Requiem.9648

I dont know i played for 8 years and i can understand they nerfed the godlike boon chrono share cause that was way too op to give everything specialy in fractal/PvP/WvW but now we got a new requirement how people dosent seem like to play. HB/Alac i mean finding Healbrand seem easy and fun to play vs finding a alacren WHY??? Cause many people dosent like the gameplay of alacren or its just boring. Every single day I check the lfg on reset and the most common lfg is Alacren!!! they are hard to find. I know the easy anwser will be just run without it.

Got a sugestion now the chrono cannot give perma everything anymore on his group if he alone only quickness and a 3sec additional boon if he using soi that should be the time to give it back the alacritry like on Seize the moment trait to give 5 man quickness on shatter the should add alacrity to that specialy for fractal when that dynamic fight vs that useless no-dynamic well of recall. At least we will have oportunity to run Alacren or Chrono no ONLY Alacren.

That me or there a lot of people complain about necro shade back on the necro. I mean that was just fine not even close to be overpower and its help necro a lot to cleanse condi on F2 how was not reliable in any gamemode after they removed and secondly if you dont want to be kill by that shade effect on him like in WvW or PvP just stop standing close to the necro and also stop spaming 1-2-3-4-5 on your ranger longbow and keep your skill 4 to push it back other that just randomly use it when is availaible...end of story...

But to make shade more reliable and not abusing in WvW or PvP what Anet should do is make shade dps stackable BUT they can be destroyed/killed like clones. Whit a HP bar so that point it will make less reliable if you precasting shade in PvP or WvW but more reliable in PVE and everybody will be happy.

To be honest i think everything seem not bad at all looking at the balance im very glad they bring back dry shatter on chrono i wish they will bring back F5. My only thing i keep think about that will help other game mode on chrono is make trait Flow of Time able to reach allies. I mean that will help in open world and fractal and WvW also I dont mention raid cause good group will keep standing togheter on most of non moving boss so wells are easy to cast and reach team to give alac+quickness. But well of Recall is not very reliable to give alac on team in fractal vs an Alacren how can give easy perma alac to his teamate better than a chrono does.

**Flow of Time: This trait has been reworked. It now counts the mesmer as a clone. Reduced alacrity gained per clone from 1.5 seconds to 1 second.** <---- make it share on allies. that will help other gamemode excluding raids AND MAKE CHRONO GOOD UNDERWATER i know a lot of people dosent care but chrono are only able to give quickness underwater not alacrity. Cause wells dosent work underwater and then no alac for allies compare to a rev how just need to press 1 button for 20-24sec alac.

I have same problem an that very annoying. Mirage and chrono had hard time cause they keep losing targeting so they can't create properly clones/fantasm. Doing pistol 4 and torch 5 can be very hard. I mean can be very hard for player now for a very moving taget like Largos twins.

Many players have reported during Largos/Cairn/Matthias their autotargeting on mirage/chrono was not working was not able to some of the skill like torch 5 and pistol 4. Probably happening on other class also be very easy to see on those class. If people can verify

> @"Imaginos.3756" said:

> > # Mesmer:

> > * Confounding Suggestions: This trait has been retired and been replaced with Bountiful Blades.

> > * Bountiful Blades (NEW): Mirror Blades bounces 2 additional times. Phantasmal Berserker summons an additional berserker and they each deal less damage (33% instead of 25% less damage.

>

> This is a **big nerf to damage** right there and we already suffer as it is with instant death phantasms being replaced by almost no damage weak clones and now you're going to force us to choose between an extra phantasm on greatsword OR 15% damage boost from all illusions via the Empowered Illusion trait which is in the same line as Confounding Suggestions which will now be Bountiful Blades. Do you even have anyone who plays a Mesmer because it seems like these are such arbitrary and random changes with little thought to them.

>

> The loss of cripple on all attacks is also telling as now we'll be easier to be chased down by foes with only one source of cripple coming from Mind Stab and less, albeit small, breakbar damage.

I am thinking exact same they place 2 dps trait in the same line that realy dosent make any sense to me. NOTHING can beat empowered Illusion trait in minor +15% flat dmg on illusions in PVE. So that just mean power dps Domination chrono will be replaced by illusions line dps chrono how aready suffered many nerf. So overall RIP domination chrono dps. Sad cause only few people was enjoying domination dps build on gs. Chaos line = useless futur Domination line = useless.

