Guild Wars 2

The passive portion of the skill buffs our illusion’s hp in an attempt to make them more survivable, a describtive that can hardly be applied to them normally. However, this bonus is completely negated by the fact that there is a variable delay between the summoning and the illusion being affected by the buff, meaning they can essentially be blown up before ever getting the buff that is supposed to stop them from being blown up.

The worst part is that this delay seems completely random. Sometimes there is none. Most of the time it varies between 3 to 5 seconds. I have even seen it take as much as 10 seconds!

It is my understanding that this signet was bugged, resulting in more of a health bonus then intended, advantaging us. Im all for you fixing that. But would it be too much to ask to also fix the bugs that disadvantage us as well? This is making the signet nearly un-usable.

You’re definitely not alone on this one. There are many others including myself that are aware of the passive side of the bug. I’ve wrote a detail bug report with screenshots here as well – https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Mesmer-Skill-Signet-of-Illusions-bug-Passive/first#post37560

I thought that it would be a good idea to merge all the feedback on this bug issue and screenshots will further help explaining the matter. In Sept 8th patch notes, SoI was on the list of the fix but we were surprised to know that phantasms had 300% health bonus granted from SoI when our illusions were literally getting 1-2 shot killed by lower level mobs before the patch. It may have been a typo of 30% instead of 300%, and that we don’t really know. The fact is that the passive bug was overlooked and it’s rendering SoI useless most of the time.