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.
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I ain’t a hater, player! I’m a lover!
I am serious considering converting from the ranger-camp over to mesmerville. Illusions sound pretty awesome, and with my new found love of Illusion magic in Skyrim I can certainly see the GW2 mesmer being right up my street.
I lost faith in the ranger when I found out that interupts were off the table, mesmers have suffered a similar hit in that respect but seem to have pulled it around. From what I’ve seen so far, the mesmer appears to be almost the epitome of what ANet have ALWAYS wanted to do with the class, but haven’t had the resources to do until now.
Thank God its finally unveiled itself. I Cant wait to become a Mesmer in Guild Wars 2. My Mesmer in Guild Wars 1 kick ass as she is so lets see her play in 2.
The only thing that worries me is when people think ‘OMG that looks BADASS’ and so they chose Mesmer and then find out there a Scholar and that it doesnt play like they expected and then they moan and say its useless (im talking about the converters from other MMO’s). And the same applies with the converters when there ass is handed to them by a skilled Mesmer they moan about it being Overpowered.
So as long Anet dont listen to them, bring it :)
I cant wait to play this class and i’m glad that everything that Anet wanted to do they now can do. People will see how truely powerful Mesmers are.