You aready lost many veterant player after nefing SOI in PVE in December 2018. GW2 have many veterant player quit to other game due to lack of balance and you guys keep doing it... You realy want your game die.

Make Chrono PVE Great Again and put back the dry shatter at least.

> @"Asum.4960" said:

> 600 extra Toughness is exactly what Necro needed to become wanted in PvE endgame content, thanks!

lol exactly specialy in raid.... when nobody want toughness except tank....

What about chrono buffer???? not even giving any quickness or alac underwater lol. Class his completely destroy Inspiration and Chaos line are completely useless and will remain useless. What about dry shatter??? make him still even more useless. Funnest thing to see warrior barrier.... Warrior can have resistance-quickness and now barrier the top HP charater class can also perform reflect and a tons of CC skills. I wont be surprise on next update Anet will try to add warrior elite banner how will give perma all boons....to 10 mans.

Like i mention on other post chrono Tower on escort raid get hard to play cause if that dry shatter removed you can get perma fear or kick down the tower even running chaos line. So its more easy to just play base mesmer to do it. That just show that nerf was too much.

Personnaly if they want very effective condi abilities/buffer they should add new stats in LS5 like Power-Condi-Exper-Concentration people will enjoy like a Diviner stats. Will be great on Rev buffer-Firebrand and chrono and druid how are the best buffer atm and definitviely on a condi buffer chrono.

MAKE DRY SHATTER GREAT AGAIN!!!

You guys should also redo the entire chrono after the dry shatter nerf F1-2-3-4-5 and chaos/insp line are useless line now exept maybe SOI 10 mans. Like a mention before as chronomancer main Firebrand and Alac Ren can give and maintain more of the main chrono boon (Alac+Quickness) and have better dps if play as diviner/seraph stat than a chronomancer and TW consider as base mesmer boon if your in underwater you CANNOT give any chrono boon to allies cause wells dosent work make that chronomancy completely useless.

P.S Make me a favor before doing a balance patch test it please.

Just to add some stuff on top of it now doing escort raid tower his easyer on base mesmer vs a chrono due to dry shatter nerf on chrono. You can clean condi faster and keep heal yourself easyer and DISTORT without clones. Just need somebody to give you alacrity and your good to go. you can mimic+portal like before. So that just prove me again that chrono nerf as gone too far.

> @"AwwYiss.8146" said:

> > @"Requiem.9648" said:

> > allies does not get any bennefit from chrono after SOI nerf.

>

> Can someone with a galaxy brain explain this to me? I know of the SOI changes, but this statement seems like nonsense to me. Pretty sure the actual reason to bring firebrigade is the huge dps increase both classes bring and braindead 1 button press buffing that anyone can do.

In fact SOI only extand boon for flat 3 second and only apply to boon you have in your bar. That old nerf put concentration stats become kind of useless on chrono for SOI. You can play a full zerk chrono and just extand that 3 flat second how btw was 5 second before the re-nerf. My point on this chrono have now harder time to give alac+quickness VS a quickbrand and a 10man share alacrity Renegade specialy on a very dynamic fight. A fight how your stant on same spot dosent make any difference. This his also one of the main reason you dont see a lot of chrono in fractals/open world cause fight are too dynamic. Raid didn realy change a lot cause boss are very static most of time or you try to keep them static as possible. Sadly only veterant chrono will still find that easy to play but new player the learning curve his hard.

Example: 2 Firequickbrand+ 1 Rev Alacrity any of them can also cover the full healer role and this his where the chrono his useless cause he got a poor allies healing+buffing. easy to a firebrand provide 25 stack might+ perma protect+perma regen+perma quickness and stability to10 man on demand. Chrono canot do that anymore so Anet just replaced Chrono for the Firebrand and that kind of sad. Cause most of raid/fractal group will target THE class how can cover maximum role in 1. tank/healer/buffer. My best choice for now his firebrand vs any other but you can still relly on chrono or rev but its more work.

