Guild Wars 2

Considering recent patches, I’ve starting wonder what Illusions really are. Are they mind tricks in someones imagination, mirages a trick of the light or plain simple summons?

1) If they’re mind trick why can others attack and kill them, let alone see them.
2) If they’re meant to be a mirage why do they die with a target.
3) If they’re summons the same deal as above.

Lastly does making Illusions 100% realistic and logical mean they’ll play better or be better for us overall? I think that game mechanics and game-play should take precedence over trying to make the illusions something that’s not going to work or be fun. And that’s what it comes down to right, I play video games because reality is boring. I don’t need anymore of it here. And in a world of magic why can’t we twist and turn the genre more to our liking.

Hrm, the idea to only have the actual target be able to hit the Illusions emerges.

Only problem there is how do you deal with inanimate objects? The Mesmer could keep constant pressure on a siege engine or door with no one being able to stop them.

Oliver.7201:

Only problem there is how do you deal with inanimate objects? The Mesmer could keep constant pressure on a siege engine or door with no one being able to stop them.

Prevent them from hitting targets that don’t have an AI.

How does an ILLUSIONARY person deal actual damage to a REAL thing?
It’s all meant to be in the mind.

Exactly, but then how does a Mesmer combat an inanimate object(as nice as key-bind 1 is), most don’t take condition damage as is. This also comes back to: does making the illusions more realistic/logical deprecate gameplay or make it better?

If I remember correctly, mesmers create “hard light” by manipulating the opponent’s mind. So it’s basically all three.

Esorono.1039:

If I remember correctly, mesmers create “hard light” by manipulating the opponent’s mind. So it’s basically all three.

That makes sense and sounds really awesome, >_< I wish ArenaNet had played more on that theme