Guild Wars 2

I just hit 80 recently and I thought the star looked really neat. I want to get it but people say it’ll only mess me up in pvp. Does any one know if the star will be on your clones as well in the future?

It’s a one of the well known bugs we have and we don’t know when it’s gonna get fixed. But don’t complain mate, we have portal.

Oh no, I was just wondering. I think I will get it regardless.

The completion star is terrible for everyone in WvW and even worse for Mesmers.

Apparently it’s one of the ways that distinguish ourselves from our so called clones. It’s probably falling down the list of things to fix since so many new bugs have been introduced for mesmer alone.

I’m sitting at 99% world completion, here’s a picture of me standing in front of the last Vista to complete everything.

Thing is, if I complete it, then I nerf myself in pvp and wvw

I can definitely confirm this for you. I didn’t know anything about this bug and did the world complete. Next thing I know in WvW everyone seemed to magically know which were clones and which was me.

My Mes is basically broken for WvW now, it’s either reroll another char for WvW or stick with Pve (that will suck), problem is after so much time and energy the thought of rerolling isn’t very appealing either.

The complete star is bad for any class as the star is often visible through walls and other terrain.

Would it be possible that they offer an option to manually switch the completion star off?

I hope so. Or at the very least, have it it disabled in WvW, sPvp & tPvP.

Yeah, sounds good for you. And if mobs in pve also are able to distinguish me from my phantasms by the star, they should remove it there, too. (Which leads to the point to make the star display optional.)
I am not sure how it works, but as I nearly only play pve I don’t want an AI that can see who the real mesmer is. ^^

Navi.7142:

Yeah, sounds good for you. And if mobs in pve also are able to distinguish me from my phantasms by the star, they should remove it there, too. (Which leads to the point to make the star display optional.)
I am not sure how it works, but as I nearly only play pve I don’t want an AI that can see who the real mesmer is. ^^

You’re good on that front. The program will always “know” which of you is real. It just depends on how frequently they let the mob AI act on that information.

As for PvP… I’m really glad I found this thread before I ended up with map completion, as PvP, specifically Mesmer, is really the only thing that I find engaging in this game… so it’d really have sucked to ruined that after I’ve seen all there is to see. I just figured that our status would be mirrored to our creations… all aspects of it, including this. By definition.. a clone. I don’t feel that a toggle would be the right avenue to fix this, however. Applying it to the summons or disabling the star for EVERYONE in PvP would seem like the most fair solutions.

I was working hard on map completion when I realized that you couldn’t ‘turn off’ the star. I assumed it would disappear if you changed your title, but it doesn’t. I will absolutely NOT do map completion on my mesmer until they get this fixed. This issue just sucked all the joy out of me playing my favorite character in this game. I barely play her at all now and started an alt instead. I hope Anet fixes this soon!

Got mine last week and I honestly can’t tell the difference. I play a good bit of WvW and nothing has changed. If they are a good player they are going to know where you are. If they are a not so seasoned player… They will still fall for attacking the stationary clone.

I’d guess it would depend on your play style. For me, it would be game breaking as my whole play style revolves around acting like a clone and making people lose track of the real me.

It is game breaking for mesmers (and bad for most other classes). Decent players can figure out without the star (real mesmer dodging, off hands etc) but the star just makes is stupid easy for anyone to find us.