Guild Wars 2

I know some of us have requested that our Mesmers’ illusions be allowed to do damage in PvE since the AI knows which one is the actual player.

Now I don’t know if this is a bug or not but while I was mapping in Orr I ran across the Veteran Acolyte of Lyssa using illusions that can do damage.

Is this intentional or is this a bug since the player illusions can not do damage?

A lot of NPC’s use legacy version versions of spells that are essentially how they behaved in beta.

In early beta, clones used to do damage; which incidentlly is why mesmer’s have the rather redundant trait “illusions do 15% damage” in addition to “phantasms do 15% damage”, even though clones do no damage and therefore giving them a trait that boosts their damage is pointless

Ryuujin.8236:

A lot of NPC’s use legacy version versions of spells that are essentially how they behaved in beta.

In early beta, clones used to do damage; which incidentlly is why mesmer’s have the rather redundant trait “illusions do 15% damage” in addition to “phantasms do 15% damage”, even though clones do no damage and therefore giving them a trait that boosts their damage is pointless

all clones should do some damage, i’d say 50% of the mesmer’s damage would be fair, or even dont do direct damage, just aply confusion thats what clones are for after all, they are there to confuse the enemy right?…

I’m all for the clones doing 50% of the player’s damage.

It will at least make them useful in PvE.

Ravion Hawk.4736:

I’m all for the clones doing 50% of the player’s damage.

It will at least make them useful in PvE.

they are useful in pve, they apply conditions.

50% of the Mesmer’s damage is probably too much. I can’t recall how much damage Clones did before they removed it though… come to think of it it might have been about 50%, I remember Sword Clones used to deal a few hundred damage per hit.