Guild Wars 2

Hey guys, I just had a simple thought come to my mind and I wondered what all opinions people would have. Please post what you think! I don’t care how “noob” or “pro” you think you are. I just want to hear some speculation if that’s cool.

So here’s the idea: What if Mesmers could have four clones at a time, rather than three? What would be the drawbacks? The consequences? The overall results?

I think it would only do minimal changes, since getting you to a max 4 clones would require more time than getting to 3 (i.e. burns out more endurance, etc)

More like; the damage per clone’d get scaled downward to account for the fourth clone.
As is, it takes enough to ramp up a proper IP Mind Wrack. Imagine it taking yet another easily-poofed illusion to toss out.

All existing problems would still exist. Absolutely nothing would change.

It’s hard enough getting 3 clones out and having them connect. With everything getting scaled down to accommodate the 4th clone, I don’t think it would be worth it. Plus, that’s just 1 more thing messing up my screen vision. lol

I like where you are headed. I think if they made all clones share same buff as the mesmer at all times(just icon not even the effects of the buff) it would do wonders for us.

The very biggest burst would be just a little bigger, that’s mostly what would happen. I’d say that the damage increase from having 4 phantasms out instead of 3 in PvE would be quite substantial…but you can’t actually get 3 phantasms out in 90% of fights anyway, so it’s pointless to try and get out 4.

your average burst will go down ( because each clone will be nerfed ) and more mesmers will run MI to try and get a 4 clone shatter, which may make them slighty more damaging under that situation.

opens the possibility to have 3 offensive phants out for damage plus one with defense quality for damage reduction or condi cleansing. although it would take more time to manage it, its one step away from gimping around with clones for phantasm builds. and maybe one step back at the same time haha.

Interesting thoughts, thanks guys. I would appreciate it, though, if we’d stray from the “we’d get nerfed” mentality, as that doesn’t produce constructive thinking.

Anybody else have any thoughts on this?

My condi mesmer would be able to sustain 25 stacks of bleed in favorable situations. I don’t think anet would like that.