Guild Wars 2

Dear mesmers and perhaps devs:

So many mesmer players have such a love affair with phantasms it has caused me to consider that perhaps the trait “your phantasms have fury” could swap positions with the trait “create a clone on dodge”.

Such a change would increased the commitment required to having incredibly powered phantasms, and would increase flexibility for those who like to build around shattering clones.

I’m not sure why someone who’s trying to make full use of shatters should (basically) have to be tied to putting 20 into the precision line. You may even see the signet of illusions (active effect) and restore shatters on %50 health used more often with this change.

Conversely someone who wants to use phantasm’s is generally going to put 15 into the precision line and therefore generally going to plop that extra 5 down there to grab a major trait over a minor. It also might tone down phantasms a little bit.

thoughts?

In beta, evasive deception as the Duelling rank 15 minor skill, every mesmer got it automaticlly at duelling 15.

The problem was that at this stage clones would over-write phantasms (Something they changed a few weeks after launch), so if you had to dodge, you might end up killing your own iZerker. So as a quick and dirty fix, they moved evasive deception up into the rank 20 major slot so that people could choose whether or not to use the skill.

Now they’d resolved the clone issues it’d make sense to switch it back out, it’s kind’ve silly having EVERY PvE mesmer have to take the same major trait to be playable.

Lol if you have 3 phants up, it will still wipe a phant. But yeah, I would love it if this was a minor trait.

@Quex
Actually, if you have 3 Phantasms up and Dodge with Deceptive Evasion, no Clone is spawned at all.

Its only Clone generating skills that causes you oldest of 3 phantasms to pop.

@MLieBennett: Then my character is glitched. Ever since I’ve got the trait at 40, the clone from dodge will overwrite the oldest phantasm. I can only have 2 Phantasms active at once, due to having Deceptive Evasion, and I can’t imagine living without it. Not that much of a problem anyway.

Okay, that is … strange.

Just tested, and Deceptive Dodge does destroy my 3rd Phantasm. I could have sworn I did that test a couple updates earlier, and that didn’t occur….

Deceptive Evasion does erase phantasms. If you’re using the Dodge Roll Trainer 2000 in the mists for testing, it wont erase a phantasm weirdly enough.