Keep the Mesmer love flowing
Funny story....I started GW back in November and created a Mesmer. My two buddies that had been playing since GW was released both told me "Mesmers are the worst class in the game, you don't want to play them". These statements just fueled my desire to play a Mes. I basically henched my way through to the Desert with a little help from my buddies at time. This was before I discovered Guru so all of my builds were skills I through together and learned what was good and bad through trial and error.
One day I'm getting ready to run Thirsty with henchies and my one buddy gets on and I ask him if he wants to join me. He states Thirsty is really hard to do with henchies because of the monk boss at the end, but it'll tag along with me. About half way through, he says "Boy this is going really fast". Then we get to the end and take down the Monk boss and priest in record time. He couldn't believe how fast we did it. I then had a nice conversation with him about the power of interrupts, backfire and explained how I didn't let the enemy spellcasters get may spells off, and the ones that did were usually under Backfire and taking 100+ points of damage per spell. Even the warriors and rangers would get empathy and have their healing stopped with CoF. It was at this point my friend realized the usefulness of the mighty Mesmer and ended up creating one himself.
Morale of the story: You really need to play a Mesmer to appreciate a Mesmer
