Guild Wars 2

TL:DR Modify Deception downed skill to somehow place you in a better spot in conjunction with surrounding aoes or cleaves at the time of key press, pending range.

The skill was much stronger and filled a better purpose prior to the changes made to stealth in terms of dropping aggro, in pve. PvP and Wv3 it might cause a player to double take on the mesmer their currently stomping, but considering that the clone spawns where they were and the mesmer reveals a few seconds later, it doesn’t phase players after the first time seeing it, unless the chaos of battle is too great and they have a lapse in judgement, but only for a moment.

The mobs returning to the player that revealed itself isn’t the design flaw, but rather how it decides where to drop you is. If by chance it would somehow determine better placement, it would increase it’s overall usefulness greatly. I won’t post numbers or a percentage, but I will say I’ve seen a greater chance of either teleporting into an aoe or deeper into the one I’m in then out of harms way, sometimes guaranteeing a death rather then a chance of getting rallied. Problem is how it would make the determination on a timely basis when selected, and no easy solution to make it more viable. It gets to the point where I won’t bother using it in pve, and in the other modes it exists to just troll players at the last second, which sometimes works but I digress, their damage isn’t what will one-shot you or a rescuer in comparison to a higher level fractal.

I tried searching for another thread here, but didn’t see one.

All we need is for this to be ground targeted so it doesn’t teleport you into a lava pool in the Volcanic fractal.