Guild Wars 2

Something coming up a lot on the Mesmer Forums is the idea of Persistent Clones. Clones that do not simply die when their target dies, but stay up and take on a new target. The Clones are more for Distraction and Shatter-fuel, and deal negligible damage to start with.

This does not include Phantasms, which deal notable damage, are not known for being distraction defense for the Mesmer, and are generally not used for Shatter skills. Leave those dispersing when their target dies, if only for balance reasons.

Persistent Clones would allow them to be more useful with the Mesmer’s Shatter skills, especially in PvE where a number of Dynamic Events have enemies fall to fast to bring out clones to shatter. And when trying to deal with groups of enemies, doesn’t suddenly and constantly rob the Mesmer class of their Shatter skills repeatedly as an enemy dies.

They don’t need to stay up all the time out of combat, if at all, but it would be nice to have a small amount of time where they could persist if another battle is immediate.

(That, and for the hope you will let Clones copy /emotes the player uses as well for OOC and/or town.)

would make mesmer way too OP. If they do decide to go with the idea, they’d have to make illusion skills have much longer CDs ( & this is coming from a person that plays mesmer..)

I’d be happy if they would just survive to attack the second thing that aggroed on me mid-combat, rather than poofing out of existence as soon as I kill the thing I summoned them on. It seems to be pretty random right now whether or not my clones will decide to stick around.

Nah, I dislike this idea. I like the fact that my clones are per-target, and not constant. We’re mesmerising a single thing, not everything in the world. It doesn’t fit.