Guild Wars 2

So mesmer 1h sword #2, I hit it and even though it has a slight delay, I usually hit all my invulnerables on time. I rarely miss invuln’ing through the attack I want to block.

So f4, distortion utility, TOTALLY DIFFERENT STORY. zzzzzz
My Life : 3 Illusions and subject alpha casts AOE Rings. Oh Great. I can just invuln. <hits f4> <Waits like 2 seconds> <Dies>

WHY SO MUCH DELAY?!?!?! Other times it seems faster, but I have done COE so many times to where it failed me that I stopped using it. Do the illusions have to explode first or is it instant? Either way I believe it should be quicker

+1 Idk how many times i died from aoes in bosses cos i thought, meh, let everyone dodge, ill just use F4 and keep hitting…..

This smells like a latency issue on your end. I’ve never experienced a delay when using distortion, it always activates immediately and effectively for me.

I play from Australia and I can’t say I’ve ever noticed a delay.

Doesnt the distorsion shatter still use the run-to-enemy-and-kill-yourself style? I honestly havent used it that much. If so then of course there is a unpredictable delay.

Distortion doesn’t use the “Run-to-enemy-and-kill-yourself”style. Distortion-shattered Clones explode right where they are.

What likely happened is that the Clones were spawned and targeting on something they couldn’t actually attack. I’m not sure WHAT they are targeting exactly, but the most often occurrence I’ve seen of this is on Jade Maw with Dodge Clones. They stand in that exact spot (no matter the type of Clone), and don’t attack anything as they are targeting something they can’t path to and attack. I’ve had these specific clones pop up in other places as well, which includes CoE explorable mode.
-Probably the same AI bug that causes enemies to go into Invulnerable mode due to no way to attack their target.

Why bring this up?

Because SHATTERING these clones are strange. It can take from one to five seconds for them to finally explode when you press any shatter, including Distortion. This is unlike the actual behavior, where they shatter immediately when F4 is pressed.

Subject Alpha is one I know causes my Illusions to go into Invulnerable mode at odd times for some reason. I have no clue why, they just do and similarly causes sluggish shatter times.

The reason clones sometimes go Invuln is because just as when you go to an area an enemy cannot hit you at and they go Invuln, clones do the same thing – they’ll even switch targets temporarily in some cases. The best examples I can remember are the dragon shaman in fractals and one event in Iron marches where there is a Necro you fight who keeps disappearing, your Illusions will pick up new targets while she’s gone.