now that it’s arrived I’m rather lost for words. Prior to a few days ago, the last time I worked on the website was 1.5 months ago. The enthusiasm I had has dissipated, and yet here I am at 2 AM.
I’m happy with illusions. The build-em-up and tear-em-down play style reminds me of something, but I just can’t put my finger on it. Perhaps the early days of Factions when I thought that spirit-to-healing skill Life Feast (I think) was the epitome of support. Maybe it’s reminiscent of Team Fortress 2′s buildings. It can’t be the Guild Wars minion dismissal skills, since I hardly played it.
Maybe it just seems like a really advanced magical technique, that makes sense in some way, so now that I see it it’s not an alien concept.
The shatters are cool. I don’t know if any of the fans in the forums put the two – spammy illusions and shatter effects – together.
Glad to see my blog name is still relevant.
My predictions… well, there’s manifest illusions, but no shape shifting. The punishment condition exists. My guesses for weapons are way off. I’ll be honest, I think my wallpaper has cooler text than the real thing. Mantras seem like a little bonus, nothing to rave about. Many of us expected hexes to translate into AoE effects, which isn’t the case.
I am worried… if the majority of a mesmer’s damage centers around illusions, what happens when you’re facing a strong/multiple foes? I get a split second to press F1-F4 and hope it hits something?
I just realised I haven’t actually checked the weapons thouroughly. All I saw was NO OFFHAND SCEPTER and TWO SWORDS and GREATSWORD and I shoved it into a corner of my mind. Let’s take a look…
I go against the grain when it comes to swords. I don’t like em. Neither do I like staves. Since my favourite combo isn’t an option I guess I’ll just leave it in the air until we see what skills they come with.
The minstrel thing had me for half a second. For realz. I left his terrible singing on loop while I got ready for work (the reveal was at 5AM) and I had it stuck in my head all day! You’ll be happy to know I’ve saved the SWF file, and I’m hoping I’ll find a use for it in a video :P
Speaking of multimedia, I am of a mind to plug in that expensive microphone I bought many months ago, and ramble. Unfortunately it’s that time of year when 24 hours in a day is not enough.
I wish I had access to the closed beta.
I want my own clone army – and then – BAM! shit explodes.
