Guild Wars 2

Phantasms aren’t phantasms anymore. More often thannot, they appear like a clone. I had this happen on my own mesmer and against me. This phenomena appears to be only happing in WvW. Right now, I was up against a phantasm mesmer and ranger. I tried to fight back but hey, you can never win against a decent phantasm mesmer and especially not if his clones all look exactly like him.
There were 2 berserkers out and I could barely tell which was which because they weren’t pink, they were black like him. In a battle where those few milliseconds matter, this is EXTREMELY annoying and I didn’t last long.

Has anyone else had this happen?

raise your wvwvw enemy texture settings

This problem only happens when your textures settings are on low

I run with max settings and I have actually seen this since the patch… Only once though. I thought it was wierd that the phantasm I just summed looked exactly like a clone (it was most defiently an iMage). Also in WvW. Havent played WvW that much since the patch and havent seen it PvE at all. I dont think it matter what texture setting you have – it just raise the limit when/where it can happen (not to mention it can be sporadic, sometimes the LoD load times is horrible when there’s half a dozen people around you, sometime you dont notice it when you’re inside a zerg)

Yeah it’s annoying – as said it’s due to having your WVW Character limit/quality on low. To fix it, you’ve got to turn them up and have FPS lag instead…

It happens occasionally in sPvP as well, I’ve had my iduelists and images look like me.

Oh, I should point out it also happens if your phantasm gets stealth, once it breaks invis with its attack, it looks like you not a phant. But thats a seperate issue to the WVW one.

I’m not even on lowest, just on low. I’ll try the one higher than that I guess..

Ive been having his alot lately aswell, in pve wvw and spvp. In spvp it happens more often on my human when im nog wearing armor than on my sylvari :o.
Graphic settings doesnt change it.

The happens to me all the time. I prefer it this way. Isn’t it better for us that our phantasms look like regular clones? I hope it remains this way.

happened once to me in fotm

When phantasm were stealthed by a shadow refuge and got back visible they were clones.

Hot Boy.7138:

The happens to me all the time. I prefer it this way. Isn’t it better for us that our phantasms look like regular clones? I hope it remains this way.

Well, if the enemy sees them as regular clones it doesn’t matter. And to be honest, it shouldn’t be this way. Mesmers are already very strong and now they got even stronger, there’s no need for that. I’d actually want this to b non-existant so that I have an easier (read fair) time when playing other classes and that I don’t have it easier when I’m on mesmer.

Hot Boy.7138:

The happens to me all the time. I prefer it this way. Isn’t it better for us that our phantasms look like regular clones? I hope it remains this way.

In the case of Low WVW setting its client side – it only affects what you see. Other people will still see the purple mist of the phantasm that you see as a clone.

In the case of Stealthing Phantasms, everyone will see them as clones after the stealth.