Guild Wars 2

Hello. I am new player, also I recently started playing pvp. I tried use the Mesmer skill mimic, its description is “copy boons from the targeted foe to yourself” It also says it copies 12 boons. My problem is that I tried it many times and it don’t seem to work, I got no boons and the enemy player didn’t loose any. I don’t think is range issue because every time they were very close to me. Is the skill bugged or i do something wrong?

1) Line of sight – you need to be directly in line of sight of the enemy for any skill to work (just like summoning phantasms ect.). If you are behind an obstacle (pillar, rock ect.) the skill will fail
2) Evasion – the skill is unblockable, but enemy can still evade it (evasion skills like thief #3 on s/d work too). A simple dodge roll is enough to negate the skill as well
3) Blinds – any (single hit) skill that is casted while you are blinded automatically misses
4) Boons – mimic copies boons. It does not copy boon-like abilities (like signet effects, virtues, food buffs ect.). Unless the enemy has boons on them (might, fury, protection, aegis, stability ect.) you will not get any benefit out of it whatsoever.

Hope this helps

In any case, there’s never a reason to use Mimic over other considerably better options.

But yeah, Mimic can be avoided as if it were a projectile (not reflected, but you get the picture)