Guild Wars 2

I noticed that Illusion of Life no longer can revive NPCs from the defeated state. Has it changed anytime recently? It would be very useful to have this ability back when saving civilians scattered about Lion’s Arch.

I’ve tested it outside of Lion’s Arch as well and it still does not work.

Edit: The wiki says it should happen as well (http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Revival)

Bump for awareness.

Anyone else have this problem? Tested Signet of Mercy and Signet of Undeath and they work fine.

wait illusion of life used to work on npcs? because i though illusion of life only works if someone is downed and u can make him get up temporarily. it doesnt work like a warbanner its more like vengeance…

Yes I am 99% sure I used it on various NPCs in Orr to help during events.

On the wiki it states, " NPCs which can be revived can always be revived by these skills" and then lists the Illusion of Life skill.

I think that wiki article is wrong/outdated or may depend on the NPC.

When GW2 was released and Glyph Of Renewal revived people from defeated like most skills of its type, I used to revive the NPCs by the helicopter during the dynamic event zergs. After they fixed/changed the skill to only revive from downed, I could no longer revive those NPCs and that was back in October 2012.

I rarely use it now (other than during Teq!) so I haven’t tested it on NPCs for ages.

Let’s get the proper context. http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Revival says “Skills that revive allies can only revive them from Downed state, not Defeated state. NPCs which can be revived can always be revived by these skills.” If I got it right, it says these skills can revive players only if downed, not defeated; but if it’s a NPC then it can be revived if defeated.

However, http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Illusion_of_Life says “Gives allies Illusion of Life at the target location, allowing them to get up from downed state and keep fighting.” Let’s highlight “get up from downed state”. It seems to work only when downed, NPCs don’t go into downed but directly to defeated. Even though it says “Gives allies Illusion of Life” and by ally we can understand either NPCs as well players, it also says it revives from downed state what would exclude NPCs.

What I mean here is there is some conflict with those wiki articles and yes, it would be good if Illusion of Life would be able to revive NPCs from defeated, since they don’t have downed state. The only NPCs/mobs I could see having downed state were Nightmare members from Toxic Alliance.

To finish, I’m not sure if it’s a bug or an intended behavior. But if it’s the latter then I want to leave it as a suggestion to have it changed to allow reviving NPCs as well.

To my knowledge, IoL has never worked on dead npcs.