Talk:Mesmer/@comment-34436262-20180122190552/@comment-34575811-20180206045500

Attracting prey to its doom is indeed a creepy hunting strategy. For us smart, self-aware creatures, the thought of losing that self-control and awereness is deeply disturbing. Creatures like reaper liviathans are terrifying, of course, but those are physical threats -- mesmers don't physically block you from anything, they make you think you want to come close. The prospect of doing what we think we want and not even realizing we're being tricked is pretty rattling.

In practice though, I find warpers scarier. At least I can protect myself from leviathans and the like with the Prawn suit... but warpers remove you from that position of security. You can't really defend against it either. It's also scary that they warp in and out of their patrol paths -- unless you're familiar with all the warper patrol paths in an area, there's no telling if you're strolling right through the path of one that's about to warp in. I can't tell you how many times I've escaped from some other creature and thought I was safe only to have a warper pop in and make me risk provoking the other creature again.