Favorite Mesmer Elites
Lanier
I'm not saying that tease is a good option for a primary mes, im just saying that you can't compare tease to PI by saying "KD > energy gain".
That said, people are often hesitant to use WW or WD on heroes do the the spammy nature of the skills and the fact that even with power drain, Waste not want not, etc., heroes tend to run out of energy with the WW/WD skills on their bars (hence the creation of the occasionally-seen ER domination bar for eles). An interesting strategy might be to run 2 mesmers together - one with the standard PI or panic bar and one with a tease + WW/WD domination bar. I don't know how well it would work, but it might be worth testing.
That said, people are often hesitant to use WW or WD on heroes do the the spammy nature of the skills and the fact that even with power drain, Waste not want not, etc., heroes tend to run out of energy with the WW/WD skills on their bars (hence the creation of the occasionally-seen ER domination bar for eles). An interesting strategy might be to run 2 mesmers together - one with the standard PI or panic bar and one with a tease + WW/WD domination bar. I don't know how well it would work, but it might be worth testing.
Mouse at Large
Maybe there is a degree of synergy between Tease and me running earth with Unsteady Ground 
Plutoman
I always wondered why people never ran a Lyssa's Aura WW/WD bar. Perfect for that.. Though a tease bar's pretty nice, LA is definitive energy. Just musings, however. I doubt I'd use it, heroes are too haphazard with those to truly use them well.
AndrewSX
Well, when comes down to use stuff is always matter of having a idiot-proof bar. Cuz heroes are idiots most of times. That's why we don't use FD but mindless e-surge/panic, for example.
Also, about Tease: is still a great energy source, but you must remember that heroes will use it just like PDrain: as rupt. Not as e-management, that's a secondary benefit that you want and you know will be achieved, but you shouldn't trust AI so much (which is why Bip > self ene-gain mes rupts).
Also, about Tease: is still a great energy source, but you must remember that heroes will use it just like PDrain: as rupt. Not as e-management, that's a secondary benefit that you want and you know will be achieved, but you shouldn't trust AI so much (which is why Bip > self ene-gain mes rupts).
The Drunkard
Quote:
Originally Posted by Plutoman
DPS is not always better than spikes.
Quote: Originally Posted by Plutoman
The consistent interrupts and very consistent DPS is much more powerful than 3-4 e-surges, as the e-surge has only a single spike skill with the rest of the bar being reactive.
Which is the esurge is such a strong skill- it's conditional damage that has easy to meet requirements, low energy cost, high damage output, and a large range. You can put it on just about any dom bar and it can complement it nicely. You can also echo it with two other mesmers for a ~600 damage spike, and use the rest of your bar for clean-up. Keystone doesn't have that utility; you have to completely devote your bar for signets, or you cripple your damage in-between keystone castings. Quote: Originally Posted by Plutoman
A set of keystone mesmers will interrupt and damage without any requirements, and provide consistently high damage without any overlap at all (whereas others cannot stack hexes and interrupt stacking issues).
Keystone needs foes to be within adjacent range to have any effect at all. It requires your bar to be devoted to the skill. Keystone also clashes with any-other interrupt skill in a mesmer's arsenal or skills that punish casting (Panic, PI, Ineptitude, VoR etc) .