Guild Wars 2

Wouldn’t it be nicer if ANet made distinctions between phantasms and clones on the 3 circle bars (eg clones are pink circles and phantasms are purple circles) so as to make it easier to keep count of phantasms and clones seperately?

Any others feel the same way too?

I would at least love a tooltip feature that you could mouse hover over the illusion icon and it gave the name of the illusion (i.e. clone, illusionary berserker, etc)

Would be nice to simply have Pink for Clone and Purple for Phantom as that would let us know and would help us show when we just replaced a phantom for a clone due to dodge rolling and such.

I’d like color coding very much!!!

(Light) Pink = Clone
(Deep) Purple = Phantasm

Nothing constructive to add really – i can only agree as this would be a nice and easy implementation imo.

Nice idea other thing that could to add to this:

A timer for each illusion/clone attack, so you can identify when (or if they have already) attacked and give more control over when the best time to shatter is.

Another idea could be to show what boons each illusion has on them (might not be great for illusion but maybe this could be used for other classes as well i.e ranger/necromancer)

I suggested this several times, created a thread in the suggestion part but all I got were people saying it wasn’t useful or it was a l2p issue.

Even made a pic back then.

So, yeah, I support the idea 100%.

I think this would just dumb down the Mesmer.. Removing the need to do half of the critical thinking involved in a fight..

Knowing what skills/rolls I use when, and knowing that a Clone never replaces a Phantasm, I don’t think it’s hard to keep track at all.

I personally do not think it is dumbing down… I only would use this feature in mass PvE fights where there are 50+ people beating on a dragon and i am physically unable to see where the kitten are my illusions..

Yes, of course, it doesn’t matter if i bring up the 4th warlock shattering the 3rd, but sometimes it’s just good to know.

Yes, exactly what Krag posted there!

@dank
Clones will replace Phantasms if there are 3 Phantasms out. When there are 2 Phantasms and 1 Clone, your next Clone will replace the previous Clone. However if you have 3 Phantasms, if you have deceptive evasion and you dodge, your phantasm will get replaced by that clone. So it’ll be really helpful to us to know how many phantasms we have up currently.

@Krag
Really nice suggestion pic there! Hope it gets implemented for us mesmers.