Guild Wars 2

How do you keep your clones/phantasms from getting insta-gibbed in large scale battles?

I have always wanted to move towards a shatter based build but it seems that in a battle with 10+ enemy my clones/phantasms die almost instantly. I have tried a phantasm build of 20/20/0/30/0 and a mix of Valk/Knights gear only to see my iBerserker die before even doing any damage; and when I use a more shatter based clone factory only to become disappointed to watch my clones indicator flash in the first bubble like a strobe light.

What am I missing? Obviously, I am not understanding some mechanic to keeping them alive since I hear so many talk about how successful a shatter build is.

You don’t, which is why I love those condition on clone/image death traits so much