Guild Wars 2

Just watched guild chat, and I still can’t tell.

The word I heard was “clones”.

I tried to watch really closely during the demoing. The only time I actually saw a phantasm out was the berserker, and it didn’t look like it executed the ambush attack

But… I could actually tell for sure

It’s the only thing I wanted to learn from Guild Chat… Did anyone see/hear anything definitive?

Tune in tomorrow to find out!

I just looked over the video again. Phantasm did NOT use the ambush skill. 1:04:32 on the twitch video. It got the particle effect but it didn’t attack.

Edit Oops, this elite spec guild chat video.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/167733328

This does say “you and your clones can use an Ambush skill for your weapon for a short time”.

That being said, a lot of the wiki info is missing still so…

I don’t think so.

Ambush is for mesmer autoattacks. None of our phantasms do autoattacks.

Let alone we have phantasms like warlock, mage, defender, disenchanter who don’t even share weapon types as mesmer.

Nope.

During the stream they summoned a phantasm and did a Ambush attack right next to it, and it just stayed on its normal routine.

It’s a bit sad if not because given some of the kitten poor cast effects (eg iWarlock) what is the point of using certain phantasm skills aside from extra shatter fodder, especially if using DE and having no trouble generating enough clones?

Curunen.8729:

It’s a bit sad if not because given some of the kitten poor cast effects (eg iWarlock) what is the point of using certain phantasm skills aside from extra shatter fodder, especially if using DE and having no trouble generating enough clones?

in pve , iduelist will still be our main source of dps unless anet buffs some number on axe and ambush attack in pve . i really dont see how our playstyle will change in pve .

in pvp , you can summon like iwarlock while dodging with mirage , extra dmg is still good anyway .

the reason behind those cast effect i think is anet actually tried to make power based elite which will interact with those cast effect ,but they could not make it work , so they changed mirage to condi based . Its likely they tried to build scrapper with some fuel mechanic or ele with sword before hot but they changed it .then for holosmith and weave they finally made this work .they will either remove those cast effect or buff them directly or give us a new elite in next expac.