Guild Wars 2

Is it bugged again? I’m getting one-shotted by them :S

Did you happen to have 17 stacks of confusion on you?

mursie.3681:

Did you happen to have 17 stacks of confusion on you?

No, I was standing still when a group of Phantasms ran up to me from behind and exploded, downing me.

At the moment some mesmer are using 3 shatter in the same combo in this way:

• Create a 2 clone with staff
• Change in sword and cast Illusionary Leap (Skill 3) and recast with swap (again skill 3)
• Than they are in melee and use Blurred Frenzy (Skill 2) and shatter with Diversion (F3) in this way you are dazed for about 2 seconds gaining 10 stacks of vulnerability.
• Than they use two utilities: Mirror Images and Decoy.
• They shatter again with Mind Wrack (F1).
• They shatter with (F2) just to add more damage.

And they do all of this during blurred frenzy. Anyway with this combo they use 2 breackstuns.

Not to mention theres a split second there for you to fast cleanse the immob and dodge. Especially if you don’t get stunned/have stun break.

Laxuar.3504:

At the moment some mesmer are using 3 shatter in the same combo in this way:

• Create a 2 clone with staff
• Change in sword and cast Illusionary Leap (Skill 3) and recast with swap (again skill 3)
• Than they are in melee and use Blurred Frenzy (Skill 2) and shatter with Diversion (F3) in this way you are dazed for about 2 seconds gaining 10 stacks of vulnerability.
• Than they use two utilities: Mirror Images and Decoy.
• They shatter again with Mind Wrack (F1).
• They shatter with (F2) just to add more damage.

And they do all of this during blurred frenzy. Anyway with this combo they use 2 breackstuns.

This.

It’s possible to “1 Shot” glass cannons like that. Though it does depend on the opponent not reacting at all (Stability before the first shatter and just running around really screws this up). If you can manage to avoid having all of the shatters hit you at once you have a good chance of surviving long enough to turn it around on the Mesmer. Or if you can avoid the initial sword swap illusion they won’t be able to swap to you and root you.

Just some options. It’s easier said than done but they are there.

Laxuar.3504:

in this way you are dazed for about 2 seconds

1 second…diversion doesn’t stack with more clones, it’s always one second…btw

I’m not glass cannon, I’m actually a Bunker Guardian…

Though I seem to have found the problem. It was not one Mesmer, but two, with very similar names (obviously playing together) and they both used the shatter spell on me, with all their clones up.

Farzo.8410:

I’m not glass cannon, I’m actually a Bunker Guardian…

Though I seem to have found the problem. It was not one Mesmer, but two, with very similar names (obviously playing together) and they both used the shatter spell on me, with all their clones up.

Wow, that’s another level of trickery haha, not nice.

Laxuar.3504:

At the moment some mesmer are using 3 shatter in the same combo in this way:

• Create a 2 clone with staff
• Change in sword and cast Illusionary Leap (Skill 3) and recast with swap (again skill 3)
• Than they are in melee and use Blurred Frenzy (Skill 2) and shatter with Diversion (F3) in this way you are dazed for about 2 seconds gaining 10 stacks of vulnerability.
• Than they use two utilities: Mirror Images and Decoy.
• They shatter again with Mind Wrack (F1).
• They shatter with (F2) just to add more damage.

And they do all of this during blurred frenzy. Anyway with this combo they use 2 breackstuns.

Afaik Mirror Images breaks the bf channel ‘cuz you get reposotioned… Same problem with Mirror Images while carrying orb.. If you use the skill you’ll drop the orb, ’cuz you make a little side-teleport..