Using a tonic creates a clone.
It’s a general issue with transformations, from a couple of patches ago. We expected to be fixed in this patch, but Arenanet is too busy with permanent pvp finishers to do anything with bugs.
One of the threads:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/My-character-split-into-two/first#post2484440
Cheers for that heads up- I tried to use the search function, but it couldn’t even find this post using the word ‘tonic’.
Yeah, that’s one of the things that bothers us most… not even the search function to seek through bugs is clean of bugs.
But hey, 3 new helmets in gemstore!