Guild Wars 2

RNG clone interaction
Everytime the mesmer uses a skill there’s a new RNG that will decide if the mesmer or the clone performs the attack.
Example: A mesmer with 2 clones out uses mirror blade.

1. Mesmer casts mirror blade. (33% chance)
2. Clone 1 casts mirror blade. (33% chance)
3. Clone 2 casts mirror blade. (33% chance)

There are exceptions:

• Blurred Frenzy, Illusionary Riposte, Illusionary Counter, Chaos Armor, The Prestige, Feinged Surge, Signet of Midnight, Portal, Mimic, Already Charged Mantras
• A clone that’s not in range of the target will not take place in the RNG!

Consequences for the mesmers combat:

• If a clone is killed while using a skill the skill will count as interrupted.
• if a clone is interrupted using a skill (no AA) the mesmer will suffer to all “on interrupt” effects
• if a clone uses a mesmers heal skill or a mantra only the mesmer will be affected!
• if the mesmer uses a skill while a clone’s still performing an attack this clone will not be choosen by the RNG. Same goes for the mesmer himself

Like or dislike? leave a comment below and please tell me if there’s a problem with this mechanic

~ Me Games Ma

My two cents,
Interesting on paper but makes mesmer more dependent on AI and ranger has told me it’s overall a bad idea.

how does it make you more dependent on AI? It’s you that press the button o.O

Our AI can be placed in odd places and then line of sight starts to get all wonky. iWave for example, I want enemies knocked back from a specific area. Stuff like gs3 wouldn’t matter as much but how does this combo with auto attack? Does the main mesmer do a clones worth of auto attack while the gs3 animation happens from another clone? Does the main mesmer pause? Do we essentially get a % chance at a freecast?

The depend on AI is that rangers still have their F1-F4 to control pets. Despite the patch fixing a lot of this, pets can still be sluggish and easily miss stuff.

Overall it sounds cool but I don’t think Anet will handle it well and more QQ will happen and then nerfs to a broken mechanic =/

It would certainly take a lot of time to develop such a complex combat system for the Mesmer and will easily get broken, but I like the new idea. That idea would make mesmer more of an illusion master and not a clonefactory.

I also like the idea but would be hard to pull off.

It would make the real mesmer harder to spot and make the mesmers playstyle more about deceiving.

If anet would ever rework mesmers (which they should coz mesmers are a pile of bugged crap right now) this idea should be implemented as well.

Often, I only want the clones using their auto attacks, and not other attacks. For example, staff clones do nice condition damage on their autoattack and sword clones rip boons. Moreover, I might prefer a greatsword clone autoattacking (say, to stack bleeds) than for them to use gs 3.

It would be fun but rng is rng. It would be good as an addition to a build, say a minor traitor adept usually rng isnt good cause its random but if set imwith the right circumstances rng can be good. I like it. This made me think of what if we could literallyclone the enemy and depending on the class and weapon it would auto attack the enemy, maybe an elite that doesnt count towards the illusion limit and expires after a min or 2

I really like the concept of this. Surprisingly enough, there are still people out there that don’t know how to find the right clone. -_-

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I really like the concept of this. Surprisingly enough, there are still people out there that don’t know how to find the right clone. -_-

I don’t think, there is a “right” clone.

I’m just a clone of my illusion. lol

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I’m just a clone of my illusion. lol

This just blew my mind.