Guild Wars 2

Chronomancer line brought in traits that enhanced our ability to reproduce illusions through chronophantasm and illusionary reversion.

However, I feel we don’t have any interaction with illusions other than summoning and shattering.(sword 3 clone being the only exception as you can swap).

I would like to propose a few traits that can be potentially used in new elite specs.

1. Whenever you dodge, your illusions will gain 0.75s evasion.
I think mesmer needs some ways to keep the illusions alive. Some controllable evasion would help that.

2. Whenever you gain a boon, all your illusions gain the same boon as well.
Currently illusions don’t gain as much benefit from boons. I think this greatly limits mesmer’s dps potential since a large part of our dps comes from phantasms. This will allow us to stack boons on the mesmer and illusions at the same time.

3. When illusions are summoned, they gain stealth for 1 sec.
It feels like a fun trait and fits the theme with the leaked Mirage elite spec. Temporarily stealthed illusions can cause some extra confusion to the foes.

Honestly I feel a flat damage decrease effect on illusions would be better than .75 sec evasion when we dodge. Since we wouldn’t have Illusionary Reversion of Chronophantasma we would really need our illusions to be much harder to kill than they currently are. 20-30 damage decrease as a permanent effect in PvP and WvW would be nice to see considering how easy they are to kite and kill.

Agree 100% on #2, except it should be baseline.

1. also sounds extremely fun. Would it synergize with PU for 1.5 sec stealth on summon?