Guild Wars 2

Since last week sometime – can’t pin it down exactly, I’ve noticed some very odd and disturbing things with illusions (and even other players)

All my illusions look nothing like my character – they are all ugly asura wearing some sort of hood, and all of them perform the same ground smash animation similar to what you can do with the metal bar. Please see the attached pictures – something is very wrong.

Having said that, all of their skills go off correctly, but every single one with the same ground smash – even the izerker ground smashes through targets (see attached picture). Every single illusion does this same thing on land – haven’t tested underwater.

In addition to this, possibly related, I’ve noticed many players all doing this ground smash animation when reviving other players, or even in place of regular weapon skills (skills still have the same effect). Unfortunately this is harder to photograph because I’m usually more interested in fighting.

Obviously something must be broken in the game folder – I just hope I don’t have to redownload the entire client…

Anyone else experienced this?

Pretty sure this is a graphics option, specifically the one about character models at the very bottom of the settings list. Try moving it from lowest to low.

I’ve seen this model appearing for illusions for a moment some times before it switches to my model. As it seems to be a “default” model for mesmers (or all light-armor classes), it may be something to do with the amount of highly detailed character models which you can set in Options. If you have too many models at the same time on screen, that option allows you to improve performance by sacrificing the looks of players and illusions (the latter supposedly have the lowest priority).

Ah, thanks will try that – I did turn it down to help with the low framerates on eotm, so this must be down to that.