Two illusionary defenders
I don’t know what happens but I’m sure as soon as somebody tells you, it will get nerfed.
Damage is transferred to one, though it’s likely that the other one will then take half of that… Experiment?
There’s 2 options, depending on whether or not the bug got fixed.
- Nothing happens because that breaks it.
- A random defender will take the damage. The defender spreads a buff which is what actually triggers the damage transfer. When 2 defenders are out, they will each intermittently spread their own buff. Which one has the buff out at the time of damage is what determines which defender will take that damage.
I did a little testing. It works like Pyro said.
Whichever defender does the “illusion of defense” attack and procs the protection effect gets the damaged transferred to him.
The number of retaliation hits tends to be very close to the number of friendlies who are struck by the attack. Even when there’s an apparent cleave attack that seems like it hits 3 phantasms, I’ve never seen a case where you get 5 retaliation entries in the combat log (direct retaliation from all 3 phantasms, plus retaliation from transferred damage of two of the phantasms to the one who was giving the defense proc).
So nothing seems to be broken or over-powered. It is a bit tricky to test – at least the way I tried. Here’s some video