Guild Wars 2

can you say, make clones while transformed into norn forms or in a power suit? i ask because i remember doing it as the avatar of Balthazar in a story quest.

You have to separate two “transformations”. First the “visual appearance”, in AC and the ascalon fractal you forcibly become transformed, but only your appearance. All other skills/ abilities still work. With those, you can summon clones (and phantasms) and they have your current appearance. This didn’t work at the beginning, but has been fixed for several months now.
But then, there’re “bundle transformations”. Two weeks ago (or one month) there was a patch which disables summoning clones while using a bundle. This hasn’t been fixed yet.

But well, don’t expect you to summon a clone within a full transformation (appearance, weapon skills and #6 ~ #0 swapped) like the power suit.

If you make clones while you don’t have your weapon skills active, the clones default to some slowish purple ball attack that doesn’t seem to do anything.

I use the Snow Leopard form in WvW pretty regularly (it’s the ultimate escape tool). Deceptive Evasion (clone on dodge) doesn’t proc in this form, and there are no other skills available to create a clone.

I keep meaning to try Prismatic Understanding with the Snow Leopard, but haven’t done it yet.