Guild Wars 2

Lets try an example:

You summon a iZerker, it has the buff on it.
You mind wrack, iZerker runs at enemy and blows up.
iZerker respawns, without the buff.
You mind wrack again, iZerker runs at enemy and blows up.
iZerker does not respawn.

This is on a per-phantasm basis:

Summon iZerker #1, it has the buff.
Mind wrack, iZerker 1 explodes and respawns without the buff.
Summon iZerker #2, it has the buff.
Mind wrack again, iZerker #1 and iZerker #2 explode.
iZerker #2 respawns (without the buff), whereas iZerker #1 does not.

Its the act of casting the phantasm creation ability that grants the buff to the phantasm, it never gets it back.

To determine if a phantasm will respawn after shattering just ask yourself “Have I pressed a shatter button since I spawned this phantasm?” If the answer is yes, then it will go away. If the answer is no, it will respawn.

Its the first time each individual phantasm is shattered. With Chronophantasma your phantasms spawn with a buff (and a butterfly particle affect around them). When you shatter them, they respawn but lose the buff. If they don’t have the buff, they die after a shatter like usual.

I’ve got both Chrono and Tempest fully unlocked. Chrono is very good in PvE, both open world and fractals/dungeons. Tempest is a lot of fun, but I’m not sure if it’s worth using over base Elementalist, whereas I’m not sure why I would ever choose base Mesmer over Chronomancer.

xiv.7136:

I think my sarcasm meter just broke

Yareon.2835:

I REALLY hope this is sarcasm….

Leuca.5732:

I am so confused right now.

Sanlucifer.1742:

hahahah troll, it was just another nerf , as usual.

Wow. So constructive. And we wonder why the devs never interact with us in this forum. Big surprise here. If you’re gonna whine at least make it constructive whining.

I for one really appreciate the staff changes, as primarily a staff user, and I looooooooveee the conjure weapon buffs. I’ve always wanted more reason to use them. It might be worth it to spec 20 in Fire now for the extra conjured weapons charges and run a non-lightning hammer conjure build in PvE. I would like a bit more trait support for conjures, but I’m very pleased with the skills themselves now.