Guild Wars 2

Warden’s Feedback: Focus skills reflect projectiles, focus skills also receive a reduced cooldown. [Pretty cool… But not very useful for the fact you’d have to literally hide behind the phantasm to reflect.]
Protected Phantasms: Phantasms gain distortion briefly upon creation. Illusions gain protection when you use a shatter skill. [The distortion… Kinda neat? But the protection… No.]

-Changes-
Warden’s Feedback: Phantasmal Warden reflects projectiles to enemy. Temporal Curtain now absorbs projectiles and turns them into cleansing bolts. [Or… For Phantasmal Warden… Make it deal more damage per projectile absorbed. While reflecting.]

Protected Phantasms: Phantasms gain distortion upon creation. When they attack, they are blurred until the attack is over. [Now they’ll survive a lot better… Plus they can go through Guardian attacks… And Traps if you have this trait on.]

I would prefer them to merge Medic’s Feedback with the (now nerfed) Temporal Enchanter, and have Warden’s Feedback be made a Major Adept. But I post too much. And that leaves kitten in the major masters. So nevermind.

we’d have a better chance if we just asked the developers to copy and paste the druid code over the mesmer traits.

I agree with you as a start. Focus needs more rework than that to be useful though. Seriously why is Protected Phantasm even a thing. No phantasm ever gets killed let alone hit before they get their first attack off and distortion doesn’t last past that, so what’s the point. And gain protection on shatter?!?! WHAT?… they are charging to their deaths anyway at that point so who cares.

The distortion on shatter would be great for helping deal with DHs who are OP against glassy mesmer builds… I’m NOT saying DH are OP in GENERAL (In-fact they are pretty par in general)… they are just a poorly designed class that unfairly hard counter some glassy builds.

in all honesty i think Protected Phantasm trait was an attempt at making shatter viable in GvG, and it just got left in there because nothing better was suggested