Guild Wars 2

The game has been out nearly a year, and this bug has been plaguing mesmers since day 1.

As it is, mesmers who want to PvP with one-handed weapons end up going out of their way to find the smallest weapons possible, just to make it harder to spot them among the clones. We shouldn’t have to give up on having nice looking equipment just because they can’t be bothered to fix our most basic class mechanic.

Does anyone think this will ever be fixed?

My ideal offhands were small and obscure even without this.

Heck, my mainhands are hard to spot…

greyblue.4962:

The game has been out nearly a year, and this bug has been plaguing mesmers since day 1.

It hasnt been plaguein me actually. Its only been a minor annoyance when i got my anomaly focus and it didnt show on my clones.

greyblue.4962:

As it is, mesmers who want to PvP with one-handed weapons end up going out of their way to find the smallest weapons possible, just to make it harder to spot them among the clones

I never did this, not even when i started out and assumed people dient know the difference between me and clones (even though this was, and still is the case with some/most people). I just go for the best looking stuff no matter what!

We shouldn’t have to give up on having nice looking equipment just because they can’t be bothered to fix our most basic class mechanic.

We dont have to. Having people know where you are opposing to clones shouldnt mean victory or defeat. Really, only kittens will get confused by clones, and they probably die anyway.

Does anyone think this will ever be fixed?

Yes. Eventually.

I guess I’d like it changed, but I never put a lot of thought into it.

Part of me coming to grips with how to play a mesmer was getting away from the mentality that people will confuse the difference between me and a clone. In a particularly clustered brawl with lots of participants, someone grasping for anything to hit may spend a few key seconds punching a clone. You might get one over on them when you decoy for a split second. But for the most part, you’ll never trick someone in a 1v1, because you’ll be the one not standing there auto-attacking like you’re still in the starting zone with your first character. If someone attacks a clone, they probably weren’t paying that much attention to you in the first place. Or possibly its a thief using Cloak and Dagger to stealth. But that’s a whole new problem for you to deal with.

If you’re making clones instead of phantasms, they’re also probably not long for this world. They’re often better thought of as ammunition than contributing members of society.

But I still would like them to get off-hands. Because I have two shiny crystal swords of doom, and by gum it, they should too!