Guild Wars 2

i did a quick search and didnt find anything so sorry if this has been covered before.

i recently started a mesmer and am loving a sword/pistol combo but on average of probably 60-80% of the time the number 3 skill doesnt summon an illusion and goes strait to cooldown . this is from in combat, out of combat, up hill, down hill, flat surface, any time.

Silly question, but are you in range of your target? The sword 3 skill doesn’t exactly have huge range, so you need to be relatively close to your target for the illusion to activate. If there is a red bar under the skill, you are not in range to hit with it.

that was my original thought but i’d played around with its range on different targets to get a perspective on the whole 1200/900/600 ranges of things i’d put a guess that the usual range i use it at would be about 400-450, but i can walk right up and look at the enemy nose to nose and it’ll just go boom cooldown

It’s pretty hard to use when you’re not a flat surface. It seems to have a shorter range than 600, the clone is summoned as soon as you use the skill instead of the other summoning skills that wait until skill activation, (so you can’t pre-cast and then run into range while it’s still activating) the skill won’t work if your standing on top, or if you aren’t facing your opponent (it will appear to do nothing but still go on recharge), and won’t even hit it’s target if the ground is even slightly slanted. It all adds up to a pretty pitiful skill that only works half the time.

You can check if the target is in skill range:
if you have a red line under the skill it means that the target is beyond the skill range.

also if you are blinded, or the enemy dodges/blocks etc illusions in general wont summon either

If there’s a bump in the terrain, if you’re on an uphill slope, if they blind you, if they dodge, if they block, if they invuln, if they are moving uphill away from you, expect the skill to fail on use and go straight to CD. If you are doing it properly then expect to do it from about 200 range, it’s closer to 450 when facing downhill or on a flat area.

Sword #3, has 300 range. casting at 300 range, spawns it, then tele to target is 600 range, this if you chase enemy, he runs longer than 300 yards. but I have summoning problem aswell, even in range. so something is bugged with it.

In fact, on the occasion of this topic, I will show the real bug in this skill.
You can turn off the sound in this video, as it is in the comment in a different language.

I’ve also had this bug happen to me. I’m a heavy WvWer and frankly the skill never seems to function. Either the image is being delayed so heavily on summon that it dies before appearing to me (unlikely), or it’s just never being summoned. And then, even when the illusion summons, on the swap it RARELY immobilizes. I recently swapped for scepter out of sheer frustration that our one immobilize is borked.

Xivos.9102:

In fact, on the occasion of this topic, I will show the real bug in this skill.
You can turn off the sound in this video, as it is in the comment in a different language.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UXH9PPd394

never happen to me using sword #3, but I have teled into a wall(WvW tower) with staff#2, cannon with staff #2(Arah dungeon), and some more times(not sure what object), also with staff #2, all teleport skill can bug you into another object. Hope they fix this soon