Alright it may be a long shot. I did try to search to see if it’s been discussed but didn’t get any results.
So here is my thought process:
I want to find out which dye (likely some version of white) that will get close to matching the phantasm white ghost color. It might not look great character wise, but I feel if all the Illusions blend together it will add to the confusion a bit.
Please share any opinions. Have any of you tried this already?
Thanks
Phantasms are transparent, you and your clones aren’t. It’d be a long shot to expect it to cause too much confusion on what is a Phantasm and what is a clone/the Mesmer. There is a bug/glitch/“feature” where if you stealth them, they do appear as regular clones however.
I understand that they are transparent and I have read about the glitch. I just figure people are more focused on their timing and paying attention to the overall battle to really stare down whether a character is transparent and might be fooled by an all whitish group. Especially if a clone lines up behind a transparent phantasm as they would blend a bit. Which ultimately might draw attention away from you or they might pass over the phantasm thinking it’s just another clone.
I’m not really expecting too many to fall for it, but perhaps just buy a few extra seconds every once in awhile.
So if you are a Sylvari Mesmer, you can get quite close.
Hey a shout out to my Mesmer! Lol so random! I was just going to play Mesmer today and had to check out the new builds. Yeah you can get close using a Sylvari. However, I did change this set up eventually as someone had pointed out that in WvW issues with people using team colors or culling and junk make this relatively ineffective. Your best off just being a tiny Asura and using celestial dye and some bright pink colors with the weapons that look like phantasm’s.
So if you are a Sylvari Mesmer, you can get quite close.
Hey a shout out to my Mesmer! Lol so random! I was just going to play Mesmer today and had to check out the new builds. Yeah you can get close using a Sylvari. However, I did change this set up eventually as someone had pointed out that in WvW issues with people using team colors or culling and junk make this relatively ineffective. Your best off just being a tiny Asura and using celestial dye and some bright pink colors with the weapons that look like phantasm’s.
Well that’s disappointing but good to know. At least this way I won’t waste anything trying to do it now.
It’s pretty much useless. There’s a graphic option that in WvW, and sPvP too I believe, will override all dye color with server’s color instead. All my team will appear Red, and you will still show up as Green, for example.
There’s also still that fundamental flaw in the way our clones doesn’t carry our Boons as well. If we have Boons on us, if we have kill and/or guard stacks, food, we alone show up with these to the enemy. This makes it incredibly easy to tab to the Mesmer. You could use Signet of Inspiration to take care of the Boon thing, albeit very limited, but kill and/or guard stacks and food buffs, that’ll easily show the enemy who you are.
It’s pretty obvious ArenaNet doesn’t want us to blend in. We even get a bloody huge red arrow over our head when downed in what is already a pretty terrible downed state. I’ll apply confusion to someone that is about to stomp me, which is not going to damage me at all and take any confusion damage, excellent tactic! Let me teleport away a bit, oh woops, that’s random, you may end up teleporting on the spot. Good thing I spawned a clone, oh right, I have a huge red arrow over my head to single me out, not to mention the clone appears instantly, and it’s pretty easy to see that one character that just popped out of stealth—Why the arrow, ArenaNet? The Phantasm is actually good though, that damage is insane. Just a shame we hardly ever get to summon it.
