Guild Wars 2

Once upon a time there was a time when phantasm hp were buffed in the realms of PvP environments such as sPvP and WvW. This was to counteract a lot of the insta death that was occurring under AoE and Melee spam pressure and the like. Smart cookies could also place some toughness into their builds to further gain a bit of survivability for their phantasmal friends. But then the world turned and the Dev Gods decreed that hellfire should rain down upon the lands to smite anyone caught in a fiery blast, or to cross over a fiery line of circle :o

Phantasms were never designed to withstand such harsh conditions and as such even smart cookies building tougher are powerless to do anything against the all consuming burning D: Especially when such mundane activities as farting, burping, and sneezing will proc application on a fellow these days -_-u

In otherwords – Phantasm health vs current meta trends needs revision and updating :)

Boost base health like they boosted base damage, or make phantasms scale with vitality?

Make Illusions immune to burning! How can you burn an illusion anyway!

Current phantasm health is fine. For dedicated phantasm builds they should probably buff Persisting Images and place it higher in its traitline.

They could be a bit tankier indeed, especially iDefender lacks of it’s capability.

Xyonon.3987:

They could be a bit tankier indeed, especially iDefender lacks of it’s capability.

Yeah our phantasm/clone utilities are not only the only uncategorized(?) utilities in the game (they are called both “clone” and “phantasm”) they are also competitors for the worst utilities in the game.

Quadox.7834:

Boost base health like they boosted base damage, or make phantasms scale with vitality?

I think scaling with vitality would be the easiest and fair solution. I still don’t get why it’s the one stat they don’t scale with.

I would prefer the mindless burnspam to be turned down. I see no problem when someone uses burning to remove clones and phantasm. The problem is when said person doesn’t need to think at all and be save.