Guild Wars 2

I’m not sure exactly why this occurred, but while doing a FotM today a mesmer on my team waz shattering his clones and they were actually shattering with real explosions.

We were on the uncategorized fractal in the room where you must fight the Champ Ettin and Fire Shaman.

When I say exploding, I mean a sudden fiery burst as if a bomb had gone off followed by a lingering smoke cloud.

This became terribly frustrating since the explosions and the smoke cloud that lingered for a few moments afterward completely blocked out view of the champion mobs we were trying to fight, making it impossible to see the foes (or the tells that let you know which attack they are about to use).

I’m fairly certain this is a bug, unless the mesmer was running some sort of trait that mesmers don’t normally run that I do not know about.

I’m used to seeing lots of little purple butterflies fly away, not gunpowder explosions.

Please look into this, its really annoying.

There r these traits (Confusing Combatants,Debilitating Dissipation,Crippling Dissipation) that do somthin xtra when a clone is killed.

Its these traits that still cause the over-the-top-exploding.
When a clone dies cos its enemy is killed, this effect is also triggered.

Yep, dagr is right. The Mesmer in question has picked one or more traits that cause effects when they shatter or destroy their clones, hence the “explosion”.

Personally though, I wish they wouldn’t. I find the “purple butterflies” effect to be more aesthetically pleasing than the explosions, and I actually don’t run any of the shatter traits for precisely that reason.