Guild Wars 2

Heya! I’ve been wondering …

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Decoy
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mirror_Images

I only see usage of Decoy and barely any Mirror Images. Even the recent buffs to it won’t change that imo. I tought about chaning those two skills a bit, to make Decoy more fitting and Mirror Images more attractive.

Decoy

Gain stealth and Summon an illusion to taunt and attack your foe.

Stealth (3s): Invisible to foes.
Taunt (2s): Involuntarily attack foes.
Breaks Stun
Range: 1,200
Recharge Time: 40s 30s

Mirror Images

Gain stealth and summon two clones to attack your foe.

Stealth (2s): Invisible to foes.
Breaks Stun
Range: 1,200
Recharge Time: 30s

What do you think? or

Greez!

I like it. Thumb up!

actually…
this is a really great idea

it IS called “Decoy”

“Mirror Images” doesn’t make much sense in the name to stealth, but, losing a stealth utility would make a lot of people mad, so, yes, should be put back somewhere
and it is CLEARLY underused…

huh
you got my vote

+1

This is exactly what I thought we would see with the introduction of Taunt. Seems like a no-brainer to have a skill that makes an opponent target a clone instead and your suggestion to merge Mirror Images with Decoy is great.

Well I always use both Decoy and Mirror Images, and with the cooldown buff Mirror Images is much easier to use for offensive burst without worrying about wasting a long cooldown stunbreak, or feeling like you have to use it within F5.

I like Decoy as it is – the stealth makes sense on this skill. If anything, the taunt could be added in addition to the stealth, although that would likely involve raising the cooldown further which I don’t think is a good idea. In any case regarding taunt – what if the target is immune to taunt? It would make the skill more useless than it is now.

I think Mirror Images is fine now, but perhaps you could gain 2s of Mirror (reflect) on using the skill.

People would just use Mirror images and not decoy.

Why? We have great access to CC (which is all that taunt is). If anything people might just take both XD

So sure, make the change.