Guild Wars 2

As a mesmer, just above the weapon skills, we can see and count how many illusions we currently have out.

My request is : Can we have different color shadings based on whether the illusion is a clone or phantasm?

Perhaps light pink for clone and dark pink/purple for phantasm?

Sometimes, in heated fights, I instantly need to know if I still have any phantasms out in order to kitten whether I shatter “useless” clones, or if I summon another phantasm safely or not. etc.

I usually keep count in my head, but 1 false dodge-roll-clone-summon too many and u just replaced ur oldest of 3 phantasms by accident without knowing…

It just helps to visually know who’s out there on the field.

Thoughts?

Good call.
I don’t really have anything to add, as it’s a pretty complete suggestion.

Clones never overwrite phantasms, so one dodge roll shouldn’t overwrite your oldest phantasm, to my knowledge. Please feel free to correct me if I’m wrong. Testing in game right after this post to verify.

I do agree that it would be a nice thing to have, but your concern should be much more about shattering phantasms, not overwriting them.

A clone will overwrite a phantasm if you already have 3 phantasms out Temariah.

Temariah.9372:

Clones never overwrite phantasms, so one dodge roll shouldn’t overwrite your oldest phantasm, to my knowledge. Please feel free to correct me if I’m wrong. Testing in game right after this post to verify.

I do agree that it would be a nice thing to have, but your concern should be much more about shattering phantasms, not overwriting them.

I actually tested it a few times, if u have 3 phantasms out, and u summon anything (including clones) it will replace a phantasm.

Usually I’d try to shatter them as soon as possible, but sometimes you want to keep the damaging phantasms out for more dmg while doing smthn else… and 1 dodge-roll-too-many and u’re trying to put up the phantasms again… wondering if u have full phantasm yet, or still need 1 more for a full team.

I’m not saying it’s the end of the world, just that it would be a nice feature to have.:)