Guild Wars 2

Just a quick question from a newbie 80 Mesmer.

Regarding the Restorative Illusions trait, the Wiki says that you are healed when your Illusions are shattered. My question to you is..

Do you get healed from this trait when you activate a shatter ability only/and/or when your illusions are shattered through death or summoning another illusion when you already have 3?

I’m assuming it’s only when you shatter, being healed every time you lose an illusion seems too good to be true.

Nah, the healing activates immediately when you shatter. It does not work for when clones are destroyed or overwritten… Then the trait would actually be worth its Grandmaster spot.

I thought that would be the answer. Thanks for clarifying anyways

Lol, even the description says heal by a “small” amount. That doesn’t sound “grand”(-master) to me.

The base heal for the trait is 1226 for 3 illusions and that can be boosted by illusionary persona. I wouldn’t shatter just for a 1226 heal, just not worth it especially in a grand master tier. This all depends on your healing power however.

And that’s why I switched to Shattered Conditions after playing around with Restorative Illusions for a bit. XD

Restorative Illusions – Heal a small amount when you shatter illusions.- Restorative Illusions is very strong with iPersona, and incredibly underwhelming without. Unfortunately, grabbing iPersona and Restorative Illusions means you don’t have enough points to still grab Deceptive Evasion for the clone production this trait needs:

• iPersona = 932
• iPersona + 1Clone(1124) = 2056
• iPersona + 2Clones(1316) = 2248
• iPersona + 3Clones(1508) = 2440

Basically, having iPersona and shattering 1 clone will give you more healing than shattering 3 clones without iPersona. Kind of ridiculous, but atleast it makes it a but more justifiable since you can’t grab this, iPersona, and Deceptive Evasion.