It has begun...

Ignore me crying in the corner from having to gather so much fucking essence of despair. I'm despairing enough myself for all of this, Anet.

“Maybe I was the illusion all along!”

Around the time PoF came out I got one of my friends into GW2 so I’d have someone I could game with. They made their first character (who was a ranger) and we had fun.

Now, I’m a mesmer main, specifically a mirage main, and I’m telling my friend “hey, you should make a mesmer, it’s really fun!” and she just said she didn’t have enough space to make a new character.

So finally this year she makes a mesmer character, because she was interested in trying virtuoso. Now, I’m not that big of a fan of virtuoso, but I’m still counting this as a win because she made a mesmer! But she’s talking to me and mentions how she doesn’t really enjoy virtuoso that much, and so I say “why don’t you go to the pvp lobby so you can try all the elite specs and see which ones you like!”

So we go to the pvp lobby and she tries a fully unlocked virtuoso, and she tries chronomancer, and she tries mirage.

And when she tries mirage she gets really excited and says “hey this is actually really cool!”

The absolute vindication I felt upon hearing that, I swear to god!

Anyways the moral of the story is that you should try playing a mirage mesmer in gw2, it’s fun I promise.

SMOKE AND MIRRORS

I know we're just pretending There's no window for mistakes

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Chorno/Virt in the streets of Kaineng.

reaper stays winning

Alistair Shredsteel, Mirage, Pact Diplomat and additionally my lead for SotO in the future

hes undercover

SICKENING SIDE EFFECTS of getting good at gw2 NOW as a mirage main like. i didn’t feel the spec slowing and weakening as it happened with each 2022-23 balance patch UNTIL i started doing endgame pve & running scrapper, and now that i’ve eaten from the tree of knowledge, prem feels awful to play. even in open world, no damage, no support, about to have its evasion gutted with this next patch. 5 years of emotional investment in a character and a 🤌🤌🤌PERFECT🤌🤌🤌 triumph in fashion wars (i shant be humble about this. look at him) just to not be able to use him at all in strikes or raids which are the main things i’m doing, feeling silly even bringing him to guild missions and metas. like. every build is completely bled out. but there’s no other class as chaotically mobile and unpredictable and sexyhot as axe mirage so. now what

kicking and screaming nooooooooooo i dont want to draw

ngl i kinda hate all the changes in the 27th patch notes :/

hate when games homogenize all their classes. Why remove boon corrupt on necro skills???? thats like. the entire point for condi builds, not to mention fun class flavor like yeah a necromancer would do that.

kinda feel like they should just scrap Quickness & Alacrity and come back to it somehow later instead of trying to make the over reliance on those two specific boons work out. idk. I feel like the issue isnt that most classes cant give them out but more so an over reliance on them.

I don't have any Charr-sibs. And I didn't include the Konu-sibs because I already had the twins for Humans. Maybe we'll do a round with them for White Day!

Merry Spooky to all :3

Bonus bc he looks mad in this and it’s a lil funny

Additional remarks from tonight's gaming sesh: am I bad at playing my class or are HoT mobs just Like That

SMOKE & MIRRORS (2024)

I know you see right through me There's no promise left to break

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Mirage in downtown Kaineng