Guild Wars 2

Want a quick reflection that you can hit every ~4 seconds? Use Mirror as your heal and interrupt the cast before it finishes. You’ll have the reflection while casting it but as long as you interrupt it before it finishes casting you’ll only get a ~4 second cooldown. Excellent for when you don’t need a heal but are being shot at … which helps you not need a heal ;-)

<3 Mirror.

I wouldn’t too used to it. Anet tends to fix these sort of stop-casting “benefits” as soon as they are abused.

Vyce.2014:

I wouldn’t too used to it. Anet tends to fix these sort of stop-casting “benefits” as soon as they are abused.

That was my initial thought when playing around with this … but the “reflection while casting” is what makes Mirror what it is so I’m not so sure in this case.

Plus, this isn’t stealth abuse which was much much worse.

Don’t kid yourself, this is an abuse of mechanics – certainly not how the skill was intended to be used.

It will get fixed if you start exploiting it. An exploit is an exploit no matter how you try dress it up.

Ryuujin.8236:

Don’t kid yourself, this is an abuse of mechanics – certainly not how the skill was intended to be used.

It will get fixed if you start exploiting it. An exploit is an exploit no matter how you try dress it up.

^^^

Plus, if your argument hinges on this exploit not being as bad as another, you should probably just stop right there.

It wasn’t the thought process “this is an exploit, but not as bad as another”.

It was the thought process “the reasons you take mirror are the short cooldown and the reflection during casting”. It’s the latter part that makes me think this might stay as is.

Otherwise, they’d need to do something to make Mirror worth taking … perhaps lower cast time and reflection upon completion of the heal, but that’s still a nerf given it’s a huge bonus to have the cast not interruptible by projectiles.

They could make it so it gives you one second Reflection on cast and another second on finish.

I noticed this almost immediately when I started using mirror. I thought it was cool at first, but it’s not very worth it imo. You’re sacrificing the availability of your heal and eating a dodge roll just for a little extra reflection, which the mesmer is already very good at doing. It’s a neat trick, but I doubt there are many situations where you’d get a whole lot of mileage out of it.

Brienson.7319:

I noticed this almost immediately when I started using mirror. I thought it was cool at first, but it’s not very worth it imo. You’re sacrificing the availability of your heal and eating a dodge roll just for a little extra reflection, which the mesmer is already very good at doing. It’s a neat trick, but I doubt there are many situations where you’d get a whole lot of mileage out of it.

You can cancel a cast without dodge-rolling.

I never use capslock so I re-binded my caps lock to escape for quick canceling of abilities … useful if you have something like ranger shortbow that’s annoying to spam auto-attack on so you leave it on but need to cancel when you encounter confusion/reflection.