Guild Wars 2

Empowered Illusions?? considering they do next to no damage, all the time.

Phantasm are also illusions. A iswordsman at lvl 80 can do up to 8k+ with that trait.

/Osicat

Empowered Illusions is a relic from Beta, back when Clones used to deal significant damage. Now that Clones deal no damage it pretty much just affects Phantasms, which makes it basically the same as Phantasmal Strength.

so shouldn’t they change that? it’s quite misleading and useless.

yvesbeaumont.3291:

so shouldn’t they change that? it’s quite misleading and useless.

Because the mesmer is not on their priority list.

yvesbeaumont.3291:

so shouldn’t they change that? it’s quite misleading and useless.

How is it misleading and useless? It says illusion damage increased by 15%, whats misleading or useless about it?

Illusion = clones and phantasms i.e your 3 pink dots above the weaponskills.

Most mesmer tooltips and traits are messy. It seems like they sturggled a whole lot with balancing the class, but never took the time to polish and clean everything up.

yvesbeaumont.3291:

so shouldn’t they change that? it’s quite misleading and useless.

Well, technically, this isn’t true. Your clones do like 1 dmg… Add 15% to that (which probably does happen) and you still get 1 dmg. Bottom line, other than annoyance, this point is close to irrelevant. No offense meant, but I’d rather have Anet focus on big problems vice small ones like this.

Indeed. Forget tooltips, at the end of Beta we were promised an overhaul of Mesmer traits. There’s been some minor changes since then but no where close to an overhaul.

Dhampyr.2104:

yvesbeaumont.3291:

so shouldn’t they change that? it’s quite misleading and useless.

Well, technically, this isn’t true. Your clones do like 1 dmg… Add 15% to that (which probably does happen) and you still get 1 dmg. Bottom line, other than annoyance, this point is close to irrelevant. No offense meant, but I’d rather have Anet focus on big problems vice small ones like this.

doesn’t matter what you THINK is irrelevant. i was simply asking a question.

Ramiel.4931:

yvesbeaumont.3291:

so shouldn’t they change that? it’s quite misleading and useless.

Because the mesmer is not on their priority list.

Have no fear of that. We are most definitely on their priority list, in fact we are at the very top for incoming nerfage.

Embolism.8106:

Indeed. Forget tooltips, at the end of Beta we were promised an overhaul of Mesmer traits. There’s been some minor changes since then but no where close to an overhaul.

Where was this said? Mesmer traits do need an overhaul but it was my understanding that they weren’t going to do that and they would just tweak the really kittenty and useless ones to make them appear to be more appealing. ie the 1 second cloaking GM trait in Chaos line that they added cloaking effects to.

We should make a list somewhere of all the useless traits we have. Anything to do with interupts is essentially useless for example or mantra’s.