Question on clone damage
Depends on the clone, they use your 1 skill, some are AoE some are not.
Snow Crows [SC]
Clones don’t deal damage. They can inflict conditions though (staff and sword clones, and on crits with the sharper images trait). All clone attacks are single target, but staff clones attacks will bounce once. The #1 and #2 shatters are aoe and #3 is single target unless traited.
Another question is #3 in Power states that it will boost the damage inflicted by clones. Do they mean when we shatter them? Because if it is simply their damage they inflict that would be negligible.
Sword clones only strike a single target, unlike the sword mainhand 1 attack, which hits in an arc. Same with spear clones.
“Because if it is simply their damage they inflict that would be negligible.”
That is what it does, and for clones it is indeed negligible. That trait is a relic of an earlier beta build when clones did damage, but now it’s functionally a carbon copy of phantasmal strength.