The Faction Mesmer Elite Skills Stink

You just have to laugh when you distract a warriors healing sig. It's like "Yeah! Kill him kill him!!!"

I can't spell PD for the life of me.... thanks^^.

Powerblock? Yeah I'm not saying it sucks or anything, but like PD, it has it's place in a particular Mesmer build. Where powerblock can shutdown Casters and screw them into wanding, PD can take out essential skills and leave the target vulnerable.

If we're talking about the least useful mesmer skill.... I'd say...Keystone Signet... but then again, someone out there is working on a signet build^^

Keystone signet has promise imo; especially with later expansions.

Now fevored dreams however...thats just plain stupid. Maybe if it had an aoe fragility in addition to whatever it has now.

I can see a monk with bane signet+holy wrath being a big comp...well not really but an interesting build nonetheless. What I'm worried (yes actually worried) about is some sort of caster (likely me/mo or mo/me) with succor+signets. From a mathamatical standpoint; they are loosing nothing for using only signets. The energy regen they have is being used by teammates; their team still has the max energy regen and the downsides of succor are negated by default. However they are going to rip you up bad with "free" spells that do not use energy while more energy challanged builds (PD perhaps?) are going to take advantage of their energy haste.

I personally love Sigs but I find it limiting to use only Sigs and Keystone just doesn't do enough to have a place on my skillbar. But definitely with a Sig build, you need to have some way of utilizing your energy. One or two 25 nrg skills, or Holy Wrath, or something! Reminds me, the new skill Complicate is an awesome universal interrupt/Sig disabler.

I gotta agree with Hella on PD. It's an awesome skill imo. And i haven't found energy to be a problem at all if you actually interrupt, as opposed to spamming it and hoping to hit something. I doubt this will see much use though. In the same way as powerblock, most mesmers don't like the idea of interrupting without migraine. If you can use it, this skill can make a huge difference.

What I find interesting is how succor will play into this. With sig builds and all.

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Mantra of inscriptions already covers that big time though with blessed sig =/

Only thing preventing additional bonds is the cap of 10 degen.

True, but inscription keystone and ethersig is possible by mesmer, blessed isn't Mesmer farming groups ahoy!

I could generally maintain about 9~ enchants with it, easier if damage being taken..

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Best thing mesmer has going for it in pve is cry of frustration/shatter hex imo...
no offense avarre.

Really? I just played through the deep (err7ed near the end though) using 0 domination. Recovery light degen lets me put -5~degen on a group of 6 targets in about 5 seconds (with subsequent follow up putting all at 9). I'm opposed to degen, but if anyone knows my reasons, they'll know this doesn't fall under it.

However, I think we all know your ideal PvE build is *snicker* echo SQ with shatter?

To put it in context, I could say the best thing wars have going for them in PvE is Dolyak signet... technically it's an incredible skill, but if you think that suddenly becomes the only point to their existance, then you are wrong. And fortunately after 9 million xp I'm still not bored of playing variants of mesmers, so it looks like my gaming style is successful

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