Feeling Dour About Troubadour

I primarily play a Mesmer in Guild Wars 2 . While it seems like the overall reception to the newly revealed elite specializations has been positive, I am less than enthused about the mesmer’s spec, the Troubadour. I am usually pretty actively turned off by the archetypal fantasy of “ defeat your enemies with music!” that most bard-type representations fall into. The moment-to-moment gameplay in…