Guild Wars 2

Master Illusionist: for 20 seconds gain the ability to control 6 illusions

Would need a change in animation for the Illusion circles…but would be awesome in a 1v1 situation.

BTW – I think our elites suck.

Unfortunately, that would be an insanely broken Elite. I’m generally condi-specced, and I can imagine the crap I can toss out with that many Staff clones, plus a Warlock or 2. Let alone a power spec with multiple Mirror Blades and a couple of Zerkers.
Now, if Master Illusionist instead:
*Granted your current illusions your Vitality, or even a reasonable fraction thereof …
—and/or—
*Allowed your illusions to duplicate (or inversely mirror) your general movement patterns …

That might successfully straddle the border between “OP” and just “BA as all kitten, but workable.”

Also, our Elites don’t suck, with the exception of that Moa business. It just doesn’t fit.
We need an “Illusion” or “Mantra” Elite, to even things out, IMHO.

How would the mirror movement be usable in PvE?

That’s the only rub, to be honest.

Advent.6193:

Unfortunately, that would be an insanely broken Elite. I’m generally condi-specced, and I can imagine the crap I can toss out with that many Staff clones, plus a Warlock or 2. Let alone a power spec with multiple Mirror Blades and a couple of Zerkers.
Now, if Master Illusionist instead:
*Granted your current illusions your Vitality, or even a reasonable fraction thereof …
—and/or—
*Allowed your illusions to duplicate (or inversely mirror) your general movement patterns …

That might successfully straddle the border between “OP” and just “BA as all kitten, but workable.”

Also, our Elites don’t suck,

They dont? I’m pretty sure almost all “elite” skills of gw2 suck hard. Not just the mesmer ones.

Some good suggestions, there’s an illusion elite I’ve always wanted.

Call it ‘Copy’, or ‘True Self’, I’m not sure on the name but basically, a 30 second duration illusion is summoned, doesn’t count towards your 3, and it mimics what weapons you have equipped, but has access to all the skills (weaker than your own) and can summon it’s own illusions. It’d be sweet, could summon it’s own duelist and use confusing images, or throw down it’s own chaos storm.

Seems a bit OP, but if the damage was scaled down adequately I think it could work nicely, think like having a Mesmer henchman in GW1

This could be plenty fun.

i want a huge giant butterfly that spread chaos while moving its wings! or a large swarm/cloud of butterflies that spread chaos while being killed!

that’s all, thank you!

I would prefer a Transformation Elite, one of the skills MUST be to summon a Swarm of Pruple Butterflies that deal damage and are affected by all of our illusion, clone and “on death” traits. The skill could have d skill.2 option when you “shatter” them all causes Damage, Daze, Confusion to all targets in the area and gives you Distortion

saintange.5816:

i want a huge giant butterfly that spread chaos while moving its wings! or a large swarm/cloud of butterflies that spread chaos while being killed!

that’s all, thank you!

Elite – Shattered Reality: Summon a giant (and self-destructing) butterfly that applies all FOUR shatters at target (damage = base shatter damage regardless of the number of active clones or IP). 1s delay between summon and attack. The butterfly’s attack can be dodged/mitigated.

Is that enough chaos for you? =P

Why not a elite which will summon Ecio Auditore and Jon Sheppard to fight on your side for 2 min come on get serious.
A elite mantra ( Mirror – reflect all skills used against you back to its source ) or a elite illusion will be nice ofc with a decent balance

That name gave me an idea:

Shattered Reality – 180s CD
Shatter reality itself, causing an area around you to rapidly decay. After 10 seconds, affected targets will reset their combat state, health, boons, conditions, cooldowns and positions to the beginning of the spell.
Radius: 900
Always affects the Mesmer, and in addition up to 4 friendly and 5 enemy targets.

Graphically, the affected players should have the entire world graphics corrupt and shatter into shards, the effect becoming rapidly worse over the 6 seconds. Outside players would see the affected players constantly emit glass shards like our clones do when shattering.

I must admit, the swarm of butterflies sounds awesome. I imagine something to the same effect that the guy in that show Bleach had.

Since we seem to lack a true burst elite skill, here is my suggestion:

Prism or Doppelganger
Mesmer summons three identical illusions (clones) forming a triangle pattern that doesn’t count against the illusion total. They cannot be shattered. The mesmer is then randomly warped to one of the positions leaving two illusions and the mesmer . These illusion have the exact same stats as the mesmer and will follow the player’s every move identically; every turn, every dodge roll, and every weapon ability 1-3 (no illusions or glamours). Each illusion does 25% of the player’s damage adding up to 150% player damage for 15 seconds. (#s are placeholders, increase or decrease for balance)

Oh… and add butterflies, I fricken love butterflies.