Like i said before as feedback the quickness and alacrity are way better performed by a firebrand and a revenant vs a chrono and because a lot of line on mesmer are shatter wise it make it even worst specialy the inspiration and chaos line cause they are now super selfish and allies does not get any bennefit from chrono after SOI nerf. Dps side his very good howerver no comment on it that no op but fine. But **allies** wise chrono have serious re-balance to be done on it. He only provide quickness and alacritiy on a static position and absolutely 0 boon underwater he purely useless. chronomancy mean play time skills or give allies haste (quickness) and alacrity but it dosen mean that anymore in GW2. Only skill shield 5, well of action and well of recall i will not add timewarp cause that a base mesmer skill. So a then end chrono dosent mean anything about a class how give nothing. Now about tanking boss on chrono his kind of more clunky due merge of F5-F4 NOBODY WILL ever waste his continuum split for distortion so you can only relly on sword 2 and shield 4 block in case you need it. Make mesmer class for newplayer even harder in raid only veterant will still feel fine. Sadly Anet seem try to remove new player to play chrono in GW2 how aready have lower people how can use it properly.

Funny i read a lot of post of people try justify Anet and say it was their intention about mesmer/chrono/mirage using shatter skills for all type build. All right then sure. But before changing mechanic of F1-2-3-4-5

1.You guys SHOULD revise all the shatter effect traitline cause many of them become useless or near useless.

2.You guys SHOULD also give a bit more allies buff base on those traitline. SOI as been nerf for month there his no reason to not buff allies other way around like chaos line.

3.F-1-2-3-4 seem very similar to what it was they pretty much just change icons and name. At least it should give also extra allies buff cause why a Firebrand (Quickbrand) varian and a Renegade(Alacrigade) are better those give boon how **WAS exclusive to chrono** buff easyer on those class to share it on allies even up to 10 mans alacrity on a Renegade and both give a way higher string of buff.

Chronomancer should be master of (time) buff but in fact you only share that using wells how on a dynamic fight that useless.

Just tested again in open world to see and now survivability his completely drowned even using inspiration line you still have a thousand condition how will finish you unless you play mantra of resolve and now chrono well get out of your build and aslo i discovered a bug, when you got clone stuck cause of your target are different level/ground you can't shatter them anymore cause they not instant breaking so you can roll your face on F1-2-3-4 nothing will happen till you get far enough from target.

Only good thing positive about that patch his everytimes i will feel dumb i will remember somebody approved that patch.

> @"Wahlao.1069" said:

> I know mostly everyone is sad after the changes to Chrono...but these are the positives I noted:

>

> 1) Longer alacrity duration when shattering with clones.

> 2) F2 skill cooldown is 7-8s now, if you shatter with 3 clones. -> I find I couldn't generate clones fast enough, so had to change to scepter for faster clone generation, plus switched to Illusionary Reversion trait.

> 3) Longer quickness duration (if traited)

Not to allies but only selfish useless boon. MEME alert

Yeah i stoped play buffer chrono cause only give boon from wells to allies other than that using like chaos line give only boon to HIMSELF how that make its completely useless and only reason why buffer chrono still run inspiration now its for the 10mans soi. **all the shatter ****trait** now are kind of useless also cause you need at least 1 clone so everybody keep it to F4 for CS/disto or using a bit of it on F1 outside cs for a slice of dps and maybe F3 when cc needed. Buffer chrono really dying slowly they should at least add allies boon when shatter on F1-2-3 like was in chaos trait line before the nerf of SOI. Personnaly they should bring back F5 and add a new F4- and F1-2-3 should give extra boon to nearby allies like alacrity and quickness that will make more sense and you will be able to call it CHRONOMANCER again.

I can understand they try change F skills on chrono but i dont understand why they remove the shatter without clones on chrono cause many trait line are useless now because of that if you absolutely need clones to shatter, also chrono was use for buffing people but NONE of the F1-2-3-4 give anything about chronomancy (quickness or alacrity) to closer allies it only apply on yourself how that absolutely USELESS. You should redo your balance team.

Looking what nerf they doing on power class its seem will only see Holo and thief DD/Ded in raid as power dps class how are actualy the only one we see right now. :-1: maybe some Scrapper all caster class seem hardly nerf as usual + Guard sadly. Im not playing ele but seem keeping nerfing him to the underground now its sad for all caster like people. I dont realy understand also the purpose of putting F5+F4 on chrono no body will ever use the neverending reload of CS to obtain distortion.

Before nerfing or buffing things they should just fix the thousand bugs first....

> > @"Robert Gee.9246" said: though it may be a little more difficult to run without Time Warp now.

Other thing i said it VERY HARD find chrono in raid specialy good one cause people are afraid to play it and you guy want make it more difficult.. this dosent make any sense.