Guild Wars 2

So I was just messing around in Hot Join, trying a build with the new Mimic. And it seems like its just as buggy as Arcane Thievery. Perhaps even worse. It seems to fail about 75% of the time, and skill just turns dark when that happens. No timedown that you can see.

I’m also been having major lagfests for the last couple of months, so maybe its me. But has anyone else played with it?

I was actually gonna try a super tanky Arcane Thievery/Mimic/Signet of Inspiration + Pack Runes + BI.

Something wild like this: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fhAQNAsdWlknpNt9pxANcrNysxY6OuYlT2SMlMgkB-TZhFwAAOBAMeEAULDMb/hEHBAA

I don’t know what purpose it’d serve, but I wanted to see the utmost booniest Mesmer I could make.

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That’s real close to what I was trying. “All your Boons Belong to Us”

My thinking was to play it kind of like a shatter build. The idea was to setup a bunch of boons for burst. And combine that with Bountiful Disinllusionment- CoF(might)

Use Mimic to “copy” boons then feed into a sword ILeap – CoF- Blurred Frenzy or a a Mimic-Mirror Blade-CoF(might)-Mind Stab

I’m having a really crappy connection day today to really test it. I’m lagging like crazy and I can’t really tell if the build has promise or not.

Could also switch out GS for Staff and change Bountiful Interruptions for Chaotic Dampening. Conditions are still a problem. Mender’s Purity just doesn’t do enough.

I really don’t want to rant about bountiful disillusionment but a 30s CD skill only gives 3 stacks of might is undoubtedly inferior to sigil of battle

Anyways why don’t you guys swap to CI? I know we’re looking at boon builds but additional hindrance on opponents are nice right?

Thinking outside the box.

As far as mimic goes, both the tooltip and wiki say it copies 12 boons. Seems to only copy 5 max. Which I believe is what was originally proposed by ANet when they announced the change. So tooltip is wrong.

If it did copy 12, that would certainly make it more appealing. Mimic copy 12 and Arcane Thievery do 5. Then you might actually see those being used.

What..?? No? Mimic is supposed to copy all boons. Not just 5. That’s how they presented it also. If its only 5 its a bug. Arcane thievery steals 3 boons, not 5 either.

Yeah, I just went back thru the patch notes when it was changed it does say 12 there as well.

I need to check again, but when I played with it yesterday. It seemed to only grab 5.

And I was saying Arcane Thievery SHOULD do 5.

I think this skill has become bugged or arrived bugged through the last few patches.

I took it out against a group of thieves in pvp the other day and not only did i not copy all the boons from consume plasma, but the ones i did manage to grab quickly died out and i was left with a utility on CD with no boons up vs a thief that still had all boons up with 3/4’s of their durations still remaining.

Shortly there after i took mimic off my bar and wished i could get the SP back i had used to unlock it, I’m never taking this skill out again its worse than useless.

Thats why I originally started this thread and thats kind of what I was seeing as well. But I’ve been having really crappy lag in PvP, so I didn’t know for sure.

Has a bug report been submitted on this?

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And I was saying Arcane Thievery SHOULD do 5.

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Thinking outside the box.

As far as mimic goes, both the tooltip and wiki say it copies 12 boons. Seems to only copy 5 max. Which I believe is what was originally proposed by ANet when they announced the change. So tooltip is wrong.

If it did copy 12, that would certainly make it more appealing. Mimic copy 12 and Arcane Thievery do 5. Then you might actually see those being used.

Still searching for the ’’should’’ in this post. And no, it Shouldn’t because then:
1. mimic would be totally useless. Everyone would pick mimic above arc thievery if it was for boons only already. Stealing 10 times > copy.
2. Stealing 5 boons would also mean giving 5 conditions. This is not how you balance skills. The more of these skills, like necro has, the more aids will come to the game. Reducing cooldown would be a much better solution for a buff.

Anyhow, mimic, bugged or not bugged, is super useless. I don’t see why you would ever pick this above 10 other utilities.