Lifting The Veil On Guild Wars 2′s Mysterious Mesmer Profession (Game Informer)
News that the mesmer would be returning as the eighth and final class in Guild
Wars 2 leaked earlier this week, but you may not yet understand the complex
mechanics that make this such an interesting addition to the GW 2 roster. I
spoke with ArenaNet game designer Jon Peters and system designer Jonathan
Sharp to get a better sense what makes the mesmer special.
**Why don’t we start with a rundown of what exactly the mesmer is?**
Jon Peters: So, the mesmer. This is the super-best-kept secret, eighth and
last profession for Guild Wars 2. He is a scholar which means light cloth
armor like the elementalist and necromancer. It’s kind of a hybrid of magic
and melee – a fencing, dueling, finesse, mind game profession. We’re trying to
keep a lot of what was there with the first mesmer in Guild Wars 1. We felt it
was a pretty iconic profession for us.
The big things that he does to carry over that tradition – the Guild Wars 1
mesmer controlled the resources of the game. There was energy, skill
interrupting, and all that stuff. The mesmer manipulated and controlled those
resources. That …
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