Guild Wars 2

I really like Mirror Blade when you have the illusionary elasticity trait, however I saw one of the dev’s recently mention that you can use reflection to get even more bounces.

Has anyone tried this? what kinds of reflects are we talking about here ?

Masterful Reflection + Distortion Reflects ?

IE + Mirror Blade already lets you pop 9 stacks of vulnerability, on a target.. MR + Blurred Frenzy might be 6 more stacks (2 more bounces given a 3s distort), Shattering for distortion might be another 6 stacks.

Has anyone tried this .. it sounds pretty awesome and IE is getting some much needed love(fixes) in the feature build .. might be a mainstay if people can capitalize on bounces.

Well using Blurred Frenzy isn’t an option since they changed it from distortion to evade (so retaliation could effect it). It’s worth testing with F4 but I personally would never use it in a real situation since that would be a major cd to pop for 1k- 2k damage.

Right after I read the post you were referring to I tried this. It didn’t work. Could be because It’s unblockable. The only skill that can affect this is the untraited iWarden that just destroys it.

If it worked I think it actually would (if you’re standing inside of your opponent) hit like this:

• Hits foe -> Bounce -- 3 left
• Hits you -> Reflect -- 3 left
• Hits foe -> Bounce -- 2 left
• Hits you -> Reflect -- 2 left
• Hits foe -> Bounce -- 1 left
• Hits you -> Reflect -- 1 left
• Hits foe -> Bounce -- 0 left
• Hits you -> Reflect -- 0 left
• Hits foe -> ends

I believe pyro can tell more about that than I can

Well, I haven’t experimented with this functionality much, so I’m just going off of what Tyler said, and that would be that reflected friendly missiles can only hit friendly targets, so you’d potentially sacrifice some dps for additional might stacking.

Ok, just did some testing with winds of chaos.

So if you just use the skill, it goes from you, hits target, and then bounces to a 2nd target. Assuming you are that 2nd target, you’ll gain a boon.

If you reflect the bolt instead of simply receiving it, things get a bit weird. If the bolt is from a clone, then it will bounce off of you, providing no boons, and go hit a nearby friendly target. If no friendly target is nearby, it’ll hit whatever friendly target it can find. I was able to get the bolt to get farther than 1500 range to hit a friendly target.

If the bolt was from you…then it doesn’t work. At all. Instead of reflecting it, like the clone bolt was, it’ll be absorbed, neither providing you with boons nor bouncing to any more targets, friendly or otherwise.