Elementalist FiNaLly Is Controled, Be KillED easyly by Mes

You'll still take Backfire damage from casting Shatter Hex, so be careful of your health.

The easiest answer to being Backfired? Smack him with your wand until Backfire wears off - the recharge time is longer than the duration of the enchantment.

remember, there is not only BackFire, Empathy too, whether u attack, ur get dmg ...

The way i just think of is to .... Run Away ... until duration of the hex 's gone ... Then use Energy Burn or Energy Trap, stuff like that, drain all his Energy ...

Or using Shatter HEx as Zodiaz said, get close to him, Shatter HEx, so he could get dmg too. After that, he couldn't cast Backfire rite away, Here Ur Chance

Man, every profession is balanced ... i guess

There are several ways to deal with this situation.

The basic strategy would be to prevent backfire from being cast upon you in the first place.

Now, you're an ele/mes, so you can take some skills from the mesmer profession to deal with this kind of thing, and the mesmer packs some skills for use against other mesmers, such as....

1) Carry an interrupt (power leak, power spike, power drain or the like), with the specific one being determined by the points you have in mesmer skills. Remember that even if you have a low skill, these interrupts will still STOP someone's spell, it's just that the secondary effects won't be that major.

Backfire has a base casting time of 3 seconds, so if you notice the enemy mesmer casting it, interrupt it! It messes you up royally if they do get it off, so don't let 'em!

Their casting time will no doubt be faster because of fast casting, so you should have a window of opportunity of perhaps 2 seconds, which is plenty to get an interrupt into....backfire is a slow spell.

Given that you're an ele primary, you probably only want 1 interrupt, as there's really only 1 skill (Backfire) that truly terrifies you, so pick from the various options. They all have their good points.

2) Hex breaker - it's a cheap stance that lasts a long time and causes the 1st hex cast against you to fail. This would really help you. Even at 0 skill in domination it still lasts 60 seconds, and at a cost of 5 energy...well! This one was just *made* for PvP play for people with a mes secondary, in my opinion.

3) As mentioned, take shatter hex. If hex breaker prevents the mes from hexing you with backfire (which would usually be their first spell), then you can shatter the conjure phantasm or empathy with impunity. This on its own will be unlikely to help as skilled mes's will often stack something like conjure phantasm on top of backfire to prevent the backfire from being removed.

4) Denying energy to a mesmer can be tricky as they have some of the best energy regain skills in the game, and most mesmers (given their low energy pool) will take some kind of skill to steal energy in the middle of a fight, thus trying to use energy burn to drain the mes's energy might be tricky.

There are really only two ways to counter a Mesmer. 1) Use your own Mesmer skills 2) Kill him. If, as a caster, you get picked on by a Mesmer, then the best thing to do is hit ctrl + space and hope your team is intelligent enough to do the work for you. When you do get backfired, just think of it as an excuse to let your energy recharge, and hit hard and fast once it ends.

One extra tip for dealing with Mesmers - Signets. Signets don't set off either Backfire or Empathy, so are good for keeping active when pinned down. My favourite is Bane Signet on my Monk, as it knocks down, hopefully interrupting their next spell. Unfortunately, E/Me doesn't have many options when it comes to signets, but you could try Signet of Weariness or Leech Signet. Both would be useful against Mesmers (to either lower his energy or bring yours back up), though aren't great skills in general.

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What is this 1 vs 1 stuff?

Also, the reason to have a secondary class is to make up for some of the weaknesses of your first class, so if your first class is totally hosed by some random spell, then look to your second class to get rid of your weakness, thats what its for.

Tsunamii Starshine

If you're an elementalist going up against a mesmer, you're pretty much screwed. As a mesmer, I always carry backfire and phantasm, 2 interrupts and 2 energy drains/burns, since I know that eventually backfire is gonna run out and the ele is gonna try to come at you full force. Monks are a little trickier to interrupt, but ele's are just sitting ducks. If you get arcane conundrum cast on you, you better say your prayers cause you're not going to get any spell off. The best tactic is to run away or try to lose the attention of the mesmer, since any mesmer worth a damn can take out an ele easily.