Got owned by a mesmer

lol u got owned by a mesmer lol. whats ur lvl and what is his/hers? I know 2 times it happened. The first made since because she made it were I couldn't move fast and got her distance. The second time amazed me. Before they were always considered to me my easiest target. I would always go after one if I saw it to take it down and make the fight 4 vs 3. I am a 20 w/ 80 level armor and she was a 20. I am wondering are their mesmer skills to counter melee and mesmer skills to counter casting? Is it that some mesmers only carry casting counters because of the room on their skill bar? Its just weird they seem easy to melee and this one destroyed me 2 times.

Empathy: A hex spell that damages you every time you deal melee damage.
Power Spike: Spell interrupt with 1/4 second cast time that deals 75 dmg @ lvl 10 and interupts your spell.

That's probably what baked your cake right there. Watch out for the icon that looks like a sword on your debuff bar. Nothing you can do about power spike though She'll just use it when you get low and try to heal, and then you're pretty much done for. Yup, there are definitely anti-warrior and anti-caster spells within mesmer. Did you miss alot? Would you miss and take damage? Were you being hit for large amounts, could you build up energy? Could you get adrenaline? These are all things the mesmer can control. With sympathetic visage on the mesmer you won't be able to charge up your adrenaline nor build energy while attacking, and at that point the mesmer can probably toe-to-toe you and shutdown your healing spells, using big DoT, empathy and so on. Might even have shattered your enchantments off if you were using them. Mesmers are nasty if played right, and can be suited to shutdown almost anyone.

I think she shattered my enchant which is huge. I put live vicariously on myself which at the moment gives me 10 health points each time i hit (eventually planning on moving this up to 11 when I get more attribute pts from those two missions). Anyway, I combine this with 100 blades. A lot of times it works extremely well. If the enemy is grouped close together I feel about unstoppable if I get like 60 hp each time I use 100 blades plus adrenaline. But she shattered that so now I am hurting. But I bet I kept on doing 100 blades and was hurt by it. I did miss a lot. One thing that was weird she did was every item on my skill bar went black and slowly went back to normal. Very strange. I was extremely impressed with her skills although I think I've learned and would fight things differently this time. I guess I was used to running mesmers over and figured I would her w/ just brute force. Ah - she used blackout to take out your skills. She probably had hexed you with Spriit of failure if you were missing 25% or so (and giving her as much as 4 energy per miss), maybe using some others like clumsiness in between, or if you missed a ton (90% of the shots for a while) you got blinded by a skill like inneptitude.