Return on the game. Thinking about starting a mesmer, worth it?

[brenda lovely.8213]

Hello everyone,

 

I come back to the game and really want to do a mesmer till the end.

 

I see lots of people telling it's been bad since some nerf. Is it still viable to do everything game related? (except pvp)

[Woltarion.6829]

Maybe you will struggle to lvl up because mesmer is squishy but it's still very good for PvE content. You don't have much AoE to tag all the mob during big events, but for fractales and raid, mesmer is still a good choice.

[Dadnir.5038]

It's ok in PvE, poor in WvW and very poor in sPvP.

The gameplay is the most fun of the game, thought.

[Mungo Zen.9364]

I really enjoy the Mesmer gameplay in a vacuum. Far prefer the illusions to pets/minions/elementals overall, and think shatter is a pretty good tool.

 

Mesmer has taken a beating in public opinion as there have been some heavy ‘tweaks’ over the past few years and many will bemoan the state of Mesmer (more so Mirage) in PvP/WvW. However in any game mode Mesmer can be fun and competitive in the right hands, it may not be as easy as say a Guardian, but it can be fun and have fair success.

[Veprovina.4876]

You'll have no issues in open world PvE, you can use any reasonable build (meaning you don't expect to do damage with Minstrel's etc.), and you can have fun building weird unorthodox builds and still be able to do content, story, metas, farming etc.

 

But for everything else, they're not that great. Every other profession will be so much better than you at what you're supposed to be doing with half the effort. So take that into account when deciding.

 

But if you just want to level and have fun in open world, then sure, it's pretty fun! Check out the "let's theorycraft fun builds" thread, there's a lot of coold builds that people are posting for mesmers for open world. None of them are "meta" and won't get you into raids, but they're fun in open world.