Guild Wars 2

Has anyone ever tested whether using Signet of the Ether resets the cooldown for Mental Defense?

Can you block, get an iDefender, use signet, block and get iDefender again basically immediately?

I’ll try testing – just wanted to know if anyone has tried it already.

For anyone who was curious, the answer turns out to be yes. Using ether signet resets the iDefender cooldown, so you can get two defenders out quickly

Here’s a really quick video
https://youtu.be/CmKD9Wln1-Y

Awesome! Noted for the guide.

Ok, saw this and thought it was interesting, but I’ve got a second follow up question: Does mimic work with traits? Like having Mental Defense up, you mimic>block>iDefender will that also reset Mental Defense? Same question with Illusionary Inspiration.

Edit: Did a quick test. Mimic does not recharge Mental Defense’s iDefender, seems to only trigger when using the skill itself because it’s physically in the Utility slot, thus Mimic’s constraint of being “Utility skills”. [Thanks messiah for hitting/helping me.]

mimic ofc only affects utility skills itself :P

but for the defender thing, great input, thank you very much for this, especially the vid!

Does the damage reduction even stack? On a firt look no because it acts like a “EA/Spotter/Aura” buff.
Is the damage reduction valid before we recieve the buff on our UI?
Is the damage reduction valid after the phantasm died but the buff is still up (short delay if it’s pulsing)?
Do both get damaged?
Is the first one getting damaged til it dies?
Do they split 50/50 the damage taken because they are two?

So many questions ?_?