Guild Wars 2

A lot of the mesmers skills produce no effect unless there is a target to activate them against:
GS #1 Spacial Surge,
Scepter #3 Confusing Images,
Sword #3 Illusionary Leap,
Arcane Thievery,
Mimic (new)
Mantra of Pain (Power Spike),
Mantra of Distraction (Power Lock),
Polymorph Moa,
ALL illusion producing skills,
And all down state skills.

It may be said that clone skills require a target because they need to be assigned to a target to exist. I say this is not true for the following reasons.
Staff #2 Phase Retreat, Decoy, Mirror Images, and Deceptive Evasion Trait are all useable without a target.
In the case of Deceptive Evasion, a clone is produced and assigned to the closest target. For Phase Retreat the Leap effect is still executed without the clone. Decoy acts as a stealth and a stun breaker without a target. Mirror Images acts as a stun breaker only.

The Skill Feedback produces a reflective bubble over your target and it might make sense that this skill does not work without a target. However this skill does produce a non targeted effect producing a Feedback bubble at the closest terrain that the center of the camera is pointing at. This effect is useful yet difficult to control.

There are many possibilities for how to handle these skills untargeted other than telling the caster that they can’t do that.

If Spatial Surge is used untargeted what if it produce a melee range cleave hit box ?
What if an untargeted Polymorph Moa turned the caster into the moa!?
What if Mantra of Pain and Mantra of Distraction produced its new AOE effect centered on the caster when there is no valid target?

Even more wild what if clone skills produced target less clones that just died after a few seconds such that skills like Mind Stab could be used as a fast AOE?
What if Illusionary Leap produced a targetless clone for a few seconds that way the Leap effect might be used for mobility or combo fields?

Phantasms could be spawned at a fixed distance in front of the caster to execute some static action: iWarden stays at a fixed spot and acts as a reflect shield, iBerserker Whirls forward and back to the caster, All other Phantasms act as turret like creatures for some short duration?

To the forum I submit, what would be a reasonable solution for untargeted skills?

Danama.1462:

A lot of the mesmers skills produce no effect unless there is a target to activate them against:
GS #1 Spacial Surge,
Scepter #3 Confusing Images,
Sword #3 Illusionary Leap,
Arcane Thievery,
Mimic (new)
Mantra of Pain (Power Spike),
Mantra of Distraction (Power Lock),
Polymorph Moa,
ALL illusion producing skills,
And all down state skills.

It may be said that clone skills require a target because they need to be assigned to a target to exist. I say this is not true for the following reasons.
Staff #2 Phase Retreat, Decoy, Mirror Images, and Deceptive Evasion Trait are all useable without a target.
In the case of Deceptive Evasion, a clone is produced and assigned to the closest target. For Phase Retreat the Leap effect is still executed without the clone. Decoy acts as a stealth and a stun breaker without a target. Mirror Images acts as a stun breaker only.

The Skill Feedback produces a reflective bubble over your target and it might make sense that this skill does not work without a target. However this skill does produce a non targeted effect producing a Feedback bubble at the closest terrain that the center of the camera is pointing at. This effect is useful yet difficult to control.

There are many possibilities for how to handle these skills untargeted other than telling the caster that they can’t do that.

If Spatial Surge is used untargeted what if it produce a melee range cleave hit box ?
What if an untargeted Polymorph Moa turned the caster into the moa!?
What if Mantra of Pain and Mantra of Distraction produced its new AOE effect centered on the caster when there is no valid target?

Even more wild what if clone skills produced target less clones that just died after a few seconds such that skills like Mind Stab could be used as a fast AOE?
What if Illusionary Leap produced a targetless clone for a few seconds that way the Leap effect might be used for mobility or combo fields?

Phantasms could be spawned at a fixed distance in front of the caster to execute some static action: iWarden stays at a fixed spot and acts as a reflect shield, iBerserker Whirls forward and back to the caster, All other Phantasms act as turret like creatures for some short duration?

To the forum I submit, what would be a reasonable solution for untargeted skills?

Wait for a target to appear?

Mirror Images needs a target to be activated

Shintei.9061:

Mirror Images needs a target to be activated

Can’t you use it just as a stun breaker anytime?

Teutos.8620:

Shintei.9061:

Mirror Images needs a target to be activated

Can’t you use it just as a stun breaker anytime?

I don’t believe so.

Fay.2357:

Teutos.8620:

Shintei.9061:

Mirror Images needs a target to be activated

Can’t you use it just as a stun breaker anytime?

I don’t believe so.

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