Guild Wars 2

One thing that always frustrates me about playing mesmer in pvp or wvw is that your body double doesn’t have a big arrow pointed over them like the real you, which is a dead giveaway for your assailant to kill the real mesmer. What’s the point of the body double in downed state if you have a big arrow pointing at you saying “HERE’S THE REAL ONE?”

Also while we’re at it, why not make desperate decoy drop a fake downed body? It would be cool if the body drops where the trait activated and it unstealths just a second earlier than you do, so you have a small bit of time to try and escape if that’s the plan (or counter burst for the brave mesmers).

Why though? Its already a strong trait, and the extra clone will never be a true distraction against a competent player. They are good for shatter fodder and that’s about it. Even if we did get a clone that unstealthed before we do, any good player will just not attack the first mesmer to get revealed, and wait to find us.

maybe also give mesmers a clone that can ress them because mesmers are not kittening annoying enough to fight yet

It’s a QoL change, not rly that huge a thing. Let’s not blow this out of proportion.

Mattrun.9104:

It’s a QoL change, not rly that huge a thing. Let’s not blow this out of proportion.

a QoL change is polishing a description of a skill or adding better visuals and such

what you suggest are straight up buffs that directly affect the gameplay

So I’m not necessarily against the changes that were mentioned, but calling those QoL is simply lying.

For roleplaying purposes I genuinely like the idea of the clone from the trait being a downed one, assuming it also uses the downed attack and all.

(I’m generally in favor of anything which makes clones appear more believable, no matter how tiny the individual change is, because I’d love a Mesmer which genuinely is about hiding between your clones.)