Guild Wars 2

Calcifire.1864:

also, to be fair, I play a necro with a mesmer as main, it’s a breath of fresh air to play as a mesmer, because at least I know the clones will actually ATTACK the target (and ONLY the target) as opposed to aggroing everything in a 3000 meter range, then running back to you with a manner that just screams “derr, mastar I maed sum fwends look dey wan to play wiv yoo =D”

yeah…my personal favourite: me teamed up with a Necro. He aggroes absolutely EVERYTHING on the map and than outruns it leaving me struggling with hordes of pink moas and siamoths

[Pyroatheist.9031:]Yeah, the thing that gets me about this skill is how inconsistent it is. Sometimes I thi k that terrain has something to do with it, but it really doesn’t. I’ve used this skill so much, and I’ve seen it work 2 ways in almost every imaginable situation. The first way is the clone sorta derps around and might get to your target eventually. This second way is the clone seems to be shot out of a cannon, barely touching the ground before smacking your target in the face, and sticking on them for the duration of the swap.

Again, thanks a lot for that. Having followed the discussion on Scepter I decided to try out a sword and found this particular skill extremely baffling. It kind of works as it pleases and even my Brother playing wvw with me noticed the erratic behaviour of my clone. So now I can tell him ‘hey, it’s not JUST me doing something TOTALLY wrong’

I have been using a scepter in PvE because it fits my gamestyle – standing behind my clones and phantasms and dealing ranged damage. With EB and IC creating clones for me to shatter and CI dealing quite a lot of damage, it worked. Since foes in PvE rarely evade/block and like to group in one place, it was rather plain sailing.

Well, twice the pride double the fall… WvW has clearly shown that I have loads to learn and that my scepter is not good enough. Or I am not good enough with it.

This thread has nicely outlined and summarised all the problems I had with my scepter: EB and IC are rather slow and Confusing Images only work with mobs – individual players easily evade/block it. Having read what you have written here I decided to give sword a try and so far it seems to be a far better option for wvw.

Thanks a lot and sorry for not using all the proper terminology, I am a fairly new forum reader.

WvW, we just lost a keep. I thought ‘well…being a mesmer maybe I can hide and then portal ppl back to regain it’. I got behind some wall and waited patiently for the Reds to finish sweeping. When thet were running past me, I just put Mass Invisibility to make sure they wouldn’t see me. It worked. Feeling proud of myself and secretly hoping for a whisper congrats from our Commander, I decided to make sure I stayed invisible by casting Decoy… Well, the Reds were quite surprised when my illusion charged at them.