{"id":587,"date":"2011-12-15T12:00:37","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T17:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hypnosisinmedia.com\/blog\/?p=587"},"modified":"2011-12-15T03:32:34","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T08:32:34","slug":"guildwars-2-return-mesmer-profession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hypnosisinmedia.com\/blog\/587\/guildwars-2-return-mesmer-profession\/","title":{"rendered":"GuildWars 2 \u2014 The Return of the Mesmer Profession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guild\u00adWars 2, the fol\u00adlow-up to the pop\u00adu\u00adlar MMORPG Guild\u00adWars, in devel\u00adop\u00adment now for sev\u00ader\u00adal months, has been slow\u00adly divulging ele\u00adments of the game. Over that time, the devel\u00adop\u00aders dis\u00adclosed sev\u00aden of the eight pro\u00adfes\u00adsions in the core game, leav\u00ading the fans to won\u00adder about the last and whether it would be the pop\u00adu\u00adlar Mes\u00admer pro\u00adfes\u00adsion. To give some jus\u00adti\u00adfi\u00adca\u00adtion for that premise, it was dis\u00adclosed that one of the char\u00adac\u00adters in one of the pub\u00adlished GW2 nov\u00adels was a mes\u00admer. Well, now the sus\u00adpense is over. The eighth and final pro\u00adfes\u00adsion avail\u00adable for char\u00adac\u00adters has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/games\/guild_wars_2\/b\/pc\/archive\/2011\/12\/14\/lifting-the-veil-on-guild-wars-2-39-s-mysterious-mesmer-profession.aspx?PostPageIndex=1\">announced<\/a> and it is (cue the drum roll) indeed the <em>Mes\u00admer<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"A Mesmer in action\" src=\"http:\/\/media1.gameinformer.com\/imagefeed\/featured\/ncsoft\/guildwars2\/Mesmer_07.jpg\" alt width=\"610\" height=\"340\"><\/p>\n<p>How\u00adev\u00ader, the Mes\u00admer in GW2 is a far cry from the dom\u00adi\u00adnat\u00ading pro\u00adfes\u00adsion it is in GW. The Mes\u00admer in GW2 is a spell\u00adcast\u00ader that oper\u00adates pri\u00admar\u00adi\u00adly as an illu\u00adsion\u00adist, with some addi\u00adtion\u00adal abil\u00adi\u00adties tied to the estab\u00adlish\u00adment and manip\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtion of their illu\u00adsions. I\u2019m not sure I quite care for this take, because, while illu\u00adsions are a part of what a Mes\u00admer can do, they weren\u2019t the major part of the GW skill set. (I much pre\u00adferred using the Dom\u00adi\u00adnate skills as opposed to the Illu\u00adsion or Inspi\u00adra\u00adtion skills.) I do like that the Mes\u00admers are able to use pis\u00adtols as a weapon, how\u00adev\u00ader: it gives them a def\u00adi\u00adnite rogue-ish feel to&nbsp;them.<\/p>\n<p>Now,\u00c2&nbsp; giv\u00aden that the new game sys\u00adtem is high\u00adly depen\u00addent on char\u00adac\u00adter place\u00adment on the bat\u00adtle\u00adfield, I was sus\u00adpect\u00ading the Mes\u00admer would be more of a com\u00adman\u00adder type, aid\u00ading the oth\u00ader char\u00adac\u00adters through inspi\u00adra\u00adtion mag\u00adic, per\u00adhaps being a com\u00adbi\u00adna\u00adtion of the Mes\u00admer and the Paragon pro\u00adfes\u00adsions from GW. How\u00adev\u00ader, at least this incar\u00adna\u00adtion allows a Mes\u00admer to stand on their own with\u00adout requir\u00ading them to always need a group around them to oper\u00adate effectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guild\u00adWars 2, the fol\u00adlow-up to the pop\u00adu\u00adlar MMORPG Guild\u00adWars, in devel\u00adop\u00adment now for sev\u00ader\u00adal months, has been slow\u00adly divulging ele\u00adments of the game. Over that time, the devel\u00adop\u00aders dis\u00adclosed sev\u00aden\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hypnosisinmedia.com\/blog\/guildwars-2-return-mesmer-profession\/\" class=\"more-link\">\u21d2 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cGuild\u00adWars 2 \u2014 The Return of the Mes\u00admer Profession\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[187,70],"class_list":["post-587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","tag-illusions","tag-roleplaying"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>GuildWars 2 - The Return of the Mesmer Profession - Hypnosis in Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hypnosisinmedia.com\/blog\/587\/guildwars-2-return-mesmer-profession\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"GuildWars 2 - The Return of the Mesmer Profession - Hypnosis in Media\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Guild\u00adWars 2, the fol\u00adlow-up to the pop\u00adu\u00adlar MMORPG Guild\u00adWars, in devel\u00adop\u00adment now for sev\u00ader\u00adal months, has been slow\u00adly divulging ele\u00adments of the game. 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