Guild Wars 2

Good evening everyone.

I’ve been wondering a lot about Mimic lately, most noably when Im running my daily fractals. (24 right now.) I always considered Mimic to be a rather.. let’s be polite.. “bad” skill, mostly because I saw no acctual use for i that could not be better filled by Feedback.

So I used it a few times and find myself.. disappointed.

I can catch a bomb from the legendary mining suit. But shooting it back.. nothing happens.

I can catch the flaming arrow and th diving bomb of the grawl shaman.. Results are pretty disappointing.

I can catch the super shockwave of the dredge boss before the mining suit.. and send it back for roughly 600 damage.

I cannot catch the harpie knockdown orb.

To make a long story short.. Whenever I catch a bullet for the full damage to absorb it, the retaliation fire from it has yet to exceed anything past 700 damage. What good is a absorbed projectile if the acctual use of it is nothing but a bad joke?

Am I using it wrong, or is it intendet that the stolen bullet is but a waste of time?

[Edit] typos.

Mimic also blocks for the remaining duration after the copy. It’s a much more singularly potent defensive button than Feedback. It’s also on a lower cooldown.

Trick is that the blocking effect is significantly more useful in general than the copy/reflect component, so you typically want to reliably get past the copy part to get to the block part.

Try to catch some sniper shots in Caudecus Manor. Those nasty little ones can go beyond 10k damaged when sent back, way more than they do to you. Might be due to level scaling, I think the echoed projectile use your stats instead of the shooter’s one. That would explain why boss’ missiles aren’t that much when used by you.

i use mimic to escape enemies when in a mob…….