Guild Wars 2

So, I was playing around trying to learn some things about my mesmer, mainly how I could make it possible to actually be decent at tagging mobs in events.
I was pleasantly surprised to discover phantasms, if they have begun their attack, actually persist after the mob used to generate them has died, until their attack has ended. That opens options for using the iWarden to tag things in events.
However, I couldn’t figure out if shattering was similar through my experiments. If you shatter, but the enemy dies before your illusions can reach it, do they still shatter at the location it died? I don’t think they do, but couldn’t really tell when I shattered right as the test golem died.
It’d be a shame if they didn’t, considering my shatter still goes on cooldown.

Nope, if your target dies, the illusions will shatter where they are standing and not where your target died. This is one of the reasons why our Shatter AoE can be so unpredictable and terrible.

Well that just is very sad to hear. Oh well, my other characters can do events, then.

If I am in a fight, or join, I for some reason try to make my clones(mirror images), and sword #3, to get 3 clones, and when I have them, I instantly shatter, also I try target the enemy with more that 50% hp, so they won’t die if I target downed enemy etc, where the chance is great to lose the clones and just wasting mirror images, if you make a good place on clones and instant shatter if you know what you are doing, you can down atleast 5 people with 70% hp if they are in range of the shatters, and AoE from sword #2 I use at same time.