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Musings of an Arm-Chair Mesmer: Changes Between Betas

Posted 27/03/12 by

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In the previous weekend, I finally also got to peek inside the matrix that is GW2. Many of my colleagues have published or will publish various aspects of the beta. But as a mesmer fan, I thought I would focus on one particular aspect by asking: What has changed for the mesmer between the two CBTs?

The most obvious changes probably are the skill changes. So let’s review them!

In the last Press CBT, the one-handed main-hand sword had three skills: Mind Slash, Leap and Illusionary Leap. In this CBT, Illusionary Leap got replaced with Blurred Frenzy which is a skill that strikes foes several times dealing out more damage than the standard 1-slot skill would while distorting the space around the mesmer and allowing him/her to evade attacks. Leap also got reworked. The skill now optionally allows the caster to switch his location with that of his or her clone a short while after Leap was cast. In essence, Leap and Illusionary Leap got merged into one skill.

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The Mesmer Experience ™

Posted 27/03/12 by
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Mesmer stacking hexes

I admit it, the Mesmer was not my favorite profession in Guild Wars. I had a love-hate relationship. I did love what the profession stood for, what it did, and how it did it. I just never really got into it, mainly because it had ways of making me feel useless. I had fun with it in both PvE and plenty of PvP, but it had enough frustrating times that I never actually got to the point of loving it.

Having experienced the Mesmer in Guild Wars 2, here’s a dispassionate and totally objective assessment of the profession: I loved it. Much more than I thought I would, honestly. It was going to be low on my priority list, but now that I got to play it, it likely has been bumped a few notches. I think they really fixed everything that was wrong with the Mesmer from Guild Wars, and yet stayed really close to what the Mesmer stands for. They managed to stay true to the Mesmer gameplay.

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Musings of an Arm-Chair Mesmer – Part I: Weapon Themes

Posted 02/03/12 by
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Mesmer Concept Art

Previously, I wrote up an initial synthesis of what was known about the mesmer profession then. With the closed beta weekend, a lot of new information has emerged giving the community a much deeper inside look into the workings of the illusionist. Another round of synthesis is necessary.

Now before we start, I just wanted to say that this article is not meant to be an all authoritative source of truth. It is merely an article written out of passion for the profession, meant to start a discussion among the many arm-chair mesmers (for this is all we can be at this time) out there in the community. With that in mind, let us dig deep into the details and just focus on the different land-based weapon sets!

As with other professions, each weapon wielded by the mesmer contains a certain theme. Recognizing these themes can help putting together a build that will ultimately match a player’s preferred play-style.

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Synthesis: What’s known about the Mesmer?

Posted 19/12/11 by
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Mesmer Concept Art

The release of the 8th and final profession – the Mesmer – was accompanied by a deluge of interviews. Through these interviews and the profession page, we have learned that the Mesmer is a magical-duelist who uses his or her illusions, and mental trickery to confuse a foe and setup situations beneficial only to the Mesmer.

Although each interview in itself has given us only a brief glimpse into the Mesmer profession, the combination of different interviews gives us a more complete picture than meets the eye at first. So what have we learned about this profession? This article attempts to make sense of all the information.

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Yes, the final Guild Wars 2 profession is the mesmer!

Posted 12/12/11 by

 

The news we have all been waiting for has come; the eighth and final Guild Wars 2 profession is the mesmer. Earlier today Gamereactor went a little trigger happy and published a mesmer video trailer (the trailer has since been removed). ArenaNet later confirmed the mesmer profession via Twitter.

So if you saw the video lucky you, the rest of us will have to wait for the the full profession reveal come Wednesday.

Follow our community discussion on the reveal here.

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