Guild Wars 2

Hi, I made a new Mesmer and have been noticing that my clones and Illusions are doing 0 damage. Each hit lands but the hit reads as 0 each time.

The abilities I am using are: Mirror Images, Phantasmal Swordsman, Mirror blade and Illusionary Riposte.

Clones don’t really do any damage unless you Shatter them. However you get traits later on that cause some clones to cause bleeds on crits.

So first, just a terminology issue.

Clones look like you (no offhand weapons -_-). They also do little to no damage. Their purpose is applying on-hit affects, proccing on-clone-death traits, or shatters.

Phantasms do not look like you. They glow purple and use specific weapons. They do damage.

Clones and phantasms are all illusions, and can be shattered along with activating illusion # based traits.

The phantasmal swordsman should not be doing 0 damage, take a closer look at it.

The Phantasmal swordsman is indeed doing damage, it hits a mob then stands there taking a beating before hitting once more and then vanishing or dying. Is this normal for that ability?

TooNu.4530:

The Phantasmal swordsman is indeed doing damage, it hits a mob then stands there taking a beating before hitting once more and then vanishing or dying. Is this normal for that ability?

Yes, phantasms have a specific attack cycle. They will attack ones every X seconds. You can make (most of) them attack faster with a specific 20 point trait, but that’s in general how they work. Each phantasm will do a different type of attack though.

Thank you for your help

Clones did indeed used to deal significant damage. I can’t remember the exact amount but I seem to recall Sword Clones dealing about 200 damage per hit.

Certain Clones still do a lot of damage (without Sharper Images), and by certain Clones I mean Staff Clones. In fact for a Condition Mesmer Staff Clones are an important part of your DPS.