Guild Wars 2

The new on the 24th update says:

“Phantasmal Mage: The illusionary mage summoned by this skill now applies 4 stacks of confusion instead of 3 with their attack. The duration of the confusion has been increased from 3 seconds to 4 seconds. The illusionary mage’s rate of fire has been reduced by 1 second.”

So I went to the wiki to see what that would be like.

on the Phantasmal mage page it says: “Skill use every 6 seconds with a cast time of 0.75 seconds. Skill use every 4.8 seconds with Phantasmal Haste.”

However on the “Phantasmal Haste” page it says “Phantasmal Mage Untraited: 7.8s Traited: 6.6s”

So clearly something is out of date or I am misunderstanding the meaning of “Attack frequency” on the phantasmal Haste page.

So… my question is:

After the update are we looking at a base 5 cast or a 6.8 second cast?

tbh I’m super confused and terrible at timing phants so any testing I’ve done to try to calculate is unreliable, I’d rather the hard numbers on paper to look at. Thanks.

I keep the Phantasmal Haste wiki page up to date. Afaik the phantasm specific pages aren’t maintained so they might be outdated or wrong.

The wording is vague, and I don’t think we can say for certain whether the attack will be faster or slower.