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Favorite Skill – Decoy
The ability to use it to foil opponents burst from hundred blades/back stab is always fun, the crazy positioning hyjinx with illusionary wave is fun as well. And in a pinch you can use it to spawn a clone for more burst or a critical daze/distortion.
Least Favorite – Mass invisibility
Compared to the other two Mesmer elites it is by far the worst. It has the shortest CD, but compared to the strength of time warp in a team fight and Moa when soloing or in a 1 v 1, it is far worse. maybe if it spawned clones and made you go invisible it would be looked at…but it’s honestly worse than decoy.
Not sure if this is a bug, but I’ve been able to use null field to consistently end mist form prematurely on elementalists. Since it’s not a boon per say this strikes me as a possible bug. I think I’ve also been able to use GS #3 to end it, but I’m not as sure on that one, due to the difficulty to hit with it.
Keep in mind I’ve never played an ele, so it could be them doing something while in the field or it ending while in the field, it is a big field, but it seems to end immediately when it goes up.
Shouldn't attacks against stealthed Player Characters miss?
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The issue is if a ranger or NPC uses Rapid fire and you stealth the attack will fixate on you regardless if you strafe from your last known location which is terrible design since stealth does drop target to begin with which means your toon according to game logic/game world doesn’t know where that other toon is but can finish the channelled rapid fire with success.
Exactly, I’m not saying it should be invulnerability, it should just drop you as a target and end any channeled spells on you.
Also, comparing notions of visibility in reality to game mechanics to this extreme is fruitless. The mesmer stealth is based off the very warping of light around you. Try finding something that does that IRL that isn’t highly visible.
Isnt arcane thievery suppose to send your condition to your foe and also remove them from you ?
Considering you send those conditions to someone else.Because if so , then this whole skil isn’t working.
Yeah, as far as I can tell from when I used it, it fails to fully take all boons from them and transfer all conditions. I’ve used it briefly against necro’s and more so against guardians and engineers, but it doesn’t seem to work as intended. Unless it trades boons with conditions, in which case the tooltip needs to be updated. I’m not sure but it seemed more effective the the closer the conditions I had and boons they had were to being equal.
Shouldn't attacks against stealthed Player Characters miss?
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yeah, having an attack cancel targeting when a target stealths would fit just fine. AoE seems like it’s the best way to deal with stealth, and it should stay that way, but long channel attacks hitting after stealthing makes no sense, and has the disadvantage of revealing where you are as well in PvP… That also wouldn’t hurt melee attacks on a stealthed target.
As for all the people saying it’s unrealistic, I think a thief emptying rapid fire shots on someone who has gone invisible with pinpoint accuracy seems pretty unrealistic. If you don’t like the mechanic, that should be a different thread.
PvP light armor on the other hand is a complete disaster for pants… only student’s pants, country pants, and embroidered pants look like pants without too much stuff on them, and even the student’s and country pants have partial skirt things on them. not to mention the male sylvari racial light armor… As a dude playing a sylvari mesmer in PvP, I wanna look masculine… cause the laser beams and butterflies can quickly tilt it either way.
Greatsword #5 illusionary wave seems to be missing on occasion while the target is still in range. The target isn’t dodge rolling, I am not blinded, and I don’t think it’s from lag. This mostly seems to happen against other players in PvP, so it could be some player defense I’m unaware of.
In PvP it could be Stability, which can be quite short-lived – it’s possible you didn’t notice the icon.
In PvE there’s Defiant, which tends to be on event bosses, plus you get the odd mob with a description like “Unstoppable” (e.g. Abominations) that seem to make them immune.Despite all this, I’ve definitely noticed the same thing as you – sometimes Illusionary Wave just doesn’t work. My gut feeling is that it’s to do with your elevation in relation to that of your target (i.e. you can’t push someone up/down a hill), but I haven’t found a way to reliably reproduce it : (
It’s not from defiant, of that I’m sure. Stability is a little harder because of it’s similarity to fury and the short duration, but I don’t think it’s that either. Uneven terrain isn’t a factor because I’ve lost points to people already on the point due to wave misses, and points are always flat. It seems like a fairly random bug… Also, I can’t be sure if I have hit multiple targets and had it miss some and hit others. I think I have but not sure.
Edit: Was thinking of retaliation/fury looking identical. No, it wasn’t stability either.
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Greatsword #5 illusionary wave seems to be missing on occasion while the target is still in range. The target isn’t dodge rolling, I am not blinded, and I don’t think it’s from lag. This mostly seems to happen against other players in PvP, so it could be some player defense I’m unaware of.
Also, if it could be changed so my allies can’t heal the clone you spawn while downed, that would be great. It’s a nightmare trying to tell someone it’s not you in a PUG dungeon.