Guild Wars 2

With the new patch, Mesmer clones are affected by the Culling settings so that if you have them set to the minimum they will spawn as generic pink wearing mooks and even if you set them to the maximum setting they will still spawn as placeholder for a second before loading the proper texture.

Not game breaking but very irksome, specially since no matter how high I set my settings the placeholder will still show up everywhere regardless of amount of people for a second.

In the same vein if I set the culling to low (instead of lowest) the phantasms will spawn with no ghostly appearance making them look like clones.

Finally animations on the illusions themselves fails to load half the time making them stand there motionless (though their skills still trigger normally so it has no gameplay impact, this happens in all culling settings)

same problem here…SO DARN ANNOYING

Bump since the new round of patches did not helped sadly.

I was looking to see if this was a bug.. Fighting in a mob, I realized that most weren’t players, they were all the Mesmer clones and phantasms.
Even more of a problem is that ALL other players look that way currently, regardless of armor. A generic, look based on armor type.
I don’t seem to have an issue, but I am sure that everyone sees me in the same
Back items and weapons seem unaffected, but I think because Mesmers make clones of themselves as other players see them, it’s more obvious to them.

Maybe it’s done for the event to reduce lag?

Well…this is really a problem -.- they should remove this effect from mesmer clones…it’s not helping us is just annoying and STUPID . Why would i want to see my clone if its not looking the same as me? Please Arena Net FIX THIS .Also after they return to normal appearance they are motionless…although u still see them doing damage

The real question or issue is, how do these clones look to other people? Defeats the purpose a little if they look totally different than you.

I think the problem is that when they assigned clones the placeholder models for when an ENEMY mesmer uses them (so that they look the same as the enemy mesmer) they forgot to disable those models for the Player Character clones

Obviously this is a side effect of the fact that this is a WvW feature that got slapped on PvE

Mad Rasputin.7809:

The real question or issue is, how do these clones look to other people? Defeats the purpose a little if they look totally different than you.

Well that is mostly a WvW issue but consider this. In a 1v1 or small group vs small group the settings shouldn’t be having any effect. In a blob vs blob it is hard to tell who is who regardless of class.

More importantly, haven’t seen this brought up in the WvW section yet.

still not fixed ? or can be adjusted at settings? doesnt work for me

Josh Davis.6015:

Thanks for the report, folks. I’ll send this in for review.

Hi Josh, could you also take a look at the ranger spirits (we’re having a similar problem) and other ethereal beings such as the Ascalon ghosts? Thanks.