Make phantasm attacks rely on mesmer LOS
No, that would render our phantasms completely useless. LoSing attacks already causes them to miss by hitting the object, so not only will the phantasms miss when they don’t have LoS but also when we don’t have LoS, that is crippling. I don’t understand this sweeping change, it really affects all the other Mesmer’s functionality…
“i was suggesting that phantasm creation be reverted to ignore line of sight, but require line of sight in order for the phantasm to attack.”
It would not remove the requirement of the phantasm to have LoS to attack as well, so in every situation both you and that phantasm will need to have LoS of the target to land anything. It’s placing yet another requirement on landing attacks/shatters by doing that, even if you revert the summoning.
illusion creation period should always be treated as divorced from their attacks.
The illusions are a resource we mesmers use for dozens of abilities.
The illusions themselves provide defensive and group-wide passives such as anti-projectile bubbles, regeneration, protection, retaliation.
Anet does not play their own game as mesmer, I think.
It makes the way warlocks were treated in “the game which shall not be named” look just and even kind!
This was simply a horrible move by the devs… LoS is already buggy, now I am going to have an issue of not being able to summon phantasm more than half the time because of kiting/blocking/dodging… this is really bad when all the Mesmer’s abilities (active and passive) rely on summons in some way, all except auto attacks.
If you’ve actually been playing this game, you would know how kitten buggy LoS is, and you wouldn’t want to many anything more dependent upon it.
I would rather have an idle phantasm than no phantasm at all; I need that phantasm. I have a core mechanic and traits that revolve around it.
Gotta say I did not enjoy the Battle of Kyhlo today after the patch.
I was sitting on the treb firing away when a thief pops up and hides behind the treb blocking my LOS. All my phantasms go to cool down and I watch him keep circling to avoid me while he kills the treb. Once he’s done he runs off.
LOS was being abused but this seems to have created some other issues.