Mesmer Clones

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Posted by: TyPin.9860

TyPin.9860

I really love my little silly Mesmer. She is just crazy and likes to do the opposite, of what I am expecting… like surviving unsurvivable situations and getting downed in a WvW while my team outnumbers the opponent 3 to 2^^

But hey, I am a Mesmer, so they have to find me first… What? I teleported closet to the enemy and they found me the very moment I lose stealth granted by Deception? Well, they were lucky, weren’t they?

No actually they most likely weren’t. While the clone created by Deception sometimes confuses my teammates so that they try to revive the clone instead of me, the enemy finds me always, if they know, what they’re doing. Not is it only obvious that after I disappear, first a clone appears and after that myself, letting the opponent know, that the second me that appeared, is the real me. I have also a marker over my head, showing them, that I am the original.

What is that all about?

It is getting worse. When I’m still not downed and I have any boon on me, or if I am using a signet, the opponent will instantly know the difference between me and my clone. Because the clone won’t have my signet or boons or stacks from weapon sigils or norishments or whatever… I, for myself, have learned to deal with Mesmers quite well, because they can not really confuse me.

And if I call a Mesmer target, the Mesmer losses that big call over his head only, if he goes into stealth, but not when he uses Mirror Images for example. That makes it super easy for my group to find the Mesmer and he can do almost nothing about that.

Buttom line is, it is too easy to find the original between all the Mesmer illusions. Possible solutions:

  • If a Mesmer clones himself, the target on the Mesmer should switch randomly, between him and the clone created, to cause some real confusion, otherwise Mesmer are only meat to be sliced away.
  • Also the target over a downed player should be over the downed clone too, to really confuse the enemy.
  • And the clone and the Mesmer should appear the same time before the enemy’s eyes after using Deception in a downed state.

Also, Deception should teleport me away from my currently selected target and the created clone should go away from the target too, randomly deciding, who goes further, me or my clone…

Mesmers are about confusing the foe. But if the foe is skilled enough, it can pick up on so many more hints, then just the behavior from the clones and the original, making it super easy to find the original Mesmer…

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Posted by: MindlessRuff.1948

MindlessRuff.1948

Really? Randomly change the selected target when you make a clone? I play mesmer in PvP and admit this would be broken, you can already stealth to drop target with decoy, and the downstate is fine too, it can be countered, but you can dodge the first stomp and delay them even if they use stability.

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Posted by: TyPin.9860

TyPin.9860

I have actually never played seriously sPvP. But I see it in WvW very often. While a thieve can choose his destination or an ele can mistform out of the heat (of course both only useful in certain situations and most of the times only a delay too) I teleport with deception in an opponents AoE field rather than out of it. That is annoying. And I always die a little bit when I see a downed mesmer, who can not confuse me at all with deception (because the game tells me, who the real Mesmer is).

But the biggest issue is that a mesmer can not really confuse his targets with clones. I mostly find my target easily. Maybe the mesmers I fought were easy prey, but also I myself have the feeling of never been able to confuse my foe with clones, unless I use decoy…

Of course that doesn’t matter in a shatter build, where u summon and shatter ur illusions anyway almost instantly. But I like to fool my opponents and I feel, I can not do that properly…

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