Guild Wars 2

I just created my mesmer and I really like it, but I think there is something wrong because my clones don’t do any damage. My phantasms do damage but my clones don’t. Is this a known bug. Or is there just something wrong with my charactar? Could someone please help me with this?

Working as intended. Clones don’t actually deal no damage, they just deal extremely little damage which, at lower levels, shows as 0 damage. At higher levels your Clones do start doing non-zero damage, although it is still a negligible amount that is as good as zero anyway.

Note that while Clones don’t deal direct damage, they are capable of dealing condition damage. Some Clones are naturally able to inflict damaging conditions (Staff Clones and Trident Clones), and all Clones can be traited to inflict Bleeding on critical hits through Sharper Images (Dueling 15).

Sword Clones are noteworthy because they inflict Vulnerability and strip boons, so despite having no natural damage they can improve your damage and wreck boon-dependent opponents.

Embolism.8106:

Working as intended. Clones don’t actually deal no damage, they just deal extremely little damage which, at lower levels, shows as 0 damage. At higher levels your Clones do start doing non-zero damage, although it is still a negligible amount that is as good as zero anyway.

Note that while Clones don’t deal direct damage, they are capable of dealing condition damage. Some Clones are naturally able to inflict damaging conditions (Staff Clones and Trident Clones), and all Clones can be traited to inflict Bleeding on critical hits through Sharper Images (Dueling 15).

Sword Clones are noteworthy because they inflict Vulnerability and strip boons, so despite having no natural damage they can improve your damage and wreck boon-dependent opponents.

Thanks for explaining!