Guild Wars 2

So I kinda like this little guy. But I’ve got a couple issues.

Why, when summoned does he always run in from behind the target. I SOO wish he would run in from behind me like the Warlock does. Also please make him ranged.

He never seems to live long since he comes in from so far away and sometimes doesn’t even cure my conditions before he dies.

I believe it is a bug(or an incomplete fix). iWarlock spawns at the casting range, iDuelist spawns at the casting range. iDisenchanter spawns at the exact same bugged casting range that existed a month ago. Although you can cast the skill at the correct range now, those guys still spawn at the bugged range.

Yeah it’s annoying.

I love this guy, it’s the shortest cooldown condition remover. The casting range is bugging me. Same thing for Defender, it should spawn at range and follow us.

While it is a powerful condition cleanser/boon stripper, my problem with it is that condition cleansing needs to be reliable: when I use a condition cleanser I expect it to work 100% of the time. Phantasmal Disenchanter (and also Arcane Thievery) requires the target to be hit, which means it can fail if you’re Blinded, not facing the target, target is invulnerable, target is stealthed, target is obstructed, target is out of range, so on so forth.

If Phantasmal Disenchanter (and maybe Defender too) targets yourself instead of your enemies and is 100% guaranteed to work at any time, then it would be much more useful IMO. Shattering it would cause it to Shatter on the spot, as Illusions without a target already do.

Embolism.8106:

While it is a powerful condition cleanser/boon stripper, my problem with it is that condition cleansing needs to be reliable: when I use a condition cleanser I expect it to work 100% of the time. Phantasmal Disenchanter (and also Arcane Thievery) requires the target to be hit, which means it can fail if you’re Blinded, not facing the target, target is invulnerable, target is stealthed, target is obstructed, target is out of range, so on so forth.

If Phantasmal Disenchanter (and maybe Defender too) targets yourself instead of your enemies and is 100% guaranteed to work at any time, then it would be much more useful IMO. Shattering it would cause it to Shatter on the spot, as Illusions without a target already do.

So you want a Glamour that you can Shatter.

Esplen.3940:

Embolism.8106:

While it is a powerful condition cleanser/boon stripper, my problem with it is that condition cleansing needs to be reliable: when I use a condition cleanser I expect it to work 100% of the time. Phantasmal Disenchanter (and also Arcane Thievery) requires the target to be hit, which means it can fail if you’re Blinded, not facing the target, target is invulnerable, target is stealthed, target is obstructed, target is out of range, so on so forth.

If Phantasmal Disenchanter (and maybe Defender too) targets yourself instead of your enemies and is 100% guaranteed to work at any time, then it would be much more useful IMO. Shattering it would cause it to Shatter on the spot, as Illusions without a target already do.

So you want a Glamour that you can Shatter.

A nonsensical comparison considering that Glamours are persistent field effects while Phantasms are targetable entities that can be destroyed.

Conventional Phantasms are supposed to be “damaging hexes that enemies can destroy”. A Mesmer-bound support Phantasm is basically a “beneficial buff that enemies can destroy”. Which they already are, really; except the buff has to be cast on the enemy; which IMO doesn’t make much sense.

Of course, Disenchanter does have the whole boon stripping thing going for it, but really; people use it first and foremost for the condition cleansing, and for that purpose it has to be reliable. It doesn’t make it considerably more difficult for enemies to deal with it so I don’t see why it’s a problem.