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The Mesmer is not content with living in reality - they prefer to create their own realities. Mesmers are the mental masters of illusion, control, and domination, subverting an enemy’s Energy for their own purposes and supporting the entire party in battle with powerful, mind-bending magic. The primary Mesmer attribute Fast Casting works just like it sounds - you can sling your spells at a much higher rate than any other profession.
The Mesmer is powerful as a damage-dealing spellcaster, a support player, or both. They should usually avoid the front lines, but can turn the tide of most any fight in seconds.
Attributes
Fast Casting (Primary)
This primary attribute lets the Mesmer cast spells faster than any other profession.
Domination Magic
This attribute boosts the duration and effect of your Domination spells, which allow you to control your enemies’ actions.
Illusion Magic
Increase your Illusion attribute to extend the duration and effect of Illusion spells that injure, deceive, slow, and otherwise hinder your foes.
Inspiration Magic
Put points into Inspiration to pump up the duration and effect of your Inspiration spells, which steal Energy from enemies.
Common usage
Interrupts
Many mesmer skills interrupt a target foe’s actions. These skills can also steal energy, cause damage or disable skills. Combined with points in the mesmer’s primary attribute, Fast Casting, these already quick activating skills are even faster to cast.
Shut down
Domination skills put mesmers in command of a foe’s health and energy. They can force their foes to choose whether they should cast a spell or attack, when the consequence is loss of health or having their skills disabled (from skills such as Backfire, Empathy or Diversion).
Energy denial
Mesmers can call on Inspiration Magic skills (like Energy Drain) to steal energy directly from their enemies. By taking the energy of their foes they can reduce the foe’s effectiveness, as well as providing extra energy for themselves for casting more offensive spells at their foes. Skills such as Energy Burn can also be used to directly destroy the enemy’s energy.
Health degeneration
Illusion Magic skills can inflict damage, slow an enemy, and drain away the power of those that oppose them. Spells such as Conjure Phantasm or Conjure Nightmare can cause incredibly high health degeneration.