Best Elite For Each Profession

SoI is bad.
And it's gotten even worse AFTER Gwen.
The point of SoI is to be able to run skills from multiple lines at high attribute investment. After Gwen one is able to fill up half one's skillbar (well 3 skills) with elite like skills that require NO attribute investment at all.
This means that the player now has 200 points to spend on 4-5 skills. Which means you can max 2 lines which equals the SoI effect for those two lines. It's going to be hard finding 5 skills that do not work in two lines. (Keep in mind - you can actually use SKILLS rather then just spells.)
The second issue is the fact that some skills actually do not need max investment into the specific line to be effective. Yes, they get better - but the higher investment of attribute points into that line will end up negating the positive effect that that brings. Now while SoI negates that dilemma - you ARE giving up your elite slot for that. And you are achieving something that is nice - but really not needed. (For instance - when you start running around in HM - DF/MS are pretty much as effective at 0 as they are at max - the high ele armour will reduce a lot of that damage. You want MS and DF for their KD and their AoE slowdown rather than damage. And you get that effect with 0 in the line. Same thing with something as nice as Maelstrom.)
The third issue is that the fact that the mesmer actually has some very nice skills - but they are mostly let down by a simple issue - long recharges. So it might be better to do something about that.

So - what SoI does is:
1. It supports only half your bar.
2. It does things that are nice - but far from needed.
3. You aren't doing anything about the real PvE problem - long recharges.

Once again:
SoI is bad.

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