User talk:Bathory/Suggestions/Mesmer

Fast Casting

Symbols of Inspiration

Even though I like your suggestion, in current PvP-arena, most mesmer would take Ignorance over this. Even then, most mesmer players Ive spoken to in the past have difficulty justifying taking that skill over other versatile/frequently-encountered counter skills. As for the current version, its only flaw is not disabling target's Elite. --Falconeye 00:40, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

Very true. Honestly, I doubt I'd take this suggestion's version anywhere unless I knew that high signet builds were popular - but that's the same for all Signet shut downs, really. Maybe it would make more sense and be more useful if it worked like Arcane Larceny but with signets and some energy gain, maybe? It'd still be a pretty risky elite, though. Bathory 06:48, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

How about this version, since this does not disable the corresponding original? An elite version of Arcane Mimicry (thats 1/3 the cost) that can target both allies and foes, and copies only elite spells and signets as to maximize synergy with Fast Casting (and prevents accidental copy of useless elites). Anet should change this skills name to Arcane Inspiration, or something. --Falconeye 07:36, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

• Symbols of Inspiration -

5 1 15 - (Fast Casting) - Elite Skill. (1...25...31 seconds.) This skill becomes the Elite spells or signets of target creature. Elite spells or signets you cast use your Fast Casting attribute instead of their normal attributes.

I still hate the fact that they changed this to work off of elites in the first place. They always insist that keeping the name is important, but they seem to love ignoring thematic ties to words. Bathory talk 09:34, 14 July 2009 (UTC)