Guild Wars 2

I’m trying out DW Mesmer, and I have noticed that I cannot use Illusionary Leap outside of combat. Is this normal? Because I would love to use it as a pull, and then just swap places with my clone after she engages. But when I use the skill outside of combat it does nothing, and goes on CD

If it’s only supposed to work in combat, then I think ArenaNet should make it work out of combat for a pull.

Its only used in combat, Mesmers dont need to use it as a pull, they already have so much movement and escape ability in my opinion

You need a hostile target for it to work. Using it without a target is like whiffing with your Blurred Frenzy attack. If you need to pull, put on a ranged weapon as a weapon swap and swap to it. This is for closing distance.

SycoX.1547:

I’m trying out DW Mesmer, and I have noticed that I cannot use Illusionary Leap outside of combat. Is this normal? Because I would love to use it as a pull, and then just swap places with my clone after she engages. But when I use the skill outside of combat it does nothing, and goes on CD

If it’s only supposed to work in combat, then I think ArenaNet should make it work out of combat for a pull.

Although that would be pretty cool, Mesmers have a wide variety of ways to pull from range. A suggestion I can offer you, is weapon swapping for pulling purposes, perhaps a staff for adding come conditions, then switching over to swords to tear them up?

I get what you are saying, and that would be nice.

For me I switch to a staff to pull and I drop a chaos field right on the enemy it stacks conditions like crazy. Most of the time it cripples right away so they can’t run out of it while it poisons them and others. Then I run in and get the buffs. Great tool to pull. I use sword and pistol though. Not sure what you meant by DW maybe dual wield? If so which weapons?

You can use it to engage an enemy. Like, to initiate combat. Target your enemy and then look right below the skill icon. If there is a red line, you are out of range. No red line means you can leap. If you leap from too far it won’t work.