Guild Wars 2

Hi,

I recently dueled a mesmer who was wearing Twilight Arbor armor in WvW. There were no other players around. I received a short “fear” conditiokittentimes in about a 20 second duel. I was playing a grenade engineer with the grenadier trait, so I was throwing three grenades per attack and often hitting the real mesmer and a couple of illusions in the same throw.

I believe that the runes procced fear on the clones with a separate cooldown for each new clone created, thus allowing the mesmer to proc fear every few seconds. If I was hitting 9 times (mesmer + 2 clones + 3 grenades) per attack, the 5% chance would proc very quickly.

Could this effect be changed to only proc off of the real mesmer? Thanks!

That sounds… so awesome.

Well yes, it was pretty cool now that I know what happened. Still, it doesn’t seem intentional that a profession could cause fear every few seconds just using a certain rune set like that. I suppose if I were a profession that hit slower/harder, I wouldn’t have noticed. Engineers have a lot of weaker AoE attacks that hit multiple times, so I ended up getting a whole lot of fear.

on the other hand if it only proc of the mesmer, the 5% would happen a lot less than if you battle any other class, as you often be hitting clones when you would otherwise normally hit the player. So the real soluation would more be a shared cd between the real mesmer and its clones

Well I don’t think that an “on hit” effect should proc through any NPC, no matter if it is a clone. The clones aren’t the ones wearing the runes. It would be the same, if pets, elementals, thiefs or minions could proc fear. It just wouldn’t be right and I don’t think this is intended by the developers as well, given the fact you can keep up fear a very long time this way.

Can anyone confirm the experience NevirSayDie described?

Just tested it for about 15 mins and failed to duplicate the results, I suspect there was someone else in the area of the fight the OP describes.