Guild Wars 2

has anyone ever used mimic at all other than to see what it does? im asking about pve pvp and wvw. if any skill needs to be reworked, it’s this one

Mimic? Is very powerful in WvW and certain dungeon situations.

Examples of PvE use:

• Dredge Fractal
• Ooze room in TA Aetherpath.

Examples of WvW use:

• Flank a medium~large zerg, get a “feel” for when they swap to you, fire mimic. Fun for the whole zerg. Won’t work against guild groups unless they’re distracted, granted.
• Show yourself on a wall after the AEs are just placed. Again, fun for everyone.
• Recently I’ve seen a few 1500-range Ranger “hunter” squads which shoot you from max range then sic their pets on you while they keep their distance. It’s worse than the burst thieves, really. Anyhow, Mimic! The amount of reflection is crazy.

In general though, the primary use is entirely pointless. It’s the reflect afterwards that I use it for.

Mimic, Dire commander/zerg build, guardian runes, block/burn block/burn block/burn block/burn block/burn block/burn block/burn block/burn block/burn block/burn .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=lVF3JkKX4fY#t=98

Good in roaming too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPtiMQTo6YM

The beauty is in the traited short CD. 4s reflect/block on a 20s cd.

If I didn’t need condition cleanse (mantra, AT…) on the utility bar, I would use mimic a lot – probably switch between mimic, portal and veil.

My only problem with it is the activation delay – if a lot of lag it seems sluggish in activating the bubble.

All this said, yes, it needs some quality of life improvements. Devs brought it up a while back.

What.. no this skill is kitten. It’s waaay too situational. If you gonna rely on getting a projectile to run into the melee and do 0.3 seconds burning which does no damage because burning starts ticking from 1 second, then have fun being even more useless to your group than some reasonable WvW builds such as backline focus or tanky boon removal shatter. In roaming it’s all about which enemies you fight, but then again, the fact that you don’t absorb the first projectile makes the skill already kitten. If this skill would absorb the first hit, I could see some potential timing in it, but at the moment it’s just eat the first hit and go afk for the next 3 seconds.

You can proc it off GS #2. But I do agree it’s not reliable enough to use in WvW.

Mimic is just extremly misleading. If it would copy the absorbed skill, that’d would be fun. “Oh i jsut got hit by a dagger of daggerstorm?”